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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-7-20, Page 2"VICTORY FLOWS IN OUR DIRECTIOI 9" SAYS DAVID LLOYD GEO] Entente Allies Take the initiative, Never to Be Lost to the Foe Again. A despatch -from London says: t "Why have our prospects improv- David Lloyd George, British Minister' ed? The answer' is: the equipment of of W, g ar, presiding on Thursday at an our armies has improved enormously allied =conference on equipment, de- and is continuing to improve. dared that the combined offensive of "The British navy until recently, the allies had wrenched the initiative has absorbed more than half the from the Germans, never, he trusted, metal workers of this country. The Markets of the World Area4ut+uifs. Toronto, Ally 38.. •i\3anitobs Wheat -- No, 1 Northern, $1.23:1; No, :2 do.. $1.22; No. 8 do., $L19, on track Buy ports. lViunitoba Oats-- No 2 c.W„ 5110 : No, 3 (.W,, 501c; extra No. 1 feed, puts ; No 1 fed, 5Ot' ; No. 2 feat, 49q•r, On tra'k Bay ports, Amexiean corn -No. 8 yellow, 331e, on track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. > 2 white, 47 to 48c., according to freights outside. ' Ontario wheat -No, 1 commercial. 97 to 990 • No. 2 do, 93 to 95e ; No. 9 do., 87 to 89 ; feed, S5 to SSC., nominftl, ae- ecnding to freights outsidta; Peirce No. 2, i infnal. $1.70 to 31.90 ; aeeoreordin tcfingo tofreis8g1ntlplits eouts, 31.25ide. ' 10 $1.50, ac- Biw•1vy--halting bariev, nominal, 95 to 60e ; feed burley, nominal, 00 to 08c, • mg within a mile of Peronne a wedge according to freights outside. r, Buckwheat --Nominal, 70 to 71c.,into ac- the German, lines, l.he Germans A FRENCH WEDGE IN FOE LINE, IIUNS ADMIT CRISIS AHEAD Joafre's Forces Close to Peronne, an 1 Germans are 11la4ing Desperate Counter -Attacks. A special cable to' the Chicago wily' News from Oswald F. Schutte, in Ber- lin, says: The French have opened the third' week of their offensive' by driv- cording to freights outside: have been _making desperate` counter, ,. r .task building shipsF 1\ 1 94 t 95c ac - "We to ftei••hts outside to return, a k of new and re- 1a e o. 1 c crtnrttet ua , o attaclts, both north of the Somme and ,� t atTh We have crossed the watershed?'pairing the olci ones fat• tlae gigantic llxanituba. liouz�--.t fret p.iants, in lute the French flank $arleua.. e, he said, "and now victory is beginning navy, and fitting incl e<luipping them, bads; $6.00 ;• sti ailed,• bakers , in ju e' Germans realise that a crisis' is still to flow in our direction. This change occupies tale energies of a million bags, $5.30, Toronto. ahead. .is due to the improvement in our DI t of aur new factories are Ontario flout Winter, accords to The The conference was held at the has been set up. Hundreds of thous- seaboard prompt shipment. fear Office and was participated in by 14lillfeed, cat lots, delivered Montreal p. p` ands of men and women, hitherto un- freights bags included -Bran, $20 to $21 ; shorts, per ton, $4 to $Z5 midlines, per ton, $25 to $26-; good feed bloodshed' than last week; for reports from the front are far from revealing all the horror .of this: fearful slaughter. x g Tho German press are still forced to rely, upon the British eyewitnesses' reports for real stories of the- battle; German. authorities make nothing pub - lie except dry statements of the gen- eral staff.', and reports of German tor- . respondents at German headquarters add little, Neither German nor neu- tral correspondents are now allowed i p men. Most safrole, 54.o6 to $4,15, in bags,' according third week promises even more anywhere at any of the fronts, equipment," now complete; most of the machinery � Toront& prompt shipment ; $4.15, bulls �„� 0 per ton ',Albert Thomas, French Minister of accustomed to metal and chemical • Munitions; General Bailieff, Assistant work, have been trained for ' muni- flour, per bag, $1,55 to $1,60. Minister of War of Russia; General tions making. Provisions. Adall Olio, member of the Italian Ministry of War, and the new British Minister of Munitions, Edwin E. `Montagu. Russians Terrify Teutons. "Since our last munitions confer- ence," said Mr. Lloyd George, "there has been a considerable change in the Steadily Increasing