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The Clinton News Record, 1916-12-28, Page 3triITEI) STATES PRESMENT URGES CESSATION OF WAR Wilson Suggests Peace Parleys -Says Nentraio' Position is Intolerable. A despatch from Washington says:: President Wilson has appealed ip ell the belligerents to discuss terms of peace. , Without actually proposing peace or offering mediation, the President has sent formal notes to the Governments 0..01 the warring nations suggesting that "an early occasion be sought to call out from the nations now at war such an avowal of their respective views as to the terms upon which the wag might be concluded and the ar- rangements Which would be deemed satisfaetoey as a guaranty against its renewal or the kindling of any, sitnilar conflict in the future as would make it possible frankly to compare them." • Wholly without notice and entirely contrary to What Administration offi- cials have described as his course, the 4'reeic1orri; on Tuesday night despatch- athe notes to all the belligerents, and to all the neutrals for their informa- tion. This latest development in the rapidly -moving world events toward a discussion of peace was not permitted to become known until Wednesday night when ..the notes were well on their way to the American Ambas- sadors in the belligerent capitals, and probably already in the hands of some of them. Surprise to Washington. It was a most distinct surprise to all official Washington, whieh had been led to believe that with the formal • transmittal of the propossals of the Central Powers the offices of the United States would await further moves between the belligerents them- selves, and that certainly, in view of the speech of Premier Lloyd George and the announcements in Russia, France and Italy, further action by neutrals would depend upon theenext careful and delicate moves of the bel- gerents. , Nowhere on the surface appears any inclicatioh of the history -making events which diplomatists generally are convinced must have transpired, since the eGrman allies brought forth their proposals, to dispel the general- ly prevalent belief that such an ac- tion on the paet of President Wilson would be unacceptable to the Entente Powers. British Embassy officials declared they were Utterly taken by surprise, were wholly unable to explain it, and were emphatic in their statement that no exchanges whatever had passed through the Embassy here as a preli- minary. The wish and hope of the German powers that President Wilson would intercede in some way has long been well known, and has been conveyed in different ways to the "White House. The attitude of the Entente allies as expressed by the statesmen, and certainly until recently in official ad- vices to the American Government has been that a peace offer by the United States would be considered almost the next thing to unfriendly. Diplomatists consider it incredible that the President would bring for- ward such a proposal at such a time unless he had reason to believe it would receive respectful consideration at the hands of all the belligerents, and, above all, would not prejudice the position of the United States as a possible mediator. REPARATION IDEA SCOUTED IN BERLIN German Newspapers Find Lloyd George's Peace Basis Unacceptable. A despatch from Amsterdam says: -aammenting on Premier Lloyd 'George's speech, the Taeglisehe Ruud - sane of Berlin says: "Reparation 'could be demanded by England only if Germany had declared war on Eng- land, if we were to blame for the war, if we had committed crimes against international law and if we had been defeated." The Lokal Anzeiger takes the view point that the remarks about repar- ation are of no value, inasmuch as nothing has been said thus far about peace conditions. It: continues: "If Lloyd George means to postpone satis- fying Europe's desire for peace until the One when the Entente is success- ful in conquering Germany's armies and those of her allies, then the whole of Europe, as well as Lloyd George, knows full well that this announce- ment means eternal war, upless it is in the power of the German command to bring it to an earlier termination than Lloyd George supposes." The Tageblatt says it prefers