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pans Turned 8..inch Guns Against Dense
tlasses of .Poles.
des pncatch, from: Petrograd says:
Very great forces are beim pressed
into 'battles of mutual destruction
from the lett hank of the Vistula,
near Iloww, southward along the
I3zura, and Eawka, to the bend of the.
?ilira below Tomasovw, Sometimes
the Russians, sometimes the Ger-
mans take the offensive .
These pitched battles, which can-
not 1.1r. described as a general Gert
roan offensiv=e, are. the fiercest in the
north. They become more favor-
able
aa•vorable to the Russians as they ap-
proach the point where the Aus-
trians predoxn.inat,e in the enemy's
ranks, The, most southerly battle
iu Poland is on the Nicht,. Here the
Russians have gained a victory over
Gen, Dankl, whose task. apparently
wa;sto link up with the Austro-
German army on the Pities., 20 miles
st of Ncnwo,Raudi3nsk. and assist
the Germans' attempt to force a
wedge between the Russian north-
ern and southern armies. Ilk
anense slaughter is taking place in
these battles, This doubtless will
not be abated until the aseendancy
has been definitely established.
In the region of Sochaeze`w thou-
sands of ciViliaus have been killed,
The Germans used eight -inch guns
against the town and smashed the
high tenement -houses, The inhabi-
tants were crushed under the ma-
sonry, When the population tried
to flee to Warsaw, the German guns
poured siaei.Is into the dense masses'
of men. 'omen" and children, and
hundreds were trampled to death.
The same t.bhig occurred at Lowioz.
A Russian officer who was decor-
ated for capturing six German guns
at Lowiez states that 80 German
wamen were righting in the trench-'
e
. f, •� I)f;o LLLI. StONED.
P t ani431nle, tion Called to the
C."odors.
Petit Parisien - pub ishes a
nt, n » 4 Frena lennn nib :lo sue-
any,
u -
:any,
QPEE S 11EF;i1lL
New Year's - Gift to Qnieen ''{ I'S
Froin W ounen of Cannda..
The following appeal has been.
sent out by the Queen Mary's.
Needlework Guild to the women o
Canada, asking them to contribute
toward a New Year's gift to Queen
Mary :—
"Wild. , you 'Madly allow me,
through your valizablo medium, to
ask the women of Canada to unite
with Queen Mary's Needlework
Guild in sending a New Year's Pre-
- sent to Queen Mary which shall he
worthy of our great Dominion, and
the maagnifizeent work- the 'wo=ven'
are doing,
"Will. each woman in Canada,
vvkzo is working for the soldiers and
sailors;, send one garment during
January through Queen Mare='s:-.
Needlework Guild for Her Maiesty
to distribute?
This can be done very easily,
y,
"Thanks to Lady Wi Uiams-Ta.yioar
Il',E Bank of r tr £`cu.�i. b,--- a .C-',.�'»,r 3%4-:.
strueted any of its branches to re-
ee,ve parcels en account of the
Guild, and such d.s.reels will be for-
warded without cost to the .donor
Persons residing in a town where
there is no brant of the Bahr, of
Montreal May ferward pe els
the Bank ,of lio€:treal at 2d3 Pee°.
Streeat,''Montreal!, a t the same tilnc
sending' the 1a± the vee., hpt foe,' tkne'
charge P aid :i*e ` ., .r_$1,, € , we
i
,l he ret _r; i to rl:em
"it ',i bE' ray pia as e to sop
..
c material, M1 jr ne tisk is nd gut
those %alio are W:,4 .
Vita ; hat hat/ :tot ma
p pyea n y�
p ttin s avail n,,A�% d,, F 1
will make flannel ,t
rarruant „ '.",>. !iiera wade,
r"na=ntwo Cn,
rreu's flannel s girt.
,
'4ron's ttvelai n.;.s. .\
„ria Weiler, sit
Z ig EXPORTS sI'.,. ,.
