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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1915-4-1, Page 200,000 CRIP Austrian ..ectures vrnLunt Uas nstituted a Course of to Tell Them lio'w to Make a Living' A despatch fa Nee.. Ig%).rit. says Citarlee MacDonald. U.S.A., he.ad of the American Rid C174,ili",; Hospital at, lludapet siuve early itir,i,,Iviipeitit-oe.r, -on 111$7, arrival oil t ?St ("Winship An1erica, said he halt , found it necessary to ask the Coun- tess Szechenyi, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, the LI oun ess Zigray and Countess Zieby to leave the hospital, Countess Zigray is a daughter of the late Marcus Daly, and the Countess Zichy was Miss Mabel Wright, :of Boston, Dr. MacDonald received fame the Em- perorf Austria a decoration for distiug:uished set' V it: e. 'Ti C,Otikli- loin) in Austria are beyond de- , seeption," he said, "eholere and typhoid will sweep doves through the 'nation like a, pare fire as spriue and Summer come, We re- eeived our wounded directly from the ront uid /finny were four days on the way. In Budapest there aro .200,000 eripples, sokliers who have lost arms or legs. Instead of feed- ing them, the Government has in- stituted a course of le'tares to tell how they may learn to make a living." PICS OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. FireadStuffs, Taro n t o, March 29. -Flour - 11 a n I t o be, first patents quoted at $7,70, in :Otte baga; second patents, $7,20; strong bakers', $7. Ontario wheat flour, 90 per cent, patents, quoted at 86 to $6,10, seaboar& and at $6.20 to 56,23, Toronto freight. Wheat-llanitoba No, 1 Northern quot- ed. at, 51.62; No, 2 at 51.60 1-2, ,and No. 3 at 81.50. Ontario wheat, No. 2 nominal, at $1.42 to 51.45, at outside points. Oats -Ontario quoted. at 60 to 61e, out- side, and at 63 to 64,e on track, Toronto. Western-,Canatitt, No. 2, quoted at 700, and No. 3 at 68c. Re.rley--The market i8 dull, with offer. logs moderate, Good 'malting grades, 20 to 85e, outside. Rye -The marits is dull at 81.1.6 to $1.18„ outside Peas -The market is quiet, -with No. 1 quoted at $130 to 52.05, outside. Corn -No, 3 new American quoted at 81e, all rail, Toronto freight, Buekwhea-No. 2 quoted at 82 to 83o, 'outside. Bran and shorts -Bran is quoted at 526 a ton and shorts at q28. Rolled oat*-L'ar lots, per bag, of 90 lbs, $3.40. Country Produce - Batter -Choice dairy, 27 to 28e; inferior, 21 to 23ot treamery prints, 35 to 35 1-2c1 olds. 33 to 33c; farnaers* separator, 27 to 28c. Eggs -20c per dozen, in ease lots. Beans -83.15 to 53.20 for prime, and .8.7.25 o 53.:.0 for baud -picked. Poultry-Ch't:Itens, dressed, 14 to 16e; dueks, dressed, 13 to 15; fowl, 11 to 13e; turkeys, dressed, 19 to 21c. Cbeese--18 1.4c for large, and at 18 1.2a for twin. Potatoes -Ontario, 60 to 65e per bag, out of etnre, and 45 to 50c in car lots. New 32rtiner'sk5., car lots, 55 to 60c per bag. Provisions. taeou--Long elear, 13 1-2 to 14c per lb, Ji ease lots. Hams -Medium, 17 to 17 1-20; beavy, 14 1-2 to 15c; rolls, 14 to 1.4 1-20; breakfast bacon, 18 to 19c; backs, 20 to 21,'; boneless backs,. 23c. Lard -11 1-2 to 12c; compound, 9 3-4 to 10. in tubs, and 10 to 10 1-40 in pails. Salad Hay and Straw. Straw 1,,s quoted at 88 to 58.50 a, ton in car iotsoct tract here, ay -71o. 1 new hay is quoted at 817 to 515; No, 2 at 815,50 to 816, and No. 3 at 8112.50 to 513,50. Montreal Markets. !. March 29. -Corn, American, No. 3 Imilow, 82 1-2 to 53e. Oats, Canadian Western No. '2, 72e; No, 3, 68 1-2c; extra. No. 1 feed, 68 1-2c; No. 2 locaLwialte, 66c1 :4 10e 11 bite. 65e; No. 4 local white, 6e. Earley, Man. feed, 80c; malting, 90c. Bovit.vbettt, No, 2, 92c, Flour, Man. Eipt.ing wheat patents, firsts, 57.80; sec- ' ontl,. C7.30; strony, bakers', 87.10; Winter p.'zc,•nt*. choice. $7.90; straight rollers, 57.40 to 87.50; do., base, 53.50 to 53.60. 