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Montreal Markets
Montreal, Feb. 11. -gats -Extra
No 1 feed, 74c. Mere -New stand-
• aid grade, $11.25 to $11.35. Roiled
Breadstuifs. oaf --Bags,. 90 lbs. $3.90 to $4.25.
Tatonto, Fels. 11. -Manitoba 'Wheat Era:!, $37.25.. Shorts, $42.25, Mown -
's -No. 1 Northern, $2.24%; No. 2 lie, $68,00. Hay -No. 2, par ton, car
Northern, $2.211/ ; No. 3 Northern, lots, $23,00.
$2.17%; No, 4 'wheat,. $2,11%, in Cheese -Finest easterns, 24 'to 25e,
estore Fort William. Butter -Choicest creamery, 51 to 51%
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C. W., 68%c; Eg s -$elected, 50e; No. 1 steel, 47
:No. S C.W., 6114e; extra No. 1 feed, to 64e. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots,
6314e; No, 1 teed, 59%e; Ne, 2 feed,. $1.75, Dressed hogs -Abattoir k'bl-
55%c, in store Fort William., ! led, $24,00. Lard -Pure, wood pails,
Manitoba barley -No. 3 C.W., 81%c 20 lbs. net, 25 to 28c.
No, 4 C.W., 70%t; rejected, 69%e;
feed, 69%e, in 'store Fort Wiliam. ( Live Stock Markets
American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.50; + Toronto, Feb. 11. -Choice heavy ex-
No. 4 yellow, $1.47, promptshitpment. ! port steers, $15.00 to $10.75; do.,
Ontazr.o oats -No. 2white, 57 to good, $14.00 to $14.50; choice butcher
60e; No. 3 white, 50 to 59e, according", steers, $13.00 to $13.50; butchers'
to reights outside. , cattle, choice, $12.00 to $13.00; do.,
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per, good, $11.25 to $11.75; do.,. common,
car lot, $2.14 to $2.22 No. 2, do., $9.50 to $10.00; bulls, choice, $10,50
$2.11 to $2.19; No. 3, do., $2.07 to to $11.00; cls., medium bulls, $8.75 to
$2.15 f.o.b., shipping points, according $9.25; do., rough bulls, $7.50• to $8.00;
to ,freights. butchers' cows, choice, $10.00 to
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, $2.09: $11.00; do., good, $9.00 to $9.50; do.,
to $2.17; No. 2, do., $2.06 to $2.14; medium, $8.00 to $8.50; do., common,
No. 3, do., $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., ship - $7.00 to $7.50; stockers, $8.00 to
ping points according to freights. $10.50; feeders, $10.50 to $12.00;
Peas -No. 2, $1.75 to $1.80, accord- canners, $5.35 to $7.00; milkers, good
ing to freights outside. to cheee, $90.00 to $140.00; do. corn,
Barley -Malting 73 to 78c, nominal. and med., $65.00 to $75.00; springers,
Buckwheat -No. 2, $1.00, nominal, $90.00 to $140.00; light wes, $9.00
Rye -No. 2, $1.25, nominal. to $10.00; yearlings, $12.00 to $12.50; The Smile of Victory -Premier Lloyd George endRt. Iron. Arthur J,
Milnitoba Flour Government sten- spring lambs, $15.00 to $16.00;
deed, $10.85 to $11.35, Toronto. calves, good to choice, $15.50 to Balfour photographed as they'were about to enter the French Foreign
Ontario flour -War quality, $9.75 in $11.50; hags, fed and watered, $17.50 Office on the opening .day of the Peace Congress.
bags, Toronto and Montreal, prompt to $16.25,
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shipment, Montreal, Feb. 11. -Best steers,
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont -
Mal freights, bags included. Bran,
$37.25 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton;
good flour, $2.40 per bag. sheep, $10.00; lambs, $14.00; calves,
Hay -No. 1, $22 per ton; mixed, milk -led, $12.00 to $16.00 per 100 lbs.;
hogs, $17.50.
CANADA' CLAIMS AGAINST
GERMANY $1,140,000,000
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Canada's claims against Germany, in-
cluding war expenditure to date, now
total over eleven hundred and forty
million dollars. War expenditure
$13.50; poorer, $8.50 to $10.00 per
100 lbs.; choice cows and bulla, $10.00
to $11.00; canners, $5.00 to $6.00;
$20 to $21 per ton, track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, $10 to $11 per ton,
car lots..