to await the promised reply of the En- tente, adding: "For the present it appears that the gulf is very great be- tween Lloyd George's standpoint and that described from the German side as the basis for peace." The Socialist newkpaper Vorwaerts says: "Lloyd George says that who- ever wantonly prolongs the war will have kerime Upon his soul. Do not these words imply strong self -condem- nation if England" rejects the negoti- "tons offered by the Central powers?" Foolish to Try. "He threatened to blow. his beains out." "And what did you say to him?" "I told him he'd be foolish to try it, as he had never been successful shoot- ing at mall targets." .Kp....tkOs.-., of.. • . • . Breadistalfe. Tiironto, Deo, 20. -Mao toba 1.00001-'-' New ,No. 1 Northern, $1.151, Bur, ports.' Old crop trading 413, above now Mi 102o oats -No. 2 C.W•• Lra0k. B.:,io ers.A,0,,,,,,i.ti,exentme.0,1,1,-;Ng,,-,),, 3 yellow, no sun - Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 05 to 710, nominal; No. 3, db., 58 to (10o„nominal, according to freights outside,. sido:terie wheat New No, 2 Winter Per car .let. 51.62 to $1,04; No. 3, 00., 51.00 to 51.02, according to freights out-- Peas -No. 21. 02.40, according te I' rot gh ts outside. • „ 51.16 to $1.1.6. ac- cording to freights outside. • Buckwheat. - 31.25, accord i rig to freights outside. itye-No. 2, $t.34 to $1.35, actiOri-dog to freights outside. Manitoba, flonn-Wit•st patents, ln jute bags, 59.20; 21u1 do., 58.10; strong bak- ers', do., 58.10, Toronto. Ontarle -dour - 'Winter, according to OemPlo, 50,70 to 50,20, in bags, track To- ronto, prompt shipment, iOiUOeed-Oar lots---Dollvered • Mont- real ft•elghts, bags included, Man, per ton, 532; shorts, do., 537; good feed flour, bag, 52.70 to 22.80. Hay -No. 1, per ton, 512,60 tO $13•00; No, 3, do., ,39.51) to 510.50, track Toronto. Straw -Car lots, per ton, 39,50 to 510, track Toronto, Country Proance-whoiesune. Butter - Fresh dairy, choice, 41 43c; oreamery prints, 45 to 48c; solitlit 44 to 4450. Eggs -No. 1 storage, 40 to 41e; stor- age selects, 42 to 43c•' new-latcl, in car- tons, 60 to Vie; out of.cartons, 60o. Live poultry -- Chickens, 15 to :Me; fowl, 14 to 160; clucks, 13 to 150; tAr- to 26tec; tril'ders, to 2650. Dressed poultry-ChIcicens, 21 to 22o; ft:MI, 17 to ltio• ducks, 11 to 200; squabs, per dozen, 5•Cto 54.60; turkesq!, 30 to 350; geese, Spring, 20 to 112c. Honey -White olover, 20-10. tins, 13 to 185c; 5-114 this. 12 to 131c; 10 -lb., 125 to 13c; 00 -lb., 12 to 125c; buolcwheat, 60-1b. tins, 9 to 950. Comb honey -ex- tra fine and heavy weight, per doz., 53; select, 12.50 to 52,75; No. 2, $2.26 to Mincemeat -Pails, 28 lb., 10 to 12c; tubs, 65 10., 91 to 110, rotatoes-Ontarlo, par bag, $2.10; British Coltimb*,. Itose, per bag, 55 to 52.15; New litfunswicic Delawares, per bag, it2.15- to" $2.25. Cabbage-QUebec, per ton, 555. Beans-Inmorted, hand-picked, per bush., $6; Canadian. hand-picked. per bush., 55.50; Canadian primes,' $5.50 to 56; Limas, Per lb„ 95 to 10c. ProvisionS-'Wholesale. Smoked meats --Hams. medium, 25 Lo 20c; do., heavy, 22 to 23e; cooked, 04 to 36c: rolls, 19 to 200; breakfast bacon, 28 to 29o. Pickled or dry cud m reeats, cent less 'than cured. Lard-I>ore lard, tierces, 21/ to 212c; tubs, 215 to 52e; palls, 22 to 1350; com- pound, 162 to 170. Cured mcats--Long clear bacon, 18 to 185c per lb; clear bellies, 18 to 1850. Cool:frig oils -White. tierces, 165e: 100-10. 1100, 10511: yellow, it() below white, Montreal Markets. Montretd, Dec. 26.-Onts-Can, IF -ast- ern, No, 2, 640; do., No. 3, 62e; extra No. 1 feed, 62e. Barley -Manitoba feed, 960; malting, 51.30. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 59.30:. do., sec - ends, 58.80; strong bakers,' $3.60; Win - BRITAIN CALLS - WHOLE MANHOOD Bold Plan to Utilize • All Her, Human Resources. A despatch from London says: The 14 10 201 ter patents, choice, $0.25; straight roll - 1001.'s 2. 