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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-07-27, Page 3eseseals. ITALY ADOPTS REPRISALS AGAINST GERMAN SUBJECTS DeclaratiCifi Of War by the Raiser's Government Ekpected to be. The Outcome. A despatch from Rome. says :-A royal decree was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday containing reprisal measures against German subjects. The decree Was the result of the strained relations be- tween Italy and Germany. The de- cree, which was preparedby Baron Sonnino and Signora Saechi and Rain- er!, extends to the alien enemies of Italy and her allies every measure adopted against* the Austrian sub - The first part 04 the decree prohi- bits every teansfer of property. The second ' prohibits a recourse to law courts. The third authorizes the Gov- ernment to adopt against the alien enemies of Italy and her allies addle done] reprisal measeree. Relations between Germany and Italy will now depend upon how Germany views the decree. WOOD WAS FULL ROUMANIA READY OF GERMAN DEAD TO HELP AWES Not Thirty Left Alive When thee British Secured PoeSeeeiOn. A despatch from British Headquar- ters in France, via London, says :- Troops on the left, of the recent great British advance attacked the German line which ran in front of Bazentin-le-Petit wood, and was pro- tected by double lines of wire. Bri- tish guns, however, had accounted for the wire, and before the Germans re- alized it the British fire was lifted from their front line and British troops were pouring over the remn- ants of he battered parapets on top of thbm. Tweewaves went ahead, and as soon ag they had -swept the front line clear two other followed. The right of the attacking force got through this part of the programme with comparatively few losses. But the troops on the left suffered more severely, having been raked by ma- chine-gun fire. Behind he German front line ran a great wood, itself spanned by three successive lines of trenches, each with wire protection. These were taken one after another in a series of rushes, the men going as.fast as they could in the dim light of miler morning through a wood dense and chocked with fallen timbers and so full of huge shell -holes that it was all, climbing, jumping, scrambling arid crawling. Whatever their method of going, they got there. They waited in one trench while the guns behind concentrated their fire on the next lino. Then they staggaresi forward as .soon as the guns had lifted and while the artillery went to the next. Then the process was repeated. With alternate waits and rushes it took three hours to get through the wood, It was full of German dead and liv- ing, and at the upper end machine guns were nested which searehed the open spaces between the wrecks of trees as the British troops came on But nothing stopped them. By soon after 7 o'clock they had cleared the top of the wood and taken 300 pris- oners. The wood itself was full of dead and the Germans taken there say they believe of all the troops who were in the wood, not thirty men escaped a- live. ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. e Large Increase in Attendance at Sum- mer Course. In 1915 the number attending the summer course for teachers at the On- eario Agricultural College was 105, while this year there are on the roll 182. Five weeks is the length of the course, and includes two years' train- ing. The first year gives an element- ery certificate and the second year the Intermediate certificate in agriculture. l'he regular staff of the college does the teaching, but the courses are car- ded on under the auspices of the De- partment of Education. Country and Sity school teachers get a better idea Pf scientific agriculture, and the idea is to help in keeping young country people from going to the cities. The Inspector of Elementary Agricultural Classes, Mr. J. B. Danderns, is in tharge of the school. FORECASTS BIG CROPS IN CANADIAN WEST. A despatch from Duluth, Minn., pays: Bumper crops for the Canadian North-west were predicted by Sir William Mackenzie, of Toronto, presi- dent of the Canadian Northern Rail- way, who was here on