HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-02-02, Page 7BRITISH TAKE COMMANDING
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1'Iore Than 350 prisoners Taken by Gen: Haig's Troops, All the
Objective Attacked Being Gained With Slight Losses,
While German Casualties Were Very Heavy.
With the British Armies in France,
=l'an. 28. -In spite of the hard weather
conditions, a gallant attack was made
Saturday by British troops against a
strong Gerknan point on the Somme,
resulting in its capture with three
officers and more than 300 men. The i
Germans apparently did not anticipate
an attack and were somewhat off
guard, owing perhaps to the heavy
frost and strong blizzard sweeping
over the snow-covered field. The Ger-
mans remained snugly in their dug-
outs, ,probably believing that the Bri-
tish would do the same.
Outwardly there was no movement
within the British lines, but in the
trenches the troops were waiting for
a sudden attack; which had been well
prepared for and organized before-
hand. Suddenly, the ordinary desul-
tory. fire of the British batteries was
concentrated in a terrific drumfire,
flinging shells of enormous destructive
force upon the German trenches and
defensive works.
The barbed wire before the German
positions was cut as though by sharp
shears, Following the curtain of fire,
the English troops went briskly out
into "No Man's Land." The breath of
the risen looked -like a smokecloud as
they went across the field of hum-
mocky snow and shell craters filled
with solid ice.
The British troops had been cold
but fresh with the heat ofi battle they
moved forward like, a machine and
carried out the operations with preci-
sion and self-control,
Trapped in Dugouts.
The Germans were trapped in their
dugouts. The English boys were over
and around the position before the
Germans could get up to bomb them
or fire upon them with machine guns.
The whole garrison of the strong
point surrendered almost without a
fight, seemingly thinking that resist-
ance was useless. The British troops
suffered few casualties and sent back
the prisoners in triumph.
Meanwhile, the German gunners
had seen signais of distress and pre-
sently they became aware of the fact
that the strong point had been cap-
tured. They carne out of their clug-
PREP ING DRIVE
FOR FARM HANDS
Two Thousand Workers Will Be
Secured in the United.
States.
A despatch from Toronto says: Any
other "drive" for farm hands is to be
made in the United States this Spring
by the officers of the Ontario Depart-
ment of Colonization and Immigra-
tion. Arrangements have just been
completed to send five agents into the
states, three into New York State and
two into Michigan. The start is being.
made over a month earlier than last
year and the work will be continued
for three months.
In •that time, it is confidently ex-
pected, from fifteen hundred to two
thousand farnli hands will be secured
to meet the pressing scarcity in On-
tario. The department's agents • will
travel all over the two States, adver-
tising in local papers and using any
method that suggests itself to^ attract
men. They are authorized to guaran-
tee farm work at $35 to•' $40 a month
for experienced men and $15 to $25
for inexperienced men. Last year
about six hundred men were brop,ght
outs and began firing at the captured into the province as a result of a. stir.
,osition, but the visibility ,was bad, weeks' campaign.
owing to the whitish :fog and the Ger- Although but Winter work is Bo-
man drumfire was not so intense as in ing done on the farms now the • .rig
former days on the Somme front. mend for workers is so large that two
The British troops had taken pos- hundred applications have been rteeiv,
session of the deep underground rooms ed from farmers anxious to get' first,,
within the German position. In this call on the men gathered up.; Most off`
way, the officers laughingly said, they them are prepared to sign good Men
on at once.
a
celebrated the Gerinan Em'peror's
birthday.
LAURENTIC SUNK
MANY AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS.
I' RO%EN TO DEATH IN TRENCHES
OFF IRISH COAST Vienna, Jall. 28: I'leavy snows Arid
�.� i1)tense cold have resulted in a slaClt:-
British Auxiliary Cruiser
a Mine or Was
Submarined.
ening, and here and there a total ces-
sation, of the military operations on
Hit all the war fronts where Austro-
Hmlgarian troops are engaged, Bliz-
zards prevail in East Galicia, Buko-
wina, the wooded Carpathians and
Rumania, the snow being several feet
London, Jan, 28. -The British aux- deep. The temperature is the lowest
Mary cruiser Laurentic, of 14,892 tons known in years, which is true also of
gross, has been sunk by a submarine the northern sectors of the Italian
or as a result of striking a mine, ac- front and the Balkans.
cerdiztg to an official statement issued On all these fronts both sides ap-
to-night by the British Admiralty, ( pear to be finding the Winter their
Twelve officers' and 109 men were sav- worst enemy. It is almost impossible
a
togreat
�dartillery the e
owingg
use.
to
The Laurentfc before- entering the cold, vi2lile cases' of men frozen to
;British naval -service was in the ser- death are plentiful.
vice if the Ocean Steam Navigation
Company of Liverpool. She was 550 BRITISH PENSIONS
feet long, and was launched at Bel- $250,000,000 A YEAR
fast in 1908. -
The Admiralty statement adds that London) Jan. 28.: When the new
British Pensions Minister,. G. N.
