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BULGARIAN 011,CFSS INFULL
FLIGHT, PURSUED. •BV SERBS
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Villages -and $u plies in l.2eteeat—eSerbe, Vi•clleh,'Greeli$
and British is Strung Atlacke Carry leepoh•tant Pt/SWUM.
A -despatch from London ciessig, and gone beyond, the region of Roj
News freak the Maaetdoninn front den, a''s well its the Mathes massif,
shows that the allied successes tare "The enemy lett behind pe soinere
extending; Wend all e::pectatione. and conaicieriablo niuteriit), whiel,
British ail: Greek troops are now have not yet been enumerated, I,
officially„reported to have gained en- "In •t'he region of Lake Doirau
eniy fleet positiops on ,a wide front, ';ribieb and G1•oek troops likewise/
while the Serbian 'said Freugh opera- have1yar.ried fo'rw'ard an attack and
thous continue to°develop tunazieglY• gained a foothold in the enemy,, first
A Reutee's'clespatch snya that the pain notwithstanding stubborn)
Serbians have completely• broken resistance:'A. giea4 numberof pries
the Bulgarian front, Other Serbian .osiers have already fallen into
-cavalry are advauieing• upon the fm- our hanrla The attack continues.” -.. I
portant jtntetion of ]?rilrp, The The Bulgur:Anis nvo in Right in
front is nowtwenty-five miler, wide,' Macedonia, and are burning stores
and is regarded as a Meet im zor1ant and vile:- 'es, according to a Serbian'
success, 11: looks liltely„thl i the official statement received hove.
allies lwilr clear . the whole f this '1'he allied troops now have ad -
mem a anced more than :L2 mutes, and their,
The hate French official report, progress is so rapid that they have
under date of September 18, reads not been able to count the "prisoners'
as follows:
"On September 37' and 18 the al-
lied armies in. tlio East greatly ex -
'tended the successes of the two pre-
ceding days. The Bulgarian divis ons
engaged on the front MI the attack
•'41"-- retreated in disorder. on the Cepna,
Our troops hi their O,utsuit, however,
had the Cerna on one -part of its course
and have occupied in the niountainoue
zone Guyrov, ICameh and Mamma, Ojeda t 1 I` i mb y They have also
have crossed the Deteshnite° River,
and war material taken; New regi-
nients tlu•own in by the Bulgari>ins
Lave been forces to retreat with the,
others.
'i'ho Bulgagdans, have been defeated
completely, and the Serbian troops
are pursuing them day and night. -Changed Owners—This German freight car will not be of any furl• ler
The ,Serbian end French troops u>e to the enemy. The soldier in the foreground is a Canadian who is
have taken the towns of Topolele, cleaning his rifle: -
Potshisht.i, Reshishkt, Melynites, Vit-
o is s 'a- and
Markets sol the World
13 -reads tuffs
Toronto, Sept. 2k ant es wlieait
—No. 1 Northern, $2.241/2 • No. 2
Northern, $2:211/x; No. 8 Northern,',
$2.171/2; No., 4 wheat, $2,111/a, in
store Fort William, riot including tax.'
Manitoba OA to ---No. 2 C,W., 87c,
extra No. 1 feed, 8$c;. No. 1 feed
83e; No. 1 feed, 811,iic, in store Fort
William,
American corn—No. a yellow, kiln
dried, •immninal No. ' 4 yellow, !dindried, nominal.
Ontario oats, new crop --No. 2'
white, 78 to 78c; No, 3 white, 75 to
77c, according to freights outside. .
. Ontario Wheat—No. 2 Winter, pen:
car lot, $2.31; No. 3 Winter, $2..27;'
No. 2 Spring, $2,20; , No. 3 Spring,'
$2,'t2, basis 10 store Montreal:
Peas ---No. 2 nominal
Barley --Malting, noiv crop, $1.04'
to $1.06, •
Buckwheat.-Nomina1.
Rye -No. 2, nominal.
Peas --Nominal.
Manitoba floe ,-.Olcl crop, war
qaulity, $11:86, Toronto.
se Ontario flour War quality,.
old crop, $10,85, in bags, Montreal
end Toronto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont-
' real freights, bags included Brim,
• $36.40 per ton; shorts, $41.40 per ton.