3i!ed °erg. barrels, 57 to 57.26; do., bags, a the., ,,,340 to 53.50. Bran 526. Shorts 8:2 Middlings. $35 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to tr 8. Rey. No. 2, per ton car lots, 518 Cheese, finest westerns, 17 to 17 fire,t eastern*, 16 3-4 to 17c. But- ereamery, 32 to 32 1-2c; do., elyonds, 51 to 31 1 2e. Eggs, fresh, 21 1-2 tr. Potatoes. per bag, ear lots. 47 1-2 to itle Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $12.50 to 812,75; dressed hogs, country, 89 Pork, heavy Canada short mess, bb'e., 55- to 45 pieces, 828; do., Canada short out bank, bbla, 45 to 55 pieces, $27.50. Lord, compound. tierces, 375 lbs., 1-2c: wood ;sails, 20 lbs., net, 10c; pure, hiercPs, 376 lbs., 12e; pure, wood pails, 20 Th,. net, 12 1 2c. Live Stock Ma.rkats. T,tonto, March 24. -Easter trade cattle, al•on.e. 58 to 58.50; butcherscattle, choice, $7.50 to $7.75: do,, good, 5.6.50 to $7,25; do.. mad'itm, 85.50 to 56.45; do., common, 54.75 to 81.10: butchers' bulle. choice, 86 to $6.75; do., good bulls, 56 to 86.251 do., rough bulls, 54.50 to 54.75; butchers" cows, choiee, 55.75 to $6.50; do., 'medium, $5.25 to $5,50; do., ,-ommon, 54.50 to 55; feeders, good, 86 to 56.80; do., rough bulls, 85.25 to 56; stockers. 700 to 1,000 lbs., 56 to 56.76; can- ners and cutters'53.75 to 54.40; milkers, elio.re, each, 860 to 590; do., common and no,diont, each, 535 to 545; springers, 550 to $99; light ewes, 56.50 to 58; do., heavy, 55 to 445.50; do.. bucks, 53.75 to $4,25; lambs. 86.25 to 511.25; calves, 84.50 to 511; hogs, fed and watered. 58.15; do., off cars, 58,50 to 52,60; do„ $7.80. Monircol, March 29. -Sales of good steers were made at 57.25 to 57.50; fur at 56.50 to $7, and lower gradee at from $5 to $6 per ewt., while choice butchers' cows .bratight 56.50 to 56.75, and the cotturtoner gratiks at from $4.75 to $6. and brills from 55.50 to 57 per cwt. Quebec lambs at, 58 to 58.60: buteher Ontario stock is firm, at 59 per cwt. Sheep sold at 55.25 to 56 per owt. The tone of the market for calves is easier; an actio trade Vas done at front 52.50 to 510 each as to size and qual- ity. The roa.rliet for hogs is firm -under a good denta,nti. and small supplies and sales of selected lots were made at $8.75 to 59 per cwt., weighed off cars. Japan is the only Oriental :coun- try in which sheet glass is mann- fa,Ctured. RUSSIANS HOLD PASS OF li11PNOW Enemy Withdraws Strongest Part of His Forces Into Hungary. A despatch from Petrograd says: Air reconnaissances have establish- ed the fact that the Austrians have withdrawn altogether from Bup- kow Pass in the Carpathians, and the Russians are now in unopposed occupation There are signs also that the Austro-Gerinan ermies are availing themselves Of the drench- ed mountain roads to draw ba'ek into Hungary the <strongest column containing the main German force. This is slowly changing its positioa south of Beskidas and Koziome. It is expeeted that in aecordance with the Budapest -Berlin compact the Magyars and Germans will mew prepare a stubborn defensive cam- paign for the plains of Hungary. Large calibre guns have been brought to the Aestro-German po- sition at Yuz, where the cannonade is intensifying, with occasional fierce infantry fighting. The strong Russian threat inside the border of East Pruesia in the direction of Tilsit has had the de- sired effect of hastening Gen. von Eichhories retreat from Suwalki. The shooting of the new German infantry is utterly inadequate. The young prisoners admit that they had had no musketry training un- til they entered their first battle. The expedition to Memel destroy- ed a depot of contrabrandthrough which necessaries had been taken into Germany. Documents were seized disclosing the organization. .14 RED CROSS ORGANIZER DEAD. Lady Paget Headed British Red Cross in Serbia. A despatch frona Berlin says:. The Serbian Daily Tribune an- nounces the death of Lady Paget, head of the British Red Cross in Serbia, froni spotted fever. The Lady Paget referred to is Lady Ralph Paget, daughter of Lady Arthur Paget. Sir Ralph Paget has been the British Minister in Belgrade for several years. Dur- ing the Balkan war of 1912-13 Lady Ralph Paget acted'as a nurse in the vailitaty hospital at Belgrade, and won the affection of the wounded ,soldiers to an unusual de- gree. •••••••••••••••••..1,1.••••••••••4•0110...M. To "Abate the Evil" Of Signs in English A despatch from Berlin says: The chief of police has issued a notice to all the Berlin precincts calling attention to the fact that trade-rnarks signs and inscrip- tions in ingFeli, Russian and French still remain on shop doors in Berlin, and ordering that all precincts report not later than April 20 that steps have been taken "to abate the evil," "Wide circles of the inhabi- tants," seys the order, "feel that their patriotic sentiments are in- jured by the regrettable lack of national consciousness evidenced by these condition." More Trained Nurses Needed. A despatch from London says: Itt a Press Burea.0 