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The Seaforth News, 1918-10-17, Page 7GERMANY ASS E011 ARMISTICE ENTENTE ALLIES STAND FIRM "'`'The Cornered Beast Draws in Its Claws and Offers the Entente its Blo9dstained Paw---Attentpting the White Flag Trick :Berlin Invites America, Which is a Belligerent, to flay the Roll of Mediator, as If It Were Outside the Alliance. Text of Germany's Note to Wilson Amsterdam, Oat. 6,—:1.hee text of tato note 'forwarded by the Imperial germeneilhaneefecer, Prince Maximilian, to President liV:llason, ithrough the Swans 0 vernmen't, fellows: "'.[the 'Gorman Grove•enment requesbs the President of .the United Slates to take in hand the restoration of peace, 'aeguainit all the belligerent •states of .this request, and invite 'tih:enti'to send p1eselpotonitieries .for the lawmen of opening negotiations. "It accepts tho`nrogrammo 'et Aebh by the Provident of. the United Shotes in his me age to Cont,ress on January 8, and sn his later Imo- •nouzicerients, eepoeia.:y h:a speet°h'af September 27, as a hasps for peace negotiwbions. - • "With a.view 'to avoiding Euarbher blaodcshed, the G'ermen Government reducers .the •imtned:'abe oonebuaion of an arinuatice en Menet and sett, and in 'bhe air." It, is a:nnouu'oecl that Tcitkey wild bake a sQmiter s+bep. . A similar note has been attfreesecl'to President Wilson by Inc Aus ro- Zlungarion Governme'rit. "We Have Got Them Paras, Oct. 6,—All the Paris disunites. were fulled eo overflowing to -day, Saint dermis Church, which was damaged by 'flue shetlll from the long- range gun on Good Friday, bee been sufficiently repaired 'bo permit its doors to be opened today, and wooslitlppetra flocked thither to the shrine 'where once women end children praying for Franoo''s liberation, were eaerificed. Bet if 11 was prayers for .the dead that were song at St. Ger- amis on Good FriejN,y, it was Te Deums and linemen of victory that floated baabsssseltieavens t clay. ♦ • As Parke eme.t^gecl •.on the churches ',Pt overflowed upon •bhe r'lueerful .ulevihecis Cr sought, , ,m loa'a•c abode in cafes bathed in serve to and g �C' ] Y everywhere one heard aro 'longe' the famcidin, and hopeful cry of "We shoe, get them," but the , otiselecl and contented exclamabiem, "We have got thein." Pe FRANCE SNEERS FRENCH SMASH AT PEACE OFFER HINDENBURG LINE Armistice Impossible at Point the Alleles Now Are. Paris, Oct. 6—Unconditional surren- der characterizes the general com- ment in- Paris on the demand for peace sent by the Central Powers to 'President Wilson It is felt here that Germany and her allies have not gone far enough in their request to the President for an armistice, and that although they have stated that they` are wiljng to talk peace on President Wilson's plans, they have not Shown submission such as was forced upon Bulgaria. The Paris newspapers are unani- mous in their demand for complete victory, The present peace move is sneered at. A demand is made for the entire submission of Germany and that; the Germans be disarmed. "Germany wishes to stop the war at the moment she is going to be beaten, and knows it," says Figaro. "Let • us suppose the proposition is accepted. Immediately in Germany there would be a delirium of joy. The people are electrified and the Kaiser has retaken them into his hands. The humiliation of having demanded pease would disappear rapidly. THE "H , OG" IS NOW Y There Will Be No Peace Germany Tenders Her' Swore. New York, Oct. 6,—In unequivoc- able and forceful terms, the peace proposals of Prince Maximilian are rejected unanimously by the press of the United States, From all sections of the country from Maine to Cali- 3-_fornie, the nation's newspapers voice the demand that no peace terms shall be eonsideted by the allied nations until ,Germany proffers her sword to the allied commander-in-chief in token of unconditional surrender, BRITISH FAVOR REPRISALS. London, Oet, 4.—Thr Germans' de- liberate destruotron of\tistoic French towns, with their irreplaceable arobistic treasures,. far which no epeoies of military excuse is possible, is kindling a feeling of fiercely bitter resentment both here and in France, and a general } demand, is made not only for repara- tion, bat - for the exemplary pustibeh.