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Butter -Dairy, tubs 'and rolls, 28 to
39e; prints, 40 to 41e. Creamery,
fresh made, solids, 51e; prints, 52c.
Eggs -New laid, 45 to 46c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens
26 to 32e; roosters, 25c; fowl, 27 to
30e; ducklings, 32c; turkeys, 40c; alone from the beginning of the war
squabs, doz., $4.50; geese, 25e. to the end of last month, totalled
Live poultry -Roosters, 20c; fowl,
24 to 30c; ducklings, lb., 85c; turkeys,
35e; Spring chickens, 25c; geese, 18c.
Wholesalers are selling to the re-
tail trade at the following prices:
Oheese-New, ,Y large, 7% toy 28c; I damages by submarines and in other
twins, 28 to 8:.ic; old, large, s to
28?'sc; twin, 28% to 29c. ways --now total about $19,000,000.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to -
48c; creamery, solids, 51 to 53e;
prints, 52 to 54c. BRITAIN WILL DEMAND
Margarine -32 to 34c. INDEMNITY FROM GERMANY
Eggs -No. 1 storage, 50 to 52e; new
laid, 55c; new laid in cartons, 57e. A despatch from London says: -The
Dressed penury -Spring chickens,
32 to 88c; rooters, 28 to 30c; fowl 32
to 85c; turkeys,. 45 to 50c; ducklings,
lb. 35 to 38e; squabs, doz., $5.50;
geese, 27 to 29e,
Potatoes-Ontarios, f.o.b. track
Toronto, car lots, 90 to $1.00.
Beans - Canadian, hand-picked
bushel. $4.50 to $5.00. Imported
hand-picked, Burma or Indian, $4.00;
Lima, •15c.
Honey Extracted clover: 51b. tins,
28 to 29c lb.; 10 -lb. tins, 27 to 28c; , by -which payment should be made and
60 -lb. tins. 26 to 26%-e; buckwheat, 60-
lb. tin, 21 to 22c. Comb: 16 -oz., $4.50 the means of enforcing the payment,
Ito $5.00 doz.; 12 -oz., $3.50 to $4.00 Mr. Bonar Law added.
doz
$1,122,000,000. This represents ac-
counts which have passed through the
books of the Finance Department. In
addition, claims for actual enemy dam-
ages against Canadians -claims for
British delegates at the Peace Con-
ference have been definitely instructed
to claim an indemnity which will in-
clude the cost of the war as well as
the damage actually caused, it was
announced in the House of Commons
on Thursday by Andrew Bonar Law,
Government leader in the Commons,
in reply to a question.
A commission is now considering
the amount to be claimed, the method
Maple products -Syrup, per gallon,
$2,25 to $2.35; sugar, lb. 27 to 28c.
Provisions -Wholesale
Smolcel meats -Hams, medium, 36
to 38e; do., heavy, 30 to' 32c; cooked
49 to 51c; rolls, 31 to 32c; breakfast
bacon, 41 to 45c; backs, plain, 44 to
45e; boneless, 50 to 52e:
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 28
to 29e; clear bellies, 27 to 28c.
Lard -Pure, tierces, 27 to 27%e;
tubs, 27% to 26e; pails, 2*%, to 281/4;
prints. 28% to 29c. Compound,
tierces, 255% to 25%c; tubs, 25% to
26%c; pails, 26 to 26%c; prints, 273
to 27*c.
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=PT. 47, WOEO1E'TO
NEWFOUNDLAND TO
IRELAND BY AIR
In a statement to The Transcript
Colonel W. A. Bishop, Canada's pre-
mier "ace." who holds the 'world's war
record for birdmen, predicts the early
wiping out of distance by the airplane.
He says: "As soon as the weather be-
comes suitable -about April 1, I think
-an airplane will cross the Atlantic;
and not one, but dozens, for on the
first favorable day there will be an in-
ternational race to accomplish this
feat. The winner will probably start
from Newfoundland and land in Ire-
land, making the flight in quite a bit
under twenty-four hours, and without
the necessity of coming down. It is
entirely possible to carry sufficient pet-
rol and other supplies to do this, and
the Newfoundland fogs, about which
more or less has been said, won't
bother, for the aviator will quickly
rise above the fog belt at the start."
