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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-08-02, Page 2I1COE TAX FRILL INTRODUCED BY MINISTER OF FINANCE Canada's Wealth to Contribute Full Share in Prosecution of the War. A despatch from Ottawa says:—The wealth of Confide will be made to eo n. tribute its full share toward the cost o' f the hvar. In the Com - Where income exceeds $20,000 and does not exceed $30,000, 8 per cent, Where income exceeds $30,000 and carrying on does not exceed $50,000, 10 per cent, g mons Sir Thomas White introduced his Where income exceeds $50,000 an income tax proposals and tate extent of does not exceed $100,000, 25 the toll to be taken of the incomes of Where income exceeds $100,000, the rich met with decided approval per cent, from buth sides of the House. The A tax of 4 per cent. on incomes ex - Finance Minister prepares to exempt coeding $8,000 ie the ease of corpora - the incomes of single meat a to tions or joint stock eampenies. widowers without children p The plan will work out as fall C o vs; $2 000, and all other persons up to t $3,000: Income Tav and How it Works Out. Four per cent. upon incomes exceed- ing $2,000 per annum in the case of unmarried men or widowers without children. The same tax on incomes exceeding $3,000 in the case of other persons. In addition the following super-tex is to be imposed; Where income exceeds $6,000 and does not exceed $10,000, 2 per cent. Where income exceeds. $10,000 and does not exceed 20,000, 5 per cent. Income. Uumarried. Married. $ 4,000 $ 40 5,000 1200 $ 80 220 180 360 540 810 1,260 2,460 5,260 10,010 14,760 29,260 43,760 7,000 10,000 12,000 15,000 20,000 30,000 50,000 75,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 WAR COSTS CANADA $850,000 A DAY Statement Showing Financial Burden Assumed by the Dominion. A. despatch from Ottawa sem— 400 550 850 1,300 2,500 5,300 10,050 14,800 29,300 43,800 5,000,000 MEN IN BRITIS I FORCES HUN AGENTS BUSY IN RUSSIA Thousands of Boys Given Pre- liminary Military Training. A despateh from London says:— Great Britain has something like 5,- 000,000 risen in its military forces. Gen. Robertson announced thatand tr- er half -million must be p' order to maintain reserves and keep the fighting units up to full strength, When the 500,000 have been pre ided in July there will merely be another demand for further engmentatioes later, demands from the The inexorable trenches must be met somehow, How they are to be met, holy man power is continually to be provided to meet the wastage of war is indicated by the pro- gressive organization of the country's youth for training in anticipation of the time when they shall arrive at military age. A11 over the country battalions of boys, none of them beyond the age of 18 years and 8 months, are being sys- tematically trained for the army. Offer Money to Incite Rebellion Against Provisional Government. A despatch from New York says: It Canada's war expenditure both hn the is true that German agents under the Dominion and overseas .now amounts guise of Socialist and Anarchist to over $850,000 a day. This state- speakers have been openly engaged in ment of the extent of the tremendous spreading revolt against the Republic - financial burden the nation is assum- an Government of Russia, and German ing, in carrying on her part in the money is being freely used to emote: - great struggle, was given in the Com- age discontent and dissatisfaction with mons by Sir Thomas White. The the progress of the war, according to Finance Minister gave the figures to Mrs, Alexander Lodyguine, wife of a the House in explaniing the necessity former New York construction en - for the new income taxation: From the beginning of April to July 20th war expenditure in Canada amounted to $39,700,000, and estimated expendi- gineer, who arrived here on Thursday after spending ten years in Petrograd, where her husband is employed. She asserted that she had seen Ger- ture elsewhere, including France, dur- man agents circulating among the ing the same period, was $52,600,000, crowds surrounding street speakers or a total of $92,600,000. Taking that and openly distributing ten -rouble total as a rough basis Sir Thomas estimated the daily war outlay now at $850,000 to $900,000. ALLIES' MMS ST BE GAINED Entente Powers Resolved to Fight Until They Have