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The Seaforth News, 1917-09-06, Page 7GEN. CADORNA ROUTS AUSTRIANS ANiD CAPTURES PLATEAU Threw Fourteen Bridges Across the Isonzo River During Battle Toianino Line Threatened, A despe eh from Washington says; —The Italian Embassy's official ad. Vices regarding the progress of the Italian offensive against the Austrians indicate that the success of the forces of Generals Oedema and Capella, in capturing the Bainsizza Plateau, is an important military gain that is threat- ening the entire group of Tolmino de. femme. The advices indicate that In this offensive, the Italian Command - Or -in -chief, General Cadoira, in his efforts to baffle and eohfuse the Aus- trians, has not only routed their forces as ,the Italians have advanced, but left the Austrians in greatest doubt as to the Italian objective, whether Trieste or Laibach, or both these important points, Italian military experts here assert that, with sufficient guns and muni- tions, the Italian fo.^.ces under Cador- na will win a complete victory over the Austrians on that front, The Italian. offensive has won the admire, - tion of military officers in Washing- ton, those of the foreign war missions as well as American officers, and it is admitted on all ]lands that this cam. sive has vastly increased the power and influence of Italy in Entente war councils. The official despatch received by the Italian Embassy, describing the pro. gress of ,the offensive, and particular• ly the battle of Bainsizza, was as fol. lows;— "The Bainsizza Plateau is 000 me- tr,es between the Isonzo and Chiapo- vano 'Valleys, Tho plateau measures 10 by 15 miles. It was attacked by the second Italian army, which ores - sed the Isonzo River, using fourteen bridges during. the battle. On the western side of the plateau •the Ital- ian troops overcome idle first lino of the Austrian advance, and then, while a part of the Italian army was fight- ing on the second Austrian line, an- other part was advancing around the north side to inake a flank attack. The result was the fall of the whole sys- tem of defense of the plateau and quick withdrawal of the enemy, fol- lowed by the Italian army, crossing the Chiapovano Valley. T VON LOSSES WERE -ENORMOUS 2,500 Corpses in One Rumanian Village. A despatch from Rtgnanian I•Iead= quarters, Jassy, says: The great bat- tle which lasted' a fortnight on the south-western and'southern fronts in Moldavia was one of the most san- guinary of the war. The troops in the .first and, second Rumanian armies have shown a warlike capacity that has- excited the admiration of all the foreign officers who have seen them work, and many of the prisoners were astonished when they found they had been fighting against the Rumanians. The Germans attacked and continued to attack in compact masses as at the Battle of the Yser. It is stated that im one village where the Rumanians counter -attacked 2,500 German corpses were counted. CANADA TO ISSUE A FOURTH LOAN A despatch from Ottawa says Terms upon which a fourth war loan could be floated, in Canada and the financial situation in the country gen- erally were discussed by Sir Thomas White and representatives of the, Canadian Bond Dealers' Association at the offices of the Minister of Fin- ance. This loan, which may be issued in October, would amount to $100,- 000,000 or $150,000,000. The bond dealers were -represented by. A E. Ames, of Toronto, and J. M. Mackie, of Montreal. Already three war loans aggregat- ing$350,000,000 have been taken up in the Dominion. • RUSS DIVISION •~ QUITS TRENCHES. A despatch from Petrograd says: A Russian division on Tuesday aban- doned its positions in the region of Fokshani on the Rumanian front and fled in disorder, the War Office an- nounces. The statement says that the enemy continued to advance all -Tuesday on the •southern Rumanian front, reach- ing the line Trechty-Deus-Varnitza- Fitioneshti-Chyolianitchi. In the night Russian positions in the region of Varnitza were penetrated, COPPER FOR GERMANY FOUND IN SWEDISH SHIP. A. despatch from No York says: A Swedish ship, outward hound for a Swedish port, was boarded by '• Gov- ernment officials on Thursday and, ac- cording to reports, two hundred tons of copper were found in the hold. The vessel' was. ordered, to return to her dock and it is said the entire cargo will be searched before she is again allowed to proceed, RUMANIAN SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED A. despatch from Jassy, Rumania, says:—A11' Rumanian schools have been closed by . the Central Powers, thus pursuing the policy of denation- alizing conquered territory. 