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The Clinton News Record, 1917-07-12, Page 3CONSCRIPTION BILL: CA '" IED BY MAJORITY SOF 63 heferenduln Defeated by 48 Majority -6 Months' Deist De- feated by 154. i A despatch from Ottawa says: At otoloek 13 ridgy horning .the first ivislon on the Cionsol'iption Bill re- ' �'lted in the defeat of the sub- endment of J, A. Barrette, o$ oliette calling for the six months' hoist, by a vote of nays 163, yeas 9, a Government majority of 154. The following voted for the Bar- tte amendment: Messrs. Achim of abelle, Barrette of Berthier, Belle- are of Maskinongo, Boulay of Ri- ouski, Descarrios of Jacques Car- ier, Gerard of Chicoutimi, Guilbault f Joliette, Paquet of L'Islet and Pa- rando'of Hochelaga, the ex-Secre- Y State. ,t ate Ninety Conservatives, vee including inelud 3, XL Rainville, the Deputy Speaker, and seventy-three Liberals opposed the amendment. The Laurier referendum amend- ment was voted down by 110 to 62, a Government majority of 48. On the Government side of the House Sir Rodolphe Forget and Mesers. Patenaude, Barette, Paquet, Girard, Gilbault, 23eliemarre, Boulay, and Descarrios voted with the leader of the Opposition. Nineteen Liberals voted with the Government. The Liberals who void against the referendum were: 'Messrs, Guthrie, Pardee, Graham, Carvell, Maclean (of Halifax), Cruise, Charlton, Turiff, Nesbitt, MaeNutt, MacLean Sun- bury), S bury), McCraney, Loggie, Clark, Bu- chanan, Douglas, Champagne Neeley and Duncan Ross.' The vote on "The Military Service Act of 1917" was 118 yea and 55 nay. Majority, 63. 45 OPERATORS HAVE GONE DOWN Gallant Acts of Wireless Opera- tors hr Remaining With Sinking Ships. A despatch from London says:— The ays;The Marconi International Marine Communication Co., at its meeting on Wednesday declared a dividend total- ling fifteen per cont. for the year. The cumber of ships now installed is 1,855 and the operators employed 3,347, of Which 383 have been saved from ves- sels sunk, 45 have been drowned, 29 injured, one !ailed and 19 taken pris- oners. Many gallant acts of opera- tors sticking to sinking ships and send- ing ship's positions, thereby ensuring the picking up of the boats in a com- paratively few hours, were recorded. 'One operator was torpedoed three times in three months, and is still un- hurt and ready to go to sea again, but was rewarded and put ashore: y 4 AFRICAN GERMANS • DRIVEN BACK . General Retirement of. Enemy From All Positions in East Africa. • A. despatch from London says:— Under the pressure of British forces advancing from Gilwa, the Germans in German East Africa have evacuated strongly held positions south of the Ngaura River, says an official state- ment issued on Wednesday night. The positions extended from Gilnamba Hill, on the shore of Beaver Haien, to Makangaga, and the Germans retired a distance of from seven to nine miles. The official report indicates a gen- eral retirement of the enemy forces in other fields of operations in Gorman East Africa. ' GERMANS COIN EXCUSE TO MALTREAT BELGIANS A despatchafrom London says::—A despatch to the Times from The Hague Bays that as a reprisal for the alleged ill-treatment of Germans by Belgians in German East Africa, Germans have iieized 23 distinguished Belgians and .removed them without warning to their notorious punishment camp in Germany. They all had directorial Or other connections in the Congo, among them being the 70 -year-old Count ' Jean d'Oultremont, the late Ring Leopold's Lord Chamberlain; Also M. d'Ursel, who is aged 67. ENEMY RAIDERS BROUGHT DOWN • A despatch from London says:— Two of a squadron of fourteen ma- chines that took part in an air raid on Harwich were brought down ablaze lay British naval aircraft and a third Machine was damaged, it is officially announced, All the British airmen who engaged the Germans emerged safely from their fights, FOOD BLOCKADE IS SUCCESSFUL Entry of United States Into the War Stops Importation Through Neutrals. A despatch from London says a-- Markets of the World Toronto ,Yuly '10 11anitoba wheat-' - ho, 1 Flottho:n, 32.36; No. 2 NArthera, $2,88, nominal, trach Bay nee be, M•a.ni300lL Oa38—No, 2 C.W., 7830, track Bay ports, American