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RUSSIANS . BLOW BREACH
IN THE AUSTRIAN FRONT
All Five of the Teuton Armies on the Eve of a General Retreat,
It is Reported.
A despatch from London Says:
Special despatches from Petrograd
express the belief that the Russian
Successes against the Austrians are
far more important than appears from
the official announcements.
The Daily Telegraph's correspon-
dent ventures the assertion on the au-
thority of a prominent Russian expert
that "all five Austrian armies are on
the eve of a general retreat, and that
Lemberg is in great strategic danger."
On the same authority it is asserted
that "a strategic breach 100 miles
wide has been blown in the Austrian
Cront, involving the armies of General
ount von Bothmer and General von
Boehm-Ermolli, and part of that of
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand.
According to other despatches, the
Russian success is largely clue to the
unprecedented use of artillery, sur-
passing in intensity any previous ef-
forts on either side on the east front.
The retreat of many Austrian trench
detachments was completely cut off
by a curtain of shrapnel through
which it was impossible for any liv•
-
ing thing to pass, and the Austrians
were thus compelled to surrender en
masse.
•
The Times estimates the Austrian
losses at 200,000.
The Voihynian fortress of Lutslc,,
30 miles from the Galician frontier,
fell into Russian hands last Tuesday,
the first important capture by the
Czar's forces since the great Spring
drive on the 250 -mils front from the
Pripet to the Roumanian border be-
a'an,
The .fail of Lutsk was announced by
the Russian War Office on Thursday
night.
New Invasion From North.,
The capture of Lutslt threatens the
Austrians with a new invasion of Ga-
licia from the north. Vienna de -
snatches express thefear that the
abandonment of Dubno, the apex of
the Volhynian fortress triangle, will
become automatically necessary, and
the fall of that stronghold would com-
pel the Austro-Iiungarians io retire
within the Galician border.
The Russians, according to Petro-
grad, scored another notable success
in the last 24 hours. Pushing forward
in massed formation, with an unpre-
cedented outpour of artillery, they
pressed the Austro-Hungal;°n troops
defending the "doors of. the Enke-
wine" to the River Strypa, taking
strong positions on the Tribuchowice-
Jaslowice front. Both places lie a few
miles from one another west of the
Stripa and south of the important
city of Buczaz.. This success, if fol..:
lowed up by further progress, men-
aces the Bukowina crown land with
invasion and the whole Austro -Hun-
gariait army defending it -estimated
at from 250,000 to 300,000 -with be-
ing cut off.
The Russian official report asserts
that the total number of prisoners
taken in the new offensive has been
brought up to 54,000,
GERMANS CARRY TEUTONS ADMIT
BIG WAR VOTER
®E SEA LOSS
Two Sociailsts Oppose Ne
Credit of $,000,004,000
A despatch from Berlin says.:-
The.Budget was passed by the Reich
stag onWednoeday, the only opposi
tion being the Socialist votes. There
was almost complete unanimity in-
providing the new war credit of $3,
000,000,000, only two Socialists cast-
ing their ballots against it, Dr. pelf-
feriea Minister of Finance, told the
Reichstag that the war expenditures
from January to May, 1916, were ap-
proximately $500,000,000 a month
This, he declared, was extraordinarly
small in view of the enormous quan
tit! of munitions that has been pro
Acted to carry out the Verdun offen
sive.
The opposition' of the Socialist
when the vote was taken on the Bud
get hail no bearing upon the war. The
Socialists have been agitatintg for
years for a. new system of taxation
to relieve the workingman. They
have, without exception, voted against
the _Budget on these grounds.
The new war credit will not be
drawn upon, it is estimated, until Sep-
tember. Ample funds to carry on the
operations until then are on hand from
the last loan in February, when more ,00
thnn $2,500,0000 was obtained,
FRENCH AIR SQUADRON •
BOMBARDS HOBOKEN.
Nei
• Battle Cruiser Lutzow and the
Rostock Destroyed --New
Reports on Fight.
