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GERMAN -MADE DYE -STUFFS
TO REACH UNITED STATES
Imperial Government Has Decided t,o Allow Tlient
to Pass Through British Lines, "1n France
A dee/emboli. from Washington says:
In three different directions Great
Britain has given evidence of a de-
sire to placate the American Govern-
inent by a loosening of her restric-
tions against American commerce.
Ambassador Page at London and
khe British Embassy in Washington
formed the State Department, of a
ecision o1 Great Britain against the
action of the British Admiralty
courts in commandeering the Ameri-
can steamers IIocking and Genessee.
The British •Ambassador irrforined,
Counsellor Polk that Great Britain
has decided to permit German -made
dyestuff's, for which there is a crying
demand. in this country, to come
through the British lines to the
United States.
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Markets of the World
Breadstull's.
Toronto, Dee. 14. -Manitoba wheat,
ew
crop, --No. 1 Northern, $1.22%;
0 2, $1.20%; No. 3, $1.16%, on
haek lake ports, unmediate shipment.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 51%c,
aornimul, on track lake poets.
American corn -No. 3, new, 76e, on
track Toronto.
Canadian corn -No, 2 yellow, old,
15e, nominal, on track Toronto.
Ontario oats, new crop -No. 3
elate, 37 to 39e; commercial oats,, 36
to 88c, aocorcling to freights outside.
Ontsa io wheat -No, 2 Winter, per
ear' lot, 99c to $1.02; slightly sprout -
pd and tough, according to sample, 96
lo 99c; sprouted, smutty and tough,
According to sample, 80 to 90c.
Peas --No. 2, nominal, .per car lots,
$2; sample peas, according to sam-
pie, $1.50 to $1.75.
Barley -Malting barley, 57 to GOc;
feed barley, 50 to 55e, according to
freights outside,
Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots,, 75
to 76c, aeeording to freights outside.
Rye -No. 1' commercial, 86 to 87c;
rejected, 70 to 80e, according to stunt
ple.
Manitoba Sour -First patents, in
jute bags, $6.20; second patents, in
jute bags, $5.70; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $5.50, Toronto.
Ontario flour -New Winter, $4.20
to $4.50, aecording• to sample, sea-
boiard, or Toronto freights in bags,
prompt shipment.
Millfeed, car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights -Bran, per ton, 823;
shorts per ton, $24; middlings, per
,ton, 826; good feed flour, per bag,
11.:55.
Country Produce.
Butter :.Fresh dairy, 28 to 30e; in-
ferior, 22 to 24c; creamery prints, 33
o 84c; solid, 31% to 32c.
Eggs --Storage, 30 to 32o per dozen;
selects, 36 to 360; new -laid, 43 to 45c,
ease lots.
Honey -Prices, in tins, lbs., 10 to
11e; combs, No. 1, $2.40; No. 2, $2.
Beans -$3.50 tc $3.75.
Ponitty-Chickens, 13 to 15e; fowls
11 to 1:2c; clucks, 15 to 16c; geese, 14
to 15c; turkeys, 20 to 22e.
Cheese -Large, 17%e; twins, 18c.
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario, $1.25
to $1.30, and Now Brunswicks at
$1.40 per bag, on track.
Provisions.
iiacon-Long clear, ,15% to 16c
per lb. ih case lots. ITams-Medium,
17% to .,8c; do,, heavy, 14% to 15c;
'rolls, 15% to 16e; breakfast bacon,
21 to 28c; backs, plain, 24 to 25c;
boneless backs, 26 to 27c.
L'1ird-Tile market is firm; pure
Iard, tubs, 14c; compound, pails, 12e,
Business in Montreal.
Month eal, Dec. 14. -Oats, No. 2
cal white, 44%c; No. 4 local white,
le c. Barley, Man. feed, 65c; malt -
g, 661,Se. Buckwheat -No, 2, 85c.
lour, Man. Spring wheat patents,
rats $6.50; seconds, $6; strong bak-
s, ,',5.80; Winter patents, choice,.
6.20; straight rollers, 85.50 to
5.60; do., bags, $2.60 to $2.70.
oiled oats, barrels, 85.15 to $5.25;
go., bags, 90 lbs., $2.35 to $2.45. Bran
03. Shorts $23. Middlings, $29 to
$80. Mountie, $30 to $32. Hay, No.