;aa 1e and Commerce Depraar t went
ii
Issues Ananal Report..
The Department of Trude End ti
nu ree has issued its twenty-
nd annual nu.nl repor=t.. It cox err
ffsea Year ending Havels at.
Canada's m'i'lord trade year.
total ail; -,canted ( $14..,_N
,on=e than the total for the
ae, reaching the impos
$1,129,741,79„,5. m
i e ;rn
sled, $659,746,707, a de-
,'h;'!$.),,,:i93 as bo opat e
D#nt an taxa z e a e e: 9T -i,:
4�xit,w law's r tale t t o Ola i4y3 1
porta :for tahamount
$4i,9.,�'w97,92,*'", an. inereaase
700,64.
Deputy iioaster O'Hara,
rt,' "Por several
tan annu* rept
is des been
to xrnal>e exeeeditn.
res+ant
Ac. 4. erma,n^, ine wj"s,. ani,
taw,e the beaxutifu: fahl;
n9'stdd th'R. The
they 4f,
reale rari+
entlausiaasti`i of
given Once
anl'e aanu'aln
ins=+
ns
ern
,through no to
be seen, :The
called to the tr
oks are arbsoln
laa,3 alt Cha
sed all the
ii$din'a; l=ime .s
r'
and
longer
+'bell
nn ices
is asrne ..df tar-' erease, 4k
S may.
The with. 1913
t ww`lii{e
ago ha
Cavell and iaito!er
la aiecowes ercdeni
nd asci
p
Ntoys: Iti'° _9IA3t� .i
ti i Y.Y. A \ ID til.$
Oecerreneean in the Land That,
Ie gim Supreme In the Cori'
o tar
mereial Torld,
Fifty-nine Brritish officers have
been awarded the. Distinguished
Service Order:
`tune British cldzri'a1tw,. annnannce.
that so ! n,' '7,343 lives mare been. lost
3n the naval service..
At the feast of n Ss,:tilts the
Shoreditch hells were rang half;
muffled for those fallen in the war.
One hundred and thirty residents
of the s$a yatrori .rm smelt.er thin
if �:dlesex •Street bays grnu e to the
nr.
'firep`e re ,.hayaat 2,030 Turks in
nekesren' an d district., the great
The ,,hip -
i najor'its being engaged
epi nor trade,
°d'tvo u'ples so4 n : uueti+ort3 a
eai ant Gar=dens, London, pan lacuna f
�a f
the Prince of ��'aes I'send, real-
ized .7.6ir,
"The Germans
vii `win,» aia3ad ord .i
render how long they r1n id
the them uan'wxinn,"'
wa h: s rxaelze'd Londe. t that
,r4';•et,-�1."oL ilson c u idwy3g
19e' NR v arse A5r9n4d y 1 .s na .II7
riuiuk they
ehen e i,
Anka xu v, -iii
saying be:v
4e, will 11,S1
it a beating
few min-
rPri
motopra5esn:g'ses
ent over
the Snrre-z
v
able inereaso au the to
s€ 'hay
nine expect:
o=ver, in 'view
and the unpree
in trade throu
in therefrom, it s
de ten vee, ,h any oonebr
future possible trade exp
other di arax tar observe t
Cho latest iti4an: at/=
t would appe
sato Canada
will, show a'i col
decrease, notwithstanc'lin• the
large increase in Cho imports
eftin and bullion cozrnpared.
but that the eg+,ports of
probably equal. it not exceed,
eecord figures of last year."
report makesspecial ruen-
fiara of the fact that the war has
wiped +ut the export trade of Ger-
many and ' Austria-Htingar
amounting; to almost 15 per cent.
of the total export trade of the
world.
Urges 'use of Poorer Foods.
A. despatch from Amsterdam says
The Vossische Zeitung of .Berlin
prints an appeal by leading Ger-
man professors of political economy
which. urges Germans to live on
vegetables and rya, bread' leaving;
meat, white bread and delicacies
for the sick and wounded. "Eng --
land wants to starve us, and we
must therefore do everything pos-
sible to economize in the use of our
food,': the appeal says.