Output. "Every month we are turning out hundreds of guns and howitzers, light, medium and heavy. Our heavy guns are rolling in at a great rate and we are turning out nearly twice as much ammunition in a single week -and, fortunes of the allies. On that date what is more, nearly three times as the great Champagne offensive in the gremuch offensiveheavy shell -as we emfired in the al - west had just failed to attain its oh- thougth theaini September, d jective, and the French and British innough aammunition resultwe expended many that battle was the of many armies had sustained heavy losses weary weeks' accumulation. The new without the achievement of any par- factories and workshops we set up tieular success. In the east the enemy have not yet attained one-third their had pressed the gallant armies of full capacity, but their output is now Russia back some hundreds of miles, increasing with great rapidity. Our and the Balkans had just been over- main difficulties in organization, con - run by the Central powers. struction, equipment, labor supply and "The overwhelming victories won readjustment have been solved. If by the valiant soldiers of Russia have , officials, employers and workmen struck terror into the hearts of our i keepat it with the same zeal and as - foes, and these, coupled with the im- siduity as they have hitherto em- No. 241od white,55Flour-Manao piing has 'decreased substantially, due to mortal defence of Verdun by our loved our supplies will soon be over- heat patents firsts $s so seconds, indomitable French comrades,and p pp Q.10 ; strong' barters', 55,90 ; winter the policy of rigid economy adhered to the brave resistance of the Italians i whelming. patents, choice, $6.00 to $6.26 ; straight by the spending departments of the against overwhelming odds in the! I cannot help thinking that the toll3y 60�6'Rolled$a ts, barrels, a$5.062 to government. southern Alps, have changed the 1 improvement in the Russian ammuni- $5,45 ; cto., bags, 90 lbs, $2.40 to $2.60. The June revenue increasei:i: from whole complexion of the landscape. � tion has been one of the greatest and Middlings, 525 to $2Sho> Iauillie, t 2s to $11,433;970 to $1` ,600,149, the in- "Now the combined offensive in the most unpleasant surprises the enemy $32. ray -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $19 crease being found in nearly all east and west has wrenched out of I has sustained. Still, our task is but to 320. Cheese -Finest western, 16 to branches inelludin$4,000,000 in sus- half accomplished. llshed. Ever reat battle 1Glc do., ecreams. 143 to 16c. Butter g the hand- of the enem--he ver I p v g -Choicest creamery, 293 to 299c ; toms. Baron, long clear, 19 to 1S3c. per lb. Rams -Medium 24 to 245o ; do., heavy, 201 to 210 ; rolls, 19 to 193c ; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27o ; backs, plain; 261 to 271c ; boneless barks; 29 to 303c, Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 171c ; and pails, 173 to 179c ; compound, 14 to 149c, Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 27o; inferior, 23 to 24e ; creamery, prints, 29 to 31c ; inferior, 28. to 29c. Eggs -New -laid, 29 to 30c ; do., in cartons, 31 to 330. Beans -$4.50 to $5.00, the latter for hand -tricked. Cheese -New, large, 150 ; twins, 1830; ed ere $58;000,,0`00. Of this expendi- triplets, iS3c. Maple Svrup-Prices are steady at tore only .$16,528,045 comes under censolti llated fund account while $26,- 527,243 is under `capital and $22,173,1- 031 of 'thi's is' Wever outlay. In the month of June` last the war expendi- ture was $12;439,187.9. During. the three months', period the expenditure on both capital 'and revenue accounts otitside of the capital outlay on war CANADA'S SAVINGS GROW :DURING ° AI's. During Past Twenty .Months Have Increased Over' $100,000,000» A despatch from Ottawa $ay.