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• The King of Italy, accompanied by the Duke of Connaught, at a decoration
on the Italian front. Italian Official Photo.
MAY STOP MAKING
UNDIES AND JAM
Shortage of Sugau is Serious,
Says Food ContrOlier.
A despatch from Montreel says:
The possibility of the banning of the
• manufacture of candies, confectionery
and jam because of the sugar short-
age was hinted by Food Controller
Hanna in the course of his address to
the Housewives' League here on
e 'Thursday.
Mr. Hanna said that the amount
of raw sugar available for the re
tilers in .Canada and the United
GERMANS PLOTTED
TO DESTROY X.P.R.
Further Information Concern-.
ing Von -BernStOrff'S Plans.
A despatch from Washington says:
-Secretary Lansing drew -upon his
collection of secret German diplomatic
correspondence again to shed further
light upon what the German Foreign
Office and General Staif were doing in
this country while at peace with the
United States.
He gave to the public, without corn.
ment as usual, three brief cablegrams,
disclosing that more than a year be -
States was so small as to be the sub- fore 'submarine piracy drove America
,ject of alarm in both countries. Dur- to war the Berlin Government was
ing the past ten days a crisis had de- instructing Ambassador Bernstorff
veloped, but drastic measures were to arrange for destructeon of Canadilin
being taken by the Departments of railroads and to use Irish -Americans
Food Control at Ottawa and Wash- in carrying on s.abetage in their own
ington to ieseire a steady supply. country. They showedltoo, that von'
Cuba, since the war began, was the Bernstorff on his part was even at
world's main source of sugar, and the that early date: seeking authority to
, United States was in close contact support a campaign to influence Con-
with'the Island, and Canada was not; gress: • '
Mr. Hanna said that a member of •
his staff had been in New York try- •
ing to secure even a moderate sup- $700,000,000 IN SHELLS
' ply, but had not succeeded. The last SENT FROM CANADA
consignment of raw sugar for Can-
ada was now on its way here.
A despatch from Montreal says:-
PLENTY OF FUEL OIL Canada has shipped sufficient tonnage
FOR BRITISH NAVY of• shells to the Old Country to build
ninetiren bridges across the St.
A despatch from Washington says:
-An ample supply of fuel oil for the
British navy was assured at a confer-
ence Between their Government rep-
resentatives; Standard Oil officials and
'members of the Shipping Board. Oil
reserves in Great Britain have run so
low, the conference disclosed, that
many British warships have been
forced to remain inactive.
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To remedy this situation the Ship-
pingeBoard will rush construction of
68 oil tanrers recently commandeered
in ship -building yards, and is consid-
ering building at least 40, more. The
problem, is entirely one of tonnage, as
there is an abundance of -oil on this
side of the Atlantic.
MEN PREFER TO SURRENDER
• TO HOLDING SHELL CRATERS
• A despatch from London says:-
" "Two interesting points emerged from
the latest -battle of Flanders. First,
the 'eneray system of echelonment
proved •a failure. Second, the substi-
tution of prepared lines of shell craters
for battered trench lines is almost'
valueless, because after a heavy shell-
ing the craters are•little good as shel-
ters. Prisoners admit that the higher
command realize that during heavy fire
themen cannot be trusted to hold
them. At the moment of _attack the
men are either not at their posts or
• are in a. frame of mind which makes
surreeder the wiser course than fight
PRAIRIE FIRE RAGING
Much Property D▪ e- stroyed North . of
North Battleford.
A (teepee& from' Prince Albert,
'Sask., says: -A disastrous prairie and
bush fire is sweeping over a fifteen -
mile front in the country 30 -miles
north of North Battleford. A number
of settlers have suffered losses, in-
cluding -George Power, district magis-
trate, who has had all of his farm
buildings and crops destroyed,
Constable Dunn' of the Provincial
Police at North Battleford, has or-
ganized a company, which has left for
the scene of the conflagration. A
gale is blowing and- heavy derange is
feared.
If yoa. have a stout team er a tract-
or, and a neighbor or villager haen't,
extend ,a helping hand and thus ex-
pedite farm Work.
