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IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA
Arusha Has Been Occupied and the Enemy Driven
Fr m._t-iis Line on the Ruwu River.
Aedespatch from Loudon says: Tele-
grams to the War Office -from Gene
teal ',atntat4$, eumnzander of the British
fume; e; in tlertnan East Afriea, indi-
cate that the German force: we,'e dis-
lclgeci from defensive positions on the
Lurgi River and the Kitovo hal; by
opernt•ions from March 7 to 12. They
retreated to positions in the thick
forest along the Ruwu River.
On Mar•eh 19 there was bush fight-
ing in the vicinity of Kahe, the enemy
stubbornly resisting. On the 20th a
British force occupied Aru,eha, dis-
lodging the enemy.
At Dossing the enemy attacked
during the night, but was driven off
with severe losses. In the meantime a
strong mounted force traversing the
bush country seized the Kahe rail-
way station and many houses. The
force then occupied a hill to the
south-east of Kahe. This threat
against our retreat'decided the enemy
to hold on throughout March 21 with
a view to further retirement under
cover of darkness.
j Further reinforcements reached
him during operations. The Brit-
`, ish inflicted heavy losses; but the Ger-
; mans resisted obstinately. At night
tho entire Ruwu line was evacuated
by the enemy, who retired south-
wards, leaving a four -inch gun be-
longing to the cruiser Koenigsberg.
• The operations are continuing.
Earl Kitchener telegraphed eon-
gratulations to General Smuts for his
brilliant success.
BRITISH BLOW IN
NEMY DUGOUTS
Suec•ssful Raids Against German
Trenches in La Bassee
Region.
A despatch from London says: Sir
Johu Haig reports that the British
earried out two successful raids
again,_t filo German trenches about
Grim t c:3urt and tate Bethune -La Bas -
see roads. Three dugouts filled with
the enemy were bombed and blown
in. The Germans sprang a nine to
the nert'h of Arras and two mines
nr:rtil-ttst of Neuve Chapelle, caus-
ing ,light damage to the British
trent•?:; s. A grenade attach to the
nnz'il of Arras was repulsed.
The Ge man forces which gained
a fc ;ethohl On the small hill cf Haus
(Isere a liftie over half a mile south-
R'eet. o' Mal:Ineaurt, on the west side
of the nieu+e .:,n Wednesday, have not
yet :ltt:•moted to increase, their gains,
an.: lne i's•; : eh Mill ho:d part of the
hill.
it hc•.. - t; es ro infantry getien aI
the Verner front Wednesday right or
Th e : l e r. *,V ocinesday night the Ger-
mans d •:•;:na ej the intensity of their
boa . Ireent to the west of the river,
whieh heel Inen of especial violence
as a seeeert to their infantry attack,
but continued without lessening of in-
teneity th ; bombardment on the east-
ern bunk et the river. In the Woevre
the cunnonade was intermittent.
On Thursday heavy artillery fire
was r:r umed on the western bank of
the ineu a, in the Malancourt region,
and ot: the Teem between Bethincou_•t-
Le Movie Ii• inme-Cumieres, while to
the east of the river and in the
Woevre' the firing increased in vio-
lence.
FARMERS WILL CROP
REDUCED ACREAGE
Wages Are High and They Expect,
Trouble in Securing Help.
A despalich from Winnipeg says:',
Many of the farmers of Manitoba, who
cannot sure sufficient help, have de-
tided to put in a smaller acreage,!
Wagee will be beyond the reach oft
a large percentage of the fa risers, f
The help to be expected from the sol-
diers will not be as extensive as an-;
ticipated. Quite a number of men
have been drifting into the cit;; from
woods, camp and other place,, bat the
farmers, not knowing when the seed-
ing will.: -.tart, have been unwilling to
secure these men at once and the re-
sult is that•they are being snapped•up;
by contractors.
EXPLOSION KILLS 12
IN GERMAN COLLIERY'
A despatch from London say:.
Twenty persons have been killed in
an explosion in the Preussen colliery,;
near Mlchowitz, Silesia, says a des-
patch to the Central News from Am-'
sterdam.
