HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-02-15, Page 3IIAIG PUSHES HIS SUCCESS
IN FRESH DRIVE ON ANCRE
Ativaileet Also Reported Beyond Village of Grandeaurt---'rakes
The Summit of the Scilly-Saillisel I3iil.
A despatoin from London says :-
The success of the British squeezing
tifevement which is closing in on Hale -
mune both from the west, and south
West was accentuated on Thursday
when General Haig's troops captured
the highest point of the S•ililiy.Salllisel
Hill, just northwest of the point where
the French were held up in the Somme
delve, Iast fall, Advances aro also
recored beyond the village of Grand -
court, which was captured on Wednes-
deer, Referring to thismseetor, the
official statement says: "The ground
we have gained on the Anere since
the new year now represents an ad-
vance of an average depth of nearly
three-quarters of a mile on a front
of over three miles."'
Oh the crown of the elevation at
Sailly-Saillisel was an important Ger-
man position which the British report
declares was -captured in its entirety.
Seventy-eight prisoners, including two
officers, were taken together with a
ment refers to the engagement which
is spoken of as "in progress;' het is
silent on any further. fighting along
the Anere.
Tho British, however, declare that
they bave made progress on both
sides of the Amerce During the night
the 13aillescourt Farm, on the road be -
Wean Benncourt and Miramont, was
attacked and 'captured, and •on the
south side of the stream a hostile
trench near Grandeourt was carried..
These two operations netted an Adds-
eional eighty-two prisoners with one
ofi'ieer. That the resumption of the
British offensive on the Somme has
widened to a front of about seventeen
zniles is indicated by the report of a
successful raid south of Bouchavesnes,.
not far from Peronno.
General Haig also cbronicles the re-
pulse of German attacks at Gueuede-
court and La Bassets and the explosion
caused by artillery fire behind the
enemy's lines near Ypres.
HOLLAND'S DEFENCES FROZEN UP
EAST FRONTIER LIES EXPOSED
For That Reason Netherlands Government Declines to Follow
President Wilson's Lead.
A despatch from The Hague says:
Tho Netherlands Government, through
,the American Legation at The Hague,
has formally declined, to accept Presi-
dent Wilson's suggestion that it fol-
low the course of the United States
and break off diplomatic relations
with Germany.
Holland's refusal to follow Presi-
'Anit Wilson's lead has naturally given
satisfaction in_ German and pro -:Ger-
man circles, where the effectiveness of
the German principle of terrorism is
regarded as once. more vindicated, It
would be a mistake to assume that the
Dutch are not in sympathy with Presi;
dent Wilson's action, but the "German
menace has•mverborne their generous
natural impulses:
The Dutch Government's action will
undoubtedly be approved by the Dutch
people o 'prudential grounds. It 'is
interesting to note that the Frank-
furter Zeitung hint of a few days ago
that European neutrals would embark
on a highly hazardous adventure if
they .acted on President Wilson's sug-
gestion has apparently been taken
seriously in some quarters, but in fair-
ness to the Dutch it should always be
remembered that their east frontier,
as the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
says, largely lies exposed at the pre-
sent moment. After such a long per-
iod of hard frost its chief system of
defences apparently do not possess as
much value as they are reputed to
have in normal times.
LEADINGMARKETS
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TorOnto, Feb. 13 -Manitoba wheat --
New No. 1 Northern, 1.88; No. 2, do.,
51.865; No. 3, da, 51.50; No. 4 wheat,
$1.710 track 27aY ports, Old crop trad-
ing4c. above new orae,
anitoba oats -No, 2 C,\7r, 67c; No.
3 C.W., 66e; extra No. 1 feed, 65o; No.
1,.64o, track Bay ports.
American corn -No. 8 yellow, 01.12,
subject to embargo.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white,
02 to 64c
nominal; No. -3 white,61 to Gia semi-
nalaccording to freihts
outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter. per car
lot $1.70 to 51.72; No. 3, do., $1.08 to
$3.70, according to freights outside.
Peas -No, 2, 52.56, according to
'freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 51.18 to 51.20, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -$1.28, nominal, according
to freights outside.
Rye -No. 2, $1.38 to 51.40, according
to fretghts outside
141anitobo. flour-Srirat patents, in jute
bags, 50.60; second patents. in jute bags,
59.00; strong bakers'. in jute bags, 58.60,
Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
saOSple, 47,00 to $7.10, in bags, track,
Toronto, prompt shipment; $6.90, bulk
seaboard, export trade.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran, per ton,
585; shorts, per ton, 540• good feed
flour, per bag, $2,10 to 52.80.