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Markets , the,' World,
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'reroute .1rOet, 16.:-Zdatittobe wheat -
No, 1 Nokhern, 32.2.3r NO, 2 do„ 2?1,20;
No,.•(.1P, 32,17; No.,: 4 whoa*, 22,11, In
Stet% Fort:William „looluding 3o,, tax.
• Ma1t 4t,3,t, -1'lo 7 C,.W.'66o; No. 3
O:W„ 620; extra No, 1 feed, 631c: No, 2
feed, in stove Port William.
,loan aerm,No, 8 yelioiy.
Ontario oats -No, V.whtte, '32 to 02e,
nointha; NO, 3, do,, 61 te- 62e,•innninair
aycordteg to freights outside.
Ontario' wheat ----New; No. 2 'Winter,
32.72; basis, in. -stere Mbntreal.
Feas-e-No. 2
Parley -Molting, 3,1e to 31,13, ac-
cording to 1'4'eights oeteicie,
ell:Lefton, nour-giret patents, in Jute
bags, 311,50; Ind, clo., 311; steong bak-
ers', do„ 210,60, Toronto,
21.75, accoraite ttc'elge
Ona4e
lo fflOtlr--". Winter, according to
udninld, 39,601 in bags, Montreal; 20,60,
'Parente, prompt shiptnent.
Millfeed-ear lets-.Deilyered • Mont-.
reed freiglite, bags Included, bran per
ton 336; Shorts, do., 342; niiildlings,' do„
1,11156o $46; good feed flour, pet' bag,
Ray -No. 1. .new per ton, $12 to See;
mixed, do,' 39 to $11, truck Toronto.
Strrew-Car lots,, per ton, $7 to $7,50,
track Toronto,
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Country ,rroduce-Whologale
Butter -Creamery, sonde; per lb, 42/
to 430; pints, per Ib, 481 to 44e:. &Orr,
per lb, 36 to 36c.
10ggs-Per dozen, 390.
Virholesalers are gelling to the retail
trade at the following prices: -
Cheese -New, large, 23 to 231o; twin%
281 to 230c; triplets, 231 to 24c. old
large, 30c; twins, 803e; triplets, 340,
Stltter-Fresh dairy, choice, 40 to 410;.
creamery prints, 46 co 46c; gander, 44 to
45.
llgge-Nsw laid, in cartofis, 51 to 680;
out of cartons, 450.
Dressed roultry-Spring chickens, 26
to 30c; f ow1, 20 to 22o; squabs, per dos,,
34 A° 34.50; turkeys, 28 to 320; ducks,
Spring, 22c; geeee, 160.
Live poultry-Turkers, 22b; Spring
chickens, lb. 20e; hens, 15 to 20c; ducks,
Spring, 16; geese, 12c,
Honey--Comb--Dxtra fine, 16 oz.,
63.26; 12 oz., 32.75; No, 2, 3240 to $2.50.
Strained, tins, 21'5 and 5's, 18c per lb;
10's, 17 to 171a•, 60's, 161 to 17c.
Beans -No Canadian, beans on market
until last of October; imported band -
„picked, $7.76 per bush; Limas, per lb.,
151 to 160c.
Potatoes, on track -Ontario, bag, 31.40
to 3140. .
• Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 30 to
81o; do.. heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to
42c: rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon,
36 tfi 40c; backs, plain, 39 to,40o; bone;
less 43 to 44c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 271
to 280 lb; clear bellies, '265 to 27o.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 265 to 270;
tubs, 261 to 271o; pails, 27 to' 275o;
compound, tierces 22 to 2815; tuba,
.221 to 225o; pails,' 222 to 230,
Montreal Markets ,
iVioutreal, Oct. 16.-Oats-Canadlan
Western, 'No. 2, 762o; No, 3, 76o• extra
No. 1 feed, 75c; No, 2 local Wht2e, 72o;
No, 3 local white, 71c. Barley -
Manitoba feed, 21.29; malting, 31,30 to
$1.21.\ Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat
patents, fl.t.903, 311,00; seconds, 311.10;
strong bakers', $10,90; Winter patents,
choice, 311.25; straight rollers, 210.70
to $11.00; do. bags, 35,20 to 26.86.
