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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-03-07, Page 6' CE A S ANNUL I SSIAN PEACE OFFER; MARCH ON PETROGRAD • I;t•nre' OI1.TV•otslty's Peace Acceptance Abducted by Runs,, Whose Entrance Into Russian A c1esj:atch from Petrograd bays:-'' As the Clemons are developing ilmir attack along the whole northern front, there is no doubt that they mean to take Petrograd by a quick blow, 'Their sweep into the interior is go- ing directly east front Minsk to Mog- hilov, and by anothtr lite to Vitcbvk and Proves. They are nice'. lag prnv- 1)1011y no resistance. The nt.pt Res- sian army k not putting un one-hun- dredth pant of the fight the fee: Bel- gian troop: did when the Clemens entered Belgium. Tl•: railroad tracks are not even being disturbed. It is the easiest conquest of history. A despatch from Rotterdam says -kis is probable that Germany intend, to /effect a military occupation of the whole of the Baltic provinces and then propose to Petrograd new conditions which amount virtually to ann o ntinn. The Berlin correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdanusrhe Courant, who is evidently officially iespired, tele- graphs that pending a new discussion between the Central Powers as to the C.ap3a1 Seeiu S Certain. an we to be sone' to Trotzlo, the eV:tory rlearures begun Monday will be m=11111(41, The object which is sought for by these measures will probably be formulated tt) Teotzky as a condition of peace noiv proposed by him." Th: conclusion from this eigniti- rant :tnnouucemeot seems to be that the (;r•rinan (lo\ernM nt regards the original Dees' -I trove eonditlona as 411au1(1 by '1•rotiky e recent brooking utf of negotiations, and intend f orm- • Mating now condition, dictated by the result or the prevent ntiii ury operlt- t.ions. A. later despatch from Petrograd elyso-• the Iia kart Parliamentary messengers started in a motor car from Ri,.hitsa for Dvinsk, but near the station at Antolopol were ,net by a Gelman automobile armed with ma- chine guns. The Ruesinn motor car ' was allowed to pass, but rho• 1'arlia- mentary represe idatives and the Com- missioner of the. 5th Army were de- tained and trough, beak to Rieshitsa in the German automobile. - �wV 5t ri. • t 442x44' rr� +' ;u ft / 0 , 1` ", `A it AANO 'I 444 w,Y044 . `H/.DWM 1OP 000,', CO2x.. re, OA I 9kwa , .,l,+- .,.,, rt ai'r .I Bitten 22 OA1M4 ,^114.0x1. , Al , PIMA , .J4f s,e.2r f 0eal'_. ' ' f /AMP I,...._ %'Rp .,U' , 5 .1 5 . ! at ,,. 22 4 Mnwuan 224141410 „e, 11004007 V,: ,.t {t „nils, I t t n3?„ ]'1'r- 1'n1•hsnted, Runs Strike at Dismembered Russia. ft�4 p p� MARKETS I,I:;n -':;_ ;'1. Map shows portion of battle line between Riga and newly formed Re - D Y 1.j a11,n h, 'u01. 11,: ocl al $3 to ^•"c�� p., �h to u'rt\e, 5,:.,5. 11,x, $a."c3 public of Ukraine where the Germans threaten ten offensive with I'ctro- 1 : .1 n,. $3.72A blot tlll'r. $:t.6o grad as the objective, Toronto. 1,01,. 2n 1,11.011,4a mhont M 1 Cot the+•„ 49 4 w10:0, Live stock Markets t 1\I •,til 1 a . • - . ,•, g ,., . -.,.:. I. t „ 1 1 tt x • �RITIsH REACH REPRISALS ' O 1.0 1 10.. n n in torr• ��`t, f,._ No •I',.,ru }• i .t:- 1 1 4 11.1 heav,Y 0. good hett:y, S 1:.11. . �n t No. , 1••-•1 .1)•25 1 11 1 but 1•ti cattle. tboic,'. I\n. 1 ..,,,,,,,..s,„.• i1 ' 1 11 In 81) 4110 d good, 319.1'0 In RIVER At•u'>i u - ,,, 1, 17 t`_.11 r ''t' I1 lh, t..5:1 $1 e.