66,g 1 1 10% Daily Chronicle gives prominence on 011), 0.6, Lo $6.00; do., in bags, 54.10 to Thursday morning to an article which s4.20. Roiled Oats-Berrels, 57.05; boa purports to outline the Govermnent's gglbt50'ilia"tO4IMes.i5;gReTir' scheme fdr utilizing all the man moulllie, $43 to $48. Day -No. 2, Per power resources of the country with ;?,.1.0,upL523,21.e-ir1"ext 18,A.e„,„1,„.m,:: a view to the more vigorous prosecu- Choicest creamery, 41 to mu; secondS, tion of the war. It says that the plan 1920t0°41g.Nii1141gss7.;C:1 rnli, ilio0c410Aelic4c01, is of a very bold and far-reaching do„ 34 ,to 060. iliotatoes-rier bag, veal character. More men are needed for line. 01.,5 to 51.90, the army, for the manufacture of Winnipeg* Grain, munitions, and for productive em- Winnipeg, Dee. 36.-11t811 P1'10e6:- ployments like agriculture. 011,,. Gov - Wheat No. 1 Northet•n, 51.64; No. 2. 51.00Z• No. 3 do., 31.655• No. 4 $1.433; , ernment will therefore appeal to the No. e'e1.14:' No. 0, 5850'; feed, '550: No. est, for they disclose the two things year. whole manhood of the country that is I4e0510$geesa!la„3&.' g, about which so ninth has been writ- Lord Beresford, presiding at a meet - 151 4 • not in the army or already engaged in I doe: tSte: extra NO• 1 Ned, '455-c.1 Ng.. 1 ten, the actual birth rate throughout ing in Edinburgh, said he deplored work of national importance to enroll tilt ”Aao; dr'eTe(',T,..11T'703garfigi-go. Germany, and not in some large city the Admiralty method of giving de - Max -No. •1 52:56; N;ci, 1.1,1vu.; like Berlin, and the effect of the war spatches to the public, and more on the death rate of infants. In the should he known of what tbe navy iS • es- • General Mangan, generally known lie the hero of the Marne, who took personal charge of the latest great French drive north of Verdun. DECLINE OF THE BIRTH RATE INFANT MORTALITY' IN GER- MANY IS INCREASING. Birth and Death Rate Significant From War Economist Point of View. A decline of the birth rate is in a special manner the work of war; it has not the feeble() of accident but the inevitable character of life and death. And to the belligerent nations living branches, the source of new strength, have become a subject of intense so- licitude. An -Amsterdam despatch tells us that infant mortality is in- creasing on 002011319 of lack of sugar, which is a fair specimen of the non- scientific reports. In England and France the true state of the Teutons has been 10 theme of much inquiry, and the minds of physicians and pub- lic authorities have been listless at other bands of hooligare.s in Glasgow! following out the interior intricacies li '0 causing something i81 a reign of e of the living birth rate in Germany ri!"' and its no less important problem The goVernors of the North of of inferior vitality. Scotland College of A.griculture at Living Birth Rate. Aberdeen approved of a scheme for FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTERE.FNI ST ROHER - 'pANks AND 'BRAES. - 'What n at is Going Oin the Highlands and Lowlends of Auld Scotia. A movement is on foot in Glasgow to establish a university memorial to Sir William Ramsay. , Glasgow Trades House menibers have decided to contribute $10,000 further to war relief funds. Scarlet fever has made its appeai- ance in Kelso, and several eases have been admitted to the fever hospital. Owing to an epidernic of measles in the Thornhill,district IVIorton school has been closed for three weeks. The late Lady Steuart of Grand- tully has bequeathed a legacy of $1,- 250 to the Cottage Hospital, Aber- feldy. A new rest hut at Edinburgh Mili- tary Hospital at Bangern has been opened by the Marchioness of Lin- lithgow. Prof. Job Ferguson, who had occu- pied ,the chair of chemistry in Glas- gow University for 41 years, has died in Glasgow after a few days' illness. In consequence of the damage calmed by .squirrels to timber in plant- ations in the Lothians, a large num- ber of these animals have lately been desteoyed. A prominent figure -has been re- moved' from Aberdeen city and county public life by the death of Mr. Wil- liam Bothwell, fanner, Berryhill, near Aberdeen. A Scottish painter; Mr, Duncan Cameron, who had been for the past half -century well known in Edinburgh art circles, has just passed away in his 79th year. • During a gale recently an English trstwling vessel was driven on the rocks near the North Carr Beacon, Firth of Forth, and theee of the crew of thirteen were lost. The Tramways Committe of Glas- gow Corporation 'have adopted a