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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-02-07, Page 7FOOD RATIONING MAY SOON BE INTRO. Markets of the World iJUCED TROUGROUT THE DOMINION Food Controller Thonison Will Exercise Compulsory,Regulation Stopping Waste of Foodstuffs, •"'t A despatch from Ottawa says: The Controller believes the time has come new Food 'Controller, • Mr, H, I3, for further compulsory regulations 'Thomson, will, it is, understood, follow the wey of rationing, up the preliminari educational Cn111: T.here is little prospect of increas- ing production this year suffieiently Deign of his predeeessor, Hon. W. J. to meet even in en approximate way Hanna, with a series of concrete and the food requests of the allies to .drastic rontrictive regulations stop- Canada. The only other way of ping food waste and meeting, so far supplying the need is by saving ae possible, the urgent domande of the twenty-five per cent, or more of the allies for increased food supplies from normal domestic consumption, thus Canada, • increasing the exportable surplus by So far, with the eiception of the that amment, United States Food vegetations governing meatless days Controller Hoover will deal in a in hotels end public eating places, similar way with food consumption there has been comparatively little acmes the border, and regulations in done beyond exhortation to the public Canada and the United States will to coneerve food, cut down emniump- be co-ordinated according to =that tion, and eliminate week), The new requirements and (Node. ALLIES APPEAL FRENCH MAKE • IS. FOR FOOD SUCCESSFUL RAID NoT.or Nato14110:1,.ann.8,42.00411;filarot110.1/0,40..n.$111010t-t-., No. 8, do„ $2,175; No. 4 wheat, $4.10 , in store Port William, includlog 0b2 tax. Manitoba oals--No. 2 �W.. iiolel No. 3 (1.W811c; No. 1 extra leen, Wel No. 1 teed: 7$.7,e; 1u store 'Port 111111nah American corn -No. 8 1,21101v.rlo.rolf*,!,• 0010412)onts—No. 2 white, 85 to , nominal; No. 3 do., tie to 8 lt!, nominal, aecording to freights outside. Ontario witoat--ttew. No. 8 Winter, 22,22; basis, in store Montreal. 1°e -'No, 2, 28.70 to 00.80, accov1ing L'141141e(P-100;11171n1;,. $1.42 to mac )V2 004(2)2 to freights 8010(100. to BAFBINIteti3 49-0114, 10 $1,68, a"41140 Manitoba Hour—First patents, in jute 11.;titrr:1,s,AA.O.,021)%b,b1PAVII;),11; romg .11our--Winter, according to :414011110, $12.10, In bags, Montreal; $6.95. Tnrnent ilo;80.00 bulk.rm seaboard, popt ,,,i $35; shorts, 20„ $40; 18 144111000, 00. $45 to 345; good food flour, per bag, $3.25. Hay - .-No. 1, per ton, $16 10 $17; mixed. $18 to $10, track 'Lorna°, Straw—Our 1010, ,el' ton. 38.50 10 $3. Country Produce—W42olesa1e Butter--ereamory, solids, per lb., 442 to 015c: prints, per lb., 45 to 152e; dairy, per lb., 32 to M1c. Eggs—rorowl gathered eggs, 50 10 08e; new laid, 55o. Dressed poultry—Oblekena. 04 10 20c: fowl, 19 to 20c; ducks, 23 to 240; goeSe, 21 to 22c; turkeys, 28 to 80o. Potatoes--Wholesulers are paying to grawers and sn Yard Front Without , "0,10' aid„pers r cllu'c tock, !'• gr,inet nr8L' Id A Meseage From Lord Rhondda to Penetrate German Line on 3,000 Hoover Stating," Grave Crisis. Suffering Loss. A despatch front the French Arm 200; twin, 211 —aerofoil eau in France, says:—The Fi'ench on Mn,,_' ciarnery prluls,Y47 0°1". 351 day executed a brilliant raid of theleto Wholesalers nre :401111 to the retail A despatch from Washington says: thoese—Ises‘. largo, .142 10 Ide: trade at the following nr ees;--- -et:Teeter saving of food will be ask - ca of the American people by President W115011 On Saturday in a proclamation announcing the Food • Administration's e918 conservation, - program. The critical situation in the allied countries and the amount of food the United States is expected to Spare' them were set forth in a preliminary statement on Friday night by Food Achninirtretor Iloover, who quoted a •enblegram from Lord Rhondda, the Brit il-,11"Enod Contvoller, which