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POLES PUT BOLSHEVIKI TO ROUT,
TAKING 10,000 PRISONERS
*Warsaw Sector Being Rapidly Cleared of the Invaders by
Victorious Poles Following Up With Artillery-Suc-
ceedin Retaking Se neral. Polish Towns.
A despatch from Warsaw says: -
The 'Polish offensive is now in full
swing. More than 10,000 prisoners,
30 cannon, 300 machine guns and
thousands of supply carts have been
captured from the Bolshevists.
The Poles have occupied Plonsk,
Pultusk and Wyskow, through which
the Reds drove in their sweep to
ward the Capital River, 125 miles southeast of Warsaw..
Owing`to the Polish preaeure from The Poles are reported to be re-
the northeast it is reported that the grouping before Lemberg for a coun-
Bolshevists are withdrawing their terstrol;e against the Bolshevists, who
forces which reached the Vistula are less than 30 kilometres from the.
south of the Prussian border and to city,
the northwest of Warsaw. In the region of Thorn, about 105
The Warsaw sector is rapidly be- miles northwest of Warsaw, the com-
ing cleared of the Bolshevists. North munique says, the Poles have launch -
and northeast of the Capital the Reds ed a counter -action in the direction
are being shoved back by the Poles of Brodnicti,-which still is occupied by
who are following them up all along the Bolshevik forces, In the region I
the front, using artillery in such quan- of Lipno, about .25 miles southeast
titles as to cause great confusion of Thorn, and at Siedloe the Boishe-
among the invaders, who are now on vists have started an eastward move -
the ran.
To the east the Bolshevists are re-
ported to be making their way across
the Bug at various points.
Siedlor was taken by. the Poles
early Wednesday.
The Fifth, Seventh, Fifty -Eighth
and Eighth Bolshevik Divisions, on
the Warsaw front, have been mini-
hilated, and thousands of Soviet sol-
diers made prisoner, Wednesday
night's official statement say:
The. Russians lost their bearings
in trying to meet attacks on all sides
from the Polish columns on their
flanks, the statement adds. The
Poles, continuing their advance,
have occupied Kalussyn, 85 miles east
of Warsaw; Sicdloe, 57 miles east of
the Capital; Milzyrzec, 20 utiles south-
east of Siedlce; Wlodawa, on the Bug
ntent, aviators report.
North of the fortress Novogeorge-,
evelc the Iced forces were dislodged
after stubborn resirtanee, a Polish
cavalry charge smashing a Bolshevik
brigade. The llolehevists leaving Pul-
tusk, thirty miles north of. Warsaw,
took with them the town Mayor, and
all of the clergy as hostages, the com-
n-ur.,ique states, adding that 1,500
prisoners were gathered in this en-
gagement alone,
Halting Bolshevist Advanco.
General Weygand, who was casts -
tent to Mar:?Tial Poch in the World
War bas taken over the eomn11nd of
:di Polish troops, and already his work
is being felt in the setback' given to.
the Iced .armies. The General took up
the offer on condition that he be al-
lowed to run the campaign in his own
way. lIe has transferred Polish
troops front Galicia to the Warsaw
'front. General Weygand went to
Poland at the head of 800 Fronch of-
fieers.
Vote is Secured
by All U.S Women
MENNONITES APPEAL
TO QUEBEC PREMIER
l~'earThey Will Lose Language
and Religion in
n W sten
n
Provinces.
WITH THE IMPERIAL PRESS DELEGATES
The University of Toronto has fallen in line with McGill (Montreal) in
paying recognition to the work, of the Press of the British Empire in the
late, war. The four men seen above, who have received the degree of LL,D.,
are, from left to right; Mr, Geoffrey Fairflax; Sir Robert Bruce, Mr, Robert
Donald and Sir Gilbert Parker.
A Letter From LSP.
In the eentre of Queen Mary's
diadem at the recent Court shone the
celebrated Koh-a-noox diamond, which
according to tradition, "may be worn
by no man 'without misfortune, but
which brings no harm to a woman."