mo- tion that all women in the Tramways Department should be paid the same scale of wages as men. As a result, Itis thought, of the darkened condition of the streets, the operations of ,"The Red Skins," and The living birth -rate and next to it the infant death rate are full of sig- nificance from the point of view of the war economist. Hence the figuees given by Dr. Memloch in the last number of the Deutsche Medizinische Woclienschrift have a special 185900" 1120 training in agriculture and horti- culture of discharged soldiers and neither the Germans nor any other sailors. army can advrtnce again toward Ver - At the annual meeting of the dun over the wrecked country. Guildry of Edinburgh it was stated Loosening German Hold. that the value of the various works authorized during the year was $720a We passed along the front line of 000, or $60,000 less than the previous the French army facing north from Thiaumont and Douaurnont, seeing the steadily advancing line of French repid-fire guns, backed by concentrat- ed artillery fire, loosening the Crown 'Prince's hold on the foothills to the north. The temper of the French second qparter of 1915 the number of doing.in my at Verdun makes it evident that living births in a total of twenty-six There has just been created in the they never will be content until the German cities of over 200,000 inhabit- ;Parish Church of Monzie, near Orloff, ants fell from 66,032, the 1914 fig- a handsome bronze 'tablet to the ure, to 42,723. For the Whole year , memory of the late Major Makgill 1915 the total was 49,740 less than in !Crichton of Monzie, Who fell at the the previous year, a reduction of 10.8 Per cent. The loss was greatest in certain cities, 27.2 per cenelir Chem- nitz, 27 per cent. in Nurnberg' and FULL STRENGTH OF CANADA TO BE THROWN INTO STRUGGLE P ender Borden's Reply to Mr. Lloyd George's Message Gives_ Assurance of Dominion's Resolution. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Governor-General, for Sir Robert Bor- den, on Wednesday night sent the fol- lowing reply to the stirring message received by him from Mr. Lloyd George,British Prime Minister: "On behalf of the Canadian people I send to our kinsmen of the Mother- land the assurance that our hearts are as undaunted and our determina- tion as resolute as when we ranged ourselves in the Empire's battle line two years ago. All our sacrifices would be worse than useless unless the purpose for which this was under- taken is achieved in such victory as assures the future peace of the world. Your message yeached me in the Western Provinces of Canada while engaged in commending and support- ing proposals for better organization of our national service and for more effectual utilization of our natural re- SOUreeS from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I have found eVerywhere the strongest determination that both the human energy and the national re- sources of this Dominion shall be utilized to such purpose as will throw the full strength of Canada into tho struggle. At Regina and at Bran- don I read your words to two great gatherings'and the respOnfie which they evolced was splendid and inspir. ieg. We shall tread the path side by side in full realization that the sacri- fice, however great, is for a cause transcending even the interests and destiny of our Empire, and in supreme confidence that this path alone can lead to the ultimate triumph of demo. cracy, liberty and civilization. "R. L. BORDEN." VERDUN IS NOW HEAVY FIGHTING GERMAN PROOF IN DOBRUDJA HUN SOLDIERS WILL NEVER GET NEAR rr AGAIN. Journalist Finds the Famous City Firmly Held By the French. Arno Dosch-Fleueot, stafa- corre- spondent of the New York World, cables from Verdun, France, that the Germans can never come back at Ver- dun. They have been vanquished by the new heavy French artillery and the fine supporting picked army of Verdian, and are steadily slipping off the hills to the Woevre Plain. He adds: I have just been over most of the ground lost by them in the past ten days. I visited the region of the outer forts, Doiniumont, Thiaumont and Vaux, as one of four lucky cor- respondents given the extraordinary privilege by the French Government. We went at night, as by