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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-04-26, Page 2RATIO OF CANADIAN DEAD TO WOUNDED 1 TO 5 Over 2,000 Bit on the First Day of the Battle for Vimy Ridge So Slightly injured They Walked to Dressing Stations. .A despatch from Camillo: Head- wee shown in the disposal of the dead, quarters in Franco, says: -Now that who are now believed to bear the res • the lists of casualties from the actions rnarkably ow ratio of one to five of the last week re beginning to AP-. wounded. • pear in the Canadian press, it IneY There are two important militarYi • bring solace to the sad,hearts to know cemeteries em the Canadian front, at • how carefully the wounded were Carenewand Ecoivre. These are con - handled, and how reveeently the deal netted with the trenthes by light ral1.1 were buried. Hospital arrangements ways, and the dead customarily al'ef were made to handle far more than the number actually wounded, Extra ambulances Were providedat the front, and many supplementary dress- ' ing stations were opened. There was • little cingestiou anywhere. Over brought there for buriel. For the operations of last week additional burying grounds wore opened near the front of the line, so that the work of the burial parties might be more quickly done. Each body of our men , 2,000 who were wounded on the first j given individual burial, and over each of the dead is placed a simple wooden cross, giving his name, rank and identification number, Even 10 these crosses should be removed, the day wore so slightly hit that they were able to Walk back to the stations with- out aid. Despite the extraordinary condition of the ground over Width the advance records of the burial are so complet2! • was made, the stretcher-bearers found that the location of every body can be and brought out practically .all the indicated. The dead are wrapped in! wounded before nightfalleach day. In blankets before being comnitted to only a few eases Where the wounded the eatrth by the men's own units, and; ]ay in deep shellholes and had not suf- the burial service is read by a clergy - roan cif the dead soldier's own de- nomination. The army chaplains are $o distributed as almost invariably to permit of this reverence for the dead, which is one of the marked character - !sties of the British and Canadian Markets of the World Areatlitaffs Toronto, Apr. 24-selanitobe weeiteee No, 1 Northern 1047; No a do., watt No. 0 clo.. 12.4741 No, 4 wheat e2.37e• nominal, track Bay ports, Manitoba onto -No, 11 0,W., see; No. 1 C.W. 91c; extra No. 1 feed, 81r; No, 1 feed,' 71 )0 , all rail delivered. A11101'101111 )I0 '24o. 3 yenow. 12.04. 110011801, euhlegt to Milberg°. track To. runt% Ontario o 181620. Troata-No. 2 vil lte750, te 7e-e;:igrW;13gtIg:lin44.eoN Lnde 00 102, r 12.33 20 02.32, cg to oglits tatsitle, 2'eas--No, 2, ittaninal, toteording to freights outside. Manitoba 11Our-Flrst patents, In into Itelfet 111,70: schema patents, in Jutta bag 1td...11.40j,,,;,,,,,,Ifftig muerte, In Jute latiweintiftitisieli to 51,37, accord^ 1tYe-No. 2 1..86 to 51.97, n000reing 10 010110818 outs, da 0=11101.1a1Wit(11=Tij t '114. molest Shipment. MtfrelgillttZdh-a-aVi in'1i11l0d--l3rjiIi 1101 t011, $39; shorts, per 1081, sst to s43; mitt- ngs. pet ton, 5.4 to 845, good teed dour, per hag. 99.90 to 22.00. - ,N W-E5L1'n NO, 2, Per ton, 811.80 to ei mixed, per ton, 88,20 to 511, track riiroe to, _,,elt Lytrayi-l.a.r lois, Per 10111, to 88, To Octuritz7 Prognee-Wholosale , • , • ficient strength to make their presence • known to the search parties, did they remain in the field overnight. It is believed that this prompt handling has resulted in .a material reduction under the heading, "Died of Wounds." Similar systematic care troops. AWFUL TOLL OF GERMAN DEAD IN FIERCE COUNTER-ATTACKS Hindenburg, Trying to Stall Off French Threat Along Whole Line, Hits Back With Frenzied Disregard of Losses. Paris, April 22, ---Repeated desper- ate and vain counter-attacks by the Crown Prince are yielding to Gen. Nivelle 0 second crop of valuable re- sults, of equal importance to the first fruits of his advance, which consisted in the