Wednesday on his way to Chicago. He said the wheat yield alone this year would be 300,- 00,000 bushels, and he did not think the farmers would experience much difficulty in securing help to harvesV ehe crops. TAX EXCESS PROFITS OF SHIPPING FIRMS. A despatch from London says: An- nouncement was made in the House of Commons on Wednesday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald McKenna, that the Government had decided to take in taxation seventy- seven per cent, of the excess profits of shipping firms, THOUSANDS Tp -GO OVERSEAS. Authorities Anounce Important Move- ment of Troops. A de‘spatch from Ottawa Says': -- Ten thousand soldiers, principally T from Camp Borden, are to proceed I oVerseas soon, it wee anounced at the Militia Department on Thursday 13 Merning. The necessary arrange- T °as, have been completed to secure t lps.. The units going include seven T attaliens from Camp Borden and )Jye fromNi , agara. No chaplains, Itrlor Majore, aesietemtAljutanta pi jienalling ()Moore will be Included in 'the ten thousand di Overseaes It is Said She Will Enter the , War in the Very Near Future. A despatch from "'London says: Roumania will cast Kee lot with the allies in the very near future. That is the belif in London. The plight of Austria, the continued successes of the Russian armies -successes that have reached and passed the Rou- manian border -and the impending al- lied offensive from Salonild will lead, it is expected, to the important de- cision. Information from Bucharest forecasts developments at almost any moment. LATEST ZEPPELINS ARE MONSTER AIRSHIPS. A Copenhagen despatch to the London Daily Telegraph describes the new and very powerful Zeppelins which, it says, are housed at the air- ship and aeroplane station in Darm- stadt, the most important in Germany. The new Zeppelins, the despatch says, are 820 feet long, with a gas capacity of 190,675 cubic feet, mount not only machine guns, but light pieces of ar- tillery, have four armor -plated gang- ways connecting their cars, engines of 4,000 horse -power, and can make 57 miles an hour and rise to more than 1,3,000 feet. -,e SCORES OF BODIES OFF . THE NORWEGIAN COAST. Victims of Jutland Battle • Floating Amid Wreckage in North Sea. . A despatch from New York says: Scores of bodies of both English and German sailers, equipped with life preservers and floating in a mass of wreckage from the big Jutland naval battle, were encountered off the coast of Norway on July 2 by the steamer Lyngenfjord, which arrived here from Bergen on Wednesday. A fleet of small vessels sent out by the Norweg- ian Government were collecting the dead. CANADA'S ENLISTMENTS/ NOW TOTAL 350,655. Ontario Leads with 145,195, as Com- pared With Quebec's 36,890. ' • A despatch from Ottawa says: Total enlistments in Canada up to July 15 number 350,655, Ontario lead- ing with 145,195. From the Toronto division alone there are 79,715. Que- bec has given 86,890 men, of whom 30,186 were from the Montreal dis- trict. From the Maritime Provinces the number is 31,633, and from Mani.. lobs to the coast 136,939. TOOK 50 SQUARE MILES IN THE PAST FORTNIGHT A despatch from London says: -An official eye -witness report of the Som. me battle seceived on Thursday night from Paris stateh that the French troops 'Within a fortnight have cap- tured 50 square miles of German or- ganizations, including fortified vil- lages, quarries transformed into for- tresses, and wood e turned into re- doubts. In addition, 85 guns, 100 machine guns, 26 trench mortars and great quantities of other material as yet uncounted have been taken. The prisoners number 235 Officers and 12,000 men. LIQUOR CONSUMPTION IN CANADA DROPS. A. despatch from Ottawa says :- The consumption of alcoholic liquors in Canada ktropped from .872 per cap- ita to .745 per capita in the fiscal year Just ended, according to returns is - seed on Thursday by the Inland Rev- enue Department. The cOnsuneption was about three-quartiers of a gallon per capita for spirits, for beer nearly five gallons, and foretyine .0625 gallon, The consumption of tobacco also shows a falling off of from 3.421 pounds to 3.329 pounds per