HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-8-15, Page 3!PRUSSIANS AND BAVARIANS
RETREAT ON WIDE FRONT
EngDahl French and Ciirlatlinn Troops in Offensive Which Enemy
Could Not Resist.
A despatch from the British
France says:-Fghting their 'Way
:through the Germans itt dawn on
'Thursday on a front of over 15 miles
tasteide the River Somme, British
'eluding Canadians, Australians and
'English), and French troops by the
Afternoonhad termethed points from
five to six miles inside lines which
'belonged to the enemy.
The Prussians and Bavarians fled
'before the advancing infantry and
tans, leaving many of theis guns be-
hind them,
Large members of prisoners have
'been taken both by the Britith and
French, and heavy casualties um
doubtediy have been inflicted on the
enemy.
Thus far everything has been ac-
complished with exceedingly small
losses to the allies.
Tbe artillery has followed up the
storm troops closely and hurled shell's
,down upon the enemy forces, which,
taken by surprise and fiercely attack -
were in a more or less crippled
condition.
Markets of the World
Breadetuiro
Toronto,Aaig. 13.-Ma1itobe wheat
-No. 1 Northern,$2,g8%; No, 2
Nerthern; $2,201/2; No, 8 Nerthern,
$2,171/2; No, 4 wheat, 32.101/2, in store
Vert WiWiam,including 21/2c tax,
Manitoba oate-Ne. 901/24;
Moreuil and the country front ad* NO, 3 C.W, 371/1.e' es "n 0
joining Villers-aux-Erables have been 3714e No, 1 'feed, 840e, in gore 'or
t
eoptm,„ Dodo and ems mer can corn -No, 8 yellow, ican
fighting and pushed a Considerable 'dried' "111"11*
Ontario oats -No, 1 white, 85 to 86e,
clieteake beyond,
Weather Helped .Allies
• Especially hard fighting was expel+
enced, and on the left flank of the car lot, $2.22, basis in store Montreal,
fighting front in the neighborhood of frePig.eabst-5 oNuot.512d,o.nominal, according to
Morlanetnart. The weather holpedi Barley -Malting, new Crop, 51.20 to
in the advance,
All along the line, except possibly $1
B.22e.kwheat-Nominal,
northward on the left flank, very lit- Rye -No, 2; nominal.
tle enemy shelling was experienced , Peas -Nominal.
after the attack got well under way, I Manitoba flour - War quality,
$10 .95, Toronto,
Nearly all the country already
Ontario flour - War quality,
fought over and that now in front of
• $10.86 in bags, Montreal and Tor-
aken by the Inele,rMile the Tidal ,WTIOMI,
aa
dried, nominal; No, 4 yellow, kiln
Wociele, and Mareeleave After hard
eioinioal; No, 3 white, 84 to 85e, nom-
inal, according to freights outside,
Ontario wheat -No. 2, Winter, per
the allied forces is ow an ,
and especially odepted to open war -ionto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mon -
fare. . , treal freights, bags included: Bran.
One new German clivisiffn which had 388 per ton; shorts, 340 per ton. •
just arrived in the line before the at- t Hay -No. 1, 317 to 318 per ton,
-tack was launched was told to expect track Toronto; mixed, $15 to $16 per
local attacks. Prisoners taken from ton, track, Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, 38 to $8.50 per
this division said they had heard:
eone.,
nothing of a general attack being tontrack, Toronto.
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templated.
HUNS PREIYING REPORT MUTINY
WATCH ON RINE OF U-BOAT CREWS
Country Produce -Wholesale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per lb.,
42 to 421/2e; prints, per Ib., 421/2 to
48c; dairy, per lb., 36 to 37c.
Eggs -New laid, 41 to 42c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chielcons,
3$ to 40c; roosters, 22e; fowl, 23 to
28c; ducklings, 33e; turlceys, 32 to 35e.
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Live poultry -Roosters, 16e; fowl,
:Force of Half Million Being Twenty-three Men Said to Have 21 to 26c; ducklings, lb., 25c; turkeys,
27 to 30e; Spring chickens, 82 to 35.