Its history is known for some 500
years, and it is believed by the super-
stitious to have brought death or dis-
aster to many an Eastern monarch
till it carne by conquest into the
possession of.. Queen 'Victor,ia, - It has
now been worn by three Queens of
England, and has sparkled with kindly
'Beneficence an each,
The Dukedom of York has been in-
variably conferred on the second son
of the Sovereign since the days of
Edward IV. The last holder of the
title was the present King, who sat
for the first time in the House of
Lords as Duke of York in 1892. Re
was introduced by his father, the
Prince of Wales, afterwards King Ed-
ward '6xII,, and his uncle, the Duke of
Connaught
A deepateh from Quelsee, Que., Twenty-eight years later it falls to
Gays: -Seven representatives of the the Duke of Connaught again to intro -
Mennonite Church in Manitoba and duce a Duke of York, and his experi-
Saskatchewan waited on Honorable L. ence in this respect is unique, If the
A. Tasehereau, Prince Minister of the Prince of Wales had been in this conn -
Province of Quebec, here on Wednes- try he would almost certainly have
tray afternoon and submitted a been the senior sponsor for his young -
lengthy document setting forth their young-
er brother. •
beliefs and customs, as well as the hIr. George's career resembles
privileges they desire, should they de--Lloydr g
nide to come and settle in the Province in some respects that of Lord Beacons -
of Quebee. field: Both were self-made men, both
The document states that the Men-
nonites, fearing that their language
and religion may be taken from them
in the provinces where they row re-
side, see themselves compelled by their
conscience to look for another home,
A despatch from Washington
says: -Ratification of the Suffrage
amendment by the Tennessee Legis-
Iature was hailed with great joy in
the capital.
Secretary of 'State Colby, upon
wham rests the final act of proclama-
tion, all that is needed to confer the
4 voting privilege upon 26,800,000 wo-
men citizens, announced that he would
act at this earliest possible moment:
Under "State laws 19,000,000 women
already hold the Presidential fran-
' chise, but only 7,000,000 were entitled
to vote for members of 'Congress: The
ratification of ,the amendment.. there-
fore gives Presidential suffrage to an
additional 8,000,000, and the right to
vote for Congress -to 20,000,000:
Repatriate Serbians
in • United States
A despatch from Paris says: -
More than 1,000,000 immigrants in the
United States want to return to Eur-
ope, according to a Serbian official in
Paris, who is arranging a aoinnlission
to go to America to arrange for the
repatriation of 800,0.00 Jugo-Slays,
who are said to have signified their
wish to return to their native land.
EIGHT HOURS' WORK
Fog SIX DOLLARS
27,000 Harvesters Garner the
Western Crops.
despatch from Regina, Sask.,
says: -Of 27,000 harvesters arriving
MAYOR OF CORK
GUILTY OF SEDITION
He is Hunger -Striking and
Wire Has Been Warned
of His Condition.'
from the l�aawt. inF,jizizaipet;, approxi- . A despatch from London says: --
mately 10,0 0 have been absorbed
to say Her Majesty's new attendant
will have nothing to do with any of
tine • sleeping apartments at Bucking-
ham Palace.
At one time, Ladies ane Women of
the Bedchamber were present at the
toilet of the Queen, but to -day they
are merely ladies-in-waiting, and
should really be so described, The
"Ladies" are invariably peeresses, the
"Women" are usually the daughters
of earls, and one or other attends the
`Queen not only at Court ceremonies
but when she visits any public place.
Wearers of the Victoria Cross, who
were King George's guests the other
week,,would not have been known as
V.C.'s had Queen Victoria's personal
view prevailed, for while agreeing
that those to whom the emblem of
valor was awarded should "bear some
distinctive mark after their name,"
she urged to Lord Panmure that V.C.
would not do.
