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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-10-11, Page 3BR ' CAPTURE STRATEGIC PORTI6NS COMMANDING FLANDERS PLAlik Thousands of Prisoners Taken in Fresh Offensive East and North-East of Ypres—A11 Objectives Won, A despatch from London says; The anticipated renewal of Field Marshal Haig's big offensive in Flanders has begun, and all the objectives of the first day have been won and held, Like the preceding attacks, the latest one was timed to the minute, The British forces at the given signal at daylight swarmed from their tvenehes over groend that had been harrowed by myraids of shells from the great ar- ray of artillery, and all along the front of more than eight miles, from south of ';ower Hamlets to the north of Langemarck, they made notable new gains of te1•rain, inflicted heavy cas- ualties on the Germans, while them- selves suffering slight losses, and took many prisoners, large numbers of whom gladly surrendered. The Reuter correspondent at Brit- ish headquarterac'in"France says: "To -clay is ono of the great days is army annals. The victory is being Proclaimed as one of the greeted since the Marne." The attack was delivered With all the wonted dash of previous offensives and swiftly the liritishers tools posi- tions that had been marked out for them, some of them to a depth of more than a mile. The main ridge of the heights running north and south to the east of Ypres, which atl'orde a dominating point for the launching of future attacks, is nearly all in their hands. More than 3,000 German prisoners had bean passed behind the lines when the latest official communication con- cerning the day's fighting was sent, and large numbers of others were be- ing gathered in. RIGID g}py EMBARGO ALLIES ��d/ BY ALL d 8LIIES Sending of Supplies to European Neutrals Absolutely Phohibited. A despatch from Washington says: Great Britain's embargo on the eit- port of all supplies to the northern European neutral countries, just an- nounced, was declared after every phase of its possible effect was gone over in conferences between American and allied statesmen. American officials initiated the dis- cuesions, and insisted that the British step bo taken to make sure that there PRO KESS OF U.S. SHIPBUILDING Ten Months Gained in Building of Destroyers—Ready Early in 1918. A despatch from Washington says: —Sueh remarkable progress has been made in the quick building of the im- mense flotilla of America destroyers to cope with the submarine campaign that the Navy Department now is as- sured of much quicker delivery of the- ships heships than was contemplated at the last estimate, which in itself was far ahead of the original time. Progress on the ships now building and arrange - be no nullification of the purposes the ments for others to follow, it is said United States Government had in at the Navy Department, are such view in putting into operation its own that the American navy will lead the embargo. e world with its destroyers within eighteen months. It is now certain that all destroyers now building will be delivered ready The step indicated that the allies have united in a decision that the neutrals must cut off the shipment of all supplies to Germany. Amen- for duty in European waters early can officials and some of the allies next year. Many of then had nqt here have heeitatecl as to jest how been expected until the winter of 1918. far to go in demanding cessation of trade between the neutrals and Ger- many. At one time it appeared they wouldeask no more than that neither allied' goods nor materials supplanted by allied commodities be sold in- Ger- many by the neutrals. BOME NG OF TOWNS GERMAN &Oi7V S French Drop Projectiles on Baden—Italians Attack Aus- trian Naval Base. A despatch from London says: While British and French airmen con- tinue their bombing operations against Germany's submarine base at Zee- brugge and points of militaryeimport- ance behind the lines, the French aviators are keeping up their attacks on German towns and cities, in re- prisal for shelling by German aircraft of the open town of Bar, -le -Duo More than 1'5,000 pounds of explosives are reported to have been dropped on numerous German settlements, among them the famous town of Baden, famed as a