said: "rn!e3s you are able to send the •alliee et least 75,000,000 bushel% of wheat ever end above what you have -exported up to January 1, and in ad- elitien to the exportable surplus from -Canada, I cannot take the responsibil- ity of aseuring our people that there 'will bo enough food to win the war." Although the Food Administration's :pines contemplate creating the export surplus,largely by voluntary methods, 'some measures of forced conservation will be employed, notably in the. con- sumption of wheat flour, which will , be reduced by arbitrary means at 4Fleast thirty per cent. This reduction will be accomplished by limiting the sides of distributors all the way from the miller to the retailer. CONDiTIONS GRAVE t .11 232 to alio. owl cheese 255to German lines eastward f rem Vienna- 4 to.011; las' Le -Chateau, near Four do Paris, along ie s (11 (e), `;,;, a front of :3,000 yards, and reaching 61°103 52c, - 4 a de • pth of 500 yards. , An intense ,-,1"2"8,,d-,111;Til'el,11. '" .en;:g1t;',.111.acen,°';'0Et217,' artillery preparation made tile pr - ;•1 8o".2 - to and they°totuste"' 3/4° , eete ducks, 25 were able to destroy all enemy works, &lecke 2)01?02j1: ig22° ef-leve, 2t8oe;71t:Apring ; thelters and rtrihe galleries, before re- ,vitTIA,/i4.2-1,,,j11)—tilitt•C;i, balling to their own lime • Fit tee gress of the troops easy, ;,, 141_..fn, $3; ,No, 2, $2,40 to $2.50. 5'9 10 to 1.112c prisoners were captured by the er ir 30'1a:1186 21-,8111aen;a 00;f, 3. 8 to 182c' , Li well as three machine guns, Lletea':iss . J.anadion, he 1/11-P cited, bush.: French 1 The French suffered few casualties Ma 7.,1' King $0,50 10 ;It:" islietad'ang-; - ;Limas. 17 to 17 e and none kined. ' 1 Potaloe9—Delav;ares. bog, 52.20 to All of the participants in the raid • $2 30; 04101(44', bag, 32,10 to 52.25, declared that the gunners' work was1 magnificent, not only as regards de-Pro-visions—Wholesale, Smoked ineats—.1-4anpl, medium. 31 to struction, but in the manner 10 which' ::.1.1011.egyi.253k; 2 vy:eti.ei:g.1e:tit .b 43 to it completely silenced the enemy It': 40 to 42c•, backs, plain, ;13 to 4.1e; tnegtel: artillery. less, .15 to 45c. :Long clear bacon, 28 to 200; clear bellies. .27 to 20c. E 4101 10)1, &Ja coin potne0)444 .01)08, .5 , 0 . 'NEE ABANDONS tubs, 252 to 21/0e; mils, 29 to 201e; 'Lard ---Pure lend, tierces, 280 to 20c; MOUNTAIN FRONT • Montreal Market,. Montreal, :fan. 29—Oats—Canadian Teutons Evacuate Large Sec -- ;‘;Yd: 'elA.,.1°,10110l)10Mt:xfita tT'6316:r°0: tion of Territory at 3 local white, 932 to ((10; No. 4 loca0l white, 0012 to 91e. Flour—Man. Spring lvIonte Tomba. Wheat )5OtenLs, flints, ;MOO: seconds Italian Arniy Headquarters in satfee bitifir, W5 L411610. 1(011811tle.:ts — g , ;5. Northern Italy.—The enemy has .141turts. $40. Middlings. $)8- to -$50. evacuated territory on the northern imouinie. ee, to ees. free—No 2 050 r strong bakers'. 510.00; straight ots, nor ton ;14.50 in .$10. 50 atte's —50 weed, Their defence lines have -now e.fier471`.ss7::,s,,;.„k„.4,t,:..,0,:.re No. nTose-fr,- I • i bag. ctit. lots. $1.ati `3'..1.2:!.°1almcs—per been moved back to Monte Spinocia. oonntl, tbheehiFinliavlaethinztiveeTr owmobsta-, pr.t ev0.ir IN RUSSIA nexiTlennidahitig front 'Growing Opposition in Petro- grad to the Bolshevik Government. London, Jan. 27.—The latest reports received here from British corre- spondents in Petrograd say that con- ditions there are steadily becoming worse. Opposition to the Bolshevik Government is growing, principally because of the recent murder of two e,eformer members of the Kerensky Wabinet. The Bolsheviki are bringing many troops, with guns, from the front, ap- parently for the protection of the Government members. Crowds of persons assemble at the street corners to listen to sidewalk orators, many of whom openly denounse the Bolshe- viki regime. The Bremen Wezer Zeitung, accord- ing to advices received in London, prints the story of an eyewitness of scenes in Petrograd, who