2, per ton, car lots, 819 to $19.50.
Cheese, finest Westerns, 17•% to 18e;
nest eastorns, 17r/ to 171/sc. But-
finest
creamery,33 �
a
2 choicest _ 4
1 /s to 3 c,
seconds, 31 k to 32c. Eggs, fresh, 50
to 52c; selected, 33c; No. 1 stock, 30e;
Ito. 2 stock, 27 to 28c. Potatoes, per
bag, car lots, $1.60 to $1.40. Dress-
ed hogs, abattoir killed, $13.50 to
$13.75. Pork, heavy Canada . short
]mess, blots., 35 to 45 pieces, $28 til
28.50; Canada short cut back,'hbls.,
45 to 55
pieces, $27 to $2'7.50. Lard,
compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 11%c;
wood pails, 20 lbs. net,121/ epure,
tierces, 375 Ibs. Ec;
14 pure, ' P
"� p , wood
pails, 20 lbs. net, 15c.
United States Markets,
Minneapolis, Dee. 14. -Wheat ---De
cembcr, $1.09%; May, $1.12%. Cash
-No. 1 hard, 81.18%; No. 1 North-
ern °/a , 1. 0 to $1.11%;
$ 1 No. 2 North-
ern, $1.00% to $1.081/4. Corn -No. 3
yellow, 75. to 76c. Oats -No. 3 white,
891/4 to 40e. Flour and bran un-
chaneed.
Duluth, Dec, 14. -Wheat --No. 1
Hard, $1.13%; No. 1 Northern, I
$1.12%; No. 2• Northern, $1.08%;
Montana, No. 2 hard, $1.10% Decem-
ber, $1.10%; May, $1.12%. Lin-
seed, cash, $2.06 to $2.06%; Decem-
ber, $2.051 May, $2,10.'
Live Stock Marke
ts.
Toronto, Dec. l4. -Butchers' cattle,
choice, $7.75 to $8.15; do., good,
$7.26 try $7:50; do., medium, $7.25 to
$7.60; do., common, 2
to $:60 6•
$
butchers' bulls, choice, $6.75 to $7.25;
do., good bulls, $5.75 to $G.25; do.,
rough bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers'
cows, choice $6.50 to $6.75; do„
good, $6 to $0.25; do., medium, $5.25
' to $5.75; do., common, $4 to $4.50
feeders, good, $6.50 to $6.75; stock-
ers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6 to $6.75; can-
ners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; milk-
ers, choice, each, $75 to $100; do.,
common and medium, each,. $35 to
$60; springers, $50 to $130; light
ewes, :$6.50 to $7.25; sheep, heavy,
$5.26 to $G; do., bucks, $3 to $4,50;
yearling lambs, $7 to $7.75; spring
lambs, cwt., $9.60 to $10.25; calves,
medium to choice,$6.50 to $10; do.,
comm$4 .0; hogs, '
on, to $ 5 , a and
watered, $9 to 89.15.
Montreal, Dec. 14. -Choice steers,
$7.50 to $7.'75; good,' $7 to $7.25;
medium $5.50 to $6.50;butchers'
cows, $4.50 to $6.25; bulls, $5 to
$6.50 per cwt. Canning stock -Cows,
$3.25 to $3.50; bulls,' $4 to $4.50
per cwt. Sheep and lambs -Ontario
lambs; $9.50;, Quebec, $9 to $9,25;
sheep, $5.75 to $6.50 per cwt. Calves
-Milk-fed stock, 8 to 9c; grass-fed, 4
to 7c per 1b. Hogs -Selected lots,
$9.50' to $9.75 per cwt, weighed off
cars.
GERMAN PLOTTERS
FOILED IN SPAIN
Barcelona Headquarters of Gang
Who Hoped to Impede
Allies.
A despatch from, London says:
E1 Radical, a prominent Spanish
newspaper, claims that extensive
'German plots to destroy railway lines,
bridges and tunnels in the Province
of Huelva (in. South-western Spain,
north of Cadiz, and close to the Portu-
guese frontier) have just come to
light, the scheme being to wreck en -
1 tenprises connected with or owned by
the allies.
It is stated that German money to
the extent of $500,000 is being sent to
the district for the purpose of sabot-
age. Barcelona is named as the head-
quarters of the plot, which in its
ramifications bears a resemblance to
the conspiracies recently unearthed in
the United States.