storming of the German strong- holds along the Soissons -Champagne front, Since it is an axiom that the Allies' task is not to drive back the Germans but to destroy the enemy armies, the importance of Hindenburg's madden- ed efforts to retake the lost positions can be gauged. By swiftly hurling forward waves of troops and imbedding them, under cover of the throats of an enormous , mass of artillery, in the key positions! along the Germans' front, Gen. Nivelle has compelled the German high com- mand to attempt desperate measures to regain their former vantage points, as otherwise the French possession of them means a constant menace to their whole fortified line, and it is in the counter-attacks that the full and complete bloody toll is taken of the enemy formations. The losses sustained in counter -at- tacking are far greater than those suf- fered in ordinary attack, or under the bombardment preliminary to an en- emy blow. as for the counter -thrusts the troops must be formed from among men already nerve -shattered by the tremendous artillery pounding, who must be reorganized and grouped under a pitiless enemy gunfire, and then driven forward in attempts to debouch under a criss-cross machine gun fire and the harrying of the ma- chine guns of love -flying airplanes. GENERAL HAIG RENEWS DRIVE nutter --e rose dairy, choice, 40 to 410: Memory Prints, 43 to 45e; solids, 42 to in cartons, 97 to 180; Li'etssTlriVrili.1”--.''. Chickens, 20 to 29c' ' fowl, 2,4 to 25c; ducks. 22 to 25c; 01121080,, hr. des., 14.00 to $4.00; turkeys, 10 to Cheese -New, large, 27 to 272o; twins 2711 to 272e; tripots. 272 to 180; larfe, 289e; twins, 2120, 11131hiso.: 1640 10 13 2- Ib. , 'e; bUckwheat, '80 -lb. 1030. tl comb honey--eru. xtthieaunt 1:00T, N8v2L.1511:11,x1,,,,e8:2 di.:24.,101/,27k select, 12.50 to Maple syrbp-Imperial gallon, $1,00 to $11.1"e5d•atoe8-On track Ontario, per bag. $3.50; New Brunswick Delawares, per bag. 54,00; Albertas, imr bug, 13.50 to ".173e5kns - Imported, hand-plcked. Per hush., $6.25; Canadian, lutud-Picked. Per bush., $7.50 to 57,75; Canadian primett. 17.00 to 57.25; Limas, per lb., 13 to 133e. Provisions -Wholesale TURKS LOST 4,000 BRITISH ONLY 73 Although Gen, Maude's Troops Attacked Ottoman Main Position. A despatch from London says: - The British forces under Gen, Mende forced a passage of the Shalt -el -Ad - hem River, 50 miles south of Bagdad, and attacked the main Turk position, completely routing the enemy, whose casualties were over 4,000, including 1,244 prisoners. The total British casualties were only 73, The general officer commending the ENEMY WITHDRAWAL ON AISNE CONTINUES AND vial= CAPTURED British Hold High Ground; French Indict Heavy Losses on the Enemy; Many Prisoners Captured; Four Villages Taken. A despatch from London says; -The southern pert of the Hindenburg line in France eontinues to crumble er fall beck before the forces of General Nivelle, Thursday witnessed additional important gainby the French dt mamma points from Soissons east- , Ward to the old Champagne, and also the capture of men and guns, British forces in Egypt reports in an . In the latter region north-west of official statement to the War office Auberive the French captured strong - that on April 17th the British advent!. ly-fortilied Genneptrenches on a ed north of the Wadi Ghuzze, in froet of a mile and a quarter and made Southern Palestine, and captured the Prisoner 150 Germans, Northeast Turkish advanced positions along a of Soissons the village of Aisy, JouY frtint of six and one-half miles. , and Laffaux and Fort de Conde were The attack was assisted by the fire captured by the French, while to the of warships, and the position gained eest, near Hurtebise, another point of was consolidated. Fighting was still support fell into their hands and with proceeding at the time the report as it 000 prisoners ant:: two cannon. sent, I Violent artillery actions are in pro - The battle now roperted follows up grass between the Somme and the the success gained on March 27, at Oise, in Champagne, near Le Mort Wadi Ghuzze, near the ancient city of Homme, in the Veidun sector, and in Gaza, when the Turks narrowly