TURCO-BULGARIAN PEACE
MISSION REACHES ROME t
A Central News Despatch to Lon-
don from Berne says that two Turkish'
and two Bulgarian agents have arriv-e
ed there to start peace negotiations.
The Bulgarians requested :safe eon-; i
duet, and will proceed to Rome. t
VILLA DEFEATED BY
CARRANZA'S MEN
Several Dead and Wounded Bandit
Were Left on the
Field.
A despatch from El Paso, Texas
says: Villa was attacked and defeat
ed on Thursday night at Santa Ger
trudes by Carranza troops, according
to a deepateh received by Genera
Gavira in Juarez, General Gavira
said he had received authentic infor-
mation that after the skirmish at
Santa Clara earlier in the day there
Col. Cano's command had defeated
Villa, the bandit chieftain was pur-
sue+l and again attacked late Thurs-
day night at Santa Gertrudes and
again was defeated. Villa left sever-
al dead and wounded bandits on the
field, and Gen. Gavira says one hun-
dred horses were captured from him
by the Carranzistas. From Santa
Gertrudes Villa fled to El Oso, where
he was reported to be reorganizing
his forces. Santa Gertrudes is a
ranch settlement in the Guerrero di--
ts :et not far from Namiquipa.
R(4t'M ANIAN GRAIN
IIOUGIIT BY GERMANY.
A despatch from Berlin says It is
seri-officially announced that con-
tracts have been executed between
the official grain -buying associations
of Germany and Austro-Hungary and
the Roumaniangrain commis-
sion
export comae.
sion for 100,000 car loads of corn and
all the wheat, barley and legumes
available for export, estimated at
forty thousand carloads. An agree-
ment has also been reached, accord-
ing to the announcement, whereby
Roumania is to receive certain goods
from the central powers. An effort
will be made to make commerce mu-
tually as nearly normal as possible,
it is added.
SOME WAR ODDITIES.
Soldir:s sAllow-
ance
Asks For Incre• •
a c of
Increase A.tt-
0
ance When Triplets Arrive.
London -Private Willit.m Tunks, of
the Leicestershire Regiment, now in
France, has a:eked for an increased
war allowance due to the arrival of
teiplets in his home.
Folke ;tone, England - Mise. Ruth
Roberts, 103 year of age, remembers
when her father and three brothers
fought at 'Waterloo. She is one of
a family of twenty-two and never
has married, smoked, drank or used
snuff.
London -Lieut. Edward P. Mulock,
who died at Neuve Chapelle, made
his Will on a sheet of note -book par cr,
leaving $75.000 to a chorus girl whose
weekly earnings totalled $7.50.
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SCORES OF THOUSANDS
OF WOMEN EMPLOYED
A despatch from London says: Da-'
vid Lloyd George, Minister of Muni -
ions, speaking in the House of Com-
mons on Wednesday, said that scores
of thousands of women are now at
work in the munition plants. Their
participation in this labor, he said,
Iracl resulted in an enormous increase
n the output of the plants replacing
he men who were in the army.
FRENCH is"O USE LIQUID FIRE
IN REPRISAL ON GERMANS
Superiority of This Terrible Arm Over the Bayonet
rias Been Exemplified at Verdun.
A despatch from Paris says: Liquid
fire has been the means by which the
Germans gained the portions of
trenches mentioned in recent official
communications, says the Journal Des!
D,ebats, and the Military Committee I
of the Chamber of Deputies is en- f
ruining into meth ds for bhe
protec-
tion of the French troops against suck I
Are attacks and the use of a similar
Weapon in reprisal.
"One can • easily understand," says
the newspaper, "the superiority of
this terrible arm over the bayonet.
Even though it may expose the man
who carries it to the danger of death
in case a fragment of shell should
strike it, on the other hand, it gives
bo an attack the power and cruelty
to which our communications are
r`
bean witness,"
g wt ss.
The newspaper adds that France
has every •means at her disposal for
paying the Germans in their own coin
and therefore should employ thorn.
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PETTY OFFICER IN RiGGING OF A TORPEDOED STEAMER.