Barnes, unfolds his new, pensions
the: vessel went down off the Irish
coast last Thursday.
v ' scheme next month, it will be found
GERMAN U-BOAT FOUNDERS that it will cost the country not less
()FF THE NORWEGIAN COAST. than £50,000,000 a year. According
to Mr. Barnes' forecast of his scheme,
London, Jan. 28. -The crew of 34 of there will be a minimum of £1 per
a German ;_ubmarine, which foundered week to widows of soldiers and sai-
off the Norweedan coast, was landed lors who are unable to do any wage -
yesterday near H•ammerfest, Norway, earning work, while adequate sums
by a Norwegian motor -boat, accord- will be paid to disfigured and crippled
ing to the announcement of the Nor- men, irrespective of their ability to
wegian Minister of Marine, transmit- return to active civilian life.
ted by the Reuter correspondent at e.
Christiana. As the Germans were 100 RUMANIANS DEAD
transported on a neutral boat, they 1N WRECK OF TRAIN.
will be liberated.
Berlin, Jan. 28. -More than 100
MOUNTAIN IS NAMED Rumanians of high rank lost their
AFTER YPRES VICTIM. lives in a train wreck near the Ru-
manian station of Tshura, according
A despatch from Ottawa says: The to a despatch said by the Overseas
Geographic. Board of Canada has giv- Agency to have been printed in the
en the name of Carthew to a moan- Russki Slovo. The locomotive of a
tain in Alberta, after Lieut. William train carrying the Rumanians to Rus -
M. Carthew, an Edmonton surveyor, sia jumped the track and the cars
who fell at Ypres. tool: fire.
RUSSIANS SMASH THROUGH
TEUTON LINES IN MOLDAVIA
Many Prisoners and Much Booty Taken From the. Invaders of
Roumania and Austro -German Forces Compelled to With-
draw on Golden Bystritza River Front.
London, Jan. 28. --Russian forces ; the enemy's fortified positions on a
after artillery preparation assumed front of three verses' Prisoners and
the offensive yesterday against the ' booty were taken, the extent of which
Austro -German fortified positions on is being ascertained."
both side of the Kimpolung-Jacobeni "On account of superior Russian
road, near the north-western fron- pressure directed against the Teuton
tier of Moldavia, and after stubborn j lines in the Meste Canesce sector on
fighting broke through the Teuton the Golden Bystritza riven front, in
lines 'along a front of nearly two !Rumania," says to -day's German of -
miles, says the official statement is-iticial statement. "the Austro -German
stied to -day by the Russian War De-; forces yesterday were compelled to
pertinent. Prisoners and booty were I withdraw to positions nearer the east
taken by the Russians, the extent of bank of the river."
which has not yet been ascertained. The Rumanian War Office report
The Russian War Office report : said:
reads ( "In the Kasino valley our troops at-
"Rumanian frbnt; Our detach- tacked the enemy, and, , in spite of
idents after artillery preparation as- I severe cold and heavy snow, succeeded
shined the offensive on both sides of !alter 11. hours of desperate fighting
the Kimpolung-Jacobeni road, and !in driving hint south of the Kasino and.
after a stubborn fight broke through ; Suchitza valleys."
BRITAIN BUILT
510 SHIPS IN 1916
PART OF OTTOMAN SECOND LINE
SEIZED BY BRITISH AT THE K
World's Tonnage Reduced by
About Two Hundred
• Thousand Tons.
A despatch from Washington says:
Loss to the world's merchant shipping
In 1916 through war causes exceeded
the total tonnage constructed, accord-
ing to estimates prepared on Friday
by the Federal Bureau of Navigation.
Vessels sunk are put at 1,149,. of 2,-.
082,683 tonnage, and those built at
2;5.06, of 1,899,943 tons. The. net re=
duction was about 200.000 ton,,s,one
or � .;
and one-half per .cent. cif 'the world's i'
total. The figures were „gathered
from many unofficial sources, but are
declared to be approximately`: correct.
