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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-06-07, Page 2BRITISH MISSION TO RUSSIA U.S. COLORS IN ST. PAUL'S Representatives of the Different' American Legion on Leave From Political Opinions Included in Front Conduct Notable Delegation to Russia, Ceremony, A despatch from London says; -In A despatch from London snare: eellrieetlon with the approaching visit When the first Canadian expeditionary of George H, Roberts, Lord Com- force was formed many Americans nlssioner• of the Treasury; James erossed the border and enlisted for Yaamsay MacDonald, chairman of the service in Europe, There was a Labor party, and Frederick W. Jowett, sprinkling from every state in the president of the Independent Labor Union. They were drafted into spe- arty to Russia, the following author- eta' battalions, and for a time wore 'zed statement has been issued; the distinctive badges which proelaim- "Sincerely desirous of meeting the ed their nationaljty. Representations, views of the Russian Government however, were made by the United that they should bo enabler: to learn States Government to have the badge at first hand the opinions of all see- altered and the men merged into the tions of British thought, the Govern- Canadian force. After over two years' anentis facilitating the journey to welting they may now reclaim their ussia of the representatives of dif- nationality. These battalions will be erent political opinion. Among tbese styled "The American Legion" The are factions with a very small follow- title is unofficial, but means a great. ing, who latterly have not been over-, deal. enthusisatic in the vigorous proseeu-' On Wednesday this legion deposited tion of the war. t its colors in St, Paul's Cathedral, The' "The British Government has no-' ceremony was impressive, and will go' thing to hide.. They entered the war down in history as the first ceremony, in defence of the rights of small na- in which American and British troops 'ions and democracies, freedom and attended Church service together dur-,, justice -a brutal war was forced upon lug the war. A majority of the mem- the allies, who were in a state of total bers of the American Red Cross unit, unpreparedness -and now they are in officers, nurses and men, attended, All; a verydifferent position. They can- the American members of the Cana-' not allow Germany to profit by the din force in the London command' gains wrested from them unscrupul- were allowed leave so that they could ously and in defiance of all right. be present. The colors were deposited! on the altar after being handed to! Dean Inge by a color party of Amer -1 lean citizens enlisted in the Canadian' force, who had come over with the BRITISH WATERS first Canadian division, The standards wecarriedt from t the0 altard to the t 1 '] " Ch HUN MAP OF norreh raneop wile nwar rl- tion Soldiers," was sung by the choir and congregation. The colors were de - Flow Enemy Subs Are Advised posited in the north transept, and of the Presence of Merchantmen. there will remain until another cere- mony is performed, when a party re- moves them and conveys them over - A despatch from London says: -A sea again. despatch from Christiania says that The Tidens Tegn publishes a map found on a spy taken at Gothenburg 85 OO allowing the seas about the British 9 0 ESTIMATE Isles, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic, OF AUSTRIAN LOSSES map is marked in numbered; j squares and has a telegraphic code • — attached. In this code "barrel" means tor- pedo boat, and nationality is convey - d by "quality," Thus an apparent - 5 Generals and 40 High Officers Included -100 Cannon Iy innocent business message reading Destroyed. "Six hundred barrels, first quality," Rome, June 8, -Austrian losses be - would mean "British torpedo boats in29 are square 600." A message reading "Six 85 000 dead,ween Maylw a ded and estimated in- a hundred black," would be a notifica- eluding five generals and 40 high offi- tion that a Norwegian merchantman cors. A hundred cannon have been was in square 600- taken or destroyed. The paper also publishes details of The Giornale d'Italia says that Em - how the Germans obtain and main-, peter Charles soon will proclaim tarn agents everywhere, providing in- Trieste autonomous, whereby it will formation about shipping and naval become "a free city" like Hamburg; movements, helping submarines to and Bremen. The announcement, the sink merchantmen and escape war- ships CA NAEIANS IN BIC paper says, will be accompanied by numerous amnesties. ; Major-General Ricordi met death' while leading a brilliant