Jlay--No. 1, $19 to $20 per ton,
track Toronto; mixed, $17 to $18 per
ton, track.
Straw—Car'•lots, $9 to $9.50.
Country Produce—Wholesale
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.as n e, . r ,
taken tate,heijht-of,Ktighlcov Kamera POISON VIES
88.75=Lo $9.23• Uutchees bulls, choice, DURING RETREATEAT 15:common,
$11.00 to $11.25 do., medium bulls,
10.25 to $10,60; do,, rough bulls,--
$.7.50 to $5.50;, butchers' cows, choke, I)J:1BOL•ICAL ORDERS ISSUED 13Y
p1ch
0.25 to $7.1.00; do•, good, $9"25 to•
89.50; ilo,, medium, $7.75 to $8.50; GERMAN COtIMAND
do., common, $7,25 to $8.00; stockers,
$8.00 to $10.50; feeders, $10,50 to'
p11,00; canners and cutters, $5.50 to.
6.75; milkers, good to choice, $90.00.1Dashing French Advance Balks Plot
to $160,00; do„ con, and med., $65.00, to Wipe Out Whole French
to $75.00;; springers, $90.00' to 1District.
$150.00; light ewes; $1.3.00 to •$14.00;
layearlings, $15.00 to $16.00; spring 1 If roof was ever wanting of the
mbs, 17 to 171,2c; calves, good to i diabolical methods practiced by our
choice, $14.00 to $1.7:-76; hogs, fed enemies in destroying villages and
and watered, $.19.00 to 1.0.76'; do,,, towns bymines, poisoning rivers and
weighed off ears, 519.75 to $2'0.00,
'falls and generally, making' life fm -
Montreal, Sept' 2,1,—Choice steers,
$11.75 to $12.50; good steers, 49,00 possible for returning refugees it is
to $11'.30; eommon steers. $8..00 to surely found in a document which has
$9.00; good sows, $3.00 to $9.75,, just faller. into the hands of a "French
canners and cutters, $5.00 to $5.70; divin'onal -headquarters. es
bulls, $0.50 to 197 25; „Sheep, ,$11.00 The document concerns the 108th
to $13.00; tuilk calves, $10.00 to Battalion of Gelinan infantry and
'$14.00; grass calves. $7.00 to $8.50. ears the date of‘ September 5, 1918.
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The first mart deals with tee system'a-
CAN A l
)A BEATS OWN tic destruction of all' barracks, gun-
3FIIi''l3UIL0ING RECORD pits, and dugouts abandoned' in''re-
h •from Ottawa s:— sa — treating, further -on it orders the 27th
A despatcy and 90 the German regiments to de -
Canada Inas again smashed all record3•"stroy the villages ofVilleuquier, Aut-
for speed in wooden shipbuilding. The ment, Lequenot and others, Then it
i latest feat has lowered this country's ;deals with poisoning walls.
foavnmark by about .50 per cent.
I{ "All wells should be poisoned: Care
I The "War Camellia," •a�wooclen t should be taken that the bombs do not
ship of`3,100 tans, built -for the Hn- explode too soon,' says the order.
perial Munitions Board, was launched So that everyone might, no doubt
1 by the Foundation Cep -many Ship i be held responsible, the document
Yards at Victoria on August 31. In- ends: "It is the duty of everyone to
stxallation of machiuery comreenced at participate in the destruction of
he Imperial Munitions Boards in- wells."
si lotion Tlant at Victoria on Septem-
Egg's`' Noe �" Cafiit eJ, . 48 to _ t
selectee, new laid, 52 to 54e; cartons,
54 to ,55c,
Butter—Creamery solids, 45% ,. to
46e; Flo fresh made, 47 to 48a; choice
dairy prints, 41 to 42e; ordinary dairy
prints, 88 to 40c; baker's 36 to 38c.
Oieomarghrine (best grade), 32 to
340.
Cheese—Nein, large, 281/2 to 24c;
'twins, 23% to 24/o; spring -made,
large, 25% to 26e; twins, 26 to 201/2e.
• Beans --Canadian, urine', bushel,
$6.50 to $7.50. Foreign, hand-picked,
bushel, $6.75 toe -$7.
