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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-08-30, Page 3rI"7"4 MANITOBA TROOPS CAIN GROUND IN VIGOROUS ATTACK ON LENS Capture Importing Positions to the South-West and Open Ways Towards Heart a City on the South After Stubborn Battle. A despatch from Canadian Army Headquartersin France, says: -An., other turn of the screw was made on Thursday morning ori the south-west front of Lens, At three o'cieok, after a short, but intense bombardment, the Manitoba troops attacked the Green Grassier, a huge heap of pit refuse on the north banks 'of the Sanchez River, by which our advance into Lens from the south was barred. The Posse St. Louis, which censrsta of a tangle of pithead 'machinery, shot to pieces by many bombardments, was also attack- ed. On a front of about 700 yards the Manitobans wont forward from 200 to 400 yards and opened the way towards the heart 0 the city on the south as the other advances of the past week had done on the north and west.. The possession of Green Grassier will also enable our leen to sweep with, their machine guns a wide tract of cyuntry to the south of the Souchez River, now occupied by the enemy, in - eluding the mining village of St. Antoine, FISH FROM (SHELL ORDERS NORTHERN LAKES People of Ontario to be Supplied Direct From Lake Waters. A despatch from Toronto says: Fish has become so popular an article of diet in Ontario that it is to receive immediate Government recognition, and the nationalization of the finny denizens of the inland waters is well under way. Hon. F. G. Macdiarmid, Provincial Minister of Public Works, in co-opera- tion with the Food Controller, has an- nunced the intention of the Ontario Government to develop large areas of the reserved waters of Ontario as a permanent source of fish food supply for the people of the Province. As a beginning of this important national undertaking, lakes like Nipissing and Nepigon will be immediately develop- ed. The resources of these important ',waters have been ascertained, and while it is not ht present possible to state with exactness the quantity of flsh obtainable for public use, it is known that the added food supply Which -will be secured for the people of Ontario will in the aggregate amount annually to several million pounds. The chief fish of these wa- ters are whitefish, trout, pickerel and sturgeon, of which whitefish is the most abundant. HUN AVIATORS BOMB HOSPITAL Twenty Nurses Killed in De- liberate Outrage. • A despatch from London says:- I- Under the headline, "Twenty-two Killed by Bombs in French Hospital; Airman's Deliberate Purpose," the Times prints the following from Gerald Campbell, dated Verdun front, Wednesday evening: "In the bom- bardment by German aeroplanes of the French hospital, news of which has al- ready been telegraphed, 22 people were killed and 60 wounded. Most of the victims were hospital nurses and ordeles, but there were also some wounded soldiers. In one part of the hospital grounds were Iodged 180 wounded German prisoners in care of the very orderlies who were done to death by the German airman. All of them escaped untouched. SALE OF POULTRY FOR THE BELGIANS. • A despatch from Toronto says: The Canadian Poultrymen's Belgian Re- lief Association are going to hold a sale of pure bred poultry at the Can- adian National Exhibition, Toronto, on Labor Day, September 8rd, 1017. Any Ontario breeders who have not already donated still have time to help along this good work by sending their donations to Raymond E. Burton, R.R. No. 2, Hamilton, Ont., ..007/111 who will forward shipping instruc- tions and tags, This work is authorized by the Allies' Agricultural Relief Committee, of which Dr. Robertson, of Ottawa, is chairman, and is backed by the Do- minion and allied Governments, All proceeds will go for the relief of wives and families of Belgian poultrymen in the devastated regions, This will -also be a chance for breeders to buy stock from some of the best flocks in Ontario and