HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-03-16, Page 2• BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE BAGDAD
TURK METROPOLIS OCCUPIED
British Enter City Early Sunday Morning -Victory Comes
After Severe Fighting,
Loudon, March 1L -General Fred-
erick Stanley Maude in command of
the British forces in Mesopotamia,
telegraphed to -day the welcome news
for the British of the occupation early
this morning of the City of Bagdad,
the chief Turkish city of Mesopotamia,
and formerly the capital of the empire
of the Caliphs,
No details of the capture have yet
been received, General Maude's story
of the operations carrying events only
up to Saturday morning, when the
British, after effecting a surprise
crossing of the Diala and bridging the
Tigris, had driven the Tucks back to
within three miles of Bagdad. It is
evident, however, that the Turks have,
been unable to offer any serious re-
sistence since the fall of Kut -el -
Amara. They were said to be hastily
summoning reinforcements from other
theatres of the war where Turks were
engaged, but the distances to be cov-
ered wore so great that additional
forces were unable to arrive in time
to save the ancient city, which, after
Mecca, occupies first place in the Mo-
hammedan imagination.
The fall of Bagdad, besides ending
German hopes of Near Eastern do-
minion, based on a Berlin -Bagdad rail-
way, will reverberate throughout the
Mohammedan empires, and it is be-
lieved will more than rehabilitate Bri-
tish prestige in the Far East, dam-
aged by the earlier loss of Kut -el -
Amara.
Further news must be awaited be-
fore it is known whether General
Maude made important captures of
Turkish troops or guns, either before
or at" Bagdad.
Apparently the occupation was ef-
fected without resistance and with
only slight losses. Even if the Turks
succeeded in extricating all their
forces, the loss of Bagdad is a grave
blow to them. Bagdad has been the
base for all Turkish operations! in
Persia. Up to within a few days the
Turks occupied about 30,000 square
miles of Persian territory, but with
the Russians pressing them closely
from Kirmanshah, as eell as from
the direction of Erzerum, indications
point to a speedy junction of the Bri-
ish and Russian forces,
which would
soon compel the Turkishevacuation of
Persian territory.
CAN IAN TROOPS
FREE FROM TYPHOID
Only 167 Cases Reported in
Dominion During the
Past Year.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
The Department of Militia and De-
fence has announced that for the
twelve months ending December 81st,
1916, 167 cases only of typhoid fever
were reported as having occurred
amongst the many thousands of men
JERUSALEM SOON
TO BE BRITISH
Troops Are Advancing Through
Palestine Within Forty
Miles of the City.
A despatch from Washington says:
-Jerusalem, the ancient capital of
Palestine, may soon be in the hands
of the British as well as Bagdad, ac-
cording to despatches received here on
Wednesday. These reports say the
advance guards of the British troops
of the C.E.F. in Canada, and this advancing through Palestine from
notwithstanding the fact that typhoicilEgypt are within forty miles of the
fever is a disease especially affect- city. One despatch had them at El
ing young adults from seventeen to Chalil, which is in the mountains of
out twenty
e ic in all parts of Can- miles from Jerusalem. The allied
thirty years of age, and a disease southern Palestine and ab
which is end •
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art ot the C.E.F. is seen to be mostivancing into Palestine from Egypt,
striking when it is recalled that dur-1another operating in the Tigris Val-
ing the Boer War one man out of ley, while the Russians are fighting on
every nine in the British forces in! the Persian front.
South Africa was invalided through! It is believed here that if the Brit -
this disease, and that in the Spanish-1ish succeed in taking Jerusalem the
American war, of 107,000 men in the ! American refugees there, numbering
• camps at Tampa, Florida, and else- over a thousand, will choose to remain
where, who had not left the shores of, instead of attempting to proceed to
the United States, 20,000 contracted; Beirut to secure transportation to the
the disease. The remarkable change: United States as they .had planned.
can only be attributed to -the process The British capture of the city wo ld
The Provincial Board of Health for , for the Aniericans who wished to re -
Ontario has supplied to date all the turn to the United States in any event.
typhoid and paratyhoid vaccine used!
by the entire Canadian Expeditionary GERMAN TROOPS
Force (about 450,000 men). In all, TEND To MUTINY
nearly 600,000 doses have been sup-
plied free of cost.