- enent of 'those responsible. The 'burn - "lag of ;Itoulems shows that the foe in- tends to. • take ,a mean revenge net Belgic in, , in adctabion to ale the pre ted ' sboniinations committed there, ebon destruction is believed t of a set policy on the tterman mi'litaris't auto - hope of arousing such `re4ween their people Ezttenbe that all •1r era: aI and hpeace woulad' be abandoned. it 1--- t0o-"PsitSONS PERISH- IN SHELLPLANT EIRE Perth Amboy, N,Je Oct, 4.—The great shell loading Pent of T. A. fa illespie at Morgan, :1.J., one of the largest plants of it hind in the Tlnited•States, was destroyed by fire, :following a series of to'.rific explo talons. About; six thoued& petering, many 0 of the ,.w rnert ,are employed in -"h he woLc"ivhic hovO r several thodx: load soros; The death list reached Cross Crozat Canal After Occu- pying St. Quentin. A despatch from the French army in France says: Gen, Debeney's troops in the region of St. Quentin on Wednesday began to smash through the lines of the Hindenburg position over the entire front of that army. Those lines were 21S miles deep in some places and were supported by several strongly organized woods. They were defended by machine gun sections which proved unable to cheek Gen, Debeney's advance. A. breach made in the Hindenburg line east of Le Tronquoy was widened to the outskirts of Lesdins.•F'urther north the French troops in conjunc- tion with British fg}•cee took several small pieces of timber land in the face of vigorous resistance. The west bank of the Crozet Canal north-east of St. Quentin is now in French hands as far as Lesdins. Gen. Debeney's sten have occupied Omissy. A footing also has been .gained on the east bank of the canal at Moreourt, the western part of the town being in French hands. With St. Quentin and the suburb of Isle in his hands, Gen. Debeney has made further gains to the south, ob- taining a foothold in the enemy's trenches west of Neuville St. Anand and Ibancourt. Several lines of trench- ea, renches were conquered in that region by the French after a violent struggle.. 120,000 PRISONERS IN TWENTY DAYS Allies Have Taken 3,669 Cannon, and 23,000 Machine Guns., A. despatch from Paris says:'Dur- ing the period from Sept. 10 to Sept. 30 the allied armies in. France and Belgium have captured 2,844 officers and 120,192 men; 1,600 cannon and more than 6,000 machine guns, ac- cording to an official statement is- sued here to -night. Since July 15 and up till Sept, 30, the allies have 'captured 5,518 offi- cers, 248,494 men, 3,669 cannon, more than 28,000 machine guns and hundreds of mine throwers, the state- ment says. WHEAT PRICES FIXED FOR ONTARIO AND QUEBEC A despatch from Winnipeg says: The Board of Grain Supervisors has ordered that the price of No. 2 Quebec wheat shall be 12.26 per bushel, basis in stole, Montreal, This cancels a former order. To arrive at the price at shipping point it Is necessary to deduct one cent a bushel to cover the cost of putting the wheat hi store at ltlontreal, and dectupt local freight Charges, based on shortest through mileage to Montreal, whether it pas- ses Over One or more railways in transit, plus whatever fraction of it cent a bushel may arise when deduct- ing the local freight rate from the fixed price. It is provided that eastern flour millers may pay a lleensed track buyer or licensed comnl.ission morale, ant a maximum of ono cent a bushel for .buying wheat for them, but no other remuneration shall be allowed to them or ariy other plass of handlers, Another order makes the rice o f Ontario No. 2wheat 82.26a uae) e previous cantiia j g the pr v ons ardor, with tee lento regulations, 'to arrive at the pride at the shipping poln3 as in site case of bfp, 2 Quebec wheat, BATTERING HUN LINES. This French official, photograph shows a huge French gun in action on the Lorraine front, This is the type of gun that is being used against the, -fortresses that are guarding the city of Metz, LEADING MARKETS Breadstuffs Toronto, Oct 8.