The German purpose is said to be
to frustrate the export of copper from
the famous' Rio Tinto mines to the al-
lied countries. Since the command of
the sea passed to the allies the Rio
Tinto mine has been the scene of un-
usual aetiyity.
HOW A BRITON DIED.
From "Somewhere in Flanders" Comes
This Stirring Letter.
The calm heroism with which Eng-
lishmen :face death at the front is
described by Corporal W. Buckland
of the Meerut Division, Indian;Expe-
ditionary Force, in a letter to a
friend in the South Notts Hussars.
Ile tells how his comrade, by falling
over a German trip wire near one of
the enemy's listening posts in Flan-
ders, brought a fusilade upon both of
them, the comrade being mortally
wounded.
"I'm handing in my checks, old
man," said the wounded man , as
they regained the British lines, "and
all the doctors in the world can't
save me."
"After I had made him as comfort-
able as I could, on an old overcoat,
and lit a cigarette for him," says
Corporal Buckland's letter; "he start-
ed to talk overthe times we had
had together in different parts of the
world. He dial not last long, though.
"Just as the grey dawn was break-
ing he asked me to lay his rifle by
him, and,; after I had done 'so, he
pulled me down by his side, and I
just managed :to hear him say, '13111,
I'n1 on the road now. I can hear
someone sounding the 'great challenge,
"Halt, who comes there?"' With a
tremendous effort, he staggered up,
and, in .a terrible voice, shouted,
'An Englishman, who• did 'Ids duty.'
Shall 'I ever forget that scene! The
grey dawn breaking in the east, and.
over all an ineffable peace seemed to
reign. The only sound to be heard
was an aeroplane that was, just going
over our lines and the drone of its
propellor."
.There's room at the tap for more
men than can stick there
To err is human; to fail to profit
by your mistakes is still more so.
CLOSE THE ; MEDITERRANEAN
TO SHIPS WITHOUT LICENSE
The Plan Suggested t� at Once End the German
Submarine M iiace
- A despatch from London says: The
Mornhag Post gives prominence to a
.uggestiou by a correspondent that
e Mediterranean t ned a
an be declared
ae r
ptosed sea and that no ship be allowed
to trade there without a licence from
lie Entente naval authorities.
The step should be taken, the cor-
respondent, argues,in an effort to
<e - combat Teuto is eubmarines, which,
leo declares, are kopt supplied with
all, provisions and torpedoes by neu-
trai steamers,
"Greek ships are probably the worst
offenders," says the correspondent.
A short time ago o'
g on of our largest
transports, carrying 6,000 troops, ran
close to a Greek ship which was in
the act of supplying oilto an enemy
submarine off Tunis, while ' on an-
other occasion a suspicious oil tanker
was close by when one of our trans-
ports was sunk, and later was seen
exchanging signals with the submar-
ine."
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The Week's• Developments in the War.
Serbia continues to be the chief war centre of interest. The invasion of Serbia has been practically com-
pleted and now Bulgarian and Austro -German forces are concentrating against the French and British troops,
which Bold the line close to the frontier of Greece. While the Entente Allies probably will be outnumbered
two to one, they may have the advantage in heavy artillery, which is already interfering with the concentra-
tion of the enemy.
The Serbian army, despite heavy losses, has escaped into Montenegro, joined the Montenegrin _forces and
united also with the Franco -British line.
The outcome of the battle now impending will have an important bearing upon future developments in
the Balkans, and possibly may decide the action of Rumania and Greece.
• The British Expeditionary Force, which reached to within a few miles of Bagdad, has been forced to retire
to a strong position at Kut-el-Amarah, The British, however, effected the withdrawal successfully and are now
being reinforced. • '
Russian troops have been unofficially reported in Bulgaria, but the censorship has thrown a veil over
operations,
Greece is procrastinating and; apparently, still negotiating with the Entente Allies and the Central
forces.
Conflicting reports also come from Rumania.
On the Isonza front Italian artillery has reduced Gorizia to ruins, but apparently the Italians have not,
as yet, been able to occupy the city.
On the Western front there has been renewed activity in some districts, the Germans having undertaken
local offensive movements, apparently without any great significance.