•s The consolidated revenue of Canada for the three months of the fiscal year ending June - 30 was $0,772,903;92,: and the expenditure Was $37;055,289. The revenue from all sources amount - 51,40 to $1.60 per Imperial gallon. Dressed poultry -Chickens, 25 to 27c; fowl, 23 to 250. Potatoes -New Brunswicks quoted at 32.00 per bag ; Western, 51.85. Montreal Markets. Montreal, July 18. -Corn -American No, 2 yellow, 91 to 920. Oats -Cana- dian western, No. 2, 54 to 542e ; do., No. 3, 53 to 583c ; No. 1 feed, 53 to 5330 a , trust, to return to his grasp. We have i furnishes additional proof that this is seconds, 283 to 289o. Eggs -Fresh, 5c a war of equipment. More ammuni- selected, 32c ; No. 1 stock, 29c ; No. 2. crossed the watershed, and now vis- p stok, 2sc. tory is beginning to flow in our diree- tion means more victories and fewer tion. casualties." 10 1 TSH MAKE 1 JAIL FOR REFUSING TO MAKE MUNITIONS. MOREPROGRESS War Prisoner Pl'ght.f Ottawa Man's - - 1 A despatch from Ottawa says: Winnipeg Grain. TVinnipeg, ,Inly 18. -Cash quotations : Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 31.163 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.149 • No. 3 Northern, 51.119 ; No. 4, $1.961 ; No.. 6, 51 ; No. from $460 287;721 to $593,910,63'1, 6, 933c ; feed, 023e. Oats -No. 2 C.W., r 459c , No. 3 0.,ZW., 445c ; extra No. 1 but the increase for the month was feed, 445c ; No. 1 feed, 449c ; No. 2 16,013,946 95, or nearly $2,000,000 feed, 4390. Barley-Nfo 3, 7658n ; No. 4, $ r 710 refected, 680 ; feed, 680. Flax- less than a year ago. No. 1 N. -W. -C., $1.77 ; No. 2 C. W., 51.74 The credit Canada has extended bo United States Markets. the British Governement now totals The buoyancy of the Dominion's fi- nancial situation is shown through- oub the statement. The total assets of the Dominion. on June 30 : were $420,895,783 as against $257,943;948 a year ago. The net debt increased Appreciably Advance Their Line Canadian prisoners in Germany were Minneapolis, July 18, -Wheat, July $150,000,000. Munition orders to this sentenced to a year in jail by the Ger- 51.15 ; September, $1.15!1 ; No. 1 hard. ,amount have been placed in Canada $$1.21 • No. 1 Northern, 51.163 to $1.189; At Various Points. mans for refusing to make war muni- No. 2 Northern, $1.129 to 1.164. Corn- by the Imperial Government. I tions, according to a letter received No. 3 yellow, 81 to 82c. Oats -No. 3 Canadian deposits on savings ac - here despatch from London says: The white, 39 to 3930. Flour -Fancy patents British made a further advance north here from Corporal Ian A. Simons, roe higher, at 50.25 ; first clears 10c. count total over $700,000,000, having formerly a prisoner in Germany, and higher at $5. ; other n*tides unchanged. increased a little over $100,0001000 of the Sornme, according to a report ; now transferred to the internment Bran. 517,50 to $is.o0. received on Thursday from General ; Duluth, July 18. -Wheat on track, No. during the 20 months of the war. camp in Switzerland. He writes that 1 hard, $1.193 ; No. 1 Northern, $1.183 • ,. Haig. With Contalmaison and the en- I Corporal Harry Hogarth, of Ottawa, No. 2 Northern. 51.133 to $1.153 ; No. 1 tire German first line of defence on ern onrn to arrive, s1.025. ; No. 3 North- . orth-� that and adjoining sectors firmly in ;1s one of those who refused to make ern track, -51.0 to 61.025 to their kande the Bri , munitions, and it is expected he will on triki Uombles and Bapaume. Longueval, a' bun Steps have been taken to b1ni� tirsn trop s are , lob; July, $2.003 bid ; September, F' have to serve the years sentence, $2;013 bid ; October, November ng to the eastward against , which has already been imposed upon $2 bid ; December, bid. junction point on the high road sys- - • p ,, Live Stock Markets. tem. and the Heights of Martinpuich, 1t before the authorities so that it can Toronto July 1a Choice heavy steers HAS ONLY BEGUN r - be investigated, as, according to The $9.25 to $9.50 ; good heavy steers, $9.00 Britain Asks Munition Workers h cattle, chefs $910 t;v 'end a half miles northeast of Con- to $9.10 ,• bt�uto ere ca e, e, Hague tribunal, prisoners of war are to $9.35: do, good, $8.75 to 5S SO •; do. to Forego August Holidays. talmalsni, which command the battle - t not called upon to male • munitions. medium, 58.50 o. , t $3.60 • do,common ground for Melee around, are the im- $7.50 to 7.75 ; butchers' bulls, choice, A despatch from London says: The mediate objects of their campaign.