corn—No. $ yellow, 01.823, nominal, track Toronto, Ontario oats—No of Ictal quotations, Ontario wheat—No, 2 Winer, per ear lot, 32,36 to $2,401 No, 3, $2.33 to 52.33, a000rdin to freights otside, Teas—y1Va 2, nominal, according to troight$1 outside, Barley—Malting,BarleY—Malting, acoording to freights outside, ,, nominal, aeoording to freights Mitotic. Manitoba flour—First patents, In Jute bags, 313.60; seoond patents, in jute bags, $11,90; strong baker's', In 1etc bags, $1.60, Toronto, Ontario t1our—W1ntor, according to sample, $10,16 'to $1026,' 1n boas, tracts To101130570m01 Shipment. IL2i11•feed—Car 1010, delivered Mentreal. freights, bags lnoluded—Bran, per . ton, shorts, per ton,. 630; middlings, pop ton, $42 good feed Hour, Aar bag, $2,80 tb 62.0e, PiaY—Extra No. 2, per tort,' $13,60 t0 $18,60; rntxed, par ton, $0 to $11, traolc pi Straw—Car 1035per ton, 39, track To- ronto. Country Produce—Wholesale Butter—Creamery, solids, per ib„ 36 to 8500; prints, per lb„ 363 to 36o; dairy, per lb., 28 to 200,' Eggs—Per doss„ 28 to 29c, Wholesalers are selling to the retail trp,de at the following prices :— Cheeee—Flew, Large, 223 to 280' twins, 226 to 2830' triplets, 28 to 231c; 010; large, 300; twins 3010; triplets, 8030, Butter --Fresh [dairy choice, 36 to 36o; creamery prints 38to 89o; solids, 88a. Eggs—New-laid, in cartons, 37 to 88o; out of cartons, 860. Dressed poultry—Spring ohlokens, 364; fowl, 22 s25s,0r doz., $4.00 1is; trkeys, to 30 Live poultry—Spring chickens, ib., 20 to 25e; hens,. 13 to 200, Honey—Comb—Extra ane and heaVY Weight, per doz., 32,75; select, 32,50 to $2.75; 110. 2, 82 to 32,25. .Beans—Imported, hand-picked, $9.00 to $9.60 per bush,; Limas, per ib„ 19 to Discussing in the House of Lords on toogoo8.ssors3oith Carolinas, new, bbl $ 59 Wednesday the question of com- to 68.60. — modities reaching enemy countries Provisions—wholesale through neutrals, Viscour.t Milner, member of the War :Cabinet, referred to America's entry into the war '-as considerably checking this leakage. Smelted meats=l--Sams. medium 00' to 210; 'do., heavy, 26 to 270; cooked, 41 to 42e; rolls, 27 to 28o; breakfast bacon, 33 to 36e; . backs, plain, 36 to 370; bone - 5H., He expre'osed the conviction that the Cured,meata—Long clear bacon, 26 to 20 c per lb• clear b lues, 26 to 28e, importation into Germany of come Lard—Pure lar[7, tioroes, 27 to 27.i,10 modities from neutral countries, whish tubs, 2nd, t tierces', 21300; 2tube, 21y0 had previously been imported•into pates, 220, these neutral countries from overseas, had been completely stopped by the blockade and the pressure the allies western, No, 2, 81 to 3130; do., Cana - had been able tb exert on the neutrals. dean Western. No. 8, 80 to 803o; extra No 1 feed, 80 to SO a Barley-11an. Undoubtedly, he said, there' was still feed, $1)18. b'lotir-64 an. Spring wheat considerable export from neutrals into patents, firsts, $12,50; 10., seconds, $12; strong Uake'e', $11.80; Svintoi• patents, Germany;`but it was entirely the neu- ahocae, 12.60; straight rowers, 612 to trals' own home products. U. S. CAN MAKE TEAR GAS. Damage is Done --by the Irritating Finest westerns, 2120; do„ finest east - erne, 21In Butter—Choicest creamery, Dust From Lily Seed. 36e; do„ seconds, 240. Eggs—Selected, 37c; do„ N0, 1 stock, 33 to 34e; No. 2 Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator stoclots1S5430 20e$4,60otatoes=Her bag, of plants in the National Museum at . — Washington, has secured in Vette- Winnipeg Grain zuela specimens of "sabadilla;' a Wtnnttlt�e.g, "July3 to—Cash quotations y Wheatrn, a, 1 Northern, $3,20; No. Venezuelan, plant of - the lily family, Northern, 62,17; No, 3 Northern. $2,12; from the seeds. of which are produc- No, 4..1%0.0 ; No, 5, $1.6• N0, 0, 81.50; ed some of the asphyxiatingand feed 23 °extra N 2 �. d, 731c; No, 8 C.jP., 72kc; extra No. 1 Peed, 7316; No, tear -producing gases used by the - 72,c; No. 2 feed, 703c. Barlay— .1400.001.e. ,81,26; No, 4, 8220; feed, 61,10; Germans in the present war. ;rejected, 31.10, Flax—N0, 1 N.W.C., It is stated that the dust from $2.65' No. 2 C.W., 32,618; No 3 C.W„ $2.466. Basis pontract for wheat—July, the seed in the field irritates the 32.12; August (first