Great Britain led in ship building with
510 vessels of 1319,000 tons. The
United States was second with 1,213
vessels of 560,000 tons. Ships built
by all other countries are given as 782
in number, of 720,368 tons. German
construction of 26,000 tons is admit-
tedly a low estimate.
ARSENAL .AT DRESDEN
REPORTED BLOWN UP
1000 German Women and Young Girls
Said to Have Perished.
Paris, Jan. 28. --The Dresden arse-
nal has been blown up and 1,000 woi
men and young girls killed, according
to a letter taken from a German
soldier dated December 30.
The letter was written from Dresden
'11 .k Losses Were Very :Heavy, Four Furious Counter -Attacks
Which They Launched Being Repulsed.
•A despatch .from London says: i of the Tigris, south-west of Kut -el -
Eleven hundred yards of Turkish first ! Amara and a considerable length of
line, trenches south-west of Kut -el- i the second line, sustaining only slight
Amara andortions' of the Turkish losses.
P The Tlirkisli forces west of the Hai
Second line trenches in Mesopotamia i River thereupon delivered four furious
have been captured by the British +counter-attacks, the 'first and third
forces in severe fighting, in which the
'lurks suffered heavy losses, according
to a.British'oflicial communication is-
sued Friday night. The communica-
tion. says:
"By a determined assault Friday
morning, under cover of an intense
beenbardment, we seized and consoli-
dated 1,100 yards of the enemy's tremely heavy. Seventy prisoners
first line trenches on the right bank were taken."
being broken up by our artillery and
machine gun fire. The second and
fourth attacks gained momentary suc-
ceases, but our troops, returning to
the offensive, regained much of the
ground from which they .had been
temporarily dislodged. Throughout
the day the Turkish losses' were ex -
VPDUN BATTLE 'DIVIDING BRITAIN
".
A VIOLENT ONE IN SIX DISTRICTS
Braine Points Was in Nature Civil Marshalling of Forces to
of Band -to -Hand
combats.
Carry On War at High
Pressure.
,tnadespateh from Paris says :-Ac-1 A. despatch from New 'York says :--
,*el ng -to' late 'reports of the attack The Sun on Thursday morning publish-
lauitched by the Crown Prince's forces ed the following special cable from
in ihe' i erduri,region recently, several London under Wednesday's date:
Get pian regiiuents participated, and The first steps toward civil mobi-
'tt dome points the two forces fought lization indicating Great Britain's
ha"id-to-hand. Altogether the engage- adamantine determination to fight to
tient appears to have been the me st a finish and 'to victory have crowded
ilnportant offensive movement under- out any discussion, of the attitude of
treed on' the Franco-Belgian front in the United States toward distant
several' weeks, . The movement was
launched along a rather ww;ide front,
being delivered at four points between
Avocourt wood, on the extreme left of
the French lines about Verdun, and
Dead Man Hill, a distance of more
than 31,2 miles. The Germans gained
some ground, but next morning as
the result of a desperate counter-at-
tack most of the positions captured by
the enemy on Hill 304 were recaptur-
ed..
ein
IRISH -CANADIAN RANGERS
ARE CHEERED .IN DUBLIN.
-despatch. m :Dub1n sane S
e
chess of Cohaught's Owf-Irish-
enadian Rangers, 700 men and 28
Officers, arrived in Dublin Thursday
afternoon and marched through the
principal streets to Wellington Bar-
racks. 'Crowds of workers watched The first tali for volunteers un
them March along the quays. When few days ago. There is no age limit,
the battalion turned into Westmore- y g
land Stneet the music of the bands i and both men and women are accept -
brought large numbers of people from ed. Speakers are spreading all over
shops and warehouses. The fine ap- the country to carry out a campaign of
gestates of the men created a favor_ recruiting similar to the early days of
able impression. Also at College the war, when soldiers for fighting
Geeen and Great George Street crowds were recruited. As fast as recruits
collected. From here until Welling- are gathered they will be drafted into
ton Barracks were reached the men battalions according to their fitness
were heartily cheered. for various kinds of work, the strong-
est women becoming members of the
DIET OF PRUSSIA Land Service Corps and the weaker
ones joining the munition -making
BOASTS OF FUTURE. al my.
LEADING MARKETS
Breanstulf0.