Quebec, KORNILOFF SUCCEEDS IN DISCIPLINING ARMY. A despatch from Petrograd says: Lieut. -Gen, ICornilotf, commander-in- chief of the Russian armies, has is- sued orders for a resumption of strict training for alf the military forces, the free time of the soldiers to be devoted to gymnastics, drills and games, and for a cessation of all die - missions, The order contains the state- ment: "Henceforth the only language in the army is command." This is significant in view of the abolition of the use of the word"command" since the revolution. DWINDLING Only a Few Plants Will Continue to Do Night Work. A despatch from Ottawa says: To- wards the close of 1916 the capacity for producing munitions in Great Bri- tain had so increased that the Minister of Munitions advised that it was un- necessary to continue the production of munitions in the United States for British account, except for.a few spe- cial lines. The production in Canada, however, was continued as before. The Minister has now advised that it is unnecessary to continue produc- tion in Canada on the present scale. He has directed that certain lines shall be discontinued; that other lines shall be produced in lessened quanti- ties, while some lines are .to be con- tinued as at present. The effect of this will be to stop the production of shells and components at some plants which are now produc- ing sizes no longer required. The other plants' night work will be discon- tinued. MUST EXERCISE ECONOMY IN COAL Sir George Foster Makes State- ment Presenting Fuel Situation. A despatch from Ottawa says: An intimation -that both Canada and the United States might have to be placed on "coal rations" was contained'in a statement upon 'the fuel situation which Sir George Foster made in e Commons in reply to a. question y Mr. W. E. Knowles, of Moose Jaw. This course might be necessary, the Minister of Trade and Commerce said, so as to distinguish between absolute- ly necessary services and those not so' necessary. Further, he stated a distinct call would have to be made to all interests to save coal just as food was being saved. WAR SAVING CERTIFICATES OF TEN DOLLARS ISSUED. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Minister of Finance announces the is- sue of a new war savings certificate of a denomination of only $10, The issue will come within reach of the most modest investor. Hitherto the lowest certificate had bean for $25. The new certificate will sell at $8.60, and will return to the purchaser $10 at the end of three years. It will be placed on sale immediately at all banks and money order postoffices in Canada, Up to date, $10,000,000 has been made available for the purposes of the war throughthe sale of war savings certificates. More than 140,000 certi- ficates in the demnominations of $25, $50 and $100 have been sold since last January. During the past several months, sales have ranged from $200,000 to $300,000 a week. ADDED TAX IS PLACED ON INCOMES IN U. S. A despatch from Washington says: Advocates of conscription of the coun- try's wealth won a decisive victory when the Senate by a vote of 7 to 0, adopted the Gerry amendment to the War Revenue Bill, raising $40,000,000 additional revenue from incomes. Use Pedipable Foods. "The children of Belgium are crying for food. Serbia has been over -run by the enemy. Half of Rumania is occu- pied. Much of France is laid waste, Ten nations of the world are on ra- tions. Sixty million men are with- drawn from production for war ser- vice. To feed the Allied armies and nations, the men and women of Can- ada must pledge themselves to maxi- mum production, the elimination bf waste, and the largest possible con- sumption of perishable foodstuffs," says Hon. W. J. Hanna, Canadian Food Controller, Markets .of .the World 8r0pastnn's Toronto Aug. 20 61a;lltoba wheat - /No, 1 Northern, 52.41); No, 2 Ner'thOrn4 wl,llo, $ 30, nominal,e191 atoms 220702211. liam, Manitoba oats—No, 2 C.W., 703.0, nomi- nal, track, ;'lay ports. 