Comb Honey—Choice, 10 oz., $5 to
$5.50 per, dozen; 12 oz., $3.50 to $4
per dozen; 'seconds and dark comb,
$b2,50 to ,$2.75; balk, 25 to 26e, .per
Maple Syrup—Imperial gallons,
.$2.25; 5 -gallon tins, $2.10. per gallon.
Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to 25c.
bee 3 Awa .i*lstailat1on work was Devilish Plot Frustrated.
completed in 32% woi'fe;tig leave. On
September 17 a successful sea -going
trip was 'held. This vessel will com-
mence loading cargo within seven
clays of the' trial trip.
The previous reocrd in Canada was
held in Quebec; •- .
LOSSES OF ITALIANS
ARE OYER MILLION
A despatch from Rome saws: The
losses in the Italian arinies since
Italy entered the war amount to 1,-
850,000 in killed and permanently dis-
abled,:according to a statement by
Francesco Nitti, Minister of the,
Treasure.
Praflrisions—Wholesale " "However,'.t he declared, "after the
'barrelled Meats--Pickled-pork,$48; war Italy will be stronger .than ever
mess pork, $47. • in men, due to the cessetion..of end -
Green 'Meats—Oak of pickle, lc. gration. Our difficulties to -clay are
less than smoked, in the labor field, Tor mo fewer than
Smoked meats—Rolls, 82 -to 33c• 5,000,000 men have been called to
hams, medium, 38 to 39c; heavy, 31 arms since the beginning of._ the
to 81c; cooked hams, 58 to 54o• backs, i w ar r,
plain, 44 to 45c; hacks, boneless, 48 •
to 50c. "Breakfast bacon, 42 to 44c;
Cottage rolls, 85 to 30c.
Dry Salted Meats—Long clears, in
tons, 30c; in cases, 80}2c; olear bellies
28 to 2844c; fat backs, 25c.
Lard—Pure, tierces, 30',2 to 31c;
tubs, 80%m to 311/ac; pails, 31 to 31%' c;
prints, 32 to 32140 Shortening, tierces
251/1 to 26c; tubs, 26 to 26%c; :pails,
2012 to,264..c; 1-1b. prints, 27 to 271c.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Sept, 24.—Oats---Cana-.
Gernnnp Airmen Using Bombs.
More Than 13 Feet in Length
A despatch from the British Army
in France says:—Last night German,
an`rplanes were busy bombing the St.
Quentin sector, and the enemy utilized
a new typo' of planes, of huge size.,
Three of. these were shot down east!
of Perorate. They were capaliTe of
dian Western, No, 2, $1.01 to, $1:ro2• seating eight men. The most as -1
extra No. 1 feed, 97c. Flour.: -:-Neva rounding 'thing, about them, .howevee.l
was that -they carried bombs thirteen
feet long, which contained • 2,000
pounds of explosives. This is by far
the biggest bomb the Germans have
yet produced.
CANADIAN TROOPS
. ARRIVE IN ENGLAND
Novel War 'Ideas That Are -Sent to
ENEMA' LOSES;; HEAVE' IN
STRUGGLE Gid FOR ST, Q AEN I 1
Allies'i'ake i0,0011.'1'itioale3;s arld NOVO 'llkln 60 i3i1; 01111sl--.l nelnY
(autinter-.%t ttack Everywhere Repulsed.
A (impute!) from London we;
The prisoners taken by the Brttiafb in
the operations begun Wedueeday
northwest of St, ,Quentin now exceed
I'laig's report on Thursday' eight,
MYroro than sixty big gene,wero taken,
and 'further ground wee captured.
Meet of. the iilghtihig was around
Gopzencourt and to the gust of Epehy.
After is violent bembardmeni Wed -
41 -1- ;daref1043 00n the Germane lauinch-
od a series •of desperate nttncics to re-
gain their ,.oat positions They were
evortvwhere beaten off. "Gceut num-
bers of Ggrinau dead are lying before
ou1'positlone on the whole trent -of
the enemy attack;' says Gen• Haig.