Austrian submarines have been active in the Adriatic and have done considerable damage to Italian ship-
ping. Enemy submarines have also done some effective work in the Mediterranean.
Apparently important events are .impending, probably on all the battle fronts, and the next few weeks
should bring important news.
TAKE ENTIRE IRE STAFF
OF ENEMY DIVISION
Two German Generals and Seven
Officers Captured in
Sortie.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
Tho entire staff or the eighty-second
German army division was captured
by Russian mounted scouts and
brought as prisoners into the Rus-
sian lines as the result of a daring
night raid recently, according to un-
official accounts, which have just been
received.
Under cover of darkness, a small
company of scouts worked its way
peat the German trenches towards
the German base. Emerging from
a wood, the scouts found themselves
Close to a village. They stopped and
sent forward ,a reconnoitring party.,
The latter soon came upon a Ger-
man sentry, who gave the alarm. Ten
minutes later a German cavalry
squadron galloped out of the village,
followed by two companies of Austri-
an Landsturm troops. The Russians
Meanwhile had dismounted, hiding
their horses and concealing them-
selves.
The Germans and Austrians fell
into the ambush and became panic-
stricken when the Russians opened
fire, tho Austrians running for their
lives and throwing down their rifles.
In the confusion the German cavalry,
not knowing how large a force might
be opposing them, ,iso retreated,
many troopers falling under the Rus-
sian fire. '
The Russians were ordered to fol-
low on foot into . the village. They
came upon a large estate, anti
through the windows of the mansion
made out the figures of German offi-
cers. Half of the force of scouts
made for the mansion, while the
others continued their pursuit of the
retreating troops.
A rush for the doors of the man-
sion was made by ton Cossacks, and
so quick was the progress of events
that the German officers did not have
time to secure their coats and furs
before they were hustled outside.
By this time the other division of
the scouting party had returned and
searched the mansion, which proved
to be a division staff •Headquarters,
and secured ° valuable papers. The
whole incident took place in less than
15 minutes.
With their prisoners the scouts be-
gan to retire. The German cavalry-
men meanwhile had reformed and at-
tempted to cut off the Russian retreat.
The prisoners were sent back under
convoy, however, and the retreat cov-
ered by the bulk of the scouts, who
also succeeded in returning to the
Russian lines with small losses.
It is stated that the captured staff
includedtwo generals, one being a
division commander, seven staff offi-
cers and several Red Cross physi-
cians, One colonel was killed in at-
tempting to escape.
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TWO ENEMY 'AIRCRAFT
DESTROYED BY FIRE
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
Two German aeroplanes, manoeuv-
ring over Ellerbruck recently, were
in head-on collisions at a height of,
several hundred feet, and chopped to
earth, their four occupants being
killed, Tho gasolene tanks exploded,
playing streams of flame over the
falling aircraft', The bodies of the
fournation.'
men wereburned beyond recog-
RUSSIANS ROUT INSURGENTS
IN MARCH TOWARD TEHERAN
Several Hundred Turkish and German Mercenaries
Killed in Battle in Persia
A Reuter despatch from Petrograd
says: "A telegram from Teheran
says that.the Russian Legation is in-
formed that the Russian troops have
gained a victory in the direction of
Hamadan, defeating a force consist-
ing of 500 cavalry, infantry and in-
surgent gendarmerie .and 1,200 Ger-
man and Turkish mercenaries, of
whom a large number were killed or
wounded. Tho Russian troops have
occupied an important position near
the town of Aveh, about 60 miles
north-east of Hamadan, from which
they are pursuing their offensive."
I OVED TO ENGLAND
Soldiers Will be Examined 'there
Instead Of At
Quebec.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
new arrangement has been made by
General Hughes regarding the exam-
ination and care of invalid soldiers
returning to Canada. Hitherto they
have been sent in batches, when trans-
portation was convenient, to Quebec,
where they have been examined by
the medical board of the department
and an official report upon their con-
dition made.
Quebec has been the discharge
depotfor returned soldiers, and ar-
rivals have been dispositioned as
speedily as possible.
However, the discharge depot will
be Liverpool after this. The medi-
cal board of the Militia Department
will go to. Liverpool, and returning
soldiers will be examined there or on
tho way across the ocean. Medical
officers will travel on every vessel
carrying Canadian. soldiers.