4merlcan corn—No, 0 yellow, nein',,. nal, track troronto, Ontario oaten.Na ofiic1a1 quotations. Ataniteb9 wheat--l3o, .1 Northern, $2.#e, Ontario }sheat --New orop, No, 2, $2.15 to 0.49, nominal, Peps ---No. 2 nominal, C000rding to fre gats otitaltle. Barley -Malting, - new Drop, $1,s0 to 51.02, 190oordin5 to freights outolda. Rye -No, 2, nos, ,nal, according to fro g•.hts outside, ¥anitObe flour -pint patents, in Jute bags, $12,90; s000nd patents, In lute bags, $12,40; strong bakers', in lute bags, $12,00, Ontario flour --Winter, according' to sample,: 10.20,$in bags, traolc !Poronto, prompt shlpmont; new crop, $10,20. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal freights, gags 1n01udod-Aran per ton,. $30; shorts per ton, $43; middling% Per ton, $45 to 5 46; good reed flour, Per bag, $3,26, Hay -Extra. No• 2, Per ten, $11,60 to $12,00' mixed, nor ton, $9 to $10, track Toronto. Straw—Oar lots, per ton, $7 to $7.50, track Toronto. Country Produce --Wholesale Butter -Creamery, solids, Dor lb., 29 to 398c; prints per lb., 395 to 40c; dairy, perln„ 3e. to 01o. Eggs---Pel'-dos., 39 to 408. Wholesalers' are selling to the retail trade at the following prides Cheese -New, large, 224 to 23o; twine; 220, to 232c; triplets, 23 to 225e; 010, large 80c; twins 305a;. triplets, 3050. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 36 to 370; creamery prints, 42 to 430; solids, 41 to 4130. Diggs -New laid, In cartons, 49 to 60e; out of cartons, 44 to 46a, Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 26 to $00• fowl, 20c; squabs, per doz., $4.00 to $4,60; turkeys, 25 to 300; ducks,. Spring, 22e. Live poulty-Spring chickens, lb., 20 to 22o; hens, 18 to 200; ducks. Spring, 170, honey-Comb-Nxtra fine and heavy weight,er dos„ $2.70; select, $2.60 to 52.75; No. 2, 52 to $2.29; tins, 25's and 5's`15c. per lb, ?3eans-Prima white, 58,60 ner bush; Imported hand-nicked,59.25 per bush; Limas, per lb„ 16 to 7o, Potatoes, on track -Red Star, bbl., 55.25; North Carolina,9, bbl, $5.26; On- tario, bag, $2.40 to $2.50. Provisions -Wholesale Stroked meats -Rams, medium, 80 to 310; do„ heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 420; rolls, 27. to 28c; breakfast bacon, 85 to 80o; backs, plain, 87 to 85o; bone- less, 40 to 420. Cured meats-Longyelear bacon, 26 to 200a per lb; clear bellies, 26 to 26c, Lard -Furs lard, tierces, 265 to 260; tubs, 262 to 2040; pails, 26 to 265e; com- pound, tierces. 2050; tubs. 208e; pails. 210, -_ Montreal Markets Montreal, Aug. 28 -Oats -Canadian Western, No. 2, 74 to 76e; No. 3 73 to 74c; extra No, 1•feed, 73 to 74e, '13ar1ey -Man, feed, 51,26, Flour -Man, Spring wheat patents, firsts, $18.00; seconds, 512,50; strong bakers', 512.30; Winter patents, choice, $13.00; straight rollers, 512.40 to t$g{12.09; do„ bags, $6.00 to $6.16. Rbbags, 9ed 0albs, 1354.40 to 5450 l8 an. $36 to 827. Shorts -540 to $43. Middlings -$48 to $50. Moulllie-560 to $61. ,Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $9.60 to $10. Cheese -Finest westerns, 2120; do., finest easterns, 212% Butter-CholOost creamery, 42 to 4250; do., seconds, 41 to 415c, Eggs -Fresh, 60 to 630; selected, 46o; No. 1 stock, 44c; No. 2 stook, 38 to 40c. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, 524 to 524,50; pork, heavy Canada, short mess. bbls., 86 to 46 pieces, $61 to $52; do„ Canada short Out back, bbls., 45to 65 pieces, 5.6 to 543. Lard, compound, wood palls, 20 lbs, not, 215 to 2250; do., pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 25 to 2650. Winnilieg Grain Winnipeg, Aug. 23: -Cash quotations: -Wheat-No. 1 Northern, 62.40; No. 2 Northern, 52.40; No, 8 Northern, $2.40 No. 4, 52,36; No, 6, 52.15; No. 6, $1.93 feed, 51.72. Oats -No, 2 C.W., 6350 No. 3 C.W., 6110; extra No, 1 feed, 6150 No. 1 feed, 6050; No. 2 feed, 585c. Flat. -No. 1 N.W.C., 53.84; No. 2 C.W„ 53,22 No. 3 C,W., 53.19,_ 'Finned States Markets Minneapolis, Aug. 28 -Wheat -Sep- tember, $2.21; cash No. 1 Northern, $2.46 to 52.60; No. 2 Northern, 52.40 to 2.45. Corn -No, 3 yellow, 51.66 to 1.68. Oats -No, 3 white, 529 to 53o. Flour -unchanged. Bran -528,00. Duluth, Aug. 28 -Linseed -53.57; September, 53,57 asked; October, $3.51 asked; November, $3.50 asked; Decem- ber, $3,44 asked, Wheat -No, 1 North- ern, $2.40, nominal; - No. 2 Northern, $2,86, nominal,• -� Live Stook Markets Toronto,Aug, 28-Jaxtra choice heavy steer,, $2 to 512,16; choloe heavy choice, $10,76 to 811.16; butohers' cattle, choice, 510 to $10.40; do., good, $0,60 to $9,76; d0., medium, 50.96 to- 58,50 ; do., common, 87,26 to $7.60; butchet•s' bulls, choice, $8.60 to $9; do„ good bulls, 57.60 to $8; do., medium bulls, 57 to $7,26; do., rough bulls, 55 to 60; butchers' cows. choice, $9.25 to 52.50; do„ good, 57,60 to $7,00; d0, medium, 50,66 to $0,86; stockers, $6,60 to $8.40; feeders, $7,76 to 59; canners and cutters, 6,26 to 56.25; mllkera, good to oh01ce, 53 10 $126; d0, com, and mei„ 540 to $60; springers, $80 to $125; light ewes, $3,76 to $10.00; sheep, heavy $9 to 87.60; yearlings, 810 to 841; ring Iambs, to choice, $18.60 to $16; spring lambs, 516 to $16,60; hogs fed and watered, $10.60; do„ weighed oft Dara, 519.75; 'do„ f.o.b., 518.25, Montreal, Aug, 26 -Choice steers, 810.50 to 511; good steers, $10 to $10.26; fair steers, $8,60 to $13.50; common, 87.60 to 58.25; butchers' Cows, $6.26 to 8,26; bulls, 8'r to $9; canning bulls, ta,'lo lambs, 514 20 to6 $14.55; Quebec lambs, $12 tc 519,60; sheep, $8 to $5; Lord, $7 Ito hogs, 8018 60 to 571; $18.75.ass- MILLIONS OF CROSSES GIVEN BY EMPEROR, A despatch from Amsterdam sags: Deputy Marquardt, of the German Reichstag, recently proposed that a more extensive distribution of iron crosses be made. Emperor William has caused to be published the fact that 2,250,000 crosses of the second class had been distributed up to June 1. "What are all those photographs of young men you have in your album?"' "Oh, that's my collection of souvenir spoons." That the French language is more suitable for telephoning than English has been proved since London and Paris were ]inked by telephones, From the Ocean Shore BITS OF. ,NEWS PROM TDB MAIRITIME PROVINCES. hepta of lnteregt. From Plates Lap" ped By Waves of the Atlantic, A man -Dating shark was caught at Glal, Newce poaytatoes are cheaper now in Fredericton that; old ones. The Grand Lodge I,0.0.0. will hold its next session at Kentville, N,S, The Nova Scotia retail merchants have been holding their annual session in Halifax. A violent wind and rain, storm visited Moncton August 10th and did much damage, The funeral.of Gunner Smith, of Fredericton, who died after returning from the front, waS the largest ever seen in Fredericton, Harbormaster Alword, of St, John, is prepared to guarantee accommoda- tion for all coal -laden steamers which are brought into port. The Department of Mines, Ottawa, has published a report by F. W. Gray on "The Coal Fields and the Coal industry of Nova Scotia." A heavy wind storm which swept through the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, seriously reduced the apple crop in that province. Six days drifting in the broad At- lantic, with very little food to keep them alive and without hope of being saved, was the thrilling experience of two French fishermen. They were engaged in fishing orf the Banks of Newfoundland. A big steamer stranded near Hali- fax. On board were nearly 600 wounded' soldiers. Splendid order was maintained and all were rescued. Not even the men in the cots violat- ed the splendid traditions of the Bri- tish in cases of this kind. The New Brunswick Government is keeping a sharp lookout for smallpox suspects from Maine. The type of disease is mild and as yet no deaths have resulted. A. police officer was injured while attending a fire in Fredericton. The fire was caused by rats, and officer Sturgeon was struck by the hind wheel of the motor truck. The Newfoundland Legislature was prorogued August 8th, but a new ses- sion opened the following week to in- troduce the business profits tax. Fredericton is the only city of size and importance that has no life-sav- ing apparatus. The life of little