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CORPSES PILED IN MOUNDS: Iltia.rItets Of The World MADE MILLIONS
ROAD SOAKED WITH BLOOD
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Foe's Losse S in Futile Counter-attacks on SomIne Are the,
Heaviest Since Early Days Of Verdun.
e A despatch from London says: Be-
hind the French Army on the Somme:
The worst sacrifice of life since the
early days of the Verdun battle mark-
ed the main German counter-attack
Thursday against the new French
positions north of the Somme. 'Ac-
cording to an artillery officer who
took part in the battle, corpses are
piled on each side on the road from
Combles to Rancourt in mounds,
sometimes three feet high.
The German effort to stem the
French advance was the strongest
made since the beginning of the
Somme battle. It lasted over ten hours
and was made by six divisions, which
suffered terrific losses under the
French barricade fire. Following the
heaviest preparation by artillery
known in that sector, from great guns
brought from other fronts, 20 German
battalions began the assault with the
triple objective of freeing Combles
from the danger of investment, stop-
ping the French wedge between Pe-
ronne and Combles, and driving the
allies from the possession of Hill No.
'76, which dominates Mont St. Quen-
tin.
Two Prussian battalions, who led
the attack on the Prieze farm, were
hardly out of their trenches when
they literally melted away before the
terrible fire of the "75's." Further
south four successive waves of infan-
try attacking in close formation were
smashed by the French "125's." The
village of Bouchavesnes was the scene
of the most stubborn combat of the
day) when by a dreadful sacrifice the
Germans succeeded in entering the
north-east corner of the village, onlY
to be driven out an hour later and
routed further back than they had
stood before the action.
The last attack, delivered at dusk,
was terminated by a series of checks
costing the Germans three whole regi-
ments, A Bavarian company belong-
ing to the 11th Regiment lost 160 out
of 200 men. Two battalions of the
123rd Prussian Regiment were total-
ly destroyed. Not a regiment escap-
ed a loss of less than 50 per cent, of
its effeetives.
Hindenburg Directed Battle.
Ninety thousand men directed per-
sonally by Field Marshal von Hinden-
burg took part in attacks on the new
French positions in the region of
Bouchavesnes, on the Somme, accord-
ing to the special correspondent in
the field of Paris La Liberte.
The fighting was extraordinary
fierce in the centre of the region at-
tacked, around Bouchavesnes and
Bois L'Abbe, and at Combles, about
the Prieze farm, as well as at - Ran -
court. At Prieze farm two Prussian
battalions were nearly destroyed, adds
the correspondent, and a similar fate
was suffered at Rancourt by three
German reginients, which, advancing
in four waves, made the last desper-
ate effort of the day.
Malcolm Ross, correspondent with
the New Zealand forces on the Somme,
states that the Allies fired twelve
million shells in a preliminary bom-
bardment on that front. "The Ger-
mans," he said, "are hid in a fog
caused by the smoke of the shells.
RUTHLESS METHODS
AGAINST BRITAIN
Leader of German National
Liberal Party Advocates
Frightfulness.
A despatch from Berlin says: Major
Ernst Bassermann, leader of the Na-
tional Liberal party, in a keynote
speech delivered before his constitu-
ents in the Saarbruecken district, de' -
dared that the submarine campaign
had been postponed and not abandon-
ed. Major Bassermann advocated the
widest possible use of both submae
lines and Zeppelins and the most
reethless methods of warfare.
The National Liberal leader assert. -
ed that his views were shared by Ad-
miral von Tirpitz, Admiral von Koes-
ter, Prince von Buelow and Count
Zeppelin. He maintained that "in a
struggle wherein the existence of Ger.
_many is at stake the most ruthless
use of all possible weapons is called
for." This sentiment was heartily ap-
plauded by his audience. Submarines
and Zeppelins, continued Major Bas-
eermann, were the most effective wea-
pon against "our arch enemy Eng-
land."
GENERAL IPIAIG PRAISES
CANADIAN TROOPS.
A despatch from London says:
General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian
Minister of Militia, has received a let-
ter from Sir Douglas Haig; of which
the following is an extract: "I de-
sire to express my sincere apprecia-
tion of the generous terms in which
you refer to the achievements of
the army in France. It must be a
source of pride and gratification to
you to know that the gallant officers
and men who come from Canada to
fight for the King and the common
cause of our Empire invariably do
their duty in a way that reflects the
greatest possible credit on themselves
and their Dominion."
A certain lady prides herself upon
always looking at the bright side of
things. "My dear," moaned her hus-
band one day recently as he tossed
ruthlessly on his bed, "it's the doctor
I'm thinging of. What a bill his will
be." 'Never mind, Joseph," said his
'Wife, "You know, there's the insur-
ance money."