half), $2.13. eyes, throat, and especially the' nose, — so much that the native laborers are 'United States Markets �' obliged to wear masks. Minneapolis, July 10—Wheat—July g closed 32.22; September. $1.65; cash— It has been reported that the Ger- No. 1. hard, $2.42 to 62,47; No. i North - mans bought all the available supply MeV/gritNo48'yellow 8174 to•31, 6° of these seeds before the declaration oats—No. 8 white, 7033 to 710. Flour— of war. Both the sabadilla seeds and ]Sandy patents, $12, 0; first clears, $10,70; other grades unchanged. Bran all preparations compounded from —529 to 331, r Duluth, July 10—Wheat—No, 1 hard, them are now, hoveever, declared con 2,20; No. 1 Northern, $2,26; No. 2, do„ traband by England. ; 2.20. Linseed -32.77; July, 52.77; Another plant of the same genus epterber, 32,70; October, 52.71. grows wild in Texas, and some bot- save Stock Markets anists believe that should a need for Toronto, July 10—Choice heavy steers, sabadilla arise here it could easily choioo, g]0.501to231.1; doe medium, 55.25 be cultivated in Texas and in other to 60.76; do., connnon, 58,26 to 30,75; southern states. butchers' bulla, choice, $5.50 to $2.50; Montreal Markets • Montreal, July 10—Oats—Canadian $12.30; do., bags, 36.75 to $6.90. Rolled oats --Barrels, $3.00 to $9.26; 00„ bags, 00. lbs., 64.35 to 84.40. Bran, 832. Shorts $38. Middlings, 340 to 342. Mouilli0, $44 to 547. Bay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13.50 to $13. Cheese— BRITISH TROOPS MOVE FORWARD Make Gains in Flanders, and at Messines Ridge. A despatch from London says: -- do., good bulls, $8 to 38,60; do., medium bulls, 57.50 to 38; do., rough bulls, 35.26 to 86; butchers' cows, choice, 38 to 33; do., good, $7.60 to 32; do., medium, 37 to 37.50; stockers, 36 to $8; feeders 38 to 59.10; canners and nutters, $b' to $0; milkers, good to choice, $90 to 395' do„ cont, and lmed., 840 to 850; springers, $80 to 590; light awes, 88 to 3.8.60; sheep, heavy, $6 to $7.60; year- lings, $8,50 to 30; calves, good to choke, 314 to $16.60; spring lambs, lb., 14c to 16o; lambs, yearlings. 89 to $10.50; hogs, fed and watered, 316.75; do„ weighed off cars, 517; do., 0.0.b., $10, Montreal, July 10—Choice steers, 11.60 to 12; good, $11 to $11,26; fair, In an attack against the German lines filo to 610.76; common, 80 to 80.76: butchers' cows, $8 to 3i0; hulls, $8.60 south-west of-Hollebeke, in Flanders, .to 810,60; .cubes, 37 to 612: spring and on the' northern end•of the recent.lamba, 66 to $2; sheen, 67.60 to $9; selected io s, 316.76 to 317; heavl'- British advance against the Messines'w•efghts, 31516 to 610. Ridge, Field Marshal Haig's troops have driven the Germans back on a front of 600 yards. The gain was made south=west of Hollebeke (near the Ypres Canal). Prisoners were captured in raids in Nieuport vicinity. If 'a boy earns ten cents he wants it; he is not willing to trust the rich- est man alive. GERMANS SLAIN FROM START OF WAR TO MARCH TOTAL 19500 0'tY 9��ll® 63,222 Enemy Prisoners and 509 Guns Have Been Taken on the Western Front in Six Weeks. A despatch from Paris says: The total number of Germans killed from 'the beginning of the war eto March, 4917, 917, is not less than 1,500,000 ' as- Oiling to an estimate reached by 4lrench general headquarters. This imputation has ' been made after areful study of documents ocume Y nts bearing on 1 'true subject. . From. April 15 to June 30 the Franco -British troops on the western front. captured 63,222 prisoners, in- cluding 1,278 officers, says an official summary of the operations issued on Thursday. The war material taken in the same period includes 509 guns,. 