26,653 CANADIANS ARE NOW IN HOSPITAL. A despatch from Ottawa says: Of the boys whom Canada has sent to the front 8,840 are now enrolled in the Canadian military hospitals for treat- ment and re-education, according to the last report of the -Military Hos= pitals Commission, dated August 15. Of these 7,046 are in convalescent homes and 1,115 are tuberculosis eases in the sanitario provided by the Mili- tary Hospitals Commission for their treatment. The remaining 679 are chiefly in general hospitals. The in- crease, in the total population of the variouhospitals over last week is only 29.• The latest returns from the Director of Medical Services in London indi- cater that on August 18 the Canadian soldiers being cared for in the hos- pitals and sanitaria in the United Kingdom were 17,813. NONAGENARIAN HEADS A CREW OF BOYS. A despatch from an Atlantic port says: A British schooner, in command of a skipper 97 years old, and with a crew composed of youngsters under the military draft age,, is on her way to this port. Tho skipper, Captain James: Moore, bf .Parrsboro , N.S., re- tired •from active sea service some years ago, but because of the pressing demand for mariners, he recently noti- fied the owners of the vessel that he was ready to take her out. A captain was needed, so he went to sea again, probably the .oldest master of a ship on active duty to -day. AUSTRIA FACED BY COAL CRISIS A despatch from Basel, Switzerland says:—Herr Von Hamann, the Aus- trian Minister of Public Works, start- led the Austrian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday by giving it as his opinion that the coal crisis had become a vital question for Austria-Iiungary, accord- ing to Vienna advices. The situation, declared the Minister, was one which must be faced without optimism: and with the utmost seriousness. In an effort to remedy matters, continued the Minister, 12,600 miners have been brought back to the mines from the front. FORMER GOVERNOR- GENERAL IS DEAD. A despatch from London says: Earl Grey, former Governor-General of Canada, died at six o'clock on Wednesday morning at Howick House, Northumberland, after a long- illness. The funeral took place at' Howick on Saturday, when a memorial service was held in London. • $2.20 IS PRICE FIXED FOR NO. 1 NORTHERN. 1i A despatch from Washington says: The price of No. 1 Northern Spring wheat -was fixed at $2.30 a bushel at Chicago for the 1917 crop on Thurs- day by the Wheat Fair Price Com- mittee, headed by H. A. Garfield, whose) findings, reached after three days' deliberation, were submitted to and approved by President Wilson. BRITISH T?OOPS IN FRANCE SIX TO ONE FROM OVE 1SEAS Throughout the War Casualties Have Been in Same Proportion, J But Since July 31 Have Been 9 to 1. A despatch from London says: Major-General Maurice, chief director of military operations, said on Thurs- day: , d In the past, month I have receive.. a remarkable number of letters from the United States showing how wide- spread is the belief that the ,British have let the allied and colonial troops do the most of their fighting, This is part of the German . propaganda in the United States. I have prepared for you 0 few statistics to show hoer far this is untrue, "At the present moment the British troops in France aro six to one as compared with all 'overseas troops,. and the total casualties in France throughout tho war have been in pro- portion of 63,5 British to 1 overseas. In the Ypres -Lens fighting since July 81 the casualties have been rune Brit- ish to one colonial," King George. A .recent photograph of Ilis Ma- jesty when reviewing infantry regi- ments leaving for France, NEWS FROM ENG iF ND. NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That • Reigns Supreme in the Com- mercial World. The number of Turkish prisoners now in the hands of the British au- thorities is 34,000. �s The Board of Inland