anbouncement the Direetor-General of the Array Med- ical Service emphasizes need for an increasing supply ef trained nurses, He makes an appeal to civil hospi- tals to train as many as possible for military service. BURNING LIQUID USED BY GERMANS teSuccessful Attack by Six French Aviators o Airship Sheds A. despatch .:11,1 Paris sera; Ste I Va.erich aviators made a tuceeseful attack On Frascati, near Metz, ?Where important dirigibao thesis 'are located, bombarded the 51.13b7, il'atlway state:on and altso the bar- ite:eke east ofStreesbure,. All the fliers returned to talc Firendh lines a,f,sily, with the <report that they eurig a dozen bombs and 00.41.810d Iletz pante in Metz, Tiles were subject- ed to a violent fire from anti-air- craft guns, but not a man or a, ms,- thinwas iitt., The desiritetion •of Metz is be- hoved to 'have bee'n very great de- spite the German claim thee only three t,dai,rs ware kiTlod an that no materiel damage was occasion- ed, Blind 'Victoria Cross Hero of Boer War Goes to Front. Captain E, B. V. Towse, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for hie heroic work in the Boer War, where he lost his eyesight, has gone to the front. Unable to take up arms for his country on aceount of his inability,the blind captain will go to one of the baseS of the army in France and there type letters home ter his brother soldiers, RUSSIANS 110111) KEY TO HUNGARY Rout Austrians Prow Their Posi- tions in .the Passes of the Carpathians. A despatch from London says: The Russians have inflicted a seri- ous defeat on the Austrians guard- ing, the Hungarian :outlet of the passes through the Beskicl range of the Carpathians, and the Czar's troops once more are pressing for- ward at the heels of a, demoralized enemy in the direction of Bartfekl, a city within 150 miles of Budapest. Neerly 10,000 prisoners were se- cured by the, Russians in the last two days of a furious battle near the crest of the mountains, and the Austrians are in retreat front the positions where they had fortified themselves and whence they based their recent offensive for the relief of Pereanysl„ It is thought here that some at least of the troops that formed the besieging army of the latter fort- ress already have arrived in the Carpathians and helped to turn the scele against the Austrians. This fresh Russian force, it is said, could be despatched very quickly to the Uszok Pass as soon as it was re- leased by Peremysl's fall. The Emden Refugees Are Still Raiding A despatch from London says: The Sydney :correspondent of Reu- ter's Telegram Company says that news has been received there con- eerning further activities of the schooner Aysha, which was com- mandeered and manned by mem- bers of the crew of the German eruiser Emden, -who escaped when the cruiser was sunk by an Aus- tralian warship in the Indian Ocean on November 10. The latest report says that the Aysha entered Padang, Sumatra, on March 1, and that the crew raided the Dutch telegraph station there and carried off nearly all the stores. Ferdinand Belcher of Chicago, died of heart failure when his alarm clock called him at six a.m. UNIVERSITY BA SE 110 SPRAT,. Its Needs Set Forth by Mrs. MePhedran. The following letter from Mrs. McPhedran, the eonvenor of the Sick Fund of the Ontario Red Cross Society, will interest many reads ers of this paper who are engaged in charitable work or who may be able to devote :a tittle time to aid- ing in the equipment of the base hospital, which is being sent to the front very soon by the medical foes alty of the University of Toronto : 151 Bloor St. West, Toronto, March 25th, Dear Sive-Will you grant me the hospitality of your .columns for a few words regarding supplies for the University of Toronto Base Hospital? We know that there are many geaduates, .men and women, throughout Canada, -who are in- tensely intetested in this under- taking, and we ask and need every one's assistance in order that we may bring the equipment to a sue- oessful issue, It has been,suggested that groups organized for work throughout the provinoe should turn their organ- izations over to University Hospi- tal sverk for at least some weeks. As sheets, shirts, pillow slips, pyjamas, bed jackets, etc., are needed by thousands, it de hoped that ,sorne societies may make offers suoh as the following: "We will make one hundred :shirts for the University Base Hospital clueing the next month." Mrs. Lash Mil- ler, the