day it was impossible. eWe were under steady shell fire for twelve hours, and I can say that voluntarily for service as war work- ers. Men between the ages of seven- teen and fifty-six are wanted. They must place themselves at the dis- posal of the State for the duration of the war and consent to be transferred to occupations or localities where' their services are most required in the interest of the country. BRITAIN TO CURTAIL TRAVEL BY TRAIN A 'despatch from London says With a view to curtailing travel and thus enabling British railways to use more rollinrefackefor the war and food purposes it has been decided to $..03, No. 3, do., 22.32. United States Marketit. minnranolis, Doc, 281.- wheat -11)19', 51.605 to $1,701: July, 51.645; cash, No. 1 hard, 51.052 to 51.795; No, 1, Northern, 51.660 to $1.095; No. 2 Northern, 51.072 to 51.075. 00011-000. 3 3'8110W, 852 to Mc, Oats -No. 3 white, 465 to 402o, 1010Ur unchanged. Bran, $24 to 524.50. . Duluth, Dec. 26, -Wheat -000. 1 hard, 51.685; No, 1 Northern, 51.67_5•, No. 2 NortherD Northern, 51.500 to 51.641; ecember, 51.675, norninel, _Linseed -To art•ive, $2,815; December, 52.31; May, 52,080, Live Stook Markets. Toronto, Dec. 26. -Steers, choice, 50,05 to $10; do., good, 55.75 to 59; do., cows, ceoiee, 57.50 tO $8.25; butchers' cattle, choice, $8 to 98.25; do., good, 57.66 to 57.00; do., medium, $7 to 97.25; do., com- mon, 50 to 50.50; butchers' bulls, choice. 37 to 57.50; do., good bulls, 56.75 to $7; do., rough bulls, $4,76 to 55; butcher s' cow's. cow s, to cc, 57 1057.50;0., goof, 05.20 decrease after the first of the year the to Km ea, medium, $6.75 00 55• stook - number of passenger trains and to in-111.7.'eeS;6e15„ZesTer Atefee0iVa 1t600V crease fares 50 per cent. This will milkers, choice, each, 576 to 5126; not apply to workman's tickets or to season tickets for distance not exceed- ing 40 miles. This was announced by the Government in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Rare] Retort. "That horse of emurs interferes." "Wal, he ain't interferin' with you, is he?" Bit:GANS DEPORTED TO SOMME KILLED BY FRENCH GUNNERS Thousands of Citizens of Ghent Compelled to Build Fortili?ations on the German Front. A despatch from Amsterdam says; -Of twenty Belgians who had • been .sentenced to death by a German court-martial at Hasselt, eleven were shot last Saturday, says the Maas- tricht Les Nouvelles. Foety-four other persons were sentenced to vari- ous term of penal servitude and sixty-four others ordered deported to Germany. The newspaper adds that another court-martial was begun to hoar the cages of 192 Belgians who were charged With espionage. I"The' frontier correepondent of the Amsterdam Telegraaf asserts that 0 many citizens of Ghent who were de- ported to the Somme front were kill- ed or seriously wounded during a fight by French machine. guns. The correspondent adds that a thousand men from Ghent are compelled to work on that front, and that 4,000 more are about to be sent there, Les Nouvelles says a large number oryoung people from villages in the Belgian province of Luxembourg have been deported from the cummune of Virton, among them children between the ages of 12 and 15. FIRST PARTY OF 200 WOUNDED NOW EN ROUTE TO CANADA The New Policy of Allowing Them -to Convalesce Amirl Home Environment Inaugurated. -A despatch from London says: The new policy of sending siek and wounded soldiers to Canada for treat- ment was thaugueated last week by the sailing of a party of more than 200 men from London, who will go to Canadian hospitals as soon as they arrive. Many of the men in the party have lost limbs, but a small propor- tion of the party may be rendered fit Ape further aervice. The new policy, which was recom- mended by Dr. Bruce, will relieve the congestion in the hospitals In the United Kingdom, at the same time making the men happy by allowing them to convalesce amid home envir- onment. The men who sailed in the first party were radiant at the thought of returning to Canada, Be- tween three and four thousand men are ready to folloW. eommon and medium, eaoh, 540 to 560; springers, 950 to 3100; light ewee, 38.50 tO 99.50; sheep, heavy, $6.75 to 57.25; Calves, good to choice, 51.0.25 to $13; lambs, choice, 512.25 to 313.25; do., me- dium, Sato to 50.50; hogs, fed and wn.