The important teem of Conteeeoan•t,
southwest of Se. Quentin, and Castres,
near it, aro both in the hands of the
French, operating on the right•of the
British. Qur allies have also reach-
.ed 'Benny,
A despatch from the :British Army
in France says: Despite the serious
menace, which the British established
of er• the Hindenburg line by their eap-
ture of ridges no titwes•lecee St. Quell-
eln,'the Germans Thursday morning
continued to nurse their grievances
without renewing on a large scale
their costly counter-atteeks o'f Wed,
needay evening,
Fighting still proceeded, partietelar-
lyr on, the extreme.flanlc of the battle-
1s•onE, where the BritJsh were eleaui,::lg
out stroegepo1nts and strengthening
their line, hilt flit -.initiative remained
entirely- with them.
Thet the situation created by -the
British seizure of the long Hinden-
burg outpost line and the dominating
heights ,in front of ft could not remain
static!poiry i'or long seemed a fore-
gone conclusion, Whether 1110 41nemy
would espy further heavy counter-
attacks depended entirely on the bad-
ly -drained resources of his command,
for the next move undoubtedly belong-
ed to the Germans, since they must
push the British back or continue to
live with the naked sword hanging
.over them in this vital sector.
Tho enemy losses Thursday were
extremely ,heavy, both In the early
fighting' and in the numerous counter-
attacks which were thrown•in toward
night, in a desperate attempt to re-
gain part of the lost ground. .The
whole zone of the long battlefront to-
day was strewn with dead in field-
grey. uniforms.
MAD INVENTORS ffl PK'a{ie
BY TURKS
A despatch -Even Ottawa says: It
is officially announced through the'
Chief Pros Censor's Office that the
following troops have arrived in Eng-
land: Infaiitry draft No, 111, Niagara,
Ont.; Infantry draft No. 120, 1st De-
pot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regi-
ment, Kingston; Infantry draft No.
123;. 1st Depot Battalion, lst Quebec
Regiment; Montreal; Infantry draft
No, 124, 2ncl Depot Ba$talion, 2nd
Quebec Regiment, Montreal; Infantry
draft No. 13.1, lst Battalion, Mani-
toba Regiment, Winnipeg; Canadian
Railway Troops, Niagara; draft No.
122, Engineering Training Depot,
Brockville, Ont.; draft No. 125, En-
ineor Training Depot, St. Johns,
S
; Que.; draft No. 138, R.M.C. officers;
draft No. 127, Laval Canadian ORA-
ieers' Training Corps; nursing siatere;
Canadian Army Dental Corps; de-
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(4,800,000 IT. S. TROOPS' '
13? JULY NEXT YEAR
A despatch front Washington says:
An army of 4.800,000 by next July,
after all. deductions have been made
,for casualties and rejections is what
the enlarged American military pro -
genre calls for, General March said to
the House Appropriations Committee.
There are now about 3,200,000 men
under arms, General March said, and
the plan is to call 2,700,000 of the
new draft registrants to the colors
between now, and July.
AMERICAN SOCIETIES
At Merincourt is a well which the WILL CELEBRATE YPRES
Germans had preparaed to -poison, bet i
the dasMorr ,French advance balked A despatch from New York says:
those who plotted tiifeea't of treach- A,resolutson to organize a commit-
: lewith patriotic o-
ozy, Around the top of the we,... .? ,tee to co-operate parotic s
small brick wall above which is a'eletfee throughout the country in the
t;ign in German, "Do not drink this celebration'on Houember 9 of "Bri-
water." While at the foot of the well
is another inscription, reading "Muni-
tions to be blown up. The mine not to
be taken away." A cross -shaped shell
was close to a hole smashed fit a wall
of the well. This shell contained toxic
gases. The German method is to make.
such a shell- explode directly they
evacuate a district, causing gasses
from the shell to drop to the bottom
of, a deep well.
The allied leaden op -
ped to drinle,-refugees world have re-
turned and taken water from the well
for their, own use and that of their
cattle, Me' the Germans planned, that
in 0, very short time the people of
the whole district would' slowly die 'of
poisoning. Such are the methods of
a nation which says it means to im-
pose its kultur on the world, .
standard grade, $11.35 to $11..45,
Rolled oats --Bags 90 lbs, $5.25 to
$5.30, Brain $37,00. Shorts $42.00.
Mouillie, $67.00 to $68.00, /Hay—No.
2, per ton, car lore, $16,00. Cheese
—Finest eastorns, 221,2 to 23c, But-
ter—Choicest creamery, 4541% to 46e.