oonvenor of the Work Com- mitt/ea, will be glad to hear from any who are willing to help in this way. May I say a few words in regard to socks. The impression seems to have got abroad that eur men will not require heavy socks during the summer. This is a mista,ke. None but heavy woollen <socks are. ever worn by soldiers in the field. When the wounded are sufficiently recov- ered to again take their places in the firing line new outfits of cloth- ing are needed to re'plasie those ruined by meld a,nd blood, rooSt of which must: he burned when the men come in. For this we shall re- quire mealy hundreds of spears te supplement those supplied by the Government. This hospital, officially known as FORGED NAME OF ATTACHE Secret of Recall of Major Langhorne Is Revealed Officially .at Washington A despatch from Washington says: The facts regarding the sud- den recall of Major George T. Langhorne from his post as military ettaehe at Berlin are presented herewith. They explain why 'Wash- ington officials made sitch a mystery about the case. Major. Langhorne was recalled because it was discovered that per- sons in Germany 'were sending '01.6 nnauthorjzed despatches over his name. Astounde0 by this elfiscov- ery-, and not desiring to raise any "'"embarrassneent with the German Government, the authorities here decided the best way to, deal with the situation was to recall Major Lenghorne at oneo and endeavor to keep the matter from becoming generally known, The situation Waa the more deli- cate because the false despatchs credited by „persons in Germany to the Altera:can military attstche dealt not only with military opera- tions, but with political and diplo- matic developments in Germany. Naturally, emanating from German sources, they presented the Ger- man situation in a most fay:amble light, and discredited on the oOser hand the :achievements of Ger- many's enemies. Being signed with the name of the American military attache! (flowerer; they bore bile appearance of impartial reports by a neutral and wholly competent military ebserver. The intent seereiegly was that the despatchoe should tall into the hand's of Germany's en4inies and mislead them as to the German operations and developments. The despatches did eaine to the atten- tion of France and England, but with a result wholly unanticipated by their perpetrators. That is, they led to the discovery of the, phot and its abrupt termination, by the recall of Major Langhorne. TOL3UAFOD AGAINST ALUM IN BAKINO eowoaaaee THAT ALL INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL,AND THAT ALUM OR SULPHATE"OF ALUMINA OR SOOIC ALUMINiC SUL-, ',HATE 15 NOT ONE OF THEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE IN- G9C0IENTS IS NOT SUFFI- CIENT, MAGIC BAKING PoWDER oOSTS, NO MORE THAN THE ,ORDINARY KINDS. FOR ECONOMY, MUT THE ONE POUND TINS. 14141.01.11405cTlifiliT,CA DAXIP96 POINPE I8CtINPORSOFTl8 rOttOIMING INERZOI. ' INTSANPRONEOTHER iltiOIRATE 151444E8. ORATEOPSODAAIfill 5/(1,110.41, gin ii,gg,;0„ ,ollirEttfAcilmmay:„.„/ 'ISRP,Pavi.un) - T'alkrr GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL IJU Oustintinnkilli)#00•001r,"' 41110inomootitOifonfillaultt PIRATE U-29 HAS BEE\ SUNK She Was the Submarine That Torpedoed Many Ships in the English Channel A despatch front London 518,y8: The British Admiralty states that the German submarine 17-2?„ whioh recently sank four British 'steam- ers and one French steamer in the English channel and damaged three other vessels, has been sunk with all hands. This makes the sixth German submarine reported by the British Admiralty as having been sunk. Besides these the French warships sank one. The submerine was chased by patrol boats, but she proved too elusive for them, and when steamers tried to ram or escape her they found that the sub- marine was a mach Laster boat than her sister craft. The German e0111 - mender goats the :mars, of most of the steamers time to leave their vessels, and in some caseS towed the lifeboats of the ships, with the oreW,• to passing steamers, in which they were taken to port. 1.8 has been stated that the eommander of the U-29 was the oSame officer who early in 'the war 'amnia:waded the German submarine U-9 -when the latter ea,nk the British cruisers Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy. No, 4; is essentiality our hospital. Let us then send it out well equip- ped, a. worthy 'expression of este industry, our patriotism, and