Hay -Extra No. 2, per ton, $12; mixed,
per ton, $D to 011, track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 59, track
Toronto,
00witzy Prodnoe-•Wholesale
13uttor--Fresh dairy, choice, 36 to -
38c; creamery prints, 43 to 46c; solids,
42 to 43o,
Eggs -No: 1 storage, 44 to 46c; stor-
age, sel'eets, 46 to 48o; new -laid. in lar -
tons, 66 to 56o; out of cartons, 62 to 640.
Live poultt•y-fowl, lb., 10 to 180;
chickens, lb., 18 to 20o.
Dressed poultry ---Chickens, 22 to 25c;
fowl, 20 to 22c; clucks, 22 to 260; snuabe,
per dos., $4.00 to $4.60; turkeys, 28 to
33o• gesso. 18 to 20o,
Cheese -New •large, 255 to 260; twins,
20 to 2650; triplets, 205 to 268c; old,
large, Mc; twins, 263 to 27c.
Roney-Whito clover, 25-1b. tins, 14o;
5-10. tins, 13 to 1250; 10-114. 125 to 130;
60-1b., 12 to 13c; buckwheat, 80.11,, tins,
9 to 05c, Comb honey -extra fine and
heavy weight, per, dos., $2.75; select,
52,60 to 52.76• No, 2, 52 to 52.26.
Potatoes -Ontario, per bag, 52.60 to
52.76; New Brunswick Delawares, per
bag, 50.90 to $3.00; Albertes, per bag,
$2.86 to 52.90,
Roans -Imported, hand-pickod, per
bush., $0,26; Canadian, hand-picked, per
bush., $7,00; Canadian primes, $6.00 to
$0,60; Limas, per lb„ 10 to Mee,
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Proylelons-wholesale,
Smoked meats -Hams, medium 26 to
860; dd.,heavy, 22 to 23o; cooked, 36 to
88gt4-1 rotls, 2ef to 22c; brealctast bacon 25
00 SSc; backs.
plain, 27 to 2So; bone-
less, lard, tierces,1$ to 223c;
tubs, 21.3 to' 220; pails, 22 to 2250; com-
pound, 102 to S17o,
Cared meats -Long clear bacon, 18 to
Wu per ib.; clear bellies, 18 to 1850.
Montreal !4Zo.reets
Merits -sal rob, 13--Oats--Canadian
western, No, 2, 72c; do„ No. 7, 685; ex-
/54;ra No, 1 feed, 88o, Barley -Man. Feed,
malting, 81.50. Flour-Man.
gg Wheat potents, ,bets, 40.55;..
•000500, 50,10; strong bakers', 58.90'
Winteratents, choice, $9.251 straight
•rollers, 59,50p 50 58,80; do., Mage, $4.10 to
445. Trolled oats- barrels $0,95 to
715; do., hags, 00 she, 53.361 to $8.45,
rest --588 to $04. Shorts -5$36 to 587.
Milling9, 588 to 540. MTouillie, 545 to
48, Hey -No. 2, per ton, ear lots, 518.
hecse-0lnost westerns 24 to 205o;
nest eesterns, 26 to 261o. Butter -
Choicest creamery, 42 to 425e; 05000d5,
40 to 'tic, 15ggs•--Fresh, 68 to -soot
~'^'•• selected, 4.6o: No, 1. stock 460;. No, 2
took, 88c, 2dtatoee--•nor crag, car lots,
82,16 to 48.00,
Winnipeg Grain-
Wh;ni�70g, Ir0b. 13 --Cash priros :
Wheat --'-NO. i Northern, 51,58; No, 2
orthern, 81.82 ; No, 8 Not•theln 1.67•
110,..4, 51.45; 1�3O. 6, 51,58' N0 0, $.t (;2;
fel, Deo.. OatO--No, 2 0,'W. 5860' y� 0,
0No,eri ,2 e' Na,
3, 85 0
625; 5, 48 B rel i
1 6 0; No �tOlo. Barley --No. a,' 8 G
9 r. Ne., 4, 900; 1101105nd, 7041 12065(
e, a: --L78, 1 N,W.C„ 52,68; No. 8
.' 52.