503 trench mortars and 1,318 machine guns. Piano firm 18 Years Older clan, Confederation On July first Canada Celebrated the sonli.contonnial celebration of Con. federation, Looking back over the progress ac. oomplished in Canada during thee° years, the many remarkable achieve- ments seem hardly possible. The industries of Canada havepro- gressed Dr - gressed step by etep es the population increased. Among the older "truly Canadian" firms' .is The Williams Plano Co Ltd, o1 Oshawa, Ont., Makers of the f.mous Williams New Seale Piano. R. 6. Williams came froth England and established this concern In 1849- 68 years ago. Canadians will fuel proud to know that they have such a "truly Canadian" piano—the Williams New Scale, which they can be proud to place in their home. The Williams Plano Co. at Oshawa will be glad to send interesting points concerning the 'Artist Choice" piano, free upon re- quest - What's a Necktie Good For? Man's only non -utilitarian garment is the necktie. It's as useless as a monocle. Yet we wear it. We'd feel awfully awkward walking down the street without one. - Once upon' a time the necktie was used to fasten the collar on. But now it doesn't do that. Man's necktie is the Indian's eagle feather, the cannibal's necklace of teeth, the amid -African's ivory ear- rings. Ifs' his pride, of which he bestowes, much thought, great care. We wonder what would happen to the vanity of 'the human face, masculine half, in case of a neoktie famine. A home evaporator makes it possi- ble to save considerable fruit on the farm that otherwise would go to waste. The evaporator is placed over the kitchen stove so that no extra fuel is consumed. Dried apples, peaches, plums, raspberries, blackberries, cher- Pies, etc., are preserved in this way with little trouble, In the winter the dried fruit soaked overnight in fresh water mattes excellent sauce when stewed, also pies and puddings. From Erin's Green Isle NEWS 13Y MAIL FROI6 IRE• LAND'S SHORES. Happenince in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- men. The best quality of pigs are sold at the Castlerea Market for 131 shillings per hundred weight. The new Ross urban rate is 10 shill- ings in the pound, or fcurpence more than last year's rate. A largo sum -was realized at a free gift sale held at Bray in aid of the Bray Hospital War Supply -depot. Charles Dawson, who was twice Lord Mayor of Dublin,' died recently at his home, 52 Mei•riou „road, Dublin. Mo Murray, Kingstown, has been -ap- pointed a Justice of the Peace for r Dublin County by the Lord Chancel- three-fourths o£ them hem}, convicts— perhaps the strangest collection of citizens the world has ever seen. The gold discoveries of 1851 produc- ed exciting and progressive times. When the "rush" started in 1852 im- migrants from North America, China and Europe poured into Melbourne off the ships at the rate of 2000 persons a' week. The population of Victoria was doubled in a yeru . The Commonwealth consists of six States, called the Original States_of New South Wales, Victoria, Queens- land, 'South Australia, Western Aus- tralia and Tasmania. Three is a Senate and a House, with six Senators from each State, renewer} to the extent of one-half every three years. The House is elected on the proportional basis of population. Women vote. Better a small amount of well pre- pared food that is palatable than a large quantity left over, for serving leftovers is among the extravagances of housekeeping, because they repre- sent a double outlay of material, time and heat. B. RITISH TAKE 117,776 PRISONERS AND 739 FIELD GUNS Figures For All Theatres of War Since the Outbreak ---Not a Single Gun Lost on French Front in Two Years. A despatch from London says: Figures given on Thursday by Gen, Maurice, Director of British Military Operations, form a basisteif some illu- mina ing comparisons. In the whole theatz7 of war since the outbreak the British have taken 789 German field guns and lost 133, of .which thirty- seven have boon recaptured.. These thirty-seven are not included in the figure 739, making the total British losses 96 in guns, as against 739 taken from the Germans. .Of these ninety-six, eighty-four were lost on THE M.AICING OF AUSTRALIA CHINA IN THROES Some Facts in the History of the Great Southern Commonwealth. The esta"5lishment of the Common- wealth of Australia has the easiest date and form of government to re- member in modern history, ' It was proclaimed on- the first day of this century, January 1, 1901—the date, which the majority of us consider the beginning of this vary important cen- tury. Australia is somewhat smaller than Canada„havhlg an area of about 3,- 000,000 square miles. The earliest young Emperor, according to cable acl parts settled were inhabited for a time vices received here on Wednesday