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US FIGHTING CONTINUES
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AT FRESNOY AND BULL G U T
British Take Another Portion of the t. ernian'Tren:ches Defending
3Lens and its Coal kFields:
A despatch front'London says; The
Germans are keeping up with great in-.
teity their offensive against the BriJ
fish around Fresnoy and to the east'!
of Bullecourt, but are being hard held
by Field 111ars1 al Haig's forces. The
vii ige of Fresiterspnarently remains
in, the hf=lido of the Getiziatzs after its
recapture Tuesday, but the Canadians i'
and South Englendereare still holding
from which
olldeav oring
ems to their
vantage points arotl{l
the Germans are vai
to expel them and pi%'.
harassing fare.
To the east of Biallecourt,'.
British have established the
Scant miles from, the on;
Quemits zeEXiiaaw3
hard` to R hack
ettt the`.i
i the
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fere
telve
e,
wind(' prove of great menaee. to
the important tawn of Camhrai. The
viciousness of the battk is indicated
IaS the German ofiitcial crinliaaunication,
which announces that the light for the
village is of a fluctuating nature.
The British evidently have pushed a
step forstrald ,toward tha iuntureRQf
the to`i 4 O ens, asi ` VImpor,art
coal fields in its it late, vicinity,
South of the Boucher River during a
night attack another 'portionof the
German front and super t liner, s
to-
gether with a numlbe • risoners V,
was captured.`
For the sliest part the k.
the French are facing the
is undergoing a period of coma,
hn, cepw for artillery d
rail Gerairan counter -attar]
he atter of which met lit
rets -o the Wog'
liireadstaffs,
'!'oronto. May 15-33a!,itob u,2zeat—
\ototTicial quotations.
Manitoba uats—Na tiFticizl €tuotatlons.
,Ameriean cora—No, 3 yellow, $1.71,.
noar_1na1, subjee to embargo, tzo,ek To-
C7aitario oats --No. 2 white, 7f to ;a5r,
nominal, No, 3 white,15 to white,
• nourtr aa1.
according to freights outside.
Ontario wheat--,No„,„1.1 Winter, per car°.
lot, 22.95 to $3.00; No. 3 d., $'.9 a to
accordion to frolgtnts optside.
1,'eas---No,, 2, poo nnl, '?,C°°l'ang.to
Baa^1ev A'5altnng11,40 to 51 42, zzoaii-:
nal, ?.eeoratog to freights outside
1i c'2 X1.92 to 3. `95 nominal•.
a cordX 4t ieiglbt5_out.lda.
Marl;floU 1 irst patents in Jute
baits, 03 seeosd ,Fite[ is to lute
beaes„ 4-30: strong b q er • in into
bagt, 4.10. Toronto,
$ ;tau;--Wjnter according to•
V,LPQ to $13 911 in bags trap
rings shE proent.
r lots, de1#,aere4, ttntT
iinv.odl (ran, .+
,r t toa3R 4,5;; ax i l
d recd flour, per
a'a �,"o , 2 'pec^ t drt, ? 13
torr. 3$ to 311,5o, ra
sand
frog
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freigli
342i $
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to
TAW
mixed, Per
A�.L1ES CAPTURE
a �ooao
Total of 450 G. uns A
in Spring Offensi
cent !Partial success of the Germans
at PresnoY, on the' Arras front i
has not upset the British
plans eration 'nor has it caused
surprise, said l\lajor-General Freder-
ck E. Maurice, Chief Director of MU-
' OPerations at the War Office, in
his weekly statement on Thursday
a matter ot fact? the General' a
ed, the British Staff has been 'sit;
-that the Germans alre. not sueeeed.
they have bee*: Pg' against
British front. The hief Director con
ken
EEN ONTARIO AND Bill -
tema Frew Provinces Where M
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living. A desPatch from Lon
1 Program - Brills" Shipping
Minister to Meet the Sub
Oit hundred trees were planted in s s, . ,,,, es erupping
that the
''''. -1 Adnifiralty had the first e and the
This is
pay valle
Psyten„ 200 acres. $
st weals.