'United States ?Markets
Minneapolis, Feb, . 18--1-Whpeda{t ,
- i:ay,
tilt $'1.31ii to y�88oll51o1 7,0 fo't lotsl,
to 6810, e -N0, 2vk154, 01 50
,744I 74t2A
a Flour unah0 ed 3r tt--60,00
7 $22.05.
ilulbO;; Fob. 18-4711e04,-.-0 track, p
I, 213.10 1.7891 Na, 1 N01'th.�q'n, 11: 9l
2 o Clla11 , ;l•
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vii
7,31
arrive, $13 ;I; ' B
Go -.d - o al y, le. 1•, rry, 5 . 5ti;
Male 4e.e86.
tive'Stook Mae/cote
9'rornnto, f+' r6---dhofoo ilOaV7' fit+0r
*2,0 6 tb.81 0.. 00„ /'o?,', 5,0,8
t00oeoa7t0eZd,,o$1.60;o2god,$9.5 choke.'
medium, 49,10 to $9,35; do., common,
$5,15 to $8,35; butchers' bulls, choice,
0 to $9.60; do good bulls, 55.25 to
8,60L do., medium bulls, 57.60 to 58;
o„ rough bulls, 56.15 to 55.36; butchers'
cows, oholoe, 58.50 to 58; do., good, 58
to 58.20; do., medium, 57.25 to 57.76•
stockers, 56,25 to 55.00: 'choice feeders,
8 to 58.60; canners and cutters..36 o
5.40; mincers, choice, each, $70 to 511 ;
do., cont, and mod-, each. 440 00 $60'
springers, 550 to 5110; light ewes, 39.25
to $10.50; sheep, heavy. 56 to 57.00;
calves, good to choice, $11.75 to $14;
mobs, choice. 513.50 to $15; do., med.,
9.75 to 510.26; Bogs, fed and watered,
14.60 to 514.75; do„ weighed oft cars,
.14 .00 to 1 .00 •do.,c 13 75 t
.0 S b f..b S a
'13.56
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Montreal, I'.eb. 13 -Choice steers
$10.60; good steers, $8 to $10; butchers)
hells, choice. 57,50 to 80i cannees hulls,
55,60 to 55.16; butchers' oows, choice,
$7.60 to $8.50 ; good, 06 to $7; canner's
cows 55,26; calves, milk fed, 512 to $14;
hay fed, 56 to 57; lambs, 523.60; sheep
57.50 to 55: hogs, choice selects, oiii
cars, $16; sows and light, 513; etage,
512,
GERMAN ANTHEM TABOO.
Michigan High Schoo- l Hisses "The
Watch on the Rhine,"
A despatch from Albion, Mich.,
says :-A good mob scene for a movie
photographer was obtainable when
"The Watch on the Rhine" was •an-
nounced as the morning song at the
Albion High School chapel services on
Thursday. hissing, cat -calling and
other disturbances greeted the an-
nouncement, and with one accord the
students stood to their feet and gave
the most enthusiastic rendering 'of
"America" ever heard in the vicinity.
The German anthem is now taboo as
a chapel song.
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GERMAN CLERKS GIVEN
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
A despatch from N- ew York says:
-Fifteen Germans employed in the
Foreign Department of the Guaranty
Trust Company, one of the largest
banking organisations in the country,
have been given indefinite leave of
absence with -pay, it was announced on
Wednesday, pending the outcome of
the break between the United States
and Germany. . Anofficer corn.
y offi i of the n. c
pony explained that this action was
taken "for reasons of neutrality" and
that no reflection on character of the
men was meant,
BATONS AND RIFLE BUTTS
USED UPON WOMEN
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
.-Hunger riots are occu'ring in Wesel.
TheTelegraal learns from the frontier
thea Dutch workmen living in the
Rhine Province who spend Sundays in
Miliaria state that last week distur-
bances occurred in Wesel, • Hundreds
of women marched to the town hall
and implored the burgomaster for
potatoes, The burgomaster replied
there were no potatoes, They pro-
ceeded across the Rhine, invaded the
village and plundered potato stover,
Soldiers and police dispersed the wo-
men..' Many women were struck with
batons and rifle butts and fell selnse-
less and were taken to hospitals, 'lhls
le deserihed as typical of, froquont
similar 0000155Ona,8 elsewhere.
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NEWS FROM ENGLAND
1' Ws B'y MAIG ABOUT J01111
BULL AND HIS j tOPLIA
Occurrences In the Land That
Reigns Supreme In the Cum
mores! World.
Upwards of £10,000 was raised in
St,'Pancras diming 1916 for (e nrity
and benevolence.
Fii'estroyed the laboratory and
laundry of the Granby Street Councils
School, Liverpool,
A number (if the German prisoners
who arrived at Southampton recently
Wore the Iron Cross.
Many honors have been conferred
upon Sir George" Buchanan, Britain's
representative at Petrograd.
Hon. J. M. Kin -worthy, heir of Lord
Striabogh, has been appointed a lieut.-
commander in the British navy.
15 is expected that Mr, Lowther will
soon retire from the Speakership of
the British House of Common.
