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CENTRAL SPAN OF QUEBEC
BRIDGE BOLTED INTI, PLACE
Successful Aecomplishinent of Vast Engineering Feat Gives
Canada ]Largest Sti'uettire of its Class in the World.'
A despatch from Quebec says: --Tho
Steel structure of the greatest canti-
lever bridge ever designed was com-
pleted at 8.28 ppm, on Thursday when
the big central spall of the Quebec
bridge was bolted into position. After
11, Years of work and two accidents,
which cost the lives of 78 men, the
bridge is practically finished, but it
will be some months yet before trains
can be run across it. It will, be about
three years before the final touch is
put to the structure, whieh has yet to
be painted at a cost of $35,000. ' The
bridge, which is 3,239 feet in length,
cost in the neighborhood of $20,000,000
to build, and the total . weight of the
• steel structure is 180,000,000 pounds.
Work was begun in 1900, and the en-
gineers at
n-gineers'at that time planned to throw
out the two great cantilever arms un-
til they net, 150 feet -above the water
in midstream. In 1907, when the
south cantilever arm was all but corn-
pleted it collapsed, precipitating more
than 100 men into the river, Of
these, 70 lost their lives, Tho bridge
was then redesigned and the .engin-
eers determined to avoid the menace
of collapse from cantilever arms of
such great length by building the con-
tral span on pontoons, fleeting it into
position and hoisting it to its piece.
Last year the attempt to hoist the
central span ended disastrously, when
the lifting apparatus broke. This ac-
cident cost the lives oI- eight mpre
mon;
The pinning up of the central span
to the hangers that are to permanent-
ly support it marks the successful ac-
complishment of an engineering feat
without equal in the annals of. canti-
lever bridge building, and gives to
Canada the credit of possessing a
structure the largest of its class in
the world,
CHINA OFFERS
300,000 SOLDIERS
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Would Send Troops to France
if Desired.
A despatch from Pekin says: An
nobacement is made in Government
a . circles that the Chinese Cabinet, pro-
vided the Entente powers approved, is
willing to send 800,000 soldiers to
France incompliance with the French
request,
An appeal has been made -to the
United States to aid China, as the
Entente allied powers were helped,
financially, to -equip her troops.
A despatch from Tokio says: The
Chinese Government has sounded Jap-
an on the proposed despatch of Chi-
nese troops to Europe and the indica-
tions are that Japan will offer no op-
position to such action on the part of
China.
Comm.nnting on the advocacy
abroad of Japan's, participation in the
land fighting, the semi-official Times
declaresthat as Japan is not directly
menaced by Germany no sufficient
reason exists to send troops and the
allies: should be satisfied with Japan's
naval and other assistance.
DOZEN BRITISH SHIPS SAVED
BY THE SMOKE -BOX SYSTEM
-A despatch from London says: -
The Press Association hears on high
naval authority that the hew defen-
sive measures against submarine war-
fare are 'meeting with success, justi-
tying the, hope of a further reduction
in the losses, and says it dan be stated
on officialauthority that the results of
the methods adopted in the past month
give cause for growing confidence.
Accordingto an Admiralty state-
ment dozens of chips have been saved
by the smoke -box system, which the
Admiralty during the past few months
has supplied a majority of British
merchantmen.
LOTS OF CRUDE OIL
FOR U. S. AND ALLIES.
A despatch from Atlantic City, N.J.,
says: There is not the slightest dan-
ger of a deficiency in the supply either
of crude oil or its products, kerosene
and gasoline, for the use of the Unit-
ed States or its allies in the wits, in
the opinion. of A. C. Bedford, of New
York, President of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey. Mr. Bed-
ford expressed that conviction in an
address he delivered here before the
War Convention of the American
Chamber of. Commerce.
TRY PAINTING YOUR SHOES.
Black Paint is Said to Preserve Shoe
Leather Almost Indefinitely.
Big inventions sometimes come by
accident, and leather men are to -day
experimenting to prove the claims of
the employee of a Chicago automo-
bile factory that ordinary black paint,
properly applied, will preserve shoe
leather almost indefinitely. The auto-
mobile man, driven by the advancing
prices of the neighborhood cobbler,
was mending the uppers of his shoes
at home one evening. When he was
done he scraped an accumulation of
black paint off the soles. He was as-
tonished to find that the leather un-
derneath the paint showed no signs of
wear. Constant walking over the be-
smeared drying -room floor, he found,
had worked the paint clear through
the soles.