health resort, Likewise the Italians are giving -the Austrians little respite from aerial incursions, again having drop- - ped: four tons of projectiles on mili- tary objectives at Pole, the great Austrian naval base on the Adriatic, and bombed other points of military advantage. CAUGHT IN BRITISH BARRAGE WHILE PREPARING TO ATTACK • A despatch from British Headquar- ters in France, says:—There was an unusual feature in the battle near Zomiebeke. Throe German divisions had been ordered to retake the line the. pritish captured hero last week. The }attack was sot •for six o'clock. The Germans were caught in the British barrage as they were preparing to push forward, and lost grievously. Once before, in August, around. Lens, the British and Germans planned an attack at the same hour, and Canadian $roops going over the top and advane- ing quickly, came upon masses of Ger mans moving toward them in tho thick daze, and a few minutes later the Ger- mans were making their last stand on the parapet of their 'trenches. • BRIi'ISH JOINED BY ARAB FORCES A despatch from New York says:— i1;Lteresting military possibilities in Malestine aro forecast in advices from ecca, as reported in Arabic news - Papers reaching New York, to the ef- • feet that the Arabs in Arabia, in re - Olt against the Turks, have effected junction with the British., army in outholn '. Palestine. X -KING OF GREECE GIVES TO JEWISH FUND. 4, despatch from Zurich, Switzer- tl l says:. Former King Constantine Greece issued from his retirement c to 0 gift of 100 francs announce a , .0 an g Q rr e wIsla refugees eon fromthe Salonika Approximately, ten months had been saved. RUSSIAN FUEL GROWING SCARCE All Street Car Traffic Has Been Cut One Hour: Day. A despatch from Washington says: Strenuous efforts aro being made in Russia to conserve all fuel resources, Petrograd, according to a despatch from W. C. Huntington, United States Commercial Attache at the Russian Capital, is being brought under strict fuel regulation. All street car traffic Ilea been cut one hour a day. A fur- ther regulation compels the railroad companies to observe a rate of speed that saves coal. The decreased speed rule is credited with surprising re- sults. It is reported that it saves eighteen per cent, of fuel, that thirty per cent. fewer cars are laid up, and a decrease in daily expenditures•of 3,000 roubles is secured. GERMANS AGAIN ATTEMPTING TO FRATERNIZE WITH RUSSIANS A despatch from Petrograd says: The Germans on the south-western front again are attempting to frater- nize with the Russians by throwing boxes of tobacco and cigarettes into the Russian trenches and calling to the soldiers to "come out of the trenches." The Russkaia Volya says in connec- tion with the German attempts that "our soldiers are answering them with gunfire." GERMANS HAVE NEW TANK ARMED WITH 3 -INCH CANNON. A despatch from the French Front in France says: The Germans are ex- perimenting with a tank armed with a three-inch cannon and machine guns. The forward end of the tank is fitted with a .spur -like ram, while—the upper part bears a superimposed cupola, and the armored plates descend suffi- ciently to protect the caterpillar wheels, which thus are almost in- visible. Remarkable Photo Shows Bombing of German Munition Depot 12THTIS remarkable photo was taken inside the German lines from the aero - 1 plane of the aviator who made a raid on a great Bootie ammunition depot. The daring' aviator starting out on the apparently reckless adventure of get- ting' by Cho German lines and successfully bombing the Touton stores of munitions, flew to a point above the depot and dropped auentl;tes of In- bendlary bonito while the Germans kept firtngea terrific 2usilade at him. Despite that danger he kept at his task and earned his reward when he Saw the munition story house burst into flames. The smoke from the burning bepot'oan be seen ascending in the photograph. The aviator returned to his own linos.safoly but his machine was badly damaged. -. GERMAN ASSAULT REPULSED BY IIA G Enemy Attack in Polygon Wood Region Proves Futile. A despatch from London says:—An attack by the Germans Wednesday morning between Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wood, following a vigorous artillery fire, was repulsed either by barrage or by British