Recently a small British steamer was torpedoed near the Egyptian const
b3 0, German 1" boat. the ]-ribs previously inviting tribesmen to witness the
sinking from the hills in the vicinity, so that they might gest a good idea or
modern barbarism and be correspondingly impressed. The I.ricture shows
Petty Otfiecr Johnston in 1h.' rigging. Subsequently the tribesmen were
completely rout r l by General Lukiu's column.
- if i ` .'w est westerns, 18r.i to 19c; do., east -
of en, ern., 18?_. to 1816c. Butter -Choicest
creamery, 83 to 34e; seconds, 30 to
- 32e. Eggs -Fresh, 28 to 29c. Puta-
Breadstuff s.
Toronto, Mar. 28. -Manitoba wheat,
new crop -No. 1 Northern'$1.081d;
No. 2, $1.05%; No. $1,03%, iIl
store, Fort William.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 4211e;
No. 3 C.W., 40?:ic; extra No. 1 f'eod,
40?:,e; No. 1 feed, 39 Se c, in store, Korb
William.
American corn --No. 3 yellow, 78e,
American corn -No. 3 yellow, 78,
on track Toronto.
Canadian corn -Feed, 68 to 70c, on
track Toronto.
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 42 to
43e; commercial, 41 to 42e, according.
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 winter, per
car Iot, $1 to $1.02; No. 1 commercial,
96 to 98c; No. 2 do., 04 to 96c; No. 3
do., 91 to 92c: feed wheat, 85 to 88c,
according to freights outside.
Peas -No. 2, $1.50; according to
sample, $1 to $1.30, according to
freights outside.
• Barley -Malting barley, 62 to 64e;
feed barley, 59 to 62c, eccording to
freights outside.
Buckwheat -G8 to 69c, according to
freights outside.
Rye -No. 1 commercial, 86 to 87c;
rejected, ecto]
: according
t0 sample, 83
to
85c, accor•cling to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -Myst patents, in
jute bags, $6.50; second patents, in
jute bags, $6; strong bakers', in jute
bags. $5.80, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, $1.05 to $4.20, on track, To-
ronto; $4.15 to $4.20, bulk seaboard,
prompt :shipment.
?'.lillfeerl, car lots, delivered Mont -
veal freights --Bran, per ton, $24;
short:. par ton, $26; middlings, per
ton. :r27; gond feed flour, per bag,
$1.60 to $1.70.
Country Produce.
Butter --Fresh dairy, 28 to 31c; in-
ferior, 23 to 25c_; creamery prints, 34
to 36e; solids. 32 to 34e.
Eggs -New -laid, 28 to 29c; do., in
cartons, 30 to 31c.
Honey -In 10 to 60 -Ib. tins, 13 to
14e. Combe ---No. 1, $2.75 to $3; No.
2, $2.25 to $2.40.
Beans -84.10 to $4.40, the latter
for hand-picked.
Poultry -Chickens, 19 to 20c; fowls,
15 to 16e; ducks, 17 to 20c; geese, 18
to 20c; turkeys, 23 to 25c.
Cheese -Large, 19e; twins, 19'/.c.
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontarios,
$1.65 to $1.70, and New Brunswicks
at $1.75 per bag, on track.
Provisions.
Bacon, long clear, 16'4 to 161ne per
lb., in case lots. Hams -Medium, 20
to 21c; do., heavy, 15 to 17c; rolls, 17
to 171,xc; breakfast bacon, 21 to 240;
backs, plain, 25 to 26c; boneless backs,
28 to 29c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 13'34 to
14e, and pails, 141/ac; compound, 12%,
to 13?ic.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Mar. 28.-0abs-Cana-
clian Western, No. 2, 52 to 521/ac; do.,
No. 8, 50 to 501/zc; extra No. 1 feed,
50 to 501/xe; No. 2 local white, 48 to
481/ac; No. 3 do,, 47 to 4714e; No. 4
do., 46 to 46i/ac. Barley -Manitoba
teed, 66 to 67c; malting, 75 to 77c,
Flour -Manitoba spring wheat pat -
tents, firsts, $6.60; do., seconds, $6.10
strong bakers', $5.90; winter wheat
patents, choice, $6,10; straight roll-
ers, $5.50 to $5,60; do. in bags,
2,5 to $2, 65. RolIeci oa s --Barrels,
, 5,05; bag of 90 lbs., $2.86. Mill-
-Bran$28 to 24
sedshort'
$ l s, $25
to $28 middlings, $27 to $80; mouil-
lie, $80 t $88, Hay -No. 2, per ton,
car ots, $20 to $20,50. Cheese --];+'in.
toes -Per bag, car lots, $1.70.
'Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Mar. 28. -Cash wheat: -t
No. 1 Northern, $1.08; No. 2 North-
ern, $1.051s1; No. 3 Northern,
$1.0254; No. 4, 99Vec; No. 5, 90i c;
. No. 6. 82eec; feed, 771izc. Oats -No.
2 C.W., 42c; No. 3 C.W., 40e; extra
No. 1 feed, 40c; No. 1 feed, 381,ic;
No. 2 feed, 880. Barley -No. 3, 59c;
I No. 4, 54c; rejected, 511/2e; feed, 51?'sc.
Flax -No. 1 N.W.G., $1.94; No. 2
C.W., $1.91.
4 United States Markets.
IMinneapolis, Mar. 28. -Wheat-'
May, $1.101,n; July, $1.10%; No. 1
hard, $1.15ee; No. 1 Northern, $1.11
to $1.131- . Corn --No. 3 yellow, 75
to 7Gc. Oats -No. 3 white, 39ee to
:401f•c. Flour -Ten cents higher;'
fancy patents, $6.20; first clears,
$4.50; other grades unchanged; ship-,
monts, 50,103 barrels. Bran -$17.50,
to $18. 50.
Duluth, Mar. 28. -Wheat -No. 1
I hard, $1.1'3 y:, ; No. 1 Northern,
$1.10% to $1.1O%; No. 2 Northern,
1$1.05Se to $1.00ix.
Markets.
Stock
Toronto, Mar. 28. -Choice heavy
steers, $8 to ;8.35; butcher steers,
choice, $7.75 to $7.00; do., good,
$7.30 to $7.50; do., medium, $7 to
$7.25; do., common, $6.25 to $0.75;
heifers, good to choice, $7.25 to $7.85;
do., medium, :;6.50 to $6.75; butcher
cows, choice, $6. 50 to $7; do., good,
$5.75 to $6.50; butcher bulls, choice,
$6,50 to $7.25; do., good bulls, $5.50
to $6; do., medium, $5 bo 85.50; do.,
rough bologna. $4.40 to $4.50; feed-
ers, 900 to 1,000 lbs., $6.40 to $6.80;
do., bulls, $4.50 to $5.50; stockers,
700 to 800 lbs„ $6 to $6.50;. do., med-
ium, 650 to. 750 lbs., $5.75 to $6; do.,
light, 500 to 650 lbs., $5 to $5.50;
canners, $4 to $4.25; cutters, $4.50 to
$4.75; milkers, choice, each, $60 to
$85; springers, $60 to $85; calves,
veal, choice, $11 to $12.550; do., med-
ium, $7 to $8; do., common, $5.50 to
$6; lambs, yearlings, $10 to $13.50;
culled lambs, $7 to $7.25; spring'
lambs, each, $7 to $10; ewes, light,
$7.50 to $9; sheep, heavy, and bucks,
$6.50 to $8; hogs, fed and watered,
$10.35; do., f.o.b., $9.90; do., weigh-
ed off cars, $10.35.
Montreal, Mar. 28. -Butcher steers,;
choice, $8 to $8.25; good, $7.50 to;
$7.75; fairly good, $7 to $7.25; •fair,
$G.50 to $6.75; medium, $6 to $6.25;
butchers' steers, common, $5.50 to
$5.75; canners, $4.25 to $5; cows,
choice, $6.75 to $7; good, $6.25 to:.
$6.50; medium, $5.75 to $6; common, :1
$5.25 to $5.50; bulls, choice, $7 to
$7.25; good, $6.50 to $6.75; medium,
$6 to $6.25; milch cows, choice, each,
$80 to $85; medium, each, $70 to $75.
Hogs, selects, $11 to $11.50; roughs, 1
and mixed, $10.25 to $10.75; com- •
ONTARIO �GO'�ERI�IVIENT
PROHIBITION
MEASURE
13111 Effective Without Vote of Electors, But Provis.
ion Made for Referendum at End of War.