A despatch from London says:
There was much satisfaction express-
ed at the Admiralty on Thursday over
the publication of the admission by
the German Naval Department of the
loss of the battle cruiser Lutzow of
26,000 tons and the armored cruiser
Rostock of 4,900 tons. British reports
of the naval battle off Skagerracic
had accounted for these German ships
among others, which the Berlin state-
! ments had steadfastly omitted, The
official admission that the loss of
_ I these vessels was withheld "for mili-
tary reasons" impugns the veracity
s
of th Ge •m
e 1. an claim
as to the rtsults
Iof the battle generally; in the opinion
of attaches of the Admiralty, Fur-
ther admissions confirming the Brit-
ish reports are looked for.
BRITISH TRADE GROWS.
Imports and Exports Show Equal
Increase in May.
A despatch from London says:. An
allied air squadron has successfully
bombarded the wharves. at Hoboken,
near Antwerp, according to a despatch
to the Exchange Telegraph Company
from Maestrieht, The Germans are
said to have been building destroyers
at Hoboken. The squadron was fired
on by German batteries, but returned
to its base safely.
MUNITIONS OF WAR ACT
APPLIED TO LIVERPOOL.
A despatch from Liverpool says:
An official announcement given out
here on Thursday says the Govern-
ment has decided to apply to the
Liverpool docks that section of the
munitions of war act which provides
that no employer may declare a lock-
out and that no employee may go on
strike.
FRANCE HAS ADVANCED
CLOCKS ONE HOUR.
A 'despatch from Paris says: Fol-
lowing the example of Germany, Eng-
land, Italy and the Scandinavian coun-
tries, the Senate on Thursday adopted
the daylight saving bill, advancing le-
gal time.by one hour. •
A despatch from London says :-
The Board of Trade returns for May
, shows that imports increased £12,-
213,000. The increase was represent-
ed principally by food products, grain
flour and chemical:4 Imports of
cotton, however, decreased £2,760,000.
Exports increased £13,405,000, the in-
crease being chiefly in iron, steel, cot-
ton and wool manufactured products.
GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY
RESTRICTS LIQUOR TRAFFIC
•
A despatch from Christiania says:
-On account of the general strike,
the Government has passed a law pro-
hibiting the sale or importation of
strong liquors, wines and beer and the
shipment of liquors throughout the
country. The police also have been
ordered to prevent the serving of
wine and beer in restaurants, •
GERMAN DESTROYER ,
SUNK BY MINE
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
-The Telegraaf says that a German
destroyer struck a mine and went
down off Zeebrugge on May 31.
BRITAIN NOW TAKES OVER
THE WOOL SUPPLY OF 1916.
A ,iespateh from. London says; An
army order issued on Thursday pro-
hibits the purchase or sale of British
or Irish wool of. the' 1016 season.
12 OF THE HAMPSRIRE CEW
DRIFT ASHORE ON .A RAFT
All on Board Vessel Carrying Lord Kitchener to Russia Were
Not Drowned, as Supposed.
A despatch from ;London says:
Twelve sailors at least survived the
sinking of the, cruiser Hampshire,
aboard which Lord:Kitchener and his
staff met death. The Admiralty an-
nounced the names of the survivors
on Thursday night; saying they were
on a raft which was washed ashore on
one of the Orkney Islands. They con-
silt of one warrant officer and 11•
men. Although neither the name of
Lord' Kitchener nor any of his party
appears in the list, the news that
there were survivors was received
With expressions of relief, for now at
least the story of the sinking of the
cruiser and the Ioss of the Secretary
of State for War will he told. Up to
the present even the Admiralty has
no information as to the cause of the
disaster. •
The news, too, has again suggested
the possibility that other men on
board the Hampshire ---and in this coli
Mention the 'British pnblie naturally
thinks first of Lord Kitchener -may
also have reached land on one ,of the
reeky, pninhabited islands of the Ork-
ney groap, and, thoegh unable to Com-
municate with civilization, ale safe.
This hope, it is granted by'those who
mention it, is of the most meagre sort
with little probability that it will the
fulfilled.