Formed to Resist Invasion Been Sentenced to Death. Wholesalers are selling to the re -
of Germany. A despatch from London says:- tail trade at the following' Prices: -
Rumors of a revolt by German sailors Cheese -New, large, 231/2 to 24c;
A despatch from the American to 24%e; old, large, 25%
at Wilhelmshaven in protest against twins, 22%
,Army saysea-From sections of the to c; twin 26 to 261/2c
German army there are being drawn L6tter-Fresh, dairy, 'choice, 40 to
continuation of the submarine war are
in circulation, according to a despatch 42e; creamery prints, fresh made, 45
a certain proportion of officers and
to the Daily Express from Amster- to 47easolids, 44 to 45c.
the sturdiest soldiers for tho forma- dam. It is reported that propagandists Margarine -28 o 82c.
tion of a force of half a million men, among the men incited sailors about to Eggs -No. l's, 48 to 49c; in cartons, His Force.
'which is to receive special training leave on submarine cruises to attack 62 to 54e.
:and have special organization. There A despatch from the French
their officers and surrender their ships Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
are to be no Poles or Alsatians inArmies says: -History is again re-
• seek an opportunity to sink them 50c roosters, 25c.; fowl, 38 to 34c;
this army, but only fighters that the turkeys, 400. pealing itself. The allies have fol
:Kaiser believes he can trust to the Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus,, lowed the second victory of the Marne
and be tbemselves interned in neutral
harbors. More than 50 submarines $7.50; imp., hand-picked, Burma orby a combined attack in the region of Crown Prince Rupprecht's army. It
last. are said to have disappeared. Indian, $6.i(); Japan,; 38.00 to $8.73; the Somme. Alter a short but ex- has long been known that he had used as a hammer in any new drive, tremely violent artillery preparation, serves concentrated behind the re-
ThisArras-
German force is not to be,
1 Twenty-three of the ring leaders of Lamas, 18 to 19e.
for Paris; it is not to be used for the revolt are reriorted to have been Honey, new crop -Strained, 60 -lb,
the Franco -British forces attacked on Amiens-Montidier front, where it wan
:any blow against the British; itis no
others have been arrested at Keel and 21e. Combs-Doz., $2.4 to $ .a . a twenty -mile front between the river' expected that the Germans would
. arrested and sentenced to death. Many tins, 20e; 10-19. tins, 201/2e; 5-1b, tins,
to be used to "punish" the Americans; I
elseevhere, it is added. Maple syrup -51/2 -lb tins, 10 to a and Montdidier. Latest news shows make their next blow.
'but, according to information reach- case 314.50; imperial gallon tins, per the French progressing favorably. The moment chosen for the blow is
Ing allied commanders, it is being, tin, '32.25; imperial five -gallon cans, Avre was crossed south of Moreoil considered an opportune one, as It is
I The recent resignation of Admiral
formed for no other purpose than to per can, $10.50; 15 -gallon kegs, per and all the first objectives reached. -known that a large number of Run-
t von Holtzendorff as chief of the naval
stand back of the Rhine against an Morettil and Morizel, obstinately de- precht's reserves were taken by the
' staff is declared to have been connect- gal., 32.00; maple sugar, 1-19, box,
.invasion of German soil. fended, -were the scene of bitter fight- German Crown Prince to extriedte his
led with the scandal. Emperor Wil- pure, per lb., 24 to 26c.
On Our Side Now tended visit to the fleet at Wilhelms- Ing, but the whole German position army from the predicament it had en -
Sun' I liam, it is added, has abandoned an in- -
•for such a purpose at such a time, haven because of the ferment there. on the Avre is threatened by the ad- countered through Marshal Foch's
vance made further north along fife counter -offensive on the Soissons
.
Than the formation of such an army Provisions --Wholesale
man High Commaod realizes that the L WOODEN VESSELS
A despatch from the Britinh Army Cured meais-Longs clear bacon, 80 Pock has thus refused to allow the
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Why cavit CARADA do 03 well t
as she did QE Years Ato
FOCH'S POLICY
WORKING WELL
Enemy is Not Given Time in
Which to Reconstruct
RUPPRECHT'S MEN
FROiSUFISET COAST
ivicAT THE wrisTmaN 1PllQPIA$
ARE DOOM.
Progreeti of th• Great Vireat Told
in a Few pointed
Pheagraphia
Tag Day for the Armenians and
Syrians at Victoria. netted $2,080.
Seventy-five whales have already
been taken dile season by the steane
whalers operating out of '<Yin:Idol.
'Victoria loses a popular young male
in the death of Flight -Lieutenant Evan
Spencer: son of Chris Spencer ot Von -
0011001',
LieutaCtotonel Jame Alexander
MeeDonell, DELO., a Pioneer of B.C.
sinet 1888, died recently at Iiot
Springs, Ark, • •
The geeeral crap prospects on the
Materna Prairie are good, atthough,
illness there is rata, there willsbe no
second hay crole.