said that 200,000 soldiers front the front were there. The police have disappeared, and the insecurity is such that it is a daily occurrence for soldiers in automobiles to pull well-dressed citizens into the cars, divot them of their outer garments and leave them half -naked in the snow. FOOD CONTROLLER HAS RESIGNED H. B. Thompson, of Victoria, B.C., Succeeds Hon. W. S. Hanna. A despatch from Ottawa says:— Hon. W. J. Hanna has resigned the office of Food. Controller for Canada, which he- has filled for some seven months, and will be succeeded by H. B. Thompson, of Victoria, B. C., who has acted as Assistant Controller for a period of four months, Mr. Hanna decided that the work of the Food Administration had reached such proportions that it required the whole time and attention of the Food Controller. He found himself unable, therefore to do justice both to the duties of' that; office and to' other pressing- business interests. There- fore he communicated hie intention to retire from the Food Controllership to the Government His resignation was normally accepted on Friday. Mr, Hanna was, the Vine of his retirement, a veteran among Food Controllers, his appointment ante- datig that of Mr. Hoover, in the United States, and still more so, that of Lord Rhondda in Great Britain. Italian pall. ols making °20l ems- settees in the last few days &and Winnipeg Grain that the enemy patrols and sentinels evineie ,ist 2 had been withdrawn, and later dis- gisic,"W"qns.-v,F, extva No. 1 coed, 51;ic. No. 1•1:0e covered that the enemy had aban- 7szo: t 2 ,ea. 752e. 1,41.1,Lv.—NO;2, dotted. the entire region. $1.4.4: No. 4. 2.1.12.1: load and rejected, This retreat is a sequel of the nervy. 23.2'11; NO. 33.1.8• ,No 3 e."1\, 91.024 brillientevittery French troops recent- • ly obtained • on Monte -Teethe, Inas- • nested States Markets MUCh as the enemy's position thereby 'Minneapolis, Jan. 20—Corti—No. a yAlow, $1.51 to 31.00. Oats -No. 3 became untenable, « wi ire see to seee Flour unn eheeed ••- The vetirement of the enemy is inl. ' !!! portant asnhowing that he has given $,3:71.10T. .egatle 20—Linseed—On traee, up his effort" to force a- passage to the :Tainuay, $j*1.01: arfaiWy2:41A.er Venetian plains by way of Monte ris. ite..ee; Joly, $3.-18b -asked; Oeto- Tomba; or, $5..15, namlnal. and the west bank of the Piave, at least for the present. He is rave Stook Markets now constructing defensive works in Toronto, Jan. 20--tigtva choice lteavy the rear. • BIG WHEAT CROP IN ARGENTINA. 01,e101', P. t do., good hells., 08.36 to 18,85: do., medium bulls, 27.20 A despatch from Buenos Aires, Ar- to (37.05: 3%!6•K: gentina, says: With a wheat shortage good,. eseis to 0.75: Oa.. Li:odium, 57.'545 ill all .the world's- markets estimated • Tilm04..t-p.rA here at 1L000,000 tons, Argentina ex- , to 10.790; milkers, good. to Icalio1;00, ,;t50:1 peettt to have a record crop of that !taell.„7,4.0e;,,e.""effre,','"gris cereal and to have 4,000,000 tons for ;$12.60 to $13.50; ilstoT, $6 to ; export after satisfying the home de.!11.721, • ted and watered: mand and withholding the seed re- els to situ $18.50; do., weighed off cars, $18.74; do., serve.f.o.b., 317.52._ Of the surplus for export the British Government, acting in behalf of the. Entente allies, is credited here With. RUcSIANS REJECT • • steers. $1.1,00 10 do„ good below. 210.60 to 411.35; butchers' cattle, chol0e, 210.85 to $11.25; do., gond, 00.55 10 $1.0,00; do„ medium, 30,35 to $0.05; 00.. 0001111011 00.0>) to55,50; bittobers' bulls, 'the intention of buying 2,500,000 tons, while Spain and Holland together have engaged 800,000 tons. 718 PERSONS LOST ON TWO BRITISH SHIPS. A despatch from London says: By the slang of two steamers by the enemy in the Mediterranean about three weeks ago, 718 lives were lost. The announcement was made in the House of Commons by Thomas J. Mc- Namara, Financial Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr, McNamara added that public notification of the lose of these vessels had been delayed until the relatives werenotified. LORD RHONDDADOES BIG WORK. Newport, Eng., Jan. 27.