A vigorous search is being prosecut-
cd for the bodies of. Lord Kitchener
and others aboard the 'Hampshire,
leveret bodies, including that . of
Lieut.-Ciol. 0. A. Fitagerald, Lord
ICitchener'e military secretary, are be -
Mg brought to Thurso, Scotland, ac-
eording to a despatch from that town.
An Aberdeen despatch' 'says the
Hampshire sank in deep water two
miles from land between Marwick
Head end the Brough of Biscay, on
the west enact of the Orkney islands.
The Late Lord Kitchener
entering St. Paul's Cathedral at the
recent celebration of "Anzac" Day, in
honor of the Australian Colonial
troops.
'
FARTHEST NORTH RAILROAD.
Russia Will Have a New Outlet to the
Ocean.
"A railroad farthest north, tapping
the polar seas beyond Archangel, its
whole length running through a
region of intense winter cold, Is one
of the most Important constructive
results of this destructive world-
war," says a statement prepared by
the National Geographic Society at
Washington, "Stimulated by an im-
perative war necessity for a port near-
er the west and the long battle lines
than Viadivostock, this new, railway
has been driven north 'with the same
fierce energy as that called forth by
the dash for enemy positions.
"Finns, Lapps, Russians, atlike, have
labored unremittingly to fasten a per-
manent way of steel between Petro-
grad and Semenowa, the latter city
far beyond the Arctic circle, on the
northern shore of Finland, near Nor-
wegian Nord Kap. Work upon the
new line began a few months after
the outbreak of the war, and it has 1'
been pushed p s ed feverishly, as a means of '
over -reaching the blockade by land
and sea that isolates Russia in the
west.
"The undertaking required the
building of more than 660 miles of
railroad through an unfavorable town-
try, in many places water -soaked,
crossed by low -banked rivers, filled
with countless lakes, large and small,
and, through a great part of the year,
frozen numb and buried under feet of
snow, Construction has gone forward
from the north and from the south,
but there still remains a considerable
middle section to be laid before the
completion of the project.
"Senienowa may not be the warm
water port that the Muscovite has
been steadily demanding through the
years of his empire, hut, nevertheless,
it is a port on Ice -free water; naviga•
,Briers o ': the ' World
Breadstuffe
Toronto, June IR. -Manitoba wheat --
ND.
1 Northern 116A•; No.'do., $115t;
No 2 tIe,, h I. LIN , eu track, I lay ports.
Mianitol„t null Nos 2 C.N., lie; No, 3,
Sc,,,Ills; extra No, 1 feed mile;No. 1
feed,501o, on track,'Ba,, ports.
Aniatican'cmn No. d Jclow,, 75o,. an
track Eley Ports; 73,e. track, Toron Lo,.
pll7 E{{trle oats ---No.' $ white, 47 to 42c,
outside.
Ontario whuii.t-No, e canme ciat, $1
to $1,01; No, 2, do., 90 to Doe; No, 3, do.,.
94' to Sea; reed wheat, 88 to lice nowt
fns according to freights' outside,
Pens -No, � 2,$1.70; according to sam-
ple,
$ 1.20. to $1.50, according to freights
ou trite
13in icy 7tfeiting', 65 to 66c; fees 62 to
63c. according to freights outside.
Ilucinvhoat-70 to Ito, according to
freights'outside,
'.Lye -No. 1• commercial, nominal, 94
to 95c, according . to freights outside.
Manitoba nowt J,'irst patents, In jute
bag's, $0.70; second patents, In jute bags,
$6,20; strong bakers', in jute bags, 26,
Toren to
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, $4.26 to $4.35' in built seaboard,
prompt shipment,
Millteed-Car lots, delivered Montreal
fres hts-12ran, per ton, $23; shorts, per
ton 626; middlings, per ton, $26 to $26;
good read dour, per bag, $1.70 to 01,76,
Country Produce.
Butte, -Fresh dairy, choice, 24 to 27e;
Inferior, 23 to 21e; creamery prints, 29 to
Ito inferior, 28 to 29e,
Eggs -Now -tale, 25' to 26o; do., In car-
tons, 26 to 27c.