CANADA'S CLAIMS AGAINST
GERMANY $1,140,000,000
A despatch from London says: -A
new petrol tank, which will neither
leak nor catch fire when perforated by
incendiary bullets, the Daily Mail says,
has been added to the list of wonder-
ful war inventions. These tanks were
being built and fitted in British air-
planes as fast as possible when the
armistice was signed. Had the fight-
ing continued British pilots would have
been immune from one of the greatest
causes of casualties. This invention
is to be applied' to commercial air-
planes.
CHAPLAINS' RECORD
- IN OVERSEAS FORCES
A despatch from ,London says:
The total number of Canadian Chap-
lains now• serving in the overseas
forces as 436. The number of honors
gained include five. C.M.G.'s, nine D.
S.O.'s, thirty-three mentions lin mili-
tary slesp•atches• and thirteen brought
to the notice of -the Secretary of State
for War.
Two Chaplains were killed, one died
of wounds, one was drowned on the
Llandovery Castle, which was sunk
by a German submarine; two 'died of
illness, and 21 were wounded.
MORE THAN 10,000,000 ALIENS
RESIDENT IN UNITED STATES
A despatch from Washington
says:-Approximateliy one-tenth of
the population of 'the United States
is composed of =naturalized aliens,
according to Raymond P. Crist, De-
puty Commissioner of Naturalization,
who declared that 'such a condition
would not Le permitted by any other
country, and appealed to American
citizens to help in making citizens of
alien residents. He said there were
10,500,000 persons in this country who
still retain their allegiance to the
land of their birth.
FLEW FROM PARiS TO LONDON
IN ONE HOUR FIFTY MINUTE'S
. A despatch from London says: --The
British Air Ministry announces 'that a
French service machine on Wednes-
day made a record: flight between
Paris and London, covering the dis-
tance in one hour and fifty minutes.
The distance covered was 270 miles.
In
Panama Canal -The C.P.R. liner Empress
couver, is here Shown passing through 'the big lock
British troopship to go through the canal westbound.
of Asia,
at the Pacific end
which took
many
of the
western.
soldiers
home
to Van -
Panama Canal. She was the first
THOUSANDS DIE
IN THE STREETS
'Sufferings of Petrograd People
Terrible Beyond Description.
A despatch from London says:-
There has just arrived in London an
English trade •unionist 'alto has lived
in closest embed with Ruled= work-
ers iir different part's of the- country
for the past five years. He has cone
direct from Petrograd, and in the'
course of an ,interview with London
Daily New representative he des-
Bribed the terrible conditions of life
pn Russia under Bolshevik rule.
"Conditions in Petrograd," lie said,
"are beyond belief. The suffering
the people is so terrible that it can
iserd y be imagined in England, •
"Machinery for food distribution
has completely broken down and
practically all the workers in the city
are suffering from sheer starvation.
They have passed the stage of semi-
starvation. I have seen people liter-
ally dying in the streets. At night
Petrograd was like a city of the dead.
"I often asked the people why they
didn't overthrow the Bolsheviks and
the reply I got was: "We can't. If we
lift a little finger that will be the end
of us?
"Russia has passed beyond the
sphere of pollities. • The question is
now one of humanity. People are dy-
ing wholesale of acervation. The po-
pulation of Petrograd has dwindled
from 2,000,000 to about 600,000.
Thousands have been killed or have
died from the effects of starvation.
The reign of terror extends to the
country distriottos There, lleveevele
'the people are not starving."
IN A BOMBPROOF SHELTER
Experiences of a Red Cross Nurse
During an Enemy Bombardment
Writing to a friend, a Red Cross
nurse, Miss Elizabeth Anderson, gives
a vivid description of the terrifying
experiences that the members of her
organization had to face at the front.
She says:
We have been through a nice little
bombardment. I don't think I'll ever
be quite the same. Running for your
life and standing' for seven hours in a.
bombproof shelter that is not bomb-
proof gives your mind quite a jolt.
Imagine a concrete dugout about
forty yards long, eight feet wide, se-
ven feet high, built under the ground.