infantry, ac - eroding to the report from Field Marshal Haig. All the British posi- tions remained intact. The text of the statement reads: "Shortly before' dawn the enemy heavily bombarded our positions be- tween Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wood; afterwards his infantry at- tempted to advance. .Our artillery opened vigorously, and on the greater part of the front the assault broke down before reaching our lines. "In the area immediately north of the Merlin Road, where a few of the enemy succeeded in passing through the barrage, they were completely re- pulsed by our infantry. Our posi- tions are intact. "There has been great artillery ac- tivity on both sides during the day east of Ypres.” U. 5; TO REFUSE COAL TO NEUTRAL SHIPS A despatch from Washington says: —A' final move to prevent supplies from reaching/ Germany from the out- side world web taken on Thursday by the American Government, in deciding to refuse coal to neutral ships carry- ing supplies from South America to the northern European neutral. coun- tries, unless their cargoes are in- spected in American ports The Sunshine Path. A sunny path winds past my door, 'Tis brightened either side By flowers of peace and happiii.ess, And nooks where songsters hide, IP lanned the sunshine' path myself, I'ts border* and its bowers; I planted little seeds of love, And God sent me the flowers. 704 AEROPLANES SHOT DOWN ON WEST FRONT LAST MONTH A despatch from London says:— The Times' says: "Seven hundred and four aeroplanes and seaplanes were brought or driven down on the western front in September, This is a higher total by nearly 800 than reached in preceding months, and compares with 407 in July, 713 in May and 747 in April. The allies, according to the claims of the German headquarters, lost 242 machines. The German aero- planes and seaplanes which fell to British and French airmen and gun- ners numbered 4(32. The British re- port:, Enemy machines brought down, 143; enemy machines dpiver. down out of control, 142; British machines miss- ing, 112. The French report: Enemy machines brought down and enemy machines driven , down in their own lines, 79. German report: Allied ma- chines shot clown, 243; German loss of machines admitted, 8." SOLDIERS ALL. "Fisherman, mend your nets For the day's trawling! Cod and menhaden run Thick for the hauling!" "Yes, but beyond the mists Bugles aro calling." "Writer, the world would count You with its sages! Far from the shock of war, Toil for the ages!" "No—I must write my lite On Freedom's pages!" "Surgeon, you cannot go! Hear the sick pleading! 'Tis not for such as you Bullets are speeding!" "Hush—for I see in France Liberty bleeding!" "Mother, keep back your lad, Though his mates scorn him! Better their jeers than that Your heart should mourn hint!" "Cease—for his country's cause My arms have borne hint!" "Pastor, now more and more Men need your preaching! How shall they find their souls If you stop teaching?" • "Yet, t on His battle line God is beseeching!" D. M. Henderson. Markets of the World 10readstni;s Toronto, .Ort, 9. --Manitoba wheat-- No. 1 Northern 32.23; No., 2. do., $2.20; No. 3. do 52.17, in store )'ort William, 11102114hll, 24 Lax, Manitoba oats -No. 2 C•W., 96i0, 111 store Fort William. American earn.. -No. 3 yellow, nominal.. Ontario oats- -No.' 3 white, 22c, nomi- nal; No. 3, do., CIc, nominal, according to freights outride. Ontario wheat • •New, No. 2 Winter, 32.22 basis, in state, Montreal, Peas --No. 2, nominal. Parley—malting, new, 31.18 to $1.20, according to freights outside. ;Rye — No. . 2, 31.76. according to freights nut Ade, Manitoba 11101 r- 1 h'st patents, In jute bags, 311.60; 2nd d0•, $11.00: strong bakers', du $10,60 Toronto. L1, ultln•io loua^._Winter according'00 sample, $ 1 ,u, in bugs, Montreal; $9.00, Toronto, Ilantp0 shipment. AMIred 't.!al' lois--'1Je11 cored Mont- real 1 uhhts, bads lneluded liran, per cl'i5'0o1 do., 540; .$u4;good Soar, per $3.26. 11„y -No. 1, nen per ton, $12 to 518; mixed, do, 30 to 811 track Toronto, Straw, ---Car tutu, per ton.' $7 to 57.50, teats` Toronto, Country Produce—Wholesale llutter—UL•eanlel•y solids,,er ib., 412 to 420; prints, poi. 1b., 42 to 422c; dairy, teudanee. I as it is always called in the text -books per lb„ 36 to 800. 