Rolled oats--Bbls. $8.30; do: bags; 90
lbs, 24.00. Bran, $36,00. Shorts, 240
itoots$42s.1131,6i0ddltito 312.00,
348 to 360. Montilla,
365 to 360: • Hay -No. 2, per ton, car
312.00, Cheese-FInest
westerns, 211c; finest eaSterrie, 215c,
Butter -Choicest creamery, 454 to 460;
seconds, 460. Iliggs-Presh,„53 to 54c;
selected, 47 to 48c; No, 1 stook, 48, to
44o; No. 2 stock, 40 to 41c, Potatoes -
Per bag, car lots, $1.70.
Winnipeg Omen
Lawrence, each equal to the Quebec Winnipeg, Oet. 16. -Cash prices: -
Bridge, or sufficient to build sixty-six robeirdeedizol 8Nrothen,6.32,31; Ns, 2,
battleships of 18,000 tons each, ;so' NsI. 0, 31.94; 'No. 8, 33i,82; 770, 4, 8322.971!
Brigadier -General Sir 'Alexander Bee-. Oats -27o, 12 feed, 833a; No, 8, do., 63c;
tram told the Canadian Society of Civil No. 2 de:, 611o, ' Barley -No.
rejected and Teed, 31,10.
Engineers in an address on Thursday' 1,,Neeel,giti-II , 22,931; No. 2 C.
night. 'Sir Alexander said the total , W.,- 3-2.-87-1; -NoN.'81',Vd0o.., 32.761.
value of all the munitions and supplies I - -
sent overseas since Sept., 1914, had I United States raserisets
reached the enormous total of $700 -1 Minneapolis, Oct. 16.-COrn-No. 8
, I yellow, 31.81 to 21.85. Oats -No. 8
000,000.- 1white, -661 to 672. Flour unchanged.
The work was carried on in 400, Bteee
nte38° t 311-' - seed 32.525 to
factories in Canada, three-fifths in the ' 38,04; teto% airtve,t. 1
336L.685;inOotoi3er,$3.028;
manufacture of shells and two-fifths `November, $8.02; December, $2.97 nak-
ed; May, $3.02 asked.
on components, basic supplies and
shipbuilding,
Live stools Markete.
Toronto, Oct. 16.-Hxtra ebotee
heavy steers, 31L00 to 232.60; do., good
HEAVY FIGHTING IN RUMANIA hueee..vy, 311.00 to 311.60; butchers' cat-
ch° ce, 610,10to $1 0., good,
WITH ALLIES THE AGGRESSORS Vest to ems; do. mediuM, 30,00 to
- 39.85; do., common 37.76 to 38.25;
• _ butchers' bulls, chol'oe, $8.30 to $8.75;
A despatch fr0111 London says: The do., good bulls, 27.40 to 27.85; do„
prospects' oe a return. to heavy fight- Tueit,leouo"sio "cg. oto`;
Ing Rumania -with the allies the ohoice, 38.26 to $8.75; do„ good, TIM
to AU: ; 367o6 0 Tod 1;77 5 *3 36.60
os $47ici
aggressors seem good. On the Rtz.
FAMOUS 'HOAXES.
OF nig''
A PRACTICAL JOKE, PLAYED 33Y
PEOPLE OF BRUSKI,S.
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Ship's Captain Eingloee Clever Ruse
to Deceive Submarine in the /
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Danger Zone.
Probably the greatest hoax of the
war -gene wliioh mileene believed for
a time • at, leaSt-WaS the story that
frth 100,000 to 200,000 Ruesienetreolie
had arrived in England Mope Aeolian -
gee, These troop*, 60 the eerly eteriee
raSi, were moved by. night across ;the
United Kingdom, in cars with the
shades drawn down 'and at any mo.
ment were likely to appear, on the
western front with the troops of Great
Britain, Prance and Midi.=
The story was first printed In New
York. It 'spread throughout America..
and was cabled abrtittil told doubtlesa
sent by wireless to Berlin. The Eng -
110e censorship offered no official de -
egg or afermation of the story, but
for a time every steamship from Eng-
land reaching New York brought some
individual who imagined he had seen
the treble. Kitchener let the hoaX run
without' doing anything to stop it
Whether It had any effect on the Ger-
mans it is hard to tell, but amateur
strateagriiss.ts conduceing the war from
office chairs saw great possibilities
in it to stop the great German drive
oni,
A Joke on the Hun.