AMPUTATED ARM
LEADING MARKETS
readutflffL
Toronto, March 18.-lviattitoba whe0•..t
-New No. 1 Northern, $2063; NO. Pt
do., $2,02R; No, 3, do. $1.96/: NQ. 4
31.153, track Bay ports, '011 rail delivered
ItIontreal freights, No, 1, 2200..
Manitoba oats -No. It to
753c; No. C.W., 73 to 74c; extra, o, 1
feed, 73 to 74c; No. 1 feed, 713 to 7e3e,
nominal, all rail delivered en Mite
C.P.R. points only.
American corn -No. 3 yellow, $1.214.
subject to embargo.
Ontario oats -No, 2 white, 65 to 67e.
nominal; No. 8 white, 64 to 66e, nomi.'
nal, according to freights outside,
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, Per oar
lot, $1.84 to $1.80; No, 8, do., $1,82 to
PM, according to freights outside.
frePlegrts-ouNtsoide.2' 22,50' according to
Parley -Malting, $1,22 to $1,24. •
Buckwheat -11.28, nominal, according
to freights outside.
Rye --No. 2, $1.41 to 31.43, according to
freights outside.
hlanitoba flour -First patents, in jute
bags, $9.70; second patents, in jute bags,
89.100,; Tolmrenitiog. bakers'. in
jute bags,
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample. $7.65, in bags. track Toronto,
prompt shipinent; $7.25 bulk seaboard,
export grade.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran, per ton,
$38; aborts, per ton, $42; good feed
flour, per bag, 22.70 to 22.80.
Hay -Extra No, 2, per ion, $'12 to
112.50; mixed, per ton. $9 to 311, 'Track
Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $8.50 to $9.
track Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
•Butter -Fresh dairy. choice, 37 to 39c;
creamery prints, 43 to 45c; solida, 42
to 43c.
ItIggs-New-laid, in cartons, 45 to 46c;
out of cartons, 42 to 43c.
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 28 to 26c;
fowl, 20 to 22c; ducks, 22 to 25e;
squabs. per dos., $4.00 to $4.50; turkeys,
28 to 33c; geese, 18 to 20o.
Live poultry -Fowl, /b., 18 to 22c;
chickens, ib., 18 to 22c.
Cheese-New,tlarge, 253 to 26c: twins,
26 to 263c; triplets, 263 • to 263e; old,
large, 2,73c; twins, 27e to 23c.
Honey -White Mover, 23-1b. tins, 14 to
143e; 6-1b. tins. 133 to 14e; 10 -lb., 15 to
133e; 60 -lb., 123 to 130; buckwheat, 60 -
lb, tins, 9 to 93c. Comb honey -extra
fine and heavy weight, per dos., $2.75:
select, $2.50 to 22.75; No. 2, $2 to $2.20.
Beans -Imported, hand-picked, per
bush., 26.25; Canadian, hand-picked, per
bush., 17.00; Canadian primes, $6.50 to
$7.00: Limas. per lb., 123 to 18c,
Potatoes-Ontarto, per bag, .22.90;
New Brunswick Delawares, per bag,
24.25: Alberta% per bag, 23.75,
Provioions-whoiesaie.
Smoked meats --Trams, medium, 26 to
27c; do., heavy, 23 to 24e; cooked, 57 to
33c; rolls, 21 to 22c; break -fast bacon,
27 to 29c: backs, plain, 30 to 31c; bone -
BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE ANCRE
• FIERCE GERMAN RESISTANCE
Bitter Battle Along Three -Mile Front -Village of irks Taken
and 300 Prisoners.
London, March 11. -British troops
have resumtd suddenly their advance
on the Ancre and have won a bril-
liant success over the Germans.
Attacking on a three-mile front, the
British have stormed the large vil-
lage of Irles and all the neighboring
defen ces.
This new fighting on the Ancre
was forced by Sir Douglas Haig. It
was no part of the German retirement
to give up Tries at this time. The
best evidence that the Gremans want-
ed to hold the village and wanted to
hold it badly is the fact th'at fifteen
• machine guns and four mortars fell
into British hands and many prisoners
were taken.
n fact it is hoped here that the,
taking of Irles may mean the first
crack in the new German line pro-
tecting Bapaume. Irles is very close
to the strong Loupart wood position,
regarded by some as the key to Be- i
paunie from the west.