Recently on a visit to Vancouver,
Madame Saran Bernhardt, though In
her seventy-fourth year, delighted, In
Agana early In the morning.
Lieutenant Rented Bourke, of Nel
Sou, is home on two weeks' furlough
after proving himself a hero at Zee-
brugge by rescuing several compan.
ions.
Plight.Lieut. J. Cameron, only son
of Mr, and Mrs. J. Cameron, of Salmon
Arm. has been accidentally killed, ac-
cording to a cable received from Eng.
land.
The Vanvouver City Council aro
probing into the prices of meat, and
are demaridingstateinente from whole-
sale firm with ,a view to decreasing
the prices.
A further investigation of the ex,
WERE IN RESERVE cactd
at No.
a3t ClreeeirnieereekallMtihn: ‘‘vi10.11
. tims having been eocovered; they
• number thirty-four.
-
Germans Engaged Southeast of According to preseut Indications
Amiens Were to Drive the registration for the three Van-
couver constituencies will aggregate
on British. 120,000, but anything like the exact
A despatch from London says: -It figures is not available as by no
is believed here that the troops en- means • all the returns are yet in.
gaged by the Franco -British forces Victoria claims 29,040 registrations.
southeast of Amiens are elements of His Honor the Lieutenant -Governor
recently presented to the Misses Cle-
ment, on behalf of his Majesty the
King, the Military Cross awarded to
their brother, Captain C. M. Clement,
of the Royal Flying Corps, son of
Hon. Mr. Justice Clement, of Van-
couver.
Major W. Bapty is now in cone, of Home.
The death in action has token place
mend of the military hospital at Vic-
toria, Major C. Wollard at Vancouver, of Major F. A. W. Armitage, 0.5.0.,
Captain Greaves at Qualleum, Captain rsootalshotfreMe.r. and Mrs. ArMitage, Kir-
Boyce at Vernon, and Captain T. Mil-
ler at the Military Isolation Hospital. William T. Blackwood, Royal Scots,
Dr. S. F. Tolmie, M.P., Victoria, has son of Mrs. Blackwood, Southwood,
eeceived word from the Deputy Min- Pebbles, has been awarded the Min-
ister of Marine and Fisheries stating tall' CA'stt.
that the Imperial IYLundions Board The Kelso and District War Sae -Lige
will let no more contracts for wooden Commietee announce that during the
ships in Canada. War Weapons Week 2110,140 was
Invested.
The whole upper works of the dam
The Military Cross has been award.
at the Revelstoke power plant went
out as a result ot extra pressure due
Illecillewaet ed to Lieut. T. G. Brown, Cameron
to anotber rise in the Highlanders, son of Mr. T. A. Brown,
mrievenrs,e laoigidiatnliie collection of an int- Loonside, Pebbles.
George C. Pringle, M.A„ F.R.S.A.,
-when• the Kaiser needs all his avail-
' able forces on the Western
front Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 36
to 38c; do., heasy, 30 to 32c; cooked,
51 to 53e; rolls 32 to 83c; breakfast Luce Rivulet, east of Hangard, in the Rheims salient.
bacon, 41 to 4dc; backs, plain, 44 to direction og Aubercourts and Demuin, -
„what could -better 'show that the Ger- 45e; boneless 48 to 49c. Can't Reconstruct Force
DIVISIONS ARE CUT UP.
tido of war is about to turn if, ha Headquarters in France says: -On to 81e; clear bellies, 2 to 30e. enemy to reconstruct his force of Limj
14e, manoeuvre, which, was the object of NCHED IN EAST
prints 33 to 381/2e. Compound tierces,
deed, it has not already. done so? One the horizon enemy motor transports uLard-i-Purei tierces, 30 to 301/2c;
have been visible scurrying away. • t bs, 30 to lc, pails, 301.t. to 31
may not say that the .war is almost
' his recent rectifications of the front
won, but one may say that the sun ..The 27th, 43rd.and 108th Divisions and his principal preoccupation. . ........