RAIDS ON VENICE
DEPLORED BY POPE.
A despatch from Venice says: Mon-
signor La Fontaine, the Patriarch of
Venice, has published a letter from
Pope Benedict, dePlering the at-
tempts against the churches and
treasures of Venice and rejoicing that
the Church of an Giovanni Paolo es-
caped destructive blows, only sustain-
ing damage which fortunately can be
repaired.
The Pope calls the explosion before
St. Mark, the destruction of the
Church of Santa Marie Formosa, and
the damage to the Church of Scalzi
"bitter wounds to my heart," and re-
grets that his efforts to prevent such
misfortunes have failed. He con -
eluded his letter by sending words of
comfort to the population of Venice,
with a wish that peace will soon be
restored.
WOULD TURN KRUPPS
GREEN WITH ENVY.
A despatch from New York says:
The British are manufacturing new
war inventions "which would turn the
Kruppe green with envy," according
to Dr. Benjamin Rand of Harvard
University, who returned from a visit
to England on the steamship Andania.
Accorded privileges of inspection by
the British Foreign Office, Dr. Rand
sand he visited munition and ord-
nance factories and saw "some as-
tounding inventions," but that he was
pledged not to disclose their nature.
He found among every class, he said,
an intense determination to do all pos-
sible to win the war. /n one factory
he saw '7,000 women at work, uni-
formed in khaki. New factories were
being built, he said, and existing ones
constantly extended.
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ONE-FOURTH TRANSYLVANIA
IN ROUMANIAN HANDS.
A despatch from London says: A
Bucharest official despatch, referring
to the -Transylvania theatre, an-
nounces that a Roumanian force has
entered Orderhei, better known as
Ezekely Udvarhely, 50 miles north-
east of Kronstadt. One-fourth of
Transylvania is now in Roumanian
hands. The communication says: "On
the north and north-west fronts
fighting continues on Mounts Cali -
man (ICelemen) and Ghurgill, where
we took 137 prisoners and also ma-
chine guns. A detachment entered
Orderhei."
GREAT ROJMANIAN VICTORY
GERMANS AND BULGARS CRUSHED
iViaCkenSent's Armies in Full Retreat, Burning Villages to Re-
tard Pursuers.
A. despatch from London says: The
six-day battle in the Dobrudja has
ended in a Russo -Roumanian victory.
Field Marshal von Mackensen's
right wing in Roumania, consisting of
Germans, Bulgars and Turks, is re-
tiring to the south in the direction of
the fortress of Dobric.
News of the result of the great bat-
tle was received in a brief seminary
of a Rotananian War Office statement
which said:
'The battle between: the German,
Bulgarian and Turkish -troops under
4.- Gen. von Mackensen, in the Dobrudja,
. which has been in progeess since the
15th, ended on Wednesday in a com-
plete victory for Roumania.
"The enemy is retiring soathwards,
burning villages."
The official communication from
Bucharest confirms tee Entente re-
ports that the great beetle in Do-
brudja, has ended in the clefeet of the
Central Powere aleee sle days' fight-
ing. The battle plIgan Friday and
gradually ineeeeeed let scope and in-
teneity enal tlleSili17_91,011.110, With
the roma that Qn W, tIfilissElnY the
Gerinallai Lagaiisi -and Turks) crush,
ed, were'renced to Withdraw, burning
village:3 in their line of retreat in an
attort.,te retard their pursuers.
The Bucharest War Office announc-
ed in an earlier report that the Russo-,
Roumanians have repulsed the invad-
ers "in a sanguinary manner," on the
whole front, and launched several
counter-attacks. The report reads:
"In Dobrudja the struggle emit/hues
with obstinacy. RussosRouseanian '
troops repulsed in a sanguinary roan -
net' on the whole front dl attacks of
the enemy, apd made several coun-
ter-attacks. Enemy aeroplanes drop-
ped bombs on Constanza, where no
one was injured; and on Pietro.
Neamtu, where a child was injured.
Sofia officially admits that the
RAsso-Roumanian troops "maintained
themselves in their strongly -fortified
positions."
Roumanians, Russians and Serbians
were pitted against the invaders,
strong reinforcements having been
hurried to Dobrudja, 'when the opeta-
tions under the noted German field
marshal threatened to overwhelm it
section d Roumania. A strong line
to the retrels was hastily fortified and
powerful forces Wore thrown out to
oppose the onslaughts of the central
powers. That the six days' battle has
been a Sangninary one is indicated by
the etetians official statements, which
told of the inteineity of the fighting.'
Creadstutfs,
Taronto, Sept, 25 -Manitoba wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $1.57/ ; No. 2, do.,
No, 2, do., $1.61 ; No. 4 wheat.