by by a rather large proportion of Eng- the Chinese Nationlilist League. The lish criminals. first clash was announced as having e, It was in 1788, eighteen years after occurred on Tuesday by officials of the Captain Cools explored the east coast league, who claim the source of its in - that. Port Jackson was found as a formation is unquestionable. penal station for criminals from Eng- The advices on Wednesday state land, and the settlement, for the next that President Li Yuan Hung ie safe fifty years, transportation of convicts in Pekin and Vliee-President Fung being virtually suspended in 1839. Kuck Jung is directing troop move - This oldest of the Australian colonies, melts in Nanking. New South Wales, had made a fair According to the despatches the start'in free industrial progress from soldiers of President Li in the Chi - 1821. The convicts were, allowed con- nese capital are steadily gaining siderable freedom for money -making, ground. about the only thing being denied them toward the end of the convict A despatch from London says:— period being the right to leave the The Pekin correspondent of the Ex - island continent. change Telegraph Company say's” -that The feast British Governors at the advance of the northern and. Sydney rules} with despotic power. southern Republican armies under They were officers in command of the Tuan Chi-Jui, the firmer Premier, and garrison, the convicts and the few Gen. Feng Kwo Chang, the former free settlers. A population of 80,- 'Vice -President, respectively, has co - 000 in 1821 formed the infant Com- inenced. m the western front in the first fow months of the war, not ono gun hav- ing been lost since April, 1915,.Since April first of this year British and French together on the western front captured 509 ileld and heavy guns, 508 trench mortars, 1,318 machine guns, and 68,222 mon. In all fields of war the British have taken 117,776 prisoners, among whom native levies captured in Afrlea are not included. Prisoners captured by Germans from British forces number 51,088, these including Indian and native troops. OF CIVIL WAR Struggle Between President and Newly Made Emperor. A despatch from San Prancise° says:—China is in the throes of civil war and a battle is being fought be- tween troops of the southern provinces fighting for the preservation of the re- public, and the northern forces of the NEWS FROM ENGLAND monwealth of New South Wales, lor. Twelve and a half acres of land, in- cluding two acres of cut -away bog, in the county of Cavan, have bean sold for £560. . - A most successful Flag Day was held at Wexford, in aid of the Irish regiments and the Irish prisoners of war. The Dublin Victuallers' Association have under consideration the regula- tion of wholesale and retail prices of meat. The Council of the Royal Victoria Eye and Bar Hospital, Dublin, are seriously considering the closing down of part of the hospital owing to lack of funds. The Right Hon. Mr, Justice Pim, and the Right IIon, Richard Robert Cherry, were sworn 111 as Lords Jus- tices of Ireland during the Lord Lieutenant's absence. As a mark of appreciation of the late Holden Stodart, a Dublin jour;, nalist, a cot bearing his name has been opened in; the Duke of Con- naught's Hospital, Dublin. The annual demonstration of the Dublin Boys' Brigade took place re- cently in --the Royal Dublin Society's premises, Banbridge. A conference was held at the City of Dublin Municipal Technical Schools on "The Industrial Education of Ap- prentices." The Russian ,Order of St. George has been awarded to Petty Officer Fred Wallace, R.N.A.S., for gallantry on the Roumanian front. A movement` is general about the Irish Midlands for ,the employing of shop assistants where farm labor is urgently needed. The Department of Agriculture has taken possession of 66 acres 'near Navan, belonging to the Marchioness of Winchester, for nota -compliance with the tillage order. Mesopotamia a Corn Land. The promise that Mesopotamia shall produce corn . forus in abundance ought to be fulfilled, for of old it was a land of plenty. Climate, soil, and, above all, the system of canals by which from time immemorial it was irrigated,' made it abnormally produc- tive. Herodotus, fearing