Toronto, Jan. 30,••--Inanitobe. wheat --
New No. i Northern, 32.06; No. 2 do,e
$2.03; No. 3 do., 31.95 No. 4 wheats 31.86.
track Ilay ports. Ofd ocean trading 40
above new crop,
Manitoba. oats -No. 2 r.., W., 71e; No.
3 O.W., 611e; extra No..1 feed, 671c3
No. 1 feed, 67c, trach, Bay ports..
American corn -No. 8 yellow, 31.13,
shipment within 30 days•
(Inttrrl° oats -No. 2 white, 64 to 660,
nominal ; Ni. 3 white, 63 to 65c, nomi-
nal, according to freights outside, •
.Ontario wheat -NO, 2 Winter, per car
let, 31.so to 31.82 ; No. 3 do.. 31.78 ,ter •
31.80, according to freights outside.
Peas -No. 2, $2.35, according to.
freights outside. •
Barley --Malting; 31.20 to 21.22, ac-
cording to freights outside,
:Buckwheat --$1.29 to $1.30, noMieal,
according to freights outside.
Ttye-No. 2, 31.40 to $1.42, according"
to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, In lute
bags, $9.90 ; second patents, in jute
bags, $9.40 ; strong bakers', in jute
bags, $9.00, Toronto,
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, .31.40 to 37.50, in bags, traok
Toronto, prompt shipment ; $1.25, bulk
seaboard, export grade.
Millfeed---Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights. bags included -Bran, per ton,
$34; shorts, per ton, 235 ; good feed
BOW', per bag, $2,70 to 32,80.
Ilay-No. 1, per ton. 312 ; extra No.
2, per ton, $12 to 313.50 ; mixed, per
ton, 210 to 511.50, track Toronto.
Straw --Cyr lots, per ton; $9. track Toe
1'01110.
Country Produce -Wholesale,
Butter ---Fresh daily. choice, 37 to 390'
creamery prints, 44 to 46o ; solids, ,4d"
to 431c.
Eggs -'No. 1 storage, 42 to 43o ,torr •
age, selects, 44 to 46c ; new -laid, .in
cartons, 58 to 605 out of cartons, 65
to 57e.
Cheese -Large, 261 to 26c : twins, 26
to 261c ; triplets, 268 to 263c.
Dressed poultry-Chiekens, 22 to 24c;
fowl 18 to 20c ; clucks, 20 to 2'2c
squabs, per doz., 34,00 to $4.50 a tur-
keys, 25 to 34c ; geese, 16 to 18e.
Live poultry -Fowl, 15 to 17c ; slack-
ens, 17 to 20c,
honey --White clover, 23-1b. tins, 14o
6 -Ib. tills, 13 to 1330 ; 10 -ib., 123 to
130 ; 5u -lb., 12 to 130 ; bucktotteat, 60 -Ib.
tins, 9 to 93c. Comb honey --extra line'
and heavy weight, per doz., 32.75 • select,
$2.611 to 32.76 ; No. 2. 32 to 32.25.
Potatoes• -Ontario, per bag, 32,50 to
52.60 ; British Columbia, per bag, 32.60
ti $2.75: New Brunswick Delawares,
per bag, 32.75 to $3,00.
Beans ---Imported, hand-picked, per
bush., $5.'25 Canadian, hand picked. per,
sate league schemes. hush., $7.00 Canadian primes, $6.00 to
p g 30,60 ; Limas, per ib., 10 to 104c.
Labor's support, expressed at the
Manchester conference, has greatly Provisions• --Wholesale,
gratified the Government and will nuked meats -Hams, medium, 25 to
26c clo„ heavy. 22 to 230 ; cooked, 3R •
pave the way for Neville Chamber- to 87c : t'oltti, 19 to 'uc breakfast
rain's fast -maturing plans for mobi-
lizing all industries and cutting down
the numbs of men working 'n non -
bacon, 20 to 25c ; backs, plain, 26 too,
28c ; boneless.19 to 32c.
Lard -Pure lard, tleroes,,213 to 213c ;
tubs, 213 to 22c ; pails, 22 to 221e
r ` compound, 163 to 14c.
essential trades to the minimum and (aired meats --Long clear bacon, 1 8 to
increasing to the maximum the effi-
ciency of all the vital trades.