our love of humanity. JEAN McPHEDRiAN, Convenor 'of Ontario Red Cress Societe Bock Fund. Chile Enters Protest With Britain and Germany A despatch from Santiago, Chile, says: The Chilean Government hae protested to Great Britain and Germany against the alleged vio- lation of Chilean neutrality in- volved in the .sinking of the Ger- man cruiser Dresden. The protests are based on the assertion that the Dresden was in Ohileen waters when she was destroyed by British sears:hips off Juan Fernandez Is- lands on March 14. A French Woman Spy Executed. .A despatch from Luneville, France, says: Marguerite Schmitt, a French woman sentenced to death as a, spy after being court-mar- tialed, was shot, Wednesday after the.troops of the garrison had been drawn up to witness the execution. By her own admission at her trial, the woman accepted 200 franes ($40) from the Germans to enter the French lines and obtain infor- mation. All He Wanted to Know. Aunt -Do you know, Bobby, candy does to your teeth Bobby -No, auntie; but what my teeth do to candy. what know 401.,111•1•=111 READ. HER NAME, THEN SANK IIER ermaa Pirates Deliberately Sub. niarined a Dutch Vessel Off Beachy Recta. A despatch from London says: The Dutch steamer Medea was sunk off Beachy Head Friday morning by German submarines 11-28. She car- ried a cargo of oranges, and was bound from Salonica for London. The Medea was stopped by the submarine and the crew were given fifteen minutes in which to leave the vessel. They did so and the submarine then fired several shots at the steamer, whidh remained afloat for an hour. The crew rowed about in their boats until picked up by a destroyer, which brought them to Dover. The trawler Alprecht was at- tacked by a submarine on Thurs- day. A torpedo passed within ten feet of the fishing boat while she was crossing the Channel. A Bri- tish patrol boat chased the sub- marine, which, however, disap- Peaheredre Tis a graee crisis in Hol- land -German relations over the failure of the Kaiser's Government to explain the seizure of two other Dutch steamers recently. De Wet and Ins Rebels. A despatch from Cape Town says: The Assembly to -day unani- mously passed an eumandment 80 the War Indemnity Bill removing the death penalty from all partici- pants in the recent rebellion. ONE MILLION WOMEN READY Are Registering at Labor Exchanges Throughout England at the Rate of z5o,000 a Day A despatch from London says: Women are crowding to register for employment at the labor exchanges here and throughout England at the rate of about 150,000 per day. It is estimated that already one million -women have shown them - Elves ready to fill positions now - occupied by men if the men 'will go into the army. The Government has expressed its approval of this movement, but no definite action has been taken. However, women are MiONV being employed as clerks in the censor's office and else- where in Govern:rite/it work that formerly was oocupied by men. All railroads and tramways through- out England have received letters from the Government asking them to do all they can to employ wo- men and release ablehbodied men for fighting. The registration at the labor ex- changes is increasing daily, and at the alms tiros; efforts are being made to find employment, but as yet a. million registered women have not an found positions, STOP THAT DISOJSTING SNIFFLE! SOOTHING "C&TARREOZONE"--ATECK 'JURE tarter The Rich Healing Balsants of Catarrhozone Are Death to Colds, Bad Throat and Catarrh gimply a marvel -you get relief ad (mica from Catarrhozone. Try the inhaler and count ten -your throat and nose are cleared -you feel better at once: Every breath you take is laden with the rich piney vapor of Catarrhozone -every breath 10 full of healing -full of soothing cUrative medicine that do- atreya finiffles and nose r)isla almost Instantly; Thousands ore utiles Clatatrhozone to -day who couldift live without it, 'Try it for your 111141,0,We throat, teat it out for that bronchial cough, give it a chance to rid you of that Overlie cearrhal eondition. Year of wonderful etutZ`‘:tzls and tea- timonv frons the best people of our feed go to prove that nothing so far discosered is quicker, safer, surer; P1070 pleasant than Catarrhozend. /t is in its application purely scientific -- la recommended only for certain all - meets above mentioned ---but those it does certainly cure, ihe complete dollar outfit of Ciatarrhozene; it always