—Address- ing the farmers of Monmouthshire yesterday, Laird Rhondda, the Food Controller, said that in one week in December submarines destroyed three million pounds of bacon and foul, mil lion pounds of Cheese. • The enemy might put the allies to a great deal of trouble, inconvenience and privations, but they could further pull 111 their belts and laugh at the Germans. Ile claimed to have redeced the price of thirteen of the twenty- one articles of prinie neceseity, Decision Awaits Ratification by Workmen's Congress. A despatch from Petrograd says:— The Russian delegates to the Brest - Litovsk peace conference have decid- ed unanimously to reject the terms offered by the Germans, 'The decision of the delegates was announced by Mr, Kemeneff, a znent- ber of the Russian delegation. The Germans declared the terms laid down by them were their last of- fer, and that if the Russians did not accept them hostilities would be re- sumed. Final decision as to peace or war, M. ICemeneff said further, rested with the Congress of Soldiers' and Work. men's Delegates. - .1. MORE TROOPS SENT TO FRONT BY PORTUGAL. A despatch from Paris says: A new contingent of Portuguese troops has just been landed in France. Before embarking the troops were reviewed by the Portuguese Premier, Dr, Sidonio Pees, who reaffirmed the intention of Portugal to continue the war to the end, • g • Sir Frederick E. Smith, and his brother Mr. Harold Smith, M. P. for Warrington, England. Britain's Attorney -General was given a rousing re- ception at the opening of the joint Patriotic and Red Cross Campaign in Toronto. EXPLOSION IN NOVA SCOTIA MINE 98 Coal Miners Lost Their Lives in Big Disaster. A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says: An explosion occurred Wednes- day of last week at the Allan shaft, Acadia Coal Company's collieries, Stellarton, selortly after 5 o'clock, a few minutes after the day shift had left. A blast of smolce was seen to come from the mouth of the pit, but no noise was heard, even by those on the surface near -by. ..The death toll of -the disaster is listed at 98, Company officials say that there were one hundred and five men in the mine at the time of the ex- plosion. Seven of these, on the first landing, escaped, an01 seventeen bodies have since been recovered, the last U.S. TO HAVE FOODIRISIHROW NEWS 'FROM ENGLAND 1ORE1EVERF,;,„„,, mis; Amwer 1011N Canada and the United States Must Produce More and Waste Leas. BULL ANT) BIN 1°EOPLI3 ......-. . Ocenrrences in the Lund That ReIgna Supreme in the Comma. Ottawa, Jan, 27,—The War Cabinet alai World. was in eession all day yesterday von- sidering the food situation as disclos. Cotton mills in Lancashire are to be ed in information recently received turned over to the manufacture of air. from Great Britain, Mr. Thomson, planes to alleviate distress in that ills - the new Food Controller, and Sir trict resulting from diemiseals mese- Chas. Gordon, Chairman of the British quent upon shortage of cotton sup - Mission at Washington, were present puee. at the deliberations. There are nom two hundred and It is evident from advices received , fifty London County Council schools here that the food situation is be-, welch provide air min , shelter, coming increasingly critical in Great An old man of seventy-three years 13ritain, France and Italy, and that told a Greenwich magistrate that his Canada and the United States mnst earnings are now £3 per week. net only greatly increase produetion,, /oily,. Herbert, only son of Lord but in certain important lines elimi- , and Lady Treowen, is reported wound - nate all waste and poseibly" emit"' ed and missing in Palestine. consumption, in order to help meet the • ! A sum of ±500 has been sent newly- eitu ation, ' I mously to the Chancellor of the Ex - It is known that Hon. T. A. Crerar, • chequer. Minister of