Numordus tests since have appar-
ently demonstrated that when ordin-
ary black paint (hard finish), such as
may be had from any local dealer, is
applied to sole leather certain eliangss
take place.- • .•
The first coat soaks into the fibers,
or pores. This process requires at
least two days.
Then a second liberally laid on and
allowed to remain the same length of
time forms -a thick jelly.
A third coat gums the surface, and
a final one will harden perfectly in
four days. The cost of this initial
-treatment does not exceed 25 cents,
and the shoes, whether new or old, it
is claimed, have a well-prepared pair
of soles. The hot sidewalks of sum-
mer will only bake the preparation on
still harder. If the paint is thorough-
ly dried it cannot come off on rugs
or carpets.
The secret of the treatment seems
to lie in the thorough drying ofeach
layer. -
LENS GARRISON EAGER
TO EVACUATE THE CITY.
A despatch from Canadian Army
Headquarters in France says; Pres-
sure upon the defences of tens is un-
relenting. Posts have again been
pushed out into "No Man's Land" in
the region south-east of St. Laurent.
The Germans - are being literally
squeezed out of Lens, 'and prisoners
declare the garrison would welcome
the order to evacuate. Enemy orders
are still to hold on at all costs; but
there is reason to believe the cost is
becoming too great, since the occupa-
'iion by us of the northern suburbs
permits the projection of gas into the
town from the north as well as from
the south and west.
GEN. HAI.G'S NEW OFFENSIVE IS
BIGGEST IN RECENT MONTHS
Marked Success Attended Advance of British Troops in Crucial
Sector Between Ypres-Roulers Railway and Hollebeke.
A despatch from the British
Armies in France and Belgium says:
The British at daybreak on Thursday
launched a heavy offensive against the
German defences. about the Ypres sa-
lient along an extended front, which
has its centro around Inverness
Copse, and astride the Ypres -Merin
road, a little south-east of Ilooge.
From the first moment of going over
the top the assault •proceeded with
marked success, especially in the cru-
cial' sector between the. Ypres-Roulers
railway ,ltd Hollebeke, where the Bri-
tish early in the day had forced their
wayforward over marshyrun and
go d
through woods filled with machine-
guns to a considerable depth, and
were continuing the bitter fight in the
neighborhood of the, famous Inverness
Copse, Nun's Wood and Glencorse
Wood, where much blood has been
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shed since the allies began the Battle
of Flanders on July 31.'•
Thursday's attack. was another fine
success for British aims. Our troops
penetrated to a depth of a mile, which
is a wonderful achievement, consider-
ing the ground advanced over. The',
troops reached the Sennebelce-Ghelu-
velt line, and also advanced beyond
the central parallel of Polygon Wood.
Weare now bombarding the Germans,.
who are massed for a counter-attack.
It is believed that the number of
prisoners will reach four figures.
Every shell -hole yielded about a dozen
prisoners, sometimes surrendering
without resistance ando
s metrmes
fighting stubbornly. In one instance
the inmates of a semi -concealed cra-
ter held up our troops for some time
by bofnbing, In other instances the
enemy came out with fixed bayonets,
as the barrage crept towards them,
,smemansikas•
Markets of the World
Vreetletntra
• Toronto, Sept""S -Manitoba wheat*
No 1 Northern. 32.311, No.2, do 32,18;
No,e do„ --$216, No, 4 wheat, $x,10, In
, store, cora Wi1l1a111,
nito00 oats --No. 2 C,. W„ 07, in
Port William.
l.rinierionn cor11--110, 3 yellow, nominal,
track Toronto.
°Mario outs --'No, 2 while, 00o, nomi-
nal No, 3, do„ 63o, nominal, aocording
to freights oulslcle,
Ontario tvlleat-New, • No. 2, 32,17 to
32.20, according 10 freights outside,
Paas -000101001,
Barley --310,1 Ling, new, 31.12 12' 31.20,
acoording to freights outside.
HYO--N.o. 2.37.,70, according to flelg'hts
outside,
Manitoba fleur--j$'irst patents, in lute
ba6s $11,60 and do.,311.00; strong
baccra', do., 310,00. Toronto,
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
aainple, 310,20; in bags, track 'J'oronto,.
prompt shlpmont.