1 ggs—J er doz., 80e, M. C. Luschene, F,$.I., of Farnham —Mee immense value in war; and it Wholesalers are selling' to the retail trade ret the following 'Melees: Common, has been appointed honor- was naturally realized that the great- Cheese^New, terga, 21 to 22)0; twins, ary secretary of the Royal English' est results to be expected from the lar`ge, 300; twtriplets, 5' triplets, 801e. Arborieulturai Society. I employment of this new weapon would 16nttev—Fresh daily, choice, 40 to 41o; Capt. F, Hurley, who was photo- be attained if it could be launched un - creamery minis, 44 to 460; solids, 43 to _grapiler to Sir E. Shackloton's Antarc- expectedly, so that the enemy might do Expedition, has been appointed be caught unprepared to meet it. Photographer to the Australia forces, ( Various rumors about the new ma - The British Government have had chines were current amongst those 437 aeroplanes and seaplanes given as i who got wind of them. One was gifts from different parts of the Em- , that they were intended to carry wa pire since the beginning of the war. Iter for the troops across the deserts The Royal Humana Society's ser- , of Egypt and Mesopotamia. A second tificate has been awarded to Marie hinted at snowploughs for use on the Russian front. Those German Nicknames. One good point common to both the German home-made equivalent terms NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS 'BY MAIL ABOUT JOAN 11U14 AND IIIc PEOPLE Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cial World. Lodgers in England who buy their own food, will be allowed to get their own sugar cards, The Parkinson Stove Co„ of 13irm• an article on the "tanks" in the Ingham, were fined £112 far improper- Strand Magazine by Col. E. D. Swin- ly using copper' In the manufacture of ton, then instructor: water heaters. ton, `tank'?" Why ahonld a fight - Lord ltoundway has become Pres:- ing automobile have been so inappro dent of the Association of Wiltshire- priately named? The reply awl be men in London, in succession to the given in two words—for secrecy, In late Sir R. Burbidge. its experimental stage the machine, The Board of Agriculture says that was known as a "land cruiser" or ohlldren under twelve years of age «landslhip," But it is a military platl- ' should not be released from school at ; tude that the "element of surprise" THE STORY OF THE "TANKS" ROW THIS INGENIOUS. DEVICE GOT ITS NAME, Col. E, D. Swinton Tells of Origin iu Caterpillar Tractor a Decade Ago. The following are extracts from 4530. Eggs—New laid, in cartons, 61 to Esc; out of cartons, 450. 14105584 poultry—Spring chickens, 23 to 30c; fowl, 20 to 22c; squabs, per doe,, 34 to 54.60; turkeys, 28 to 32c;- duclts, Spring, 22c. 220; Spring Live poultry23crke�•ei1020 to .220; chickens, lb„ clucks, Spring, 20c. Honey—Comb—Extra line, 16 oz., 53.25; 12 oz., 32,75; No, 2,$2,40 to 52.10; Strained, tins, 21'a an6'5, 130 per lb; 10's, 17 to 172c; 00's, 161 to 170. Deans—No Canadian beans on market until last of October; imported, hand - nicked, 57.76 per hush; Limas, per• lb., 16 Lo 160. Potatoes, on/track--Ontario, bag, 51.36 to $1,46. Provisions—Wholesale Smoked moats—hams, medium, 30 to 31c; do„ heavy, 26 to 270; cooked, 41 to 420; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 3;,ry 36 to 400; backs, Wain, 88 to 40o; hone- From one Fgao uq•n s Green isle legs 43 to 44c. 272 NEWS 13Y II'iAlI, FROM iRE• LAND'S SHORES. Elappenings In the Emerald isle of Interest to Irish- men The Cork LD.A, Executive have Slharrat of Windsor, for jumping into the Thames and rescuing a child, Col, H. B. 0. Savile, one of the old- est officers in the Royal Artillery, was buried with milliary honors at Bristol, of ``tank" is that they do not lend Owing to the shortage of paper the themselves to the making of lyrics, new London telephone directory will for neither o the rkraftwagen" nor not be published before January next. „ Schutzengrabenvernichtungsautomo- et memorial to the Southend air raid bil" is likely to be used as the refrain victims is being erected in the grounds of a topical song in concert halls. •cured masts—Long clear bacon, of Prittlewell Priory. to Lard—Purealard, tierces, t862t002270; -.OP eight new magistrates appointed The machines were yet otherwise tubs, 261 to 271c; palls, for