Beans -$4 to $4,50, the latter for
handpicked...
Cheese -Nen, largo, 12e; twine, 1sde,
Maple syrup -Prices arc steady at
$7.40 to $1.00 per 9Imperial gallon.
Roney -Combs -No, 1, $2.75 to $3;' No.
2, $2 to $2.40,
Dressed poultry -Chechens, 25 to 27c;.
fowl, 22 'to 24o.
.Potatoes-Ontarios qquoted at $1.86'
and New I3runswiclts at $2.10' per bag.
Provisions.
'Pacon, long clear, 180c per lb.. Rams
-Medium, 231 to 241e; do,, heavy 205
to 2110; rolls, 19 to 191d; breakfast
bacon, 24$ to Milo; banks, plain, 201 to
271e boneless backs, 205 to. 3080.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 17c, and
pails, 171c; compound, 14 to 1.1lu,
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, June 13. -Cern -,American
No: 2 yellow, 79 to 81e, Oats -Canadian
Western, No. 2,54e; do,, No, 8, 525e; ex.
tri No, 1 'feed,6215; No. 2 local white,
63c; No. 3 do. 51c; No. 4, do., 60c. Bar-
ley -Manitoba. feed, 68. to 70e• malting,
71 to 760. Flout Manitoba Spring wheat
Patents, firsts, $0.60: do, seconds, $8.30;
strong bakers',$0.10; Winter patents,
choice, $6 to $6.25; straight rollers,
5.10 to $0.60; do., In bags, $2.40 to
02,66. Rolled. oats -Barrels,. $0.05 to
$5.55; bag of 00 Ohs„ 62.40 to $2.65, eftIt-
feed-Bran, $28 to 224; shorts, $26;
tnlddlings, $28 to $30; inouiltle, $30 to
$45, - iIav-Na 2, per ton ear lots,
$20.50 to $21.50, Cheese -Finest west-
erns, 174c; do„ easterns 18110, Butter
-Choicest creamery, 3c. to 811c; sec-
onds, 20 to 291e Egge-Fresh, 2$ to
26e; selected, 20 to 30e; No. 1 stock, 26
to .270; No. 2, do„ 24e. Potatoes -Per
bag, car lots, $1.00.
*Winnipeg grain.
Winnipeg, rune 23. --Cash quotations:
Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.10i; No. 2,
Northern, $1,099; No. 3 Northern, $1.051;
No. 4, $2.0011 No. 6, 041e; No. 0 892e;.
feed. 8390. Oats -No. 2 C.1C„ 471u; No.
3 C,W., 461o; extr, No 1 feed, dole:
No, 1 feed, 445e; No 2 feed, '459e. Bar.
My -No. 8, 06e; No. 4, 61e; rejected 56c;
feed, 60c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.O.$7.,595;
No, 2 O.W,, $1.685,
United States Markets,
Ml,ineapolis, June 13.-Wheat--,7uty
1,109; SoptemUet•, $1:108; No, 1 held
1.17;; No, 1r Northern,$1.109 to $1,18
No. 2 do., $1,071 to $1.'111. Corn-0No,3I
silo' 72 to 13e. Oats -No, S white
3s to ClIc. Flour unchanged; shipments,
0.401 bb
,)ututh. Juno 13, -Wheat -No, t0 $o2 ,01 herd, No. 1 Nortthern,
$1.12; No, 2 Nor-
thern, $1,066 to $1.091.. Linseed, 01.821;
Julyasked., $1.831 asked; September, $1:82;
Live Stook Markets,
Toronto, Juno 18. -Choice heavy steers.