What amounted to a practical joke
was played on the Germans by the
Belgians in Brussels. The Germans
announced a grand concert of Ger-
man music at the opera house. A.
syndicate of Belgian bankers and
brokers bought all the seats except
one and MO royal box, Gen. Baron
von Sassing was delighted at this evi-
dence that the Belgians were not
averse in times of foreign otscepation
to listen to a German concert, But
on the night of the concert not a
single Belgian used his ticket, When
Von BissIng arrived at the opera
house it was empty save for one soli-
tary auditor, a- German Landsturm
soldier.
Berlin, particularly the West End,
hanged itself over a rumor that Serbia
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FRENCH STOP ,
ENEMY ATTACKS
German Efforts Repulsed on
Verdun Front and in
Champagne.
A despatch from Paris says: -The
official communication issued by the
War Office on Thursday says: -
"During the day the two artillefies
were active at various points along the
front, particularly in the region. of
L'Epine de Chevregny, south of the
Butte du Mesnil, where our fire ar-
rested enemy groups who attempted
to reach our emall posts, and en the
right bank of the Meuse. There were
no infantry actions,
"In Belgium eluting the night we
broke up a German attack delivered
east of Draeibank against our posi-
tions between Victoire farm and Pa-
tegoet farm.
"On the Aisne front an enemy pa -
had surrendered and that its entire
army had laid down its arms. The trol which was seeking to approach
our lines in the region of Cerny was
rumor was started by the ringing of dispersed by our fire.
church bells for the meeting of the "On the right bank of the Meuse
General Synod, Some individuals not (Verdun front) in the region of Hill
knowing the reason concluded that 344, the Germans made ,an attack
what they had been hoping had come which enabled them to gain a footing
to pass and that the the,bells were rung momentarily in portions of one of our
to announce a Teuton victory. Every -
h advanced trenches. After a spirited
w
ah' engagement we repulsed the adversary
Bulger mid 'Turkish flags, The rumor
lasted until the afternoon newspapers tainodns.r!mained masters of our posi-
castle out with a statement that "the
situation of our troops in Serbia is
splendid, but the enemy has not
reached the end of his resistance ONE PHASE OF Y.1V1.C.A. WORK
Clever and Profitable.
-
.A. profitable hoax was played upon Caring For the Relatives Who Visit
a German submarine off the coast of
the Wounded in France,
Ireland by the captain of the steam-
ship Director. Suspecting that at any There is no More appealing side of
moment the Director might be M the the Y.M.C.A. work in France than
danger zone, he instructed the slieree 'their care of the relatives of the
earpenter to saw a big square spar in- wended, says a woman worker in
to three pieces, which the crew paint-
ed black. These pieces of wood ,were
then mounted as if they were guns.
WAn a submarine approached the
skipper of the Director pointed the
Quaker guns at the U-boat, which
promptly decided to go down again
without waiting to fire a torpedo, The
Direetor, with Its false guns, fled at
top speed and got away safely.
THE LIGHT-HEARTED ESKIMO
Fiance.
Both on this side of the channel and
on the other side the first people to
pass the military and civil authorities
at the embarkation and landing stage
are those visiting badly -wounded men
in France. "Relatives of the wound-
ed!" is the first cry on both Odes, and
they take precedence before all other
passengers of whatever kind. •
AnXiouS and worried these relatives
come to a country where, as a rule,
menials plain and near Braila the Ries- to $9.26; canners and cutters, $6,00 to - they neither understand the languagei
Characteristics of the Inhabitant§ of nor the customs, and to have their
sians have heavily bombarded the Hem; milkers, good to choice, moo
The Frozen North difficulties dissolved by the Y.M.C.A.
to 3125,00; 00,, rcsern.3a9nodoom,edt.0 370,00 to -g
Teutonic allied position, while the mate
Germans in reprisal shelled the im- light ewesi 311,00 to $12.00; sheep. "People who believe that ice and officials is the greatest of boons. En
portant Danubian town of Galatz,
heavy i'lys',olr'Oatircils,
"ign ytgas gMse; NIS snow and months of darkness make route they are met and convoyed from
bid psychological traits should point to point; and when they reach
their shells causing several fires. Qn to 315.50; SPring lambs, $16.00 to fee mor
the northern sector of the eastern gl.:.7vogn. ,13.-ca.,,,,v,mgeto,ors,,;71;, see the Eskimo eat any season of the their final destination one of the Y.