51.57, track, Bay ports. 010 crop trad-
ing Sc above now crop.
Manitoba oats -No. ,2 C.W. ;
No. 3, do., 57/c ; extra Ne, 1 feed, 5710 ;
No, 1 feed, Mile, track, Bay ports
American corn --No. 3 yellow, 94e,
track, Toronto.
Ontario oats -New No, 2 white, 53. to:
Sic h,Ntse.ouLtsitlao8„,1
5.. to 58c, according to.
Ontario wheal -No, 1 .commercial,
$1.25 to 81,08 ; No. 2, do., $1.21 to $1.24:
No, 3, do., $1.17 to $1.20, according to
fel:el/11:os $o1u3tsside. New crop. No, 2.
Peas -No, 2, $2 to $2.10, according to
freights outside:
Barley --Malting. 84 to 87c, 'nominal ;
feed, 80 to 820, nominal, according to
freights outskle.
Buckwheat -80 to 05, nominal, ao-
cording to freights outside.
Rye -No. 2, new, $1.13 to $1.15, ac-
cording to freights outside ; No. 1. com-
mercial, nominal,
Manitoba flour-,Pirst patents, Jr jute
:bags, $8.60 ; second patents, in jute
ags, $6.10 , strong bakers In Jute
bags, $7.90, Toronto.
Ontario flour -New Winter, according
to sample, $0.23 in bags, track, Toronto,
prompt 'shipment"; $6.15 built seaboard,
prompt sholpnierit,
Millfeed,-Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran, per ton,
$26 ; shorts, per ton, $29 ; middlings,
Per ton, 030 ; good feed flour, per bag,
1-lay--59ew No, '1, per ton. $10 to $12 ;
No. 2, Per ton, $9 to $9.50, track, Toron-
to.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $7 to $8,
track, Toronto,
,
Country PrOduce-Wholosale.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 32e;
inferior, 24 to 25o ; creamery prints, 36
to 88c ; solids. 34 to 85e.
Dggs-No. 1 storage, 36 to 36c ; stor-
age, selects, 37 to 38o ; new -laid, in car-
tons, 40 to 42c. '
Dressed poultry --Chickens, 25 to 27c ;
fowl, 18 to 200 •, ducks, 18 to 20e ;
squabs, per cies., $4.50. •
Live poultry -Chickens, 17 to 180 ;
fowl, 14 to 16c ; ducks, 13 to 15c.
Cheese -New, large, 315 to 22c ; twins
311 to 2110 ; triplets, 215 to 22c.
Roney -Extra fine quality, 2/ -lb. tins,
12c 6 -ib. tins, Inc 10 -ib. la to t2c;
60-1n., 11 to 111c. comb honey, select
$2.40 to 52,75 ,• No. 2, 52 to $2.20.
Potatoes -Ontario 52; British Columbia
Rose, per bag, $1.76 to $1.85; British Co-
lumbia Whites, per bag, $1.90 to $2!
New Brunswick Cobblers; per bag. $2
to $2.10.
Beane -Hand-picked, $5.80; primes, $6.
PrOtrifli011.9-WhoIesaSe.
Smoked meats -Halos, medium, 24 to
260 ; do„ heavy, 22 to 230; cooked, 35
to, 37c ; breakfast bacon, 26 to 27c ;
bricks, plain, 26 to 270 ; boneless, 28 to
29c,
Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent less
than cured.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 18 to
per lb. _
Lard -Pure Lard, tierces, 17 to 175c ;
tubs, 171 to 17/0 '• pails, 173 to 1.730.
Compound, 135 to 125o.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal, Sept. 25. -Cats -Canadian
Western, No, 2, 60c ; do.. No. 3. 591c
extra No. 1 feed, 59/ ,• No. 3 local white,
$25 to 64c. Barley -Manitoba feed, 371e.
Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents,
firsts, $8.70 ; do., seconds, $8.50 ; strong
bakers' $8 : 'Winter patentS, choice,
$7.75 ; straight rollers, $7.20 to $7.50 ;
do., In bags, $3,40 to $3.65. Rolled oats -
Barrels, $6.08 to $6.25 ; bag of 90 lbs.
$2.90 to $2. Millfeed-Bran, $20 ;
shorts, $28 ; Middlings, $30 ; mouth's,
$32 to $85. Ray -lo. 2, per ton, car
lots, $18. Cheese--Finost westerns,
201e ; do., easterns, 20c. Butter -
Choicest creamer's', SOta ; seconds, 351e.
Begs -Fresh, 45e '• selected, 38c ; No. 1
stock, 34o ,• No. 2, do., 20c. Potatoes -
Per bog, oar lots, $1.30 to $1.65. Dressed
hogs -Abattoir -killed, $10,75 to $17.