Dudley, Worcestershire, three of miscalled. During the Rummer of compound, tierces, 214 to 22c; tubs, 21i 1916 an enemy agent, trying to, tap to 224a; nous, 22 to 221c. them represent labor. the wires in England, might have An Army Council order has directed been mystified to pick up some such Montreal Markets the release of a certain quatltity oP Montreal, Oct, 0,— oats—Canadian sole leather for civilian use. messages as: "Twelve Willies reach Western,o.1. No. 2, "r No. No. 1, Iso; extra you to -clay," or "Send tails for six Na. feed, 70010;al 2 nosed white, 720; At an education conference at Tied- : No, 3 local white, 710. Barley—Marrito- ' females." ba feed. 31.20; malting, $1.31 to $1.32. ford, Lady Betty Balfour stated that "Petrograd, With Care." Flour-1lanl0oba Hp1•ing wheat patents. 1t took her children nine years to firsts, $11.60; seconde, 511.10; strong learn to write and nine more to learn To help to conceal the destination bakers'.. $lose; uvl els. patents, choice, I of the tanks at the stage when any $1z.00: su•56 60 rollers, $11.66 ed oats ; to spoil. do., ba s; 56 60 to $6R -n. Roiled oats— Vr, Courtald, of Essex, has given 1 allusion to their purpose was preclud- under consideration the establishing obis., $8.20; do„ bags, 90 lbs, $4.00, of an aircraft industry in that di5- Bran. $6 05, Shorts, 5410,00. Middlings, gs, '02,000 to the Braintree School, as ; ed, they were painted with the en - ships, 550.00.scholarships, on condition that no son : scription; "With care; to Petrograd" triet. 500.00. 1-;ay—No. 2, per ton, car lots, At a meeting of the North Dublin 511.60 to 512.00. Cheese—Finest West- of a German parent shall ever benefit :` in large Russian characters. This, of erns, 211o; linest Easterns, 2110. But- by then. 1 course, was merely following up the Union it was decided that all women ter—Choicest creamery, 4s to 4620; workers be given four shillings a selected, n7 to Eggs—Fresh, 2 5s No. stockto . 434c; • British or rescuing shipu shipwrecked vessel, Hans Jer- line suggested by the snowplough fic- week as a war bonus 440; No. 2 stock, 40 to 410. Potatoes Some of the Dublin retail tea es- Per bag, car lots, 51.00. _— g casco, a Swedish captain, was pre -I It is true 'that certain people who seated with a piece of plate by the are not soldiers have played a very tablisllments had to close their doors wianineg Grain British Board of Trade. on a recent Saturday, owing to lite Winnipeg, Oct. s.—cash prices:— heavy rush of business` Wheat No 1 Northern $2.21; No. 2 The Islandamiv bridge, which . do., $2,10; No. 3, do„ $22.36, tNo. 4, Ivo 4z THE APPLE INSTINCT. Na. 6, $1.6; feet, _, a C. W„ e81c; No. 3, do., 067`: extra No. 1 —" large and valuable part in creating the tank. It is also true that others who are soldiers have not done so. But the first to appreciate the neces- to Duad the River Feels from there sity for it, to urge•its provision, and to Duagh, has beo`i swept away by un- foci, cs?c, No, 1 feed, 641c; No. 2, do., Each Autumn Tlus Delectable Fruit 'c. Barley—No, 3 c.w., $1.2z; No. to insist on the feasibility of its con- . as - s ruc on, were, rett, has been made the recipient or $0.04, Ao, s, do., $2.03. IS is not without lesson the new Order of the Commander of Trotted States Markets serpent chose an apple for the temp- first definite proposal fora lighting the British Empire. Minneapolis. lte Oct. 0.—Corn—No. 3 yet- talion of Eve, thereby insuring his machine on the lines of the existing P. Nolan, secretary of a local enter, tow, 51.61 to $1.92. rie—Ni.tet3ite; white, I chances of success. In due course, tank was due to the appearance of 6S2 to 12%313r—ranee' )tout y p the race of man falls anew each year the Hornsby -Ackroyd caterpillar trac- ; in England in sot the entertainment tax. � naked; December, $3:162 bid. :pear. Peale thatstartsa mighty longing in 1905. It was made by a military ofti= ©ruing: to the great scarcity of milk, I -- app and was carried up to the stage usually heavy floods. 