•.211 i5 6]0.1,0, JORDAN dried. • 1 1 ,, urt'onn, 4 a t, $ 1.2:r: hutobors' 0 ,i t. N t l i1. :,•4 op'-, i.11t., ooe, $1 1 $t1 oP: du., ^•nod No. „iii 1_ . , bulls. : SP to $:, 2„ do., modluut 10)10. f,.lI .S , .,-tt. 1, to $S.704; du.. rough blllls, $4.50 ,,,;,,,,i„ 0.,1„„.. \ tlI12 1 , a lu1.11r•r$ rhea 010100. 510 to lot, (2.22: I , 2.< 1n .i ilii' , 11 r,u.0 ,lii.22: tin. good. 55.75 to SP: do:, Gen. Allenby Secures Important l o' - ' , ' 1 11111» , to $b sstockers 57.30 to Mljitary Base By Capture ,n e lgl ,1 ,,, , 1'004.1'0, $' 1 2210; naers and Pth• .11.1x'44, 31.0:. t, 1.1 V7. tt 1t - 1' 50.;.,: milkers, good to Of �eT1e110. „r•,in;: to ::1,1t a .h ,Yt to $1JU d cont. and med., 11,1,•:•.1, 1.,::.-� .i .0 i. .51.72 2t,•: •,t'di'I c;;,,' t�' o"0 t41.t•tt•tgovs, tz91.1 to 6140; ngllt front London says: The c ,.r . 5,.�� , uc•'.. $1x.54 In $11.4141; sheep, 11ru,y' 86 A despatch fl 1 f teal r.-rni� ;; 1 10 $ .::2: '-c::itling:4. $11.73 to $12,76: 1 ' - 1°'I ' 'Ie tl tlil, 1.2 to 1-, 115 '1, s1,.7a, 0nhcs, Food to British have captured Jericho, in ,! . 1 , n:., ...4.1mi. 511 to 3u:,50: h",,.o, fed and Jerusalem. 1 :1 cal r, d r1:, dn., tc,•,g•hod orf 0)414, With the capture of Jericho Genoa] ,,,.,,, I - i• '.,p.. tato ,ottit1 i11.22. 11 4.01.. 51k. re„' t •r.• i 1 '"'d Monti -al al Montreal. PO.. u: i'14nl,.e steers,' Allenby has made another: stride for - 1+ seal•-. . loot she n1 a't' 310.22 to good atr,•rs 85,55 to 'N!;;u2„: I”' - 1'''""red Y" m” $in, -3;4'../4.•.t.0 114'71 cows, 3s,co to ward in his task M clearing Palestine , r: 1.,.,...„..„,,,s.'• , 1,, tae,, $.1 I:r,,n, per'4 25 to $1, no; choice • of the Turks. The place itself was be - ton. 'tat 1. n, 1 I t n. sa^: tui, nlliurN $t' 7:•: ;'null cot,•••. re,ti bomber bulls, Sn to 6x,.23; good fore the war only a small collection trill.. Doi t 1 R4, u, .14 „•oil hulls, $ "1 to $n rnn.rs' cattle, 8,1,60 u4• I,c1 bee. .,2.4x. ,,, cic; t„ $6: i 1.5,.. Milli nes $ea to sic of hovels, but tracks and roads which 1,,,,,....N„. let Ion. $ torap, bet: t 1. illi lveS, 13 to sic 1,4,,,..:. cit I, 'x,r -r,....,,,,,,.. a us elm to $lase pass over a great concrete bridge ., , n s2n1. w $t, which the ' I,a,, $41:5,1 1, $ ..,..,.1„../. 4 • Germans bad built across 1 :•4.11l7.4•0 u,,•.. 'i, "'`"-------, the Jordan since the war began, and of England to prevent reprisals, they a . cease ,-ace• tv;to] AWED ARMN FLY,'OVER MAN ALPS, ' BOMB TOWN IN AUSTRIAN T 'ROS Atttt(tkrd Multiticn 1 t1('tt,ritt4,.:1.ail'„•ity Station and I1axrr;tekis Mann' i'eop i gilled in the Strectis. A do it nt!•h trona 1111,11 ', `iw'it ,c t.an11, ray1%: f'ir'e i'rutento 01001011 flying uvt1 !the. Josiah Alps Wednetclay alt:rnaon feen.1 that th:• town of Iitnebrucl':, ill '8111 .t",tce;n Tyrol, war, not protected (by ,anti-aircraft icons. '1'ht' airmen titer, upon swooped. down to within 301 yards o1' the ground, picke.l oat tar- lt;ct 4 d ItI copiously' 1 imbed thchi, In - eluding; the railway station, but'raeks t lid two new munition 'feotol'ies. Soldiers and civilians were surpris- ed, and, being unaccustomed to an air ittack, rtt bed into the streets and many were killed, The German Consulate was hit and trains loaded with soldiers on their wary to the Ti•entino front were attacla ed by machine guns, from a low alti- tude, GERMANS 1O RESUME ( ��f 1j ' jENGLAND 'TRADE IN BLAC'li. SEA. d Lo ©V i) 1 OIi'� A despatch f1om`AmStel'dam says: Advices reeeived het'e from Berlin on Friday Day _that it was announcers in the ,joint sitting of the Reichstag that it was planned to resume shipping in the Black Sea after the mines have been cleated away. 