head. SIR VICTOR HORSLEY DIES IN MESOPOTAMIA. A despatch from London says': Sir Victor Horsley, a noted surgeon, died from a heat stroke in Mesopotamia on Sunday. He was born in 1857, and was created a Knight in 1902. He was emeritus professor of clinical sur- gery and consulting surgeon at the University College Hospital since 1906. GERMANY .OUTCLASSED . . . IN NAVAL,PRISONERS A despatch from London says: - he Blida) have Captured 136 Ger- nen naval officers- and 2,066 men, while the Germans have captured 46 ritiph navel officers and 846 mete hoines MacNamara„ of the Aemieal- y anneeneed hi. the Commons on Eureilev. We all talk tee htech-because there is so Mach, to talk about. Bat the chicken-hearteeleMate, crows only in hie Weep. : !READY-MADE HOMES, CHURCHESIALIS FRANCE GETTING READY FOR , END OF THE WAR. Buildings of All Kinds Are Being Put Together For Use in Ruined , Districts'. , Peeing on the terrace of the Jarclin des Tuileries, overlooking the Place de, le Conclorde, long rows of small, hut -like structures .have been erected. Painted in gay colors, bright, greens, yellows,, and blues, decorated with flags and,flowers, they form a curious picture, sillumetted agains the sumpt: aces background of the Louvre, writes a Paris correspondent. Through the turnstile in the Rue de Rivoli crowds are passing. "What is it?" "La Cite reconstituee (the re- built city). The %Prance of to -mor- row," Come s the simple reply, as I enter the enclosure. "France is get- ting ready for the day •after victory." Here in the heart of Paris a mush- room village has sprung up; houses which havse been devised to rebuild those regions of France devastated by the war. In this corner of the great gaielens acifoining the most magnificent irmare in the -world rises to -day the pattern of the hundred villages and homesteads which . will to -morrow be erected along the bat- tle- line. To provide for tho immedi- ate needs' of the thousands of war - stricken when pectee returns is the great problem which the French genius has taken in hand. There are scattered in all parts of France over 700,000 persons waiting to return to their native towns and villages in Picardy and Artois, Cham- pagne and Lorraine, not to mention -the millions of homeless Belgians. With the camp fires of the Germans still smouldering, with even a few Inst shells which may' be fired by the retreating enemy flying over- head, these people, chiefly women, will set to work to clear up the de- bris Of battle; to plant their crops, and begin life anew. While husbands, sons and brothers are still pursuing the defeated invaders or marching on final parade down the Champs -Ely- sees, before the demobilization has freed the men to return to their homes, these towns and villages will arise in the battle zone and the men who have fopglit so valiantly will find homes to which to return; will find their native villages rebuilt as if by magic. Ready -Made Homes. I enter a church, Gothic in design, It will seat 100 persons. Though the structure is of wood, no carpenter's tools are needed; not a nail is used. Sent ready-made from the factory, It can be set up by old men, women and children in a very brief space of time. Next door stands a three -roomed house made of stout pine 'boards, fin- ished in a rich brown tint. It was erected ready for occupation in three hours by four men. Farther on there is a more elaborate structure of five rooms which took twb days to com- plete. All tastes and needs are cater- ed for, from the roughest hut -like structure such as the Quakers have already built and furnished in great numbers for the needy in the Valley of the Mame who have chosen to re- turn to their devastated villages, to the very modern house of the well-to- do, with tile bathroom and latest im- proved devices for lighting and heat- ing. Some of the houses ate supplied fully furnished complete clown to the latest detail; kitchen utensils, crock- ery, table service, linen, and even window curtains ready attached to the windows -a real home for a fam- ily, of five or seven persons which can be 'unpacked from the packing cases and set up and furnished ready for