attack in the • Carso, T By a surprise attack in the dark -I TLE NEAR LENS ness Italian infantry took another, ; stride toward Trieste. They threw 1 the Austrians from trenches on a! Carry the Electric Station in a ; front of a mile and a quarter on the southern Carso plateau, advancing a Brilliant Attack on Front distance of a quarter of a mile. The Exceeding a Mile. attack was made between Castagna-' vizza and Selo, and will aid in the as - 1 Canadian Headquarters in France sault on the latter position. (via London), June 3, -In what is, officially spoken of as a minor opera-' U. S. ARRESTS tion, but which was really a bit of ANTI -CONSCRIPTIONISTS brilliant fighting involving careful; preparation and a final swift attack,' Several Persons Jailed for Plotting the Canadians early this (Sunday); Against Conscription. morning captured the electric station southwest of Lens, on the outskirts of A despatch from Washington says: the village of Coulotte, and a stretch -The arm of the Government reached of the enemy front exceeding a mile, out on Thursday and shut all doors with a depth at its greatest point of through which conscription -dodgers over eight hundred yards. The men night seek to flee the country. who won this notable victory were It stretched 60 miles out into the veteran trnops, who, six weeks ago, Pacific Ocean and snatched from the carried "The Pimple" by storm, Their Pacific Mall liner San Juan Frederick depleted ranks had been reinforced W, Fay of San Francisco. The De by drafts from England, and in this partment of Justice, in its formal an - morning's engagement these troops nouncement last night, stated that proved their fitness to maintain Can- Fay is of military age, and was bound for Mexico, It swept a drag -net through the country, capturing numbers of pris- oners. It smashed at Kansas City, No., and GERMAN HORDES ada's reputation at the front. 4.— FRENCO DEFEAT et Columbus 0., alt hat were said by officials to be wide -spreading plots against the draft. Aside from the arrests in New York Teutons Lose Heavily in Vain many were made in various parts of the country, and scores of charges Attempts to Regain Hills. were lodged against suspects by Fed - Grand Headquarters of the French oral authorities. Army, June 3, -The Germans have Five men were arrested in colum- Sacrificed hundreds killed and thou- bus three on charges of treason. sands 'wounded in their vain efforts tour ;nen and one woman were ar- to regain the range of hills compris- rested in Kansas City, Irfoxmatim, Mg Mont Carnillet, the Casque, the was laid against fifty others, Teton and Mont .Maut, to the east of Three man and one woman were ar- i hems. Since May 20 they have de- 'Tested in Topeka, livered sixteen fruitless assaults. 1 Five men were arrested in Chicago. Th 1 t t It Throughout the country the Gov - e as, i..poi an arras was car- ried out on the night of May30, and ernment is striking hard at anti- ;;'lett; 'Vo, 1 Norrnern. $acs' No. 3, g lh $lia da 9, $9.2R, Nr 4. $2.16; No. far this selected German regiments registration pTOpagaridiete the mo- 6.61•01 No. 0, $1.00: f d $1.16; beats meat they show themselves. Pont rtI t may. 32.32; tune $2.31; Juts, speculation m future win unduly ,� _ $2 u. i,a is -VY,. ,, l' {1 074`: No, 8, TWO MEN, FIVE DAYS, do„ 641"; extra No. 1 teed s44e. Barley enhances prices of wheat and other A. LITTLE CHOCOLATE. . F Right Hon.,Arthur J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, leader of the British Commission sent to the United States to confer with Washington authorities regarding the conduct of the war. Mr. Balfour and the members of the Commission visited Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the industrial districts of Ontario. 40 to Markets of the Word � 012 to $ a: sheep Ohea v1,3 60 to1; do.. cora. and med., each, 369 60 calves, good to choice, $12 to $14; spring lambs, each, 38 to $11• lambs, choice, $16. to $16; do., medium, $11 to $12,50; hogs, Sect anti watered, 610.60; do„ weighed off cars, 616,76; do., f.o.b., 115,76. 002; otldasheep,e$11.60 tog$ 3; bselected hogs, $17.00 to $17.50. Breadstuff*: Toronto, June 5 -Manitoba wheat -No official quotations. Manitoba oats -No official quotations. tions. American corn -No official quota - Ontario oats -No official quotations. No. 3 white, no official quotations. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.60 to $2.56; No. 3 do., $2.43 to 32.663, according to freights outside. Peas -No, 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Barley -Malting, nominal, according to freights outalde. Rye -No. 2, $2,00, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in Jute bags, $13.60; second patents, in lute bags, $13.00; strong bakers', in lute bags, $12.60, Toronto• according to Ontario flour -Winter, sample, 311.00 to 311.10, In bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment. Mlllfeed-Car lots, delivered A3ontreal freights, bags included -Bran. per ton, 037; shorts, per ton, 243; middlings per ton, 146; good feed flour, per hag, $2.80 to 2,00. . ay -Extra No. 2, per ton, 112.60 to $13,50: mixed, per ton, 30 to $11.60, track Toronto Straw -Car lots, per toll, 35, track To- ronto, Country Produce -Wholesale Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 39 to 40c, creamery prints, 43 to 45c; solids, 42 to 43e. Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 45 to 460; Out of cartons, 43c. Pressed poultry -Spring chickens, 60e; fowl, 24 to 25c; ducks, 22 to 250; squabs, Sper doz., $4.00 to $4.50; turkeys, 30 to e Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb., 40 to 4`51: hens, 1b,, 23 10 251, Cheese -New, large, 266 to 270: twins, 282 to 271e; triplets, 27 to 271c; old, liltg e. 20c; twins, 221c. Hnne3•-Comb—Extra (1111 and heavy wsi ht, per dos., 32,75; select, $2.60 to $2.75; No. 2. 32 to 32.26, Maple syrup -Imperial gallon, 31,7 5. potatoes -On track Ontario, per bag, $4,26; Now lirunawiek Delawares. per baga'�, 34.40; .Ube, rt34.a-a,00. per bag, 34.00; 1'. 16.I, whites, hug Beans—Imported, hand-picked, Man- churian, $8,008.00 t to 38,60 per buaki; Limas, per lb., 10 to 20c, Proelelone-•-Wholes ale Smoked meats -Hums, medium 30 to 31o; do., heavy, 25 to 20c; cooked{ 41 to 42e; rolls, 24 to 27c; breakfast bacon. 33 to 35e; backs, plain, 36e; boneless, ase. Lard-l'ure lard, tierces, 264 to 270; tubs, 27 to 273c; palls, 271 to 275e; com- pound. tierces, 213c; tubs, 216c; pails, 22r, Cured meats --Long clear bacon, 24 to 26c per ab; clear bellies, 2.1 to 260. 1t0ontreai-Markets Montreal, June 6 -Oats -Canadian western, 1 fNn.eed 77c 2, 800; tra No. . Barley -Malting, Flout• --Man, Spring wheat patents firsts, 313.6o: seconds. $13.10: strong bakers', $12.00; Winter patents, choice, $;14.26; straight rollers, $13.60 to 513,80; iso„ bags, 66.50 to $0:66, Rolled 0,115, bnl'reis, 38.76 to 30.26; do„ bapgtts, 50 Ills„ 34.6 to $4,50, Aran, 138, Shorts, 344. A31t1d11pge, 840 t" 150• Ainu1111e, 350 t0 $16 stay --No. 2, pet• ton, oar iota, 513 to 61351), ;'Reese-1+'inesl westerns, 23 to 231 l", easterns, 21 to 221c. But- ter -Cho lv est ut- te[ droll+et creamery, 3016; seconds, 30,bag, - nr1 eglogis. 33 - Fn.ah,76to 43634..00.Potatoes. per 0 Wlanlpeg Orcin i n: to, June 5-- Cosh prices:- SECOND STAGE OF ITALIAN ADVANCE 439 GERMAN AEROPLANES SHOT DOWN IN F1.ANCI� IN MAY Allied Losses During the Same, Period Amounted to 271, of Which 8(i Were British. A despatch from London says; Seven hundred and ten aeroplanes were broughteilown on the western front in May, only seven less than in April, when the struggle for superior- ity in the ale reached its maximum in- tensity, During this period the Germans lost 489 machines, and the allies, according to the claims of the enemy, 271. It is impossible to resist the conclusion that the air reports of the German main headquarters are, like their mili- tary communiques, exaggerated even when not quite false. Our general headquarters in France is the only one of the belligerents which acknowl- edges its own losses. It admits that in May 86 British aeroplanes failed to return, Dedueting this figure from the German total would mean (if it does not inolude, as the enemy's monthly summary frequently clew, • machines brought down on the east-! ern -Balkan fronts) that the French' air service lost 186 aeroplanes, nearly twice as many as -the Royal Flying Corps. - But, taking the figures as they are, they show that the Germans lost 70 more machines last month than in April, while our losses were 01. fewer, and those of the French 16 more. Brit- ish airmen and gunners claim 240 of the 489 German machines, and the French the other 199. HAZE JOINS ENTENT. ALLIES Hold All Gains and Occupy Hills on Left Bank of the Isonzo. A despatch from London says: The second stage of the Italian advance on the Isonzo front, which began on May 23, has been conducted with as great a determination and conspicuous suc- cess as the first stage, which won for Italy the Kuk and Vodice heights. Developments of Cadorna's plans show he is attacking in force of a broad front of 25 miles from the sea on the right to Playa on the left, and the second and third Italian armies are already committed to this attack. Both armies have done famously. The second army has held all its gains on Kuk and Vodice