Main Features (if the Bill.
Prohibition will go into effect in
September -probably on September' 15
-by direct legislation,
All licenses, with a few exceptions,
will be extended after May 1st until
date fixed, upon payment of.nominal
fee of $5 or $10.
Referendum will be taken after war
and a considerable time after return
of soldiers,
New Ontario Temperance Act fol-
lows Manitoba Act except for incor-
poration of improvements taken from
Ontario License Act,
Wholesale druggists will be licensed
to sell in wholesale quantities for
scientific and mechanical purposes, up-'
on production of affidavit as to utse to
which liquor will be devoted.
Retail licenses will be issued per-
rnitting sale to individuals upon a
doctor's prescription, and to a doctor
not more than a pint at a time or a
veterinary not more dean two gallons
at a time,
Ontario License Board will be re-
constituted with membership of three,
and charged with administration of
new laws.
Bill not to interfere with importa
tion of liquors for private use or keep-
ing it in the •home.
Heavy fines ranging ftp to $1,000
and sentences up to eight months ape
provided for infractions of the law,
ENGINEER
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KILLED SABL D LIE
From the Middle West
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM TIER
BANKS ANI) BRAES.
What Is Going On in t1zc fiig;hlands
- and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
The fire department: in Lethbridge
will shor•t'iy be equipped with a motor -
driven pump.
At crooked Lake, Big River, there
are two logging camps each employ-
ing 200 to 250 men.
The largest period of unbroken coin,
for 52 years has been experienced
this winter in the north-west.
Saskatchewan has 6117,000 horses,
385,000 cows, 573,000 other cattle,
192,000 sheep, 329,000 swine, and over
5,000,000 poultry,
The fox farming industry bids fair
to become one of the most lucra-
tive and interesting businesses of the
province of Alberta.
The University of Alberta has sent
107 of its students and 8 of its staff
• to the war during 1915. There were
ILL BE RAINED 883 men and 6i0 women enrolled.
In saskatoon the other day a num-
_� her of young men who have not en.
A Start Ras lilready Been ",lade in listed, received each a white feather
Toronto Flyer I`.rom Chicago Dashed
Into Freight at Port
IN TIS COLLISION.
Credit.
i A despatch f Ottawas: The
Quebec With Toy -
Malting. Albert office show a slight improve -
in the mail, with a -recruiting circu-
lar.
The customs returns at the Prince
A despatch from Toronto says: The
Toronto Flyer from Chicago on Thurs-
day night crashed into a through
freight about a mile past Port Credit
station. The engine of the passenger
train dashed into the caboose of the
freight train, cutting through the
caboose. '.['he impact of the collision
was so great that the locomotive was
thrown over on its side amidst the
wreckage of the splintered car. The
wreck claimed , two victims. They
are: Harvey Overend, engineer of the
Chicago Flyer, instantly killed; James
Anderson, fireman of the Flyer, criti-
cally injured. The wreck occurred on
the main line of the Grand Trunk
Railway. At the time of the wreck
the Flyer was running at a high rate
of speed. As this train is one of the
through connections between Chicago
and Toronto, the line is supposed to
be clear for its passage,
LATEST PEACE TERMS
CREDITED TO KAISER
A despatch from Paris says: It is
reported here that the Berlin banker,
Herr von Bleischroeder, has' informed
German -American bankers that the
c from say
Military Hospitals Commission an- ,
pounces there are now 1,300 men, in-
mates and out-patients in the various
convalescent homes. Steps are be-
ing taken to provide training in these
home., and Mr. T. 13. Kidner, the:
vocational secretary, has just return
ed from Quebec, where he made ar'- I
rangements for the installation of an
equipment for elementary vocational
training in the Savard Parks Con
valescent Horne. This home is sit-
uated in the city of Quebec, where a
number of local ',tidies have taken!
great interest in toy -making as all!
occupation for conealeseent soldiers.'