Mnlfeed-Car lois--;Dellverod - Mont-
real fr'otghts, .bags included --Bran, per
Ment -
ton, g80; shorts, r10. $42; • middlings,
de, 345 to $46; good feed flour, per hag,
$iITay-No. 1„now, per ton, 311,00' to
$11.60{• mixed,.: 40,, $3. to 30,50, track
'],'pronto,
Straw -Car; lots, Per ton, 37 to 37,50,
track Toronto. ,;
Country Produce-Wholduale
Butter -Creamery, solids, per lb., 39
to 3730; Prints, Per 10„ 308 to 40c;
dairy, Per l0„ 33 to 340,
16¢gs-Per doz„ 40 to 41o,
Wholesalers are selling to the retail
trado at the following prices ;-
Cheese -New, large, 23 to 233c; twins,
233 to 233o; triplets, 238 to 24o; -old,
large, 30c; twins, 303o; triplets, 3030. ,
Batter -Fresh dairy, choice, 39 to 400;
Gen. Sir Douglas Haig Telling Lloyd George of -Progress. ` orehacery prints, 42 to 43c; solids, 413
This remarkable group photographed on the front in France shows Eggs -New laid, in cartons, 62 to 54c;
several of the mightiest men of Great Britain and France. In thegroup putt
esecd tnouit 6 to -47c, chickens, • 26
g ry-Sprtn
are from left to right: Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions• Gen. to 30e; fowl, 20. to 22c; sauabe, Per dos,,
Sir Douglas Haig,g Commander -in -Chief of the British forces, operatingin 9'1 to $iso, turkeys, 25 to 30e; ducks,
S ' Spring, 220.
France, and the man who is directing the great drive in Flanders; Marshal Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb.,
Joffre, hero of the. Marne; and Lloyd George the British Premier,. who is 2204 hens, 20 to 225; ducks, Spring,; too,
the directingy g ' .20 12 Comb -extra fine, 10 os.,
genius of the British Empire in the war. General Sir Doug- $3 25; 12 oz., 32,76; No. 2, 32,40 to $2,60,
las Haig is shown telling. Lloyd George of the progress of the war, and. sols sac; rims , 23's 10 ie6's, 17e per ib;
from the expression on his face and his gesture itcan be gained that he is Beans -No Canadian beans on market
speaking most optimistically. Marshal Joffre is ready to affirm any of the anal ala$7.7fi of,
bush; imported
handl.,
British General's assertions, for Joffre is perhaps better acquainted than 15 to 16e.
any of the French and British officers with the strategic moves planned and 31 Sotto $1.660 track -Ontario, per bag,
being carried out at the ¢resent moment. . -
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 30 to
31e do„ heavy, 29 to 27c; cooked, 41 to
42e; rolls, 27 to 280; breakfast bacon,
36 to 40c; backs, plain, 38 to 33c; bone-
less, 42 to 43c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to
273e 10; clear belles, 263. to 270.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 26 to 2630;
tuba, 263 to 2630; pails, 203 to .27c;
compound, 'tierces, 20 to 205a; tubs, 203
Britain Waniis 10,000,000 Tons to 2010; nails, 203 to 210.
"CAMOUFLAGE."
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An Interesting Art Now Widely Prac-
• r tised at the Front.
Camouflage in ordinary parlance
means "faking," and as most general-,
ly used in the war zone consists of
deceiving the enemy by means of col-
oration. Here aro some examples: -
To paint a cannon gray makes it
less visible, and in these days of hid
den warfare.minteaerything st be'M ie;
fully concealed from the scouting
aeroplane; with its hawk-eyed observer
and its even more keen -eyed tele-
photographic lens.
Before every important battle now-
adays aeroplanes soar aloft, fight off
assailants and photograph as accur-
ately as possible the enemy positions.
These photographs, when developed
and examined under a magnifying
glass, reveal every secret that cannot
be carefully hidden. For example, a
bright light will' shine along the top
of every cannon and reveal its em-
placement. So the artist comes
along with his paintbrush, paints a
black streak along this high light and
a gray streak at either side, with
white paint where the shadows would
naturally come underneath, thins re-
versing the modeling of nature and
flattening the object out. A few col-
ored streaks to confuse the form of
the object, and the cannon is effectual-
ly digsuised even from the camera.
Motor trucks, artillery wagons,
trains 'of cars with their locomotives
are painted with broken patches of
green in summer and with white in
winter so as to conceal both their
form and their color, Aeroplane sheds
that stand as well protected as pos-
sible on the edges of weeds, but with
open ground before them from which
the airmen can take flight, have their
fronts androofs painted exactly to
match the trees behind them, and/thus
become hidden in the forest.