$8.00 to $5.26 o, goo us, • d d bulls, $7.45 to 37.65 , do, , rough bulls $ 4.75 to 55.25 ; allied offensive on the western front BRITISH HOLDYNG ON butchers' cows, choice, $7.50 to $7.60: is one in its beginning, declared Pre- MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE. do good 57.25 to $7,35: do, medium, y Thursday d n 7 40 h ' feeders, aehorned flouncing in the House of Commons $7.60 to $5.00 ; canners and cutters, French Likely to Make It Compulsory r T A . t Sannayyat, $3 75 to 86.00 ; Mincers, choice, each that the Government had decided to in Army Surgery.teen. M'1 Below Kut. 576.00 to $95.00 ; do, cam. and med., ea. ask workers to forego their THE TIGRIS RIVER.6.26 to 36.75 ; stockers, 700 to 860 lbs, mier Asquith on urs ay in an- - 6.50 to $ . ,• choice ee s, Cen Lakes Troops re z annayya August Fifteen Miles a ow $40.00 to 560.00 •, springrs, 350.00 to The French Academy of medicine is A despatch from London says: The 5100 00 heavy ht 6ewe to 3;870 to spring holidays because of the demaudessed for considering the advisability of recom- British expedition in Mesopotamia is lambs; per 1b,. $14c. to 149c ; calves,' munitions in France. He e p trending the Government to make the still at Sannayyat, about fifteen miles tg,.,°e sum cholcto 11.18 ; tiro sZ feed nest conviction that the workmen would use of chloroform compulsory in the below Kut -el -Amara on the Tigris, ac- watered'. 511,15 to 511.25 ; ado, weighed co-operate in this plan so as to make brmy, not only in serious operations j cording to an official statement issued off cars, 511,40 to 311,50 ; do, f.o.b., it plain to Great Britain'sonce that ut also in all cases where the treat- on Thursday. The statement says $ Montreal, July 1s.-rutchers' steers, the offensive, in its present Ment is painful. . that the British forces have been sub- go 4d, 3 to 99.50 ; failed 7 m, t$7.7 2fi o of bombardment « and assault, would, At present French soldiers are ob- jetted to an ineffectual artillery at- fain to�good, $6.50 tof $7 :$ medium,$5.25 if necessary, be» continued indefinite- liged to submit to vaccination against tack. to $6,25 ,• cows, good, $6 to $7 ; fair, 17."The Premier also announced that. smallpox and typhoid fever, but they , $5.50 to 35.75 ; common, 55 to $5.25 ; by The proclamation the August sheep, 7c ; lambs, 10c ; calves, milk cannot be compelled to accept chloro- ` Eighty fed, 9c. to 10c ; grass fed, 5c ; hogs, bank holidays would be postponed, and forma against their will. German Merchant Subs? selects, 311.75 to $12.25 ; roughs and he appealed to all classes for the post. g ' mixed lots, 510.50 to $11.50; sows, A committee has been formed to ` A despatch from Copenhagen says: $9.75 to $10.25. poneiYient of all holidays until fur study the question as well as that of ' German newspapers state that eighty Cher and definite progress of the rendering compulsory the injection of neve submarines of the same type as 460 IRISH REBELS of- fensive had been secured. '"GERMAN GUNNERS CHAINED TO GUNS. A despatch from London says: Bri't'ish soldiers on the • fighting line and those wounded on the Somme say that they found German machine gunners chained to their guns to pre- vent them from retreating. serums in all cases where the latter !the Deutschland will be built at Kiel are declared to be necessary by the and Bremen. Twelve are expected to doctor. ; be completed by August. BRITISH ADVANCE TO A DEM OF THREE 'Y G HIS Take Baze>ratin and Longueval, Also the Whole of Trones Wood. Germans Surrendered Freely. A despatch team Lors lon lays:- General aysiGeneral Sir Douglas Haig struck again at dawn on Friday. The British front has been advanced three miles to the eastward. It rests on a line from Bazentin le Petit to Longueval. Both: villages are in British hands. Beyond the latter place the British troops are fighting forward in the wooded section in desperate hand -to - band engagements with the Germans. The British advance at its deepest mint on Friday night approximated three miles. Friday's advance is one of the greatest blows yet struck,„ the Ger- ens' in the Picardy offensive. It British southern front on ,rings the Brl illi Ger- rens n g French 1 �at h the I'1 ncl 31 even line w1t h E ardt±oourt and puts the British in "good position to drive a wedge be tween Thiaurdont and Peronne, the two main German bases on this front. Longueval