Agriculture since his E0r-1 Sergeant Colin Blythe, the famous rivalKent bowler, lost his life in action in onlat wa fOotrtaahasbeenw far-reaching andorkiirring-1rec,,at engagement at the front, portant campaign for increased pro -1 a The Kent Beekeepers' Association duction this year, It was in connec-,aecided at their conferenee at Dart - Bon with this plan that Mr. Crerar I ford that hives must be standard- trie‘creesntloyr cfetiltecl Provincial At h;ri eurietputirie ni.)1 as:1 3 pi eNti 0, alien may be engaged in any partments, in order to secure their 1 form of auxiliary war work without support and co-operation. .The Min- i the express permission of the Army iter has since consulted with other , Council. leaders of agriculture in connection! Two sisters who live at Camber - with this matter, ( well are the mothers of twenty-five It is understood that the Food 1 sons, twenty-four of whom are in Controller is giving special attention the army. to the question of limiting the use of Viscount (Ivey has been electe 1 certain essential articles of consump- director of the Northeastern Railway Company in place of the late Earl tioTnIte manufacture of standard flour Grey. will be commenced by Canadian mill- Andrew . Weyman, a fuurteen-year- The mak- old boy, 22010 awarded the Royal }th- ing cempanies to-morroese ing available of a larger part of the matte Society's Medal for rescuing wheat for human consumption and the Percy Peek from the River Brent at stopping of the manufacture of patent Golder's Green. WAR BREAD DIET olowurbewaitlIfmorectexnpaor etwti:ictiletleaab le Plans One Meatless Day Every Week and One Meatless Meal Every Day. Washington, D.C., Jan, 27.—Resi- dents of the United States 'will go on a war bread diet Monday as a' part of a war -rationing system pre- scribed last night by President Wil- son and the • Food Administration. "Victory bread," the Food Adminis- tration calls it. Curtailment of con- sumption will be accomplished largely by voluntary effort, but force will be employed wherever permitted under the Food Control Act. The chief features of 'the rationing system are: A bakere' bread of mixed flours; beginning Monday with a five per CEtTot isismall Bi'Itjh enonmztuhnaisty 101 a' supply of comfort bags for wounded Hons. soldiers to the Overseas Club, cepTthetheKboigffehrasofbetrptileaseactIbt, CANADIAN FRONT— Lieutenant of Somerset, to33 Motor Volunteer Corps of six sec- josLe ea: 40 AGAIN ACTIVE Artillery Busy and Several PH- soners Taken. Canadian Headquarters in'Franca, Jan. 27.—After several quiet days the week has ended with increased activity on. the Canadian front. A lieutenant and Eesergeant'of a Quebec battalion captured their own strength in prisoners Friday morning. Two of GENERAL ALLENBY. The Brilliant Leader of British Forces in Palestine. At the beginning of the war Gen. Allenby, who hoe lately become fam- ous as the mart who took Jerusalem from:the Turks, was appointed to com- mand the cavalry division of the orig- the enemy were observed approaching incl Expeditionary force. It was a for - OM' wire under cover of a mist. T1m tunate appointment for the Allies, Quebec men - left our lines, got behind since it is acknowledged now on all twp having been brought out late the party, and captured both of them, hands that to the masterly manner in Thursday afternoon. Twelve of the cent. substitution of other cereals for the enemy surrendering as soon as the which he covered the retreat from bodies have been identified as miners wheht until a 20 per cent, substitution position was rushed, though not be- Mons must be attributed in great is reached February 24. foee there had been a sharp exchange measure the escape of the British from belonging to Stellarton and West- ville, three are :Frenchmen, and the other two are unrecognizable. There is now no gas in the mine, and the work of clearing away the debris is proceeding apace. A few flour is bought. small falls at the bottom of the shaft