occupation in a few hours. Many of the houses are of wood, though' some are of tile, slabs of ce- ment, brick, and composition of vari- ous kinds. Nearly all are "demount- able"; can be set up anywhere with- out foundations prepared in advance, with a minimum amount of unskilled labor, in the shortest possible space of time. All parts of these houses are interchangeable; a window facing south can be removed at will and placed east or north, The entrance door can be moved to "the opposite side of the house if desired at any time. Most of the houses -and there are over sixty different models shown -can be enlarged at will by the pur- chase of additional materials, as all the parts are standardized. The houses are sold according to size just as boots or motor tires. Churches are numbered according to their seating capacity, dwelling houses by floor space. Town Hall in a Night. Whole villages, including post - office, town hall, church, school, inn, covered market place with shops and booths, and dwelling houses for 100 inhabitants, which can be set up over- night at a total cost of 4,000, can be contracted for by a group of inhabit- ants with Government aid. Here this village is shown, just es it will be, when set up tater-on at Comicres or Souehez. The post -office is a roomy, one-story strecture with writing desk and telephone booth, with an operator in attendarece. The town hall, which includes the Offices of the Mayor and town councillors, the .I.P., as well as the school room, is of similar design and conduction, and all the building's of this village group harmonize and present a very pleasing effect. These ate not make-believe homes, but real dwellings where men can live in comfort until such a day when out of the ruins shall arise once again the smiling villages which graced the French countryside. And in cede that when these new towns do arise modern methods of town planning, sanitation, and hygiene may he en- forced, one whole section otethe ex- hibition is given over to this featute, It's easier for a baliy_tp spoil its parents than it is fote-the parents not to spoil the baby. WHEN BIG GUNS HAVE DONE THEIR WORK. . , German defences levelled by shell fire in preparation for an infantrl hsaault. Naturally nothing could stand up under such an avalanche dt fire. -4 (London Mirror photo.) , , ...-, !Markets of the World liereadstuffs. Toronto, July 25. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.22%; No, 2 do., $1.20%; No. 3, do., $1.1.71A, on track, Bay ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 49%c; No. 3 do., 48%; extra No. 1 feed, 48%e; No. 1 feed, 48%c; No. 2 do., 47%-c, on track, Bay ports. Americareecorn-No. 3 yellow, 89c on track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 47 to 48c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1 commercial, 98c to $1; No. 2, do., 95 to 97c; No. 8, do., 89 to 91c; feed, 87 to 88ct nom- inal, according to freights outside. Peas -No. 2 ' nominal, $1_75 to $1.85; according to sample, $1.25 to $1.50, according to freights outside. Barley --Malting barley, nominal, 65 to 66e; feed barley, 60 to 62e, ac- cording to freights outside. Buckwheat -Nominal, 70 to 71c, ac- cording to freights outside. 'Manitoba flour -First patents, in 4ute bags, $6.50; second patents, in lute bags, $6; strong bakers', in jute bags $5.80, Toronto. Ontario flour -Winter) according to sample, $4.05 to e4.15, in bags, track, Toronto, prompt shipment; $4.15 bulk, seabord, prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included -Bran, per ton, $19; shorts, per ton, $22; mid- dlings, per ton, $24; good feed flour, per bags -41,-65 to $1.70. ' Country Produce. Butter, fresh dairy, choice, 26 to 27c; inferior, 24 to 25e; creamery prints, 29 to 81,c;• inferior, 28 to 29c. Eggs -New -laid, 29 to 30c; do., in cartons, 31. to 33e. Beans -$4.50 to $5, the latter for hand-picked. Cheese -New, large, 17e; twins, 17%c; triplets, 17%c. Maple syrup -Prices are steady at $1.40 to $1.50 per Imperial. gallon, Dressed poultry -Chickens, 25 to 27c; fowl, 23 to 25e. Potatope-New Brunswicks _quoted at $2 per bag; Western, $1.8,5„ Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 18 to 181/sc per lb. Haens--Mediurn, 24 to 25c; do., heavy, 20% to 21c.'rolls, 19 to 19%c; breakfaet bacon, 25 to 27c; backs, plain, 26 to 27c; boneless backs, 29 to 30c. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 16% do, 17e, and pails, 17% to 17%c; cons - pond, 14 to 14%c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, July 25. -Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 91 to 92c. Oats, Cana- dian western, No. 2, 53 to 53%e; do., No. 8, 52 to 52%c; extra No. 1 feed, 52% to 53c; No. 2 local white, 580; No. 3 doe 52e; No. 4 do, 51c, Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, lints, $6 . 60; seconds, $6. 40 ; strong bakers', $5.90; Winnipeg patents, choice, $6 to $6.25; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.30; do., bags'$4.80 to $5. Rolled oats, barrels, $4.05 to $5.45; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.40 to $2.60. Bran, $20 to $21. Shorts, $23 to $24. Mid- dlings, $26 to $27. Mouillie, $31 to $82. Hay, No. 2, per ton) car lots, $18.50. Cheese, finest westerns, 15% to 16c; do„easterns, 15% to 15%. Butter, choicest creamery, 29%c; sec- onds, 2814c. Eggs, fresh, 35e; select- ed, 32e. No. 1 stock, 29c; No. 2 stock, 26 to 2'70. , Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, July 25. -Cash quota- tions -Wheat -Nn 1 Northern, $1.15%; No. 2 Northern, $1.13%; No. 8 Northern $1.10%; No. 4, 51.05; No, 5, 90e. Oals-No. 2 C.W., 41%c• No, 3, C.W., 43c extra No. 1 feed; 42%c; No. 1 feed, 42%c; No. 2 feed, 41%c. Br ri ey-No. 4, 71ee0e re- jected, 641ec; feed, 64%c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., $1.69%; No 2 C.W., $1 . 66%. United States Markets Minneapolis, July 25. - Wheat - July, $1.15%; September, $1.15%; No, 1 hard, e1.22%; No. 1 Northern, $1.11% to 51.17%; No. 2 Northern, $1.12% to $1.16%. Corn -No. 3 yel- low, 82% to 83%c. Cats -No. 8 white, ' 38 to 38%. Flour unchaaged; ship- ments, 70,244 bbls. Bran, $17.50 to I $18 Duluth, Ally 25. - Wheat - On track, No, 1 hard, $1.18%; Noel Nor- thern, $1.16% to $1.17%; No.. 2 Northern, $1.1.1% to 0.123; No. 1 Northeen, to arrive, $1.16%; , No, 3 Northern, on track, $1.00% to $1,09 Linseed-Onetrack, $1,92% to $1,93; to arrive, $1.92% • July, 51.92 bid; December, 51,92% asked; October, 1.90% eisked; November, $1,90 bid; ceember, $1,89 asked. -a- Live Stock Markets. • $7,25 to $7.75; do., good bulls'$6.75 to $7; do., rough bulls, $4.50 to $5; butchers' cows, choice, $7.10 to $7.85; do.'good, $6.75 to $7; do., medium' 46 to $6.25; stockers, 700 to 850 lbs., $6.25 to $6.75; choice feeders, de - horned, $6.40 to $7.25; canners and cutters, $3.75 to $4.75; milkers, choice each, $70 to $80; do., common and medium, each, $40 to $60; Springers, $50 to $90; light ewes, $7.60 to $8,25; sheep, heavy, $4.50 to $5.85; Spring lambs, per lb., 13%c to 14%e; calves, good to choice, $9,50 to $12; do., medium, $7,25 to $8.50; hogs, fed and watered, $11.30 to $11.40; do„ weighe ed off cars, $11.65 to $11.80; do., f.o.b., $11.80. Montreal, July 25e -Export cattle, choice, $9 to $9.25; do., medium' $7.75 to $8.75; butchers' cattle, choice, $7.25 to $8.25; do., medium, $5,25 to $6.25; canners, $4.50 to $5; butchers' cattle, choice cows, $6 to $7; do., medium, $5.50 to $5.75; do., bulls, $6.60 to $7. Hogs -Fed and watered, 511,15 to $12.25; do., f.o.b., $10.50 to $11, 50. GETTING A BATH IN SENEGAL. Takes Three Days to Secure Necee- sary Government Permit. In the French colony of Senegal the capital is a dull, unprogressive town wherein officialism prevails to an extraordinary degree. Two French travellers had a most amusing ex- perience when they wished to obtain a bath. There was at the time no bathing establishment in the capital, but rumor had it that it was possible to purchase a bath at the hospital. Accordingly, the travellers repaired to that institution and made known their want. "Certainly," said the polite official; "names and birthplaces?" "But," they objected, "we merely want a bath." "Quite so," continued the official. "What are your names, and where and when were you been, and are yob Government employes, soldiers or