Henry Treadwell, who was drowned August 3rd, might have been saved had there been a pulmotor handy. Three sisters of Sydney are leaders in three classes this year in the Gov- ernment reports of Academy examin- ations. They are Nlisses Margaret, Helen and Miriam Bannerman, AIR RAIDS ON LONDON. Showing Clearly the Haunting Anx- iety of Mothers in the Old Land. Few descriptions of the air raids on London have had in them the poig- nancy of the following letter of a north London school mistress to the distracted mothers. To those who have an imagination it tells more than anything which has been allowed to pass the censor, some of the real brutality of the German raids. She says: My dear Mothers: The County Coun- cil has again decided that in spite of the sad trouble the children are, on the whole, safest in school, and that we must keep them until all danger is past, whatever the time may be. May I beg of you, for your sakes, your children's sakes, and for our sakes, not to come for them? (1) Even if the schools had warn- ing, and we all let them out, three- quarters of a million of children all over London would be toddling home in the streets, many a long way, lots of them with no mothers with them, and some of them with no mothers at home when they got there. Ten times more children would be killed and hurt, and many would see sights which might haunt them for life. • (2)• If the mothers were also crowd- ing round the schools and in the streets they would also be injured, and mothers' lives are Very, very precious to their children, to their homes, and to our country. (3) If some mothers came up and not others we should never have time to pick out the right children, all the others would cry, and there would still be the double danger to mothers and children in the streets. (4) Even if you come up we can- not let them out, so keep 'indoors for the children's sake. (5) Our school has a concrete roof. A bomb could scarcely come through to us, but a bomb on the roof would hurt lots of you outside, so please don't come near us. (6) Your children are neatly as precious to us as to you. We have 450 to care for, and we will take every care of them, and keep them happy. They won't ,even know what is going on if we Can help it. Ceram.•,en��,..,samcn„ta ,r.,. n„ c.c rn, ,aftega„�, SIZE CUR IO5ITV IS WOMENS.GREAT WEAKNESS; -• I HAVE AN IDEA •- II El -EN iota. eI ovgiz HER Pe syn. AND BE ,TALKING TO ME 114 SIUEt.. MINU1`Es-•JUST WAr7fd.J "--` HELLO, 15 THIS yell CHARLt ? " Now ARC `iOO ? - SAN, DiD 'god NEAR. THa.scANDAL., A15oUr MRs, E,LACKMoRE 7 - 140 1 CAN'T VERY , -tVIEL5. JUST NOW - rLL-TEL1. t \1015 WIIE14 I sr±EVOu . r (FIONNEit Recolvefo) • KING GEORGE SENDS MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION TO RUMANIA British Peoples Watch With .Admiration the Gallant Stand Made by King Fercliliand's ' 'rasps, A despatch from London says: Icing George has sent a telegram to Ding Ferdinand of Rumania, express- ing admiration for the resistance the Rumanians and Russians are offering to the enemy and expressing confi- dence that the efforts will not go un- rewarded. The telegram says: "At a time when Your Majosty is engaged in a bitter struggle in de- fenee of your country, I desire to con- vey to you the admiration of the Brit- ish peoples for the magnificent way in which the allied armies under your command have fought and for the BRITS { ' MAKE GAINS AT YPRES Ypres-Menin Road .the Scene of Strenuous Battles. A despatch from London says: The British continue their methodical fighting on the Ypres-Menin road, During the past 24 hour's they have made gains over their front, varying in depth from a quarter to half a mile, notwithstanding the tenacious resist- ance of the legions of Crown Prince Rupprecht, Perry Rebinson, telegraphing to the Times under date of Thursday, re- fers to the scattered fighting oft... the Flanders front as follows: "The most valuable advance, .though not 500 yards in depth, was made in the des- perately -contested region of Glencorso