—Manitoba whets No. 1 Northerre $2.24% • No. 2 Nor ern, $2.21r,i N. 2 Northern, $2.17 No. 4 wheat, $2.11%x, in -store Fe W'ldiam, not including tax. Manitoba oats—No, 2 C. W., 84 No, C.W., 8014,c; extra No. 1 fe 80%r; No. 1 feed, 78%e, in stare F V.! ltam. American Corn—No, 3 yellow, ki dried, nominal; N. 4 yellow, ki dried, nominal. Onta:ria oats, new crop --No. 2 whi 76 to 78e; No. 3 white, 75 to 77 according to freighba outside. Ontario wheat—Na, Winter, p car 'lot, $9.31; No. 3 Spring, $9.2 basis in store biotbeeal. Peas --No: 2, nominal. :Barbey—Malting, new crop, $1.0 to $1.13, Bu ekwhea t—Nominal. Rye—No. 2, Nem'in•aI. Manitoba flour—Old crop, quality $11,35, Toronto. Ontario flour—War quality, old cro $10.75, In bags, Montreal and -Toronto prompt shipment, Allelfeed--Oar lits, delivered Mont real freights, bags inoludod: Bra $36.40 per ton; shorts, $41.40 per'bon Hay—No, 1, $20 par 'ton; mixe $18 to $18 per bon, 'track Toronto. Straw—Car lobs, $9 to $9.50, tree Toronto. Country Produce—Wholesale Eggs—No. 1 storage, 40 to 50c; seleoted, storage, 52 to 53e; carbons, new 1•ad, 67 to 58e. Butter—Creamery, solids, 47 t 480; do, fresh made, 48 to 50c; chole dairy prints, 44 to 43c; ordinary dater prints, 38 to 40c; bakers', 36 to 38c. Oleomargarine (best grade) 32 to 340. Olean—New, large, 23% to 2.4c; twine, 23% to 241,s'ec; •spring -made, huge, 25th to 26c; twins, 26 to 26%c, I Beans—Canadian, prime, bushel, I $6.50 to $7.50. Foreign, hand- picked, buslhel, $6.75 to $7, Comb R one H GhOice 1G z Y o . $4.50 to $5 per dozen; 12 oz., $3.50 to $4 per dozen; seconds and dark comb, $9.50 'bo $2.75; bulk, 25 to 26c per ib. Maple syrup—In 5 -gat, bions, $3.26. Provisions—Wholesale Barrelled meats—Pickled, pork, $48; mese pork, $47. Green meats—Out of pickle, le less than smoked. Smoked meats—Rolls, 32 to 33c; hams, medium, 38. to 39c; heavy, 30 to 31c; cooked hams, 58 to 54c; backs, plain, 46 to 47c; backs, boneless, 50 to 52c. Breakfast bacon, 42 to 44c. Cottage rolls, 35 to 36e. Dry Salted Meets—Long cleats, in tons, 30c• in rases, 30%e; clear bellies, 28 to 28%e; fat backs, 25c. Lard—Pure, tierces, 303b to 310; tubs, 30'i to 3114c; pails, 31 to 31%c; prints, 32 to 32%c. Short ming, tierces 251,b to 26e; tubs, 26 :to 26%e; pails, 26% to 26%c; 1-1b. prints, to 27%c, Montreal Markets bh- %; rt c; ed, ort BRITISH SEIZE MINERAL AREA Valuable Prize Taken From Ger- many by British Expedition. A despatch from London says: Seizure by a British expedition of Ger- man nninfsig property and other de- velopment plants in Spitsbergen, in• In eluding a big wireless installation, is reported by the Express, with the in- to tintation that the work of developing c, immensely rich Iron and coal deposits is proceeding. It is said they will er be of the greatest importance to Great 2, Britain and the allies. The expedition to Spltzbergen sailed a few months ago 3 under the protection of the British navy. SIr sanest Shackleton, the famous Antarctic explorer, was the commander, but he was subsequently war• obliged to leave to take up other duties, aP Lis successor, F. W. S. Jones, who ' returned to London, has given as en- thusiastic description of the vast min- t eral wealth which has hitherto been merely tapped to a lhnited extent by d British, German, Swedish and Nor wegtan companies. k The expedition, lir, Jones said, took a large number of miners, an enormous quantity of mining material, and supplies sufficient for three years, and work is now going on on a large scale. Capt. Wild, who was with Shackleton in the Antarctic, Is in ee charge of operations, lir. Jones says Y the expedition met with considerable Montreal, Oct. 8.—Oats—No. 2 C. W., 84c' No, 3 C.W., 80%c; extra No. 1 feed, 80'4c; No. 1 feed, 7814,c; No. 2 feed, 75Vec. Barley—No, 3 C.W., $1.05%; No. 4 C.W., $1.00%; re - seated anal feed 95c. Flax—No. 1 N. W.G., $3.88. cheese, finest easterns, 22% to 23c. Butter, ehoicesct cream - my, 48 to 48%c, Eggs, No. 1'stock, 58 to 60c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $2.50, Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $28.50, Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 31% to 33c. " Live Stock Markets Toronto, Ort. 8,—Extra choice heavy shiers, $14,25 to $16,00; choice heavy sleets,13.50 to $14.00• butchers' cabbie, choice, $12.00 to $12,75; do, good, $10.50 to $11.00; do. mediumn, $9.75 to $10.76• do, common, $8.00 to $8.50; beechen' bul(1e, choicce, $10.00 :to .