HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-12-13, Page 2ECG BY EXPUISI
The Disaster i the Wiest Awful Catastrophe
Which Has Befallen Any City
in
fl World.
Harrowing Details of the Explosion Which Wrecked the Northern
Section of the City and Caused Death and Injury of Thou-
sands—Colibtion in the HarborBetween French Munitions
Ship Mont Blanc and Belgian Relief Steamer, The Imo.
Many hundreds of people are 1101111 dent' were swept to death in the de -
and thousands are injured and 110010- bri,
less because of a frightful explosion Tie) main damage wae clone in the
nwth end of the city, known as Rich -
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CONFUSION OVER
WHISTLES BLAMED
Pilot Frank Mackie, who was
on the munition ship, declares
that the accident was due to a
confusion of whistles, sounded by .
the Belgian Relief steamer.
In addition to her caro of muni-
tions, the Mant Blanc carried a
deekload of benzine, and t la .
caught fire, following the explo-
I teighte, mg.
sion. The 7,000 ton steamer Porsanger ehown in the Picture was launched Sr; shorts, do,. 513; middlings. cle- recently,
The Captain of the Mant Blanc
the largest ocean-going vessel cont ucted in
Nov. 29 1 • The Ciumillan Vickers Company at Montreale• The Porsanger is 53,25.
$4? to WI aerie feed fluor. per beg.
A memorial in COrfiltd1 granite hoe
ordered his crew to take to the Canada. Inset is a portrait
111 Ned. 1 to 1,1 , ti ay o ,.
1,now per ton, $10 to $17.1 been dedicated in a cemetery in Kent
'
ship in two boats and rowed for . . eeeeree. -re..-. traek Toronto,
PnY---N°.$ l ____'. 5 • k rtrtitn
PAD, otoccitilil.creNdqclitilmloslo0t: the explueion which
boats. The men hastily left e of Mr. P. le Miller, manager of the Canadiau \riche -re CO. Stito,- -tat 0 n, '
the Halifax side of the harbor,
Markets of .the Worill NEWS FRON1 ENGLAND
eireadetuge
Toronto. Dee. 11-etnedielet wheat --
No. 1 Northern, 32.238: No, 2 do., 30,2051
NO. do., 51175; No, 4 wheat, $2,10,
11
Store Fort William, ineluding 2er. tax.
Manitoba oats --No, 2 8350; No.
8 (3.W., Soace. No. 3 (10)111 feed, 005e; No,
1 feed, 70e, in store Port William.
American corn -No, 0 yellow, nominal.
Ontar10 ottis•--No, 2 while, 711 to 70c,
nominal; No. 3, do., '74 to 7.6e, nominal,
awcording to l'reights outside.
Ontario wheat -New, No. 2 Winter,
02121 haalS, In store, eiontrene.
Patta--No, 2, $3.70 to 33.80. Recording
to freights outside.
Parley -Malting, $1,ee 31.2!.
cording to freights outside..
13oeltwilest-51.96 10 51.50, according
NEWS BY MAIL AliDerf JOHN
BULL AND HIS PillOPLB
Occurrencee hi the Lend That Reigns
Seereme 010 Commer-
441 World.
Lieutenant .H. Vr'illiems and
Lieueenant-Celoieel A. Fiulay have
been appointed deputy-lieuteeants of
Buckinghamshire.
rVe No, O. 3138. 11000edlug Owing to the scarcity of red paint,
to freights outeide.
efenitoba neur-ten•et patents, in Jute the bonnets and parts of the bodiee of
freights outside,
hags, 511.50; 2o11, do., $11; strong bait. London motor omnibuses are being
el's', doe 01 0.10, Toronto,
81117(1110, $9,95, lata'a, Mottlaval: $11.711. elaig
Termite; $2.70 hulk, seaboard, Prompt
Ufl 2(70 IUV 120 •‚A mid 'anent. of LiverpooL, Mr, Asquith delivered an
' item pee con, addeees on "War Aims" in that eitY
51.111.reed-Car iots delivered Montreal
Ontario floor -Whiter, 'wording 10 Pahltet1 brOW11,
BRITISH CAPTIRE OLDEST TOVN Country Products -Wholesale
and the tire whieh followed rt: on which they reached in safety. Theit is Noy little sele of second -
mond, whivb was opposite the point noire -creamery; sends. per lie 100 hand bicycles in London, as boys are
felt that an explosion was Inevet. ' earning so much money that they can
treme' north end of the eity is &east- damage was so extensive as to be t.o-
able, Twenty minutes later the illE WORLD ANCIMIT PEB, Eggs-Froolt aalltat'ad MO, 47 to 80, afford- to buy new onee.