O Crown Prince .Rupprecht's army '&3-
.96 to 261/2c; tubs,261/2 to 26%,e; pails,
hov.euffered.heavily, while the 117th New Brunswick's Answer to the
now shines on our side of the fence. le to 27e; prits, 28 to 281/2c. As Mangin put it, the Kron Prinx
Up to three weeks age, for months - had received a severe knock, and
the allies waited to see what the Ger- Division, which came into the line Montreal Markets Prince Rupprecht was in the position Submarine Challenge.
mans were doing and wondered where ' him- A despatch from St. John, N.B.
only lust night, has been badly cut
they would strike next; now it is t19 -
the Germans who wonders where the!
allies will strike next. E IN
WILL NOT RETURN `I. •
GERMAN TERRITORY
Montreal, Aug. 13. -Oats -Cana- of a man who,
dian Western, $1.01; extra No. 1. feed, self to aid a friend, see's the latter says: -Launching of two fine wooden
98c Flour -New standard grade, temporarily hors de combat and won- vessels last week was New Bruns -
310.95 to $11.05. Rolled oats -Bags, dere what on earth is going to happen
AN ENEMY POST 90 lbs, 35.20 to 35.30. Bran, $37.00.
Shorts, 340. Mouillie, 367. Hay- to hini. Now he knows.
Austrian Attempt on the Cornone IsT°. 2 per ton, car lots, $14.50 to
Cheese, finest easterns, 221/2 to 23e,
Petitions Repulsed. $15.00. NORWAY PAYS HEAVY
A despatch from Cape, latvn says:- A 'despatch from Rome says
Impressive war anniversary services I Italian troops drove in an enemy
were held at the principal centres in vanes post on the mountain fr
the Union, last week including an open I north of Col del Rosso, taking p
air service in the Church Square at oners and a machine-gun,. .the W
Pretoria, which was attended by sev- 1- announced. An
eral Cabinet Ministep. Ministers of !tempt on the Italian positions on the P8118,
' 20 I s net, 32 to 3 e.
Justice DeWet, speakingan the Johan -i Cornone was repulsed. United States Markets
--
Justice
Xown Hall, ' said the Union's 1 --0,--- Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 13. -
war message was one of courage, 2,000,000 UNIFORMS Wheat, cash, No. 1 Northern, old,
TO REFIT AMERICANS $2.83. Corn, No. 3 yellow, 31.70 to
sympathy and faith.
At the meeting at Nairobi it was - 31.75. Oats, No. 3 wbite, 671/2 to
• unanimously decided that under no A despatch from London says: -169c. Flax, 34.25 to 34.31. Flour
circumstances shall the conquered The British Government has let con- .unehanged. Bran, 329.31.
• • Duluth Minn. Aug. 13. -Linseed
" ' refit 2,000,000 on track and to arrive, $4.27; epem-
. raging. The regimen o ,
' . „I ancl municipal bonds has been written perfected wireless telephone appara-
:"-- Butter, choicest treamery, 43% to
acle 48%e. Eggs, selected, 46 to 46c; No. . -
ont 1 stock, 47 to 48c; No. 2 stock, 46 to A despatch from London says:-
ris- 48c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, Norway lost 14 vessels thiough war
ar 32.10 to 32.15. Dressed hogs, abet- causes during the month of July, kt
at- toir killed $29,.50. Lard, pure, wood was announced by the Norwegian
TOLL FOR NEUTRALITY
-East Africa territory be returned to tracts to British menu ac urers
Germany.
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12 Meatless Weeks Announced
By Bavarian Authorities
A destiatch from Zurich says: -Von under execution for the French and 1 Toronto, Aug. 13. -Choice heavy
' Brebtrech, the Bavarian Minister of 1 British armies. No cloth is to be steers, 314.00 to 315.85; butchers'
the Interior, announces in Parliament made henceforth for civilian lase, ex- cattle, choice, 313.25 to $13.75; do, are not being worn."
12 meatless weeks to save the need- cept under permit. good, 312.00 to $12.50; do. medium, "We will die first," said the regi-
ful 300,000 heacie, of cattle. He says 310.75 to 311. 00; do. common, 39.00 ment with one voice, and advanced
satisfactory, and the whole food sup- - $10.25 to 310.60; do. rough bulls, ---
ch°1", against the foe.
that the milk and fats supply is un- IRRESISTIBLE'to 310 . 00; butchers' bulls,
311.00 to $11.25; do. medium bulls,
P Yis Y $7.50 to $8.50; butchers' cows, choice,
1 seriousl endangered by pro- With the French Army in France.
fiteers who continue tollicle biota He -The slopes of the Valley of the Avre $10.75 to $11.00; do, good, $10.26
denies, however, that 'the Bavarian have been carried, and the Allies have ft, 310,50; do, medium, 38.25 to 38.75; AUSTRALIA,
food supply is desperate, and says reached the plateau beyond. They clo. common, $7.00 to $8.25; stocicers,
that rumors ceiling it black are lies, are making Airtime progress and over. 35.00 to 310.50; feeders, $1.0.50 to
4a------:.---- a. coming every obstaele along the 11110 $11.00; canners and cutters, $5.50 to
• mextE,AsED 3,500mo everywhere.