Eggs --Selected, 53- to 54e; No. 1
stock, 49c; No. 2 stock, 45' to 460
Potatoes—Per bag, ear lots, $1.90 to
$2.00. Dressed hogs—Abattoir. kill-
ed, $28,50. •Lard—Pure, wood-pa'lls,
20 lbs net, 31112 to 38c.
Live Stock Markets
•s would have st
MESSAGES SENT 13? CANNON I
TO TUE GEI1,MAN REAR LINES
A despatch from the British Front
in France sem—A new messenger'
shell which Is being used fey the 'Ger-•l
mans sto convey messages to.isolated
Toronto, Sept. 24,—Extra choice units or from forward,to rear lines
"heavy steers, $15.50 to $16.00; choice was shown to the writer on Wanes-,
day. It. has a lieacl which can he ue ;
heavy steers, $1.4,60 to 616,00+ but- Whiter Travel in Muroran Land—Yukon huskies should be useful, thee°
chars cattle, choice, $12,75 to $13.50; screwed. into which the message is in - I this winger or some of the deg sleds used by the boys in Manitoba.
110„ good, $1.1.50 to $12.25 do,, me- screed• �yw �
China leas no forests,
tisk Day" in'commemoxM..tinel of the
British defence of Ypres, which has
taken its place in history as one of
the 11 decisive battles of the world,
was unanimously adopted..
The Progress, of Aeroplanes.
Nine years ago M. Louis Bleriot
flow the Channel in an aeroplal7e, the
first man to achieve the feat. To -day
we are talking of flying from Canada
to the battlefields OT France. We
shall not know until after the war
what progress aviation really has
made. Twelve years ago the record,
apart from the Wright brothers, was
,held by M. Santos Duneent, with a
tfligh't"of 230 yards. Since then aero-
planes have fed a garrison at Kut,
provisioned and munitioned regiments
in isolated battle positions, and flown
to Constantinople.
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British Inventions Board.
The morning post at the Inventions
Board supplies good .proof that a
large percentage of the writers,
though undoubtedly actuated by ex-
cellent motives for the country's good,
are scprcel'y to be credited with salad
common 'sense, says a London writer.
One of the letters recently sent in
suggested that the Boarcl should con -
scribe all the birds.
The writer's plan was to train cor-
morants to fly to Essen and • pick the
mortar from 1Crupp's walls until they
crumbled to dust.
For aerial defence, another• wise-
acre asked for the moon to be black-
ened out, He enclosed a inn titutlin-
ous mass of notes and diagrams.
Boiled dowp, it was found he desired
a black beans to he thrown on the
face of the moon each evening at
eight o'clock precisely.
Someone 'with as intimate knowl-•
edge of the Reptile House at the Zoo
wanted snakes to be hurled by pneu-
matic propulsion into enemy trenches,
in lieu of b'onibs.
Shells supply endless field's for the
invention maniac.
One recently submitted specifica-
tion of a shell showed how dry gravel
could he showered on muddy trenches;
another; how irritant powder of a
sticky substance could hamper ma-
chine-guns; a third provided fpr many
thousand feet of wire, weights, and
even a clockwork motor to be enclosed
within the,,9imited capacity of a shell.
But some of the writers keep -their
ideas more within the bounds of pra0-
ticability.
One ventured the suggestion that
anti-aircraft guns should combine
searchlights, so that while the latter
projected light on the .target, shells
could shoot along the beam.
Unfortunately for us. shells will /not
follow the path of light.
A novel idea comes from,'East Ang-
lia. The last coach of every trait:
should drop a little line of blacking
on. the rails, to prevent them shining
at night and thus acting as a guide
to hostile aircraft!
For humorous satire, the following
would make an excellent cartoon:
"Why not allow balloons," asked
somebody, "to glide several hundred
feet above the ground, and trail huge
magnets that will snatch rifles, etc.,
from the hands of the Huns?"
British Evacuate TOWII and Re-
- tire to North. Persia.
.A despatch front London says:
Baku, in Trans-Caucasla, has been
evacuated by the British, who have
withdrawn their forces to North
Persia.