Mr, Chamberlain's scheme contem-
plates dividing Great Britain into six
d'istri'cts, Wales and Scotland each
constituting a division, the other cen-
tres being Leeds, Manchester, Birm-
ingham,
With t
fn •ham and Bristol. g ,
points' as besi"s;`he intends'te push' all
the war work and food production to
the. limit of the, laborers' capacity and
$4.1.00. I3ay-No. 2, per ton, car lots,
maintain high speed until the. war • $13.00. Cheese -Finest westerns 25 e ;
ends. finest eastern,. 26c. Butter -Choicest
ca eamery, 43 to 4330 ; seconds 393 to
der 403'e. Eggs -Fresh, 50 to 65c ; selected,
the National Service rule was made a 44c ; No. 1 stock. 40o No. 2 stock,
86c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $2.25
to $2.50.
1Sle. jrelb, ; clear bellies, 18 to c.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Jan. 80. -Oats --Canadian
'western, No. 2, 71c No. 3. 69c; extra'
31.03No1 feed.B 31.30. Flout' -Mani-
toba•,.
tuba malting, Spring wheal patents, firsts, 510-3
seconds, 39.50 ; strong ,bakers', 59.30
Winter patents, choice, 39.26 straight
to
• 4 o5.
.: Rolled A
its- - 3b
I.,-
$
�.Okatolls$8.50 to 38.80 , 'do bags. 34,10
• 90 lb 3.40 to 0
7 2 do., hags, lbs., $ $
Bran,' 333.00:. Shorts, '336.00. Middlings,'
338.00 to $40.00. Mouillie, $43,00 to
A despatch from .London says: The
:'resident ' of the Prussian Upper
idt}xltb, in a speech at the opening of _
and the writer said that all the winthe session, expressed hope that the An official report from Petrograd
dows within a radius of twelve stii1es ; present Year, "despite its disappoint -
says: -"On the Black Sea one of our
were broken by the explosion 'Ile 1 i;.beginning, might bring peace, ac -
submarines sank four schooners near
added that the authorities were le epe caO ding to a Iterlin despatch to Reu- the Bosphorus. Three other saloon-
!ing the news secret, and that liar rail- tel' S' by Way of Amsterdam. After tershe that were encountered by the sub -
road tickets were being issued for ceminestting on the rejection of Ger- marine were obliged to beach them -
Dresden except for urgent reasons;,; lnany's peaee proposal by the Entente, selves, breaking up in the prevailing
• ] • h f teful hour
PARIS IS IN THE GRIP
1,430 GERMAN PAPERS
cared on us• and to -day we, a more SUSPEND PUBLICATION.
A' despatch from Paris says: serious and matured people, accustom -
France is in the grip of the severest ed to victory;.�are standing behind the
cold weather for many years. The Emperor. Our iron will shall turn
thermometer in Paris registered 1,7 to' deeds and the sharp steel of a clean
degrees Fahrenheit on Friday; and sword in -our hand shall hew the way
even in southern cities like Marseilles.to a more prosperous future."
and Bordeaux there were several de- ' • -
SEVEN TURKISII VESSELS
DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS
trip :'resident said: e a term."
OF ARCTIC WEATHER I` ;ie second time war has been de -
bete German Empire is approaching, s
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Tan. 30 -Wheat -No. 1
Northern, $1.79 ; No. 2do., 51.7553
No. 3, do.. 31.71: No. 4, 31.583 ; No. 5,
31.373 ; No. 6, 31.063 ; feed, 71e. Oats -
No. 2 C.W., 570 ; No. 3, rte., 550 ; extra
No. 1 feed, 550 ; No. 1 teed, 64e ; No. 2,
do., 53e. Barley --No. 3, 98c ; No, 4,
92e ; rejected 79c : feed, 9e Flax -
No. 1 N.-W.C., 32.631 ; No. 2 C1,W..
32.601.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Jan. 30.--W heat--MaY
closed $1.363 ; July closed 51.803 ; cash.
No. 1 hard, .878 toh51 � 03 ]. 91o. 2 North-
ern,
$
ern, $1.8433 to $1.903. Corn -No. 3 yel-
low, 97 to 1180, Oats -No. 3 white, 553
to 3030. Flour unchanged. _1$ran, $29
to 339.50:
Duluth, Jen. 30. --Wheat •• No. 1 hard.
$1.89 ; No. 1 Northern, $1.88 ; N. 'L
Northern, 31.33 to 31,55 ; May. 31.86.
Linseed -To arrive. 52.903 . May. 38.933;
July, $2.9.13.