lyer, Alta., sold 4,000 bushels .9
, eat last week at z2.24 per bueb4
•e has still ;1.8,000 laus'neis
he d
At least 500 cars* °Janes w
snipped from Alberta to the Ut
States this sPriefe's
own a
val prograni, he stated, would he
at after fife eat Britain's
OS TA G
Penin
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alias
s of Teutons co ually have
against the British over,
without any apparent
sualties, but the Brit4h
'st well
treMen tis
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prayed that God in
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Conin Wednesday
rapidity attac
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naval
Warne ana
The op cere osty by her
Sir George Perley's speeeh
ova, emphasized the ma
the war work carried out by Canadb
41,, Considerable number Cana -
availed themselvea of the in -
tion to, travel on the Royal trai
to Ports441th, and they were favor-
s:1)/y impressed with thia permanent
Memorial of the Dominion's interest
in the welfare of tho navy.
o
e
Thi
e dirt
f Mile*
fr
againet s on 111
them bad to be vsi
titles in the presoi
rom 50 to 75 per ee
Somme, 'Dor sacs
periori in connection
Chancellor paid n warm tr
flying corps,
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LOAN FOR BELGIUM
FROM UNITED STATES
ill Remove Heavy Burden From
Great Britain and France.
A despatch from Washington says:
United States has arranged to
Make a loan of $75,000,000 to Belgium,
Which will bo expended by the Belgian
Relief Commission.
The loan will be advanced at the
-rate of $12,500,000 a month, of which
$7,000,000 will be available for relief
I3elgiumand .$5,000,000 for relief in
Northern France.
By making the loan the United
States will take the burden of the re-
of4Belgium and France from the
Shoulders of Great Britain and France
end conduct it from this country so
farsas possible.
4,
U.S. EXPERTS LEAVE
FOR RUSS CAPITAL
,Eviery Assistance to Russian Railroads
`14r. Will Readily be Furnished
A despatch from Washington says:
'Inited States Railroad Com-
ission to the Russian Government
oft -Washington on Wednesday for
petron-rad where it will give as:
Orities.that this country stand -s" ready
fnrnish all the rolling stock and
Other material that may be needed to
inerea.se the capacity and efficiency
Of the Russian and Siberian railroads.
ear -kw o le tallier
Action Expected
A despatch from Ottawa says:—
The Imperial NIunitions Board an-
nouneed on Wednesday night that W.
I. Gear of the Robert Reford
Montreal, ,has bean APPoiated 15.--Witeat, No. 1 hurt
steel merchant ship construction in 81..i!51 asked:- Linseed. $3.00: ).10,:t., $3,ssi
Mr Gear 'will establish 'an office at
'Malta lntrXttii.
y
*3•33!4 NO, Northorn
Flour. fancy patents. 316.30; • ;
814,00; other grades tinclumgcd.
i0 to 931 00
May
Ottawa, and will at once UE19111X30 the Lisa Steak Vizi)
duties of his position. It is undors' lloctsnite, esi;ls ns- e...„,„ , ,, est. ,
stood that Sir Robert Borden on his/111.32 ttoo sleikli55'; '',',),,,f7 il:i'ctai!: ''ateef±r,
the question of further " stimulating ! Ili li• g. Wo 511111e;171.181;rn,dZi, 745°°tod'$1501,00.05;,100t1',.
shipbuilding in Canada, this being one I common, S.SCI. to 59.1.5*; butchers* bulls,
choke, 510.50 to 311.00; do.. medium
of the most important phases of „buns, 83.50 to 39.00; do., rough bulls,
Canadlari co-operation in war 'Work. 56.40 to 56.50; butchers'.. cows. choice.