of- ficers? No? Well, the rules do not .provide for this. just a moment, I will read them again. Yes; here is your case. You must first make out on stamped paper an application' to the Governor of the colony. After favorage notice from his Excelleney, you will send another application to the chief colonial physician, who will send for you and examine you." "But we are not ill." "Pardon me, gentlemen, but it is the rule. Haring examined you, the doctor will give yop two non-com- missioned officers' bath tickets, to be delivered to the assistant physi- cian." "Why non-commissioned officers' bath?" asked one of the travellers, becoming more and more interested. "For this reason. In our accounts we recognize only two categories, of persons -officers and civil employes, the latter taking rank with officers or petty officers." "What period of time will all these formalities consume?" asked one of the travellers. "Oh, two or three days, provided youe application is approved at the Government house." GERMAN MINE LAYER WILL BE EXHIBITED _ - A despatch from London says: - The first official annouecement that Great liritian had captured a„German mine -laying submarine of the 11-35 class, was made inthe House of Com- mons on Thursday by Thomas James MacNamara, Financial Secretary of Admiralty, who said that one of these vessels would be brought to London to be viewed by the public. U-BOAT POSTAL SERVICE BERLIN TO AMERICA. A Geneva despatch to the Exchange eelegram, London, says that the Munich Nachrichten publishes a Bee- iieThespateh saying that the postal authorities are compiling regulations and scales of charges for' a submarine postal service between Germany and the United Statee. GERMANY TO LET LOCV, Torontoeuly 25. -Choice heavy steers,stee, $8'2S to $8,50; good heavy steers, '8 to $8.25; butchers' cattle, choice, $1.80 to $8; doe inediuln, $7.50 to $7.75; do., common, $6.35 to, $6.75; butchers' bulls, choice, AIRSHIPS AND SITeIVIARINES. A despatch from Berre, Switzer- land, to The London Dail; News says that Count Zeppelin,. in speech to the workmen at Frice ieiceishafen, eaid:•-"I have geed new. :or you. The Kaiser has given his a, eisers a free hand regaeding the use of airships and submarines. Be pee' 'lit. Vital blows will soon be struc'e' MUNITIONS S PLY MEANS EVERYTHING New Minister Receives 'Urgent Message From Gen. Haig. A despatch from Lonclen says: Edwin Samuel Montagu, the new Munitions Minister, had the following letter from General Sir Douglas Haig read at the conference of representa- tives of trades unions on Wednesday: "At thie moment we are engaged in 'the greatest battle the British army ever 'fought. I feel confident if the workmen could see their comradee fighting here, both' night and day, with heroism beyond' all praise, they would not hesitate to surrender their two clayseekugust holiday. "A two -days' cessation of work in the munition factories must have a most serious effect on our operations. It might even mean an addition of many months to the {Var. The army in France looks to the munitions work- ers to cable it to complete its task, and I feel sure that this appeal will not be in vain. Let the whole British nation foiego elle, idea of a general holiday until our goal is reached. A speedy and decisive victory will then be ours." • Mr. Montagu pointed out how vital was the question which had induced General Haig to write such a letter in the midst of his overwhelming re- sponsibilities. The confreres unani- rneusly decided to send tmg reply to Geberal Haig, assuring him that there would be no relaxation in their efforts, and that all holidays would be post- poned until military exigencies per- mitted of their being taken. The decision was hearty and en- thusiastic, and the conference ended with the singing of the National An- them, "an incident," says The Chronicle, "probably unknown at a Libor conference any time within the last thirty or forty years. From Erin's Green Isle NEWS BY, MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'S SHORES. _ Happenings in the Emerald isle of Interest to Irish- men. A general epidemic has occurred amongst brood mares in North Wex- ford