By the death of• Lieut.. Wyndam,
Lady Rosernery, his widow, becomes
heir to property worth 030,000.
The shipowners of Newcastle have
voted £2,000 towards the equipment
of a school for wireless telegraphy.
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your head gloat up so, you can
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to time, Anyone who has u stub-
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catarrh in any form should giro
this prescription a' trial,
Any druggist can supply you, or
a bottle will be sent on receipt of
780, postai note or money 55008,
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�° HED
41P
ON CALIFORNIA
Liner Sank in Nine Minutes
After Being Hit by
Submarine.
A despatch from London says:
Forty-one persons perished when the
Lady Londonderry urges the enrol="Britieh passenger steamer California,
ing of suitable women as army cooks of the Anchor Line, was torpedoed
and waitresses, and thus do their bit. and sunk off the Irian coast, at 9
The future of Ireland is one of the o'clock Wednesday morning, The yes.
questions to be considered at the com-
ing meeting of the Imperial War Cab -
see sank in nine minutes.}fhe strick-
en ship was able to send out "S.O.S."
inet. calls; and help arrived promptly,
An impression is growing that soon,
the lighting arrangements of London
will be restored to something like nor-
mal.
Farthing clubs are becoming very
popular in and near London. Members
pay in a farthing each week in the
year. e
The roads in some parts of Dorset%
are almost impassable, owing to the
heavy rains which have recently
fallen.
Earl Granville has -been appointed
Britain's 'representative to the Provi-
sional Government of Venizelos at
Saloniki.
ELECTRICITY IN EARLY DAYS.
One of the Oldest of the Sciences, but
Development is Modern.
Electricity is not a new science. On
the contrary, few sciences are so old.
It is believed, for instance, that Thetas
of Miletus (c. 640-546 B.C.) knew that
the rubbing of amber gave it the pro-
perty of att7'acting light bodies; and
Theophratus (c. 372-287 B.C.) states
in a treatise that this property is not
peculiar to amber. Definite scientific
knowledge of electricity dates, how-
ever, only from the end of the six-
teenth century, when (1600) William
Gilbert, "the father of magnetic philo-
sophy," published his great book "De
Magnete," in which, for the first time
the terms "electric force" and "elec-
tric lrttraction" were used, and distinc-
tion was made between "electric" and
"non -electric" bodies. In distinguish-
ing clearly between electric and mag-
netic action Gilbert succeeded in what
a predecessor, Carclan (1501-76), had
done but imperfectly. Observations
on electrical phenomena and import-
ant advances in electrical knowledge
were made by Robert Boyle, Sir Isnao
Newton, Otto von Geuricke, Canton
and Hawksbee. During the eighteenth
century electric phenomena were very
closely studied and knowledge of
"electricity" was widely extended.
Stephen Gray, in the early part of the
century, discovered electric conduc-
tion and distinguished between con-
ductors and nonconductors: A French-
man, Da Fay, and an American, Kin-
nersley, made practically simultane-
ous and independent discovery of the
possibility -of two kinds of electricity.
In 1745 the Leyden jar was discovered
by accident, and from this time on
public "exhibitions" of electric pheno-
mena were popular.
Benjamin Franklin did interesting
and valuable work in the development
of the science and in 1760 proposed
his famous wire experiment -which
was carried out according to his direct
tions in France in 1152, the same year
in which Franklin made his still more
famous experiment with the kite.
Franklin suggested lightning rods,
which soon became popular in Am-
erica and Europe. Epinus, Bergman
and Canton made the main discover-
ies in regard to pyroelectricity about
1770. Henry Cavendish (1.781-1810)
was the discoverer 'of many of the
most important facts about electricity
which were made known in the nine•
teenth century by Coulomb, Ohm, and
Faraday,
Luigi Galvani, the discoyerer of cure
rent, or, as we call it, "galvanic" oleo-
tricity, made his famous observation
of the twitching of a fl'og's lege in
1780. And h1 1794 Volta discovered
the correct explanation, which led to
the inventioat of the so-called voltaic
pile and voltaic tell. This brings the
science of electricity to the nineteenth
century, and to modern developments.
Nevertheless five persons were killed
by the explosion and 36 were drowned
in the launching of lifeboats, 1
Tho California was an armed liner,
carrying a single' 4.7 gun mounted on
the stern. The gunner was just train-
ing the weapon on the spot where oil
bubbles had revealed the presence of
the under -water enemy -when a tor-
'pedo'attack the port side with an ex-
plosion so violent that most of the
people aboard were thrown off their
feet, live being killed and a score in-
jured. The submarine fired a second
torpedo, in an apparent effort to aceen
orate, the sinking, but the second shot
missed, although both torpedoes were
fired from a distance of less than 800
-yards, There was only one American
aboard the California, and he is
among the survivors.
