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BULGARIA INVADED I3Y BRITISH
CAVALRY IN 'IWARCII ON IJSKIIB ,.........................___
German 'Reinforcements Fail to . Stem Allied Advanee--30 0,000 4, Occupy Tiberias and Amman -Fourth Turk Army Faces ,Anniiii-N
Bulgarians Doomed if Allies Reach liskub First. ' - lation in Region East of the Jordan. •
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' :A doopateh from -London eaYs: The Voles bee beeoupIe ThI. p eiShotroope operating in Paleetine
` A dpspatoh from London says: Baia fact that A.rab „cavalry and infantry'
are noi.-th of it. Arab and British
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reports received on Thureday ern- bablY win lgad to an abandonment forces east of it, arid British troope
by the enemy of the Babuith Moun- are extending their ocaupation about
Phaslaed the demoralization of taie
taine, which are considered virtually the Sea a Galilee. They have oe-
, to the south. Allethese are pressing
Bulgarians who are retreating in impregnable. .-'
;-tese.
united Tiberias and Semalch, on the inward on the enemy while the Joe-
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ably many thousands of prisoners, as Andrew Boner Law are confeerinel haaaillawolfileitieth:11'iaeoli:°.ssliTgS1 is in the '
confusion., leaving behind an enor- A later dospatch 'sys:-The Right ""taeos, ata -
borders of that seaeand ES -Sentra, it
the allied troops etai n every energy with Premier Lloyd George in ee's-I e shtlitielg:Bieliel
isltihelt;Ctoelupted j' eOhre- 't1 lyilletielikeeC,f1111.(fl'litieri-cic'lleillsihilitl,s'telleli14s t'i'llosgwt11.1111rietll is' 'oP!flaalt1711:e - k
mous ameunt of material, aed prole- Hons. Arthur jamas Balfour and, was officially amiounced. '
k., daPell;
to get to tiekub and thereby make gad to. the Bulgarian armistice pro- eeoeera
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strategic town of Amman; on the same si..e coo organization. It *is
1 * inted out that the Bulger- The British Goverranent on Friday ...,,,,1*
The British cast alties •durmg the to.deal with 18,000 fighting men west '
known, howeVer, that the allies had
the victoey complete. posal, , :(.....,
ae sa k,
Hedjas Railway. '
e ian army, eetimated to aggregate received from an official -authorized a
offensive were less than , one-fifth of ge the Jordan., with 'abed : ,
300,000 men, is „.in a daligerous po- eource an application aroni Bulgaria o' / the number of prisoners taken from on corninunicat14ns, as well as many
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sition, but the victory will not be de- for ite armistice'. \ the Turks, the anateineeirnt states. thou nu east of the :Jordon, .
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The Fourth Turkish Army- on the A despatch from Lausanne, Switz -
experts, uotil laskub, the ' ' f serious movement, and, contrary to a
.4 Palestine flout is virtually surround- orland, saw -Public ireitatiot in •Con-
cieive, in the opinion of the militarY The a,pplication. is regarded as a
all the enemy's .cornrounication lines, the report from eGerinan •eources of ed in the re'glen east of the Jordan, stantlnepli! lute beeeme so great, ac -
is captured. If that is accomplished: the armistice move, there is no sug- Naa414.4,41; a and faces enrahilation by General Al- cording to a despatch Teem the Turk-
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eg lenby's foree§, , ' I ish canital to the Leusanne Gazette,
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it is believed the victory Will be num-
•geetion that it is the aetion of Pre-
e bered air.ong the few deeicsie,e ones
mier Malinoff on his own initiative: es. The annihilation of the Fourth that rumors are again spreading that
The renewed resistatee of the Bol-
and the arrival of the allies, is-foi.. an arrnistice.jor the ‘se ec,
- Ariny, now hoped for, would complete the Ottoman Government will seek a
a the war., , The request, wheth is addressed to •:ev
O. 4 the clearing up of the Turkish foreee separate •peace. `Phe Sultan himself,
garian rearguards cuseu.ssion of peace. - ' ' ,..Ree. -e- ei. in Palestine; accounting for about 80e1 the message says, would fakeer a
German reinforcements in Macedonia '
Great Britain can only reply after - o 000 men if separate peace if he couldobtain fav -
e .Britist, cavalry consultatron with her allies. '''"::$ :e• o -
The precarious position of the ,' orable conditioes from the Entente
a bave not succeaded in stemming the
e great allietLadvance. It ds understood that the official e Fourth Argiy may be eeen from the I powere. -,
e site 'Cosh -rein°, thus avoiding the
t was would have a -prodigious effect, . espe-1'
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on Thursda, entered Bulgaria, oPPo-
view is 'that Peace with Bulgarie ee ek
e ea- MANY 'GERMAN GUNS FRENCH IAK.E
0. II Belachieta niounta.Ms, 'Whieli. i
daily with Turkey, 'It evould free Wee Oe a
a,' tish troops routed the Bulgarians ttain eventualities bring about ,peiiCe
with Turkey and thus free the Mestio see se as ,. A despatch 'from the Amerieen
19,0().0. ERMANS..