Sale by millers to wholesalers and wholesalers to retailers of only 70 have been cut throtigh, but there per appear to be heavy falls ahead, and cent. of the amount of wheat officials are unable to say when they flour sold last year. will be able to reach -the eighty-one Two wheatless days a week—Mon- men still in the mine. They have day and Wednesday—and one wheat - given up all hope of any of these less nseal a day. men being alive, maintaining that all One meatrass clay a week—Tues-, five days the weather has been fine 'high road altogether and led his troops • I d and mild and our trenches have been acyoss country in a wide -sweeping Sale by retailers to householders of rifle and revolver shots. The enemy disaster. of an equal amount of substitute attempt to raid aur lines which 22018 Once he was nearly caught. Some flours for every pound of wheat flour preceded by a sharp trench mortar thousands of cavalry. virtually his ierchased at the time the wheat barrage, was broken up before the whole con3-mand, were in danger of be - raiders succeeded in reaching our wire. ing surrounded and cut to pieces by Our artillery has been active with har- the Germans, who were pressing him assing fire and also in sniping, disper- in ever-increasing numbers as dark - sing enemy working parties, while our , nese settled (titer the land. The reed stocks of guns have been busier and by which he should have retired wail our machine-guns have been active choked by masses of transport, guns, ni against the enemy tracks, commuca- motor ears and. munition wagons. tion trenches and dumps. For the last So Gen. Allenby boldly left the who were net crushed to death by the debris must have died of suffoca- tion many hours ago. The revised death toll in the Allan shaft disaster, as announced at an early hour on Saturday Morning, is as follows: Men in the mine when explo- sion occurred, 96; men who escaped from 500 -foot level or were brought out alive, 9; bodies recovered by rescue parties, 21; still misiing, 66. Total dead, 87. U. S. IS TURNING our 2,000 ENFIELDS A DAY. .A. despatcke from W- ashington says: The first Americanized Enfield rifle turned out at the Winchester plant for American troops abroad was present- ed to President Wilson to be preserved as a peesonal souvenir. The President was told the rifles are being made at the rate of 2,000 a clay. SHORTAGE OF COAT, FOR SHIPS RELIEVED A despatch from N- ew York says: —The shortage of bunker coal, which a fetv days ago was so seriously hampering. the fueling of vessels in New York Harbor, "has been entirely relieved," according to a statement by 3. E. Parsons, detailed by the United States Shipping Board to supervise the bunkering of ships at this port. STANDARD FLOUR ONLY IS ORDER Winnipeg, Jan, 27.—- J. D. McGregor, 'Western representative of the Food Controller, has issued the following official announcement: "All mills will be grinding standard flour on Monday, Janne* 28. No white flour will he ground after that date." NEW MAN -POWER BILL 4 NOW LAW IN BRITAIN A despat6 froni Loudon says:— The House of Commons passed the third reading of the Min -Power MI The vote was 00911101000, • Two porkless days a weelc—Tues- in a much better condition. movement that eventually brought i Stdayantaurday. -- , . - them to a safe position on the flank of MUTINOUS SPIRIT ' R,UMAN1ANS WIN - the main British army. As an instance of superb horsemanship coupled with IN GERMAN NAVY.1 good leadership that wild night ride — AGAINST RUSSIA by a whole cavalry division across an unknown country is probably unique A despatch from London says: ,Ae in the annals of warfare. Gen. Allenby was born in 1861 and received his education at Haileybury. On finishing his studies he entered the Innislcilling Dragoons, and was order- ed almdst immediately to South Africa where he served through the Boer serious than m the army. He as - German naval engineer, with the rank of lieutenant, who has deserted. from Kiel, according to an Amsterdam de- spatch to the Express, states that dissatisfaction among the men of the German fleet is much more Heavy Fighting Near Galatz— Russian Attempt Fails. Petrograd, Jan. 27.