- tared, $12; do., weighed ow cars, $12.25; do., f.o.b., $11.25. Mo'ntreal, Deo. 20.-01:oleo steers, $8.50 to 50.25; good, 50 to 58,60; 0110100 butchers' Milts, 56.60 lo 57,50; good, 50 to 56.50; aitoners' bulls'$5.40 to 55.75; do., cows, 54.26 to $4.00;ohoica butchers' cows, 50.75 to $7,60; good, 30 to $5.50. CalVeS, milk fed. 510,60 to 513.25; do., grass fed, 55.50 Lo 50.26, Sheep, 10.50 to 50.50; lambs, 512 to 513. flogs, eholoo selects, 512.60 tO 513: 110., 111;1110, 60000, $10.60 to $11. CANADIAN TRADE CLIMBING. Huge Increases Are Et:perfect From Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: Huge increases ie Canadian trade are indicated for the inonth of November and the eight menthe of the fiscal year. November trade was $186,066,851, as against $154,225,481 in the corre- sponding month last year. For the eight months total trade was $1,499,- 255,942, against $863,670,349. November imports increased $27,- 000,000 to $72,690,'790. In the eight months imports increased by nearly $250,000,000 to $5'77,235,197. Domestic exports for November to- talled $109,558,950, an increase of $17,000,000. For the eight months these exports incree.eed by over $300,- 900,000 .t $731,592,639. EXCESS PROFITS TAX WILL BE BIG AMOUNT A despatch from London says: - The tax on excess profits has produc- ed 073,699,000 up to Dec 16, Andrew Boner Law, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, told the House of Commons on Wednesday. The original estim- ate for the full year ending March 81 was 6386,000,000, an amount which he considered likely to be greatly exceed- ed, ' IRISH RAILWAYMEN ARE GIVEN INCREASE A despatch from London says: - The complaint of the railway men in Ireland was amicably eettled at the Board of Trade on Wednesday. The men have been granted an increase of seven shillings weekly in their wages; they had asked for ten shillings on the ground of the increased cost a living. battle of Loos. Mr. John Grant, restaurateur, Gov- an, has made a generoue offer through the Milngavie Town Council to pre - a Germans are pushed out on the -water plain of the Woevre. Verdun is simply a town in the narrow valley of the Meuse, running north. The famous citadel is but a rock in the town, a rock I entered, however, with relief. Verdun's real defences are in the line of forts, par - 23.6 per cent. in Hasent 10 cwt. of coal to bout 80 wives mburg, while in ticularly $t. Michel, on the hills di - Mannheim the loss was slight, or 14.2 and widowed mothers of soldiers and viding the Meuse from the Woevre. P011 cent. „In Berlin the reduction of sailors. oD uaumont is the }sighed and most the birth 'rate was proportionately A military ceremony took place at important. The Germans began charg- greater than in the yar years 1870- 71. Some of the loss was made good by a reduetion of the infant death rate, though the figures here are very 00111021100 25(5(1 palm awarded by the unequal. Thus, on a basis of e00 liv- King of the Belgians. ing births, the death rate in .191.6 was 14 per cent., as compared with KEEP it 15.3 in 1914. Such a low infant mei: MONEY IN CANADA..7-N _ tality rw ate as that of the ar Year Offeriegs of Non -Canadian Stocks, , Fleury Levelled. 1915 had never previously been ob- . Concerns Minister of Finance. Before the recent French attack served in Germany. ' 'e hills Were trenched, Now they Higher Death Rate. The frequent offering in Canada of are an unbelievable meee of shell On the other hand many cities non -Canadian stocks and bonds craters 20 feet deep. The town is showed a much higher death rate fax causes concern to the Minister of Fin- full of arriving shells. The main bat - infants. In Konigsbeeg, for example, ance. Sie Thos. White earnestly hopes tlefleld is on the ridge rising from the it was 19.6, in Madgebaeg 19.5 and in Hint, instead of making such pur- Meuse and dropping to the Woevre, Stirling when ColonelOliver pe ing the hills in February, and charg- ed Antoine Rouse, a Belgian, with ed for six months, capturing half the the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille distance to Verdun. They captured all the heights except St. Michel, which