wood and Inverness copse where the strategical value of the high ground made the determination • of the Germans evident to hold it as long as possible regardless of expenditure of life, These two small woods have 'seen almost as'prolonged severe fight- ing as Delville wood and High woods last year. Neither is yet wholly in our possession." CLIMATE AND FERTILITY. Canada's Winters Conserve the Fer- tilizers in the Soil. The influence of climate on fertility is frequently overlooked, but it has a more or less direct bearing on the fertilizer question in Canada. It is realized by few that climatic condi- tions -rainfall, temperatures, etc. - exert a profound influence on the na- ture and composition of soils, both in their origin and in the power to con- serve their fertility. These influences may tend to the accumulation or the dissipation of those elements or soil constituents which make for fertility. In this regard, save our coastal lands with excessive rainfall, which may keep the lighter soils poor in available plant food, our country is singularly blessed. We cannot now elaborate this question, but one instance may be cited tha' ";nay serve -as an illustra- tion -one which undoubtedly influ- ences in a beneficial way the fertility of our soils. The rigorous winter that prevails over the greater part of Can- ada locks up for several months - practically from harvest to seeding time -the soil's fertility. The plant food that has been converted into available forms during the preceding summer and autumn, and which is left over after the season's growth, is conserved for the crop of the succeed- ing year. The frost holds tight with- in its grasp the food of untold values -especially the more valuable ni- trates, so necessary for stimulating the growth of the young crop. In re- gions enjoying a more open winter, this soluble plant food would be lost by leaching. With all their drawbacks, our severe winters, with their almost continuous low temperatures, must be regarded, in their role as conservers of fertility, as an agricultural asset of no small value, one which must profoundly affect in a beneficial way our dependence upon purchased fertil- izers for satisfactory yields. CROWN PRINCE APPEALS FOR MD Germans Reeling Under Blows at Lens and Verdun. A despatch from London says: Reuter's correspondent at British army headquarters in France tele- graphs: "The Germans are assuredly feeling under the smashing blows at Lens and in Flanders, where they have massed troops to the weakening of other parts of the line, The mag- nificent success of the French at Ver- dun is causing the Germans the gra- vest concern, and there is reason to believe that the Crown Prince is call- ing upon Prince Rupprecht for suc- cor," The German prisoners now total 7,639, while 24 guns were also cap- tured I WONDER wl4AT -Ma SCANDALCAN J very gallant resistance they are mals- ing to the assault of the enemy, "The Bs'itlsh peoples are closely following the course of the great bat- tle now raging and trust in the valor of the Rumanian and Russian troops under the leadership of Yotir Majosty to bring the enemy's efforts to nought. "British forces in the west, in co- operation with their gallant French comrades, aro striking hard at the common enemy and will continue by all means in their power to render all possible assistance to Your Majesty's forces, their allies," NEW SWISS -GERMAN PACT 'IS ARRANGED Teutons Seek Loan From Swiss In Return For Supply of Coal. A despatch from Paris says: A wireless despatch from Zurich says a new economic convention between Switzerland. and Germany was con- cluded and signed on Monday evening at Berne, Recent despatches from European capitals indicated that a hitch in the economic relations between Germany and Switzerland had been straighten- ed out by Switzerland agreeing to ad- vance Germany 40,000;000 francs monthly for nine months at the rate of 6 p.c. Germany in return was to supply Switzerland with 200,000 tons of coal monthly. The financial expert of the