Revenue states $4.40. Bran, $$36. Shorts, $40. I<41d- that food plots profits will not have to dunes, $4s to $50. Marmite, (300 to $61. pay an income tax. ' Nay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, 20.50 to 510. Cheese, finest westerns, 214o; do., The London Committee of the finest easterns, 213c, Butter, choicest French Red Cross have received 3100 oreamery, 413 to 42c; seconds, 41 to 413e. l0ggs, fresh, 5.2 to 53c; selected, 48e; from Queen Alexandra. No, 1 stock, 44e; No. 2 stock, 88 to 40e, The Food Production Department 3•'ota.toes, per .bag, car lots, $2.15 to $2.26 are erecting a station for pulping'jam fruit at Maidstone, Kent. Winnipeg Grain The railway employees of Leeds are Winnipeg, Sept. 4—Cash prises closed: 3vheat, No. 1 Northern, $2.40; No. 2 asking for double the pay they were Northern, $2.37; No, 3 Northern, $2,333; receiving before the war. No. 4, ;x.22; No. 6, $1.57; No, 0, $1.71; At the sale of the Hope heirlooms food, $1,60; Oats, No, 2 C.W.. 631;; No, 3 Ctv, 620; extra No, 1 feed, 000; No• at Christie's, Messrs. Dunveen bought 2 seed, 570, Borley, No. 8, $x.13; Aporcelain ewer for £3 780. $1.14; rejected, $1,10; feed, , liar. No. 1 N.w.C., $8,31; No. 2 c.'IV„ The King has sent his annual sub- $8.22; No. 3 (IW., $3,1.2, scription of £10 to the Royal United united states Markets Kingdom Beneficent Association. Minneapolis, Sept, 4—Wheat—Septe.e- W. Castello, chairman of Cheshunt ber, $2.153; cash, No. 1 Northern, $2,30 Tribihnal, at the age of fifty-six has Corn-3No, 3tyello),T80 to seep t pats -' No, 3 white, 52 to 523e. Flour unchang- ed. Bran -227.75 to $28.25, Duluth, Sept. 4—Wheat—No 1 North- ern, $2.30, nominal: No. 2 Northern, $2.26, nominal. Linseed, $3.46; Sep- tember, $3.45 asked; October, $3.30 bid; November, $3.30; December, $8.34. Markets of the World 73rea4statfa Toronto Sent, 4 --Manitoba wheal—In stere. Fort Williarn, nominal; No. 1 1 Northern. $3.40; No. 2 Northern, $2,87; No. 3 Northern, $8.353; No, 4 wheat, $2:22. Manitoba outs --No, 2 C,W,, 633o, in stole Fort William. Amoriran aero --Nn, 3 yellow, nemival, Ontario wheat—New crop, No. 0, 52,15 to $2.20, (Intarl° oats -••»'110 quotatlone. 1 ons--Nomiaai. Barley--Maiting, new, $1,20 to 61.22. ltre—Nominal, Manitoba flour—First patents, in jute bats, $12.00; ..second patents, $12,40; stontario bakers', now, track, q'o- rnntm, prompt shipments, according to sample, $10.20. 3Ii11feed--Cur tots,. delivered Montreal freights Shorts $43; bran, $30; mid- dlings, $45 to $49; good feed flour, Per hag, $3.25. Ilav---Trark, Toronto, . extra No. 2, 511,60 to $12; mixed, $0 to 010. Straw—Ca' lots, $7 to $7.50. Country Frodneo—Wholosale Butter—Creamery. solids, per lb., 80 to 201c; priiits, per lb.,. • 393 to doe; dairy, per 15„ 83 to 34c, Ivggc—Per 403,, 3D to 40r. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices:•-- Cheese—New, huge, 224 to 23o; twins, 224 to 2330; triplets, 23 to 233o; old, large 30o; twins, 3031; triplets, 305r. Butter--1'rosh dairy, choice, 39 to 400; creamery prints. 43 to 440; solids, 42 to 480, Eggs—Now laid, in cartons, 52 to 54c; out of cartons, 46 to 40c, Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 20 to 30e; fowl, 200; squabs, Per dos., 54 to $4.50; turkeys, 25 to 200; ducks, Spring, 22c. Live poultry-Sprinrp chickens, lb., 20 to 22o; hens, 18 to 20e; (bloke, Spring, 17o. I3oney—Comb-Tatra line and heavy weight, per doe„ $2.75; select, $2.50 to $2.76; No, 2, $2 to $2.26; tins, 23's and 159 , 15c per ib; 10's, 1430; 00's, 132 to Beans—No Canadian beans on market until last of October; Imported hand- picto 1628.60 per bush; Limas, per lb.. 15 Potatoes, on track—Ontario, bag, $2.16, , Provistons—wholesale Smoked meats-1•Iatne. medium, 30 to 810; d0., heavy 28 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 42c; rolls, 27 to 28o; breakfast bacon, 38 to 400; backs, plain, 37 to 38o; bone- less, 40 to 42c. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 27 to 2730 lb,; clear bellies. 