A SUCCESSFUL SOCIETY
Canadian Order Of Foresters Has A
Splendid Financial Basis.
The Canadian Order of Foresters
which has for years occupied a pro-
minent position as one of the leading
Fraternal Insurance Societies operat-
ing in Canada. Was instituted iii 1879
by 488 members who seceded from
the American Order of Foresters,
ANY H.HQATS SUNK OR TAKEN
DURING THE PAST THREE DAYS
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Subinarines Depend €'featly on Their' Gums bather Titan On
Torpedoes To Aceolnpliah The Sinking of Ship8;
Torpedoes Not Reliable,
A deaf/14011 from London says: -
Naval officers ere sure the next few
days will see an offsetting of the Teu-
tonic grand finale of fireworks, ou rh Al-
though
l-
t u
h b absolute silence regarding sub-
marine operations is the rule aangng
naval men, it is said that the Admiral-
ty's measures are proving effective
and Unit a fair average of submar-
ines is being captured or sunk,
It is impossible to get any figures
regarding the number of U-boats now
preying on commerce, but it isnot 300,
as some 'reports from Scandinavian
countries have placed it,
As London opinion was summed up
for the correspondent by a high au-
thority: "If the United States has
not already found cause for war with
Germany then the submarines will
supply such provocation within..a few
hours."
There -is not the slightest doubt in
official circles that the Germans will
eitheruttompt to sink or actually will
sink he ,fret American liner that
vn
-
tor a into the So tri ted area. Sub-
marine commanders have receivedittb.
solute orders to sink at sight, it is
said, and it will be a miracle if these
orders are net followed t0 the lettex2
For the last week all wireless sta-
tions, oahles and telegraph wires have
been crammed with reports as to the
effect of the new submarine activity.
A11 show that the submarines now de-
pend greatly on their guns rather than
on torpedoes to accomplish the sinking
of Alpe. Out of seven torpedoes
fired at merchant ships not a single
one found its target. The vessels
either saw the torpedoes and managed
to evade them or the German marks-
manship failed.
CANADIAN ORDER OP
FOREiS RS HAS SPLENDID
RECORD FOR 1916
WILL READJUST ITS RATES
Society Proposes to Place its Business
on a Basis of 100 Per Cent.
Actuarial Solvency.
The Canadian Order or Foresters has
had a record possibly without parallel
in the history of Fraternal Insurance
Associet:ions operating ill Canada,
This Society was instituted in 1879.
In 1885 it enacted a table of monthly
ass sstnents which has been in force
frod, that time down to the present
without a single change. During that
Period all other Fraternal Insurance
Societies, it is claimed, have found it
necessary to revise rates, until this
Society stands as the only prominent
Institution operating upon a remark-
ably low schedule of rates, In 1918
the Society paid out in death claims
over 5726,000.00. Notwithstanding this
largo payment, it added to Me, Insur-
ance Fund, for the year, over $422,-
000.00. Tho balance standing to the
credit of the Insurance Fund ou, the
Slst of December last was 55,628,848.00,
In spite of this most unusual record,
the Society decided to have a most
thorough and comprehensive investi-
gation made of its actuarial stranding.
This course was thought wise on ac-
count of the legislation passed by the
I Ontario Legislature at its last session.
The Legislature in 1910 passed an
Act which reenirese that all Fraternal
Insurance Societies shell, on or before
To -day it has a membership of over the first day of April, 1918, filo a re -
90,000, which it the largest purely port with the Registrar of Friendly
Canadian membership of any Mf the Societies, wbieh report shall contain
fraternal insurance societies doing
business in the Dominion.
The
!Society has
had a most success.
ful record and has accumulated funds, clety has undertaken to pay, but also
which, at the present time, amount to the Assets which the Society has avail -
between five and a half and six million able, in the way of accumulated Funds,
dollars. Last year was apparently and future assessments for the pay -
one of the most successful years hi stent of the Insurancsm.e Liabilities ns
the history of the institution. The dent is to she vhthobdegl degree off actuar-
amount added to the insurance funds fall solvency }lath each Society has,
fo` 1916 was between four and five as of December 21st, 1917. The Act
hundred thousand dollars. Notwith-
standing this success the management
decided to ascertain what the actuar-
ial standing of the Society was, and
secured the services of one of the most
competent actuaries on the Continent.
Acting onthe advice of the actuary,
the Society decided to re -adjust its
rates and place itself upon a basis
which will give it at least 100%
'actuarial solvency.