Berlin Tageblatt, referring to this financial arrangement, said it was inspired by the fact that Germany's imports from Switzerland were so considerable as to outweigh the value of Germany's coal and iron exports, even at the in- creased prices. The writer said Ger- many_ also had perfected a similar arrangement with other neutrals, notably Holland. RUSS YIELD RIGA TO FOE Evacuated . Positions Without Offering Battle. A. despatch from London says: - East of Riga the Russians have fallen back before the enemy along the line from Raggedzem, on the Gulf of Riga, through Tukkum and Kammern to the upper reaches of the River Aa; Fight- ,ing is going on a scant 20 miles east of Riga, in the Lake Babit sector. The i German official communication, in an- , nouncing German gains in this re- gion, says the Russians evacuated positions without offering battle, pre- , viously having destroyed villages be- hind them. To the south of Volhynia the Ger- ,mans also have delivered attacks against the Russians for gains of ter= riritory, but later were dislodged in counter-attacks, In the Rumanian , theatre the Russia -Rumanian troops have taken the offensive in various sectors or repulsed Teutonic allied counter-attacks. No important gains in this region have been made by either of the combatants, ITALIANS GAIN ONS VAST 'FRONT 16,000 Prisoners Taken in Drive On Trieste. • A despatch from London says: On both the northern and southern ends of the battle line in the Austro -Italian theatre the Italians have pressed for- ward their line for considerable new gains against the Austrians. The counter-attacks of the Austrians are of the most extreme violence, but nowhere have they been able to dis- lodge the Italians. An instance of this is the holding for three days un- der most vicious counter -strokes of a strong Austrian position captured south-east of Dossofait, More than 16,000 prisoners already have been taken by the Italians. Bread -Making for the Army, Of all the marvelous sights I have seen in this conflict none perhaps is, in some respects, more remarkable than the army bakeries, says n visitor lo the battlefront. At a certain depot in France I watched one of the hugest bakeries in the world doing its work. Every day more than 100,000 loaves of bread emerge from the ovens and go speeding up and down the lines to feed the hungey troops. Oddly enough, every one of this little army of bakers is a regularly enlisted soldier. When, by some miracle, he is enabled to take all the flour oA' his clothes, you see the tan of the khaki showing through. Horses,, Tort, I'M ALL aVmR- 13EI0 MAD - PERHAPS I cARRIf=D IT Too FAR - PLSASE 's'EL(. ME Aeou'l] Iiia. scANDAL 8)16514 DIV 'kW HEAR AaouT IT? X5:4:,.. ,z,., ---c AMD RI=_tM2MDfn ,-,J 1 T'CLL. " `00 I START EATING MN • MEALS AT HOME AGAIN ti NEWS FROM ENGLAND NOIWS 131 MAIL ABOUT JOHN #IUM• AN)) MIS PJ11OPLIIL Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supreme In the Com. merciai World. The President of the Board of Trade has announced that a number! of soldiers have beep sent to Lancs., shire to help with the harvest. A hut for women workers in the dis, trio of Colindale, and given by the Girls' Friendly Society, has been open-) ed by the Bishop of Willisden. The Salvation Army in India have subscribed towards the cost of a motor, ambulance for service among the Br'i.! tish troops in Mesopotamia. The National Economy.. Exhibition] at the New County Hall, Westminster, Bridge, was opened by Lord Crewe. Sir Arthur Hardinger, the British: Ambassador to Spain, was injured in a motor accident at Madrid. An Enfield baker was fined a nom: incl sum under the bread order which' provides that bread must be neither, over nor adder weight. It is estimated that the loss to the' nation by farm pests -the rat, the mouse, the house sparrow and the wood -pigeon -amounts to £40,000,000 annually. In a baseball match at Lords be-' tween the Canadian A.P.C. and the London American Club, the Canadians' won by seven runs to three. The firm of Alfred Holt and