59.50 to $5.90; butchers' cattle, choice,
$9.16 to $0,86; do„ good, '$8.86 to $9.00;
do., medium, $8.40 to $8.00; do., common,
$7,75 to $8.00; butchers' bulls, choice,
$8.00 to $8.60; do., good bulls, 17.50 to
7.76; do„ rough bulls, $4.75 to $5,26;
butchers' cows, choice $8.00 to $8.26;
do.. good. $7.50 to $7.75; do., common,
$6.26 to $6.75; stockers, 700 to 860 lbs„
$8.76 to $7.76; choice feeders. dehorned,
960 to 1,000 lice, '$8.25 to 8.8$; canners
and cutters, $4.00 to $5.00; milkers,
choice, each $76.00 to $7.00.00: do., cone,
and med., each, $40,00 to $00.00; spring-
ers, $60,00 to $100.00; light ['WC's, 00.00
to $10.00; sheep. heavy. $6.00 to $3.00;
lambs, per lb., 15e. to 1750; spring lambs
$0.00 to $10.60; calves.. good to choice
$0„50 to $12.60; do., medium. $7,26 to 8.50;
age, fedandwatered, $1060-; do welgh-
tion finds an open way usually around b
d off cars $10.85 to $10.00; do.. te.b.,
10.00 to ,$10.10,
Montreal, June 13. -Butchers' steers,
mice, $0 to $0.10; medium, $8.30 to
0ommon, $7.30 to $7,90; bulls,
hoes, 87 to $8.10: fair to good, to
is ine04um, $6.66 to 06.40; cows, chore,
7. to $7.75; fair to good, $6.65 to $6.40;
ners end cutters $3,76 to $4,75. Sheep,
glt t, $7 alvtoes$,8; Uoioeenri, $n.oh, Ccg
r
Nord Kap for several score miles e
$el3
down the northern coast,
"Tile building of this new port, giv-
ing Russia a city on open, western
water, the construction of the new $
railway into the,heart of the north, $
and the building of a 'naval station rn
dere, beyond the domination of any ein
river power forme together by far the $'7
most important effort of . the whole h
war to state."
Both Kinds.
Pat -Did they request your pres-
ence at the wedding?
Abe -Yes, and also my presents:
MA;
$b to $8
to A; medium,
to $5. Frogs, celeste• $11.20 to $11.00;
save' and sows, $9.25 to $0.50.
4
Tramp (entering taxidermist's) -
"Do you stuff all kinds of things
here?" " Taxidermist -"Why, yes."
Tramp -"Well, I wish you'd stuff me
with a. good dinner."
ON CRUISER INDEFATIGABLE
'The picture Is a doelc'view of the. lli'itish et1"ser inrlcfati*able, wbic i
line rank, Urge German Adinir alty reports that thorn were only two
, sucuirams.0nti that Oler Wc'rt,..0ancnoil 111'.(4/11111‘11 ,
GERMANY MAY RE
STARVED TO DEFEAT
WILL BRITAIN'S NAVY DEFEAT
THE TEUTONIC POWERS?
A Gentleman Suet Prom Holland Says
the German Population
Is Underfed.
There is a possibility, , which we
ought not to calculate upon in a mili-
tary sense, that the German armies
will be defeated by starvation. Itis
an end to the war that British sub-
jects would rejoice to see, for it would
mean that it was the British navy
that finally brought the Teutonic
powers to their knees, It isconceiv-
able,thatfour million German soldiers
in France, in Poland and elsewhere,
strong, rugged men, plentifully equip-
ped with arms • and ammunition, should
throw up their hands and own their
defeat. If they have not food it does
not matter how skilfully they are led
or how gallantly they fight. If they
fight well and have food, their women-
folk and children at home may be
starving, aa'l to save their lives the
German armies may discontinue the
struggle. .
Stories From Germany.
To -day every story that comes
from Germany is a story of food
shortage, A year ago there were
similar stories'. It was said that
Germany was starving, that the wo-
men and little children were without
food. The prayers of the congrega-
tion were asked, the sympathy of the
neutral world was required. Sub-
sequently it appeared that the Ger-
mans were not starving, that their
complaints were ordered by the Gov-
ernment, whose object was to induce
the United States to bring influence
to bear to mitigate the rigors of the
British blockade. Because the alarms
of famine a year ago were proved
groundless it does not follow that
similar stories to -day are not to be
believeji. To -day's• stories do not
come from official sources only. They
come from neutral observers in Ger-
many and from neutral countries.