Further, instead of sending men
home irregularly as heretofore, they
will• be sent weekly, and come 150 at
a time. -
The object of the new arrangement
has been to obviate any delay of the
invalids at Quebec. Recently a batch
of 700 soldiers were kept at Quebec
for a week, and as some of the men
came from : British Columbia they
were long in reaching their homes.
The reason for the delay was the ne-
cessary examinations to discover what
the physical condition of the soldiers
was: On this examination depended
the questions of pay and pensions.
By having the examinations done at
Liverpool or on the way out there
will be no necessity .for tine men going
to Quebec at all. When they reach
St. John, N.B., they will entrain at
once for their homes, or the eonn-
val'escent homes as the case may be,
EIGHTY GERMANS DIE;
NAMUR FORT EXPLODES
A despatch ,from Amsterdam says:
Fort Cogxelee, one of ' the most im-
portant features of the old defences
of Namur, Belgium, has been com-
pletely destroyed by an explosion,
according to the newspaper Echo de
Beige. The explosion is said to have
caused the death of 80 German sol-
diers:
Plan Went Askow.
"Say, Jack, why so sad?"
"Asked the governor for $50 to pay
my tailor to -clay and T' received the
receiptcd bill,"
LONDON IS READY
FOR THE RAIDERS
When the Zeppelins Come Again they
Will Get a Warmer Reception
Than Heretofore.
A despatch from New Yorks says:
"I believe there will be another Zep-
pelin attack 01? London within 60
days," says Thomas R. Maclitechin,
aeronautical engineer and president of
tho Aeronautical Society of -America.
He recently returned from England.
He continues: "When the raid does
come it will be bigger than anything
that has gone before, and will be re-
peated night after night. The Ger-
mans will probably send at least ten
Zeppelins. They are now 'gathering a
fleet so large that they can afford to
risk the loss of four or five in a raid.
It was because they had no airships
to spare that they stopped these visi-
tations this fall. Now they. are
nearly ready again to strike repeated
blows -to cross the Channel in force,
as they must do to create the amount
of terror they desire.
"But England has been awakened.
She knows the game now. She has
learned that airships must be sought
with, airships. She is preparing, in
the light of what the was' has taught
her, to meet the menace in the right
way. She is building rigid dirigibles.
When the raiders come she will not
be helpless."
"At the beginning of the war," he
continues, "the allies thought that
aeroplanes and anti-aircraft guns
would be sufficient. But what the
Zeppelins have done is known to the
world, and it is also known that
Arthur Balfour said recently in the
House of Commons that England was
building rigid dirigibles to meet the
situation imposed by the Zeppelin
raids. The ascent of aeroplanes at
night to search out and attack Zeppe-
lins has proved most dangerous.
Numbers of aviators in England,
Prance and Russia have been killed
in melting night landings. Moreover,
when the aeroplanes appear the Zep-
pelins rise to a great height and- force
the planes to exhaust their fuel in
climbing after them. These jump to
10,000 to 12,000 feet, subject the aero-
plane to machine gun fire, then speed
away."
"English and French aviators state
that the Zeppelins easily elude them
at night -even when there is a bright
moonlight. The British thought the
Zeppelins would not come on moon-
light ni •hts but the did twice and
igh� g y
got away unharmed.",
Many a nuan who runs for en office
doesn't seem to get anywhere.
Business Outlook in Canada
From Toronto Daily News,
There are evidences ,of increasing
commercialactivity anti of more pros- l
perms conditions all oval* the,, Domin-
ion, The Maritima Provinces escaped
the real estate boom and the eubee-'
0 reaction r c i
on which hafflicted
avo
the refit of
C
s Canada, Nova ,coils,
New Brunswick rnnswick and Prince Edward
Island are probably 1105O,prosperous ,
to -day, than ever before in their his-
tory. The application of scientific
Methods to agricultural and agricul-
tural settlement has brought results. '
War contracts keep' the industrial
centres busy, and in the coal mining
regions there 15 some fear that the
labor supply may fall below the de-
mand. Though a good many men
have gone to the war, current bank
statements reflect a progressive accu-
mulation of deposits, Down by the
sea, as elsewhere in Canada, the gen-
eral practice of :thrift has produced
concrete benefits, and the burden of.
patriotic and relief funds is cheer-
fully borne.