'The plan is to expedite shipments to Germany from the Ukraine, Germany to supply agri- cultural machinery and implements in return for grain. NEWS BY MAIL A130'I7T JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE Uccnrrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cial World. It Was stated in a city of L0nd0n court the@ a substitute had been found ENGLISH WOMEN DOING "BIT." for starch. The King and the Prince of Wales Now Engaged an Forty Lines of War each sent Sfi to rho Cheyne hospital Employment. for Sick Children as a Christmas Those who have thought that the donation. women of England might not have During the month of November the been doing their bit in the prosecution Overseas Club headquarters collected of the wal) Wet'e astonished when they for various War funds the sum of entered the imperial war exhibition at 1.14.509. Burlington House in. London, to see A firm of London tug owner's was ARNST ort different =dorms worn by wo- 1���1� IN � forty men in service, says a correspondent. These show that women are engaged British Will Carry Air War to as messengers, munition and agricul- eight thousand two hundred and sixty German Cities in Retaliation tural workers, nurses, &c., and that B For un Outrage:. they are the pride of the girlhood of tons of fish were sent to Billingsgate I for sale• ' the country. Mrs. Kin g, A despatch from London say's: The Not satisfied with this shoWine. -theg, of Worthing, has given 1 to Cambrid e University £1000 five cities and towns campaign of ant' reprisals on German women managers of the exhibition g y' ' ' :_ _,._,. ,. begin '•, have issued an appeal to have women per cent, war stock for the establish - engaged in out 'of the tray positions inept of a scholarship on fever re- search. .k Lend= woman, who does not want her name known, gave a cheque for :1750 to the Motor -Transport r l.nnt.ee rs awarded :1100 for salving a cargo of oats worth 51,285 front a barge which had been submerged. During the month of November last "Reprisals" is a word not officially report, that their jobs may be addec used in Great Britain. However, let it to the daily increasing lists. be set down here on the very highest authority that if the Germans believe Boys and Girls Can Help. they can bomb London every moon- light night, killing elomen, children and cripples unable to find shelter, and then trust to the Christian spirit Coltr y Ere 7',1 1..r Cronin, r11,1s ,24' 11 1; to1'. 1, ins= t I 1, to •1,'-�•: 411.4.... i, 4 11 36 to to 11,42 1 , -1 S.11111.1.10.4 3I 32.'; now 11,1d 144 feet, 2' to 'd t to 2,te:1,,`r•.c,, 21 ,n2t It s,9tit•;• 20 the 1,4411 tt:.l•• or. 1412 f ll to a lob c:•: t'o, pct- I-, to a8e ttcr, t..:aly to 26, ,.40 00. 1241 1041 ucin� 241 to4 1•'resh r X40 y, •'(41,i0e, 40 to 41.•: rre.,no»,'1' 4444410, 4:2 4,, 310: sulitte. 471 to a• 1 -N New 1'21,1' n, .''o l' 4 , I:n In eye; N, 1 14 4 r- u W ;1,•, s,.0,01: storage. I'1. 1 r 1 1,-20'1 1 Ing, , 12•lu IIs. a0 rush-Ied h1 1 n.. 22 to 3r: Yowl. 211 to : ur4 : 4 1,51. 