. feared znight bar its progress, while
the whole Saloniki arinY, and 'in cere
e the Serbians, Freneh, Greek, and Bri- '
li'''''.--' from either side of the great salient,- ue
a :ae e Forces Northwest of Verdun- says:
la a ea Gen. Pershing's. troops, in then drive
la whichnow stretches far into Serbia.. Potamia and Palestine armiee. an.d. al,A 1
P.; The Serbians, who are taking the thus kill the German menace to 'the tee ee between the 'Meuse and theeAegenne „ t.
,,.. leading part in the liberaftion of their East. Moreove-r; it would -affeet -ad-
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%t Forest, made a great haul of German hplend4d 'N' letorY in, Coampagne ,e
country, are at the gates of IShtlb Vantageously the World's food situa-
_ Routed The Turks---Generai AllenhY, esthe reports a smashing defeat artillery in the region of Dannevoux. ' .See, tor With Capture" of
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(one Teport says they have captured i tion. „....
a the Turkish army in Palestine. Many thousands ..,pf prisoners eveTe
, The American's capture included 'four .
mil -
remaining road northward -that run- Bulgaria, it is coneidered, would be . iiaortars, ten ,,field. guns and thirty- French -troops in the battleline east.
Cerrlay. '
tile town), and their cavalry, enterthg From the purely military view-
takeneas well as inany'f-s'aems. The British have captured Haifa (shown big 8 -inch guns wed eight 6 -inch the town of Isvor, has cut the only point the granting of an armistice . to
en the map) which is the terminus of the railway to Dm limetre pieces, and fifteen trench A deepatth from Paris sayse The
r ning from,Prilep to e es, d lo such a great advantage to her that it
which a large body of Bulgarians are eceuld not be granted without severe .
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, 1 - Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 30
Ito Bic; clear belltc-o, 29 to 30c. • four machine guns. - of Rheims made farther atWances on
reported to be attempting to escape. conditions, ,sucle as poesibly the • ar ets o t e or
... i Lard -Pure,. tierces, 30 to 30 i; captured 'twelve 77's, which are now ' i
West of Dannevoux the Americans Friday, and in the two days' battle
have taken more than 10,000 , pris-
'resist openly- the C-erman and Austra- No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; No, 2 North -12614, to 2691c; prints, 27% to a8c. .
i tuba, 301/2•to 81e; gaits, 30% to 31i4e; being used against the Germans, a onees and considerable war material,
,et.ievracie!: large amount of ammunition also aceoedilig to the official communication
1 having been captured. -- Friday night. The total advance by
Uncifficial reports ' also state that 1 evacuation of Serbia.
beginning to Toronto, Oct. 1. ---Manitoba wheat--1,!),Ole:112;tse3261:co; 8t3uYg. rntol) °Al ,
Breadatnffs
Hungarian' military. ern, $2.21%; ,No. 3 Nathern, $2.171,a,; ; -_-_--. , ____.eke _____ tile French has been e.bout-five miles
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\Entente, countries, are b
Local revolts have occurred at a No. 4 wheat, $2-e 11 all , in etore , Fort l Montreal Markets CANADA'S 1917 FIREe"- - •
at certain poirts The French have
William, not including tax. 1 Monteeal, Oct. 1.--LOats, ,Canadlau -LOSS AN INCREJVSE
' cut the main Tail .coaerroanicatiori of
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Government has sent agents to Bee-, ____ . the •enemy from Vouziers soutlieast- / 4e"-
' 190 lbs.e$5.a0 to $5.80. Bran $37.25. •A despatch from Ottawa says: The ---'-' ,
oil , toward Rheims.
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number of places and the Rumania
lalanitobe oats ---No. 2 'C.W., 87%e; : Westere, No 3, 98e. extre. No. 1 feed,
97%c. Flour, my:, Stai;dard -grade,
Tvictories of the *Entente Have of the Apstro-Hungarian rule. The William. , Teport of the Soperintendent of In: . .