' ' ' year, says D. MacMillan, the Arctic M.C.A. lady workers ,awaits them on
front near Riga the Germans, fellow- elige.
----------4 rcheerfulness Except- the platform.
Straight away they are reassured,
ing a heavy • bombardment, gushed 36,:fivrtoto•ewalf; Oct.6 -Bulls 36 50 to
, 36,26 tO 36.60; 'steerS, 39,50 explorer. He is a wonderful lesson
back the Russians in the vicinity of to *10; fair, 38.76 to $9.26; common,
the Pskoffhigh road.
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GERMAN RAILWAYS
ARE SHORT OF FUEL
A despatch from London says: --
The German state railways are faced
with a great shortage of fuel and
drastic limitation of traffic, has begun,
according to reports reaching here.
The railroads propose to levy heavy
excess fares on express trainees° as to the Sultanate remains to be settled,
discourage all except unavoidable buei_ the British -Agent has called upon
nese journeys. A large numbee of Prince Fuad, brother' of the late Sul -
fast trains have been eliminated from tan Hussein Kemal, to assume the dig-
tlie Winter time tables.* The Wurt-
temberg railway* will charge heavy
excess fares for traffic on Saturday
afternoons and Sundays.
$8.00 to 18,60, bu c ets 00WS, 30.00 to in
g• possibly the inhabitants of Terra, where happily possible, as to the im-
t,
b ls, $7.00 • to $8.60: Ontario
$14.25; sheep, $8.00 to 29.50; ohoice scantily endowed with advantages of up to the hostel for a meal, and, per -
;8.
Iambs $14.76 to16,25; Quebec, $13.50 del Fuego I know of no people so mediate condition of their men, driven
mins-fed calyes, 218.60 0; to d $14.50; lenvironment. Yet the Eskimo iower haps, rest -according to the hour -
greets, $7.00'.to $14,5Selecteings, s
$18.75 to 319.25.
SULTANATE OF EGYPT
OFFERED PRINCE FUAD
A despatch from Cairo, Egypt says:
--Although the order of succession to
The young man who goes in debt
heavily for a farm has to stick to. his
farm work like a leach; and he needs
a good wife te help him, However;
he is more apt to succeed in the end
than the fellow who waits till he has
saved the 'girdles° price in *mall
amounts, -,-the price of land may in-
crease faster than his bank account.
nity.
The right of succession of the heirs
,of rued will be established by agree-
ment between the Government and the
flew Sultan,
The Usual Amount.
"I can tell you how much water runs
over Niagara Falls to a gent," said
the endergraduate, howennich 7"
asked his companion, "Tivo pints,
announced the well-educated young
man.
perennially' light-hearted and eptim- and then to the hospital.
istic. Sometimes they 'arrive tog late.
"The primary accomplishment for Sometimes not even the tidings that
matrimony is the bride's ability to his nearest and dearest are speeding
phew the boot,! which signifies the towards him as feet as boat and train
operation of preparing boots and kip_ can bring them can stay the weary
parel generally for the prospective
soul of the stricken warrior. It is
husband. The girls are considered not an easy task to meet a relative
mature and marriageable at 12 or 13under such circumstances, although all
Wives are always at a premium M an that sympathetic hearts and hands can
Eskimo tribe, because there is a pre- do is done by the Y,M.C.A. workers.
ponderance of men, .But there are happier times.
. "Perhaps it . is this circumstance There are numerous instances where
that has led to the swapping of wives, a loved hand or the sound of a familiar
The changes in the domestic line-up voice has „had power to call back a
seem to be considered very satisface lite slipping beyond, to instil fresh
tory. In fact, thine is quite a com.. energy for the fight. One dangeeoue-
munistic tendency among the Eskimos, ly wounded man opened his tired es
anyway. One on good terms with an and looked on the face of a baby son
Eskimo is considered entitled to the he had never seen, and into a woman's
use of anything the, latter possesses." 0374 that last smiled on him in a
• . Welsh village,
, . .