203 to 27c. Lard—Pure. lard, tierces, 255 to 20e; tubs, 250 to 2030; pails, 26 to 2030• compound, tierces, 203 to 21o; tuba, 200 to 211o; pails, 21 to 2130, Montreal Markets Montreal, Sept, 4—Oats, Canadian Western, No. 2, 74 to 15c; do„ No, 3, 73 to 740; extra No, 1 feed, 73 to 74c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, 513.00; seconds, $12.60; strong bakers', $12.30; Winter patents, choice, $12.50; straight rollers, $12.00 to $12.30; do., bags, $5.80 to $5,90.. Rolled oats, barrels 8,56 to $0.00; do., bags, 80 lbs, $4.30 to joined the Army Ordnance Corps. Red Cross delegates have been per- mitted to visit all British camps where Turkish prisoners are interned. A brooch belonging to the Hope heirlooms, and containing an oblong brilliant, was sold at Christie's for £2.000. Live Stock Markets Toronto, Sept, 4—.Extra choice heavy steers, $11.60 to $12.00; choice heavy By a royal proclamation the period 050000 $$10'to $10.961' do 50od, 52 40 to of service of the officers and men of $9.00;' do., medium, 28.25 to $3,40; do., the Royal Naval Volunteer Service is common, $7- to $7.85; butchers' buns, choice, $8.36 to $8,75; do., good bulls, extended to five years.- $7.60. to $0; do.. m8'dium bulls, $7 to The citizens of Old Tonbridge are $7.25; 10, rough bulls, 06 to 00; butch ni ht. Eighteen verse .ors cows, choice, $3 to $8.60; do., good, g raising the sum of £80,000 for the $7,25 to $7.75; do., mediunv, $6.65 to 1,600 tons were sent to purpose of building a 'War memorial $0.06; stockers, $0.76 to (32.50; feeders, compared with fifteen $8 to $0.26; canners and cutters, $6.26 school. to (38.25; milkers, good to choice, $50 week, and five vessels Arrangements have leen Made for to 1125; do., corn. and med., $40 to $5a; 1 000 tons, as against spr ngers, (380 to $126; light ewes, $ to the setting up of 211 areas throughout+ (3$11; sheen, heavy, (36 tc $250; yeurnnga ulcus week. No fishin the country for the training of dis- $l0 10'$11; calves, good to choice, $14 sunk. to $16...6, Spring lambs, $16 to $16.60; abled soldiers. hogs, fed and watered, $17.26; - do., A new army order states that re- Sia z}fled 000 ears, 517.50; 40,. f.o.b.. GEN. PETAIN GETS tired officers are not to be employed Aiontreal, sera 4—good steers, $8.76 LEGIO after they have passed the age eV to $10; fair, $5.75 to (35.50; oopnhnon, $s sixt five ears, to $8.50; butchers cows. $0 to (38; buns, y y 106.75 to (38.75; canning stock, $5 to $0,25; The Committee on Production has Ontario lambs, $14.95 to $14.50; QuebecA despatch from lambs, 513' to $13.66; sheep, $3 to $5; President Poincare per 'again increased the wages of engin- choice mine -fed calves, (312 to $18; 50555 - ed stock, (37 to $0; hogs, $17 to 517.60. ed on Wednesday to the French Command Grand Cross of the Le awarded to him severe the recent successes h sentation was made d'Armes. . Things usually come goes after them. RUMANIA'S BRILLIANT VICTORY IIAS FEW EQUALS IN HISTORY Heroic Fight of Fifteen Days Saved Jassy and All Moldavia in Face of Much Superior Forces. A despatch from London says 1— north of Focshani was the most glori- Details have been received by the oils deed of arms ever accomplished by London Times from its correspondent the Rumanian army. The heroic fight on the Rumanian front of the mpgni- of these peasant soldiers, who had to ficent fight of the reconstructed Ru- manian army against Gen, Maekensen, which saved holey, the capital, and all Moldavia. Foreign Minister Cam- ber), of Franco, declared that the vic- tory reminded him in a measure of that of the Marne, Since August 19 until Thursday the Germans made no serious effort to resume the offensive, The story follows; "With the Rumanian Army on Mat'esechti Front, Aug 21, --The story of the past 15 days will remain golden lettere in the history of this country, Tho defence of the Maresechti front From The Middle West BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- TISH COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Are Living. Yorkton, Sask., held their 33rd annual fair recently. The seventh annual fall fair was held at Wilkie, Sask. Capt. F. Bradburn, of Edmonton, has won the Military Cross. Sir James Aitkin laid the corner stone of -the new Y.M.C.A, building l/. Brandon. The Calgary police patrol wagon carried a two hundred -pound porker to the pound. A number of Moose Jaw business men are working two hours each evening on farms. Mrs. Thomas Brown was fined $400 and costs at Portage la Prairie for selling liquor. The wheat yield in the St. Pierre