rises abruptly opposite Verdun. Theyedominated Verdun from Douatt- mane Danzig 19.2 per cent., and the cause is perhans an unfavovable influence of the wax. But other citiee again compensate for the loss. In seven the figure was less than 14, namely. Dres- den, Hanover Frankfort -on -Main, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Bremen. The figures as a whole seem to be encouraging. DANGEROUS THIEVES. Arabs in Meseepotainia Who Rob and Kill Sleeping Soldiers:" Rev. Dr. Ewing, of Granger United Free Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, who is with the Indian Expeditionary Force hi Mesopotamia, 185 0 letter to his congregatioe says that the Amin chases'Canadian investors will par - chase Dominion debanture etock or conserve their savings for Dominion war loans. He points out that the huge ex- penditure now made in Canada for the Purpose of the war and for the pur- chase of shells and other munitions should find its way backe into Domin- ion securities for the pmmose of fin- ancing further orders. In answer to the statement which is frequently Made that a higher rate of interest may be obtained upon non -Canadian securities of a specula - on which are Facts Detainment and Thiaumont, their walls now complete- ly buried under the dirt thrown up by bursting shells. The village of 'Fleury, between, is so knocked apart that we passed it without knowing we had done so. When the ridge was held by the op- posing forces its trenches had barbed wire entanglements, communicating trenches and all the paraphernalin of modern trench warfare. NM,/ there is not a vestige of this; no sign where the 'trenches once were. live character, and that therefore Called His Bluff. there is national gain from such"pur- 'chases, the Minister replies that while 8he---13efore you go I must show Otto individual may' make a higher you' the handsome clock my aunt sent rate, the money be has invested me. abroad is not available, as it shouldIle (facetiously) -Some of my . . are daring thievee, tied dangerous be, in war time for .the purposes vf mem s tell me 08151 1 aol Ilomely 05 ones as well, for they will not hesitate the Government. Manifestly 10 all ough to stop a clock. to kill rather than be . caught when Canadian investors invested theirShe-Oh, that won't metter. It can raiding'ithe tents of sleeping soldiers. funds in. outside loane at speculation b st ed a gain . The camp faces the river, writes interest rates, the Dominion Govern - BRITISH ENTER GERMAN LINES Dr. Ewing, andisdefended by barbed ment would not be able to float its wire, besides 413eing patrolled by a domestic loans. Russo -Rumanian Forces Have Halted and Engaged the Enemy. A despatch from London says: -It the Northern Dobrudja the Russians and Rumanians have faced about and are giving battle to the Teutonic al. lied forces who have been pursuing them. Just how strong the stand they are making has not yet beer made known, the German official com- munication announcing it merely say• ing that they have "again offered fighting resistance." Petrograd re. parts that attacks by the invaders near Parlita, on the left brink of the Danube, were repulsed, and says also that operations successful for the Res- sians and Rumanians are being car. Tied out by scouting parties in the direction of Rimnika-Buzdu. DR. BOYD CARPENTER'S BOOK. Touching New Lights on the Death of King Edward. There are some touching new lights on the death of King Edward ie Dr. Boyd Carpenter's "Further Pages of My Life." King Edward died on Fri- day, May 6, and on the following Mon- day Queen Alexandra sent for Dr. Boyd Carpenter to dome to Bucking - hem Palace. She told him how a strong impulse, as though a premoni- tion of coming danger, had led her to shorten her stay abroad and to hurry home "'Stay if you will,' she said to her travelling companions; 'I must be with my husband.' She told how, when she arrived, the King ;had stood up and walked to meet her; how, for- , f hinaseif, 111 as he was, h had asked her about everything and wanted to hear her news. She told how eestleseness took hold o0 him as the end drew near; even when sadly weakened he tried to walk into the next room; how at last she stood near him with