By taking this course, while it§
funds were still piling up, it has been
able to treat its members much more
favorably than any of the societies
which have re -adjusted their businesses
during 'recent years.
The management is to he congratul-
ated upon a course of action which will
place the Society upon e splendid fin-
ancial basis, and insure the future of
the Order for all time,
ENTENTE TO FINISH THE WAR
BY THE CLOSE OF SUMMER
a valuation of all its Insurance Certi-
ficates in force on the 31st December,
1917. This report must not ou
l
show
which the So. th insurance Liability
a
A despatch from London says :-
Addressing a meeting in London Wed-
nesday night, John Hodge, Minister of
Labor, said he thought he was giving
away no secret in saying that at the
recent conference:between representa-
tives of the Entente allies the deter-
mination had been arrived at to ter-
minate the war by the. end 'of Sinn -
mer
BI11R'AIN IS NOW PREPARED .
TO" COUNTER SUBMARINES
A despatch from London says: --
In the House of Commove on Wed-
nesday Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux,
Unionist member from Portsmouth,
said: "We have every reason to hope
the same success which attended the
destruction of Zeppelins is in a fair
way of being realized to eel nt00 the
submarine trouble."
SLAVE RAIDS IN RUMANIA
SIMILAR TO THOSE IN BELGIUM
All Mitlef4 From 16 to 67, Are Being Transferred to Germany
French, Russians, Italians hied Portuguese Are Protected
by Spanish Legationation
A despatch from Paris says :--Tho
Rune:nian•Mininter of Foreign Ali'airs
tolegl'aphocl on Wednesday to the Ru-
manian Legation in Paris that 'Ger-
many has begun to transport for In-
terinent in Germany all Rumanian
males from 1d to 67 years old,
d, i
al-
tlortgh the Tu , Itnasi ns, I a ons
and Portuguoso, protected by the
Spanish Legation, are being left, in the
country,
"This tt'oatinent, sa the -German
slay," leads the 50102/rate, "is be-
cause 1..1701nnia gave ilp to /tussle the 2/115111.
Germans 111 its power, and that these
Were transported to 'Siberia. It is
to a1 {mai
libsolu lw :Pelee that I u n a has
over delivered Oorman r,ubiecte to
Russia, It has not, then, seem pee-
sible for them to bo sent to rtlillerle,
"The German (I -averment iteele
0011056 so little upon the pretert ilhvolo,
ad that before announcing its decision
to transport R,wnania;ts to Germany it
proposed to the Rumanian Covern-
men* the exehengo n1 (irrtnans inial s-
ed in Rumania for Ift;m,u,irns 131 111..
provides further, that at the and of
each tbree-year Period, after 1917, a
similar statement of valuation shall
be filed in order to ascertain whether
or not the Society has maintained its
degree of actuarial solvency, The ob-
ject of the Act is, that where a society
shows at the end of the first three-
year term that it has not maintained
its degree- of actuarial solvency that
there shall be such an increase fn
rates as will insure that the society
shall maintain the degree of solvency
which it had on 81st December, 1917,
or improve that position.
In view of this Legislation, the Can-
adian Order of Foresters decided not
to wait until the 81st December, 1917,
to ascertain the facts requited by the
Act, and, shortly after the Act was
Passed in 1915, this Society engaged.
Mr. Abb Landis," of Nashville, Tennes-
see, for the purpose of investigating
its actuarial standing, as of the 81st
December, 1915, Mr. Landis Is one of
the leading actuaries on the American
continent 5o -day, and is so recognized
in the Insurance world. His aimed -
truce extends over a term of twenty-
five years, eighteen years of which has
been devoted exclusively to Fraternal
Ineu•anee Associations, In these
eighteen yen.rs Mr. Landis has advised
with one hundred and eighty-six socie-
ties, six of these societies being Cana-
dian. He has also been for fifteen
years on the Committee of Statutory
Legislation of the National Fraternal
Congress, and has been prominently
identified with the drafting of all bills
dealing with Fraternal Insurance legis-
lation.Mr, Landis is aiso theauthor
o
r
of eigt
books on Insurance, which are
accepted as authorities today,
The Actuary has found that during
its whale experience of thirty-six
year's, the Canadian Order of .Fores-
ters has had an exoeptlonally favor-
able mortellty experience. Because of
this exceedingly favorable mortality
e "Arlene°, and the large amount of
counulatod fundo, . Mr., Landis has
oen able torepare unerringly favor-
able monthly assessment rate®„wh oh
Will enable the Society to provide for
the payment of all future olafms.