• In his latest book, Mt. H. G. Wells,
writing of his visit to the Isonzo front,
tells of a great battery that he carne
upon, "the most unobstrusive of bat-
teries, whose one desire seemed to be
to appear a simple piece of woodland
in the eye 'of God and the aeroplane."
And he speaks of a great gun that he
found there, a sort of decoy gun made
of logs to draw the enemy fire "with
its painted sandbags about it, and it
felt itself so entirely a part of the
battery that whenever its companions.
fired, it burned a flash and kicked up
a dust. It was an excellent example
•of the great art of camouflage."
To be seen, in modern trench ,war-
fare, is certain death. So the shin-
ing helmet is painted a dull blue, and
all the armies have adopted uniforms
of the color that they consider least
visible. To conceal soldiers in dan-
gerous outpost duty, blouses and
hoods are provided and carefully
painted to match exactly the surround-
ings in which they are to bo worn.
Even the face of the soldier is streak-
ed with bars of color like that of an
•Indian, and he becomes quite invisible,
and is as effectively hidden as any wild
animal lying,under cover in•the woods.
4,900 BRITISH KILLED
Ihl ONE WEEK.
despatch from London says:
A despa
Casualties in the British ranks re-
ported for the week ending Sept, 18
follows:
Killed or died of wounds, 185 offi-
cers and 4,755 men; officers wounded
or missing, 431, and men wounded or
missing, 21,843.
MUCH CANADIAN
FOOD NEEDED
From, Canada and U. S.
A despatch from London says: In-
auguration of•a new food economy
G
nouncn Thursday s] was
by
Baron
'Rhondda, the Food Controller. "If
voluntary measures fail," he said, "I
shall have no c npunction•in putting
the nation on compulsory rations.."
Baron Rhondda added that the
danger of the situation did not lie
in the submarine peril, but in the
world's shortage of cereals, meats and
fats.
Baron Rhondda made this state-
ment to correspondents, after telling
them that the minimum food stuff re-
quirements from Canada and the
United States during the forthcoming
twelve months would be more than
10,000,000 tons, representing an ex-
penditure of £250,000,000.
RUMANIAN SOLDIERS' WOUNDS
DRESSED WITH SAWDUST.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Sent. 25 -Oats -Canadian
W estern, No. 2, 773c; No. 3, 763c; extra
No. 1 feed, 763c: No. 2 local white, 70c;
No. 3 local white, 69c. Barley--Mani-
tabs, feed, 1.23; malting, 31.3.3. Flour-
Manitoba•Pring wheat patents, firsts,
111,00; seconds, 311,10; strong bakers',
Ttr43; Winter Patents. choice 312.00;
straight rollers,. 512.50 to $11.80; do„
bags, 56,00 to 55.75. Bulled oats Bbls,,
38.70 to 39,00; de„ bags, 90 lbs„ 34,20 to
$4.40, Bran, 334.00 to $36.00. Shorts,
$40.00. Middlings, .$48.00 to $60.00.
Mountie, 356,00 to $60.00, Hay -No. 2,
per ton, car lots, $10.50 to 311. Cheese
•-•i"inest Westerns, 2110; finest East -
erns, 2130: Butter -Choicest croamerY,
421 to 43c; seconds, 413 to 420. Eggs-
B'llesh, 68 to 640; selected, 47 to 45o;
No. 1 stock, 43 to 44c; No. 2 stock, 40
to 41c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots,
31.55 to $1.60.
Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg, Sept. 26 -Cash prices -
Wheat -No. 2 Northern, 32.18; No. 3,
do•, $2.15; No. 4, 52,10; No, 6. 31.01;
No 6, 31.81; feed, 31.70. Oats -No, 2
Cit., Glc; No, 3, do., 63c; extra No, 1
feed, 05c; No, 1 feed, 64e; No. 2. do.,
0230. Barlo}-No. 33,s...,$1.20; No. 4, 51.16;
rejected, 31.12; feed;+, 31.12. )"lax -No.
1 N: W.C., 33.27; No, 2 C,W„ 33.217 No.
3, do., $3.10,
• 'United States Markets
Minneapolis, Sept. 25 -Corn -No. 3
A despatch from W- ashington says: Yellow, 52,06 to 52,08. Oats -No. 3
RumLania is so short of medical sup- wran-$8hite, 53 0.60to to $ 6003;2, )"leer -Unchanged.