heights, and even extended thein, while it has de- feated with signal success numerous powerful counter-attacks by the ene- my, to whom the loss of this position has evidently been a most unpleasant surprise. The whole crest of the line of hills on the left bank of` the Isonzo is now in Italian occupation from be- tween Vodice and Monte Santo to the height between Playa and Daskla, while Monte Santo itself, though not yet captured, is being seriously as- sailed. San Gabrielle is coming in for a good hammering from the guns, Indications That Chile Will Fol- low Brazil's Example. A despatch from Rio de Janeiro says; -The Brazilian -Senate voted on Thursday authorizing ,an alliance of Brazil with "other States to defend the American republics against the world," A despatch from Washingston says: -Despatches to the State Department from Chile indicate that the course of Brazil in relatibn to the war be- tween Germany and the United States has created a profound impression upon the Chilean press. There were indications that public sentiment in Chile favors action on the part of the Chilean Govhrnment 'similar to Brazil's. The Chilean press is in- sisting that the solidarity of American republics ought not to be broken up. 3,412 PRISONERS CAPTURED BY BRITISH. Totsl Number for Month of May Taken in France. A despatch from London says: During May the British forces in FREIGHT TRAFFIC TO ATLANTIC PORTS Wooden Vessels Being Built at Vancouver for This Service A despatch from Ottawa says:- Two ays: Two wooden vessels are now being built in Vancouver for the Dominion Government as the nucleus of a freight -carrying service between Van- couver and Canadian Atlantic ports. A statement to this effect was made HINDENBURG IS IN A QUANDARY Cannot Conceal or Explain the Losses Inflicted by the Italians. A despatch from Udine says: Ital- ian Headquarters says that }linden burg finds himself in an awkward quandary. Having declared the Aus- trian positions o, the Italian front impregnable, owing to the formidable fortifications erected there, he sloes not know how to keep from Iris people the news of the losses suffered on this front, which every day are becoming more apparent. The German Generalissmo, experts say, is trying' to accomplish the im- possible: make the Italians retire by launching assault upon assault against them, ordering terrible concentrations of fire, sending his reserves to be butchered, and putting into the task all the diabolical agencies which kul- tur has been able to suggest. The unshakable firmness of the Italian troops has prevented the en- emy from gaining ground in many places. Indeed, the Italians have themselves gained important positions. On the Vodice Ridge the enemy as- saults take place under the most ad- verse conditions. The Austrians must climb amid a shower of bombs thrown down on them by the Italian soldiers, and their losses are frightful. The ground descending toward Gargaros is covered wi111 dead bodies. 312,503 CAN. I>IAN in the Commons Tuesday night by TROOPS OVERSEAS Hon. Dr. Reid during a discussion of OVERSEAS the estimates of the Customs Depart- ment. — The Minister expressed his belief that Canadian ships could handle freight from Canadian ports just as cheaply as it could be handled from New York. The start would be made with th. two ships ordered, and upon the success of the experiment de- pended further action. The ships or- dered would be auxiliary vessels with a speed of eight or nine knots an hour. INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. Flexible lath for many building pur- poses has been patented that is com- posed of wire cloth, coated with brick clay. day iea� y ;t�y�� `Feat is Athe s inventor automobileles ofa auge to he sman 4 A S ii 81r S" pJi� k i mounted near the windshield of a car to show its exact consumption of gas- oline. Rubber artificial eyes, which are — partially pneumatic, have been in - British Prisoners Will Be With - vented in Europe and are said to be lighter and more comfortable than drawn From Firing Line. I3ItI7'ISII CASUALTIESFOE MON'TII 04' MAY. A despatch from London says; I3ritish eusualtiae as published in May show a total of 6,902 oflicers and 106,831 men, as follows; Officers. Mon, Total Killed . , ... , .. 1,552 25,838 27,390 Wounded . , , , , 8,762 76,718 79,480 Missing . , ,.. , . 