33 W 4220 duotie, rprnn;, 27 to :In. t geese, 27 to r•Lite pn411tl•p-Tut^ $rrb,tt AL1 I2a,v, 11., 2: t 21;o: 14r It S. du 1 - 11' ti s ? ! . of this delicate operation no hitch oe- I1-n a i1,o' tun,''3's••• I•' .:0 P"' Itr t .t •mltan- comet fords, make it an import- violent awakening BRITISH TAKE OVE aon may look for a € 1� ant military Kase, the capture of which from their barbarous slumbers. British another road lead- li the gives the It is conceded generally,, .at STRETCHOF FRONT ing northward to the Turkish base at ;bombing of cities containing military Transfer of Considerable Part of Line Below St. Quentin From French. A despatch from the British Army in h'rance says: Another striking ilins- tration of the co-ordination between the allied armies or the western front has been given in the successful trans- fer of a considerable stretch of the front below St. Quentin from French to British hands. From the inception t carred. Thousands of French troops 8s toimparted, lwnd-p: •ked, liar- and scutes of great batteries moved 1114 2,1' �tndl , ':t.7•, to ; .1:11.x11, $3 to $, 1.i,.... 105 to 1 Poll/0o s l , law r I :t2. 42.40: ,144- tdl o, . 1..tiv. $2.20 to ProVistoa a—wh 0111 e e a 1e Fnnil,ed meats --11:1, to 31.. .40.. 10.22441. 241 to :tin,: e0uke,i. 4e to 47': rolls 2: to 1' "'nitt"st bacon. 40 to 42o: ha, 1,0. 1,1110. 1:: to 44o: 1o10-- lex0, '15 to ilio. coooil meats- 4, u4 !lour I 1 .04,, 25 to 29,4: ,'1 1 t n, to laud int fi_ll, til-r,•es, 4 to tnbr;. 2 to i.• 42vt-291 to ttomonl141,1, tn 11 40 :t;••, 41;441` :1 to 204,o, quietly and methodically out of the line day after day to make room for similar British units. It was done as easily as though the whole vast pro- gramme had been rehearsed. Great credit is due to the French for the excellent condition in which they left the defences in this important region. Untold confusion, perhaps disaster, might have resulted had the • defensive system been inferior, but it 14 such as to draw the highest praise • from the British command. Nablus, I bases, supplies, troops and munitions In addition the village controls the will be one of the big features of the road to the coast and the mountain was from this time on. It will eerie highway from Jerusalem, The Turks tably be a war in the eh., and may, are also deprived of an important road perhaps, have a vital effect on hasten - running behind their front which en- ing the end of hostilities. Improve- abled them to and troops to threaten- ments in aircraft have been almost ed sectors, and it is even possible that magical since the war began, and the the Turkish forces have been cons- world may well prepare for astonish- pletely separated. ing things. MONUMENT UNVEILED For every raid on London or other TO CANADA'S IMMORTALS. =fortified city there will be raids on German cities. No .one expects the A despatch from Canadian Head- — English fliers to go to Berlin jest now. A return trip to the German capital under present conditions would be too uncertain, but it may be said that the Germans are not the only ones who are making wondrous strides in the per- fection of aircraft. quarters in Prance says: Canada in France paid reverent tribute to the memory of the Canadian gunners who fell in action during the Vimy Ridge operations, when Gen, Currie unveiled a memorial erected to the gallant dead by the Canadian Corps artillery, Sir Julian Byng was present, and with him was Gen, Sir H. S. Horne, command- ing the First Army, WAIR COSTS BRITAIN 831,920,000 A DAY. A despatch from London says: An- drew Boner Law, Chancellor of the Montreal Markets Exchequer, speaking in the House of • :`1 ""'''""1. 