"K,G. means a Knight of the Gar-
ter, M,P, a member of Parliament,
M.D. a Doctor of Medicine," she.
wrote, "in all cases designating a per-
son, but no one could be called a
Victoria Cron." D.V.C. (decorated
with the V.C.) or B.V.C. (bearer of
the V.C.) were her suggestions, but
happily the yielded: to persuasion and
consented to the plain V.C.
* * * * *
One of the surgical miracles of the
war was the grafting of new nerves
into the shattered systems of Hien who
were trained in solicitors' offices, and had been wounded. The old nerves
wills which were witnessed by the were rejoined by means of lengths of
present Prime Minister when he was nerves taken from animals.
an articled clerk, or made by him How this was done was told by Sir
when he had an office of his own, must Charles Ballance in a recent lecture
still be conning into effect. With the to the Incorporated Society of Train -
where they may live up to their con -possible exception of Mr. Asquith, Mr. ed Masseuses, at the Royal Society of
fession without being molested or re- Lloyd George and the great Tory chief Arts. You get an animal, he said,
striated.are the only two"self-made men who whose nerve is the same size as the
in Terrence McSweeney, eeney., Lord Mayor of
Saskatchewan. The d triply to date is 1 an -
Cork, Ireland, who was arrested, 'tried
about stinal to the demand, though and found guilty s making a sedi-
tw
tious utterance, was sentenced to two
there are some districts which have • years in prison, the Government an -
not yet contented cutting, notably: ioz;need an Thursday, He is hunger
Yorktan, where a yield of 35 bushels I striking. His wife, in Cork, has been
to the acre is expected, i warned. of his egndi`uion; she is hold -
Harvesters are asking $8 and $9 wig herself in readiness to g o to him
a day, but most of thein have signed•ahauld he grow weaker.
up at the prevailing rate of $fa' per'. -.:,..,,,,,.-
day. Many of them are exercised as
t r a Lost Two and as
o the amount of work they are ex- �e 2EP Zly
petted to da. Quarter Million in Wal
The delegation, including two bish-
ops of the Mennonite Church, wasre-
ceived by the Prime Minister, aeeom-
panied by Hon. J. E. Perr eauit, Minae
ister of Colonization, Mines and Fish-
eries, and Mr. J. N, Miller, secretary
of the Catholic Committee of the
Council of Public Instruction,
Improved Highways
in Eastern Canada
have ever occupied No. 10 Downing
Street. •
a- * * * *
The appointment of Lady Elizabeth -
'Dawson to succeed Lady Isobel Ga-
thorne-Hardy as one of Queen Mary's
Women of the Bedchamber is an illus-
tration of the tenacity with which old
titles -especially in the Royal House-
hold` -cling to new duties. .Needless
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
That it will be possible by next sum-
mer to travel over improved highways
from Windsor, Ont., to St. John, N.B.,
is the hope of officials of the Federal
Highways Aid Department.
If present indications are borne out
by subsequent construction there will
be good roads all the way between
these points, and also 'between Nia-
gara Falls and St. John, N.B. There
will remain, however, the necessity
of ferrying across the Ottawa River
on' the highway between Ottawa and
Montreal.
American motorists Who took part
in the recent Michigan• pike tour ex-
pressed surprise at :finding the Can-
adian roads .as good. as they, were.
Same" of them who had done extensive
travelling over the famed : Lincoln
Highway declared' that the roads they
had encountered in Northern Ontario
during their recent journey were Vet-
ter in their present state than were
some parts of the Lincoln Highway..
Lord Jellicoe New Zealand's
New . Governor-General
A despatch from London says:--
Viscount Jellicoe left on Thursday for
New Zealand to assume his duties as
Governor-General a.'
one`yot want to heal. An officer was
wounded in the arm, and two inches
of his ulnar nerve was blown away.
I went to niy butcher and told linin
I wanted two inches of a sheep's sci-
atic nerve. Ile killed a sheep, and
while the nerve was still alive I out
it out and grafted it in immediately.
That officer made a complete re-
covery." ' 13IG BEN.