es- Belgium around Dixinude, caped complete disaster. The French War Office reports that -et- - Wednesday night the Gernians threw GERMANS DROWN twelve divisions of fresh men into the fray between Soissons and Auberive in an attempt to hold General Nivelle's OWN WOUNDED 3 ftionia'cveasianegl.r, but that their efforts were Two British -Hospital Ships Tor- A despatch from British Head- pedoed Without Warning. quarters in France says; The •great value of the recent 61(1- Loadon, April 23, -The British hos- ranee lies in the fact that we p s Ps onega an anhanc, have everywhere driven the enemy with many wounded aboard, have been Smoked and cured meats and lard are torpedoed -without warning, They were sunk on April 17. Of those on the Donegal 29 wounded men and 12 of the crew are missing. The Lan - franc carried German wounded as well as British. Of those aboard 19 British and 15 Germans are believed to have perished. The placing of Germans on hospital ships which do not carry the charact- eristic signs is one of the methods of n reprisal decided upon by the British e Government because of the unlearned • sinking of these boats of mercy. GERMANY'S WANT nnoted to the trade by Toronto whole- salers as follows: - Smoked meats -Hants, medium, 28 to 29c; do., heavy, 24 to 25c; cooked, 30 to . 40c; rolls, 24 to 25e; breakfast bacon, SO to 13e; backs, plain, 31 to 140; bone- less. 15 to 34e, Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 252 to 252c; tubs, 252 to 20o; pails, 26 to 262c; 00181 - pound, tierces, 20 to 203c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 21. to 22c per lb; clear bellies, 20 to 202c. Montreal Markets .lontreal, Apr, 24 - Oats-Ca.nadia weste-. No,f 2, ole; do., No, 3, 'lltritoa^ , V10.a feed. 78e. 1H51.11 Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents • firsts, $12.29; do., seconds, 511.70; do, , strong bakers', 111.50; winter patents :choice, $11.50; do., straight roBers,_119.8 ra 4-11 ;1.3actiel rt2,31 11).5Z1! gb.,"k:allafs .90 lbs„ 14 to $4,25, Bran -$40 to 542 fillit,p,rtaz,-105‘44dieto .5A4,80 1111111.cllims3:-$115, t2o per ton, car lots. $13.50. Potatoes -pet bag, ear lots, 52.25 to 52.50. WInnioes. Grain - Winnipeg. Apr. 24 -Cash prices 7,cirt(Itit';7nz_ N12.12,"Poh,e3nNttUreli:h, R202; No. 4, 82.17; N.. 5. 81,09; No, 6 51.07; feed, 51.18. Oats -No, 2 C.W., 71k; No, O C.W., 7020; extra No, 1 feet, 701c; No. 1 feed, 085c; No. 2 feed, 67e. Bar - 1o1' -Ne. 3, $1.11; NA. 1/.14; rejected, 96c; feed,96e No, 1 N.W.C., $2 800' No, 2 52,942. United States Markets Minneapolis, Apr. 24 -Wheat -May. 52.273; July, 52.20; cush-No. 1 hued, 8°l 12 GAINS NEAR CAMBRAI u2121 In' A2 Corn -No, 3 yellow, t_ .1.4_3. 2.503 o $2. 3; No. 1 Nort e -n, ,3222.4422 0 dO., 99.39 Oats -No. 3 white, 693 to 692c. Flour- Unehanged. ltran-339 to 54o. Duluth, -Apr. 24 -Wheat -No, 1 hard :°i t3: 02,343; No. . to 11° '4,ai bid; July. 52.20 bin Ltoseed-s3.20 to $3,21; May. $3.24; ittly, $3,24 bid; Sep- tember, $1,21. Clears Stubbornly Defended Position Between Hermes and Gon- nelieu, Eight Miles Southwest of Cambrai. London, April 22. -Fighting activi- south of the River Scarpe. ty, almost suspended on the front held, by the Crown Prince from Soissons through the Champagne, swung back again to -clay to the great segment, of the new Hindenburg line faced by, the forces of Field Marshal Haig.' The British night report eells of clear- ing the wooded angle stubbornly held by the Germans between Hermines and Gonnelieu. about eight miles southwest of Cambrai. Both the day anti night bulletins from Berlin emphasize the extreme violence of the British artillery fire at many points on the Arras front, north and Every indication -the German com-1 mumques, the heavy gun duels, the . . retita o scouting in the8i1'-.