was the junction point of several important highroads, which had been of much value to the Teu- tone, while on the north of Friday's front of attack the British are ap- proaching the Pozieres, another strongly defended village on the road to the commanding heights of Martin- rsuich. They are now within two miles of this crest line, the capture of which would give them artillery control' of the neighborhood and serve as a serious menace to Bapaume. A despatch from Reuter's corre- spondent on the British front says s y that the German second line was car- ried with small loss, and the Germans surrendered freely. WILL BE RELEASED. A despatch from London says: The advisory committee appointed to con- sider the cases of men arrested in Ireland during the recent rebellion, and still under detention, has recom- mended the release of 460 of them, This recommendation will be given ef- fect immediately, Herbert L. Samuel, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, informed the 'House of Commons on Wednesday. 500 GREEK SOLDIERS ATTACK ALLY TRAIN A cable from Paris to a news agency at New York says: -"Des- patches from Saloniea report serious rioting at Kavala, when 500 Greek soldiers stormed a train on which they had been refused transportation.. The railroads is controlled by the Anglo-French army. Pickets fired upon the Greek soldiers and drove them ori." FOE SANK 101,000 TONS OF SIIIPPING DURING JUNE. A despatch from Berlin says; An. official statement issued on Wednes- day night says: "In the month of r mer- chantmen, the enemy's une sixty-one of y J Y measuring about 101,000 tons, were sunk by German and Aus- Itrian submarines or.• by mines»r People who know the least are apt to assume the most. It's the easiest thing in the world to be brave when there is no danger. HUNGARY IS BITTER OYER GREAT LOSSES Since Beginning of Offensive Against Italy They Exceed 600,000. The London Morning Post has ad- vices from Budopest which say that the losses of the Austro-Hungarian army during the last six weeks were the subject of discussion in the lobby of the Hungarian Parliament. The despatch says: "Members who returned from the different fronts where they took part in the offensive against Italy, also in. the tremendous fighting on the Rus- sian front, all agreed that the losses must exceed 600,000 since the begin- ning of the offensive against Italy.. The bitterness against the leaders. of the army is very great, and at . the next sitting of the House the Inde- pendence party will again demand that those responsible for the situation shall be brought to account, these be- ing the two Archdukes and Gen. Con- rad von Holtztndorf. It is more than likely that the House will be dissolv- ed rather than that these high person- ages should be made the subjects of acrimonious criticism." A despatch from Bucharest to the Telegraph says: "Public feeling has been deeply stirred by the general offensive of the allies. Owing to an appreciable lack of meat here. the Government has prohibited eating of it on three days of the week." NEWS OF DEFEATS KEPT FROM FRANZ JOSEF,. A despatch from Zurich says :- Members of the Austrian Imperial family have been summoned to Scho- enbrunn, owing to the illness of the Emperor Franz Josef, according to news despatches from Innsbruck. Several specialists are attending the aged King -Emperor and the news df the war is .being withheld from him. GERMAN SUBMARINE RAIDS ENGLISH FISHING FLEET. A despatch from London says: Fol- lowing the attack by a German sub- marine on the British port of Seaham Harbor on Tuesday night, a submarine raid on a fishing fleet near the Eng- lish coast was reported by Lloyds on Friday. A German submarine attack- ed a British fishing fleet off the north- eastern coast and sank the trawlers Florence and Dalhousie and several smaller vessels. SECOND DOMESTIC WAR LOAN IN SEPTEMBER. Terms of War Issue Will Be Settled a Few Days Beforehand. A despatch from Ottawa says: Canada will float ,a second domestic. war loan in September, according to an official announcement made here on Thursday by Sir Thomas White, Minister of Finance. The amount, terms, and price, it is stated, will be settled, a few days before the issue. Airmen Shell Rhone