At- tained Their Object. .A. despatch from Paris says:—The allied powers on Friday concluded their conference with this declaration: "The allied powers, more closely united than ever for the defence of the people's rights, particularly in the Balkan peninsula, are resolved not to lay down arms until they have attain- ed the end which in their eyes domin- ates all others—to render impossible a return of the criminal aggression such as that whereof the Central Empires bear the responsibility." There was unanimous agreement on all decisions reached during the meet- ings. The ministers of departments affected will meet in London to draw up the executive measures. WILL STOP ALL PROFITEERING British Food Controller Regulate Prices. A despatch from London says:— Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, outlining on Thursday the policy he purposes to follow to regulate food prices and eliminate profiteering, said he intended to fix the prices of com- modities of prime necessity over which he could obtain effective control, at all stages, from the producer to the con- sumer. Every efffort would be made to prevent speculation, and unneces- sary middlemen would be eliminated. Existing agencies would be utilized for the purpose of distribution under Will LEADING MARKETS Bieadstns2s Toronto, July 91 --Manitoba wheat— No. 1 Northern 52.315; No, 2 Northern, 93,811 nominal store Port William. Manitoba oafs No. 2 C. W., 345, track Day ports. hnter'lnan corn -•-No, 3 yellow, nontiva3, trhek Toronto Onlnrio nets No official quotations, Outarro wheat --No. 2 Winter, Per car lot. $2.55: No. 3, $2.08, nominal, aeoord• Ing to freights outside, Pens --No, 2, nominal. aecor'ding to freights markt.'+, 5tni'ley--Melting, nominal, according to f i•.tghts outside, ltye--No. 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba auur—First Latents, in lute bags; 913.001 ; strong ibnketlrs', 10 lute bags, 912.00 Ontario dour—Winter, according o sample. 910.70 to '51.0,35, In bugs. tree t, Toronto, !!prompt shipment, MI11reed—Car lots, delivered Montreal "retghts, bags tnnluded--13ran, per ton, $35; shorts, per tom $41; middlings, per ton, 544 to 5451 good feed flour, per bag, 93, 25. Ilav Extra No. 2. per ton, 511.60 to $12,05; mixed, per ton, $0 to $10, track Toronto, Straw—Car lots, per tom 58,00 to $1.60, track. -Toronto, Country produce—Wholesale Butter—Creamery, solids, per lb., 345 to 305; prints, per 114., 35 to 3550; dairy per ib„ 20 to 300, 17ggs—Per des„ 35 to 300, Wholesalers aro selling to the retail trade.at the following In Ices : Cheese—Nett', large, 229 to 23e; twins, School boys, college boys, apprentices 22Q to 2330; 'Lily lets, —youth of all classes—as soon as they lar• go ,00 :Fr twins, dairy, choicle,e34'to035c; are physically capable of unclertaking the work of training are put into the organizations for preparation. FRENCII AND ITALIAN SHP�LOSES LIGHT A despatch from Paris says:—Dur- ing the week ending midnight July 22 not a single French vessel either over or under 1,600 tons was lost, according to the official statement. Six French merchantmen were attacked unsuc- cessfully during that time by sub- marines. Ships of all nationalities, numbering 1,063, entered port and 937 departed. A despatch frog t Rome says:—Two Italian steamers were sunk and . one small sailing vessel was damaged dur- ing the week ending midnight July 22, says an official announcement Five hundred and ninety-three vessels, with a gross tonnage of 389,815, arrived, and 550 of a tonnage of 403,450 left port. notes to those who would agree to shout for a separate peace or the overthrow of the existing government. She added that these emissaries are everywhere in Russia, in the army and among the civilian population, and that their work is aided by shortage of food, due to the existing disorder. "We are confident, however, that Premier Kerensky will bring about order out of chaos. He is a wonder- ful man, and the best people of Rus- sia are ready to follow and obey him. There will be no separate peace, I am sure, and Russia will continue to stand on the side of democracy." RUSS TRAITORS PUT TO DEATH BRAVE ONSLAUGHT OF RUSS WOMEN creamery prints, 38 to 39e, solids, to 38e, Eggs—New-laid, in cartons, 43 to 44c; out of cartons, 40o. Dressed poultry—Spying ehlokens, 200; fowl, 20c; squabs, Per dos., $4,00 to 94 0; turkeys, 25 to 30e; duoks, SLive poultry—Spring chickens, lb., 220' hens, 16 to 18M ducks, Spring. 