The troops that stormed the town
and its adjacent fortifications in !
foggy weather had an uphill task, yet I
the War Office announces that their 11
losses were slight. • When the Ger
man retirement stopped the British
were on the southern outskirts of
Irles, the Germans still holding the
town. Irles straggles up the north-
ern bank of the upper Ancre, its first
house almost on the edge of that
stream, its last on the brow of a
ridge that runs nearly to Achiet-le-
Petit,
As the British advanced they found
themselves opposed by German strong
points to the east in a ruined mill, to
the west in trench labyrinths along
the embankznent of the ruined Albert -
Arras railroad. Irles itself was such a
machine gun /lest as the Germans
build on the Somme-Ancre front,
strengthened by trenches and en-
tanglesnents of the old German fourth
line and by a fortified cemetery at its
north-eastern corner.
All these obstacles were overcome,
however, in fierce fighting in which
the Germans were steadily forced
back. and to -night the British are only
a mile west of Lonpart wood and • the
erne distance south of Achiet-le-Petit,
t is less than two miles to the Achiet-
e-Grand railroad junction from Irles.
TO RUSH WORK CANADA BUSY
OF ARMING SHIPS BUILD/NG SHIPS
Ri ht f A 4
g s o mei, cans to Freedom
of the Seas to be
Protected.
A despatch from Washington says:
ered
less, 33 to 34e,
!the arming of American merchant
Lard -Pure lard, tierces', 22 to 22.1c;
tubs, 22,1 to 223c; palls, 233 to 23.0; ships against Germany's ruthless sub -
compound, 173 to 173c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 13 lc,
• i marine weefare, and at the same time
issued a proclamation calling an extra
session of Congress to meet April
16Tthh.
e
President's decision came sud-
, to (0c, extra No. 1 feed, 7D to t6c. !denly late on Friday afternoon, fol -
1o.1
-President Wilson on Friday ord
Pet ib; eloar bellies, 11 to 183e,
Montreal Markets. '
Montreal, Mar, 13.-Corn-Arnerican
No. 2 yellow, $1.30 to 31.35, Oats-
CaDadian. Western, No. 2, 77 to 78c; No.
1-
iiarley-Alalting, patents, Pliorstus....-Mag 7,1 lowing atyhein a
toba Spring wheat f t 39 i revising its ittshie•ti
.. rules
epeon
WInter patents. ch ?e, $9.25; :a trilght Mit. prOniRt action on important ques-
seconds, $9.30; long bakers'. $9.10; r-
r:ITs' 41$•5() to $6.. ,..s..._,( lio...lrirA4ipw.:.#01. - via ,,M176.7.7s1:43 1 .-,vtzw-toFxpg,
. ap.
-Middlings, 341.00 '2 tiO A u I e -L-1
g a rilihl.'0 'I, lOst.34;g4i:43.45:"Prall.2 opinfon bei Seeratary 'of tate Lansing'
$3 • • • Sitigrt$1 YU,'" g itp-90 and
Attorney -General Gregory that
;ezt.IS..0? it: $fi,(1.6 ltlay-lit•To. 2, per ton, he has the power to arm merchant -
Pines tv'esici:lis, 26?.? ti.i„..,`"ig, fIrtiteeegaes-t- men without action by Congress.
coftetasm. er2.5,.3485toto 26c.44c: seJ>coult,
Tel,' -40Cktodie4e2sct• . neutrality Details ofplath:a Gfoosr,erndxnefeenntclisin
bag, car lots, $3.00 to $3,50. defendingtheEggs-presh, 42 to 4.i,. t otatoes-Per
merchant maeine were withheld to
avoid endangering Americans an
evennt • .
we teepee, Mar. 13. -Cash price, , their ships by permitting the informa
Then t- -No. No_rthern. $1.873; No.2:, i tion to reach Germany. The onl
North r si, 3
INTO. 4, $11..GigitiPd. at the White House and th
i! la isle sue; extra No. i / ecl,
.‘,Te31.?4187r14.1:1 11:iggi StateMent
, cl. t •
f.......d.: p.H. onts---Isro. 2 C.W., 6ti3e; N'o: l Navy Department was that the Presi
d
Y
e I
'of inoculation. eet, Mc: No. 2 feed 54,c '6m If .1 dentas e ermined to fully protect
also open a new route out of Turkey isle...8, $1.04L. No, 4, 59; Ire; American rights.
eeu Fl
Shortage of Ocean Tonnage
Results in Increased
Activity.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Shortage of ocean tonnage and con-
sequent high charter rates have re-
sulted in increased • activity in ship-
yards in Canada with a probability of
still greater activity in the near
future. Reports so far received here
indicate that more than one hundred
vessels ranging in size from 250 tons
to 6,000 tons steamships are now
under construction. Sailing vessels
are in the majority and mos 'z of them
s.Al2eitx onethe c)ast of, West-
• ern Nova Sccoffi. Indeed ill" 'stated'
that ninny yards in the lelaritinse
Provinces which had been idle since
steam replaced sail have now ships
on the stocks.