Town. A despatch from Paris says: The following official statement was issued on Friday night: "In reprisal for the bombardment by the enemy of the open town of Luneville on the night of June 24, one of our aviators, fly- ing at an altitude of about 1,500 feet, dropped several shells of large calibre on the town of Mulheim, on the right bank of the River Rhone." HERQIS OF NEWFOUNDLANDERS INTHE BATTLE OF THE SOMME Only Overseas Troops Engaged 'in Operations Behaved With Noble Steadiness and Courage. . The London Times correspondent at British headquarters in France sends the following: "The Newfoundlanders were the, only overseas troops engaged in these operations, The story of their heroic part cannot yet be told in full, but when it is it will make Newfoundland very proud. "The batalion was pushed up to what, may be called the third wave in the attack on probably the most for- midable section of the whole German front through an •almost overwhelm- ing artillery fire, and acvross ground swept byan enfilading machine gun p g fire from hidden positions. The men behaved with completely noble steadi- ness and courage." A Man's Meal for Five Cents. Living on mush makes a mushy roan. A marl who works with hand or brain must have a man's food. Two Shredded Wheat Biscuits with milk or cream will supply :all the Strength -giv- ing nutriment needed for a half -dray's work or play at a cost of not over five cents. S1�crisp im.Y 1 • a few Shredded VVheat Biscuits in the oven: and serve with fresh fruits and milk or creams.5," Made in Canada The New Earl Kitchener Eldest brother of the late Field- marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and 'of Broome, and his successor in the title, Col. Henry Elliott Chevallier Kitchener, second Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. The successor to Field - Marshal Earl Kitchener's title is a well-known and able soldier, and has been fighting for his country through- out the war. He is in East Africa, where he hilds a high position. He is the eldest brother of the late Earl. He was born in 1846, and will be 70 on October 5. The second Earl is a widower, with a son in the navy, Com- mander Henry Franklin Chevallier Kitchener, born in 1878, who is now the heir to the peerage. The new Earl's wife, who was Miss Eleanor Fanny Lushington, daughter of the late Lieut. -Col. F. Lushington, C.B.; died in 1897. The second Earl Kitch= ener entered the army in 1886, was lieutenant -colonel in 1893, and couonel in 1899. He bps a distinguished mili- tary record, and it is interesting to re- call that he went to France with his brother and fought side by side with him in the French army in the Fran- co-German war of 1870-71. The new Earl Kitchener has one daughter, Norah Frances, born in 1882, who was married in 1909 to Major Patrick Al- bert Forbes Winslow a Beckett (of the a Becketts of " Punch.") BREAD TICKETS TO GET BEER? Good Templars of Germany Oppose Using Barley to Make Beverage. A despatch from Amsterdam says: A protest against the consumption of barley for the making of beer is made in a letter sent to ' Chancellor von. Bethmann-Hollweg signed by eight thousand members of Good Templar lodges in Germany. The letter points out the "gigantib waste of bread ma- terial" in the use of large quantities of barley for the production of beer. It urges that hereafter beer be, only supplied on bread tickets. EIGHTEEN BULGAR REGIMENTS MUTINY. A despatch from Bucharest, says: Eighteen Bulgarian regiments are re- ported to have mutinied, killing their German officers. ARE CLEAN NO STICKINESS ALL DEALERS G.C.Briggs & Sons HAMILTON LUXURY SEEN IN. LONDON 11071ELS MENUS ARE ETRAVAGANT AND LAVISH. , War Has Had No Effect in Reducing Use of Costly i''inos, While economy in food is practised. In many. homes, the public service of - meals in London hotels and restaur- ants is maintained on a scale which is only a degree"less' lavish than Nit of the days before the war. If evidence were required that the demand or e ate, 1 little abated d +i -such meals is but< b l be found by collecting :a day's menet cards from the coffee rooms, restaur- ants and grill rooms of London, Brigh- ton. and Bournemouth, writes a Lon- don correspondent. Extravagance