160. lloney—Comb—Extra ane and heavy weight, per doe„ -93.75; select, 92,50 to 92.75; No, 2, 52 to 92.25, Beans—Imported, hand -pierced, 8.00 to $9.50 per bush,; Limas, per lb., to 190. Potatoes on track 'Reda ta�p11n s, bbl, $5.50 to 95.75; new. bbl., 50.50 to 97.001 seconds, bbl.. 95,50. 165,000 GERMANS TAKEN SINCE BATTLE OF THE SOMME Allies Also Captured 918 Cannon on Western Front Alone— Year's Work Revie','ed. On the French Front, July 29,— Bitter will be the retrospect of the German people in the days eomplet- itlg the third and opening the fourth year of the war. A conservative este- mate shows that the Gorman armies lost 105,000 men and 2,500 officers, with 948 cannon and thousands of lesser pieces, in the islet twelve months on the French and British fronts alone, This is but a part, and The , uh T thea co at. of c gravest not the g1 number of killed and seriously wound- ed is several times larger than that of the prisoners, For these sacrifices, and for provocations which brought America into the war, what is there to show? The year has witnessed the last great offensive efforts of the Im- petial armies, and those who remem- ber the dominant phase of offensive in their strategy will know how much that means. Their supremo adventure against Verdun' was in mid course of the the year. On June 11 began the wild to throw away a hundred thousand 1 day for a week is somewhat of a re- 'tl effete to get back' oord: That Is what Victoria and Provisions—Wholesale Smoked meats—}rams, medium, 10 to 810; do., heavy. 26 to 27c; conked, 41 to 42c; rolls, 27 to 38e; breakfast bacon, 83 00 30c; \backs. plain, 36 to 37c; bone- less, 39 to 40e. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 26 to 205c per ib.; clear bellies, 26 to 20c, Lard—Pure lard, tierces, 261 to 270 tubs, 27 to 272c; pails, 273 to 2130'c oomp0und, tierces, 210; tubs, pails, 2150. _— Montreal Markets Montreal, July 31—Oats—Canadian Western, No. 2, 84c; do„ no. 3, 130; extra No, 1 reed, 83c. Barley—Man. feed, 91.26. Flout' --Nair. sprang wheat patents, firsts, $13' seconds, 912.50 to $12,60; strong bailers', $12 to $12.40; winter patents, choice, 512.50 to $13.00; straight rollers, 512 to 012.80; do„ bags. 56 to 56.15. polled oats—Barrels, 90.00 to 50,35; bags, 90 lbs., 94.40 to 94.50. Bran, 935 to 936. Shorts, $40 to 941. Middlings, 343 to M. 960. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots, $11.00 to 011.00, Cheese—Finest Westerns. 216c; finest Easterns, 21$e. Butter—Choicest After Russian Men Deserted creamery, 375 to 5580; ?.7,!.°':. Eggs—I`reah. 4Se; Vselected,-�44s; They Attacked the Enemy. o roc Barre; $4 to st plc, 36 co 380, A despatch from London says: A despatch to The Exchange Telegraph froril Petrograd, wheat—No, No. 2, says: q N 6 • Eeed $1 60 "Ensign Mlle. Vera Butch ale nnsls contract—,fury, 00,00;N-4t3gutst, _ Winnipeg Grain d dated Thursday ZVeinnrpeg, July 31—Cash prices:— do., 33.31; No, F11'7.'1111:1°0421410, k ff, No. 5. $h,S, o. Commander of the Russian Women's Capital Punishment to be Meted Out to Seditious Troops. A despatch from London says: The Russian Government's policy of "Blood and Iron" is to be carried out along lines which bodes ill for the se- ditious troops along the Eastern front and those persons within the country' who are trying to nullify the good work that has followed in the -wake of the revolution. Capital punishment, abolished with the advent of the new Government, again has been put into force on the demand of the military commanders at the front, who will now be able to assemble field courts-martial and put to death summarily traitors in the army. Gen. Korniloff, commander of the forces in Galicia, whose disaffec- tion and desertions have wrought havoc in the Russian morale, was the most insistent of the military chiefs in calling for a free hand to check the refractory troops, declaring that the death penalty was the only means of saving the army. FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THB WESTERN PLOPI.E1 ARE DOING. • Progress of the Great West Told In a Few Pointed Paragraphs. which Vfmy Ridge was falcon with 'pith tate uiival of tho G. T. P. 19,000 prisoners, and a week later steamship Prineo George at Victoria, the French followed on the Aisne