that his ac- count would bo deemed fabulous if he entered into particulars, contented himself With saying that millet and sesaule there grew to the size of trees. Other accounts tell of wheat leaves and barley leaves four ins -'Iles broad, and that 1n good yeaee the land yield- ed in corn 300 times the amount it received as seed, if there is a low spot that has been too wet for ordinary seeding sow mil- let. Hay will be on the light. side, and millet will help out. 13. ea 33 arkimuLmss - 431 GERMAN TROOPS - THROWN BACK Strongest Offensive Since Ver- dun Broken Down Everywhere. NBWS 13T MAIL t33OUT JP>ExliT' 1317I.1. AND I118 PEOPLE. Occurrences In the Land 'That Reigns Supreme in the Com. mercial World. Sir Arthur )P111•ing, I{,G.B., has been, appointed cleric of Parliament. salpedsoldiers weroFifty placedthilr emd ploymendisablt insolEng land last yearou, At St. Dunstan's Bazaar, in the Albert Hall, London, a single potato was sold for £100. The mother of General Nivelle, 6001-' mender of the French arnfy, was a native of Deal, Kent. Potatoes are being grown in twenty of the flower beds in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace, By a recent thunder storm in Che- shire potatoes and seeds were washed out of the ground. The National Union of Railwaymen had a total membership of 340,000 last year, an increase of 82,000. The annual conference of the Na- tional Union of clerks will not be held this year owing to war conditions. A plant has been installed in Ham- mersmith to deal with tho output of from 20,000 to 40,000 public meals a day. Twin sons of two Peterborough families, named Stokes and Fletcher, .were all four wounded on the same rely. Souvenirs in aid of disabled sailors were sold in London on May 31st, the first anniversary of ."Jutland Day." Anglers in Leicestershire have been refpsed free fishing, as they do more damage to the crop than their catch is worth. Robert Smith, F.F.I„ Manchester, has been appointed chairman of the National Association of Approved So-! oietfes. Sea birds' eggs are being used in large quantities as food throughout Great Britain, and are said to be very nuious. Professotritr J. Ratcliffe, Manchester, says that the open fire grates used in' the houses of the artisans aro most: wasteful, The Military Cross and bar won bye 111e late Capt. P. A. Maginn, London Regiment, have boon presented to his parents. - The London Master Printers' As-' sociation foreshadows an immediate advance in prices: for all kinds of: printing. While her husband- is serving with' the colors, his wife is acting in his eeplace as sexton, at Netherton, Worces- tershire. The freedom of the City of Bris- tol was conferred on General Smuts, Mr, Massey and the Mahara- jah of Bikanir. The Grand Cross of St. S11chael and St. George has been conferred upon the -Portuguese Minister of War by King George. The report of the Sunderland Tram- ways Corporation shows that 1,827,- 808 passengers were carried during the month of April There are 2,433 British merchant seamen and fishermen prisoners ,of war in Germany, 41 in Austro-Hun- gary, and 72 in Turkey. It is estimated that the value of the potato crop In Great Britain would be increased £5,000,000 annually, if spraying were universal, The tomb of General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey is completely hidden just now by the flags of Cana- dian regiments now at the front. The Amalgamated Society of Water - men presented a further sum of £108 to the Red Cross Society for the main- tenance of their ambulance in France, At the Juvenile Court, Manchester, a boy was sentenced to six strokes of the birch rod and five shillings dam- age for wilful destruction of potatoes. For wasting three ounces of broad, Margaret Chandler of Twickenham was brought before the Magistrates Court and discharged with a warning. Sir William Haswell Stephenson, who has just celebrated his 81st birth- day at Newcastle, has been the rect. plant of many congratulatory tele. grams Business has been practically at a standstill at the Newcastle Corn Rx - change and no reduction to cereals is expected until the Government lowers prices. Miss Crosbie, of Lancaster Gate, has received the highest decoration