is more openly " dis- played in London than in cities where the population is less numerous, but what is true of London is true of the country as a whole. A. journalist; whose , duties during the past year. have taken him to many'places within the British Isles says that :his only experience of a drastic curtailment of the normal variety and quantity of food offered in hotels was in Ireland during the week of the Sinn Fein re- bellion, and that curtailment arose throe hs the impossibility of. getting supplies. In Cardiff, in Sheffield, in Man- chester and in Glasgow the catering is quite as good as in normal times, ' and among local residents who use the hotels for the entertainment at meals of customers or friends the money spent on food' and wines goes beyond the normal. The same com- ment applies to the seaside hotels, particularly the more pretentious of those along the south coast. A Typical Case. What is done at one hotel must be done at others of a similar class. At a typical first class hotel in London, guests were offered for breakfast por- ridge and cream, a choice of fried - whiting, grilled mackerel or bloaters, a choice of another dish of scrambled eggs, bacon or ham and eggs, bacon and sausage, minced mutton or •cut- lets and fried potatoes. There would also be preserves and marmalade. At ordinary times this fare would not be regarded as an unwarranted concession to the tastes and appetites of visitors, but the question might fairly be asked whether five course luncheons and seven course dinners are essential at a moment when food prices are a burning question with the people. Similar catering is to be found in any good hotel in any city in the country. Luxury in Soho. Even in Soho the usual number of dishes is steadily maintained. At one restaurant where hundreds of people dine every night the followinig bill of .fare was placed last night before the patrons: Hors d'ceuvre, choice of two soups, choice of salmon croquettes or white- bait, choice 'of braised beef with as- paragus tops, escallops of sweet- breads and peas, or bouchee a la Keine, Punch a la Romaine, chicken and salad, Neapolitan ices, cheese and dessert. At an adjoining restaurant, where it is always difficult to get a table, the dinner consisted of hors d'oeuvres, soup, filet of sole, York ham with Ma- deira sauce, chicken and salad, ice and dessert. So far as London is concerned it,, must be admitted that a considerable° • proportion of the diners in the re-"► staurant d grill rooms are officers and mien in uniform, and that _many of these may be men on leave from the front who are quite openly out to - pluck the best they can from the com- forts and luxuries of town during their limited, holiday. But these soldiers . are not alone among the consumers of much food and drinkers of sham- pagne. What is fitting in their case is irris tating only in the case of civilians who are making money out of the war and spending it carelessly and in the pur- suit of pleasure. In the private as well as the licensed hotels of seaside and inland watering places there are thousands of people who are daily sitting down to three most substan- tial meals and solemnly eating their way through every course placed be- . fore them, and with many of them their only excuse 'would appear to be that they have nothing else to do. RESTAURANT THIEVES. Females, Fashionably Dressed, Fre- quent Best Places. An unpleasant aspect of the social changes brought about by the war is the increase in the number of female restaurant thieves, says London Tit - Bits. They are fashionably dressed and frequent phe best.. restaurants, and they reap their reward in the cloak rooms. Ladies, when going in to dine often, as a matter' of habit, or pure absence of mind, set down even valu- able articles of jewellery, such as bracelet -watches, on one side for a moment. When they come to pick it up again, it is often gone. These " swell" thieves are sometimes ex- tremely shameless. In one case a re- ward of £5 was offered for the Return of a missing article. It was actually brought back by the suspected thief ; but there wasn0 evidence against� ins t her, of course, and she refused to hand the jewel back until she actually fingered the reward.