district will amount to between 30 and 84 bushels per acre. The' Children's Aid Society of Win- nipeg want a civic grant of $8,500 in- creased to meet rising costs. A plan is on foot in Calgary where- by the school children will be dismiss- ed on certain days to dig potatoes. E. M. Clegg and his wife and son were suffocated from fumes in a gas well near Moose Jaw recently. Two small children survive. The Rotary Club of Winnipeg raised $200 at a luncheon, which will be used to defray expenses for a pic- nic for war widows and children. A southern Manitoba farmer has employed Bessie Lutckow, a Ruthen- ian woman whose forearm is twenty inches in circumference. The woman asked to do outside work: BRITISH LOSSES SHOW INCREASE. A despatch from London says: An increase in the number of British ves- sels sunk last week by mines or sub- marines is shown by the weekly Ad- miralty statement issued Wednesday FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTERxaST FROM HTR RANKS AND BRAES. What is .Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of:Auld Scotia. Lieut. -Col. J. IGennody, Black face much superior German forces, Yr'atcii, Ilawielc, who has received has been unexcelled by either the Bell the D,S,O., has been mentioned in glans or Serbians. The main objec-i dispatches and has also received the rive of the enemy had been to reach D.C.M. and M.C. The Military Cross has been award- ed to Rev, J. Kirk, of Dunbar Parish church, who has been at the front for one year and. nine months. Rev. Dr. J. L. Stuart, a member of the Haddington Parish Council, has been awarded the Military Cross for service in the field. • Colonel Sir Robert Nell' Campbell, the bridge of Costestia, across the River Sereth. The intention of the enemy was clear from the letter I saw found on the corpse of a Prussian of- ficer, dated August 6th, as follows; `Weare going to give a decisive blow here very soon, If we cross the Sereth, which I hope will not be dif- ficult, Jassy and the whole of Moldavia will be ours, If we succeed I be- who has been made a K.C.M.G., is a neve we are going to be sent to Fland- son of the late Robert Campbell of ors, where things seem hot again.' Elsieshields, Lochmaben. Sergeant David Reid, of the Cana- dians, son of G. M. Reid, Alton, has. been awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the field. The remains of Lieut, C• W. Brown, K.O.S.B., who died from wounds received in action, have been interred with military honors in Eastlands Cemetery, Galashiels. The Arbroath Watching Committee have decided to grant an increase of five shillings a week to the acting chief and inspector, and three shil- lings to the man of the police:force. Capt. Alex Reid Prentice, of Green- ock, who has been awarded the D.S.O., is a well-known Rugby player, and was vice -captain of the Greenock Wanderers. From the proceeds of a concert giv- en by the Stonefield Parish Church choir, the sum. of 930 was given to the Limbless Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund. Private Alex, McDouugall, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who has y_ F•„� been awarded the Military Medal, is a son of Mrs. McDougall, Underwood Road, Paisley. The employees of the Caledonian Railway in the Edinburgh district have subscribed nearly 240 .to the served in almost every branch of fund for British soldier prisoners in 'military life, Upon his shoulders falls Germany. the immense task of getting the On account -of the increased cost of United States army ready for the happenings that are glimmering in the future, General Hugh L. Scott Commander -in -Chief of the United States army, has been in the service for 41 years, and during that time has had a most varied career. He has CAST VICTIMS TO SHARKS. Sub. Watched Crew of SS. Mariston Being Torn Limb From Limb. Details of the torpedoing of the steamer Mariston provide yet an- other instance of the barbarity dis- played by German submarine com- manders. The vessel was torpedoed early in the morning of July 16. The first explosion awoke the cook, who found the main deck awash when he got out of his bunk. As he ran to- wards the midship cabins to arouse the steward a second explosion blew the whole of the midship cabins into the air. Trotter, who has