urged by the Imperial autnorities .in,!9.15Ldo,:_,,Ined114a, 7.0..,0 tsi 5t„2,..; 44,,tpc.L
310.20; canners and cutters, 5o.50 to
** 36.25: milkers. good to choice, 585.00 to
ALLIED .11ACHINE 3125; do., corn and med., ach, 540 to
Rudyard Kipling, who has been at the 31.6.25; do.„ medium, 310.50 to 812.50;
frsnt in France, and has been making iggs.,,wte?dhaer owaoterred, ,8176.805 to 317.00;
a short stay in Rome, compares the do!: f _el ., ;16. 5 to 16.4 .
Iontreal. ...lay Ia.—Choice steers,
British army to a machine working so 312.25 to 512.75; good 11. 75 to 51q -
perfectly that no human power can lower grades, 59.76; tratcbeis' cows ici
arrest it. He expresses the greatest to 51i; so;:ing larnbs, '':5.8 -4-..o L51'2'; ''iriii
admiration for the work of -the Isrench. sneen. 516 to $11; selected hogs 17,75
and British, which, he says, the Ger- to s's' „,... '
mans are' now Powerless to ell'eck• Tha One Hundred All Right.
lccses—the heaviest in his.tbrY—which Tivo Englishmen were one day
they have incurre`d by their effortseto
. walking along a road in Kerry when
do so, must end, he says, in affecting they met an Irishman.
the morale both of the army rind the "How many, of us are hero now?'
civil population, of Germany.
they asAd jokingly.
"Pm not such an ornadhaun as all
"Can she be seen?" sniggered Kath- that," said Pat. 'There's 100 of us "
leen. "Shure, an 01 think she can; "Oh,' said sthe Englishrnan, snow
sho's six feet high, end four feet wide! do you make out thatv,
Can she be, seell? Sorra a bit of any- "Well," said Pat. "I am the one and
thing ilse can ye see whin she s about. you are the two naughts."
fisHING up To
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we EAG'50\iS we.
PuLLED OUT
The cOR R ME AND
al recently issued warning
ith a possible return to despotism.
SINGING CANARY BIRDS.
as Been_ Cut Off
and Prices Are
-One of the sidelights or e
war is furnished by the diaap tic
from the market of singing canary
311. 0
China, a:
on the Zilsr,
hod herself too
er part of the bat
e tion of the tultivatt.
and the consumption of Prlsouers. A ▪ '
n faet, the edict prohibiting ment, dated May
• promulgated io 1000, lartillerY duels Mont, "1 on
torY of the thrusting Of opium , 'trent The Bulgari
upon 9U makes dark ehapter .,ed Monostir with aephyxiating pounls
ic history of Anglo -Chinese relations, the statement adds. A Inunnur of no
and there will be great satisfactioa in civilians were killed.
rtnetit 011
with ti
it
11 trot
0' tron
nee
and Insidie,
1.
birds, of which many ihralSanciS Were tho fad that at last that chapter, a
formerly imported annually from Ger- far as may be, bus been blotted ou
many, where their breeding and train- And China's victory over the opiom
ing occupied many of the neasants of habit is certainly one of the most re -
the Hartz Mountains and neighboring marimble and splepdid chapters in
districts. War conditions, it is saki, her history. The only parallel to it
have caused .the birds practically to in modern times has been RU8Sia'S Vie-
disaPPestr in the Hartz. The servces tory over the drink evil,
of the inhabitants have been other- —
wise required and the birds have lack-
ed their customary supplies of food, so
that the region will have to be restock- Number o
ed after the w a r bAesf are acafLe:alia esaucpe-,
ply of the familiar Songsters is avail-
able for export.
cost of food, according to W. Scott
the price of canaries, which before the
Matthews, state dairy and food corn -
war was about 53 °r Cobri e,af5° missioner of Illinois, should be the
bi d st res, has 'urn ed
passage of a federal law forbidding
and there are few to be had at any
tbe sale of heifers.