828 6,428 7,248 The total of casualties is 114,118. The British offensive on the Arras front, involving some of the severest flghting of the war, naturally has re - suited in a large iacroase in casualties over the inactive Winter season, Cas- ualties for the last fe'uv mettle have not been received, but in February the total reported was only 1,248 of- ficers and 17,185 men, The assertion of the British that their. losses are fifty per cent. smaller than in the Battle of the Somme, not- withstancling the fact that larger forces are engaged, is not borne out by the May figures, although in the absence of the casualty report for April, early in which month the alien - sive was launched, the showing is not conclusive, The easualties recorded in the first three mouths of the Somme drive were 307,109 officers and men. In August of last year, the second month of the Somme battle, the casualties were 127,945, as compared with 112,233 for May, the second month of the Arras battle. DANGER FROM ZEPPELINS Only when the Aerial Monster is Ap- proaching is There Cause For Alarm. The eiytzzen of the old land who sees a Zeppelin overheard travelling at nor- mal speed need have little fear of the aerial monster and death -dealer., and`' may, if ho please, satisfy his curiosity by gazing skyward and watching its flight. The explanation of this immunity is that the height from which a Zepp. must necessarily operate, and the speed at which it travels, militates greatly against accuracy of aim, Thus ' a Zepp. seldom finds the bull's-eye. Further, a bomb dropped from a height of 8,000 feet, whilst the airship Iis speeding along at the rate of the Flying Scotchman, would strike the ! ground not less than three -eights of a ' mile in front of the spot ,over which the Zepp. was at that moment travel- ling. Thus the people who , are in danger are those who see the Zepp. coming. Sum of Forces Which Had Sailed For England Up To May 1st. A despatch from Ottawa says: - The total number of officers and men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who had sailed for England up to May lst last was 312,503, according to in- fcrmation furnished by Hon. J. D. Reid on behalf of the Minister of Militia to Hon. Frank Oliver in the Commons on Wednesday. The total number who were on duty in Canada on May 1st was 25,47E. PROTECTION GREATER PRODUCTION. Increased Output From Canada's Fish- eries to be Undertaken. The Canadiari'Fisheries' Association is to be commended for its commercial enterprise and patriotic service in undertaking an extensive campaign for an increased output from Canada's fisheries. It is the intention of the Association to not only have the splen- did fisheries of the Dominion contri- bute as largely as possible to the re- lief of the immediate grave shortage of food, but also to promote perman- ent development of our fisheries on a much greater scale. In serving the particular interests which it repre- sents, the Canadian Fisheries' Asso- ciation, like the Canadian Forestry As- sociation, Canadian Mining Institute, Pulp and Paper Association, the great farmers' organizations and numerous other influential bodies identified with promoting and protecting primary production in its various phases, can at the same time bo of great service in assisting more proportionate na- tional development than Canada has been securing during the present cen- tury. FELONY TO HOARD FOOD IN THE STATES, A despatch from Washington says: A stringent amendment. to the Gore food bill, malting it a felony to hoard food products or other necessities of glass ones. 1 London, June 3, -Arrangements life or to resort to any scheme to Telegraph poles have been dispensed have been completed with the Ger- create a shortage, was adopted by the with entirely in one Welsh town in man Government for the withdrawal Senate on Thursday by a viva voce which the residents have permitted of all British war prisoiers from the vote. It is regarded by the Senate as the wires to be strung from house to firing line, according to an official an- by far the most potent of all the food house. I nouncemolrt to -night.'' The prisoner's legislation consideree] by Congress, Norwegian experiments with fishing will bo Rept a minimum distance of and is interpreted by Senatorr, as with the aid of electric lights lowered 18t miles from the actual front, both carrying the real solution of the food into the sea have been failures, the in the Eastern and Western zones. problem. illumination apparently frightening the fish away. 1 aa-- France captured 8,412 Germans, Bays Work has been begun in Australia BRITISH DESTROYER CUSTOMS REVENUE on a system of locks and weirs that : SAVES NORSI''. SKIP. FOR MAY TS RECORD the official statement from British I will mako the Murray River navigable -- --__ Headquarters, issued on Thursday far inland and supply irrigation to Tzltoi'000ts_a German Submarine and night. There has bean increased ar- about 1,500,000 