-points to a renewal of the -grand offensive by the British armies in that "rhythmic warfare" which began with the; storming of Viney Ridge. The course the battle may take cannot be predict- ed, . but present indications suggest that General Haig is aiming his blow. down the valley of the Scarpe to- ward Douai, which is admittedly the British objective, and the northern pier upon which Hindenburg built his retreat from last eummer's battlefield of the Somme. ---• , BIIITSB FORCE IN PALESTINE IS IN TOUCH WITH THE ENEMY About 200 Turkish Prisoners Were Captured in Fighting Which, Took Place on the 19th. - London, April 22. -An official come unication issued this evening deal - ng with the report last Friday of the dvance of the British forces north f•Wadi Ghuzze, in Southern Pales - me, says: "The British have consolidated the •ound gained and Etre now in touch ith the enemy's main positions cov- ering Gaza (near the Mediterranean, about 50 miles south-west of Jerusa- lem). This position extends from the seacoast near Sheikh Ahmed, through Alimantae to the east of the town, and thence in a south-easterly direction to Abuhariera. About 200 Turkish prisoners were captured the 19th." 1 ran. Stock markets Toronto, Apr. 14-r.stra choice !MINT stecrosteerill-, 511.'2'5 to $11,4• steers, 310.59 to 810.60; butchers' Cattle. chole, 511.20 to 311.69; do. good 813.40 to $10.60; do., medium. 59.65 to 510; common. 10.75 to 59; butchers bulls, choice. $10 to 010.75; do., gond. bulls, 19.25 to 09.75; do., medium 18.25 to 10.72; do., rough 30.4o to 10.50; butchers' cows, choice, $10 tn 810.25: dn., good, $0.75 to $0.50; do.. medium, 57 to 57.25; stockers. 17,50 to 19.35; feeders, 1911t $142•6; "Tsier'' 102162 ''=17' 5. to•, go o 1s5 to 5110; do., cum, and med., each, Vu'2e4,0;10001'tosiiiii,ltr 1151e5eortoh$1..1,V. light to $9.50: calves, 50011 10 'clicVc. 812.50 1:10112;1,7000..o1747111g4,126nLbisilettno.„8,01.111e0t115u152::: 110,59, to 512.'50: hogs, fed atm watereo: 610.40 to 310.50; do., weighed off cars, $10.65 to $16.75; do., to,b., $15.76. Montreal. Apr. 24- Cholce steera. 512.15 to 012.50: good steers. 110.50 to 011.8': eocnnion „..,, 0 00 510; hoteliers' f!OWS, 50 to $11: 59.50 12, 512; choice milk -fed calves, 58 to $11; common. 35 to 57; sheep, 520 to 511; yearling lambs, 514.50 to $15.50: spring lambs. 50 to 011; bogs, 517 to 317.50. SUNDAY SHELL WORK ABOLISIIED IN BRITAIN1 London, April 22. -Sunday labor is to be abolished as far as possible in a large majority of munitions works. Only in establishments in which the process work is of necessity continu- ous or where contracts of great urg-1 ency are being filled will exceptions' be made. This decision is the re - suit of an experiment carried out for four months in works on the Tyne and Tees, where the abolition of Sunday abor, according to an official report, has been in most cases highly bene - film] to the health of the worIcers and the output of munitions, 2 FARM LABORERS POUR INTO wEsT --- Problem of Prairie Agriculture is Being Solved Satisfactorily, Ottawa, April 22. --The farm labor problem in Western Canada is being satisfactorily solved by the National Service Board in co-operation with the Federal Department of immigration and the Agricultural Departments of the Western Provincial Governments, Many thousands of farm laborers have already been brought into the West from the 'United States and the ma- jority of these will become perman- ent citizens. 00 DESERTERS IN A BODY TRIED TO CROSS INTO HOLLAND ere Fired on by Uhlans With Machine Guns and Thirty -Eight of the Deserters Wounded. despatch from Amsterdam says: , re than 500 German Fusiliers4 ors and Landsturmers on Monday' ling tried to cross the Dutch -Bel -1 i.frontier from the environs of ke to near Garzand, Holland, the Handelsblad, but the at, tempted desertion was frustrated after the party had been pursued and attack. ed by Uhlans. The deserters were fired on by the tiblana with machine guns, 1 and Ip a fig t which lasted a half-hour 88 of the enortera IN•ere wounded, The faollae guards along the front- ier have since boon doublad. FREEDOM'S ALLY Hunger, Co -Operating With Ex- ternal Enemies, to Bring Auto- cracy to Teirns. GREAT DEEDS OF CANADIANS One Rills Half Gun Crew and Cenald3laaYn°11Ifeets:1:7tealriendileir France (via Landon), ---Where till the soldiers from high ground and robbed him of have been heroic it is difficult to single lily observation. Now all are in oer out actions width stamp the men who hands, From, them we can sweep ob perfoem them as the brave, but from