These ladies have procured from the
Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops
in London a large and valuable eel-
lection of models of toys, etc., pro -1
ducts of this well-known . institution
for disabled soldiers and sailors. These'
models will be placed at the disposal
of the men in tho home who will re-
produce
produce then and it is hoped will also
design typical Canadian toys on sim-
ilar lines. Preparations were also
made for the establishment of classes;
in general subject: in the home. This
policy will be followed throughout the
Kaiser is
prepared to discuss peace,
on the basis of the cession of Alsace-
Lorraine to France in exchange for -, e DRIVE
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one of her colonies, such as Made- , -
gascar; Russia to have Constaninople,
with a protectorate over Turkey in!
exchange for Poland, which Germany'
and Austria would divide. No war'
indemnity is mentioned in the al-
leged proposals.
ITALIAN COMMANDER
ARRIVES IN LONDON
Receives Great Reception from Pub -
lie of British Capital.
A despatch from London says: Gen-
eral Count Cadorna, chief of the Ital-
ian general staff, who left Italy to
attend the military and political con-
ference of the Entente nations at
Paris arrived hi London on Wednes-
day from the French capital. Gen.
Cadorna was -tet at the station by
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, the
British War Secretary. An immense
throng of people, English and Italian,
greeted Gen. Cadorna enthusiastically.
RUSSIA CONSERVING
I:IERM;iMEAT SUPPLIES
A despatch from London says: The
Russian Minister of Agriculture will
ehortiy introduce a bill in the Duma
prohibiting throughout Russia the!
killing of live stock on Tuesdays and
Thursdays and fining the number of
cattle that may be slaughtered on
other days, says a Reuter despatch;
from Petrograd. The bill will pro -I
vide for prohibition upon the sale of:
all kinds of meat in markets, restaur-:
ants tend hotels on Wednesdays and
Fridays and for the closing of butcher
shops on those days.
BIG GERMAN i1TEAME b •
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DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS
A despatch from London says: The
sinking by a Russian warship of the
steamship Esperanza off Kali Akre,
n the Black Sea, off the Roumanian
coast is reported in a Reuter despatch
filed at Bucharest on Sunday. The
Esperanza, • a 7,000 -ton vessel .flying
t he German flag is said to have been
oaded with foodstuffs for Constan-
rnent for the month just closed, be-
ing $3,436.93 again: t $`2,884.78 for
February last year.
Educating young -ten and women
for agricultural pursuits at the Mani-
toba Agricultural College costs the
province $1,150 each, in addition to
sums by the students.
Winnipeg bank clearings continue
to reflect much greater commercial
activity than at the same season
either in 1915 or 1914, the increases
being 88,000,000 and almost $'9,000,000
respectively.
Word has been received in Vic-
toria that forty of the mechanical
transport section which went over to
England from Victoria some months
ago, will. shortly see service in British
East Africa.
At Lethbridge, brief liberty was
enjoyed by a German interned pris-
oner named Tannin who escaped from
the detention camp at the fair grounds
wit week and was re -captured in the
south country.
Flour prices in, Calgary have been
reduced again because of the falling
wheat quotations. This time the re-
duction is fifteen cents per sack, or 20
cents per barrel, making the barrel
price to the retailer $6.40, and the
price per sack $3.20.
During the fine weather prevailing
last week, the farmers in the Coal -
burst district were able to proceed
with seecliag operations, and one
farmer reported plowing all week. Tie
stubble on many farms was burned
If during the week.
The assessed value of Saskatoon
roperty for 1916 is $37,200,000. The
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Desperate Battle is Raging in the n
Dvinsk Region -Many Prisoners e
Taken S
ity's estimated revenue this year is =
;075,000. The demand for houses in
askatoon is growing, good modern
ouses being at a premium, which is
effected hi advancing rents.
It is anticipated that the Great
ekes will open for navigation eer-
ier this season than usual, when
i assured the lake
activity s s
reat Ct
Y
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in moving the immense grain
rops of 'Western Canada which have
een amassing at Fort William during
he winter.
• A despatch from London says: The' h
Russian offensive in the Dvinsk region r
its rapidly developing, a desperate
battle is raging to the southward of : L
Dvinsk, according to the Perogi•ad 1
g
official report, while north-west of
n /
Lake Vargunek General Kuropakin's
• forces, after having repulsed several b
counter-attacks, are advancing. Very
; violent hand-to-hand fighting took t
place all of Wednesday night in .the
region north of the town of Widsy and
north-westward of Lake Sekly. De-
spite the heavy German fire, the Rus -
sign troops by a strong forward
drive forced all the adversary's lines
!and berrncades in the sector of Olipa
and repulsed counter-attacks. Raiding
{ parties which ad passed the Dvina
captured an enemy machine gun in
the Jaeogstadt section.