"While the population of the Unit-
ed States has increased 24,000,000s hi
the last fifteen years, the number of
cattle has decreased 6,000,000, If the
2,500,000 heifers now slaughtered an-
nually were allowed to bear, they
A despatch from Washington says: would be ancestors of 45,000,000 cattle
...It was learned Wednesday night on in five years.
unquestionable authority that the Na- "Milk is olle of our most import-
val Consulting Board has submitted to ant staples, and it costs far less -for
Secretary Daniels and his advisers a its actual food value than meat or
definite and completed plan to cope wheat. Approlsimately 98 per cent. of
with the German U-boats which has our farms are understocked because
proved a revelation to the best tech- slaughter houses will pay larger prices
nical brains in. the service hea. for calves."
of Food Rising.
The first step to reduce the high
U -BOAT "KILLER" S ENDORSED.
Author of Gyroscope Submits Plan
That Amazes Naval Experts.
CD
KNON,5u1 DO
New \NAni-r
ONE -
W014114.5 FELL(*) WAND WtiEN
EAS1i-'4 THAT LONG
'In Caliform Ships F
Their Own Ma
tip in the deserts of Calif tin
dreds of feet above sea -level,
of great ships float in little sea
"their own malting
These are the gold dredges. The
parts are hauled over a sage -brush de-
sert, and put together on dry land,
The navigable water begins with a
), dry pit. in which the hull is asserabled
/. and calked. Water is bronght. from
'some creek, then the great steam -
shovel starts work, and presently the
dredge is digging away into tile 90ll
with her chain of buckets, scooping it
out to a depth of fifty or sixty feet„
and always increasing the size of the
lakAellillthmeillelii 611! fidi°gastSi.8 worked for
gold. She can make a profit if there ;
is only ten CelltS worth of gold in each i
cnbie. yard.
But each dredge costs three hundred
of
Shen
ten she got behind
,raents. And now at the moment
n she had eled the lowest
ths of despai she found herself in
debt to the if about three
p unds ten shilling
in the Nic Time_
A letter, which seemed to scorch
lay the bosom of her dres
her that on the morrow Shylock
woold er.ter the little borne. of -which
she .and Joe were so proud, and pro-
' eeed to levy the distraint obtained
from a county court judoe wh bad
lon
bow
gransed it an ignorance of the real
idcStisie" went to bed, without sleeping.,
and arose with a splitting headache.
At eleven o'clock she told the kiddy
where she was going, and made her
way to Shylock's office. There she
pleaded, as woMan never pleaded to
usdrer before, for time to pay her
debt. Her 1)16i:fell on deaf ears.
Either she foinid the money within
03,343 hour, or the distraint would '''be
levied: She was in the midst of pour -
to four hundred thonsand 'dollars, so I
only rich corporations can ii-fford this
way of getting gold. There is to -day ;
in the West a fleet of at least one hun-
dred and fifty of these great craft, not ,
one of which ever saw the sea, or any',
navigable lake or river.
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ing out a final plea when the door .of
the spider's office burst open and
in a
moment she was sobbing out the story
of her shame on the breast of her hus-
band joe—joe, unkempt and unshav-
en, boots plastered thick with the
nand ef French trenches; Joe, with the
glad ight, of love 8bining frorn his
'honest eyes.
He put his wife tenderly on one
side, then turned to Shylock, and ask-
ed the amount of the debt. With his
unshaven jaw set grimly, he counted
the full amount out of a pocket in his
body -belt, and took a receipt in full
discharge and settlement, Then the
lovelight disappeared, and he turned a
blazing gaze on the moneylender.
I'll not trouble to describe the ter-
rible t sas mg oe gave usurer..
All I need say is that afterwards he
was in bed for three weeks.
"It's lucky, when I came home unex-
pectedly, the kiddy told me where you
had gone, lass," said Joe, as they went
home. "I guessed the restl"
And when they were seated