These rates of assessmout, as 00n1 -
pared with rates deduced from other
mortality tables, Is very much to the
advantage of the members of the Can-
adian Order of For'ester's.
In constthleting a mortality table on
the experience of the Society Mr, Lan -
die has eliminated the first live years
of membership aeration. The obJeet
of this course is in order to insure the
death rate under 1110110 nearly 00.0101
conditions than would be pnsstble sly
taking the first five years of duration
.into oonslderatloil, During` the. first
'five years there is again from recent
medical selection, He has reoommen•
dad a schedule of rates, which, base
eon he report lion will be filed as ot'
the 91st December, 1817, should show
snore than 100 per cent, et aetuarial
solvency, .booause•cif margins of safety
ruqb mn y
:
o1as sfle
d es fe
llows
First: There vansd bo pine from.
m
a,otnal 1noresL earned in moils of 4
ld 11 i the lount the
1 • \v c s an
Ser Celt., t
11e o ail
Actuary tires as L len, is f bol la+
biro v s
1• e
n a matter of foot the ave a
lot As
t g
r
, upon
o rt
lntdrost earned by the S o fel 4
t'os it
n t nee Fund, as at 1 est t
ts I s era 1
Per .4.e the se,.
Ourd to ,9,44 a uta lit, ltles hold by 1the Society are nhOst
y 101' long terms, there should b0 'A
':111)Slanitial gaol on interest ao001111,t,
3rr.ondl There wenn no tt saving
1:5 0:71 it Powe' death rate by 2'050011 0 .
the fact that the /Mat live years of
membership has been eliminated by
Mtalirty Latandisble.- in constructing his more
ieterd: There would' also be gains
from accumulation forfeited through
lapses. No allowance...was made for
such gains In fixing the schedule of
rates,
lronrtb: There would be a surplus
in contributions owing to the fact that,
after eliminating the first live years
of membership, the Actuary loaded
the tabular rates by an arbitrary sum
to shake assurance doubly sure.
Notices of motion have gone out to
the membership providing for read-
justment, an'c1 this legislation will be
considered at the next meeting ee the
high Court of the Order in June,
The rates for members who are now
in the Order start at sixteen, with a
monthly assessment of 65c; at twenty
the rate is 69c; et thirty, 850; at
thirty -leve, $1.08; at forty-five, $1.58,
with gradually Increasing rates for the
older ages: The rates for new mem.
hers start at sixteen, with a rate of
650; at twenty, 73e; at thirty, 51.02;
at thirty -flys, $1,23; at forty, $1,52; at
forty-four, $1.83.
Two options aro given to those who
are already members of the Order.
One option provides that all mem-
bers who are between the attained
ages of sixteen to forty-five, inclusive,
' ages elect to talte term Insurance,
; which will entitle them to carry their
1 present Insurance at their present: tato
until they have attained the age of
5Xty, years, OT between i o s Members b ween the
atta1ued ages of forty-six and fifty-
five, inclusive, may elect to continue
the present amount of their Insur-
ance, at the present rates, as term In-
surance for a period of fifteen years.
Those members who are between the
attained ages of fifty-six and sixty-
; nine, inclusive, can carry their pre-
sent protection as terns Insurance, at
their present rata, for ten years.
Term protection of members between
the attained ages of seventy to seven-
ty-six gradually decreass
from nine
yearsage al seventy to three
at the g y
years at the age of seventy-six and
"ie second option insures to all
members no matter when admitted,
:when they attain the age of seventy,
•'And over, the right to paid up Insur-
once for amounts set out in the
schedule prepared by the Actuate',
!where such members do not desire
• to continue to pay the life rates. This
schedule entitles the members from
• sixteen to eighteen to paid up Insur-
ance for $900 at the age of seventy,
which amount gradually decreases as
the attained age of the member in-
creases.
The adoption of Rio proposed re-
adjustment will place the Society on
a basis of absolute solvency from an
actuarial standpoint, and enable it to
; maintain its splendid position in the
world of Fraternal Insurance.
4'
$30,000,000 A DAY
COST OF WAR TO BRITAIN.
.A, despatch from - London says:
• Bonar Law asked in the House of
Commons on Monday for £550,000,000,
the largest amount asked at any
single sitting by .any statesman in
our financial history. No less than
2200,000,000 needed to carry the war
to March 81, the end of the financial
year. We are therefore spending now
in five or six weeks as much as was
spent in the year immediately before
the war. The second vote of £960,-
000,000 is needed to give a good be-
ginning to'the next financial year. The
average expenditure in .1914-15 of
£1,500,000 per day grew to 58,500,000
Per day in 1915-16, and will be nearer
56,000,000 than 5$,000,000 per day for
• the middle 0f 1916-17.