Live Stook Markets
Toronto, Jan. 30, -Choice heavy steers,
310 to 310.75; choice heavysteers, $10
to 310.01 ; do., good 39.50 to 39.75 :
butchers' ,'tattle, choice. $9.'66 to -310.00
do., good, 81'.tu to $9.511 : dn., medium,
38 50 to 58.55 : do.. common, $7.75
35,11) ; butchers' bulls. choice, $8.26 to
39.011: do.. good bull~ 37.00 to 38.90 > .
do., rough Mills, 35.15 to 55.35 ; butcher -
cowws cboh'o 37,75 to $5.25 ; dn., good.
37.::5 to $710 do oteitunl, $1,32 to
10.60 ; smelters. 36.25 to 57.25 choice
A despatch from London says: The feeders. $7.75 to 8$.511 , cannel's 1111,1 out-
$n it Milkers, choice,
each, $71) to 1.100 ; (11,.. coal. and tied.,
1,430 German newspapers and peri- eaelt. $4 1 ,10111 3611: springer £5,1.011 to
.; , o- 1 �1u
sheep,
Cologne Gazette says no fewer than tC1" $4.75 a1
sloe ; light etwe., 3 ..0 t1. teeL,
odicals are no longer able to appear. heevt,6 to 37.50 • .-sites, goo,l kis
chole.•, 311 ,5 to $14, lambs, ,'t10100,
313.50 to 315. 115.. medium, 91.75 th
$lt) -, hags, red and watered, $11,25;
,lo,, tt ighed off eater 814 00 do„ fi,te.h„
313 1 ,
Montreal, lust 31/.•-iltoive steers, $10
to 310,50 , gvltld, 99 10 $111: choice
hoteliers cows, 34 to 35.50 ;;cared. 37 to
$7.501 tanners, $5 eltoi,•e totters.
bulb 39.25 to'9lt; Food, $7 to $S : can-
'lent, $5,51) 11, 34 ualve•s, 95 10 36
grees of frost. The number of deaths v
from cold and the sufferings of the RST BRIT AIN TO REQUISITION
Parisians have been aggravated by
the coal shortage. Edouard Herriot,
Minister of National Subsistence, has.
taken energetic charge of the situa-
tion, co-operating with the city au-
thorities. M. Herriot has decided to
sell a large part of the reserve stock
of fuel to the public and has lent
military auto wagons to carry coal to
the small dealers who have no convey-
ances. The cold has brought packs
of wolves into the department, and
bears are ravaging the fields in the
Loir Valley.
RATION SYSTEM NEAR
IN UNITED KINGDOM.
London, Jan, 28. -William C. An-
derson, Labor M.P., speaking to -day
at Leicester, said he was giving away
110 secret in stating that the popula-
tion of the United Kingdom would at
a very early date be put under a ra-
tion system.
NECESSARY FOREIGN SECURITIES
ITIEa
Voluntary Mobilization Scheme Having Failed, Compulsion is to
be Applied to Holders.
A despatch from London says: The sons not ordinarily residents of the
Official Gazette announces that by a United Kingdom.
The list of securities required by
new order -fin -Council the Treasury is the order will be published within a
empaweted under the Defence of the few days, and at an early date all
Realm Act to requisition any foreign holders will be required to make a
strengthen Great Britain's
aecurities which may be required to full return of their holdings. Thefinancial terms and conditions under which the
position and also to require holders of securities are requisitioned will be
such securities to snake a return on identical with those existing in the
them to the Treasury. voluntary mobilization scheme, which,
The order further forbids the trans- despite the extra two shillings in-
fer or sale of each securities outside come tax levied, apparently failed to
the United .Kingdom, The order does bring in sufficient securities, and hence
not apply to securities owned by per- the application of compulsion.
milk -red, 31'' 1c $11 ; isntbs, 313 to
314 ' choice ;34.1.•t hogs, nil . a1'. $11.00
to $i r1.
51'.tR TO ENI) IN :1UTIMIN.
Sir Gilbert Parket' Says Eeonott ie Coif ._
lapse of Germany Pending.
A despatch from Montreal . ave,
Sir Gilberts Parker, Canadian niivelist,
and member of the British House of.
Commons, arrived in Montreal nn
Wednesday from New York, %Otere lie'''.
landed from a steamer on Outlay.
Sir (filbert predicts thtlt the war edit
end next autumn, if not e little earlier
than that, The end will const, he says,
through the economic collapse of Ger-
many and the smashing or the ('ler.
elan lines on the westerly from by the
Anglo -F reneh f orcee,