Com- pany, Liverpool, have purchased four, steamers from the Knight Steamship Company for about ±700,000. The Northumberland War Agricul- tural Committee state that there are 146,000 acres in grain in that county this year, or twice that of last year. D:' Turner, a member of the Notts County Council, recovered ±400 at the Notts Assizes, for injuries caused by his taxicab being run into by a dray) The Queensbury Club, containing 80 rooms, a dining hall and lounge, Eaton Square, for the use of officers,i has been opened by Princess Patricia.' Owing to the restrictions in travel at the present time, the Governors of Madras. and Bombay, India, have been asked to stay on and they have agreed to. St. Pancras has given 2,827 square feet of St. Andrew's public gardens for, the extension of the Royal Free Hospital, in exchange for some adja-' cent land. HOW FAR DO MOSQUITOES FLY?, Malaria -Carrier Does Not Journey Far From Breeding -Place. In trying to control malaria in any given locality it is of obvious im- portance to know how far draining and ditching, or other methods of dis- couraging mosquito -breeding, should be extended in order to snake the com- munity safe. To determine this point it must be known how far the malaria carrier can fly. With a view to finding out, the Pub- lic Health Service has been making „ some interesting experiments near, Augusta, South Carolina, where a stagnant pond was a prolific breeder of the dreaded Anopheles. Ordinary bed -canopy nets were sus-' pended from trees near by, and after nightfall -the Anopheles flies only at' night -gentlemen of color sat inside of the nets to serve as bait. They were paid ten cents an hour for the work. To admit the mosquitoes, each, net was left wide open on one side. When the nets were fairly well fill-. ed with mosquitoes, they were closed) to imprison the insects, Next morn-' intg the latter were dyed yellow by, the simple and easy process of intro-; ducing a hose with a fine -spray nozzle into each net and giving them a sprinkling of an aniline solution. The following evening (their wings having had plenty of time to dry) they were; liberated. The next step was to look for yellow mosquitoes all over the neighborhood, Quite a number of them were found,I in houses, barns and stables at great er or less distances from the stagnant pond; but in ten days of search not, one was discovered further off than al little over a mile, Whence the inference is drawn that the malaria -carrier does not journey much more than a utile from its breed-! ing place. This idea, by the way, was originat-' ed by General William C, Gorges, who, in 1913, was able to ascertain the principal source of a mosquito plague at Gatlin (Canal zone) by dyeing with different, colors the mosquitoes of sev- eral near -by swamps. For some time thereafter red, green, sky-blue, yel- low and otherwise -tinted mosquitoes were found in Gallia, but the over- whelming prevalence of sky-blue ones gave the answer to the problem, THE KISS 00 DEATH. - Given by a Brave Little Girl Wounded in an Air Raid on England. A correspondent who vouches for the accuracy of the story informs the London Times of a touching incident which occurred during a recent raid on England by enemy aeroplanes. One of their bombs fell on the play- ing field of a girls' school and mortal- ly injured Doris Spencer Walton, aged fifteen, the daughter of a missionary. She was picked up with a terrible wound in her side and taken to hos- pital in a cab by a special constable and two Canadian soldiers. In spite of the intense pain which she must have suffered, the girl talk- ed quietly with the soldiers on the way. Noticing that each of them had ors his sleeve the gold stripe which Is wot'n by those who have been wound. ed, she said: "I must kiss you both because you have suffered." The hisses were given, At nhid• night the girl died. "The two sot - diet's," adds the Times correspondent,', "will veltie that act of a bravo trying; child as'lnich as they would the Vic-' lreria C2056.“."