Visit of H.R.H. to
India Cancelled
A despatch from London says,-
The Royal Proclamation to India
states that the Prince of Wales will
not visit India nett winter to inaugur-
ate reform legislation. The Duke of
Connaught Will undertake these duties.
"Will we work eight hours a day?"
is the most frequent question with A despatch from Berlin says: -
Britain
which offieials of the Bureau of Labor. The total losses in killed and missing
have been plied, suffered by the German army and
"You certainly will," is the Inver-' -navy in the great war were set for
table reply, the fust times at 2,243,364, in an an -
is
nouncement of a semi-official nature.
E>'i+ain to Recd nine Of this number 500,000 men. were
g 'lee
andmost l.s
e "missing'
b
'¢{}'e d m
fL rnl a
Egyptian Independence 1 dead,"
A despatch from London says: -Jt
is `understood that the terms of the Kq1
peace treaty between Zaghloul Pasha,, . Y
the Egyptian Nationalist leader, and � y� ; •s
Lord Milner", include formal reeogni- ' '
tion of Egyptian independence and
then surrender by Egypt to Britain of
the control of foreign affairs, and cer
twin; financial measures. This will
mean a substantial degree of self-
government for Egypt :in her domestic'
affairs,
Threshing Commenced
in Saskatchewan
A despatch from Il.egina, Sask.,,
says: -The first thrashing in Saskat-
chewan is reported from Radville,
work having ` commenced on an oat.
crop. In this district the yield will be
only fair.
MAKE CANADA THEIR •HOME
This picture gives a good idea of the class of emigrants coming from
Britain to -settle tit Western Canada.. They have just arrived from the Old
Land.
Y�ua� 6E TlN6 so
b1a 1 -WOULDN'T
t0,40-1 `loo::)
Lower Living Costs in July.
A despatch frons Ottawa says: -
During July the cost of the weekly
budget of staple foods dropped slight-
ly, according to the figures given in
the current issue of the Labor Gazette.,
The average r
e age was $16.84 at the middle
of July, as against $16.92 in June;
$13.7; in duly, 1919, and $7.42 in July,
1014. The index number of wholesale
pries again declines, being 346.8 for Eminent Jurist Comes to Canada,
Juy, as compared with 349.3 for June, Right Ron. 'Viscount Cave, Lord of
294,9 for July, 1919, and 134.6 for July, Appeal of the British Courts ,-ince
1914. january,1919, and former British, Rome
�-^�---'� Secretary, who will be the chief
The Dog Show at the Canadian Na- speaker at the annual meeting of the
Conal Exhibition, has been run for 25 Canadian Bar Association which opens
years and is second largest on the Sept. lst at the Chateau Laurier, Ot-
continent. tawa.
Weekly Market Report
Wholesale Grain.
Toroato, Aug. 24.. Manitoba wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $3.15; No. 2 North-
ern, $3.08, in store Fort W,iIliam.
Manitoba oats -l -Io. 2 CW.,'96se;
No. 8 CW, 9414, e; extra No, 1. feed,
94%c; No. 1 feed, 90%c; No. 2 feed,
87%c, in store Fort William.
Man. barley No. 3 CW, $1.44%;
No, 4 CW, 31.$5x,,•; rejected, $1.1714;
feed, $1.171, in store Fort William.
American corn -No, 3 yellow, $1.95;
nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship-
ment.
Ontario oats -No. 8 white,. 80 to 85c.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per,
car lot, .$2.30 to $2.40, shipping points,
according to freights outside.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Barley -$1.35 to $1.40, according to
freights outside. .
Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.
Rye -No. 3, $1.75, nominal, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -Government stand-
ard, $14.85, Toronto. '
Ontario flour -Government stand-
ard, $12, nominal.
New Flour -310.40 to .$10.50, bulk
seaboard.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered, Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran,
per ton, $52; shuts, per ton, $61; good
feed flour, $3.75 to $4.00..