eer" Prints per lb. 43 to 431e; dilit'S,
The men ran for refuge, as t ey per lb, 30 to 38e. •
Thursday of lazt week. All the ex- of the veeeehe collieion. Ilere the
ated. The eity ie Cat off front tele- tally beyond the field of description. explosion occurred, and the men $ grewers ittul entuitrY soMne
1"1,1"''s -' "1"-'1""17ris iti,loq• $11."sngo 'rim Barnet and Finehley councils
graphie communication whh the Street after street is in ruins and• were hurled flat on the ground. I Situated 20 Milts South-West of Jerustdem—Site of theT b '
1 lot
Jos arst-eians stock. c.e.e.. outside - have protested against the inadequate
world. . flamee swept over the 111 11 •
Ot rtihr aharn and Other Patriarchs. , n lighting of railway carriages when
-Five minutes after the ekeloeion . om le , N\ holesalers nro selling to the re a
The •disaster wry caueed primerily uncler . central, - and the emergency, trade ac the renewing prices:-- passing throtigh tunnels.
0 ' . oecureeti the streets% were tilled with I elloese-New• levee,. 23 t" 231e tw.1,6": In one week last summer the chile
by the Belgian relief steamer. the a terror-stricken mob of peOple, an committee has matters well in hand.'
• e • 1. - les nevh fr re
o . London says: ham, Isaac and Jacob, to -which the' :231
!lai'lac twm, ..0 to .,1
225 ear4. ehe°"' 2" t" - 0' dren atteeding the schoole in the Bee
line, going out and a French munition trying to make their way as best A howling, blizzard set in l•rulity , •,- , ri l'utt'r-r"8""ill% c7,0h."' 48 1" 41'1 le)/ districe gathered 2,240 pOuntis of
tl but the homelese are being tem•-• has occupied the town of Hebrem, in eigners alike do reveeence. • Ieggs---New elm, in eartons, 60 to fac:
'No 1 storage, 42 to 43c; select storage, •
Prints, 4h to .1110; solids, 49 to .
blackberries for the army and navy,
Mire asked their seceetary, T, E. Nay -
The London Society of_Compositors
they might to the outslch•te in order efeeritoon and impeded the rescue; get -weal Fe IL Allenby reports that he 20,000 Mussulmane and the 2,000 for- ,`;',Iere,,`•ImerY
steamer, the Mount am, ,
the harbor coming into collieion. Then
thought to be a German raid. Perarily sheltered and made es i Palestine, the British War Office Mil- One of the oldest towns in -tele , 40 to 47e
lb•essia8 poultry -.swing chluReos. 27 •
W(1111011 111 lied in terror-stricke.n " cially announces to 11)2112 I phus, was believed to have existed for lor, to be a candidate at the next Lon -
the munition ship took fire E.nd the fortable possible enclines ±110 world, Hebron, in the days of Jose- •
mobs through the etreets, mug I an: '.it
2,300 years. According to legends of to ?erre fowl 27 to .5o• squabs, per doz.,
54 to 54.50: tt..fri;e7s. 'eri to 30c; ducks, don County Council 0300F 171)
ship blew up, with 5.000 tons of high them with children clasped to their e.vilieli • the 2111 r e 4•Afi!':7at 22V-iring Hammersmith Council has been
Dartmouth shore, and soon after the are alrrteady pourve 11.1 on I An H di • lo -clay • 1
crew left her. They landed on the • ee flea) of supplies, doctors eery] nu. rees,.
to get out of the range of .what they
spec.i.ri ttiains . tom. other Flews of the; bect)e, the Jewish and San-melt:en writers,' ebieeeej, ih.: 200: "'In;11;, in 121 20e; aslced by the Local Government for
explosites. The Belgian sltip. was ea ec a me sanction to grant i',200 to the Ham-
flwough the streets with blood-staiu- be larghely s.uppNlemented.from Maine,.