this season, and large numbers of them have died with their foals. The death has occurred of Mr. Edward Twohy, chief reporter of the Cork Examiner, who had been con- nected with that journal for over forty years. A young man named John Heslip, employed in the Crowragh Quarries, near Newry, accidentally slipped from the embankment into the quarry, and was instantly killed. At a meeting of the Newry Urban Council a resolution was passed wel- coming the efforts of the present Government to arrive at an amicable settlement of the Irish question. A disturbance occurred recently on a Sunday in Westmoreland street, Dublin, -when a procession number- ing 400, accompanied by a crowd of about 2,000, came into conflict with the police. In response to an appeal by the Mayoress, a house-to-house and street collection was held in Londonderry on behalteof the hundred' Derry prisoners in Germany, $2,500 being the sum aimed at. In the Commons, Mr. Samuels said that approximately 8,000 prisoners had passed through the hands of the military authorities in Ireland, of which number 1,200 had been releas- ed. Pte. J. Bailey, of the Munster Fuseers, returning from leave in Ireland, to join his company at the fciloiit,. i, was attempting to enter a was carried into the tunnel and killed. train at Waterloo station when he ,The Irish/ Women's Franchise League has passed a resolution which states that no reform of Irish govern- ment can be considered by Irish suf- fragettes which does not include votes for Irishwomen on the same terms as Irishmen. The Lord Mayor of Dublin recently presented the Russian medal of St, George of the Third Class to Pte. B, P. Thorpe, R.A.M.C., for carrying sups plies of food under heavy fire to the stretcher bearers at the battle of the Aisne, in September, 1914. At a special meeting of the Clifden Board of Guardians a communication was read from the Galway County Council suggesting the abolition of seven workhouses in the county, and the substitution of seven auxiliary institutions for the sick and infirm. Petty Officer Leonard- John Raw - kills, H.M.S. Vernon, nephew of Mr. George Hawkins, Shannon Hill, En- niecorthy, has been decorated on par- ade by H. M. the King with the D. C.M., in recognition of his evoek while in command of the patrol boat Glory in the Dardanelles, Considerable alarm was occasion- ed in Dublin last week by the sound of an explosion in the city. It was only due to the fact that the authori- ties were Vowing up the ruins of buildings ifielehe Sackville street area. GERMANY BLUFFS OVER PEACE BASIS Amsterdam, July 20.-A despateh from Berlin to Ain terdren says that the German national committee, or- ganized for producing an honorable peace, states that Germany desires to extend her frontiers to the east and procure real "guarantees" to the west as a basis for a permanent peace. Prepared for the Hint. A witty young doctor, being called to attend a very pretty lady, and find- ing little the matter with her, humor - 'hely suggested marriage as the only cure. "You are single, are you not?" she asked. "Yesemadare; but doctors, only prescribe remedies, they do not take theat,''' was the reply. THE MARCONI WMELESS SYSTEli HAS PLAYED A TRE1VIENDOUSs PART IN THE WAR. Great Britain Nearly Got a German System Tasted of His. The astonishing part which Signor' Marconi and his wireless system have, Played in this war to our, advantagel and how nearly the British came tol replacing Marconi by a German is told, in two remarkable interviews by Hare old Begbie in the London Daily Chron.e tele, Mr, Begbie saw Signor Marconi in London and writes : "Here is the one universal man of' this world -war. "It is odd to look at him, smoke' with him, and laugh with him, re- flecting that a thought of his brain is spun like a spider's web all over' the bloody battlefields of Europe, all over the seas of the world, and high ae hove the clouds. His invention, (you, feel, should belong to some legendary hero. It is too immense a thing for a man still living, and a young man -e' a young man who has moods of fri- volity,. who loves to laugh, and who is perfectly simple, modest, and unas- suming. A