Seizes N.S.W. Wheat Stock.
A despatch from Sydney, N.S,
W., says: The Government has
seized ` the entire stock of wheat of
New South Wales,` excepting the
amount needed for seed supplies
for the farmers. This action is aim-
ed at speculators, who, taking ad-
vantage of war conditions, have
been seeking to inflate prices. The
Government has fixed a price for
the wheat of $1.20 per bushel.
When asked by her teacher,
"Which of the feathered tribe can
lift the heaviest weights i" a little
girl replied, "The crane."
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tact be able:
Vit,' at the price
t3iz#1 it
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0.4. CW tit tint>wit With Eight Mtn
o azo arta.
w a,•<p a from C,3ittsby, Enp,x.
t y. a' a was souk
4313. l.d;w'. light men
en'.en'.y the 4eeon d:' en-
w, i The trawler
ffnot fz frn,etii the line
ta',„e a .?�!' Q 3•' \."Ct; 3 m fit cruisers. in
tiny `r a'':'M;it i".i i': on the English
f,1 an..1 i .s beiicv'ed the (Deana
of mines dropped by
the tadertt. t :`i.ar flight back to
thti a sa.
b.4,.
w. ,n'zl
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ARMY 01"P USONERS.
G va3an�n
and Austrian Captives
Number 55,000.
A desprt tell from London - says;
According to a Petrograd despatch
to Reuter'>, Telegram Company, the
number of German prisoners regis-
tered is 1,140 officers and 131,700
filen; the number of Austrians reg-
istered is 3,166 officers and 221,400
men. The Slav prisoners have ask-
ed for Russian naturalization so
that they may be sent against the
Turks,
" odor—Do you ` talk in your
sleep?, Patient—No ; 1 talk in
other people's. I'm .a clergyman.
ENEMY IN
ELGIU
the canttbreanla of the war, tb dearest
vert/ #suing dirges. Though sadly disaappouited ». n
)e 'i en,r to` the Briti,srh thro ne fre+m one regiment to
sip gas a °4rocadrie°" anis dearest, wish at lust was granted hien. The photo F.how,,-4 the Pri
his way tea ioir the petiitiornatrr; f orae irk France, Kum; George was fart France cY few td
visit: to lead
Mars lir John French, the commander of the British Raven. Here he rn
Prince and with him as rnr`panIlion. the Tint cauda; o. tour of the bases hospitals, cheering ttr rns
are recovering from wounds. x'eeeived On the battlefield. The Piinee Was elated over the tat th
permitted to aaccom,pany. his father a n these tours,
rn
,e of Wales lis' been
or of tittte5 by Lord IC
ether until he had serve l
MERR
-h Ben hi
Peat of Geo
Particulars as to rival,e Geor,
Wilson's fine feat in winning t
Vittoria Cross have been given
the London Daily Telegraph. Wil-
son discovered there was a. German
raitchino gun stationed in a wood,
and, apparently on his own initia-
tive, he decided to stop its opera-
tions. In his desperate venture he
got the co-operation of a private of
the 60th King's Rifles.
They went out alone and man-
aged to get quite close to the
enemy's position, when Wilson's
companion was killed. Undaunted,
however, Wilson continued on his
perilous mission. One by one he
shot the officer and entire gun team
of six soldiers and then ran in and
took possession of the gun and two
cases and a half of ammunition.
Wilson a. few months ago was sell-
ing newspapers in the streets of
his native city of Edinburgh.
RILL BIGHT 01' ENEMY.
Two Manchester OffleerS Get Vic-
toria, Cross.