Into this limited space is crowded a
curious mixture of humanity-offiic-
crs, telegraph operators, six of ' us
canteeners, 'railroad engineers and
conductors, four or five civilians,
about seventeen guards with their bay-
onets, three dogs, a liberal sprinkling
of French soldiers and three Ameri-
cans.
We are packed in so tight that we
are almost stifled. Outside the guns
of our barrage are making a fearful
racket. Then three deafening bombs,
one right after the other -bombs al-
ways fall in threes. The eighteen -
inch concrete walls of our dugout are
shaken as if they were made of card-
board; the air rushes through in a
sickening blast.
Some one says, "Quelle affairs!"
One of the Americans stops chewing
gum long enough to remark, "Pretty
close!" The tall young gaurdsman I
am leaning against wipes the per-
spiration from his brow and armoune-
ces that he prefers the trenches.
Now comes comparative silence.
Our guns have stopped. We all hold
our breath. Yes, we can hear dis-
tinctly the sound of the Bothe motors,
directly 'over our heads. The wait
seems intern inable, You grit your
teeth; you 'clench your hands; you
hold your breath; and then comes a
stupendous,,clashing din'. This time
you are almost thrown to the ground,
and the concussion deafens you. You
hold your breath again, expecting that
your last moment has come. A pause,
and then two more bombs explode a
little farther off.
We breathe again, and our guns
begin their infernal racket. In the next
pause you hear the horrid rattle of a
machine gun, not our own, and you
know the Boche 'has c'ome'back and is
firing on the ruins sof the house he has
just destroyed.
Never so long as I live shall I for-
get those silences in the dugout and
the humming of that motor,,like some
hideous and unclean insect. And what
I have described kept up for years.
R0UMANIANS IN RFORESThTION A.
GENERAL REVOLT POST-WAR POLICY
Mug Ferdinand Wounded in RE1
Attempt to Beach Jassy• ..
A. •deepateh '1•ronl Berlin says: -A
'general dnsiisrection is in progress
throughout. Roumania, according to 'a
.special despatch from Vienna. King
Ferdinand hos been wounded slightly
in attempting to 'flee from Bucharest
to .Jassy with the Royal :faniihy. •
Workingmen 'blocked the roadway
from the Royal Palace, and the King
and his family were forced to return,
The Icing was wounded when the
workers, according to the report, fired
upon the Royal Palace, -
Rioters • in the streets of Bucha-
rest are +openly demanding the over-
throw of the dynasty, 'crying "Down
with the puppets; long live the Re-
public."
The Vilbg of Bucharest learns 'that
the revolt is part of the Bolshevik
propaganda. In a clash between the
military and: demon'strat'or., 'at Ba-
lcorst 00 persons wore killed and 150
wounded. The discipCine of the Rou-
manian Welty, the newspaper adds, is
colli+ap'sing. ' The economic • situation
is rapidly growing worse, and the
country's finances we completely de -
Moralized, The position of the Bra-
tiano Cabinet is declared 'to be un-
tenable.
Queen Marie of Roumania was
known 'as "the fairest of atll grand-
daughters of Queen Victoria." On
January 10, 1893, she married King
Ferdinand -the first British Princess
of the Royal House to saorifrce her
place in the *ire of succession to the
throne of Britain by marrying a Ro-
man Catholic, since Parliament et
Westminster, more than -two hundred
years ago, paused 'the Act of Settle-
ment. Her father, the second and
sailor son of Victoria, bore 'the title
of Duke of Edinburgh.
Germany to Pay to the Full
Extent of Her Resources
A despatdh from London says: -
Capt. the Zion. Rupert Guirmess asked
in the House of Commons whether
the Premier was prepared to press to
the utmost for reparation frscan Ger-
many end also to make Germany pay
to the full extent of her resources.
Prcanier Lloyd George replied that
that was the election pledge given by
the Government rafter careful Cabinet
consideration. The Government stood
by every word of this pledge.
WAR COST ALL P
•OWERS
193,000,000,000 DOLLARS
A despatchrfrom Washington
says: -The total cost of the war to all
belligerents, including the Central
powers*, was placed at $193,000,000,000
'by Secretary Baker in an address.
This estimate, the Secretary 'said, was
based on figures just compiled by the
War College.
"The strongest principle of growth
lies in human choice." -George Eliot.
In using a broom remember 'to use
iioth sides so the straws will wear
down evenly.