One ,of the most interesting is from
Mr. E. P. R, Delaney, formerly Con-
sul for the Netherlands in Chicago,
and now general agent for the Hol-
land -American Line. He returned
from Holland to New York a few
days ago, after his marriage to a
Dutch lady.
Censors Conceal Facts.
Interviewed by the New York
Herald, he made sonic important re-
velations. He said that in Germany
the civilian population is underfed,
and the aged, ill and weak are dying
by thousan
es because they cannot ob-
tain thet
Bary sus enanee. Fooh1
aln necessary
riots are of daily occurrence every-
where in Germany, and in Dusseldorf
men and women repeatedly have
rioted, to be beaten back by armed
soldiers and in many cases several
wounded. Every ounce of food which
enters Germany, and but little is g
ing in, Is distributed from Berlin. Th
most rigorous censorship is maintain
ed to keep 'the true state of affae
from the world; but in 'Holland th
general .knowledge of exact anuli
tions is becoming known, and the pee
pleple understand why Germany is
fighting so desperately at Verdun and
why the Austrians are smashing a
Italy. It is essential for the col
tinuanee of the -war that a great vie
tory be won by the Central Powers s
that the people may again put ou
the flags and the bands may play in
the streets.
WOMEN RUN WAR
HOSPITAL.
GREAT PROGRESS FADE
I1 GERMAN EAST AFRICA
British Columns Pursued the Enemy As Far As the Vicinity',
of Neu-Etengule.
A despacth from London says :- Namoma, reports that the garrison
The following official statement, was that place brolce out of the • town on
issued. on Wednesday: -
"General North reports that the
British columns which crossed Nyassa-
land into the German East Africa
frontier on May 25 pursued' the enemy
in the direction'of Iringa as far as
the vicinity of Neu-Etengule. A num-
ber of prisoner, some ammunition
and a quantity of stores and supplies
were' captured.
"Colonel Murrey, commanding the
Rhodesian column which is investing
the night of June 2, se erring heav„
casualties, anis leaving behind several
of their number, who were made pre-'
soners. Among those was the Ger-1
man Commandant, who had been`
wounded by our tire.
natives levies and ea
•
viers are demoralized, anti are desert
i'ng; while the population in the ale
traversed are weIeoming the Brite
troops. -
"Our losses in the course of t
operations have been small,"
"`.Che German cars'
ad
British!
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ENEMY LOSSES 6,800
7
IN THE NAVAL FIGHT
Total Number of German Sailors
Killed is 800.
A despatch from London says :-
The Copenhagen correspondent of The.
Daily Mail learns from Kiel that the
first unofficial estimate of German
losses in the North Sea gives the
number of killed at 800, of wounded
at 1,400 and of missing at 4,600. A
Central News despatch from Cop-
enhagen says that the Swedish steam-
er Vanda passed the wreck of a gigan-
tic warship on Saturday, the nation-
ality of which it was unable to ascer-
tain. Hundreds of bodies were float-
ing around the wreck and for three
hours the Vanda steamed among dead
sailors.. Near the spot 'where the
derelict was encountered the wreck of
a big sailing vessel, apparently an in-
nocent victim of the Jutland battle
was sighted.
HOW THE WAR STARTED.
A Famous Novelist Hits Off a Clever
Bit of Dialogue.
From the Ocean 'Shore',
BITS OF NEWS FROM THE;
MARITIME PROVINCES.
Items of Interest From Places!
Lapped -By Waves of the
Atlantic.
There is an epidemic of burglaries! -
in Moncton, N.S.
Two hotels and two houses were,
burned at Harcourt, N.S.
R. M. Connely, well known lumber -1
man of St. John, is dead.
The Fraser estate at Fredericton
will erect a fine new hospital.
C. E. MacMichael, a prominent aridi
popular citizen of St. John, is dead.
Pte. James Humphrey, Moncton,
'was struck and killed by an express:
train.
Fire totally destroyed John Gauclet'si
woodworking plant at College Bridge,
to the extent of $20,000,'
Sidney French was drowned at Hali-1
fax. lie was a member of the force!
operating the dredge boat.