He thought he had a hundred friends, And the baby fingers and a woman's
But found Isms two or three
; love drew him back febm the gathers
But these in staunchness made amends
For lack of quantity..
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with his wife and boy.
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RAIG'S TROOPS
IRRESISUBLE
"Steam -Roller" Is Right' Word,
iVIajOr-General Maurice Says.
A despatch from London says:
Major-General Frederick B. Maurice,
Chief Director of Military Operations
at the War Office, in his weekly talk
on 'Thursday with the Associated
Press, after an optimistic review of
the past week's work on the British
front in Flanders, said:
-"We have every right to be confi-
dent when we see what our men have
done. But the fighting is hard, and
we do not think that the present se-
ries of battles in Flanders is going to
end the war. There is a great deal
more hard fighting before us. I
would say that the importance of
getting the American troops here as
quickly ea possible and in the great-
est possible numbers has not been
diminished.
"The word 'steam -roller,' which
was so often used in the early days
'of the war in connection with the
Russian army, is exactly the right
word to characterize the British ad-
vance in Flanders. It is an advance
not rapid, but insistent, irresistible.
It goes up hill very srewly, but now it
is going down hill, and battles are
following each other more and more
rapidly."
BRITISH AIRMAN
ATTACKS GUNNERS
Descends and Silences Enemy
Machine Gun Fire.
A despatch from London says: An
official statement on British aerial
operations issued on Thursday says:
"On Tuesday and Wednesday naval
air patrols attacked enemy trenches
by machine gun fire. One pilot, being
heavily shelled by anti-aircraft guns,
descended and attacked the gun
crews, scattering them and silencing
the guns.
"Early on Wednesday .naval raids
were made on the Thorout andiLich-
tervelde railway junctions and thins.
Large quantities of explosives were
dropped. All our machines returned,"
NICHOLAS ROMANOFF •
OBTAINS TRANSFER
A despatch from Petrograd says
Nicholas Romanofe, the former Em-
peror of Russia, and his family have
beeh transferred from Tobolsk, Si-
beria, to the Abolak Monastery, four-
teen miles from Tobolsk. The trans-
fer was made at the request of the
former Emperor. He complained that
his Tebolsk prison had no garden in
which he could exercise and also that
he and his family were annoyed by the
curious crowds which surrounded the
house all clay long,
• Mutiny on German Warships
A despatch from London says: -A
revolutionary outbreak on German
warships at Wilhelmshaven about six
weeks ago is reported .in a Central
News despatch from Copenhagen, This
uprising is paid to have had all the
elements of a -widespread and organiz-
ed revolt, and to have been suppress-
ed only with the greatest difficulty.
Several mutinous outbreaksalso
are relented to haye occurred among
soldiers‘ at the front: These were not
of such .a grave character, the de-
spatch says.
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and can not stop .the bleeding, tie it
up in a piece of soft rag that has been
eoakel in turpentine. This will stop
the bleeding and make the cut heal
quickly.
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FROM SUNSET COAST
WIIAT 'PiESTERff PEOPLII
ARE 09ING.
Progress of the Great West T010
in * ,Pew Pointed
Paragraphs.
The Norwegian ,stoamer'Thordis Imo
Arrives! at Vancouver on her maiden -
trip, Mewing a cargo of tea and rub-
ber from Colombo. e
Mayor MacBeath ef Vancouver has
granted permission for a tag day for
eewish war sufferers in Russia, Ru-
mania and Palestine;
The total catch of whales up to Sept.
8 at the Canadian station on the Pa -
Mile coast is as follows; Sechart, 90;
Kytiquot, 170; and Rose Harbor, 97;
a total of 367..
Lieut. B. 3D, Scott, of Victoria, has
been awarded the Mitsui Cross.
Lieut. M. Scott, a younger brother, ten
months ago, won the Military Medal,
Noel Bundle an artist, of Vancou-
ver, who has been wounded while over.,
seas, has just sent home a water-
color of Sir Herbert Tree, painted
from memory.