• iJeresalem with apprOximatel , 15,000 town, is that etretch of red earth from $3.8 82 Oz.',"4: '.i:fo.' 2, 3ii.i0 to $2.en: mersrnith Volunteer Regiment.
ii re 1 ; a handful of • which God created Igeirdialelue.-4V eeleel gr.
11 tile du'riou'Y'Pl.U' -()--IP•.'ii2•`.; Toreese. ir n2
breasts. In t.heir eyes was a look o•f t I t.' ' i a nt 20021%-ile's soluttihlew1' ,1esst f -he "field of Damascus," near
beached on the shore of the har- terror ns they struggled in mobs pimince and New Brunswick, and will
bor opposite Halifax. FragmentS Of OW York, Quelee and . 4c ...... , e re- . . 10111-11. lie
inhebit•Int'e MO ••••.' 11 e 5 B •T1 ' e ties 1.,.," The Holborn Borough Council- have
the ship and her ammunition were
Where ti•om the falling masonry and
cd frices. and endeavored to got any- DI
0, atsta,e usette, .
11 1\110 011 Saturday, TeMpOlbary. I ice'
west and the. nerth-west, the taking i There is a grotto pointed out as the.51) 10 89'
). , a mum to Ji pestilent on the Adam. -.,.. I Beajas.--CMMdion, itMtil-piCited, liush. . granted an honorerium of 100 guineas
scattered all over the northern part of hospitals have been secured in sheds imported. Itstntl-idekcd, 01,50 : +,,, 9-5,,, 1.,,,,,,, elei.k and -hie deputy
the city, and the violence of the ex- cruniilling Wall.S..
who were kill- and store.s ve.here inmates of cherit-; of Hebron is of .interest because tree I plaee where Adam and Eve hid after 172e.
dawn identifies it as the site of the , their expulsion from Paradise -the
n, $6.75 1„..t. bash; hitatts. oo,. lb.. 17 to each ...., „,...... --..••.
locall tribunal.
plosion wrecked all the buildings in ; Amone• the hundreds able institutions whose buildings areto $2.25; Delawarcs, bag. $2,36 to 52.50. :
Potatoes, on tract:- -Ontario. bag. $2.10
' for services to the
The lelintshire County Couneil are
iinhdaBuger. ofr 0'5 10L10
vfill he rein . , coneidering the making of a new
that part of the city. 2 ed bv th'e exptoeion was one partioal.
., oved tombs of Abrahain and other pa- ' spot Ni • ti • '
I v- lei e my. momned for .4...bel, 1 —
_
The most awful cataetrophe ‘Ketielt ,1111.. 0. ,.. r ai e 1 o tea Till fy.rinsh , I rhyl to Groanant road at a cost of
o 'tent employee named MacDonald, ' holing banked about a; noble mho‘svcilui:'
east, whiwe the murder oc- '4 e`e.: Vr',11.e'el•r7.1.7';(!-'0-ikiftdiigotli'
vrovistove-whoiessee
to 224,000 as au after -the -war scheme.
arty sad ca3e of a Canadian Govern- , triarche. It irt a hill of shinin e l't ,muidered by Cam. The Mussulmans I .
hes befallen any city in the world. i e..iee.ai 3 ,ierir:s .to t e tarious t. r , ee en mark the place, three miles to i 15:,molltetli inettis.;;;11aug..,;me,lioni. nn
SuCh is the opinion of all officers and wee' «nrunietees now caganized.
all e- 1
men who have returned from the front exeleemn. found that all his family .
It it estimated that as much as a ' fig' and pomegeani0 trees. In the curred, and have a tomb \Illicit they as io are '1;neite, 17hrtil. ee 'it. :nee twee.: - BIG Mel -MORS NEEDED
, lees, 43 to 44e.