•
Despite inequalities of returns for
two year past, the farmers of Quebec
and Ontario are better off than at any
previous time since Confederation.
The troops of despatch 1e front
p op to t1 fon
and extensive munition orders make
it pretty' certain that the unemploy-
ment problem will not attain serious
proportions during the coming win-
ter. As for the Prairie Provinces, the
splendid pieces received for last year's
crop anti the unprecedented abundance
of this year's yield have combined to
place the people of the plains in an
exceptional position. They do not yet
realize the extent of their good for-
tune. They havo two or three crops
in place of ono crop for 1915. Prac-
tically all over the three Provinces the
harvest has been phenomenal, In
many districts the yield per acre has
been amazingly high, and hundreds of
farmers will be wealthy from this
year's labors alone. Winnipeg bank
clearings have risen to $59,000,000 for
a, single week -a new high record,
Earlier in the season The Grain
Growers' Guide, which has always
pulled a poor mouth on behalf of the
Western agriculturist, made the fol-
lowing statement: "According to the
last Dominion Census report there
are 204,140 farms in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta. The esti-
mated value of these principal grain
crops alone would give each farmer
in Western Canada an income this
year of nearly $1,700, In New York
State the average income per family
is under 8600. The Western Canadian
farmer is in a better position finan-
cially than any other class in this dis-
trict. The fall of 1914 saw a general
tightening of credits. Less material
was probably sold to the farmer, but
collections were closer and mortgages
were reduced or wiped off completely.
As a result the country districts faced
1916 with less encumbrance of debt
than formerly, and if the 1915 crop
harvests' as promised, the farmer of
the Canadian prairies is the best logi-
cal objoet of the advertiser's atten-
tion from the Great Lakes to the
Pacific Ocean." This optimistic fore-
cast has been realized beyond all ex
pectations, and the buying power of
the prairie population must expand
accordingly. Western authorities es-
timate that prairie farmers will this
year put $150,000,000 in the bank af-
ter meeting their existing liabilities.
As for the future, we are told that
there is already sufficient moisture in
the ground to assure a good crop for
next season.
•
Even the war -time freight rates on
the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic.
cannot prevent the Western agricul-
turist from. coming into his own.
With wheat around $1 a bushel on the
Winnipeg Grain Exchange, and
around 90 cents as far West as Sas-
katoon, farming pays handsomely, es-
pecially when wheat runs, as it does
this year, from 30 to 50 bushels to the
acre, and even better than that. Ex-
travagant estimates of what it costs
to produce a bushel of grain have
been published by the Saskatchewan
Governnlent,'sud repeated in Eastern
papers. The prairie farmer, wile is
at once industrious and scientific In
his methods, is by long odds the most
fortunately placed citizen of Canada.
ale attains to a position of economic
independence more readily than the
average city dweller. Thousands of
cases may be cited to prove this state-
ment, and but for the presence of a
certain proportion of poor farmers,
some of whom will never succeed any-
where, it would dever Have been chal-
lenged, But this is no reason why the
prairie agriculturists should not have
adequate .shipping facilities, cheap
freight rates, rural credits, and what-
ever else will go to increase their
prosperity and productiveness.
The cities of the plains, like the
cities of Ontario, have still to pay for
several years of rash speculation in
real estate, and they will not get back
to normal conditions on the strength of.
one year's exceptional harvest. They
have been over-extended, over -:built
and over -paved. Excessive ebliga-
tione have been assumed in the devel-
opment of public utilities. Taxes are
not coining in as freely as in the days
of the boom, assessmentsare being'
reduced,'and some ratepayers have
disappeared, but there is glittle
da
n
-
ger that any considerable municipal-
ity
unici a -ity
will be unable to pay the interest
ou its bonds. Western cities must].
share the growing prosperity of the
agricultural communities which sur-
round them. Three transcontinental
railways furnish abundant transpor-
tation facilities and, given a ,suffi-
ciently aggressive immigration and
land settlement policy, the country be-
tween the Lake of the Woods and the
Rocky 'Mountains will surprise the
world by its productivity and by its
rapid accumulation of wealth. Thera
is no reasonable basis for skepticism
as to the great future in store for
both rural and urban communities ons
the plains,
British Columbia has perhaps felt.