A despatch. from London says:
Vietoria Crosses have been awarded
to Second' Lieutenant James Leach
and Sergeant john Hogan of the
Second Battalion of the Manchester
Regirnent for r`conspicuous bravery
near Festube.rt on October 29,
taken by Germans, and after two
UN ItY talteeyinvpoilitnota
Huge Food Exactions Are Imposed Upon the Im-
poverished Civilian
A despatch from Northern
Trance says: A detailed ,account
of the exactions by the Ge.rrna,n au-
thorities in Antwerp show's that the
daily fine demanded is 14 tons of
'bread, 28 tons of potatoes, eight
tons, Of fresh meat, three and one-
half tons of preserved meat, the
same quantity of 'smoked meat, two
tons of cheese, 8,500 bottles oi wine,
555,000 cigarettes, 85,000 cigars,
1,'700 packets of tobaCe,o and twe,nty
to,n,i-oir. oats. The forage shops have
German officers gratis. Den-
re,,oliliged to give their ser-
o. stapPly artificial teeth
and gold fillings 'without payment.
On WednesdaY and Thursday last
German and Austrian troops, com-
posed of infantry, which had been
entrained at Scha.erheck in a, la-
mentable condition, passed through
Brussels on their way back from
the Yser., They had anything but
the air of conquerors. They were
sorely in need of everything, They
looked harassed and worn out and
went about their duties in absolute
s I epee. In the tatbere d, mud -stain-
ed unifOrms the troops give the im-
pression el being abSolutely demor-
alized. Only the officers retain
their 'arrogantly disdainful man -
afternoon of the same day to re-
cover the trench themselves, and
working from travers.e. to 'traverse
at close cluarters, with great bra-
very:, gradually succeeded in re-
gaining possession. of the trench.
They killed eight of the enemy,
-wounded two and made sixteen pri-
"To the Enemy Bring Bullet and
Bayonet."
A despaten from Rotterdam says:
spec:7'1168 troops ',in -th,e, east
has just reached,Rotterdam,. After
.announcing that he bring,S .greetings
from'. the troops, in, the West,: the
"TO the eneMy bringthe bullet
and the:bayonet. In .any .ca.se the
The Loath*
Lion. .Comm
olt
t4:
4RMANS BID I STARVE
Fru man Commander Tells Mayo Lack of Food m
City is Solely the Fault of he British
A despatch from Paris s To
the many other horrors which Om
German invasion has brought to the
inhabitants of Lille is now to be
added that of famine. Citizens of
the northorn fortress town, which
has been in the posession of the
Germans for some months and is
now destitute of food, have already
paid an enormous war tax to the
invader. Its textile indrakries hav
been ruined and 132.00 of its houses
destroyed. M. Charles de la Salle,
the heroic Mayor of Lille, who has
remained at his post throughout,
in an eloquent letter recently ad-
dressed to Gen. Von Ilindrich, Ger-
man commander, pleaded kr relief
for his starving fellow -citizens.
In his reply, which was character-
istically Prussian and worthy of the
Imperial Chancellor himself, Von
Elindrich set out to show that if Lille
women and children lacked bread,
Britain, and not Germany, was to
blame. Germany herself, added the
commander of possessed suf-
•
empting to prevent the arrival of
oierseas produce with the view of
starving out Germany, was but
suffering uppn the inhabi-
tants of the occupied towns of
:France and Belgitun. The starving
population would have to pub up
ith the consequences, for the Ger-
man Government eould not under-
take the feeding ot French and Bel-
gian civilihns undzr its jurisdiction
so long as Britain closed the seas to
the importation of foodstuffs.
Having delivered himself thus,
Gen. Von Ilindrich told the Mayor
of Lille that he had better apply for
assistance to the Swiss Goiern-
rnent, promising that the German
Government weak' support the re-
quest to the utmost otE its power.
If the mayor refused to seek help
from the Swiss Government, then,
is far as the German commandant
of Lille was concerned, the people
of that eity were free to starve.
Urged io Conserve Foodstuffs.