Pork-Reavy Canada short mess, barrels
38 to 40 pieces, $34 to $35'Canada
short cut back, barrels, 4$ to 55 pieces,
$32 to $38. Lard -Compound, wood.
pails, 20 lb. net, 131 to 140 ; do., pure,
wood pails, 20 lbs net, 16 to 1610.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Sept. 25 -Cash prices :-
Wheat -No. 1 Nortlzern, $1.688 ; No. 2
Northern, $1.553; No. 3 Northern, 31,533;
No. 4, 51.475 ,• No. 5, 51.393 ; No. 6,
$1,243 ; feed, $1.061. Oats -No, 2 OW.,
520 ; No, 3 C."W„ Silo; extra No. I feed,
510 : No, 1 feed, 601c '• No. 2 feed, 600.
Barley -No, 3, 865c;
No. 4, 8010 ; re-
jected, 7350; feed, 7810. Plax-No, 1
N,W.C., $1.91 ; No. 2 a.w., $1.86.
Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis, sent 25.-Flour-1i'ancY
patents, 10c higher, quoted at $8.70.
Bran unchanged. Wheat -Cash, No. 1
hard, $1.681 ; No. 1 NOrthern, $1.811 to
$1,641 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.601; to $1.011;
ND
o. 3 wheat, ,$1.571 ; ecember, $1.685.
Corn -No. 3 yellow, 81 to 82c. Oats -
No. 3 white, 431 to 440.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Sept. 25 -Choice heavy steers,
$8.50 to $8.85 ; good heavy steers, $8,25
to $8.50 ; butchers' cattle, good. $7.60 to
$8.00 ; do., medium, $7,00 to 57.26 ; clo.,
common. $0.00 to $8.26 ; butchers' bulls.
choice, $7.25 to $7.00 ; do., good bulls,
$8.40 to $6,60 ; do„ rough bulls, 84.50 to
$5.00 ; butchers' cows, choice, $6.50 to
$6.85 ; do., need, $6.00 to $8.25 ; do.,
medium, $$.50 to $5.76 • stockers, 700 to
$50 lbs., $0.00 to $6.60%'choice feeders.
.i 0.2,5 to $7.00 ; canners and cutters,
3.75 to $4.25 ; milkers, choice, each,
70.00 to $90,00 .• do., coni. and med.,
each, $40.00 to $60.00 ; springers, 550.00
to 590.00 ; light ewes, $7.80 to $lim ;
sheep, heavy, $4.56 to $5,25 '• spring
lambs, choice, $11.00 to $11.60; calves,
good to choice, $10,50 to $1.2.00 ; do.,
medium, $9.50 to $10.50 ; hogs, fed and
watered, $12,65 to $12,75 ; do., weighed
off oars, $12.85 to $13,00.
Montreal, Sept. 25.-000d steers sold
at $7.50 to $7.76 '' fair at $6.50 to $7.25 ;
common at $6.50 to $6.25, while butchers'
cows brought from $5 to $0.50, and bulls
$5 to $6.76 per ewt. The trade in can-
ning cattle was active at $4.60 to $4.90
for hulls and at $3.76 to $4.25 for cows.
Ontario stock at $10 to $10.50, . and
Quebec stock at 03.25 to $9,50 per cwt.
Sheep $6.60 to I67 Per cwt, Calves, choice
stock, 9 to 10c, lower grades from 1 to
Sc per pound live weight., Bogs -Choice
selected lots sold at $12.65 to $12.70%
good selects at $12.25 to $12.50, and
medium and heavy weights at $10.50 to
$11.00 per cwt., weighed off cars.
TEUTONS ARE SHORT
OF GUNS AND SHELLS.
A despatch from London says: The
official report from British Head-
quarters in France contains the fol-
lowing:
"A captured document signed by
General von lealkenhayn while Chief
of the German General Staff, dated
Aug. 24, states:
"'The wastage of guns in the last
few months has been considerably in
excess of production. The same is
tree of the ammunition in our re-
serves of which there bee been a seri-
ous diminution. It is the duty of all
vanks-not only in the artillery -to
endeavor to remedy this serious state
of things. All the reeks must make
a most serious endeavor to assist in
the preservation of material as indi-
cated above, for otherwise making
good the losses and placing new for-
mations in the field will be rendered
impossible.
PEACEMAKERS ARE
SENT TO THE FRONT.
A despatch fient London says: Ar-
rested in Berlin on a charge of sedi-
tious antlswar agitation, 130 Social-
ists itirife been fereibly impreseed in-
to military service, aocording to a
despatch to the Wirelose Press from
Zurich. Although above the age limit
and declared to be unfit or military
service, the Socialists were turned
Ayer to the reilitavy authorities soon
after their arrest. After a few
weeks' drilling they were sent to the
front.