the de e i
pr ss on and the war more se-
verely than any other part of Canada.,
In Vancouver the real estate erazo
reached its most extravagant develop-
ment and there has been a corres-'
ponding reaction. Men, who counted;
themselves wealthy two years ago,
have lost their all if the loan com-
panies care to close them out, and
the story of their misfortune is noth-1
ing short of tragical. It is felt, how -i
ever, that the worst is now being Seen,
of the collapse. One hears that Eng-
lish capital is already picking up bar..
gains, and it must not be forgotten'
that the bottom cannot fall out of a
Province which Sir Edmund Walkers
nonce described as potentially the rich-
est in Canada. Its timber, its -coal,
its silver, gold, copper, zinc and iron
deposits, its agricultural areas and• ate
fisheries give it a variety of resources
perhaps not found within an area of
equal size anywhere else in the world.
The great bulk of these vast assets
still remain in possession of the;
Crown, and with the additional trans -1
portation facilities furnished by the;
two new transcontinental railways,'
which have been completed across the
mountains since the war began, the
Pacific Coast Province must • be re-
garded as only beginning to "arrive."'
These railways render extensive new
ureas on the coast and in the interior
readily accessible from the outside
world, and with the return ole peace
the development of the country should
be materially accelerated.
Hon. W. T. White has said that
nationally the Dominion is getting
rich despite the war. The president
of the Canadian Bank of Commerce
has expressed the opinion that the
year's field crops should mean general
prosperity of a solid character. Exe
perts in agriculture declare that they
will exceed in value the crops of any
previous year by not less than $250,-
000,000. If Canada stands the strain
of world -conflict so well, we are sure-
ly safe in predicting that when the
people's energies are re -directed to
Clic industries of peace we shall at.
tain to,new high levels of production,
Nor need the period of readjustment
at the close of the war be at all pro•
longed if timely preparations are
niade with a view to the fullest possi-
ble use of the great transportation,
and industrial machine evith which
the country is already equipped. We
should secure a preferred share of the
vast stuns which will be spent on ma-
terials for the rebuilding of Belgium
and Northern France. A greatly in-
creased agricultural population 10
most urgently needed, and to the get-,
ting of this additional population the,
Dominion anti Provincial Govern-
ments must devote as much energy as
they can spare from the prosecutlon1
of a war without a final and complete
victory in which every other consid-
eration is so negligible as to be
scarcely worth a thought.
BRITAIN'S OLDEST REGIMENT.
The Great Honor pests With the
Royal Scots.
Many correspondents have been dis-
cussing the question as to which is
the, oldest regiment in the British'
Army. That honor, says the Man-,
ellester Chronicle, rests with the
Royal Seats (Lothian Regiment).
Originally the "Scottish Guard" of
the Icings of France, the regiment
was formed in the Ninth century, and
was constantly recruited from Scots
land. in 1525 it teas sent to England
to attend the Coronation of .Charles
I., and revisited the country later to
fight against the Parliamentary
Army. In 1633 the Royal Scots were
properly constituted as a regiment
of the British Army, and named the
First Royal Regiment. The regiment
has a fine Iist 01 battle honors, and.
it is worthy of note, as shoving their,
fighting qualities, that not a single
reservist failed to join the colors when;
called upon to do so on the outbreak
of the last South African War, and;
that throughout the campaign not a,
solitary officer' or man surrendered
to the enemy,
DRIVE ENEL
Y FROPf TRENCHES
IN CHAMPAGNE DISTRICT ,
\ 1
French Artillery Effectually Prevents Germans\.
From Organizing Positions1
A despatch teem Paris says: Not
only has the German advance in
Champagne, which resulted in the
capture of French advanced positions
south of. St. Souplot and at the Butte
de Soutain, been stopped, but the,
Germans aro being driven out of the
position occupied, and the French
one aro preventing them from or-
ganizing tate ground talcen, A Ger-
man munition depot was exploded
sonde of St. Souplot.
On the road between Roye and
Montdidier, the French artillery fired
effectively on a German battery' near,
Dancourt, Mine fighting, in which
a party of German workers w\
e ere burs.
eel by the explosion of a French mine:
chamber, is reported from Lee;
E:parges.
Fort Cogneloe, one of the most im-
portant features of the old defencosl
at Namur, has been destroyed by an
explosion, according to the Echo de'
Beige. The explosion le said to have
caused the death of 80 German sole
Biers,