FRANCE WILL LOAN
$300,000,000 TO ALLIIES.
A despatch from P- aris says; The
Ohantber of Deputies on Thursday
passed a bill authorising the Minister
of lelnn1500 to loan 1,500,000,000 francs
to the allies arid friendly nations, el`hie
Is in addition to 2,900,000,000 ad-
vanced to the allies and friendly na-
tions authorized by the law of De-
cember 29, 1915. Deputy Emile Con-
stant enquired as to who were "the
friendly nations" referred to. The Fin-
ance Minister explained that the ad-
vances were made in oilmen, and the
emotion should continue confidential.
D'YN,AMITli FACTOR'S?.
• i3iOWN UP IN "GERMANY
A. deepatolt Brent Amsterdam 8ayai
-According to Les Nouvelles of Mae-
sth'icht, Holland, a dynamite f4Ct017
at Sablebuses, near Cologne, was blown
/ n January c leis the death
u It hazy &7, calming to
of 200 persons mostly women, An
explosion last persons,
on the ralway
between Aix-In-Oitapelle and Louvain,
this llowelyaper• reports caused the
death or injury
of 20 Belgian r1
-
men,
WAIL B1111tAb IN FRANCE
AT AN EARLY DATE
A deenta1from Paris says 1 -
War
bread con will make 1ta appearance
fn
Dironse, What kind it will 1e hao
not yot been definitely decided, but ex-
periments now aro being made wills` a
Stew broad that will 101155511 mare
Ago Wheat flour than that 11e`,v
MEET AND � 4ET END
U-BOAT WARFARg,
' ii
Measuresby
Taken British Adel
miralty to Frustrate Sub-
marine Campaign.
A despatch from London says ;-
"Weare not alarmed at the sharpened
'submarine war, We knew it wasstt
coming and prepared for it. Timei
will tell how our confidence is juetta
fled." This statement was made toj
the Associated Press on Wednesday ate
the Admiralty, and it was added:
"I5, must be remembered that on
submarine' may cm* whole day
without getting a fictire. For in-
stance, on one day since February 1
torpedoes were fired on sight at seven
of our merchantmen without getting a
single hit, . We have taken measures
which we have every reason to believe
will frustrate the U-boat warfare,
Of course; it Is obvious that we can-
not reveal them -the daily reports of,
the decrease in sinkings will be the
best evidence of our success,' •
Former Premier Asquith described
Germany's new naval policy as ono
of "undisguised savagery." He saidd,,
it was not worth while discussing th
motives which actuated the German;
Government. The novel feature of it
was that It was a direct and defiant(
challenge to the conscience and to tha
interests of the entire neutral world.
Enemies: et' Human Race.
"This declaration of war on neutl'a.1
lily,"
continued Mr. Asquith, "is a
challenge which has been . taken up
with dignity andwithout delay by the:
greatest of neutral states. It is not
for us to forecast the bearing of this:
memorable event upon the future ofl.
the war. Still less it is fitting for us
to tender advice or suggestions to
Government which is well able to take1
care of itself.
"We shall hail with acclamation
with a strain of family pride,, the stern
and resolute determination of the?
other great English-speaking power tol
frustrate the enormity of those whet
have abundantly earned for themselves'
the title of enemies of the human!
race.
To Replace Lost Tonnage,
Andre'; Boner Law, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, expressecl. satisfac.
tion with what he alluded to as the'
perefect manner in which former Pre,
mier Asquith had
u'voiced the feeling
q
of the country on the role of the nem'
trals in face of the submarine menace;
Noting that more and more mere.
chant shipping was coming under the
direct requisition of the Government,
and that the Shipping Controller was
putting down a large number of new
ships, Mr. Botnar Law said he dfd not
minimize the submarine danger, but
that some of the bust brains in the
country at large and among Naval
men was concentrated upon the pro-,
blem. Altogether, he declared, he was,
not without hope, whatever the ran.
vages of submarines might be, that
something might be done to replace
the lost tonnage by new ships.
AUSTRIA STILL STANDS FIRM
FOR GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS,
A. despatch from Washington save
Austria has not as yet withdrawn or;
modified her note adhering to the Get.1
man submarine campaign, it was stat.;
ed officially at the State Department,,
The possibility that tt break with,
Austria also can be avoided has prat,
tically been given 09. Despite some
differences in Austria's situation, hers
strict adhesion to the principles,
enunciated by Germany, both in a note
to this Government and in other come
municatlons, makes her position
practically the same. Officials who
have been hoping that a break might
be avoided will give no intimation as
to why a definite announcement is not
made.
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