5 tr,•1 s-Ia1--'',,",r'1tn'pal•LIGHT '1tVING Commons, said the average daily ex- 1.,t. t 1, No. $1.1,1 to 31.11, e,4a No. teu. st.u2 to >•1.11: :No. 2 1",:a1 ,chin., ; IN BRITAIN MARCH 24. penditure during the four weeks end- viourN $l,xs; No. a do., mos: No, 4, do. ;i1,,,7. ing February 16, was X31,920,000. , •tun er0 gns' 311.10 tx �-' 51120: 441,)4111• 1twat, 811.10 to 1911.20. A despatch from London says: Sir - %a.'st;,iri , $4o. �ii4J bibs 3,3,` t ;'.n: George Cave, Home Secretary, an- BRI'T'AIN CAPTURES 168 HEAVY Mouilile, +5a h. $00. 1)o, N. 2. per nnunced in the house of Commons HOWITZERS IN PAST YEAR. ten. em has. $17• that the Summer period would begin — �._ lir c 1 24 and end September 20, A despatch from London says: The w'inniueg t.•lGraln AVi,ln!p,. P. 4 , ,t.=h Oolo -` 1•.0 1' ' No, a ',Av.,91 le; extra No. 1 1'1 4,4, ,!1.'; No. 1 treed. 1165t:: No. 2 1,90 4.10.. llat•1ey-21u. 3 C.\v„ x1.01111; No. 4 2'.\C.. 31.3118: re- jected, $1,17; le.,l $1,241IIa¢-\", 1 $2.45!. t N,,. 2 2.'. W., $2.41,1: No. 8 ('.4141',. $2.21. 1t,itea states Markets 5'11,,,,eup,dis Feb. 2c--' n•n-.. No. 3 ye110 ', $1,220 10 $1.`•5. "pts --\n. 3 • - British captures in the past year in - Britain Stands by the Poles, elude 168 heavy howitzers, (38 heavy A despatch from London says: The guns, 437 field guns, 1,017 trench British Government has instructed its agent at Kiev to make the declaration that Great Britain will not recognize any peace in the East which involves Poland without a previous consultation army estimates in the House of Com- missing (presumably went down with with Poland. mons. the ship), 32 men. mortars and 2,814 machine guns. This statement was made by James Ian MacPherson, Parliamentary Under- Secretary for War, in introducing the MORE UKRAINE GRAIN • THAN CAN BE MOVED. A despatch from Amsterdam says: In an address to the Lower House of the Reichsrath at Vienna, Dr. von Sey- dler, Austrian Premier, declared that under the peace treaty with the Ukraine there had been placed at the disposal of the Central Powers the Ukraine's surplus of agricultural pro- ducts. This surplus was greater than the Central Powers, at the most favor- able estimate, could transport, AMERICANS LOST 204 ON THE TUSCANIA. A despatch from London says: Two hundred and four Americans lost their lives on the Tuscania, according to the latest figures received at American army headquarters, Of this total there have been identified and buried three officers and 137 men; unidenti- fied buried, one officer' and 81 amen; WNAT's The MA-r'TeR,t ELM —Wilk( ARE Vou soRe Af3o01 NEVER MIND — I'MciOING' Down Yo THE OFFICE wjTti you OFFICE, oR? 43 ea II, xi. I wAN( To see -MAT MnW GIRL "OU NAVM TtIgR� COs' 101014a WELL, 1'8-L 3Ay SHES 'WELL WORYH I.00KI5'h Seventy-one thousand boys and girls The officers and men of e. West of school age last year increased the York Regiment presented to the city agricultural output of Ontario to the -of York two guns captured by the value of $1.25,000. Every farm boy regiment at Cambtai. and girl this year should be encour- At a meeting in Darlington it wan aged to rear a pig, a calf, a hatch of decided to open a national fund to chickens or to grow a plat of note-, commemorate the career of Brig, -Gen. toes, beans, corn or vegetables. Bradford, V.C., a Darlington Mail, See that alt implements anis har-:Biggleswade, was fined 120 forrefus- ness are in shape for spring opera- ing to billet soldiers, William Henry Scott, a chemist of ROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEI1ES'1' FROM 111%11, XIANI{S ANA BRAES. What is Going 011 11t the ElghlandLL and Lowlandeof Auld Scotia, The Roy'ol Humane Society's medal 11110 been prose to Edward