"We broke the enernv resistance
lea No.%1: feed 84%e. No. 1 feed, l'
seeae, 410. epe , ..., .. , tor rot,. s.o. so to ei.1.4o.•• Rolled oatse bag,
Made the Peasants Restless Rumanian 'Government is r,eported to ' Arnerican. corn --Ne. 3 yellow, kiln!. Shorts, $44.25.• Monillie, $68.. '.
ei. , surance on fire insurance companies, on the whole battlefront," ,. said the
lin and Vienna to obtain a mitigation '', ,- ' ,...
Under Teutonic Rule. have -pointed out that if its request dried nominal; NO. 4 yellow, kiln ' No. 2, per ton, (Lai lots, $17, Cheese' *.
- finest e,asteres-7a 24%e. ' Butter,
, just ie,sued, states that during the statement. "On -the' right we ad -
A despatch from Rome says -The aetee the maintenante of 'order or t •a
. On ario oats, knev, crop -No. 3„ choleest creamery, 47 to 4Se Eggs, '
. " /- ' N 3 evbite 75 to osielected, 58 to ,O0ca-No. a stock. year 1917 the amount paid .out for v,aneed our , lines a kilometre, cap -
fire losses in Canada was $1.6,379,102, turing Bois de 1"Echelle and Gernay.,
information ,receivecl here, has be- 817 crisis. - 0 ' * h a -No 9 Winter, per ctte lots, .1;2.40 to $2.50. ' Dressed 039. Cash received for premiums by o;eearrthofe, amount iWele.anf:eed the railway - from Chal- '
for four kilometres ;.incl
k 0 is rejected it will be unable to. guar,- dried, nominal.
situation in Rumania, according to avoid the eventualities of sanguin-
77ce aceor .
V 1 e, . , .
' dihgato freights outside. I No: 2 •stoek, 49at Potatoes pe. r 151.;;,' '1\i'alliiclehillstlailel'i;reerveiaosues
come alarming•tfor the Central Pow- car lot, $2 .31; No. 3 -Winter, $'2.27; !hog's, abattoir killed,. $28. a0. pressed nioi•e than two isilornetres ..i.
enthusiastic by the victories of the life dreary. ' $2..22, basis in store Mantr-eal. 33e business lb Canada amounted to $31a '"General Gouraud'o..arney eontinu-
northward.
ers. The Reinianian peasants. ihade It is the want of motive thatonalces No. 2 Spaing, $2.-26; No. 3 Spring,1 pure', wood paiee, 20 lbs; net, 31Ia to
Laed, tlie 69 fire insaranee companies doing
e Peas -No. 2 nominal, at $2 to $2.50. 246;530, an increase of $3,462,676 over ede,on Friday splendidly to assault
to $1_10. • , 1 Toronto, Oct. 41. --"-Extra choice ------41 the formidable enemy positions in
Champagne:. ,plinginr to 'the Meet-,
Barleye-Malting, new crop,. $1. . 05 l, Jere st"oe market's the previous yeare,
Rye -No. 2, nominal. • 1 heavy steers, $14.50' to $1.5.00; but- FRANKFORT BOMBED tricable maze of .trenches, redoubts
Manitoba our crop, war gaol- I cher' s cattle, choice, $12.75 to $ia.50; Wre BRFFISH AVIATORS earthed, the GeOrnani tried to op -
i, $11.25, Toronto.
!do - rood, $11. 15 to $12.50- do, me-
• pose- our advance, but it was in .vain.
old dium, ,$1.0-. 50 to $11.25; -do, common, A despatch from „London says:-- They are throwing M tlrir reserve
Ontaria fiour---War quality,
crop, $10.-75, in bags, Montreal and,!$8'.50 to $9.00; butchers' bulls, choice, British airplanes on WednesdaY drop- divisions one after the other, but
. IVIillfeed-Car lots, delivered Meat- e$7.25 to $8.25; butchers' cowsz,c.hoice, ped bombs on the German city of our trops/with admirable tenacity,
Toronto; prompt shipment. ,1$1.0 .50, to $1.1 .00; do, medium bulls,
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• 1 frel hts bags included: Bran,l' $1.0 .25 to $11.00.; 'do, good, $9.35 'to •
o statement issued on Thursday even- all the redoubts bristling with* ma
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Frankfort,, according to an .official are carrying them one after another,
chine gone. Our advance continues
Order'
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BRITISH TROOPS CONTINUE TO
SURROUND THE SEA OF GAIILEE
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RUMANIA RESISTS
CENTRAL POWERS
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CANADIANS TAKE BOURLON WOOD:
HAM'S ARMY WITH/N 3 ILES OF CAYIBRA1
British Make Quick Progress in Cambrai Area-Iiindenburg De-
fences'Crossed at Several Points --Canadian Losses‘ Light. 1
..._.-..- I $36.40 per ton ; shorts, $41 .40 per 1 $9 .50"; do, medium, $7 ,,7a to $ . , , .