ever bestowed on a evoman in Rus- sia, the St. George's Medal for bravery. While decorating a sergeant with a war medal at Weimer, General Steele said he considered non-commis- sioned officers the backbone of the army. The Board of Agriculture has organ- ized a campaign for the purchase of spraying machines, with the object of reducing the wastage of potatoes through disease, At a ladies' shipping competition at Bromley, Kent, the "rare and useful" Prizes consisted of one pound of sau- sage, ono pound of potatoes and one- half pound of sugar. Arrangements have been made be the Ministry of Munitions which will provide a considerable number of the 500,000 men required for the army be- fore the end of July, A despatch from, French Front in France says:—After their strongest offensive effort since Verdun the Ger- mans found themselves on Thursday thrown back everywhere along an 11 - mile front on the Chemin-de-Dames, leaving the ground thickly strewn with their dead and having failed to take even one French soldier prisoner. The French lines remained intact,• and the French commanding general, who watched the operations through- out from the front trenches, was able to declare that not a single yard of territory had been lost. If you don't believe in yourself no- body else will], THE COAL SHORTAGE The anticipated shortage in hard coal affecting thousands of Can- adian homes may become' a reality next winter if consumers delay their orders to the dealers till fall. This is the opinion of railway men who say that while they are doing everything possible to assist Mr. C. A. Magrath, Controller of Canadian Fuel Supply, the co-operation of the con- sumer also is necessary to meet an undoubtedly serious situation. The hard coal used in the east for the average furnace is imported from the United States, and the problem of supply is largely a problem of trans- portation. Owing to the shortage of labor and a very hard winter, the Canadian Railways last year faced a severe congestion of traffic, which was accentuated during the winter months by the'demand for furnace coal. In order to prevent if possible a similar condition next season, the raihvays are concentrating every ef- fort on the supply of coal -carrying equipment. The Canadian Pacific, for instance, has decided to adapt at once and concentrate a considerable portion of additional freight equipment foe coal haulage, increasing its capacity during the next six months by cars capable of hauling over a million ad- ditional tons during that period. It is withdrawing a large number of ears from other services, is adapting other types of cars, arid has just put into rule under which every force a new foreign coal car is et once returned empty to the mines for fresh coal in- stead of being delayed by loading with return freight, although this move means -added expense. Within a few days the coal mer- chants will this have prospect of rapid deliveries, but unless consum- ers co-operate by giving their orders to the merchants now for their win= ter supplies, then unloading cars quickly, the congestion experienced last winter will be accentuated and prices may rise to unheard of heights. Consumers are also recommended to be exceptionally careful in the use of coal, avoiding waste and burning wood where possible. The merchants themselves are also being asked to co- operate by having cars loaded to the maximum capacity and' by promptly unloading the cars as soon as received, thus releasing them 'for further ser- vice. The situation apparently is more serious in the East then in the West, owing to the accepted use of box cars in the latter territory, The supply of the open cars required in the east is, however, limited, and unless deliveries are spread more than they have been aver the summer months by the re- gommended co-operation of consum- ers, the approachirig winter will come with tragic force upon the -Canadians in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces, The coal, according to Mr. Magrath, is available. The cars, according to the railways, are coming—but will carry the coal only if the orders are known before winter puts on the brakes, I WoR60:. 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