servation over. a wide expanse of coons the records which may result in the try to Douai and beyond, while they decoration of sons& of the heroes of shut out all the enemy's view of our the battle of Vimy Ridge it is not per- movemeets on this side. Nevertheless mitted te make mention of examples all this ground is a continuous alter- of conspicuous valor end place honor nation of slopes and dips. It is not as where it belongs, A private, during if the high ground always command- the fierce struggle for the hill the ed a view of the level plain. Every- second day of the battle, earned a de. where there are hidden folds and aeration if ever a man did, The ad, memos, lesser ridge beyond lesser wince was made in a blinding snow ridge. It: is not necessarily cagy to storm, which fortunately carried the continue e rapid advance. Attack urines Into the faces of the enemy in down the forward slow; of the high their carefully-g•uarded position on ground under the exposed fire of the the bill slope, lesser slopes beyond is often extreme- As our men advanced they were met ly difficult now. Ozi the general front by a murderous machine gun fire, except north of Lens and soath of St. guarded and operated by a group of a Quentin there must intervene a la- dozen af the enemy. Our men wore barkers period in the advancing of our falling fast as the hail of lead from preseet positions, The enemy still has the machine gun swept the hillside, a strong short line running through Then, with utter disregard for his own Oppy, north-east of Arras and south- safety, this private rushed forward, wards some 3,000 yards. Behind that tackling alone the barrier to our vie - again is the stronger famous Droco- tory. Making progress from shell quer-Queant line, or what the Ger- hole to shell 11010, he reached a point mans know as the Wotan line, which within thirty yards of the enemy gun. is a part of the even more notorious He threw a bomb that distance, which Hindenburg line running south-east- killed ox wounded pat of the machine ward to St. Quentin from a junction gun crew; then, with a final rush, he near Quoant. These are undoubtedly rushed the position and bayoneted the formidable, but an above this the five men remaining with- .the gun. Queant end of the Hindenburg line is This splendid deed of gallantry saved already ours, if it be the plan 01 2110 the situation and the lives of many general staff to break it by a frontal men. attack, there is pot the slightest doubt we shall succeed. 7 GERMAN OFFIC SANK ON KNEES -- WORKMEN WIN BEGGED CAPTOR FOR MERCY General Morale of the Kaiser's Army Typified by Two Signilleent Incidents. A despatch from London says: The London Times correspondent with the French army telegraphs that condi- tions overhead and under foot are as bad as possible. In the course of his despatch, which merely amplifies the present detailed French communiques, he says: "The bombardment that has continued incessantly for days along the front to an extent of 100 Miles, added to the formidable length of the English front north of St. Quentin, is, perhaps, the most appalling thing the world has ever seen. . . , I heard to - London, April 22e -Hunger, want, day of a captured German officer who di. t t vitl G andscon en theGelman Empire, are powerfully co-operating -•- --- TO GET AFTER SLACKERS With eXternal foes to bring the auto - y U. S. N ti ti Reported next few months. Accordingly, work V705 resumed to- I went down on his knees when taken Lo !beg for mercy, I Sall, a French officer who, with two men, had taken 60 pris- oners, walking about places where he was exposed, not only to shell fire, but to machine gun bullete, as coolly as if he had been in the Place de l'Opera. The difference between the two men exactly typifies the difference between the general morale of the bombarding force that is attacking and the bom- barding force that is being attacked. Not in one place or two, but all along the line the French have shown this morale superiority:6 crac toterms' s DemonstrationsbyFROM U S AND BRITAIN FRENCH OCCUPY the people or by strikers in the City of Berlin, almost unknown hi times of peace, and until within a