1-, on -trashing to his; home after the . ind ..s.e.t between hills rich . with olive, 1 the south-
' veer will be rewired to furnish en-___.---- -es : to 28c lb: eicar bellies, 203 to 27e, r
1 Vin•ed menis••••-hena vtaita bat.011. 27b WHEN GREAT WAR IS 0\ 118
—
. malsistibg of ilirS Wife end four aii-•!
• :mosque w the ruptiled tomb of A.bra- believe. to be Cain's.
• , - p , 1 hard -Pure le,d. ti erves,to 29.•:
,NA, .. ' A despatch from London says; Int-
- - who have been in the tuck of- dren, bad perished. BeforeZein 1 .
fighting since Canadians went bite, tic- the tee lwa - ver themangled re--: ough glass to provide tor the eity s
tion. And they are right. The men . ' ' .\ WC1'C - ; needs. Omitting nhogethee the
mains of hie little two-year-old child,
from the trenches. the men behied the on wrecked district, which eventually will
trenche_s or in tho rear, and the man ' tesh•hoorohaa(cil,iirdieet death -while playing
be rebuilt in that portion of the city,
who has been theough the times of . ' stin otanclinoz. there ia a(!al•eely a ; A deepatch from Te aban Hear quer- ,
Regulatious. -
distress in London and the. ernithereet - Many of pipet, 011 j) the creWS house in which the glass is. intact. It I
I Portance of the fighting around A despatch from
ters it] NOTillern nal?' says: The im- I - 1 Montreal, Dee. 11,-Oatta-•Canadion phasized the netid ot egeei t, ip
'coast when Zeppelins and enemy air- of ships hi the harbor were killed and is as if the whole city had been built, Ottawa says: An- ! ,‘,I,enee,.Te3opeTel4„e'et,ee, l'&e.,;1 3.1.',.,,,,te great speed after the war. He sug-
planes bombed the Capital of the injured. The damage alone. the water
I and all the glaesing left for one job. I Asiagre is liot under-retina:led, but it , nounceeient is made by the Feed Con- I elec.. 3,tg•i.,111eir4•..1,.,rlitir.r, ;;e1.-I,e1t..i.. , gested the. Government should start
the provision of Ing.lia.rbors. About
Empire and the coastal tovene. they front is very serious. • Stores are doing 1)1,1 1120 vith0112 1 s believed the.line of tesistitp.ee oil .
troller that licenses would be issued, ' !I•i'te.,(t.t: 'inic'et:e'e''si 111'''' -tettie'' t.:011.ers:
all know that they never met with The muilition ship, after• the evew • daylight, as all windows arcs now I which tile Italatne bate retned m nee, se.e.e te $5.35. Millfeed-itran. .$20,000,000 would provide for
5001) di dire caemilties as befell the city left her, veered in toWarcle the elali- . boarded up, and artificial light i, ueed i' capable of holding, tlie Iranzella end 1 permitting the manufacture and i
-TO' 5.35. to $37; shorts..$•10,.12 $42; eetaalinee, •
sale of 38 -foot draughts at mactical-
of Halifax "fr. TilUrSda of last week.. fax side of the harbor, and the city; by day tmd night. ' :Oadene passes leadieg into the Brenta- portation of specific ceeeal foods in 1 i•,41,e;. le: f;,,,,,e t(i.iivniciall,iirei.;!, ,11.1•;.1,.. li
packages of Jess weight than twenty i ----1111..•st WeaCerri.a. 1:1!:..; (1,.„ ,„.„1,.;.,.,,,
co','',,..,, ---e ly all the leading harbore from Great
„ ; Britain to the ;furthest dominions.
week the city was enjoying its usual sion. . . tend to businees, b. nclagert heads and i "
'find:Ong line been ot the most desper- P ,teetaids, .12 to 421,.. Eggs -.--Fresh, ! The report of; the Dominions
At nine o'clock on Thursday of last received the full levee of the eeplo- , Among the citieene still able to at- Valk-
' ' ..•`-- - *• ; ounc s, unc el_ em am regu a 1011E.
and the onee elains below The
1 .1 • .1 ' I, t' • '
:42:1.-,; 111(201 1'. treumery.
period of calm and the streets were A part of the town of Dartniouth is hands are common eights, and for the •
I ate character, tind while the enemy Dealers! other.than those mantufactur- I itatioetie er',.,,eVe'te.ti,e,, '1.1, t,;',., 'le`e• tit:rigel Royal Commission just. issued gives
erowded with people wending. - their ale° in ruins. • ; most part, they think theraselvee
--' has pnid dearly for his euccess, the ing or impoiting packages of cereals, i lir ,,,4,4 -
will he exempted from the provisioae I $26',•$o ;
. hogs ---,..11.'., i iociLitilfeti, $26 're; ' memoranda and tables as to harbors
do- "unto'', $21 1" $24.-15°. „1-'''rl, ' throughout tbe EMpire.