Five large icebergs were reported
a few miles off Cape Race byNew-
Five
l
I
4onndland niters last Sat d
a ur ay,
Mr. Booth Tarkington, the well- Pte. H. R. Wilcox, a well-known
known novelist, summarizes the car- young man of St. George, died in St.'
respondence and "conversations" that John, N,B., of pneumonia and measles.
preceded the war in the following Rev. HenrW. Trevers, North
brilliant and strilcinglyeept manner: Head, Grand Manan, went overseas
"Studying the case, the public des- as a private. Be is now reported dead
covered that there is a horrible kind of wounds,
of jargon in use among diplomatists. The bodies of M. L. Lownds and
It should be done away with as soon wife were found in Rocky Lake, -12
as possible, for it is seventeenth cen- miles from Halifax. It is supposed
Wry, not twentieth; but if belongs to their harass ran away.
the repulsive courtesies of the duello, 60,000 pounds' of pickled haddock
and will probably be found necessary and cod -a full carload -was shipped
so long as nations remain duellists. to New Jersey by the maritime Fish
Corporation in one day.
"Bert" Buckley, 19 -year-old son of'
Albert H. Buckley, Halifax, who had
been attending the Royal Military Cole
lege at Kingston, died suddenly.
Miss Mary Cummins, for many
years matron of the Villa Nova Or-
phanage, and daughter of this Tato
Capt. Jas. Cummins, died in St, John's,
Nfld.
Jos, D. White and Jos. Peltier, of
Sydney, N.S., rescued two men from
drowning; they have to their credit
the saving of six men during the year.'
Two boy bandits named Smith and.
Sutton of Fredericton have cleverly
outwitted the police, and continuo
their reign of terror, breaking into
stores and homes,
Rev. Father Renouf spoke in the
cat!{edral at St. John's, Nfld.,' recently,
for -the first time, though he had been
Our public was shocked to find that
Governments use euphonies to cover
blasphemies'; they talk freely of
throat -cutting, ear-splitting aridd dis-
embowelling, but always in words that
suggest the degeneracy of some mol; -
y billy truculent College Professor,
suave as cold cream and sinister as
° Sitti.ng Bulla Now, dlsentanglrrrg
e the meanings and releasing them from
r'diplomatic usage,' we found that the
s
folio/tang bit of dialogue had preced-
le ed the war:
Austria; (To Serbia) You scound-
- rel, get down on your knees and eat
ten mouthfuls of dirt! Do it in one
t minute, or PR shooti
Russia: (To Austria) I'll shoot if
you do. (To Serbia) Eat all the dirt
you possibly can; do your, best to
° keep him from shooting. I don't want
to have to shoot.
England, d France r
ince and Italy: (To
Austria) Please wait a minute. (To I t a
Germany) Austria is your brother; he
does exactly what you tell him to do.
Ask him to wait just aminute longer
before he shoots. We can arrange
this to satisfy Austria if yon'lI get
him not to shoot.
Germany; No.
Serbia (on. his knees and swallow-
ing : There! I've. eaten nine mouth-
fuls, and .I will eat the tenth if you'll
give me just a. few seconds for diges-
tion.
Austria; No, your minute is up and ed
I shoot.
England and France (imploring Ger- a
many): Please stop himl You are the ed
only one who can, Won't you say a It
word to' stop hint ?
Germany: No.
Russia (beginning to load his old. el.
fashioned shotgunout?): I hope you'll stop CL
him. See here, Anstria, can't we talk' el
things over and see if there isn't a dr
better way
Austria: Perhaps we could if-- t
Germany (interrupting): Russia, G
quit loading that gull!
Russia; I can't while things are in
this shape, but I will quit beetling at
once if Austria will promise not to
shoot Serbia.
Germany (interrupting) : I love
peace and I have done more than mot- de
tel may to preserve•`ft,. The sword is. s
I forced into my hand's, evidently by so
Goal, and I defend ;myself. (Draws Ad
co
so
al
Le
se
Constitute Whole Staff From Sur-
geons to Orderlies.