The evacuation was made neces-
sary, it is stated, because of the hick
of steadiness on the part of the Ar-
menian troops when , they were at-
tacked by the Turks during August.
By the end of that month 'it was
realized' that the .co-operation of the
locavl Government and its forces
would not be sufcienly effective to vier in the way of his ambition to
iustify the retention of the email reach the firing line.
T3ritish detachment in the face of On Itis Own Resources.
the numbers which the enemy could It is characteristic of the man that
it never appears to have occurred to
him to use any influence with his
brother towards the realizatlion of
SIR DOUGLAS
HHAIG'S BRO''MM ,
FROM AN ONTARIO MINT TO
I'IlJINCII BATTLEFRONT
'I1•eks"3,000 Mikis to Enlist and Flghte
In Army `Unknown to
Ffe1:<l-Marshall,
How the maelstrom of war swept
John Haig, eider brother of the Bet=
Web Field -Marshall, from a quiet
Canadian mining village into the con-
flict Is one of the most extraordinary
of family romances,
Douglas Haig went across to
France as .a renowned General; his
brother, almost -60 years of age, en-
listed in the army -Without the slight-
est publicity and quite unknown to
the Field Marshall, Unable. to eurol
In ,the ranks, he finally obtained a
junior commission.
John Haig is the senior of his sol-
dier brother by several years. Early
in life he devoted himself to miner-
alogy, and became a mining engineer
by profession:
While John was studying assaying
and speculating on the world-wide
openings eehich exist for the mining
pioneer, Douglas joined the 7th Hus-
sars, fought at Atbara, Khartoum,
and' in South Africa, gaining fresh
laurels in each successive campaign,
until the, war with Germany gave him
his great chance as the successor to
Field -Marshal Viscount French- com-
mander of the British forces in Eur-
ope.
It was after an adventurous career
that Fate anti. his own aljility placed
John Haig at last at the head of a
reconstituted company for working a
tale mine in Hastings County, Ont.
There he worked for almost three
years until the clarion call of ever
led him to abandon n11 his business
interests and offer himself for 'ser-
vice,
Though about 60 years of age this
feet diel not weigh with a member of
a fighting family, and on landing in
Britain along with his wife he volun-
teered for service at the front. How-
ever, the age difficulty was the chief
and apparently insurmountable bar -
Elijah's Ravens Beaten.
A brilliant piece- of work was
performed by the Air Service a short
time ago in the neighborhood of
Pourcy, where a 'Trench battalion
found itself cut elf ,from the maim
body of 1110 French forces. They de-'
termined to hold out, and it was de-
cided to supply them by aeroplanes.
A few hours later breed, biscuits, and
over 260 boxes of preserved beef
were dropped among the troops. Next
day the exploit was reeeated, and as
the battalion signalled that they were
running short of ammunition, quan-
tities of cartridges were dropped for
them. By means of these supplies
collect.
On September 1. the evacuation
was definitely decided inion, but on
the same day the Turks again at- lits hopes. He - went forward on his
tacked and the allies of the British, own initiative, and made straight for
the. reports state, again Tailed to co- his goal, without the slightest attempt
operate. The result was that the to pull a string. As a matter of fact,
Royal Warwickshire Regiment had he never even told Sir Douglas that
to cover n R,psso-Armenian thisfoOretircee- he was trying to get into the army,
ment, and it is feared that force and he was serving for months before
lost heavily. the Commander -in -Chief was aware
A`small force of Russians arrived of his presence at the front. Those
at Baku on September 9 to rein- who know him say that was John
force the British. This, with the in- Haig's way.
•activity of the enemy, tended to im- When John Haig's efforts to get
move the morale of the forces al- into the British Army were for a time
lied with the British,,, strengthening not viewed favorably by the authori-
their wish to hold the.` town, They • ties owing to 1118 age, he would take
induced the fleet in the _Caspian, no refusal, Ho gave his age as fifty,
which -was still in Russian hands, to and he did not look a day older. His
refuse permission for the British life 10- the open had preserved his
evacuation, a according to the advices• erectness of carriage, clearness of eye
Meanwhile, it is added, the Armen- and general air of vigorous manhood.