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NOW MAKES MEN
FROM MACHINE SHOP APPITEN.
Tie.E. TO GREAT BANKER.
Frank A, Vanderlip's Philanthropy
is the Side of His Nature Not
Known.
"What has been the hardest stop o
1111 in your career 3"
"To get out of my overalls."
That was the reply flashed back by
the former farm boy and mechine-shop
apprentice who is to -day head of the
greatest national bank in the United
States, head of the American Inter-
national Corporation which is to con-
quer foreign markets for American
commerce, head of the International
Banking Corporation with its branches
In many lends, head of the Midvale
Steel & Ordinance Co., a director and
constructive force in leading railroads
nail upbuilder of industry.
There Is a Frank A Vend:ern': the
world does not know, one he never
mentions eveu to intimates. Perhaps
the Work of this Unknown Vanderlip
may have had something to the With
the success of Banker Vanderlip. It
at least reveals why be deserved to
succeed.
The Unknown Vanderlip is Vander -
lip the silent philanthropist.
When a struggling reporter in Chi-
cago, supporting six dependents, he
used to rent a place near leis birth-
place and send group after group of
city waifs to enjoy a stay there in the
summer -time. At Christmas, instead
of "exchanging" presents, he and his
sister played Santa Claus among the
Frank A. Vanderlip.
poor on a scale that involved real
sel f-sacri :Ice. •
Remembered Old chums.
On entering the Treasury Depart-
ment at Washington he took several
of his poor -boy friends with him, found
them work and brougbt them up In
his own home. Several of them have
since made their mark.
He has put and is putting numbers
of deserving young men through col-
lege.
At preseet he is, out of his own poc-
ket, building a model school at a cost
of $200,000 on his estate at Scar-
hchildren borough -cm -the -Hudson, where be
providing scholarships for ch
exceptional ability who are unable to
pay the low tuition fees.
The City Bank's comprehensive plan
for educating its employees and for
giving a course of training to selected
students from the leading universities,
a vitally important movement, is a
growth of the same spirit.
A friend told me the other day how
he was motoring in the White Moun-
tains not long ago with Mr. VanderliP
when they met a poor barefoot lad
whose face appealed to the banker.
The car was stopped and Mr. Vander
-
lip chatted with the little fellow. "And
Mr, 'Vanderlip spent the rest of the at.
ternoon cogitating how he could take
that barefoot child out of his unpro-
mising surroundings and give him a
chance to make his way in the World,"
he added.
Mr, •Vanderlip is one of the increas-
ing number of eminent business lead-
ers who are more interested in mak-
ing men than in making millions. -
Leslie's Weekly.
MAY SHAVE UPPER LIP.
Ottawa Issues Order That Moustaches
Will Not Be Obligatory.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
There is good news for the young sub-
alterns who have struggled to meet
the militia eequirements which call
for a moustache. A new order has
been issued to the effect that in fu-
ture military men will not be obliged
to wear moustaches. No reason for
the new order has been given.
TURKISH TROOPS ON
THE RIGA FRONT.
A despatch from London says:
Turkish troops have appeared on the
Riga front, says a Reuter despatch
from Petrograd. They are led by
German and Austrian officers, and.
their Whole equipment is German.
This is the first time that the pres-
ence of Turkish troops so fee north
has been reported::
"OUR FLAG NOW FLIES FOUR
MILES OVER FRONTIER."
•
A despatch from Lisbon says:
"Portuguese troops operating ira
Mozambique have crossed the :Rome -
ma River. (dividing German East
Alrice, from Portuguese East
Africa)," says an offidel statement.
"The enemy, who is. malting feeble
resistance, bas abandened . armor -
plated trenches. Our flag mow flies
four miles over the frontier,"
Hedging Trouble.
Spokesmen -We have preesuee in
Womble. you, Rev. Mn'. Jones, that
we have decided to increase yotie
stipend feom $709 to $80.0 a yeae."
Mi. Jonee-I refase to accept it. lye
enough trouble already trying Its col-
:
led the $700.
From Erin's Green Isle
NEWS BY MA IL FROM IRE-
LAND'S sHorins.
Happenings In the Emerald isle of
Interest to Irish -
area.
Oats on sale at Rosscornerion re-
cently fetched the record price of
$5.28 per barrel of 14 stone.
The recruiting campaign in Belfast
to secure additional reserves for the
Ulster Division is making satisfac-
tory progress.
The death has occurred of Mr.
Charles Lowry, sub -sheriff of the
Co. Meath, head of the firm of
Charles Lowry & Son.