few days quite unknown during wair, axe un- mistakable evidence of bad condi- tions. The reports that the first de- monstrations had been brought to an is understood in Government circles end, not by troops, but by concessions here that negotiations are in progress h • • • The trouble has s reed to munition G • h • BERLIN STRIKE important Concessions Made by the Government A despatch from Copenhagen says: German papers received here on Fri- day night deal with the Berlin hunger strike, which is now reported at an end, giving details which were not in- cluded in the earlier news telegrams. The Berlin Tageblatt estimates the number of mon on strike at 300,000. Vorwaerts says that 210,000 wore in- volved, Work was stopped in 300 munition factories. As a result of the strike a commis - shin of laborers was formed, which, after conference with Dr. Wermuth, the President of the Berlin Subsist- ence Commission, obtained a promise that in future it would be consulted in all food questions. The Laborers' Commission also received a guarantee that stores of the most important foodstuffs would be provided for the ego a ons to Be in Pro. NEW VALLAGES gress Between the Two Govern- ments. A despatch from Ottawa says: -It German Attack With Large Ef- fectives Completely Repulsed. to t e v,mkes, aro not contradicted. between the British and United States A despatch from Paris says; Clear - overnmente withregard to t e le- er and slightly colder weather, after works employing thousands of men eruitingt possibly under some form of the almost ceaseless rains since the upon whom Germany now depends to supply her great armies in the field. U. S. IS • • OVER 3,000 SUSPECTS. no - reached belwegeneWaeLl Washington yet Lon-1 tmost is s tib•oonioggly- foottrotoi fioezcol ci, f rtoonwt-ohrly sge- ! German Residents Under Surveillance don, it is expected here, according to bursting point. , in the United States. a semi-official statement given out on meSrOlsittnpglapioitienctls,inGtelnicereallienNiyi'vseifioer,s- A despatch from Washington says: NWviieidnbeesdraoya,ohteldia. etvhseoracley arrangement poilus continue daehing aside repeated !Approximately three thousand Ger- who fled either from Canada or Great massed counter-attacks, all the time man residents of the United States Britain will bo made subject to vir- gaining time for bringing up bigger aro under close surveillance, Depart- tual conscription by British agents. merit of Justice officials announced on They will probably have a choice of guns and huge shell supplies, pre- Fricay, because of their activities in enlisting with the Canadian or British paratory to a renewal ot the assault. by a further bound forward. The total behalf of the German Government be- armies, or of going into some other number of prisoners taken by the fore America's entry into the war 00 form of direct war service, The French since Monday is T1OW 116,000, because of their pro -German sym- Canadian and British authorities have s great French attack began, on Friday who have gone to the United States augured the resumption of the mam- since the war began, and who thereby moth operations by which Hinden- sought to escape War service. While burg's most vulnerable, and therefore pathies. kept a fairly accurate list of the names TERRIFIC EXPLOSION emigrated since the war begau. and addresses of the men who have with more than 100 guns. AT WILHELMSHAVEN. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYS .HORSES PURCHASED 232 FOOD INSPECTORS. Damage Caused for Many Miles FOR CANADIAN ARMY. A despatch from Ottawa Says; Around, Says One Despatch. A despatch from Ottawa says: In There are now 197 food. inspectors Amsterdam, April 23.-A terrific all, 26,015 horses have been purchased employed by the Department of Agri. explosion occurred in Wilhelmshaven in Canada for the Canadian army qulture, and 85 employed by the De - Harbor (Prussia) Friday, according since the war began, according to a partment of /eland Revenue, accord - to The Nieue Rotterdamsche Cour- return tabled in the Commons on Fri- 11832 to an answer given Mr. Sinclair, ant. Damage was caused foi• 'y clay. The total cost of the animals of Guysboro, during the question hour miles around. I was $4,398,850. The return ' stated in the Commons on Friday. There was Wilhelmshaven is one of the main that the Canadian Government had no a net increase during the past, year of naval depots of Germany, Kiel being information as to the number of 19 in the number employed by the for- another. 