Reid, Paric amine, Paisley, for roseuing a. boy from drowning in Ayr harbor. Major W. C'ochlan-Patriek, R.F.0.,. Reith, has brought down 11 enemy airplanes, and has been awarded the• Military Cross, Lar, and D.S:0, Lieut, Robert Allan, son of John Allan, 34 Toll street, Motherwell, has' been awarded the Military Crows, A flag day in the Campbelltown district, in aid of the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Sol - diens and Sailors, realized nearly 5200, William Neron, English plaster in Dollar Academy, has been appointed' English master in Kelvinside Acad- enly, Glasgow, Miss Georgie Pyre, Glasgow, who some time ago received the Order of' Leopold L, has, also received the French Croix de Guerre. Captain J. 13. 117. Young, sots of Mrs. Young, of Giendoune, was pre- sented with a gold watch by • his townspeople in recognition of his having W011 the M.C. Hugh Holligan, father of Private. D. Holligan, Banton, was presented with a gold watch and chain, in honor of his son having won the D.C.14f. At the annual meeting of the Sol- kit'kshire Red Cross Society, ihe• treasnret reported an income of 51,170 from Selkirk, and 51.147 from Gala- shiels. Alderman J. W. Ple udcl'leifh has been appointed mayor of the town of Berwick for the fifth time. - Mrs. Bolton, of' Howtel, has receiv- ed word that her son; Sergcan' Robert Bolton, has been uwardcti the Military Medal, Lieut, W. R. Cochrane. Anc•henray, \1110 Won- the Military C'r0te, has been presented with a w'ri:dot• ware•), by the citizens o1' Dulbeattle, HIugh Livin0'ston'r has he, n appoint- ' ed interim rheriff and steward cic•r:e of the t.tewartry of liiri:eudbright. Rol,, rt. Young MacKay, procurator- fiscal cl' Banffshire, Inas been promot- edprocurator-II scal of Dumft•ies- "shirc, The sum of 5424 has Lean raised. by the employes of the Summerlee Iron Company during the past ye r for charitable purposes. Captain Peter MCFai\lane, for forty as !a, riots, The London Education Committee fears in the service of the Campbel- Whv does that hen insist on roost- have granted a scholarship to the son town and Glasgow Steam Packet Co, died recently at his hone in Arden- Craig. The sum invested in war bonus through. the Aberdeen banks during one week recently wa'1 31.210,900. The annual statement •of the Edin- burgh Soup Kitchen states 11• t ?1,'100 free rations were given last year. Private Goodie. belonging to one of the Canadian Fo'estry camps :u Nairnshire, was killed by being crush- ed between two trolleys. Sheriff Thomson, Glasgow, ordel'ed e . Carmunnock Woman to give to titter' hospital for wounded soldiers all the' jam she had made from fruit net grown by herself. • li.H.C. 1)tSC OVT1)RS AK'Tls'r. —.- Young I1'otl Moulder 1s San of a Royal Arts Man. A twisted spine acouired in military service has changed the whole lire of a lad in one of the Military Convales- cent hospitals in Montreal. From iron moulding ile has turned to art, and all the undiscovered genius which he in- herited from his artist farther is to be taken count of in. the re -educational course offered him by the Goverment through the vocational training blanch of the Military Hospitals Commission, The father was a Royal Arts man, so well known that the 001.1 will not al- low his name to be used, but the 811)0, took a different tom for the son. At' iv proverbially produces a lean living, and this case was no exception. The sot was left in England with little or no money when the father died. He came