,1 , ,feeders, , . C ,' ' '
mg by the War Ofttce. live enemy
Beitish troop d d t p ' t
s a vanee o a om Pressing on towards the gatee of e laa,y-No. 1 $19 to $20 Per ton' ers $8.00 to $10.50. a10 50 mechines -were shot down Four Brit- i methodically everywhere. e are
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are still aere do conunon, $7.25 to $7 .75; stock-
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A d:epsatth froth London says:- at this hour. Our troops
evthin three miles of Cambrai a al
The C.anadian Corps, opened • the, onto. • to $6.75; milkers,- good to choice,
: 1 reaching the line of the hilltops."
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arri ' iinixed $17 to $18 peinton, trade, Tor' to $4.1. 00 ; canners. and cutters, $5.50 ish ;airplanes re miising.
great attack made on a wide front.i battle for Bourlon Wood sharp at 5.20 Straw -Car lots, $9 to $9.50, track 9000 to $150.00; do, coin. and need., - ' - ---- - ....--- ' - • '
a65 .00 to $75 . 00 ; •
They. took between 5,000 and 6,000 t Friday morning, and before noon -was 'T°1!°11-th. , to $150e 00; light seVelertISOt°011FRANLO-ABIERICAN TROOPS IN
..,.... guns, including a complete bit- I ing northeast, turning ; the enemy 434 to 44%e; prints, per lb, 4e to le , good. to chcace $14 .00 to SUCCESSFUL 'ATTACK IN CilLivIPAGNE
p s . Th attack started short-Ireported to be in complete possession,1
Country Produee--WhOlesole 314. q; yearlings, $15 .00 to $15 . 50 ;
monnonononn n
1 after five orelock. Some Ger-, while others of ourtroops were sweep- l
: ButterZ-Creamery solids, per lb., spring lambs, $17.00 to $17.60;
tery, were capt-ured by Field Marshal, flank on the Canal lin Nord. 45c; dairy, per llie 39 to 40e. $11..75; hogs, fed and watered. $19.58 ..-
Haig's men. - A great concentration of artillery, Egos -New laid, 46 to 47e, to $19.75; do, weighed off cars,
$16 75 to $20 00 ... •
Haig's maximum aclvanee an Friday in which Imperial heavies and the Dressed poultry --Spring chickens,
Montreal, Oet. „I. -Choice Steers,
,.- ' 000 PriSonera 'and 44 Towns ,6aptured on 40 -Mile Front -Ad -
was three Miles. The Hindenburg converging fire of Britieh neighboring 3„,3 to 35e; roosters, 28e; fowl, 28 to $12.00:. butchers bulls, Vance of .From Four to Seven Miles -Menaces the.
outpost defences were crossed at sev- corps materially assisted, prepared 309.; ducklings, 33e; turkeys, 32 to 35e. $1-1-00 to
paeltry-Roosters 20e. fowl $7.50 to $8.00; batchees cows, German Line in That Vast Territory. '
eral points. At hoc) 'o'clock on Fri- the way for the infantry. They had I Live
23 to 26e; ducklings, lb., 22e;
, , , $shree.bno, , $12 . 50 ; lambs 316 . 50 to
, ke
day afternoon the Britieh line ran a hard_leattle for the Canal du Nord, 27 -to 30c4 -Spring chickens, 28e. turkeys, ° A despatch from Paris s`ayst---- the Aisne, the new drive of Marshall
southwest of Gouzeaucourt, east of for, although it is dry at the point I wholesglers are selling to the retail Marshal Foch delivered a new attack Foch in the south willobear important.,
Beaueamp, west of Marcoing and selected for the attack, in front of i trade at the following prices: NO PRIVILEGES ALLOWED on Thursday morning against the fruit if it meets with -success. Drive -
east of Graineourt, where sonie of the Inchyeen-Artois, it is a forrnidablel Cheese -New, large, 23% to 24e;-- TO MENNONITES . „ ing northward :the entire western bat-
eneray were still holding, out. Thence embrasure a hundred feet wide and. twins, 23% to 2414e; old, large, 253 _ -- Germans in the Champagne en „ a tlefront would .be shaken and of ne-
tt ran between Annex and Cantaing thirty to fifey deep. , - - to 26e; twin, 26 to 26%e. .