1 horses bought in Canada for Groat 0100 departinent and se7n I -i tl_.rie IBritain and the allied nations. 810011101'employed by the latter. SIR GEORGE FOSTER TO GO TO WASHINGTON EVERY DOCTOR IN B A despatch from Ottawa says; - Sir George Foster the Acting Prime CAL night, the laborers' meeting last night having declared the food authorities' promises satisfactory. GEN. VON BISSiNG DIES IN BELGIUM A despatch from Lender says Beuter's Amsterdam correspondent says that according to a Brussels despatch Gen. von Bieeing, German Governor-General in Belgium, died Wednesday evening. General Baron Moritz Ferdinand von Biasing was appointed Governor- General of Belgium in November, 1914, in succession to General von der Goltz, Ho was born in 1814. During his rule in Belgium, General von Mese ing has come into prominence many times, notably in connection with the execution of Miss Edith Cavell, the English nurse, frequent clashes with Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, and the deportation of Belgians. It was reported hi 1915 that he had or- dered the round -up of spies and per- sons eupsected of working agaiest the Germans in Belgium, end that scoi•es of -executions followed the carrying eut of tide order, Several times by nis order Belgian cities and towns were fined heavily for alleged break- ing of rules 1011 1 • • by Isim , He had been ill off and on for more than a year. HIGH SCHOOL BOYS FOR FAItel WORK The Minister of Education has noti- fied the Organization of Resources Committee that he has sent a letter to the principals of High Scheele and RITAINCollegiate Institutes of file peovince, desirability of encouraging- as mai -I LED UP FOR SERVCE. Minister, left for Washington on Sat- urday where he will represent Canada in the conference at which representa- tives of Great Britain, France and others of the allied powers will dis- cuss plans for mutual co-operation in the war against Germany, At a lat- er period in the deliberations of the conference, Sir Phonies White will likely go to Washington. CONTROLLER '1'A: ES OVER A LI, FOOD FA CTO I ES A despatch teem London eays- The Food Controller Is empowered by an order -ill -Council to take possession of any factory, or other premises, Where food is maintfactured. - in which he urges upon them the Hospitals to be Established Overseas as Result of the Sinking of Hospital Ships.„ A despatch from London saye: The War Cabinet decided on Friday that every physician and surgeon and every man with medioal training of military age must he called up for service immediately. In reference to the calling up of the physicians and surgeons thl following official explanation ie given: "The enemy in total dieregurd of the accepted tenets of civilized war- fare, has deliberately instituted a submarine campaign against hospital ships, and it has therefore becnme essential that a large number of hos. pitale should he established overseas in the various theatres of War for the treatment of sick and wounded. In or- der to ellow this to be done with great rapidity 12 10 essential to secure the services; of evevy doctor that can pos- sibly be spared from the United Ring- dom." taos poonsgstitgble eioof tthojebmoNyveorilci sscoliTo this ogls, The Meister further suggests that the matter be also brought to the atten- tion of the parents with a view to securing their co-operation. MUNITIONS ORDERS RECEIVED BY CANADA A despatch from Ottawa says: --A statement to the Minister of leinance by J. 150, lelavelle, chairman of the Imperial Munitions Boerd, shows the total Valtle of orders received to be $850,000,000, munitions shipped to March 80 weve valued at $470,000,000, and disbursements to that date totale led $543,000,000, Employee:: di Teat and indivect number over 260,000, and eao factories and plants are in operetion.