$10.50; do. meclient btnllis, $9.50 to $9.85; do, rough bulls, $7,25 to $8.25; butehea,4' cotes, choice, $10.25 to $10.50; do, good, $9.35 to $9.50; do. medium, $7,75 to $8.25; do. common, $7.26 to $7.75; stockers, $8.00 to $10.50; feeders, $10.50 to g1.15; canners and�! 'cutters, $5.50 to .75; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to $160.00; do. tom, and med. $65.00 to $75.00; springers, $90.00 to $160.00; light ewes, $13,00 to $14.00; yearl- ings, $15.00 to $16,50; spring lambs, $16.00 to $16,50; calves, :good to choice, $14.00 to $17.601 ileo s, fed and weltered, $19.25 to $19, 0• do. weighed n0 0 nes, g .a s i lO,GD.19'.75i i2 t to sows, $18.25, 1tbonbreal, Oct. g Oho'ce heavy steers, $18.5 to $14.00e oho but- cher sheers, 812.50 to $14.00; wee a z s oda 8.tl0 0 is 12 0 $ .0 poi C g $ 1 e �u,ver bells l 10.251 '' •er peados $7,,2$ the 10.0, But ' cows, , 7,50 ' b o 10. 0 1 Y 00 hogs, 1r,5 0 rb �9 1 f3' •50 per gg , owl.) lambs, 10c per itb $ difficulties and danger, including en- counters with eight German submar- fnes, Spitzbergen is an archipelago in th Arctic Ocean, discovered in 1533 by Sir Hugh Willoughby, who called 1 Greenland, supposing It to be a par of the western continent. In 1591 it was visited by Barents and Cornelius two Dutchmen, who pretended to be the original discoverers, and called it Spitzbergen, or sharp mountains, from the many slump pointed and rocky uuouh:tains with which it abounds, CZTICHO-SLOVAK TROOPS CAPTURE KAZAN BRITISH TAKE MANY TOWNS, NUMEROUS GUNS A ND 5,000 PRISONERS Hindenburg Line Defenses Smashed Between St, Quentin and Cambrai—1 Gig's'Troops Have Reachled Outskirts of Mont Brehain, A despatch from the 13rltish Army on the St. Quentin Sector setas --the Bribbsh troops smashed a large and vital notion of the Hindenburg line on Th'ur'sday between St. Quentin and Oatnbrai. They have occupied many addibional towns and villages and 6,000 prisoners and nisi/lentos guns leave been taken, The battle wars resumed at 0 o'clock in .the morning and continued through- out bhe day, English and Australian divisions driving deep into the ene- my defences. The ground over which the British troops fought their way a g'ainet the unevibeble swarms of niaohine guns was littered with Ger- man dead. ' The advance bees readied a depth of about five miles at lbs apex, and it follows bleat the principal Hindenburg defences here have been .shattered. A few hours may see the British all the way on the other side of the greet German defensive system. The Australian troops tire fighting beyond the Beaur'evoir line,: 'at Whin - court, La Mobto Farm, and Lormisset, 1 in the St, Quentin sector. The Brit- ish troops have reached bhe oubskirbs of Mont Brehain, thus the Hindenburg system has been definitely passed, The Australians and Englisch were assisted by large numbers of tanks o which carried out their tasks with bhe h cuebom'ary efficiency. s' Some few of the •banks were man- i ned by Americans who had been zit- a beetled bo Brutish 'bank units. Reports from aviators say that the tanks have rolled rapidly over the country, materially helping the in- fantry to clear out the Germans who had made a dive for cover from t) harrisane of British sheltie, As 'bhe infantry gained ground, bh Brlbish guns were eonmtbantiy move up to pas'1tkins from which they soul continue pounding the Germans. The reads in the general decreedon east of Gouy are reporters full of transports and men, and some bods of troops have reahced points at leas' five miles in the rear. No new Gero man tops appeared in the batti here, althoughalthoughthe enemy cerlainly must have known that the position was bound to be attacked, This is a sign that cannot be ignor- ed and one in *blob the British corn menders find considerable