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POPULATION OF POLAND
•
Legation. The tonnage of the ves-
sels lost aggregated 15,444. Fifty-
five sailors were lOst during the
month.
FROM OLD SCOTLAND
NGTIt'S OF' INTEltosT vitor4 813680
'BANNS ANEW PRAM
What Going On 10 flIghland!
and Lowland! of Auld
$cot1n.
Tho deer forest of liar belonging to
the Ducheett of Fffe, has been let for
theemgrazing purposes.
The French Croix de Guerre ha@
been awarded to Bombardier John
Sheriffe, rala.A., of Methlick.
The Distinguished Conduct Medal
has boon. awarded to Sergeant W.
Davidson, New Street, Tiothee.
Five g.eneretions were preeent at
the baptism 02 190 lutaut daughter of
James 1Viaelainnon, Glasgow,
The Military Cross has beeie award-
ed to Sergt-Major George MeGruer
Ithind, Lochalsh road, Inverness.
The death took place recently -in
Edinburgh of James Wilson Hyde, 1.
S.O., late Controller of the General
Post Ofilee.
Dr, William Donaldson, Plata Is-
land, %Haley, bas been appointed
meilie,af officer of Porthatrick Parish,
Wigtonatire.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Wise.man,
Ardoch Gardens , Cambuslang, have
had their three sons killed in the war.
Ilev. G. W. Elliott, Machine Gun
Corps, killed in action, Was minister
of the West 'United Free Kirk, Forfar.
Captain the Rev. George Galbraith,
chaplain attached to the 3.1,L.I., re-
ported gassed, 1s a motive of Glasgow.
The death took place recently ot
Captain George Mackay, for ahnuet
forty years haabormager at Fraser.
head.
The Island of Tires has raised dur-
ing War Weapons Week the sum of
k2,263t
The death In aotion is reported of
Lieut -Col. Hope, of Lutness, Lurness
Castle, Aberlady.
A free gift sale held at Rhine, Gal-
way, netted the sum of 22,860 for dist
tribution among war charities.
The Military Cron has been award-
ed to Lieut, W. H. McKay, son of
William McKay, Duleuhurn, Renton.
The Military Cross has been award-
ed to Lieut. Thomas Studley, Black
Watch, son of the late Major Studley,
Berwick.
The death has taken place at the
Hirsel, Coldstream, of Charles Alex.
ander Douglas -Home, the twelfth Earl
Is leaving Peebles to take up the
duties of organizer of the Education -
- The Military Medal hae been aware
wick's answer to the challenge of the
One of the Marvels of This Age of eti to Corporal James Higgins, n.s.b.,
German submarine lurking off the At-
lantic coast which has already de- Wonderful Achievements. son of Williain Higgins, Kirkland
strayed the Dornfontein, the first of Imagine Balling en a shin in mid- House, West Kilbride.
Mrs. Chalmers, of Stonelaw House,
the ships completed in the present re- ocean and being able to hear your
anissance of the shipthailding. The favorite pianist in a concert that he Rutherglen, has been notified of the
naw vessels are the Celina K. Gold- is giving on board a vessel hundreds death in action ot 'her husband, Maier
man, 477 tons, built at St. Martins, of miles awayi The possibility is not John Stuart Chalmers, Haat.
and the Vincent A. White, 460 tons, as remote as one might surmise, for The Tweed Commissioners will pay
four shillings per head for the destruc-
tion of cormorants which have been
destroying the trout in the rivers.
The late Charles Reid, 'neater
Journey from Honolulu, and enjoyed mariner, has bequeathed the sum Of
the unique thrill of feeling that her
000 musk, was being heard by wirelesa £2,000 to his native town, Tarbet, for
operators on board passenger aud the erection of a cottage hospital,
freight steamers as far as 500 miles During tho 41 years of his service
as post runner at Dalbeattie, Michael
laltzimmons has travelled 158,500
miles and delivered 8,198,000 miesives,
launched at Alma, at •St. Martins Tina, Lerner, the distinguished young
work begins at once on a second and Russian Maoist, gave a recital on
larger craft than the two launched. board the Ventura on her homeward
PRESIDENT WILL PAY
- INCOME TAX Oro $24,
The Next War A despatch from Washington says:. away.