In the mining camp of Sandon and
surrounding mining camps, the min-
ers have refused to be docked a day's
pay a month by the companies for the
patriotic fund.
According to information from the
sources of supply there will be no
shortage of tin cans or plate in Brit-
ish Columbia this year and there is
small likelihood of a shortage next
year.
Mrs. Eyrie, of Vancouver, whose
husband 'and four sons were all in
khaki during the fleet year of the war,
family.alwayshas a premonition before ac-
cidents happen to anymember of her
Lieut. C. F. Beldersten is reported
to have died of -wounds according to
information received in -Victoria. He
left shortly following the outbreak of
war with the fleet draft of the 6th
Reghnent.
News has just recently been re-
ceived by friends that PteWensley
Otter Scott, who for three years prior
to enlisting for service overseas made
his home in Victoria, has been killed
in action. e
Vancouver, through its city officials,
has handed an ultimatum to coal deal-
ers to cut the price of coaleor the city
will step in and sell some on its own
account far below the price general-
ly charged.
Cloholm Lake, which is located back
of Sechelt, seems to be a fisherman's
paradise, judging by the experiences
of a party -61" New Westminster men
who spent a week there and brought
out over '700 trout,
Strong protest against the 100' per
cent. increase in taxation on farmers
which has been imposed by the Brew-
ster government is voiced in a resolu-
tion passed by the Kootenay River
Farmers' Institute.
The advent of rains in many 900-
tione of the Province at the end of last
week has put an end to the forest fire
danger, according to the report issued
by the Forest Branch of the Depart-
ment of Lands,B.C.
First being torpedoed by a Hun sub-
magine and later striking a mine
which sunleete transport on which he
was travelling to Mesopotamia, was
the experience which happened to Ger-
ald Kitcheson, of Mission City.
In a trial rein, held under the au-
spices of the Pacific Coast Defence
League, Hal Stone, a former Vander-
bilt cup contender, drove a car from
Victoria to Tiajuana, Mexico, in 92
hours and 4 minutes running time.
The Vancouver Board of Trade has
eeceived from the Dominion Depart-
ment of Trade and Commerce some
information regarding the unsuccess-
ful efforts of the British importers,
along with the growers of Canada, to
have the embargo on apples lifted.
The Vancouver Musical Society haye
just issued their prospectus for the
season of 1917.18. Among the works
to be put in rehearsal are the "Crea-
tion" and "Messiah."
Grain in the Fraser valley will be
a medium crop, according to a special
report on the condition of field crops
throughout Canada, issued by the
Census and Statistics Office.
e --
A GALLANT BRITISH VETERAN.
Fought as a Volunteer Under Gari-
baldi For the Freedom of Italy.
An Englishman living at Exeter,
now seventy-four years of age, who
at the age of seventeen fought as a
volunteer under Garibaldi in Southern
Italy and Sicily, is gallantly doing ills
"bit" 'to free England from the Ger-
man submarine menace, as he fought
to free Italy many years ago from the
yoke of Austria. On his allotment in
Exeter he Is growing a belt of wheat,
Which he sowed last October. Since
his Italian campaign he has served
over twenty years as a Devon 'Volun-
teer, and has a son and two grand-
sons serving at the present moment
inrrance.of
Ito Is proudthe fact that in 1911
he was present at the jubilee of Itali-
an independence, hold in Rome, 'with
seven other British survivors of the
1860 campaign. He carried the Bri-
tish colors during the inauguration of
the splendid monument erected in hon-
or of Victor Emmanuel, the grand-
father of the present King of Italy,
and he retains a vivid recollection of
the conversation lie had with the king,
who received the British volunteers in
audience at the palace.
AT"--.Ne:Fown.
The geography lesson was 'about to"
bergae
itn,e , and the subject of it was
F
Accordingly, the teacher started off
with the, gnestion: "Now in this pres-
ent terrible war who is our principal
41147ance," came the answer from a
°haus of voices,
"Quite right," said the teacher,
beaming. "Now can any of you give
the the nand of a town in 18ranot7"
A stnali boy at the back of the class
ithnost fell ova In his eagerness to
it
"Sonaewhinle," he said.