satisfaction Among bhe'towns captured on this battlefront were Gouy, Le Wein,Wein,Ramicourt, Sequehart, Wiancourt and Bea ere voir. In the 'terrain immediately behind bus Hindenburg :system, air reconnais- sance has found no further system of trenches or wire entanglements, and the enemy is holding only light - y wide s'bnetahes of country, an in- dention of a peeoipibabe get -away. The number of our prigsoners will ex- ceed the earliest estimate, They include' men from more than 40 batbatio'en of 20 different regiments f 10 different divisions, which were urrlealy brought together to present ome kind of an obsba0le to 'the abtack- ng British, Despite the desperate nervy couiiber-ettacks en cerbain'por-+ tions of the British front,, he has been yielding under the British onslaught re e NEWS FROM ENGLAND NII�WS a NAIL AIOO JOHN RU1,L AND 1810 PEQPN,0 Occurrences in the Land That ReBelga.8uprente in the Commas, cis! Weald. Sir David Mercer .d has been appointed an A.D.C. to the d King, Apricots are plentiful throughout Enhavegland, though other garden fruits failed. es The residents of :Mast Halrsc preseet- t ed Lance-Co•porai H. Mulford with e 2300 in War Savings Certificates in o recognition of his having won thio Victoria Cross. Thomas Lovegrove, of Sumninghiil, Ascot, had had four softs killed in the war, two seriously injured and ono discharged through an accident. The Queen recently inspected the Brock Hospital and the anzhulanee station at Blackheath. The death took place recently at" Poulbon-de-Tylde, Lancashire, of Wil- liam Seller, chief coroner. Liptons (Limited) were fined $20 al Great Yarmouth for selling bacon above the maximum price. The death has occurred at Ascot of A. G. Bessemer, last surviving son of the late Sir Henry Bessemer. The Ancient Order of Foresters, meeting at Cambridge, received hear- ty greetings from Admiral Beatty. Mrs. Durnaton Hogg, who died re- cently, was tlie^'widow of the founder of the Regent Street Polytechnic. The death is announced of David Menton, the Independent Labor can- didate for the Abertillery Division- and is being followed closely cry tae. British and other Allied troops over a large area. ALSACE TOWNS ! TEUTON FORCES BEING EVACUATED LEAVE ALBANIA ,ua-LteureitarrL Watson, 15.N.1), South Tottenham, has been presented with a sword by his former conradea, John William Mead was fined 110 for taking one match into the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Stamford Hili. Wheat is now being grown on the moors to the north of Bolton at a height of one thousand feet above sea t' level. One hundred and seventy-seven thousand members of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society have joined the colors. Sir Philip Sassoon, M.P., invested 217,000_ during War Weapons Week at Folkestone, making a total of 2200,000. The boys of the William Ellis School, Gospel Oaks, gave a perform- ance which realized .232 for the Red Cross Society. Edward Nield, of Lynsdale, Eccles, has bequeathed seven and a half per cent. of his estates for missionary and peace efforts. There is a general desire among the members to open the galleries of the House of Commons to men and women impartially. General Sir William Robertson sold at Pitsford, in aid of the Prisoners of War Fund, a cloak once owned by the Duke of Wellington. For the ninety-six great towns of England and Wales the death rate for one week corresponded to an annual rate of 12.1 per thousand. More than five thousand of the employees of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway have joined Tie Majesty's forces. Col, H. W. Thornton has entered n the duties of Deputy Minister of ailways and Movements, When a slightly damaged 1)011000 fell into the dock at Poplar, the pilot jumped into the water and swam shore. Lard Milner has appointed Lieut.