Capt, D. Donald completed his two - and Champagne. The and of hundredth round trip to the North as our tallies had secured the whole line commander, of Aisne Heights and crests of Moron. The greater portion of Sumas pr'air'ie vilifiers Ilius, with 32,000 prisoners, is still inundated, as well as a part of drawing twenty-four fresh German the through highway from Chilliwaok divisions into the eonfiiet. At to Vancouver. Traffic over these sante time the British were breaking into the Hindenburg lino on the north, and on June 7 they began a brilliant operation resulting in the Messines- 1Vystchaeto Rigo, Not the least re - stilt of unresting activity has been new operating its summer service to to kill elle second and essential part! of the Iiindenburg scheme, that of the north. a famous elastic line which was to I According to neaps just received in make a fulthox piecemeal retreat por-, New `Westminster, Lieut. S. F. Knight, sible and safe, whenever the allied who went overseas as machine guar of. advance became too pressing. No ; finer, has been awarded the military such elasticity exists, or the Crown imedal for bravery during the struggle Prince, promoted for his tragic blue- at Vimy Ridge, tiers to General Commend against I To have something over thirteen and r. • ch would not have needed a. hair hours of bright sunshine every roads has practically stopped. That tourist travel to Alaska is re. nlarlcably heavy and 00mpares well w1t11 that of last year is the statement fiat of of Mr, C. D, J'onuoY, general a go the Grand Trunk Pacific hue, which is assaults that brought them to Foust Souvelle, the last crest but one before the little city of Meuse. The ten Months' battle of Verdun cost Ger- many 500,000 of her best men. A principal object of the plan of cam- paign entrusted to the Prince Imper- ial was to upset arrangements for the allied offensive in the North. It com-, pletelyfailed in this purpose also. The Franco -British attack on the Somme began,in July and progressed by stages throughout the autumn. On April 9 the British offensive, by 92,20. Oats—No. 2 C.W 7 c; , o, o., S d1 of Tic• No 1 extra feed, 77e; No. 1 feed, bursting shells, and about a dozen other members of the battalion who were wounded in the recent fighting, have been sent to Minsk. When they reached Poltava they were welcomed, by 100,000 citizens and soldiers with, to `0 93; 500. 0. o., 311,0 t2.3o.370ats— a brass band and carrying banners. I Ne, 8 white, 753 to 7e3c. .lour—Un- "It is said the women attacked the , changed. July 313111t"o atS-No. 1 hard, Germans after the Russians had de- ' 5251; No. 1 Northern, 92.30; No. 2, do„ $2.75. Linseed—$3,17; July, 93,17; September, 93.15; October, $3.17, Battalion, and Lieut. ary ova, s -5ci No. 2, do., 7130. Barley—No. 2, fering from shock as a result of 91,25; No. 4, 11.20; rejected, 51,101 feed, 51.10. max -2 o.1Vo 3,�i C.,$32 7fl36.a; No. 2 C. W., ITALIAN GUNS IlUSY ON WIDE FRONT. A despatch from Rome says:—The license ;and under the control and sup- War Office statement regarding mili- ervision of local food controllers to be tary operations on the Austro -Italian appointed by the local authorities. front reads: "On the whole front the artillery and patrol activity was nor - FRENCH mal. During the night an isolated at- a" CAPTUREtack by the enemy southwest of Cas - United States Markets Minneapolis. July 31-1Vheat July, closed $2.61; September, 52,17. Cash— No. 1 hard, 52.02; No, 1 Northern, 92.56 ENEMY TRENCHES German Losses Are Very Heavy in Aisne Region. London, July 26.—Again the Ger- mans have made a vicious thrust at the French line in the Aisne region of France, and again they have paid dearly in men killed, or wounded for a slight gain, The attack was de- livered over a front of two miles, from I•Iurtebise to La novelle,but only to the south of Ailles was the Crown , Prince's army able to penetrate French first-line trenches. In Champagne the French have captured German trencheei serted, rushing forward impetuously and firing their rifles with deadly ef- fect. Their prisoners were greatly chagrined when they learned the sex of their captors." tagnavizza was broken up by our fire. One of our airplanes paid a surprise NEUTRAL SHIPS men in frul sss his posts of observation on the Aisne Nanairno have had for a week, and Champagne Hills, In this year I An order -in -Council has been issued of slaughter the German command at Victoria permitting the Canadian has turned the last screws of ,the ' Northern Railway to operate a work- men's train between that city ahld Port Mann without paying bridge tolls, The proper conservation of the few remaining spawning grcunds _and sources of fish food on Vancouver Is- land is being strongly agitated for by residents of the Cowichan district, At Nanairno the employees of the Grant Colliery Company, the new mind in process of successful development conscript machine and entered upon a period of decline, for it seems the Western allies are resolute as ever, and the last great power of the world is just beginning -to enter the field against it. If the situation was, as General von Buelove says, 'particu- larly unfavorable" a year ago, how should it be described to -clay? BE ARTILLERY DUEi:V, RESUMED Live Stook Markets Toronto, July 31—Choice heavy steers, 510.25 to 510.75; butchers' cattle, cholee, 59.76 to 510.26; do.. good, 59.25 to $9,00; do., medium, 91.20 to 98.85; do., com- mon, 97.10 to $7.25; butchers' bulls, choice, $8.00 to 91.60; do., good bulls, 57,20 to 57.50; do., medium bulls, 90,00 to 50.76; do., rough bulls, 55.00 tp $1.00; butchers' cows, choice. 57.75 to $3.26; p1 S0.90gtod$6.7 97.10 stockers, 96.40 medium, 99 0 _.,4 �3° feeders, $7.75 to 5575; canners and cut- ° tars, $6.26 to $6.75; milkers, good to choice, $80 to 5100; do., com, and med., $40 to 550; springers, $80 to $1.10; ght Fighting Has Been Resumed Flanders on a Very Large Scale. A despatch from British Headquar- ters in France, says: -The German and British fighting lines in France and Belgium, which have been com- paratively dormant for several weeps, so far as any large offensive is con- cerned, have tensed perceptibly in the last few days. Out of the stiffening have grown numerous fierce artillery duels, espe- cially in Flanders. The Germans have developed what is known among the British as "nerves"; that is, they have become exceptionally sensitive to any movement of their opponents which deviates from the routine, and give evidence of this condition in furi- ous bombardments at suspected points. From this the conclusion is drawn that, for reasons of their own, the Germans may be fearing that trouble is impending in some section, and are not certain where to look for its ap- pearance. Lens and Hill 70 nearby have been under heavy and almost continuous gun fire. Even the battle -scarred and barren Vimy Ridge, which overlooks the valley above Lens, has been the object of vigorous shelling which has accomplished nothing except to add still more shell craters on, the already badly punished hill. 18 Dutch and Norwegian Vessels Loaded With Grain Await Government License. A despatch from Baltimore says: Eighteen neutral ships loaded with grain are snchored off this port with ewes, $5.26 to 59.25; a eep, to 47.25; yearlings, '$10 to $11; calves, good$to choice, 912 to 514; spring lambs, $10.50;thogs,7fedlambs, a dbwvatered 815.76 to 916; do., weighed off cars, 516 to 316,25; do„ f.o.b., 515 to 515.25. Montreal, July 81—Butchers' cattle choice. 510 to 510.25; do., medium, $8,75 to 90,75; do., common, 57.50 to $s.50; canners, 57 to $7.26 butchers' choi• e in 96,000 tons of grain in them hold cows SO 25 to 39 75 med. $7.60 to SS, do three milkers, c50 pucks and culls, $ 3.60 to' $9• s. •` bulls, 90 to 99.501 Fifteen are Dutch and tltr Norwe ill' 1 oice each $70 to $1501 sheen gran. Some have lead their cargoes. to Ss.6u; g lambs,'$14 to 414.50; hogs, under hatches for a month awaiting milk-fed,tv$12rto'$13; do5.90 }Dgiass-fed°56 to 58. the license from the Government and letters of assurance from the British Ambassador, The cargo of one neu- tral steamer, consisting of grain, was dumped overboard because it had spoiled, It consisted of about 7,000 tons of corn. CANADA OBTAINS ` $100,000,000 LOAN A despatch from New York says:— J. P. Morgan & Company announced Number. that arrangements had been perfected A despatch from London says: for the flotation of a $100,000,000 loan Three hundred British merchant ves- af the Government of the Dominion of sels already have been armed and a Canada, which will be offered to the large number are 'being• armed each American public upon a basis to yield week, said T. J. Macnamara, financial approximately 6 per cent. The load secretary to the Admiralty, in reply to a question in the House of Commons on Friday. He added that the Gov- ernment was making great efforts to get a maximum number of merchant- men awned as soon as possible. 