A public post office has been
opened in Sackville eIale Upper
Sackville street, to serve temporarily
as the G.P.O. for Dublin. : •
Mr, Wm. Murphy, horse dealer,
Waterford, was seriously injured
When thrown out of a training gig
while driving a spirited horse. :
-.Torrential rains fell recently in the
Roscommon district, and houses were
flooded to a depth of nearly a foot.
Many 'farmers suffered a serious
loss.
Mr. Forster says the War Office
possesees information showing that
large quantities of hay have now been
released for the use of civil consum-
ers in Ireland.
Under new regulationsof the De-
fence of the Realm Act, the
Secretary of State may prohibit from
going to Ireland any person not e
British subject.
A serious fire broke out in Crosse's
posting establishment, Cork, and con-
siderable damage was caused. Twenty-
eight horses in the stables were res-
cued with difficulty. ,
Negotiations are proceeding amic-
ably, between three of the cross
Channel steamship companies and
the dock laborers in their employ-
ment in regard to an increase of pay.
Sir Horace Plunkett, who has been
seriously ill for the last seven weeks
as the result of an aceidental burn-
ing while undergoing treatment by
the X-rays, is still confined to his
bed.
The Local Government Board have
appealed to the Enniscorthy Guard-
ians to institute legal proceedings
against the more persistent of the
3,000 vaccination defaulters in the
union area.
The death has occurred of Mr. R.
HamiltonsStubbes, D.L., at his resi-
dence at Durrow, Queen's County. He
was a large landowner in the county
and was Master of the County Hounds
for ten years.
Field -Marshal Viscount French,
Commander -in -Chief, Home Forces,
inspected troops in Cork Barracks,
consisting of the Royal Irish Regi-
ment, Leinster Regiment and Royal
Dublin Ft -millers.
The .eLismore atid District Red
Cross Committee have presented their
hon. secretary, Mr. E. D. Trundle,
with a silver salver, "as a recogni-
tion of valuable services rendered as
hon. secretary."
Twelve overseas delegates recent-
ly visited Belfast, and were enter-
tained at luncheon by the Lord
Mayor in the City Hall. They after-
wards inspected shipbuilding yards
and linen factories.
AFTER -WAR TRADE.
Canals Built, Rivers Deepened, and
Wharves Extended in Germany.
Authoritative adviCes have just
reached England that for nearly 12
months extensive canals have been
building in Germany, while dredges
have been at work in the Rivers
Rhine, Weser, Main and Danube in
order to deepen their channel e to ac-
commodate large vessels. Big wharves
and piers are being constructed at
Cologne, 'Frankfort and other large
cities, all this work being in prepara-
tion for the big trade expected as soon
as peace has been declared.
Deep -water canals will connect the
River Main with the River Weser and
the Rhine with the Danube, for the
ready transportation of merchandise
between these points. The warehouses
throughout Germany are stocked with
merchandise of all kinds waiting for
peace. All the factories have been
working at full time as usual, and all
the goods turned out by them are be-
ing stored ready for shipment after
tile wale
In all the shipyards merchant ves-
sels are being constructed, and it is
said that their number will astonish
the world. Germany is figuring on
the fact that merchant vessels will be
at a premium when peace comes,
while other countries will have been
so busy with other things that they
will have virtually no merchandise to
ship. All indications point to a big
commercial war, and with her usual
efficiency Germany is preparing for
it and will have all her goods ready to
ship out directly after peace is de-
clared.
MUST TAKE MEASURES
TO COMBAT THE "TANKS."
A despatch from Paris says: An
official paper found on a German Ma-
jor taken prisoner a few days ago re-
fers to "new engines of war (the
tanks) employed by our enemies, the
cruelty of which is equal to their
efficiency." An order states meas-
ures must be taken to "combat these
monsters."
Mosquitoes Prolific.
The fact that neesquetoes so con-
tinually harass rich -blooded creatures
Is due to the fact that they cannot
lay egge wilAtellt the albuminous food
Whiell is -URA secured. In tropical
countries the grecuteet eafieny of the
malariadeetining mosetnto Isa species
of bat Vitali is protected from the
insect's bite by Its staler' :shaped
halm The bat is very •e fent flight
and the mosquitoes, especially those
which haveAlreacly ma:We siteelete of
blood, are their ideal food.
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You'll never know the valtelesif
Jane unless you have earned ityofir-
self,
A homely girl is always willing to
admit that a pretty revel hasn't any
'sense. • m -r
DESPERATE ATTEMPTS MADE
- TO BREAK IRON
RING?
TUeton Infantry Hurled in Massed Formation Against Gen.,
Foch's Line.