. way to work, little thinking of that !Italian losees also have been very
1 oe the order -in -Council of October 19.! -t--1
.1.1e,n;•et,.,..ett.,..rv,:.2sti,t,t,e4T.es..dt,ttLetetpsi.w8r5t ; ., • 4:....;..
ITALIAN'S CAN I CEREAL 1•00 . thee
:HOLD AielAGO PAS7SES. • ;
— • leo:manna,. ilarces, 21 to 24ie; tubs 241 provuntent in sea transportation "11,41.0
1.1) 2481; Pans, 2 1 1 1. 241e.
discussed at the London Climber of
Food Controller Announces Change in ,
• PO }tete Commerce, when 1,0111 Dabernon em-
' ' •
rd are in ruin...
. „ - haels, barrels, 45 to h,. pieces, 50 0 ,.,
ell RFS()
Nearle all the buildings in the deck-. fortunate tu have eeeciee i tat .
Pra.tivellv all the north end of the The battlefields of Europe (10 oat
which in a few minutee was to befall
them. .
'Suddenly. like a- bolt from the blue, city has been laid weete. - furnish a parallel to the scenes wit-
• there came • an exploelon. From one The destruction extende from North • flossed at Halifax, says Dunean Gre-y,
end of the city to the other glees fell, 1 street railway .tntion„ as fav n MIL ' who nrrived in St. John on Feeley.
and people were lifted from the side- as Africeille, to Bedford Basin, and . Ha was ongage,1 in inspeeang Owns ,
walks and thrown flat into the etreets. covers about twe striare miles, 1 in a shed on the waterfront when 'die
In the down -town ofneee, ,in begin-' The buildings which were not dee, devastation begen, and barely escap- •
ning to hum with the usual day's ac- stroyed by the explosieh were laid , ed before the building collapsed. This •
tivities. clerks and heads alike cower- waste by the fire that followed. I is his story:
ed under the shower of falling glass. ThousandHoinclese , "A few seconds after the l'0111' of the
and plaster which fell about them, e
t explosion a gust of wind swept-
The collision War; a tel one, the Thmtsande of.persone are rendered' through the shed and then down came
inunition boat being rieevea on tha homeless. The Academy of Music and pillars, boards and 1111142". I rushed
port side almost to the engine- many ethee public buildings heee been , to the open and the eight that met my
• room. The relief N'OS1-4-1. 21111,1) wae : thrwn
o.open to house the homeleswa
e, I
; gaze s the 'worst that I hupe ever to
practically uninjured, kept going Five hundred tents have been eeeet-
I see in this world.
ahead with the woueded craft. and . ed on the Common, 11201 11)100 will be 1 ,I have been in the trenches in
when the fire was seen to break , occupied .by the troops,vh .--e hove France. I have g•ono 'over the ton.'
aboard her, backed away, and the I given up their leary'lek'' to e"'dee the Friends and comrades have been shut
crew starter] to -abandon her. - : homeless women mid children.
i in my presence. 1 have seen scores
The Mont Blanc drifted away, a , Temporary hospitale and immentee, - .
' , of (teed men lying upon -the battlefield,
burning wreck, while the relief boat ; have been opened in the school houses i but the sight that greeted me yester-
beached near Tuft's Cove on the Dart- ! in the western section of the city. The! .ay
a WaS a thousand times worse, and
mouth side of the harbor. Seventeen doctors nnd nurses worked heroically . far more pathetic'.
minutes after the collision the explo- : in rendering aid to the injured. ! "I saw people lying around under
explosion houses crumpled like deck, ; Order is begnnng . restored. 2 i-----------------------tered beyond reconition, and
of cards, while the unfortunate resi- , The fire department reports all fires i others goain et agonies."
m-neee.-_----.... • ..