Butter --Fresh dairy, choice, 42 ,to k deepatch fro rh Edmonton says,: front of 40 miles, from the Suippe cessity be compelled eto readjust it -
and east of Bourlon and the Bourlon But soon their flares from the hills ealf, Lateral railway lines of gTeat
. t Liac• creamer rints fresh made 48 -
Opnosition to the invasion of -Western River, east of Rheims, to the River
ease, inat north of Verdun. The importance to the German posiaons
Wood; a thousand yards west of Rail- to the east showed they wereroaking• a , . Y P ,
, , 'to 49e; solids, 46 to 47c. ' Canada by Mennonites is very strong 16-1
• offensive was launched in a dense fog between Laon and Verdun lie direct-
leneourt and along the road to Marco- satisfactory pregress. , Tolargerine-31 to 33e. and protests are being poured in from
George P. after six hours' artillery preparation: ly in the path of the advancing
big. It is net known whether the This is the fourth set show the Eggs -No. 1 starage, 50 to 51co all over the country. Hon
e •an aver- Franco-A,mericen forces. Vouziers,-
British or the Germans hold Marco- Canadian Corps has put oveer eince selected storage, 52 to 5cle, new -hid, 'Smith, Minister of Education, has The -Americans advanced t
ing. Au.gust 8, and its developments pro -in cartons, 57 ,to 59e, lost no time in making the policy of age depth -of seven mil,esiPenetrating an importantrailway lunction on the .
The capture of Bourion is of the mise to make it the most notable of , Dressed poultry -Spring
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Chickens, his department Plein and has iseued the defences to a depth of nine miles main line from I,aon to Mete. is but
highest Importatee, because it is the all. At midnight it began to rain, but i to 40e; roosters, 25e; fowl, 30 to
34e; turkeys, 40oe ducklings, ib., 35e. the following emphatic statement: at the maximum Point. They captor- 12 miles north of Servon, which al -
bulwark of Cambrai. It was capture it cleared up on Friday morning. Our
Beans ---_Canodian, hand-picked, "So far as the Department of Edu- ed 6,000 Prisoriers and 12 towns. The 'ready is in the hands of the' French,
ed, notwithstanding the waterline in infantry moved secretly from their hand-picked Burma cation of Alberta/is concerned, no French mn ade a gain to aaverage The Americans through the. capture
front of it, the whole of which has! old line, and Thursday -night toughed bushel $7. imp.
or Indian/$6; Japan, $7; 'Lim'a, 19e. '.special paivileges of any lfind will le,,e depth of fear miles and 3,000 prigon- of Gercourt, north-weof Verdun,
now been creased. lit out in the open, lying in old
Honey new el -epee -Strained, 60 -lb. extendd to these new settlers. They ers have already reached the cages. are in the Meuse .Valley. which leade
The British are io a good position trenches -or behind. hill crests. There tins, 26e; 10 -lb, tins, 27e; 5-1b, this, will be required tp conduct and sup- The lertemy, anticipating the attack, northward to Sedan, and a fittle far -
to capture dambrai. Even now the are always some tense minutes be -'28c. .Cornbs--Dozen, $3.75 to $4.50., Port
this Province, to use •our authorized ward positions. The Americans at- AireValley, which winds in a north .
public schoole un law of
der thehad voluntarily abandoned their' for- tiler ,west at Varennes, have won the
enemy cannot use the town, as the fore "zero." , It is a pregnant hour. tacked on the right wing and the westerly direction to Vouziers. A
railway, roads and junctions are If the enemy is aPpeaised of the at- Proyisione-Wholesale text -books, to use only the English
undeT the British fire. tack he will lay down a barrae on Smoked mots -Hams, medium, 37
do, heavy, , language, to employ teaeliera with French made their assault on the left. successful advance along these,, two
''ihr„g
A deepateh from the Canadian our concentrated troops- ar30 to 32e; cooked
id, reap- ale oee; proper Alberta qualifications and td aleen n conjunction with the al- yalleys for any appreciae distance
Forces says:-. great and irnpres- hitter harvest., For several clays 51 to 53c; Tolls, 32 to 33c; breakfast ...
satisfy ' the regularly appetdted iled offensive which has .materiall
kept back the' German front in Flan- lines from the North Sea to the, Swiss
Y would, be disastrous to the German
bacon, 41 to 45e; backs, plain, 45 to school inepectors in• the employ of ,
ahre victory, and evith relatively. he had been riervoas, but he was dere, Artois' 'and Picardy and along frontier.
feW casualtietee-that is the situation again caught by 'surprise. 46e; boneless, 43 to 50c. the department" i
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