- ol. W. A. T. Bowly, M.G., Royal arwickshire_Regiment, as his prf- ate secretary. The 1111nistry of Pensions is enlist- tg the assistance of golf clubs to rovide facilities for training disabled o'diers. While a woman was carrying her aby up a stair in Grimsby, she trip - ed on her apron and fell, killing her ild. A DOOMED FORTUNL. Kaiser is the Greatest of War Profiteers, The Kaiser's greatest war profits come from the Krupp gust -works at Essen. Just how largo Isis holdings are cannot be determined, as the Krupp concern refused to show its books in the recent profiteering in- vestigation conducted by the Reich- stag, and that body has no power to enforce its demands. The statement, however, is made on the authority of Geneva bankers who recetitly return- ed front Frrnkfort that the Kaiser before the war had been large shareholder in Krupps; in fact, ono of the largest holders of the shares next to Frau Bertha Krupp von Boh- len. Since the war began the Kaiser is said to have increased his shares hi the works by purchases amounting to 25,000,000. That the Kaiser, long before the the present war, was an enormously wealthy man was nowhere denied. As Icing of Prussia be enjoyed a civil list of 1850,000 a year. He is the great landowner in Prussia, and has an immense private income. His grandfather' left hien a fortune of 290,500,000. Ile has many castles and palaces in various parts -of Germany, upon which he has expended immense sums. He bore practically the entire expense of maintaining and conduct- ing the Imperial opera in Berlin, and a travelh when a led on his n tg niflcont- ly-equipped railway train it cost him 210 it mile. Monster ferns, now extinct, form the chief basis '01 coal: Inhabitants of Twenty Villages Sent to Bavaria—Uprising Feared by Germans. A despatch from Geneva says: German military authorities have be- gun to remove the inhabitants of Al- sace, according to the Democrat, in expecbation of a Franco -American at- tack on the frontier, The inhabitants of twenty village", including Fcrrette, Goutnvon and Winkel already have been sent to Bavaria. Sonne of the villagers have escapees neross the Swiss frontier. Fear of disorder is rampant throughiut Alsace-Lorraine, not only among the civilians, but also among the military forces. Food o is scarce and little is available, The Getman authorities in Alsace• t Lorraine, the Democrats adds, are t afraid of a general uprising in those provinces when the allies cross the frontier. A des; Itch from Stockholm says; Petrograd despatches of Smit. 30 an- nounce that the Ozeeho-Slovaks cap- tured Kazan, which the Bolshevik re- ported a fortnight ago that they had taken, and show that the Lettish -troops fighting for the Bolshevik' are abandoning the Red cause. The Lettish troops were the last really 'well organized force the Bol- ehevilci had. They numbered about 17,000, of which nearly 10,000 were held in the vicinity of Moscow to preterit the Boleheyik leaders, Ever ALLENBY CONTINUES TRIUMPH IN PALESTINE A despatch from London says: An official statement on Palestine opera- tions says: The text of the statement reads: "On Wednesday Australian mount- ed troops operating in the vicinity of Kuhbat-el-Asafir, 17 miles north- east of Damnecus, charged and cap- tured an enemy column, securing 1,- 5500 prisoners, two guns and forty machine guns. 'Enemy eirdrome and railway es- tatblishments xt Rayak were heavily bombed from the air." Rayak is on the railroad line. be- tween Damascus mid Beirut, 80 miles northwest of the former place. since the Czech movement began on BELGIANS AND BRITISH SWEEP THROUGH FLANDERS PURSUING FOE the Volga the Letts have objected to fighting there, because they did not regard the Czechs as enemies, and furthermore objected to the dis- o•ganized, rmmilitary style of fight- ing the .Bolshevik officers outlined. The Lettish soldiers after the fall of Kazan surrendered to the Czechs, ROUMANIA WILL SOON COME INTO WAR AGAIN Washington, Oct. 4.