—Serious fight- ing has taken place between Ruse slams and Rumanians in the neigh- serts there have been important re- !boyhood of Galatz, near the border, War' After that war, Gen. Allenby was volts, generally among the crews of . mine sweepers, : ----- Austrian Headquarters at Brest - according to a report received from Fifth Irish Lancers, a post he hew appointed to the command of the Litovek. The Russian Ninth Siber- ian Division and- a portion of the Tenth Division' attempted to fight their way through Galata and regain Russian territory, from which they had been cut off by the Rumanians on January 20. The struggle against the Rumanians on the Lower Danube continued for a whole day and night. Heavy artillery was engaged, as well as monitors on the Danube, but thus far the Russian attempt seems to have failed, 1e -- BRITISH EXTEND THEIR LINES TO SOUTH OF ST. QUENTIN. RY. RATE N - CREASE DEFERRED • Will Not Become E- ffective Until March. A despatch from Ottawa says: In- creased freight and- passenger rail- way rates raised by the Raihvay Board in its judgment of December 26, 1917, will not become effective until some time in March. The increases, with the exception of the rates on wheat, deferred by a special judgment of the board until- June 1, were to have become operative on February 1. The postponement of the date until some time in March is the result of the protests made to the Cabinet Council by the Western provincial Governments and public bodies with whom were associated the organized farmers and some of the business in- tereits of Ontario. BERLINeTHE SCENE OF GRAVE DISORDERS, A despatch from London says: An Amsterdam despatch to The Daily Ex- epress, repeating the earlier rumors that there were grave disorders in Berlin, says tto telegram, press, pri- vate or business, was allowed to leave Berlin on Friday. until 1905. His gifts as a cavalry leader and organizer were then fully recognized, and he was appointed to the command of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade. During the five years that he held this command he inaugurated methods of manoeuvring that made his cavalry the best in the world. For public opinion he is said to care very little. An incident that oc- curred during the South African War makes clear his dislike of fuss and show in military affairs. At the entry of the British into Barberton, after desperately hard fighting under French, the General of Brigade Wish- ed Gen. Allenby's division, which had London, Jan. 27.—The Iteuter core greatly distinguished itself to lead respondent at British headquarters the triumphal protession into the France says that the southern British army on the western front lately ex- tended its line to slightly south of St. Quentin. The extension was effected under cover of anti -fighting weather, and was only discovered by the Ger- mans when they attempted a raid, as they believed, against the French, a couple of nights ago. WAR COSTS BRITAIN $87,000,000 A DAY. A deepatch front London says: An, drew Boner Law, Chancellor of the Exthequer, announced in the House of Commons that the daily average of expenditure during the seven weeks ending Jtut. 19, was £7,517,000 (81,288,000). town. But although first in every attack, Gen. Allenby demurred when it came to a parade of victory. "My men and horses are fatigued," he pleaded, and he rode quietly in on the following morning when there was scarcely any- one about. His entry into Jerusalem was 110 less modest. To induce a canary to take a bath sprinkle a few seeds upon the water. This attraction will make the bath he come a habit. When sifting flout several ,times it is convenient to sift it on paper. The papers can be lifted and the flour poured back into the sifter he loss time than when luting a Pen, • .