does the work; small size 50c., sample trial size 2504 sold: by dealers evorywhere. ffISEASYTO REPLACE SHIPS N 'S G )1 E STR G WIN TIM SEA. Deadly Floating Nines Responsible for Destruetioe of the ALLleil Ships. In ae article reviewing the sink- ing of the British battleships Irre- sistible and Ocean, and tho' Freneh battleship Bouvet, in the Dardan- elles, the New York Herald says: If 'any 'doubt were entertained of the enormous fighting strength o,f ,England on the sea, it might be s to teke their places ta the Darden- :iitielsa.st by the mere aanehneeinhut those lust are being sent ft 'w that ships, of equal strenIard The signifies:1A feahere of the ea- gagemeeb as it impresses the or- dinary man lies in the fact that the combined squadrons af British and French warships, those which were pushed into the Dardauelles first to engage by direct fire the forts jusb below and at the narrows, were not only able to hold their positions but actually silenced the fire of Turkish tbatteries. The two squad- rons were represented by the QUCCU Elizabeth, -the latiexibis, theA,ga- niemnon the Lord Nelson, the Tri- umph and the Priuce George on the British side, and by the Suffern, the Gaulois, the Charlemagne and the Bouvet ou the French side. It is for the opportunity to en- gage by direct fire that the allies have steadily prosecuted ,the Mins sweeping operations in the Dardan- elles, for no naval commander would be warranted in pitting - heavy 'battleships squarely against shore wonks in narrow waters until oaissmairnedes.that the channels were free Mines Chief Obstatele. The irony of the whole aff4ir is seen in the fact that the disestes which overtook the Ocean, the Ir resistible and the Bouvet carae eot from observation or stationary mines, 'sinoe these had • all • been cleared out by the painstaking and hazardous work of the mine sweep- ers'and counter mine's, but by floating mines. The waters in the Dardanelles are characterized by •strong cur- rents which run steadily out of the sea of Marmora, through the Straits of Gallipoli and thence down through the Dardanelles into the Aegan !Sea. The ourrent attains to velocities of three to four knots an4 it was this current fwhich Turks a.valled of to launoh current mines which would float down from oft Chanel: direct athwart the ships of the alliesAlyringblw, epeeetoreetire.' sete These eurrentenrnes have all the destructive ,powers of a torpedo vis fired by a submarine- They contain gun -cotton charge's, the same as operative mines, the usual charge weighing 500 pounds, The mines float along with the current, and are invisible, since they are weight- ed so as to keep ,stihmenged.ab a dis- tance of about fifteen feet 'below the surface. - A drag attached to the up,- and down'cimin seems to give direction to the mine, keeps it in the current and prevents it from shooting- off shoreward. Once the mines are launched fair with the current they may be depended upon to float true aloug with it, unseen and unherald- ed, and only needing the :shot& of contact with a ship's bottom to cause the fulminate of mercury de• tonators to function, and in turn to detonate the tremendous mass of guncotton contained within the shell case. Sure to Blow Up. No warship afloat ha<s been built that can withstand the effect of five hundred pounds of guecot ton de- tonated alongside her underwater hull, anti the effect is to blow este' der hull a,nd bulkheads, and with even chances of exploding by sym- piuthetie (shock the magazines of the :ship herself. This is just what in all probability happened to the Ocean and her helpless eonsorte. This destruotion appears to have been as complete Its it, was sudden, and the marks were indelibly ihose of -the deadly current minp, Expects an Increase In Pirate Activity. A despatch from tondon says; A large increase in the 11 umber of aermap submarines operating in the wainzs ammAti, _.4.114ti,711 Jsi Was predieted by Itear-A 017 Marquis of Bristol at a meeting in. London a the insth, LI l I U ur of whic't 11;;Ii.,..;;.;p•Ir,,,te,,..,..t/lhiprilt,t,..be , • .0(1,111'0114 ti5f FIAJ 7l5ld1,5Liit51l061 17it17.1 ArrnfiatiOnt 011.MCieni todeaT submarine,s. He ea'd that later lir- ternational action most be taken for Ake purpose of dell n Es the In tilde which submarines shoold hese in their offeililiVe capacity. Michael Viddle wan, Chime:re Russian, who ne.ver drank beer <yr ate swce1 thiegs, died at Om ags of 103