Two yards at Toronto, those of the
Polson and Thor Companies are re-
ported to be builcEng steel steamers
and there is activity in shipyards at
Port Arthur, and on the Pacific coast.
Norwegian capital is said to be inter-
ested in steamers now in course of
construction.
WOMAN CONDUCTOR
• ax NZ . .‘'. :
SCORES FOR HER SEX
'BRITISH AVIATORS
-- -
I STILL MASTERS OF AIR A despatch from London says
London, March 11. -It is reported
that the new Minister of War in Ba-
varia has declared in a speech that
United States Markets.
hard 1
1
2.073'to $2.09'.'N.0 cz1104n,., 1.• A despatch ..from London •
.ein-No. 2 yelhiw, 31.031 to 14:053: of Commons on Wednesday, James
n the House
Minitettpoils, 3.3.-Wheat-hraV
189•
•••••••••...m.....11
0 •
to $2.084; No. 2 do., $1943 to 32 02A
, ittn, 31.96i ,Replying to a question i
says-
Oats -No. 3 white. 57 to 59c. Moor-
unTshalgri. firall-$33 to $34, MacPherson said the Government dicl
u , Mar, 1.3.---'Wheat---h,7o. pard, [not accept the accuracy of the report
$1.962; No. 1 Northern, 31 953. '
WAS PUT BACK AGAIN1 the most extreme measures will. be etefe,' asea.a,
4 ta !1•914; May, 31.893 recently sent from Berlin that the
•employed soon to suppress discontent 3.2.tta: Alay, $2.91; July, 02'.'" arrive. :Germans had brought down eighteen
Asnaging Operation en Soldier Re-
ported to be Successful.
A despatch 'from London says :-A!
son of the Hon. J. O'Grady, a member '
of Parliament, was wounded several
months ago in France in such manner
that his arm had to be amputated. The
surgeons cut off the arm, removed the'
shattered bone and then put the arm
back again, setting the bone and sew- !
ing the tendons. The arm has now
healed and is gaining strength, The,
patient can use it effectively. The
shorter than the other arm.
only defect is that it is "'in3h 's
o
in the army. The German military
'authorities are understood to be con-
fronted with' widespread sullenness,
even a tendency to mutiny, or to sur-
render on the least provocation. This
is profoundly affecting the morale of
the German armies.
CARRANZA ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO.
Mexico City, March 11. -Gen Venu-
stiano Carranza was today elected
President of Mexico by what is be-
lieved to have been the largest vote
ever cast in the republic.
600 SOUTH EWAN NATIVES
• UST WHEN TRANSPORT SUNK
nbas,•••••••
C011ided With Another 'Vessel Off the Isle of Wight While En
Route to France.
espatch from London says: The
British transport Mendi, carrying
South African native laborers, was
sunk sifter a collision on Feb. 21, and
625 persons lost their lives.
, Ten of the persons lost were Euro-
peans, according to the announcement,
on Friday to the South African Par-
liament by Gen. Louis Botha, the Pre-
..
neer, The collision occurred off the
Isle of Wight. The official announce-
ment says:
"Premier Bathe stated to the South
African Parliament on Friday that
the transport Mendi, carrying the last
batch of the South African native la-
borers contingent (the rest of whom
were landed safely in France), collid-
ed with another vessel en route from
England to Havre and sank in 25
minutes. The collision occurred off
the Isle of Wight on Feb. 21. The
escort's seaehlight could not penetrate
the fog, but the survivors were res-
cued by passing vessels. Twelve Eu-
ropean officers and 191 natives weesaved, saved, Ten European and 615 natives
were lost. Difficulty in Malting au-
thentic information caused the delay
in making the announcement it bile."