acres of land. A despatch from Otte r; saysi- Forces it to Submerge. tillery activity on both banks of the The customs revenue for May anuntnt- By the invention of attachments for A despatch from Boston says: The ed to $17,144,308, the largest monthly Scarps, on the Arras front, and in the an American typewriter already Norwegian steamer Noruoga, which return in the history of the country. Ypres recto'• ex- tensively used 01 India the writing of arrived at an American port on Wed- The revenue increased by $4,080,047, DRASTIC FOOD BILL PASSED. the 360 characters and signs of the nc •day, reported an escape from at- as compared with the corresponding Bengali alphabet is made possible, tack by a submarine while 300 miles month last year. For the two Juno 3. -Tho Adminie- An Oregon inventor's windmill has off the No•wogian roast, The Nor- months of the fiscal year which have Washington,blades that novo horizontally instead .;;egian was accomi•anied by a British now alapscd the total customs revenue tration food bill was adopted by the of vertically and which are shielded teener and was under convoy of a was X31.,208,625, as compared with Senate ,yesterday afternoon by an aye when moving against the wind by a British dotilroyer when the Noruega's $23,400,953 for the corresponding and nay vote, screen that is governed by a wind lookout righted a perisropo dead period during the past. fiscal year: It includes an amendment empow vane, aheata The deatrnyet was notified and erh,g the President to prohibit clipped In between the steamer and 1 ft h 362,000 ENLISTED the submarine in an attempt to ram IN AUSTRALIA the underwater boat, but the sub - m— arine plunged in time to sa. o itself, 14 Per Cent. of the Male Population of the Commonwealth. RUSSIAN VICTORY were especially trained and rehearsed pehincl their own lines before they were thrown against the French lines. ut they met only with disaster. The rat and second waves were annibilat- ed before they were half way to the l;anoh positions, A few men in the iyraves that followed obtained a foot- ng in the French lines, and fierce )ayonet duels ensued, in which all the Orma» assaulting forces were killed xoept in one trench where a German etachment held out until daybreak, ere men. were killed in the course >ef a Frenra counter-attack. "%h., —No 3. 3t.ty No. 4 31.12; tel,tr.tna, $t; food cereals. If the warning is not feed $l. bl rx --NN 1 , 0"., $2.1 32.701; No. ,, c..,v., $'.,a3, �,•. 3, an., $a.161. i observed, the President could close an Rive Stook viarlcots exchange during the war, A despatch from a British port says: Two British aviator's were res- cued in the North .Sea_on Thursday by a British warship. The men had been floating on some wreckage for five days and nights, and:,had -. n1y a small piece of chocolate between them during that period. They were mach exhausted when rescued and landed here. Toronto, luno 5 t`holce head titer+t•s, y ,0g12.16 to S12.6o: Bund lutgerx, � RUSSIANS DRIVE BACK TURKS 111,86 to 312, but,'herw' cattier choice. � n a, gme n $11,30 t 51a d 1 311 t $it 80 A despatch from Petrograd says: do„ medusa;, $10 butchers' 310 f: do„ ammm�n.' 30 to $0,40: butchers' ban , rimae $10 >4 -.-Troops of the Russian Caucasus t611; de., gond bulls 32 76 to 910, dn, . trim have successfully beaten off Int+drum bulla, 38,6,) lr $0; do„ rough y brills, $g6,460 to $6,50-; hatchets' cowry hostile attacks at several- points in ahnile, $ltd. -6 tri $10.,.6. eta,, ga d, 3:t 2, ,.Armenia and on the Mesopotamian to $10; do„ nledlttn, $3 t" 5`1,71+: lt- errs, 07.60 t0 $3,00; feeders, $s 60 In front, according to Thursday's War 6•50; milkers, ce to 1 Office statement.16'25; cannersan'oilerd, 1230 LINER FROM HOLLAND REACHES ATLANTIC PORT A despatch from New York says: - The first; liner from Holland since January 23 has arrived at an Atlantic A despatch from Melbourne, Aus- TN MESOPOTAMIA. port with 228 lire;, 841 second and 974 tralia, says: -Hon. George Fetter - third-class passengers, via Halifax, Pearce, Minister of Defence, has is- Petrograd, ,luno 8.-ltuoeinn troops where she was detained two days for sued a return showftlg that enlist- have won a victory in a battle with examination. There were 119 merits in Australia from the begin- the Turkti in the Salciz region on the Amerjcans among the passengers, of whom '72 wore survivors of submarine sinlcings in the North Sea and the E. ;ttsh Channel. ning of the war to April 30 last, num- bered 302,000, being 14 per cent. of the male population of the Commonwealth, Slesopotemian frontier, taking posses - ;:inn of the throe heights, the War Cf - Tice announced to -day.