A despatch from London gays: The
P,avarian Crown Prince's army north ,
of' the Somme made a desperate at-'
tempt to drive back the French from '
the Peronne-Combles highway, and
thus break the iron ring that has
been steadily closing in on these two
important bases. The French War
Office in its midnight communique re -
Poets that the attempt failed com-
pletely, the French holding theiv po-
sitions everywhere intact. I
The battle centred around Boucha-
vesnes, about half way between
Gambles and Peronne. From 9 o'clock
in the morning entil nightfall Teuton
infantry was hurled against General
Foch's lines in a series of fierce coun-
ter-attacks in massed formation. They
were met by a hail of bullets end
shells from the French machine guns
and artillery. That the Germans
meant to make a supreme effort to
re-establish the communication be-
tween the two vital bases was indi-
cated by the terrific clrumfire which
preceded each infantry attack and by
the large contingents thrown into
battle.
The assaults were launched on the
three and a half mile front between
the Prieze farm and the Bois L'Abbe.
In one attaelc at noon the Germans
succeeded "after a number of bloody
checks," in: the :worde , of the night
communique, in taking a foothold in
the noethswestern part of Boucha-
vesnes village, only to be driven out
again at the point of the bayonet.
Fifty prisoners, including some offis:
cers, were made by the French in this
actien. Four preceding "waves" had
been literally Mowed down by the
French fire, the Teutons retiring in
disorder, according to the French
War Office. The losses suffered by
them are described as "important."
The British last night suddenly
shifted the fighting to the northern
end of their line, capturing 200 yards
of German trenches. On the Somme
Sir Douglas Haig's troops beat off all
Teuton counter-attacks,
The Germans again attacked
French ppsitions in the Champagne,
east of Soutain Hill, but were re-
pulsed. A similar action in the Voss'
gas, northeast of Altkisch, also broke'
down under the French curtain of
fire.
From the Middle West
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI-
TISH COLUMBIA.
Items From Provinces Where Many
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
High Prairie, Kane farmers are
held up in their work because of a
great scarcity in binder twine.
John Charles -worth of Bashaw,
Alta., shipped four carloads of fine
beef cattle to Winnipeg last week.
Six Saskatoon women were ap-
pointed for service overseas as pro-
ba
tioners in British military hospi-
tals.Lieut. John, C. InfacHutcheon for-
mer Art Mester on the dalgary
School Board,' has' been killed in
action.
Moose and deer are very plentiful
in the Spirit River district, Alta.
Many hunting parties have been
formed lately.
Clyde, Alta., hi:nets the only pool-
room in Alberta owned and operated
by a woman. Mrs. W. Reveller is
the proprietress.
Peter Gunn, ex-M,P., one of the
oldest residents of Calgary, ,was
sworn in last week as sheriff of
Athabasca district.
James H. Evans, Deputy Minister
of Agriculture, says the Manitoba
fodder corn crop will be a particu-
larly good one this year.
Three Winnipeg girls were badly
hurt when a jitney driver was so
blinded by the sun that he drove his
machine right on to them.
Shook= Jim Madan, a Western
Indian who discovered the Klondike
gold
Indian,
twenty years ago, died in
poverty at Seattle last week.
A field of fall rye in the Stonewall,
Man, district, which was threshed
by Scott, Hill and Co., of Winnipeg,
Yielded 38 bushels to the acre.
Pte. E. M.*Jellett, an Edmonton
boy, who is a prisoner in Germany,
wrote to friends and said he was
starving. Packages of food are
being sent him.
Corp. Harvey M. Jewett, of Cal-
gary, holds the proud distinction of
having travelled 2,500 miles' to en-
list, He was at Yuba, California,
when war beoke out.
Hong Lee, a Chinese peddler, of
Calgary, was fined $200 last week
because he started peddling at ten
minutes to 12 on a day he should
not have started till 12.
The Calgary city council passed a
recommendation that the fare to
Sarcee Camp be reduced to 10 cents ,
each way. There was great rejoicing!
when it was made known.
While speeding in his new car, I
Alderman J. IC. McInnis, of Regina,:
was badly cut and bruised and his
car almost smashed to pieces when ,
it ran into the curb and a telegraph I
pole.
Telling his son to wait till he
washed his hands, Samuel Korman,'
a grocer of Winnipeg, committed
suicide by plunging in the Red
River. He leaves a widow and six
little children,
Miss Annie Case, while paddling
in Lake Winnipeg, with her fiance,
John Colvo, was drowned and he
narrowly escaped. They were to
have been married the following
week,
Capt. Father Ainlvose Mad-
den, 0.M,L., son of the late James
Madden, a Winnipeg pioneer, has
been recently awarded the Military
Cross for conspicuous bravery under
heavy fire.