•
stem oceurred. Under the force of -----2... Later Details • timber, stones and other debris; •
}IAG ADJUSTS
1 PaSS to Fort; McPherson, ;00
withdrawal. it is added, was accorn- 1 soees,
; pliehed without the Germans appear- l
, mile's, all in the wilderness, using dog
CALERA! LINE ,tei,,v,';„. hoetile attacks south of • teams. Corp. Richardson ;will have ;
1;
in to be aware of it until late yes- :
i cparge, With three ihotticte; offlt Iceerpsarainyd
Allan guides malt g p 1
— !Bourloo Woott were repulsed white
At Fort McPherson they will meet a ,
s------1oss to the en-emy. . I
British Slightly Advance Lines i I patrol from Herschel Islaed, which •
Southwest of La Vacquerie. 1 THREE MONTHS' TRIP TO ARCTIC
. ; turns back there, after exchanging,
; mails. The expedition will reach
Fe ',edition Will Leave Dawson Soon • Dawson on the return trip in March,
—
A despatch trent London says: The • •
British have slightly advapeed their i '' 1 1 possibly bringing advices from the
line soathwest of La Vaectuefie, on the! Arctic expedition of Stefan:emu and
To Get Mails.
Cambrai front, it wa4 announced of -1 1 d •e etch from Dawson says: A othere.
facially on Thm•eday.
On Tuesday night, the onkel! state -
Canadian R.N.W.M.P. expedition is
being formed here to leave Dawson Just Like Home.
about the first of the year for the Arc-
rhe Scotch Haig eeidently feels I.
,..ar‘erars,,,,aa.-"aaaa,,- -Maar...a. •-, ,-, -, ,.. . a . ..,, ........ - - tala.e.,-..,,,,rcataaaa--=--....cana.manaaa,,,,,,,,armertmeale.a!arastaavarsavannaa-aa,..a...aaa:aaaarraaaatraRapiawamaatTr-2..raaaa,r,....=TaaatataSaamiaca. in this annoy might
11.0 reduced. He
twe'LL GET weta„BoT
UL'S GOT SOMETI4iNg."
11E azwert GE p
cr;rEF-,?
It I. ,:r.,,,,K.-......‘• ,
Alti:,
(
cempound, wood pails. 2o C.) 1.
OF ONTARIO'S 'FORESTS.
ne; net, 25 in 2tio; do.. pure, wend palls. !
2., lbs net, 21 to 2se. i —,
I A despatch from Ottawa says: The
ri„p„,,,,:4 tiA;TQ,...i•eei, ,,,,,,,,-- , iCnovmmission of C
1 i -.2..,....1.,'s,0,.:N'i,!.!;...31,,;.\.Yd: soon to undertake a survey 01 1118 for-
oriseevation hopes
winniewe Grant.
700; No, 2 feed, 7113'. Ourley....Ne. 3. est etsitesigotairtiliovfitOhnano.ins,,iindlyi10112,1:11,(olethine
1,..iiiii:N.r\v.e,.;:ceit:Litl.tit 1 ,..,..•,:.:,i,s
2 01V., $2.50.
1
1 11thaeaaolis, 3 ., .. .
;1111'Z' 'Ng -1;11$,U2.1*. •-(1'•util%-a-NIZsi3. U) 11001
amount of detailed information in the
:la,'SL'ir!le4;.'01 )11271.E-':Wi
United Statez Taernrets Only the moot fragmentary data re-
. speeting the forests of Ontario'. are
British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
now mailable, although there is a vast
linciooeuenis(tei sis)(ii,f.roiiilite eorfs t ihinhldi or rontieirss.s, , G 0.07111-T1;
— I mission is handicappeel in undertalt-
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a
11\\"
1,11
11
f112.3.5. asked; Mo.
ntbit5, be secured. The C
ing such an invc•stigation by the :emir -
Live stool: 'Markets
city of competent foresters.