The Germans have left a panorama
of utter desolation and complete re-
atruction of towns, villages and coun-
tryside which no words can describe.
-Mr. Godfrey Collins, M.P.
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AN ATTRACTIVE LONG -M15
INVESTMENT
Great Britain: and Trance Will Under,
take to Renew Their Forests-
Canticle Should Folio* Example.
An important item of post-war
policy in both France and Great Bri-
tain will unquestionably be an exten- .
sive programme of reforestation,.
Without the products of the planted,
forests of France, the prosecution of*
the war would have been handicapped
to- an extremely serious extent. It is
hardly putting it too strongly to say
that, had it not been for the French
forests, the !war could scarcely have
been won ----certainly not without an
incomparably greater effort and much
greater loss of life than has proved
necessary. The limited timber supply
of the British Isles have also proved
so vital a factor in connection with
the home situation that plans are al-
ready being laid for a very extensive
programme of ref oretsting waste
lands at state expense or by state
aid.
The economic importance to • Can-
ada of her great forest areas is no
less apparent. The value of our . pri-
mary forest products exported from
the country during the past year to
talled some $200,000,000. -The pulp
and paper industry exports products
vauled at some $85,000,000 annuolly.
The importance of perpetuating a re-
source that assists so largely In re-
dressig our unfavorable trade balance
can scarcely be over-emphazied.
• Prevention of Forest Fires
The first and most vitally necessary
step toward handling our forests as
crops, rather than mines, is, of course,
the prevention of fires. Great pro-
gress has been made in this direction
during recent years, though much
still remains to be accomplished.
The next step should be the adop-
tion and strict enforcement of im-
proved cutting regulations in cornice -
tion with all logging operations on
Crown lands. The situation in
respect is least satisfactory in
province of Ontario ad on Dominion.
licenesd timber lands in the west.
Another step, toward which exten-
tive plans should soon be made, is the
reforestation of the more accessible
areas of non-agricultural lands, on
which the forest growth has been so
completely destroyed by successive '',:
fires that regeneration of valuable
species by natural means can not take
place for a very long period of time,
if at all. Such a policy of reforesta-
tion on Crown lends must, as a rule,
be carried out by governmental agen-
cies, on account of the long time -
element involved before returns can be
secured. Both Ontario and Quebec
have provincial forest nurseries, from
which many million young trees have
been supplied to farmers and other
private interests, including pulp and
paper companies and, to a mucic
smaller extent, to lumbermen. The
forest revenue front Crown lands in
both these provinces is so large that
the annual expenditure of a moderate
proportion of it on reforestation of
denuded Crown lands would appear
both feasible and logical. Experience
indicates clearly that such a project
can be made attractive from the vie.v-
point of a long-time investment.
PRINCESS PAT'S COLOR
Preparations for Royal Wedding
Include a Pageant
"Something old, something new,
something borrowed, something blue,"
is an ancient saying, which, if not a
fetish, is solemnly followed by Eng-
lish brides who would make sure of
future happiness. Princess Patricia
is sure to observe the "something
blue„ part of the old saw in her trous-
seau -a deep, lapis- lazuli blue,
which admirably suits her beautiful
complexion and dark hair.
As the great national church;'.a st-
minster Abbey, is to be the scene of
the wedding of King George's cousin,
it is expected that there will be some-
thing in the nature of a pageant says
a correspondent. It is expected, if
it can possibly bo arranged, that there
will be a gaurd of honor of Princess
Patricia's own soldiers, the men of
Princess Pat's Canadian Light In -
Pantry.
qb•
Prince Braves Rain
The Australian correspondent with
the A. I. F. has been narrating' how
impressed his countl'ymeli were by the
sporsmanlike and generally fraternal
bearing of the demacratis Prince of.
Wales on the occasion of his recent
visit to their army corps.. While in-
• specting an artillery brigade he
walked up and down the lines in
heavy rain without his overcoat. A.
staff officer accompanying the Prince
protested, but the Prince only pointed.
impatiently to the soldiers. They were
all without rainproof coats, and he
got as wet as the troops There aro
many who may regard this as quix-
otic, but the men understood the pro-
test intI eii• behstf. There is at least
one royal(house which remembers
no
blesse oblige
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ese for at least 3,000 years. ,