4a$cto., 31.11; rejected and feed $1.11, H - Old Time Charm t ti in fact,soldiers Lady Barrett, wife oC Sir W, F. Bar- Fla-e—No. 1 N: n'•c� $3.10; No, C.74., that the So far as the writer is aware, the tainntent, was fined 012 at the Por- Blatt—$30 to $sx. t li t Sessions for failure to col- Duluth, Cet 9 Linseed—$8,215; � when the first shining beauties ap- tor, which was tested for military Th a is something about an. � traction purposes gl d ' 1906 ar ng on October, $s 21 asked November, a me 1 the price of butter has increased thin • moo Stook Markets I the human breast; perhaps a tang of ( cer a teen shillings per firkin at the Nenagh , Toronto, 7Oct 512 60. do,elg' good heavy, � the high and far-off times of youth of the preparatidn of sketch drawings, Stoera, 5 1 cattle $9 aoi t which never quite fade; days when the when the project died for want of butter market.� $il t $ early October support Lille Mr. We he was 0 11,60; butcher's ca e, c o 0e, lis The Lords of the Admiralty have � e1O,10 do 510.60;1x06 40., good, eq., long grasses, wetwith appointed J. C. Perry, J.P„ Dublin, to d reluctantly revealed to the late -I ahead of his time. be an hononary lieutenant of the choice, 38.75;medium bulls, $6 $d rising Are of Both Sexes. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve common $0,76 to $7,40; butebars' bulls, 5W, s so 10 da., good bulls sun the treasures hid in their 37,40 to 37.56: aa, mac um u s, g p The tanks are divided into males oyn ora to 57.10; do., rough bulls, g'6 to 38; tangled depths. Days when you Tito allotment holders at Charts- butchers' rows, choice 56,26 to 50,76; munched apple after apple on your and females. The male is par excel villa passed a vote of 'thanks to Dr. d°•• gond. $7.60 to 57.76; do., medium, lance the machine-gun hunter and de 00, to Ss.7s; stoot:ers, $7.60 to gs.76; way to school—and how they chilled P Sanders, for securing a teeaers 5s 00.to 15.26; canners and cut- your front teeth!—always finishing a stroyet. He carries light, q g R02505, o an in- ters, 55 to $6.60; milkers. good to choice, t nick -ficin field and providing seed potatoes for $90 to $126; do., com. and med., 375 to ' core in time to hit the tenth fence post guns capable of firing -shell, and is in - the poor. 323; Springers, $90 to 5125; light ewes, beyond, tended to be to the machine gun what The sum of £37 was raised at $?.,o to $11.60; sheep, heav $s.76 xo ° the torpedo boat destroyer was de- $7,601 yearlings, 511 to $10; calves, But you saved the ripest treasure to be to the torpedo boat, or Portade n by the sato of flowers in good to chorea $1s to $fed sdso; d Spring polished • with care and dubihus sleeve,d� aid of the Cripples' Instituto and somas. $1G to 517: hogs, a an water_ 6; at the ladybird is supposed to be to the ed, S18.75; do., weighed off cars, $10; for the adornment of Teacher's desk. Homes of Rost at Be1Paflf and Bangor, do., C.o.h., $17.76, l0 26 lyse it ahvays a bribe, that best, that aphis. The female, which, m accord - Montreal, very successful fete was held on Dfontreal, Oct. s.—Chotao steers, S once with the laws of nature, is the '• to 110.50; good, $2.70 to 510 lower choicest offering upon the altar of pe - the grounds of the Holvt:h Lawn Ten- grades, 53 to 55; butchers' caws, $$.60 dagogy? How you pined for it in se-! man -killer, cavies nothing but ma- nis Club in std of the British Rad to x$6,4bulls, to '$6.60; scanners, ` canners `ret, longed to bite into its seductive chine guns for employment against Cross Society and St. John Ambulance to $6,25; Ontario lambs, $14.60 to $14.7 redness; but only white it fingered the enemy personnel. Her special Association. Quebec lamas, $13.60 to 614; sheep, $8 neglected. When the tutelary deity to $o.60; intik-fed calves. $10 to 514; , role is to keep down hostile rifle fire. seteated ho turned f the blackboard and actu- CANADIANS GAS ENEMY AT LENS Airmen Attack Germans Load- ing Ammunition at Dump. A despatch from Canadian Head- quarters HOUSES in France, says: Gas in con- WRECKED Y TYPHOON siderable volume was again projected into Lens Thursday morning. The :it ga, 518.26 to 31s.76, erne from -----•:'--"•"--- ally dropped her chalk in her delight, Act As An Antidote, NEW GOVERNOR NAMED it wasn't a bad world after all and The tanks have supplied the touch FOR NEWFOUNDLAND. yon wouldn't have the prize back for' of comic relief and excited the mirth a king's ransom. How the ' heart of the British soldier, always blessed A despatch from St. John's Nfld., warmed and expanded when you per- with a keen sense of the ridiculous. says: The appointment of