received the C.B., The vessel was now sinking rapidly, is a son of General Sir 'Henry Trot - and the cook, picking upto a hatch, ter, of Morton Hall, Midlothian. jumped` overboard. After the ship Sister Miss A. Robertson Nicoll, Kelso, of the Territorial Force Nurs- ing Service, has been honorably mentioned in Sire Douglas Haig's dispatches. Staff Nurse Miss E. T. Sharp, a native of Dundee, and on the Ameri- can Nursing Staff, has been specially mentioned in dispatches by Sir Doug- las Haig. The sum of 3105 was collected by the ladies of the Dunbar Red Cross Work Party through the agency of a leaflet which was distributed from house to house. EAT APPLES FOR INSOMNIA. Are Far From "Leaden" for These Who Cannot Sleep. living, Dundee municipal committees have decided to grant salary in- creases involving an expenditure of £589. John Strong, M.A., Royal High School, Edinburgh, has been appoint- ed president of the Educational Insti- tute of Scotland. Andrew S. Carrie, a native of Arbroath, but latterly ti resident of Naw South Wales, has invented a riffle which fires 17 shots in 17 sec- onds. Lieut. David Percy Hope -John- stone, a cadet of the family of the Marquis of Linlithgow, has been awarded the Military Cross. Scotland Liddell; a well- known journalist and writer of books and a former citizen of Lauder, is now an officer in the Russian army. Brigadier -General' Gerald Frederic had disappeared he counted 17 men clinging to the wreckage. - At that moment the submarine, a is of more than large craft, painted jet black, came the bottom., as to the •sur'ace in the midst of her the previous struggling and drowning victims. The t less previous an latter noticed a trap-door open in the ofconning tower of the U-boat, and an officer stood looking through his bin- oculars for several minutes at the struggling forms in the water. The German officer silently ig- nored all appeals for •assistance, al- though there was no other vessel in sight, and the whole of the crew of the Mariston could easily have been rescued by the submarine in a few minutes. At this moment one of the drown- ing men disappeared with •a piercing scream, and a moment later another vanished in the same way. It was now clear the horror of the situation three the pre - g vessels were N OF -HONOR Verdun says:— sonally present - General Petain, er-in-chief, the gion of Honor, 1 days ago for ere. The pre - in the Place eers, shipbuilders and repairers, three shillings a week, or a total increase of fifteen shillings. The second exhibition of Canadian war photographs at the Grafton Gal- leries was visited by the Princess Beatrice, Princess Patricia, and Lord Derby. George Maberly was sent to prison for o0na month at Oxted, Surrey, for wearing a Victoria Cross without any right, 'and falsely claiming to have worked in the navy. ' William Challoner, a confectioner of Liverpool, was fined £5 for using su- gar for making jam, although he was not a fruit grower. - Some purely agricultural land in the parish of Finchiegfield, which was sold recently , by auction, brought nearly 330 an acre TO CONTROL PROVISIONS IN BRITAIN. A despatch from London says: Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, has decided to take over gradually control of the entire provision trade in the British Isles, The vital Con- sideration in the regulation of prices of provisions is control of imports, and Lord Rhondda is in constant touch with the American' Food Control De- partment on this subject. It is stated that the two Governments are work- ing in entire harmony to secure a re- duction in the prices of commodities coming from the United States. ITALIAN MAKES NEW AIR RECORD. TRAVELS 7,500 MILES YEAR. — A despatch from Paris says: Cap- tain Guilio Laureami, an aviator in the Italian army, has established a new world's long-distance flying re- cord by flying more than 900 . miles without stopping, according to a de - o year in little equal jumps. In the spatch to The Temps from Milan. The same time the outside of the average Italian flew from Turin to Naples and balance travels 7,500 miles, Yet, ole- return, a' distance of about 920 miles spite this astonishing distance tray- as the crow flies. Captain Laureami used a new Sia plod by tho ordinary watch, the