But for the prompt action of a
neighbor woman who beat out the
flames with her hands, little Grime
Doherty, of Calgary, would have
been burned to death when her
clothes caught in a bonfire.
AT LONG FALLS,
How a Brave Man Attempted to'
Rescue His Comrade. •
It Was determined to have a now,
bridge and dam over Long Falls, A'
neighboring town wanted electric
SOWer ; the county wanted a :infer
and better bridge ; and the lumber,
company, which had a long and valu-
able log chute, was ready to have that
Improved and strengthened. The
wmit of replacing the Woodwork with
steel girders and cement piers and
sides had been well and safely done.'
The workmen were completing and
testing the stop -log animates of the
dam, when a big pry etlek broke and;
two men were hurled backward. One'
tell into the log chute and waseswepti
-with great speed down Into the river,
heyemd. A log makes this journey;
in four seconds, and this man went:
down in about the same time, Ho
kept hie presence of mind, and Wheal'
he was plunged into the pool at the'
other end, he swam as hard as ho'
could under the water to escape the
logs whirling above hie head. When'
he came to the srface be was in com-
paratively quiet water, and swain:
easily to the shore ; but his compact-'
Ion did not fare so well,
Both sides of the out through which
the -water fat are rough and jagged.
The wateels lashed into fury, Fronil
the angry, tossing flood, 71dSt and
spray constantly rise.
The second workman was plunged,
not into the log chute, but into this
roaring chasm. He was a clever water -
man, and, quick as a oat, he turned In
the air and caught at one of the jag-
ged rocks. His hold, however, was
very precarious.
"Hold on I" shouted the foreman.
"We'll get you a rope."
The men hurried to bring help ; but'
ithe man's: hold began to slip. Ho clung
I as well as he could, but there was
, nothing to dig his fingers into, and
down he went into the boiling water.
I Eat he was caught by a broken limb
'of a tree that lay amidst the rocks.
The men on the data shouted to him
to hold on, They worked frantically.
, They shot a line across the river and
passed a strong rope to the opposite
back. That was now lowered in the
hope that the man could seize it. But'
he was choking in the spray, and dung.'
ling from the limb without being able
Ito help himself.
Then the man who had gone down'
the long chute asked the privilege of;
going out ott the rape to rescue his!
comrade. The rape was hauled in and..
he was tied fast to it, Then he was:
lowered over the waters.
The men above could hardly see'
what was happening, so thick was the'
rising mist; but they swung the daz-
ing rescuer lower and lower until it'
seemed that he must reach his friend.1
There came a reassuring tug on the!
line,
That. the spray 'Whirled aside for a
moment, and the spectators saw the'
man who had been 'hanging on the'
tree lifted high over the rocks, onlY
to fall again Into the raging flood.
Tile rescuer mane frantic efforts to
reach hie Fellow. That effort aver too
much for th,e ropes that bound him,!
Re, too, fell into the roaring water.
•,The inert on shore °limbed irest3lY1
dawn the rocky bank. al the eddy at
Mt bottom at the first mad rush tel
water they found the man who had!
bravely gone to the name of his mate.
He was unconscious, one arm was
broken, and his body wee badly lacera.I
ted. They dragged hint out andworked'
over him until consciousness returaed.
But the body or the other man was
not found until the next spring,
THREE CANADIANS ESCAPE
FROM PRISON IN GERM Y
Were Registered as Dead in Record Office and Their Effects;
About to be Distributed. ,
A despatch front London says: Re-
gistered as dead by the Canadian Pay
and Record Offi'ee, which was about
to atilthorfze distribution of their ef-
fects, Lance -Corporal Edward Ed-
wards, of the Princess Patricias; Pte,
Santee Jerry' Burke (1216), Eighth
leatealion, Winnibeg, and Pte. M. C.
Siraolids (2e445), of the Seveii-gi
Pert Arthtir,"Inti,e ittriVecl in
I4Onden, 6.1telihaving escaped from a
cietta0 caltiP. They exPeri-
efidel hhine Strenuous adventures. For
thfee *pits they were at largd slow-
ly and cautiously wending their way
to the Holland frontier, they noverect
a distance of about 150 miles. Irt
Holland the fugitives, to their surn
prise, found a warm welcome. Th.
fact, a local band headed them in pro-
cession to the MayoT, Who in turn
communicated with the British Cen,
sal, with the result' that they Wrere
shipped to England.
CorPoral Edwaite is a Scotehmatt,\
who had been livivg hIm Toronto. Iv,
number, $9, howe he 'veiP ttle 001
enlistment. Ptee. Bette knPil Sintlind
are Canadian born, The first two
Were taken prisoners at Ypres last
year.