I 'reveille. Dec. 11 - Extra ehole.•' heavy
, steers, $11.60 to $12: do., gond heavy, ,
I 510,75 to $11,40; buiebers' 'mine. elmit.er ,, -.-
NEARLY 152 MILLIONS.
do., merman, $u te $ 9.20 ; II,. 1011111,11, ,
$7.75. to 0.26; Wieners' bulls. ,•11.1,•,,. -
88.50 to 30.26; ,Sc'., good bons, 37.05 to
A despatch from Canada eays: Can-
-
ss -----11104117111 bulls, $7.10 to $7.3r.;
rough hulls. 55.25 to 20,26: buteli- i
month of Noveniber totalled
good, $7.85 to $8.$2e5e6 dtc.,., 0:6-tuitet..x...rette.
a grand total of war 38,25 10 '108t$Ttlict.";%1UXt'irms and cotters. 80.15 , 472, making
good to ehoiee. Sse te penditure to November 811 of $1 5 1,-
iiripat$.61::::,;(1solt.1,13ipickuen'i.et: a3n1..1-1 tintieiiig., h t ,,,,tt,,..„, , 5r1,2; 06,271,
The total net (111,1 00 NO -
V01111)(11' 30 Wag $058 000 700 • e orri-
erli:Oohtle'tTe%litSdacet.°3$1:74.7b.r:',$;‘,::;1. pared with $706;128,682 c'et Ikr,,,:ei'illier
t3o102;1e9a1,:i.,,ie,
lings, $12.26 to $18.25; lambs, 517.26 to . ' .
. eight, orE oo.t.o. $17.60 to kr,. 75; 3u, lero. Revenue for the month on
hogs fed it_nd wi1,7..15 tt. $17.6t1; n "e",
• Consolidated Fund aceount was $24,-
li',;: ree,,„ $10.25 to $10.76.
! 822,940, and expenditure for the month
CANADIAN
A despatch from Chicago says:, 568,822.
laenTheitlier?claayg
ASREIEllEPPRIZE-WINNERS. months' period te November SO was
aatintheeaItunteerntioitiotnlal BAK 11.141.THajl\UTSFT(8)RAIkEl, LI ES' NEED.
, $12,922,035. Revenue for Ow eight
,
$170,042,000, and expenditure $79,-
eta
Live Stock Exposition and carried !
..eCrahi.hiatdhi
away most of the honors in the South
5/0.60 to 510.76 do, go.od, $9.75 to $10: CANADA'S WAR OUTLAY
rim' cows, cholve, $8.76 to 59.26, adtt•S war expenditure during the
down division, The sheep of Robert' A despateh from Ottawa says: Hon,
MeEevan, of London, Ont., took the I W. J, Hamm, Food Controller, has
They Should -Worry. majority of the primes, Many of the I sent a message to the halters' convect-
-ma sayn. the British tthopn with- ,Tohn 11u11 and Uncle Sam have their own troublee, but they are little animals from these pens are of pure I Lion In Toreule urging 01)0(1 the dale -
drew to file soothwest or Noyelles-, tic coast. The party will go directly that he le lighting in ine Aisne (Jun ... . .1, Scottish breed, and their importation I gates the necessity Or considering by
' - I ope.., conwarod to issues/. Eil 2,
sur-l'Eneaut and Bourlon Wowl. The ' across the Rocky MounLaine through ; try, ' has tended to keep the stock high. I what means the consumption of wheat
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states in his message Chat owing to
1 the distance of Europe front Argen-
tina and Australia the allies will be
dependent cluring the next three or
four months on Canada and the 'Unit -
1 ed States for wheat supplies, and
!every effort should be made to see
that that need is met.
AMERICAN RED
I CROSS SENDS AID
A despatch from Washington says:
--Aid for the stricken city of Frolirox
Cvas started forward on Thursday
111)2111 1137 the American Red Cross. On
the special train sent from Boston by
the Governor of Massachusetts were
six experienced disaster relief workers
v ith quantities of surgical supplies,
bedding and clothing, and a special
Red Cross train from New York car-
tetiresclfo, ovoe rcie, onattasttarne sds no 1, abrIgeen tqcoutass
n, tittv; aottt-
elothing for SWingen MI children.