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The Exeter Advocate, 1917-7-12, Page 3• CONSCRIPTION BILL CARRIED 13Y MAJORITY OF 63 •Referendum Defeated by 48 Majority -6 Months' ,Hoist De- feated by 154. A despatch from Ottawa says: At 3 o'clock Friday morning the first division on the Conscription Bill re - stilted in the defeat of the sub-' amendment of J. A. Barrette, of Joliette, callinefor the six months' hoist, by a vote of nays 163, yeas 9, a Government majority of 154. • The following voted for the Bar- rette amendment: Messrs. Achim of Labelle, Barrette of I3erthier, Belle - mare of Maskinonge, Boulay of Ri- mouski, Descarrie's of Jacques Car- -tier, Gerard of Chicoutimi, Guilbault of Joliette, Peaquet of L'Islet and Pa- tenaude of I-Iochelaga, the ex -Secre- tary of State. • Ninety Coneervatives, including J. 'Jr. Rainville, the Deputy Speaker, and seventy-three Liberals opposed the amendment. The Laurier referendum amend- ment was voted down by 110 to 62, a Goverpment majority of 48. On the Government side of the 'House Sir Rodolphe Forget and Messrs. Patenaude, Barette, Paquet, Girard, Gilboult, Bellernarre, Boulay, and Descarries voted with the leader! of the Opposition. Nineteen Liberals voted with the Government. The Liberals who voted against the referendum were: Messrs. Guthrie,1 Pardee, Graham, Carvell, Maclean (of Halifax), Cruise, Chaelten, Turiff, leSsbitt, MacNutt, MacLean (of Sun- bury), McCraney, Loggie, Cla.rk, Bu- chanan, Douglas, Champagne Neeley and Duncan Ross. ' The vote oh "The Milita.rY Service Act of 1917" was 118 yea and 55 nay. Majority, 63. Breadstuffs Toronto, July 10 ----Manitoba wheat -- No. 1 Northern, $2.36; No. 2 Norteere, 92,38, nominal track Bay port:i. Islanjtoba oats -No. 2 Q.W.?s track Bay poi ts, • American corn -No. 3 yellow, 23,22, nominal, tritek Toronto. Ontario oats --No official ,quotations. Ontario wheat ---No. 2 Winter, per ear lot, $2.35 to 52,40; No. 3, 52,33 to $2.38, according to freights outside. frol'iegahst.-5 l'\oltol,twl2c,,10. nominal, according to flarleY--Multing, nominal, according (0 freights outside, Rye -No. 2, $2,05", nominal, according to ereignte outside. • IvieniOtea flour -First patents, in pit4 bags, $12.50; second patents, in jute bags, $11.90; strong bakers', in jute bags, 51.50, Toronto. Ontario flour -Winter, according to sample, $10.15 to 519.25, in bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags; included -Bran, per ton, $31; shorts, per ton, $38; middlings, per ion, $42; good feed flour, per bag, $2.80 to $2.90. Ila.3-412.1xtra No. 2, per ton, 512.50 to a5,1031:0510ito.rnixed, per ton, $2 to 911, track ro lots, per ton, $9, track To - Cotuitry Produce --Wholesale • Butter -Creamery, solids, per lb., 35 to 359c; prints, per lb., 359 to 36c, dairy, per ib., 28 to 29e. Eggs -Per doz., 28 to 20e. •• Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices 2 Cheese ---New, large, 22. to 23e; twins; 229 to 2390; triblets to 239c; old, large, 3004 twins 3026; riplets 309Q , , • 45 OPERATORS FOOD EMCKADE Butter--Presh dairy, choice, 35 to 36c; HAVE GONE DOWN IS SUCCESSFUL , out...ef cartons, 35e. erCarYNPel'Aiv121.:ti.d38int°caNgits sV7idtsc; llOC " sed poultry -Spring chickens, 35c; • fowl, 22 to 24e; squabs, per doz., $4.00 • te 54,50; turkeys, 25 to 30e. • Gallant Acts' of ,Wireless Opera- tors in Remaining With Sinking Ships. A despatch from London says: - 'The Marconi International Marine Communication Co., at it'meeting on Wednesday declared a dividend total- ling fifteen per cent. for the year. The number of ships now installed is 1,855, and the operators employed 3,347, of which 333 have been saved ftom ves- sels sunk, 45 have been drowned, 29 injured, one killed and 19 taken pris- oners. Many gallant acts of opeia- tors sticking to sinking ships and send- ing shiP's positions, thereby ensuring the picking