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Eggs, `selects, 63 to 64c; No. 1, 59
to 60c. Butter, creamery prints, 59
to 61e; choice dairy prints, 49 to.51c;
ordinary dairy prints, 45 to 47c; bak-
ers', 35 to 40c; oleomargarine, best
grade, 34 to ,38q. Cheese, new, large,
293's to 30c- twins, 30 to 301,Ec; old,
large, 38 to 34e; twins, 34 to 85c; Stil-
ton, old, 35i/a. to 36sc. Maple syrup,
1 gal. tin, $3.40; 5 gal. tin, per gal.,
$3.25; maple sugar, lb., 27 to -30c.
Churning cream -Toronto creameries
are paying for churning cream, 58 to
60c per pound fat f.o.b. • shipping
paints, nominal.
Provisions -Wholesale.
Smoked meats -Rolls, 33 to 36e
hams, med., 48 to 51c; heavy, 41 to
43c; cooked hams, 65 to 68c; backs,
plain, 54 to 57c; backs, boneless, 60 to
65e; breakfast bacon, 49 to 59c; cot-
tage rolls, 39 to 43c.
Barrelled Meats -Bean pork, $43;
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short cut or family back at $56; for
same back, boneless, $56 to $57;
pickled rolls, $60 to $66; mess pork,
$47.
Green meats --Out of pickle, 1e Tess
than smoked,
. Dry Salted Meats -Long clears, in.
tons, 26 to 28c; in eases, 26i to 28%c;
clear bellies, 29? to 30%c; fat backs,
24 to 26c.
Lard -Tierces, 261 to 27c; tubs,
271 to 28%c; pails, 28 to 29i1e;
prints, 29 to 30e. Shortening, tierces,
22% to 23c per ib.
Montreal Markets..
Montreal, Aug. 24. -Oats, No. 2 C.
W., $1.16 to $1.17; No. 3 CW, $L14 to
$L13; Flour, Man. Spring wheat pa- '
tents, firsts, new stand, grade, $14.85
to $15.05. Rolled oats, 90-1b. bag,
$5,60 to $5.75. Bran, $54,25. Shorts,
$61.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots,
$31. Cheese, finest easterns, 24%c.
Butter, choicest creamery, 59 to 60c.
Eggs, .fresh, 58e. Potatoes, per bag,
car lots, $2.10 to $2.15. .
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Aug. 24. -Choice heavy
steers, $14 to $14.50; good heavy
steers, $13.50 to $13.75; butchers' cat•
tie, choice, $13 to $13.50; do, good, $12
to $12.50; do, med., $10 to $11; do,
com., $7.50 to $9; bulls, choice, $10 to
$11; do, good, $9 to $9.50; do, rough=
$6 to $8; butchers' cows, choice, $10.50
to $11.50; do, good, $9 to $10; do, com.,
$6.50 to $7.50; stockers, $9 to $11•
feeders, $11 to $12.50; canners and
cutters, $4.50 to $5.50; milkers, good
to choice, $100 to $165; do, tom. and
med., $66 to $75; lambs, yearling&
$10.50 to $12; do, sprang, $12 to
$j.3.50; calves, good to choice, $16 to •
$18; seep, $6.50 to $9.50; hogs, fed
and watered, $19.75; do, weighed oft
cars, $20; do, f.o.b., $18.75; do, do,,
tour try points,- $18.50.
Montreal, Aug. 24. -Butcher steers,
good, $9.50 to $10.50; need., $8 to $9.50;
com., $6 totib; butcher heifers, choice,
$9 to $10.50;, riled., $7.50 to $8.50;
corn., $4.75 to $7; butcher cows, choice,'
$8.50 to $9; med., 85.50 to $6; canners,
$3 to $4; cutters, $4 to 5; butcher
bulls,. tom., $4.75 to $5.75; good veal,
$12 to $13; med., $9 to $11; grass, $5
to $6; good Iambs, $12; sheep, up to,
$7.' Select hogs, $20, off cars; sows,
$16 to $16,
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