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plies that wounds of hen soldiers are Duluth, Sept. 25 -Linseed -$3.443;
being dressed with` sawdust, says a IdrNoerita,4l8bid; October, 33
, $2,4ccm,er
cablegram received here from the 33.d03 012.
American Red Cross Commission to
Rumania. The cablegram adds that
the Rumanian railroad system is bad- Toronto, Sept, 26 -Extra choice heavy
steers, .311,10 to 31-, d0., good heavy,
ly crippled, and that there is urgent- 310.25 to $10.76; butchers' cattle, choice,
need for ambulance transport, with 39.75 to 310.26; do., geod, $9 to $0.40;
do., medium, 35,25 to 35.66; do., common,
drivers and mechanics. • $0.76 to $7.40; butchers' bulls, chore,
7.86;' do., medium bulls,6. 6 to
10
do, rets hulls 6 to cG; bu hers'
Live Stock Marltote
• $"18.30 to 38.05; do., good bulls, 37.40$to
REFUSE SAFE CONDUCT cows, chohice, $8' to 38.25; do., 00od, mg them. A properly installed
RIG INCREASE IN
CANADA'S TRADE
Total For First Five '11ontlls of
Fiscal Year 0428,274,11J
A despatch from Ottawa says;
Trade' figures for August and the first
five months of the present fiseal'yoar,
made public by Ilon. J. D, Reid, show
that Canada's great trade expansion
continues unabated. Last fiscal year
Canada's trade aggregated two billion
dollars, but at the present rate the
trade for tlae^- present fiscalyear
should be- at least five hundred mil-
lion more than last year's great re-
cord, For the first 5 months of the pre-
vious fiscal year our total trade was
$768,685,214, ' while ' for the corre-
sponding period this year it is $1,
128,274,119, , Tho trade balance in 0120
favor for the first five months of the
present fiscal year is 3180,000,000.
The total imports for August
amounted to 391,931,000, as against
372,331,014 for August last year.
For the five months of the present
fiscal year, ending with August, our
total imports were valued at 3474,-
031,8!ii, and for the same period
last year 3322,198,881. With this
increase in our import trade has come
a corresponding increase in revenue
for August of $3,075,000, and for the
five months, 317,540,000,
The export trade shows a corre-
sponding increase of from 396,832,-
161 in August last year to 3152,563,-
345 during the corresponding month
this year. For five months our ex-
port trade &otalled 3672,022,649, an
increase of 3217,291,385 over the
same period last year. -Fisheries show
an increase for the month of 3200,-
000 in export, animals and the pros
duce 38,000,000, agricultural pro-
ducts $25,000,000 and manufactures
$27,000,000. There was a slight de-
crease in exports of minerals, and
$2,000,000 decrease in products of
the forests. -
CANADA TO ENGLAND
Great names of thy great captains
gone before
Beat with our blood, who have that
blood of thee:
Raleigh Grenville, Wolfe, and all the
free
i
Fine souls who dared to front a world
,din war.
Such only may outreach the •prisons
years
'Where feebler crowns and fainter
stars remove.
Nurtured in one remembrance and one
love,
Poo high for passion and too stern for
tears.
0 little isle our fathers held for home,
Not, not alone thy standards and thy
hosts
Lead where thy sons shall follow,
Mother Land;
Quick as the north wind, ardent as the
foam.
Behold, behold the invulnerable ghosts
Of all past greatnesses about the
stand.
-Marjorie L. C. Pickthall.
LIGHTNING RODS.
Protection They Afford is Being
Realized by Rural Dwellers.
Fires resulting from lightning are
of frequent occurrence, especially in
the rural districts, and many homes
and barns are destroyed. Many farm-
ers are realizing the protection which
lightning rods afford, and are install -
FOR GERMAN DIPLOMAT.I 37.35 to $7,00; do., medium, $0.60 to I lightning rod system rarely' fails to
.6.76; stockers, 37.50 to $9.25; feeders,
5 to $: ; crumera and utters, 36 to ; protect the property, and so fully has
A despatch from London says: It is R$$s.b0; milkers, good to choice, 3100 to this come to be recognized that nearly
i $136; do., con,. and med.. $75 to 386; I
learned that Great Britain does not 'at Spt•ii,g•ers,•390 Co $1.36 11••'it ewes, $9,60 ;all insurance companies give a pre -
present intend toapprove arty applies-' to $.11.60; sheep, heavy, '6.76 to 37.60; ' ferential rate to risks, thus secured.