tans were negotiating to hand the While young men were plentiful in
town ever to the enemy, the early days of the war men of
On September 14 the enemy maturer years were looked on ask -
made a determined attack, and ' ante by the War Office. It was just
after fighting that lasted 16 hours, at this stage, when John Haig was
the brunt of which was borne by experiencing successive disappoint -
the British, the account continues, month, that he might have been ex -
the latter evacuated the town. .peered to turn to his brother. But
— a--- John ploughed -his lonely furrow, and
SOME OF THE "CONTEYIPTIBLES", eventually his pertinacity earl pat -
STILL FIGHING THE GERMANS'teotism triumphed, and he eves gazer-
_ ted second -lieutenant alongside men
A despatch from Paris says:—The I young enough to b0 his grandsons,
special correspondent of the Matin He. is to -day a captain in a British
sp' infantry battalion on _the Western
on the British front, after referring .front, ably upholding the 'family tra-
te the obstinacy and dash of the Brit-
•
ish soldiers, adds: "There might have It was not until monthe after .he
boon 1101041 a unit of the old regular had bean the firing nue. and eon -
army witch has known no rest during 'be in and out of the indncon-
deeds w ll d see story of whose epic will his regiment. that his younger
deeds well deserves telling." brother knew that be was "out there"
and met him.
NEW TYPE OFAIRMACHINE
Capable of Carrying Great Weight of
Bombs and Taking Long Flights.
The Royal Air Force 'will soon
south o -f Morse. The flour was con- have swarms of a new type of ma-
fiscated, Alger was fined $200, and chine at the battle front, which is
the Canada Food Board enriched likely to add greatly to the difficulties
hp the- proceeds of the ,sale of the of the Gerivans. This machine, a
floor. brilliant example of the constructor's
art, is capable of carrying, with its
3,000 LBS. OF FLOUR
'IS CONFISCATED
A despatch from Regina says:
Chris: Alger, believed to be a German,
is minus 3,000..lhs, of flour, which he
was foam: to be hoarding in his house
the battalion was able to carry on Fate of a Hungry Halibut. pilot and observer, a groat weight of
till they wore released, A large halibut was captured under 'bombs, 1nacl1ine guns, and other
- peculiar circumstances ,by the crew equipment to over 20,000 feet, and in
of a Scottish steam fislling boat. As an extraordinarily short time, sear -
the lines were being hauled a codfish ing, as the new machine will, a1)ov0
on ore of the hooks was fallowed to I the average range of guns and Ger-
the surface by the halibut, GOT -
:Alai man airmen, it can cross the fighting
Inside several attempts to swallow the lines, drop its bombs, and return
cod. Then the halibut went down out home swiftly for a now load.
„a d
Food Production In Great Britain.
More than 800,000 j3iomen are now
engaged on the it\nd in Great Britain.
Musk is one product of world cam- of sight, but soon reappeared, cons- So fast is it even at great alts
mar"c0 in which China ,practically en- ing to the surface as the cod was be- that long distances can be accomplish-
ed in the shortest periods and bomb-
' Photographs of the graves of Brit- within reach of the- fishermen it was Aug raids which, with the older type
tel soldiers in France are only taken caught by the clips that aro used to of machine, would need perhaps a
on request of the relatives. Over haul fish aboard; and after a struggle , whole clay's preparation, will be car -
60,000 of these requests bane been It was.safely landed- on the deck. rrted out within a couple of hours.
td End complied requests hap:
1t weighed over 170 lbs, Their engines are complotoly reliable
nn . .,aa a...,� and the risk
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that theymight fa
when a lunched miles over the Ger-
man lines—a risk too common with
earlier types --no longer exists•
It says much £or their supreme
value that so far not one of this typo
has been brought down in spite of
the Ilun's utmost efforts. When the
weather will not permit high flying
these machines will _fly low, and so
great is their speed that all but the
' fastest of modern scouts will be loft
behind them as if standing still For
1 these Maohii102 the ut,Jr . t siat1 84,.....
nervo3 rive heeded. The ebseinvteer
I intist trot only be able to ward off
•hostile aircraft by accurate machine
' gun fire, but ho must also", leave ex.,
port knowledge of map -reading anal
aerial navigation.
In pro -war dare one big British
ver
J• firm of ipro
400 ciifferentv varieties. mo
To -day the
I number has bees reduced to 50 --sI
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