to Canada when he was merely a boy, and such a ptilitarilut track as iron moulding claimed him, He "fooled a bit with his pencil," as he says, but art as a profession bad never occurred to him. His father's . life had become as vague as,11 story. It was not until he returned from the front• unable to follow his old trade that investigation revealed his un- U5Utalnt, I3ea1 weaers 41, plaster cast to comedy the spinal difficulty, but every clay he works as long as he is able at his - drawing board in the Moutreal Tech- nical School, Commercial illustration 511 his presort. goal. Late', maybe, ",Art," he says. ITio success has brought hint 5Ylver111 very good offers even at this time when his course 18 not finished and he will return to civil life. Capable of caminandinP' a higher, salary than he 0VC1' eurllt',d ing on the nail' -box?" "Very natural!, of an Austrian who has four sons in She was hatched from a parcel post • the British army. eget IThe London Committee of the There has never been so wide-, French Red Cross have sent to France spread and active a demand for seed 18,000 fruit trees and 50,000 cabbage corn and it is sure to increase within plants for restocking the farms and 'the next few weeks. 'I orchards. "Father!" "Now, Tommy, no more 1 A silver rose bowl and address were of those silly questions!" "This isn't presented to Miss May Baird by the silly; I just want to know if the earth n.c.o's and men of the R.F.C., in were destroyed while a man was up in 9ocognition of her work in providing an aeroplane where would he land?" `free club accommodation. GERMANS CONTINUE ADVANCE EAST- WARD IN RUSSIA, CAPTURING MINSK Immense Booty Taken, Including 8,700 Men, 4,25 Officers, *Over 1,300 Guns and Nearly 5,000 Motor Cars. A despatch from London says: The Getman troops have entered Minsk in their advance eastward in Russia, ac- cording to the report from German Ileadquarters on Thursday evening. The Russian town of Revile has been cleared of the Russians, the Ber- lin War Office reports, Trains with about 1,000 cars, many laden tvitlt food, have been captured, as well as airplanes and alt incalculable amount of war material, - Between Dvinsk and Pinsk the Germans are pressing eastward. General von Linsingen's movement continues. Important railway and highway junctions have been occu- pied, A Berlin despatch states that the Russian written confirmation of the acceptance of peace terms has "pass- ecl the Getman lines. This dispoees of rumors of the fall of the Lenine- Trotsky Government. The German War Office announces that 1,353 guns and between 4,000 and 5,000 motor ears have been cap- tured from the Russians thus far in the new campaign. The Germans have made prisoner a General commanding an army, 425 officers and 8,700 men. Rovno is the most easterly of the triangle of Russian fortresses in Vol- hynia. Lutsk, the western citadel in the triangle,' capitulated to the Ger- mans on February 18 without fighting. The third fortress in Volhynia, Dubno, lies about midway between R000 and the town of Brody on the Galician frontier. YES.NoV SBM QtATE IN(eREs-MD iN HER LooKs ALSO CLOTHES 1 FOUND THIS cUTE l'Aet4ORANDUNI IN `IoUR Poc0.7, 8U`j NEIN RI615c?Ns i=v1 `(ypEWRITEF ",1 i Rather Clever. A teacher, in giving exantpleer''dip the use of the hyphen,- quoted the word "bird -cage," and then -asked ane of iho. scholars: "Now, then, tell me why we put a hyphen in `bird -cage." "1001' the bird to sit on," was the unexpected reply.