Although strongly defended. and
thickly surrounded by , wire entagle-
mertts, the (=etmans tivere drslodg;ecl
from the woods in the vicinity, of
Bliznik and Mokritz.
In four days' fighting the Ruesiens
took over 1,400 prisoners and cap-
tured 18 machine guns, 26 field mor-
tars, 10 trench mortars, two mine -
throwers, a howitzer, and carloads of
grenades, bombs and shells. •
Recapture of the important railway
city of Vilna from the Germans is one
of the chief objectives of the great
drive which has hen commenced by
the Russians. Vilna lies in the centre
of a network of railroads, and its loss
would 'Le a serious blow to Field Mar-
shal von Hindenburg.
GATHERING IN THE SERBS.
British Navy Gets German Underseas
As Fast as They Are Made.
A despatch from Washington says;
One hundred and twenty-seven sub-
marines have been captured by the
British navy since the outbreak of the
war, according to information from
the., British Admiralty which has
reached the Unitech States coast guard
officers,
mon, $10; sows, $7.75 to $8. Sheep,
6 to 8c; lambs, 9 to 12c. Calves, milk -
fed, 6 to Oc.
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41,500 DRAW PENSIONS
AS,.SOLDIERS' WIDOWS
A despatch from London says; The
number of widows of British soldiers
who have so far been reported to
Army Council is 41,500, according to
William Hayes Fisher, Parliamentary
Secretary of the local Government
Board, in a speech to the House of
Commons committee on the war pen-
sions bill on Thursday. The widows
of sailors, Mr. Fisher added, aggre-
gated about 8,000.
tinople. The crew was captured by
the Russians. The despatch also re-
ports the sinking of a score of small
sailing ships with cargoes of food.
PLAN TO 1110B0L17E-
RETIRED FARMERS
A despatch from Brantford says::
An organization to enlist retired
farmers to assist on farms during
the coming Summer will be effected
here this week. Brantford has a
large population of retired farmers
and many of them are still able to
work, Thoso not fit for hard work
will, by their practical experience, ad-
equately supervise the BoyScouts
and Students.
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INLAND DEVENUE
RECEIPTS INCREASE
A despatch from Ottawa sayst In-
land revenue receipts for the month
of k"ehruary totalled $2,134,200,, in-
eluding $224,470, derived from the
war tax. The February receipts last
year wake $1,916,822.
SUBMARINE OIL LINES.
How Ships Are Loaded at the fort
of Tuxpam, Mexico.
Many of the most productive oil
wells in the State of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, are situated near the part of
Tuxpam. For some distance freed
the shore the water there ie so shal-
low that few of the large oil steam-
ers can get into port. The oil com-
panies hit upon 'the idea of ittyiug
submarine pipe lines to points where
the largest oil tankers can be con-
veniently moored for loading in any
state of the tide and weather. There
are now five of these great iron pipes
in duplicate. They are from six to
eight inches in diameter, and four
of them are nearly a mile long. They
terminate in forty-three feet of wa-
ter, where it is so deep that the waves
have no effect on them. When they
were laid - divers fastened to the end
of each 120 feet of flexible hose.
When not in use, the free end of the
hose is closed and allowed to lie on
the sea bottom, where its position is
marked by a small buoy attached to
the hose by a stout chain.- When the •
tank steamers arrive,. they moor
themselves to the permanent buoys
near by, take up the marked buoy
with a derrick, raise the flexible hose
to the deck of the ship, and attach it
to the tank openings. By means of
a signal code, the captains of the
ships notify the pumping station on .
shore, in which are the valves that
control the flow of oil through the
pipe line. Generally speaking, it
tastes about twenty-four hours to load
one of the large fifteen -thousand -ton
tankers, which means that the pipes
deliver 4,875 barrels of oil an hour.
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vited you to take a drink, did he? X
should think you'd have felt insulted.
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