300 MERCHANT SIIIPS ARMED British Government Making Ef- forts to Aran a Maximum RUSSIAN PREMIER CALLS. LEADERS DEMOCRATIC RULE CONTROLS GREECE visit, rise er will be unsecured, and it will run for d adverse atmospheric on °two years. The loan to Canada will ditions, to St. Lucia-Tolmino, drop- ping a ton of high explosives on the railway works and doing considerable damage." PLACE NEW BRIDGE SPAN ON SEPTEMBER 12TH A despatch from Quebec says:—The centre span of the Quebec bridge will bo ,put in place on the morning of September 12. The event was planned to take place quietly without wit- nesses, but an engineer of the com- mission is supposed tb have told the secret to a newspaper man this morn- ing. be the first fo'eign Government trans- action that has been undertaken since America's entrance into the European war. LOANS BY BRITAIN TO HER WAR ALLIES A despatch from London says:— Behar Law has made a statement in the House of Commons in regard to loans to the allies and the dominions. The total advances to the allies al'e ing to rise weekly Admiralty report on 11,025,000,000 in addition to 1140,000,- 000 loaned to the dominions, the total shipping losses. ,One fishing vessel being £1,171,000,000, was also loot. SUBMARINE TOLL . WAS 24 VESSELS A despatch from London says:— Twenty-one Br;tisk vessels of more than 1,600 tons each, and three of less than 1,600 tons each, were sunk last week by mines or submarines, accord - Kerensky Takes Measures to Repress Anarchy in Republic. Petrograd, July 28.-0n the heels of his declaration that the "spectre of anarchy needs to be obliterated," and at Nanoose Bay, have just received an advance of eight per sent. in their wages. The danger ported from bush fires is again upon the province of British Columbia, in the coast district as well as in the dry belt, and the part that members of the general public can ex- ercise in -reducing the number of fires is once more emphasized by the for. estry department. "Cor"dova" is to be tate name of a new station on the Canadian Northern Railway at Cordova Bay. The erection of the building has commenced, and that "stout hearts and stern hands but a few days will be required to are needed for tate task,l' Premier carry out the necessary work. Kerensky to -day summoned to Petro -I The Nelson Patriotic fund total is grad General Nicholas Ruzsky and! $14,377.41. During the year the Nal - as son men's auxiliary committee of the Canadian Red Cross Ices eop'octed over $3.000 and has paid a regular income of over $200 a month to the local branch. ' Next to Australia House, at Alci- wycb, British Columbia's new home at the bottom of Lotver Regent street,. °lose by Waterloo Place and Pall Man, is undoubtedly the most imposing of all the overseas Government offices in London. The fifth of the six mining engineers who aro ty be in charge of.the several Mineral Survey districts created by legislation of last session was selected by Hon. William Sloan, Minister of Mines. This is Arthur G. Langley, a Victorian. General Gurko. Tho former w Commander-in-chief of the Northern armies, and the latter headed the forces operating in the Southwestern front. The greatest significance is attach- ed to Kerensky's action in calling the two military Leaders. The generally accepted view is that the Premier in- tends to organize a Supreme Military Council, whiel3 may consist of these personages; Kerensky, Ruzsky, Gurko, Brussiloff and Korniloff, the latter four conceded to comprise the military genius of the Republic. King Not Present at Opening of Parliament at Athens. A despatch from Athens says: The meeting of Parliament on Thursday was signalized by a complete re- sumption of popular rule and the end of autocracy in Greece. King Alex- ander did not take part in the func- tion, the speech from the throne hav- ing been abandoned on the ground that it would involve criticism of a fa- ther by his son. The Chamber presented a pictur- esque scene, with Greeks, Mussel - mans and Islanders dressed in their quaint native costumes. Premier Venizelos, was acclaimed by a large majority of the deputies. The new re- gime completely controls the situation and is in fall accord and co-operating with the Entente. SUCCESS OF ON'ARIO AVIATOR Has a Record of Thirty -Six Machines Brought Down. Canadian Headquarters in France, July 28 (via London, July 29).