Young Old Man. "He is at once a young old man, and an old young man. He is young as youth in his moments of gaiety and in his thought, when he is seri-\ ous and reflective, he looks far older than his middlesage. His face lights up at times with an almost boyish de -1 light in a piece of fun ; but it be-, comes at other times more than seri- ous and more than grave, it becomes clouded and suffering and sorrowful.' Few men are so many men. He loves' horses and music. He loves fun and,: science. He is interested in litera- ture and politics. He is fond of motoring and is something of a mystics He said to -me : "I often think that D'Annunzio came pretty near the truth when he suggested that wireless is something of a symbol for religion. We send, our thoughts through silence to one who is invisible. And a good deal of, the process is still a mystery. In any case, the universe is mysteriousl enough. The more I investigate, thek more I wonder." The story concerning Marconi; which it is well to remember in the, present is thus told by Mr. Begbie : "If those people who raised a vul-, gar and disgraceful hullabaloo about. the Marconi contract a few years ago, had got their way -that is to say, if, the Government and the working classes of this country had not stood firm as a rock in the midst of a mael- strom of aristocratic and middle-class; scandal, Germany might by now be mistress of the world. Might Have Been German; "For the great competitor of our, English Marconi was a German com- pany; and I assure you it was act-, ually on. the cards that this German, company might have been brought; over to London to drive Marconi out of the national business. "Every responsible person in the, Marconi Company is ZIONV a member of the British Secret Service. They' know things of the highest import -1 ance. They hear evevy hour of the( day things which must be divulged to, no one. And who is there among the: slanderers to raise a voice, even a, whisper, in condemnetiou of these. loyal subjects? `!Such is the initial romance of the Wireless War. We might have been in German hands for a weepon which is essential to national safety "And now to the war itself. If might tell you all I know -about this, matter, and I know only a very little, you would be astonished mid' amazed; but at least I can tell you; enough to show you, if you have not, thought about the matter before how; romantically the invention of Mar- coni is interwoven into all this grim, business of mutilation and slaughter' on the earth," adds Mr. Begbie. ITALY'S FORESTS SUFFER. Much Timber Is Cut to Supply the, Army's Needs. Ocean freights on American lumberi have increased tenfold since the war, began and the Italian Government lel beginning to make inroads on its own,' tpreciousimb reserve stocks of standing. There are about 16,000 square miles, of forest area in Italy, or one-seventh of the total aeea of the country. Mosii of the timber wood is found in the, Apennine Mountains, which follow the, entire length of Italy, beginning, north of Genoa and rising out of the fertile plains of Piedmont. nment in large quantities or thef The wood is being used by the Gov er construction of soldier barracks at thel front, forestroreethenIng trenches, feel railroad, and foot or wagon bridgeN along the countless new roads built ati the front as a part • of the army's' transportation system. Much of this lumber is carried piece by piece fari above the timber line of the reouine tains where the soldiers are fightingi on barren glaciers. The hind of wood being cut he 'forest is fir, oak and sycae MOTO, woods formerly imported from' Austria. Until recently many ship - bids oh pitch pine, mostly from the Gulf ports of the United Slates Were, delivered into Italy. But the freight paiii,odhihbaitnidvlehig cost has made the price Lily a Poison. For all its beauty, the lily or the, valley is denoun.ced by scientists oul the ground that boils the stalks and the flowers contain a poison, It Ile risky to put the stalks into one's( mouth, as if the sap happens to get Into even the tiniest crack in the lips it may produce swellipg, ofte9 accompanied by pain.