Sir Charles mitted it to be nosed about that the They acted as an antidote to the of Harris to be Governor of Newfound- mysterious donor of the Biggest Apple feet of the "Jack Johnsons," "Weary land is ofiieialiy announced. He will was none other than yourself. Little Willies," "Silent Susies," "Whizz succeed Sir "'alter Davidson. did the admiring populace realize how Bangs," "Sausages," "Rum Jars," your avid little soul reached out tear shells, gas shells, and all the through your proud and haughty de- other frightfnlnesses of the unspeak- KE B meanor to gather up hungrily every able Botha. They counteracted the atom of glory. weariness, the hunger and thirst, the 1f Teacher knew her pupil—and it dust, the rand, and all the squalor and is surprising to remember how Mor- filthy discomfort of war. • oughly she did understand your shy Neutrals' Exports to Germany, boy-soul—she would detain you on a Of the total of animal fats used in 1916 in Denmark for the manufacture of margarine, 90.9 per cent. were, im- ported from the United Status. The total Danish production of margarine in 1916 was 124,781,620 pounds, ac- cording to data received by the "(Jolted dried States Food Administrator, The sub - cession of apples; until the grass stitution of this margarine for butter allowed the exportation of all the but- ter produced, except 8.6 per cent,; much of this exportation going int The mists of memory dissolve, but Germany. Holland, also a dairy coup the apple comes every year, bringgrng try, in 1916 produced 896 828,00,1 pounds of margarine, of whictlu 3138, 690,000 pounds were exported. 0 the 164,8;',000 pounds of Holland but ter produced, the exportation amounted to 92,598,200 pounds. o greatly these exports were tq many's benefit can+ only bo` 0=111044, When meklng.broad alwaYs v 1 flour, The apple hunger, which vie orast sn .tis£v , the basins and frobraked, @pd,. as willing victim of a worthy passion, be much lighter, enemy retaliation took the form of trench mortar activity, but this hvas not long maintained. The artillery duel 5t111 continues and the Germans are making more use of their long - A despatch from London says; .A Shanghai despatch says that as a re - wilt of a typhoon which swept over Tokio on Monday, 100,000 are home- less, and that 188 are' dead and 217 range, high velocity gums in the born- missing. bardment of the area behind the front. `' Behind the German lines one of our Quebec City Has Gone Dry. aircraft took on a large party of the A despatch from Quebec says: Que- enemy engaged in loading ammunie bee city has gone dry. By a majority tion at a dump. The airmen swooped of 2,200, prohibition was carried to - down from a considerable height, fir- ing as they came with both fore and aft guns. Tho enemy took covet, but not before some casualties had been inflicted. Similar encounters between the airmen and the troeps on the ground are more numerous than they form- erly were. 20,000 Planes Are Under Way A despatch from Washington says: day after the bitterest fight this city has seen hi years. No Advance Payments. • You'll never make A single soli By any deed You're going to do. On what you've done Lies fortune's chance Life never pays Us in advance. —Twenty thousand aeroplanes for ----tie-- America's ---• -w--••—.America's fighting, forces in France, Plough early in the auttnnn and tion disk theland thoroughly when aura hsc the$640,000,000n < sized intheg y authorized bill passed by Congress last July, corn is to be planted next year in actually are under construction. order to combat the corn root aphis. casual pretext at recess time, She "never could eat all of it herself," but if you would help her out? Of course, if she put it that way, the magnanim- ons benefactor must comply with the lady's request. Which circumstance may help to explain the daily pres- ence thereafter on her desk of a sue - up and the frosts came, and one's mind turned to other things than '3'e - men joy to the hearts of all who love Ito personality even better than its taste. Mother one knows a Baldwin from a Spitsbergen, s. Ring from a 13useet--- Whether the autumns of boyhood found us ansWOfing the boll on the little red schoolhouse or the summons of Roihhe metropolitan hall of learning, ' e theinstinctive '' 11 silk 'n toa bring a y