—The spurt of the enemy's aerial activity on this part of the front has ceased, and only a few of his planes have tried to cross our lines. This result has been brought about by hard fighting onithe part of the splendid young fellows of the aerial service. Ono of the most successful aviators in this area is an Ontario man Who has a record of thirty-six German machines brought down, most of them from such a height as to insure their destruction. Ire has already won the Military Cross and the D.S.O. Rumanians Advance Rapidly. A despatch from London says: The advance of the Rumanians in the Suc n 1 itza v07 north-west rth west of Foe - HOW MANY LANGUAGES? There Are Over 4,000 Languages Spoken by the Human Race. How many Hien, if asked how many languages there were in the world, could give anything like an accurate answer ? The average man's knowl- edge or ability to speak languages rarely exceeds two besides his native tongue. The late Emperor Francis Joseph, when visiting a Red Cross hospital, spoke with the patients in their own language, which showed the aged emperor to be master of ` six. It may appear strange, but it is nevertheless true, that there are over 4,000 languages spoken by mankind, while the number of dialects exceeds this. There are more than sixty vo- cabularies in Brazil, and in Mexico a the Nahuis broken up into some 700 dialects. There arc hundreds inBorneo, while in Australia there is no classifying the complexities, Let us assume that fifty dialects, on an aver - a e belong to each laegoage, and we rani has resulted in the abandonment have the colossal total of a quarter of r that f thehey Putna far as the upper of a million linguistic ab lities. course s. RuRumanians the Austro- A century hence tho probability is eGermans, The ward see haved oe- that there will be only four languages halftheir line forward seven and one -s of importance in the world. Central anlf mcles, gaining all gesr objectivthanes Europe may proiludo a newer and 4400 occupying ten viers an More d more straightforward GOUMMI lan- wa material were cap re gunsyand ua a Imperial English may relgn war material were captured by the alone overtheNorth American Con- tinent, and a more businesslike Span- ish will be used in South American States, while Russia may take on some more rich Slavonic dialect which will blend the races of Eastern Eu- rope and Central Asia into a harmoni- ous federation. So that in future these four languages will enter into what may be a never-ending competition. es— Advance hi Food Prices. That moat is 140 per cent. more costly in Englancl to -clay than at the commencement of the war is the state- ment made by Montague Gleeksteln, of London, "From ,tulle, 1014; to June, 1915," Mr. Gluckstein states, "the general rise in food pricee was 45 per cent, By the end of April, 1916, the rise teas 55 per cent. and by the end of April this year 97 per cont. That is the general average, but pleat has advanced 140 per cent. since Julio, 1914, bolter 80 per cent,, and milia 100 per cent." Rumanians. POI4ISI. LEGION ANGERED BY 'UNJUST RUDE OF GERMAN' Many Poles Refuse to Take the Oath of Fidelity to Austro -Ger -1 elan Sovereigns. London, July 29.—Big street de- monstrations have occurred at Warsaw as a result of the arrest of Geri. Pil- sudski, of the Polish Legion, and other leaders in the movement against im- posing an oath of fidelity to the Aus- tro -Gorman sovereigns upon the Polish army. Many of the legionaries have refused to take such an oath, The Polish Council of State has pro- tested to the Governor-General against the arrests as unjustifiable, and has declared that only .rho speediest pos- sible establishment of a genuine Polish Government and army will quiet public opinion. Gen. von Beseler, the German Gov- ernor-Gonoral, replied, refusing`the re- lease of the Poles,, and declaring that tl,e German authorities had proof that Gen, Pilsudeki was organizing an arm- ocl movement against Germany, Vienna despatches indicate that Gen. Pilsudski's following is fav great- er than the Gorman reports give any impression of, and iuclude a largo part of the political Left.