I yearlings, $11 to 3X2; entves, goo, to � In a survey of 400 farms carried
Luxburg, the German Minister to Ar- $$16.76; hors, res and watered, do.,
t., cut • the Commission 15; do., ore cars, $17.76• do., f..b., Rion in 1916 i
gentina, whose passports.have been' 1,.60.
handed to him by the Argentine Gov- I Montreal, Sept, 26 -Choice steers,
'310.50; gond, 39.76 to' $10; lower grades,
ernment, 38; butchers• cows, $6,60 to $8.60;
bulls, $'26 to $0.00; canning. bulls
tion for n safe 'conduct for Count von choice $14 50 to $16 6 Spring lambs
mission of Conserve-
,
per cent., or 172, of the farmers had
their barns protected by lightning
rods, while but 4,7 per cent,,. or 19, had
,$C to. $6,-5, cors. 36 to $6.-6, Ontnrto,their. homes thus protected.
ARGENTINA VOTE• S TO SEVER ]nobs 3x4 6 to $16 26• (tvebec lambs
The ht -
RELATIONS WITH GERMANY. i clioic a mill$14.60;
fed chives}0$14 to $15; lto ower' ming rods uare ltfully described of
On-
tario Department of Agriculture, Bul-
letin No. 220, "Lightning Rods;' by
Prof. W. H. Day, Ontario Agricultural
College.
RUSSIAN SUCCESS
ON RIGA FRONT
A despatch from Petrograd says: -
The Russians on Wednesday on the
Riga front repulsed a attack by the
..1 grades, $9 to $18; selected hogs, $17.50
A despatch fr- om - Buenos Ayres
says: The Argentine Senate by a vote! ---,-..--`
of 23 to 1 declared for the breaking BLOCKADE MEASURES
off of relations with Germany. WILL BE MORE RIGID.
The resolution now goes to ' trip -
Chamber of Deputiet. There is strong A despatch from London says:
public feeling in favor of its final Lord Robert Cecil, British Minister f
passage. Blockade, and Albert Metin, uncler-
secretary of the French Foreign Of-
KONR ILOFr TO BE TRIED fico in charge of blockade matters,
BY JURY AT THE FRONT. had a conference here with the object Germans with
_ of gaining closer co-operation from i great asses to the in-
ths United States in a policy which , vaders, according to the statement is -
A despatch from P,otrograd says: !sued by the Russian War Office. The
aims at exercising more rigid pies-,
Gen, it hasoff, leader of the recent re- sure on the . enemy:- This policy will Rumanians were compelled to abandon
volt; it has been decided 'definitely; Ue carried out without interference enemy positions that they had cm--
will
c-
will be tried by court-martial with a ,be
the economic condition of nen- cupied in the region of Ocna.
jury, '''At the instance of'the Council
of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates tral countries' The copper mines of Cyprus,
the Government has agreed that the f• ancient tiwo d,
times the richest in the world,
trial shall' be held at the front instead FURTHER LOANS MADE are to be re -opened by American capi-
of in Petrograd.
Duringthe. ourse of a trial i3
t
i ulture is the science ofWashington a s: q
A r c from s witless
Agriculture �1 despatchY Chicago a t by the name ofA
labor of man aided by sunshine ,and Loans of $50,000,000 to England and Francis Dooley was asked concerning
rain of the heavens, 320,000,000 'to Franne made by the the defendant: "Are you related to
When we waste bread' we waste the •United States Government, bring the Thomas Dooley? "Very distantly,"
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FOR COWARDICE
EXECUTION OF NOTED MEN IS
NO UNCOMMON THING.
Military and Naval Leaders Who
Have Showed "White Feather" ,a
and Paid Extreme Penalty.
The leadership of an army, or a
place of responsibility in the navy,
carries with it grave risks as well as
high honors, -,
General Socecu, ono of the leading
Rumanian soldiers, was tried by
court-martial for "something that'
went wrong" at the battle of Argesu,
owing to which the Rumanian 'army'
h47 to retire, whilst Fallcenhayn and
Maokensen ravaged the fertile plains
of Rumania, and finally captured Bu-
charest. The sentence of the court
was that General Socecu should be de-
graded, stripped of his uniform, and
sent as a convict into penal servitude
for five years.