A despatch from Berlin says : The
Norcidentsche Zeitung issues a
warning a,gainst using grain to feed
anim.als, especially rye, 'which is
emPirn's food -supply .must, be care-
fully husbanded to guard against a
possible shortage which would force
upon •the people a ,cli fil cult problem.
FP\TN.4-11-1
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Carry the Woods Northwest of Pont-, a-Moussork —
A Notable Victory
A despatch from London says :
The Times publishes4he following
from Paris :
"1 have it on good authority that
the French have carried the Bois-
lep-Tetre, nortlr.vest of Pont -a,
Mousson, and have hegun to bom-
bard the forts of Metz.
``Bois-lep-Tetre, which covers the
heights just north of the road le.ad-
ing to Pont-a-Housson at St Mi-
llie', has been 'hei,ct in great part by
mentioned that the French were
making progress there.
``The capture of this wood brings
the French up to the Norrey Ridge,
which is within, nangc .of the nearest
of the'lletz forts, particularly Chat
of St. Blaise, which is ahin,est lihe
frontier and doininates the village
of Pagny-sur-Moselle.
"Several weeks ago the French
pushed forward and endeavored to
cut the communications of the Ger-
man a,rm,v a't, St. Millie' by blowing
to pieces the statien .at Arna,ville;
the Ge3mans for many weeks, hut where the branch lino to Tlhiancourt
se -.-er al recent communiques 'have b egins."
gon
Railway a
homes for ref
been Epeut in
furinturzk
itthnIt
ly to the
was inIVe
"It was a
rtaiii we should t
into but though wer
hard , they gave
liked occasionally only 0111
down again like a thick curtain
What could be done under mach con
ditions They did not want t
fight, and directly thev knew
were on their tracks they seuttle
away like frightened rabbits,"
Information which comes from an
other quarter shows that tlie
f the destroyer whieh en
gaged the cruisers before the latte,
turned and fled, put up a ver,:‘
plucky fight. They were at a tei
riblo disadvantage in having to put
themselves against vessels of such
superior type but they replied with
great -dash aild courage to the guns
of the enemy.
A brief account of the fighting
contained in a letter from a sailor
who was in the action. The writer
says : "One of our. small light cruis-
ers absoluthly saved the situation,
She was, however, no match for
such weighty% opponents, and the
fact that. she came out of the en-
counter so well is, attributed to the
poor gunnery of the Germans."
Another of the crew says the
three German ships literally rained
shells at them, but made very few
hits. "There were many very nar-
row escapes„,':, he said, "and it was
marvellous how we got out of the
affair at all. Of course, we en-
gaged them, and we did our best.
but we were outclassed by the,
powerful German ships. They soon
made off, however, when they smelt
danger to themselves, and we were
powerless to stop them."
A.troei ties Proved by any Ex hi bits.
A deSpatch from London says : An
6:x11'5:Lai:On is being held in :London
fir) prove the occurrence oVGeman
jatoeities.• It consists of official
documents and numerous photo-
graphs.
Father ----Don't ask so. many clues -
cat. Little lloy-7:-What,,did the c,at
wan b to. know, dad1
ig
number of the battalion took
oart in the Boer war.
The curious anomaly new prevail-
ing In London ts ,hat although less
gas is heing used the Are
having to pay clearer for it. T-te
Gas. Light and Coke C,ompany
their district noi:th of the Thamett,„
are chargmg 4e, more per 1,0:Y) en.
bio feet.
An unusual sight was r---,-
cently when a large crowd of Bel-
gian r et -ogee s as s e in bled „at :he.
Bank of England to chanqi,
Seats were provid:d in the court
Yard and. they were supplio.d with
Value of a 1,14,sh
The wl i eat -eating Ca rt ha ,,inian.5
were no match for the porkeati.:3g
Romans ; the goat-ea:ling Greek,-,
easily overcame the he b iVOrous
Persian s , while the beef -eaters o
no better soldiers than those 'of the
Scotch end Irish regiments, to
after all. winabever hhe