his head resting on her shoulder -how the end came after an interval of unconsciouseess. It will be noted that these are fresh facts touching the passing of King Edward. "You would like to see him?" stud Queen Alexandra to Dr. Boyd Carpenter, and she led him to the King's bedroom, "An oblong room with windows on the left as we entered; the greater part of the room was free of furni- ture; at the far end, on the right, wile a folding screen. The Queen passed behind 10,1 followed; near the wall, parallel to the windows, WAS a small single bed covered with a white coun- terpane; and there, lying with hie hands just touching one another across his breast, lay the dead King. The face was pale, the expression calm and placid; he Might have been asleep." They knelt in prayer,e'and when they rose from their kneeseetears in the Queenie eyes, Dr, Boyel Carpenter said, "Shall I leave you here?" and she said, "Yee," and lie left -her with Otto dead. One of 'Em. A man met an Irishmen one day whose son was out at the front, and the following conversation was heard: "Well, Pat, how are you? Have you heard from your son lately?" "Yes, I heard trent hiln this morn- ing, and he's a -knocking them Ger- mans down like nine -pins, and he quite expects to have Charing Cross." "You stupid! Yon mean 'the Vic- toria Cross." "Well, anyhow, 2 knows it be O,76 of them there big stations he he go- ing to get" strong guard at night. This suggests The Minister says that all avail - to the Arab thief a fascinating prob- able Canadian funds and more will be lem, to evade the sentries, crawl required for War expenditure arid the through the barbed wire, and make purchase by the Imperial Govern - his way into the tents evhere the men meet of munitions -in Canada, are sleeping to steal what may be carried off easily. Ile knows the per - IRISH SETTLEMENT COMING. ils, the sentries will shoot on sight, and if caught the thief will be shot at Says Sir Horace Plunkett:. Close Harmony Will Soon Theevail dawn as a spy. Knowing that there is no mercy for him, he will show none, and if anyone stirs in the tent, where A despatch from New York says: - he is working he will use his long Ireland and England will soon be knife with murderous intent. One brought ihto closer harmony through soldier was stabbed recently, and his a provisional adjustment of the Irish life at the time the elegyman wrote, problem, Sir Horace Plunkett, prornin- Was hanging by a thread, ant Irish politician, declared on Wed - One night eight marauders wore nesday. Plunkett arrived he New detected crawlihg on hands and York on Tuesday on the Adriatic, The knees near the wire like so many uncleretanding and sympathy with the snakes, and for a few minutes the purpose of the was will soon apread camp was treated to some excite- so rapidly throughout Ireland that she ment with rifle shots and flare rocket& will give between 180.000 and 150.000 One of the Arabs was killed, but the more men for the defence of the others eecaped. United Kingdom Plunket predeeted, AND INFLICT MUCH DAMAGE Numerous Prisoners- Brought Back From Trenches North of .Arras and in Gommecourt Sector. 't cies etch from London says: The exploded a camouflotsouth of Ypres: cial 0. Moment On Thursday from British headquarters in France reads! utairing the night the enemy lines web ° entered by us in the neighboe- hood of Gommecourt and coesklerable chunage WaS done. A number.' of pris- oners were taken in the course of an- other 5ucocssful raid carried out by no early in the morning against the Heavy artillery fighting continues enemy's trenches north of Arras, on the 'Verdun front, the French War, "In a patrol encounter in the ntorn- Office announced on Thursday after- ing north of Neuve Chapelle the lead- 010011. During .the night the engagel sr a a hostile patrol was killed; his ments were most spirited in the vicirts men wets taken prisoner. The enemy ity of Louvemont,,,a Ohambrettes. "The enemy's artillery was parboil- larly active On the right -of onv lino north of the Somme and in the neigh -1 borhood of .Festubert and Yptee; Our, artillery vigorously replied, and the neighborhood of Loos an ' "Enemy trenches 59 Crommecol Hulluch were also bombarded by us!i;