_ .
aeroplanes on the western front in one
Zive Stock markets. day. False statements such as these
steers. $10.75 to
Toronto, March 13.--Cliotee heavA,- were made in order to elicit the truth.
$11.25; do., good, 210 10 o
to . d
Ito $10:50; butchet•s' cattle choie I can assure the members," he added,
to 810.3(1:g0od. 310.10
I tiegil39•5gtosf976idItT1CTll0; b1ther;uls,Cric1.735
4 to
210.20: do.,
good bulls. $8.90 to 39.00;
do., medium bulls, 37.40 to 31.00: do.,
rough bulls., 35 to 85.25; butchers' cows,
phnipp, 89.50 to 310; do.. good, $'.50 to
38.55: do., medium. 87 to 37.25; stookers
37 to 31,59• choice. feeders. $9 to 110
canners and cutters $5.25 to $5.50
linters, good tn choic $35 do.
ers, ;LI to $110; light ewes, $30 th $10.75; A call has been issued for 5,000 2nore
"that we still maintain mastery of the
air." .
5,000 FORESTERS WANTED.
More Canadians Called For, Owing to
Timber Import Prohibition.
corn. inti med.. e.ach, 3•10 to 360: sl;ring A despatch from Ottawa says :-
sheep, heavy., 31,50 to $9.60; calves,. good (.!!, d• • f t • w the
to choice, $12 to $13; lambs, ehoice, 'ana. ians ores o
314.25 to $15: dn., medium, $1.0 to 313; United Kingcloin, as a result of the
hogs, fed and watered. $15.75 to 310; do..
weighed off cars, 316.10; do., tab,. $14.75 prohibition
o
to 214.90 f timber imports. They
will go over in drafts. Lumbering
Mon treal, Mar, 13. h
-Coice steers, • r but militar
310.73; qood. SS to $10; cholee cows and e :penance ss necesnSe.
y, y
balls. $9: good cows and bulls $6 o medical regulations are somewhat re;
38.50; canners' bulls, $5 to t
$6: c.anners'
bulls, 35; calves. choice milk -fed, $12
to $14; others, $6 to $8; sheep. 18 to
$10; lambs, $12 to $13; clnyed.
hoiee select
hogs, off cars, $15,50 to 315.75; sows,
$12.00.
MEAT CONSUMPTION
IN BRITAIN DECLINES
A despatch from Londoa says :--
There has been a substantial diminu-
tion of meat consumption in Great
Britain as the result of the recent ap-
peal to the people by the Food Con-
troller, asking that they place them-
selves on rations. In consequence of
this, it was stated in the House of Com-
mons on Wednesday, there is no in-
tention at present to introduce cam
-
!misery meatless days. The returns
showed, it was said, an increased dis-
position on the part of the public t�
adopt voluntary rationing. The Even-
ing News says that Baron Devonport,
the Food Controller, has decided to
put into effect measures 'to regulate'
the prices of bacon, butter, cheese and
lard.
A. tram car at Exeter ran away down.
hill, struck the parapet of a bridge
and overturned. One woman was kill-
ed, and two were injured. •The wo-
man conductor stuck to the car with
great pluck until pushed off• by a
hysterical woman passenger. The
woman conductor was only .slightly verified. 'Inc abuses charged include
WANT MAY COME
BEFORE HARVEST
Prussian Food Controller Says
Reserves of Bread Are
Exhausted.
'A despatch from London says; The
Prussian food controller, Dr. George
Nfichaelis, made in the Prussian Diet
on Wednesday what the Koelnische
Zeitung calls a serious speech on the
food situation, says a Reuter despatch
from Amsterdam. Dr. Michaelis de-
clared that the distress was such that
a more severe state of things, espe-
cially in the large industrial oentres,
could hardly be imagined, He indi-
cated the possibility that all surplus
stocks of grain would be exhausted,
and said that very radical Measures
were needed to enable the people to
hold out until next year.
"We have in the third year of the
war," the food controller is quoted as
saying, "discovered that among all
sections of the people the general
feeling evidenced is not one of that
endurance for which we have hoped.
This is human nature, but it is highly
deplorable, ,and may have most seri-
ous results.