A hospital in which only the pa-
,tients are men is one of the war
time innovations in London. It is in
Endell Street near Covent Garden
Market, and the entire staff, from
cooks to surgeons, are women. The
institution is the outgrowth of a
movement known as the Women's
Hospital Corps. A little body of wo-
men left England for France in the
early stages of the ever to nurse the
wounded soldiers, but later they were
called back, as they were needed even
more urgently to care for the many
wounded soldiers brought home to
England.
From this small beginning the hos-
pital, which will accommodate 500
wounded soldiers, sprang. The
wounded soldier is considerably sur-
prised, if he is well enough to take
notice, to he brought to the hospital
and see only women orderlies in the
corridors and' women surgeons arid
physicians, to attend him.
The medical staff consists of eight
surgeons under the direction of a
chief surgeon, a dental surgeon, an
ophthalmic surgeon, a pathologist, en
X-ray operator,an annsgthetist, and a
number of physicians. In addition
women medical students visit the hos-
pital, and the entire administrative
supervision of the hospital is in wo-
men's hands.
A Dream Shattered.
"Sue, sweet," said the swain, "do
you; think that if we got married
secretly your father would ever for-
give us?' "I am sure he would,!
dear," replied the girl without heolta-
tics, "And would he give us al'
house of our own ?" "Yes ,(laiing t'
"An income big enough for us to
live on in comfort?" The maid nod
dud Idlecidedly. "And would lie take
me into the firm?" "Certainly he'd
do that." • "And let me run the busi-
ness to please myself ? " "Why, of
course he ,would silly boy." She
snuggled into his shirt front, but he
put her coldly from him,"I can my -
marry you, Miss Brown," he raid, sad
ly; "your father is too anxame to get
you off his hands."
High explosive hells were first ae-
tually employed in the Boe; War,
A wolnnn does her dut;; because
she events to -a man becax::e he has
to.
trached to the archdiocese for nearly
wenty years.
Lieut. J. Narcisse Cartier, an avi-
ator with the British forces, who
brought down a German aeroplane
;after a thrilling fight 4,000 feet in the
air, is a son of Dr. A. P. Cartier, of
St. Hyacinthe.
FRENCH GENERALS LOSE SONS.,
De Castelnau Heads List With Three
Children killed in Action.
French Generals who have exercise
commands during the war have had
total of 36 sons and sons-in-law kill
in action.
General de Casteleau, as is well
nown, has lost three sons; General
auche, a son and a son-in-law; Gen-
al Baillioucly a son and a son-in-law;
enema de Maucl'huy, a son; Gen.
'al D'Amade, a son; General Des..
tier, three sons; General dePouy.e'd
again, two sons Generai Reynoua,
wo sons; General de Lardeneelle, two
one; General Nayraud, two sons;
eneral Ganeval, a sosl-in-law (Gen-
mai
Gen:
oral Ganeval himself was killed at the
Dardanelles); General do la Nanou-,
voile, two sons; General Ebenar, a'
son; General de Benoit, a son; Gen-
eral Bonnet, a son; General de Mon -
sir, a son-in-law; General ale Vas
a it, a son-in-law; General Pal .que, a'
n; General Chaelley, a son; heart
miral, a son; General de Morlain-i
urt, a son-in-law; General Louis, a•
n; General Corvisart, a son; Genet -
de Lestrac, a son; General, de
stapes, a son; General Bonfait, a
n; General Dieu,ionne, a son,
Idle Curiosity.
.Edward -"Pa, do you know every-
thing?"
Pur -"Yes(, my son, why do you
ask ?"
Edward -"Why, I wantalf to find
out why the heavy end of a match is,
the 'light' end."
two well-oiled and loaded pump -guns
of a magnificent new model and be-
gins to shoot, white France and Eng-
land run home to get their .guns.)
Search as we might, we could firli
no true substitute for this dialogue.
We have read ate l listened eagerly -
yes, anxiously • and hopefully -to
everything the Germans had to say;
eve wanted, to seethe case of their
Government in a happier light; but
nothing altered the; substance of the
Governmental conversation just giv-
en."
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