1 -Taxation of the incomes of the; In the concert room where Miss
It was the year 2000, and the next
President, Federal judges, state of- Lerner was playing a transmitter was
war, which was to end alk wars, was
ficials, and a tax upon state, county
Placed and by means of a recently
nlllitary American soldiers, according to a ber, 34.31 bid; October, . a , wart women were going
00 env, $4.26 bid, and December, into the $5,000,000,000 revenue bill by
despatch from Glasgow to the Central strong position, and their oPricer was
the House Ways and Means Com- tus the music -was sent out over a
News. This order which breaks all $ .' . large radius.
e . - doing her utmost to encourage them.
mittee. The President will pay an
records, is in addition to_ contracts Live Stock Markets "Women '' she cried, "Never let it
iarome tax of $24,000 on his 375.000 concert was far more novel than par -
The experience of listening to th.18
be said of you that you showed the
white feather et a time when feathers stilarY. debating in the demonetrations Which
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STORKS WANTED.
Great Travellers Are They, But Lin.
known on This Continent.
Why hav'e no storks in Ameteca?
have recently been tried successfully The most valued (sentimentally) of
The ofh
pa
tg
e
eVenetians
were
Republic in
eeth the
ehieinhe
agtis- 'when singers and speakers in Ban all feathered creatures is unknown In
trates
Francisco were heard at meetings and the new world.
Middle Ages.
banquets in New York. At these fun°. One reads about the storks that
dons the guests were provided with build their nests on the chimneys of
telephones, through which they heard Metz --the German fortress city that
peziryse touninetditehteinestlnyiersErvoecne vthe ap- was Frenoh up to 1871, and will bo
i 1 ed on French again before long. But those
the Pacific (Meat was accurately trans,. birds have maintained this habit for
thmiettert,itiandeolleletrhte twherlIsfetlittatbyattetg many centuries over all of northern
"Proxy" audience" on the other side
ot tho continent.
That, however, was over telephone
wires. '.Co play the piano while lore
lated in mid -ocean and ha vlb the notes
float through the air and bring pleas -
A despatch • front London ays:- 75 GERMAN U-Boata Destroyed
During the Past Twelve Months
Polish newspapers declait that the
• population of the Kingdom luta de-
, creased from 14,000,000 to 10.500,000
during the war, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph despatch' from Cep-
enhagen.
Mortality is increasing and great
numbers of Poles are' leaving their
country because of the rigorous con-
ditions of life under the German r ule.
_ Remember radish, beet and turnip
$6.50; milkers, good to choice, 3. ,
to 3125.00; do, cone. and med., $65.00! GP.EAT
to 375 .00 ; springers, 390.00 to
BRITAIN
3125.00; light ewes, 313.00 to 316,00;1
yearlings, $16.00 to 315,00; spring
lambs, 18 to 181/2c; calves, good to VaALY.
choice, $13.50 to $15.50; hog% e
„A despatch from London says:- and watered, $20.00 to $20.25; do. ARGENTINA
In the couese of a statement in the weighted off cars, $20.25 to 320.50;
FRANCE
Premier Lloe;c1 George sal(' that since Montreal, Aug. 18 .--Choic-e stears,1
House of Commons WednesdaY, do. f . o . b . , $19. 26.
the vvar broke opt 150 German. sub- $1.1..00 th $12.00; good, $9.00 tol HOLLAND Wrri'09119113111q 'OM Vi W01'04-12.
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A German scientific book, dated 1915
(seen by the writer the other day)
contains a halftone photograph of a
pair of storks anti their nest on an
enormously tall chimney "somewhere"
in East Prussia -a. region devastated •
ure to those far distant does much by the Russians early In the war. The
toward the complete annihilation of building to wbloh the chimney be -
space and causes us to wonder what longed (it may have been a factory)
toanterrow may bring forth. has vanished, but the storks have
When We are far from home --and come back to the chimney (their ar-
think of the loved onee left behind, castomed nesting plaoe, doubtless, for
shall we be able to commune with many yeare) and have reoccupied it,
there through music? ibusintges war,asthott. there wore no stich
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British troops in Mesopotamia have
been surprised to and great numbers
of storks. Iu that country, >IS nearly
everywhere Oise, they are prOteeted.
Nobody. is allowed to kill them.
The reasou,,V;•hy of the eeomiiielY
.1 It ifeef mi ?Jai my bird. in summer it
wide alaniftion of the stork is that
lands its nest and rears Its yming in
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