"We have not perceived in the
towns that stern supervision which is
absolutely necessary in the distribu-
tion of foodstuffs. There has been
wide -spread abuse of bread -tickets,
entailing grave consequences as re-
gards our stocks. Bread tickets have
been illegally used on such a shock-
ing scale that our entire reserves were
exhausted. So when .potatoes failed
and bread was ordered as a substitute
there was none available. Flour has
been similarly reduced, owing to simi-
lar irregularities in the mills."
Dr. Michaelis concluded by urging
the utmost severity to remedy the
short -comings while there was yet
time. Some of the mills would have
to be closed and the municipalities de-
prived of their au-tor:Ain-iota powers.
Rationing and requisidoLing must be
strictly applied with respect to eggs,
milk, butter, fruit and vegetables. He
added:
"We are confronted with the
thought of what would happen if this
measure also should fail and what
grim starvation there won't: be if sud-
denly during the closing months of the
economic year We should find there
was insufficiency arid we could net,
out. The ensuing riliSer.37,:iy
be
- seesee
RUSS PROTEST
TO ME ENEMY
Repeated Violations of Usages
of Warfare Are Enumerated.
A despatch from Petrograd says
The Russian Foreign Office has trans-
mitted to the Governments of Ger-
many, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey a
lengthy protest against alleged viola-
tions of usages of wtrfare, attaching
citations of numerous- specified in-
stances, and asserting the right to re-
taliate in kind. The violations enum-
erated were compiled by a special com-
mittee appointed for that purpose.
Each citation, it is stated, was amply
hurt, and scores a victory on behalf of
her sex in a man's job.
GERMAN PEACE TERMS
the use of exploalve bullets, gas, burn-
ing liquid and poisoned missiles, the
poisoning of wells, misuse of Parlia-
mentary' (flag of truce) and Red Cross,
READ LIKE A JOKE !flags, killing of the wounded, throwing
I of bombs upon sanitary trains and the
A despatch from Havre sayst-Theisinking of the hospital ship Portugal.
German Government, according to
formation received here through con-
fidential agents, is considering the
publication of Germany's termsof
peace. • Under these terMIS, Belgium
would be declared independent, sub-
,
ject only to permanent German gar-
risons at Antwerp, Liege and Namur A despatch from Ottawa says: An,
and to the control by Germany oil°, ffic.bial,starent given out by the Act -
ports and railways. Belgium, under "ng ' •maliSttlr' Sir George Foster,
on Thursday disposes of the story that
the terms, would have no national
army, but would be policed by a gen- a
it embargo will be placed on the see
darmerie. 'port of potatoes from Canada. The
POTATO EMBARGO
• IS NOT NOW LIKELY
Minister Finds Surplus of Some Two
Million Bushels,
PARENTS UL: HEIR CHILDREN
TO PREY THEM S
ENT
ARVIN]
Terrible Conditions Among Prussian Poor Are Described by
Socialist Member in Speech in Diet.
A despatch from London says :-
"Thus far only fragmentary reports of
the remarkable debate in the Prussian
Diet on the food crisis have been
printed in the German newspapers,"
says "a despatch • from Reuter's Am-
ster(lam correspondent. "The Var.
waerts, received Friday, contains the
followlug passage from the speech of
Herr Iforer (a Sociedist member of the
Prussian Diet):
"'The mortality among elderly
!people is increasing at a terrible rate,
'while epidemics are spreading01
every-
ItS0 PONWI'S
s ance. he squation is inncli I
(more serious than has been admittedThe Canadian Patriotic Fund, includ-
. A deepateh free Montreal says;
I The number of suicides is increaning ing
Montreal's cash subscriptions, has
where owing to the decre d •
statement says: "Information gather-
ed from official and unofficial sources
from all parts of Canada indicates a
substantial surplus of potatoes over
and aboveseed aid feed require-
ments. Tinder these clecutista.nces
,the GoVeres nment donot think that
at present an embargo is j113tthed."
The potato surplus in Canada at pro.
and above seed and feed require-
ments for seed and food purneekelk,tin-
til the next harvest is estinia.te by
the Department of Agrioniture. at '
about two million leeehels.
$21,000,000 IS TOTAL'
OF PATRIOTIC FUND.
and parents are killing their children
awing to their Inability 10 obtain food
for them, Yet. the price of potatoes,
which long ago became generally
mere, is to be increased,'"
reached the total of $21,000,000, so Sir
Herbert Ames announced here on Fri-
day. The lliontteal City Council has
not yet decided en the amount or its
o'rant In Om fnnrl.