It has since trananired that Socecu
was a naturalized German. This fact
is very significant, in the light of
events to -day. .But the whole affair
reminds us that the severe punishment
and even the execution of noted gen-
erals who have failed their country in
the field is no uncommon thing.
Fate of Admiral Byng.
The most famous ease is that of Ad.
mural B.yng, who was shot by order of
a court-martial for having failed to
do his best ata naval action off. Min-
orca. It was, however, certain , that
his failure had nothing to do with
either 'dishonor or cowardice. He was
shot on board the Monarch at Spit -
head, as a great French writer pun-
gently put it, "to encourage the
others."
Then, too, there was General White -
lecke, who, in command of an army of
England against the enemy at Buenos
Aires, showed the "white feather," and
fairly funlcod the risk and danger of
fighting. For this crime he was
brought in due course before a court-
martial, ordered to be degraded, turn-
ed out of the Army, andsentenced to
prison, as "being unfit to serve His
Britannic Majesty in any capacity
whatever."
Some of us can remember the ex-
citement and tense feeling in many
lands when the ill-fated Marshal Ba- •
zainevvas'h, 1873 tried in France, and'
sentepced to be shot,"for not having
defended Metz to the utmost, nor even
to the best of his ability, during the
Franco-German War of 1870-1. This
sentence was later commuted to one of
twenty years' imprisonment. But the'
following year Bazaine escaped from
hisP rison and made his way safely to
Madrid, where he died in 1888.
There is also in our memories the
thux, during the Russo-Japanese
case of General Stoessel,. at Port Ar-
War
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It will be recalled that Stoessel, after:
defending the town for nearly a year,]
finally surrendered it on January 1st,
1905, to the Japanese, generals and ad-
mirals investing it. For this he was
afterwards brought to trial by the
Russian military authorities, and sen-
tenced to death. This sentence, how-,
ever, provoked such protest, not only
from Russians, but from other lands,,
that had watched with interest and
sympathy the struggle at Port Arthur,
that the Czar commuted it to impris-
onment in a fortress for ten years.
The brave, but unfortunate Stoessel,
died lonely and broken-hearted a £ew.
years later.
The Shame of Yorktown.
It was, perhaps, as much as any
thing, the shameful surrender of the
English garrison of 10,000 officers and
men at Yorktown which decided ilia
struggle between England and her
American colonies, by which.,the Unit-
ed States became a separate and inde-
pendent nation. For that surrender
several of the' leading officers were
tried later, and various sentences were
inflicted on them, with degradation
from their rank. Indeed, it was only
high influence and powerful backing
which saved one or two of them being
shot, so angry and outraged was the
British public at what had happened
in Yorktown on that occasion.
HIGH PRICES WILL CONTINUE
Supply of Live Stook is Short and
Europe's Demands Wi1I Be
Tremendous.
Twenty dollars a hundred for live
;togs in Chicago and very near that
figure on the_ Canadian markets -
when will the ascension stop ? But.
chers' cattle . are selling •around $11.
Never before has the Canadian farmer
received such prices, and, although
feed prices are high, they are more
than offset by those for live stock.
What is more, high prices aro likely
continue ears after the w
to co for Y tar.
"The h hog supply of the United
nn
States is 3,000,000 less than five years
ago," recently said Dr, 3. G. Ruther.
ford, the leading authority on live
stock subjects. "In Canada we have
such a shortage of hogs that it is
quite Impossible to supply our own de-
mands from our own ]togs, and large
quantities of American putt, • ]lams
and bacon are being shipped into our
country. I feel satisfied that hogs,
provided fair play is exercised on the
market, will maintain a high figure
for many years to cone,"
As for beef cattle, he stated; "Ther@
is a tremendous shortage of cattle all,'
ever the World, There is an extraor•
denary ddnand, The number of cattle
in the 'United States has decreased by
some 7,006,000 in the last nine years,
and that with many more people to
feed. We have, in Canada, the same
diminution going on, although wo lack
the corresponding homage of meat -
eating population, There has been a
trelnendmis waste in the slaughter of
calves.
After the war, not only Germany,
Austria, Italy and Belgium, but every
other country in Europe will have
been drained of its supply of cattle
and there will be a, tremendous de•,,
nrend and the prices will soar tar be.'
yond ally figure that any of us have
over seen;'