machine. Ile left Turin at 10.07 a.m., amount of power consumed is trifling; reached Naples, flew Over that city, states the Popular Science tto run! k in Turin at 40 pan One horse -power is sufficient to run I, snot was bac 3. pan, two hundred and seventy million: If your canned fruits or vegetables watches. This is probably .all. the are 'not a success do not give up this watches that are in existence.,But if year of all others, for .Government there should be more there would be publications will teach you best enough power left in the one horse- ' scientific methods on that the bacteria power to ran an additional thousand which causes them to spoil will all be watches.. or so. destroyed by proper sterilization. Outside of, Watch's Balance Wheel is a Great Traveler. An astute Frenchmathematician has found that in certain watches the motions exceed two hundred million to the man who A new phonograph cabinet is mount- ed upon two legs and two wheels, this enabling it to be moved more readily. To discover whether coffee is pure, sprinkle a few grains on the surface of a tumblerful of water. If pure they will float, but if adulterated they will sink to the bottom. The apple is such a common fruit that very few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious medi- had been enhanced by the arrival on cinal properties. Everybody ought to the scene of a school of sharks, and know that the very best thing they can one by one all the brave man of the do is to eat apples just before retiring Mariston—except one—suffered a hof- for the night. Persons uninitiated in rible death in the jaws of these mon- the mysteries of the fruit are liable to sters. throw up their hands in horror atthe The scene was too much even for visions of dyspepsia which such a rug- the U-boat commander, for he closed gestion may summon up, but no harm the trap-door of the • conning tower can come even to a delicate system and submerged the vessel. Fifteen by the eating of a ripe and juicy hours later the sole survivor of the apple before going to bed. The apple tragedy was rescued by a British is excellent brain food; because it has merchant vessel. more phosphoric acid in easily digest- ed shape than any other fruits. It ex- cites theaction of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep, and thor- oughly disinfects the mouth. This is not all: the apple prevents indigestion and throat diseases. THE RED DRAGON OF WALES. Figure Was First Introduced Into Royal Standard by Henry VII. Henry VII., the firstof the Tudo monarchs, introduced the Red Drage of Wales into the Royal Standar after the Battle of Bosworth. Queen Mary had it removed, an Queen Elizabeth replaced it; but was finally displaced as 'one of th quarterings by James I, in favor o tho unicorn, and has never sine been accorded a place on the moi arch's personal flag. , King George, however, when Welsh Guards were added to t army a few years ago, approved the Red Dragon being emblazoned the King's color of that regiment,.' BRITAIN WILL IMPORT BACON AND BUTTED UNDER LICENSE Government Will Establish Agencies to Purchase Supplies Under Control of Food Ministry. A despatch from London says :— tracts in bacon and lard with American The Kitig on Thursday signed a pro- shippers are required to furnish to demotion prohibiting rho importation the Food Ministry full information 0-6 bacon, butter, hams and lard except immediately. under license. Pending further arrangements, 11 - The object of this action is to en- (lenses will be granted certain import- able the Government to take over the ors of bacon, ham and lard from other entire purchase of the import articles countries than the United States to enumerated and concentrate the pur- continue imports. Consignments of chase in various countries into a single Canadian bacon will be under the organization. The Food Ministry is same restriction as American goods. establishing in the United States a Imported in behalf of the. Food Min- single buying agency, and will make istry, they will be distributed through all purchases through this agency, be- the ordinary channels at fixed tomos ginning September 3, All holders at as to commission acid profits, thus the present tinge of elf. and f.o,b. eon. protecting the public.