—Capt, Vasile Stoma, former attache of the Rou- nlaniaun Legation :here, and president of the Roumanian National League of ` America, said to -day that 'Rou- mania soon will be back in the war of the side.:.of the allies, Southern Roumania still is In the inands of German troops, but Capt. Stoics said these easily could be cleared out by the allies and the Roumanian army organized. CANADA 18 SAVING MILLIONS IN FLOUR A despatch from Ottawa says: It Is announced that conservation measures and voluntary )raving in the homes have reduced Canadian consumption flour from 800,009 to 600,000 bele relsof per month, as compared with pre- war corsumptiolt, This means 4 sav- T ing at the rate of 2,400,090 barrels per oar, or, connting yur t n the vin [5 80. bye t1- g ltd{, t ened'oxtr of L a l4 of milling, t 11 of j >+ 940 V g'r ,a00 barrels per yert>II 2'iIJs" is equivalent to a smvllig of poarty X8,000,000 bushels of wheat,•r.+ r Italians Occupy Herat—Capture Prisoners and Much War Material. A despatch from London says: Austrian troops have been withdrawn from Albania, the Austrian 'War Of- fice announces, Beret has been taken by the allies. The Austrian statement says: "We have withdrawn our' divisions from Albania. This was rendered ne- ressary by events on the Bulgarian front. "Beret fell into the hands of the enemy without a fight." Italian troops iu Albania Bogen an energetic advance on Tuesday in the sector between the Adriatic and Osum. The Italian columns in' the evening had occupied the village of Fieri and the line of the Semeni from Sterbasi to the Metali bridge and several heights. The Austro-Hungarian forces re- treated rapidly, burning their depots, The Italians occupied Beret on Wed- nesday. m . They have captured a nu- ber• of prisoners and a large quan- tity of war material. A WARNING. Paris, Oot, 4,—The French Govern- Ment has issued a solemn warning to C Germany and her allies that the de -I venation of .berritory from which they i v retreat will he punished inexorably. The warning says: "The German,. people who share in the crimes will' rz bear the consequences with the aucth- s oras, and than those who order the de- vastation will be held responsible 1 b mouat'ly, penally and pecuniarily," p It is added that Fiance is now dw-, ea caning with her allies the steps to be taken. British Occupy Lens and Armen res—Gen. Plunter's Army is Only Seven Miles Ferom elle—G•erinans Apply Torch as They Retreat. A despatch from London says:—Th Germans have fallen back three miles in their rebreat along the Lens -Armen tieres lino. ' Both Lens and Armen- tieres were evacuated Wednesday night. The Germans, who were gradually being lett in a salient, began a re- treat on practically .all the Armen - times sector and appear bo be in full flight. The British troops have en- tered and are now leveeing through Lens, A.ubers Ridge, south of Armentieres, has been taken, and the British are oast lof there. Indleoaitona are not wanting that the Germans have been forced to begin one 'of the war's great- est retreats. Gest, Plumueris army is reported to be only two Miles from Tue'ooihsg, 7% miles n'onblt-east of Lille, The troops co-operating with the Belign0asts have taken villages near. Doukas after hard street fighting. Phial have loreod the Germans well back and are s'ticll going. The Get - mems must '� t out Io of h el meat �Bakelite Daus as iltw. arcs �Osi6ern� the vyunce lucre Continues as it glues every gam of do'izt A Raglan armored car has succeed - e ed in entering Roulesw and has return- ed safely to its own lines, according - bo the Belgian o(fieisll communioatian to -night. As the Germane retreat in the Ar- ntervb'eree sector they are applying the boreal whenever they have the time, and their retreat is marked by great explosions ads ammunition stores are destroyed. It is known that tete Germans are'beoonuing so short of am- munition that many of the higher of - floes are alarmed, but in ,the retreat the desbruat'lion of (lentils Has bean ab- solutely nocesuttated. The country behind the German lines is ablaze virtually everywhere. From prisoners comes the informa- tion that the Germans are making herded preparations to evacuate the Dune country of Belgium, along the sea coast. ,Dugouts are being blown up there. There is every indication, accord- ing to authoritative naval sources, of n earlabandonment a b t e Yy h Ger- mans of the entire blenders al dere coast. The Germans are already removing their 'gutta, Tho Belgian, coast has been ander a heavy bombardment ?or the past two days,. "