up of the boats in a com- paratively few hours, were recorded. One operator was torpedoed three 'times. in three month's, and is still un- hurt and ready to go to sea again, but was rewarded and put ashore. AFRICAN GERMANS DRIVEN BACK 'General Retirement of Enemy' From All Positions in .A despatch • from London says:- , Under the pressure of British forces advancing from Gilwa, the Germans in German East AfrictPhave evacuated • strongly held •positions south of the • Ngaura River, say e an official state - anent issued on Wednesday night. The positions extended from Gimarnba. Hill, on the shore of Beaver Hafen, to Makanga.ga, and the Germans retired a distance of from seven. to nine miles. The official report indicates a gen- eral retirement of the enemy forces in 'other fields of operations in German •East Africa. ENEMY RAIDERS BROUGHT DOWN A despatch • from London. says :- Two of a squadron of fourteen ma- chines that took part in an air raid on Harwich were brought down ablaze by British naval aircraft and a third machine was damaged,. it is officially announced. All the British airmen who engaged the Germans emerged safely from their_fights".., Entry of URited States Into the War Sts Importation Through Neutrals. A despatch from --London says :- Discussing' 111 the House of Lords on Wednesday the question •of com- modities reaching enemy countries through neutrals, Viscount Milner, member of the War Cabinet, referred to America's entry into the war as considerably checking this leakage. He expressed the conviction that the lulPortation into Germany of com- modities from neutral countries, which had previously been imported into these neutral countries from overseas, had been completely= stopped by the blockade and the pressure the allies had been able to exert on the neutrals. Undoubtedly, he said, there was still considerable export from neutrals into Germany, but it was entirely The new trals' own home products. GERMANS COIN' EXCUSE TO MALTREAT BELGIANS A despatch from London says:: -A despatch to the Times from The Hague says that as a reprisal for the alleged ill-treatment of Germans by Belgians in German East Africa, Germans have seized 23 distinguished Belgians and removed them without warning to their notorious punishment camp in Germany. They all.had directorial or other connections in the Congo, among them being the 70 -year-old Count Jean d'Oultremont, the • late King Leopold's Lord Chamberlain; also M. d'Ursel, who is aged 67. Mesopotamia a Corn Land. The promise that Mesopotamia shall produce corn for us in abundance ought to be fulfilled, for of old it was a land of plenty.. Climate, soil; and, _above all, the system of canals by •which from time immemorial it was irrigated, made it abnormally produc- tive. Herodotus, fearing that his ac- count woiald be deemed fabulous if he entered into particulars, conteated himself with saying that millet and sesame there grew to the size of trees. Other accounts tell of wheat leaves and barley leaves four inches broad, andethat in good years the land yield- ed in corn 30.0 times the =fount it received as seed. If you don't believe in yourself no- body else will. GERMANS SLAIN FROM START OF WAR TO MARCH TOTAL 1,500,000 63,222 Enemy Prisoners and 509 Guns Have Been Taken on the Western Front in Six Weeks. A despatch from Paris says: The • total number of Gerxnans killed from • the beginning oit the war to March, 1917, is not less than 1,500,000, ac- cording to an estimate 'reached by French general headquarters. This computation ha' been made after careful study of documents bearing on the stibject. From April 15 to June 30 the Franco -British troops on the western front captured 63,222 prisoners, in- cluding 1,278 officers, says an official summary of the. operations issued on Thiersclay. The war material taken in the same period' includes' 509' guns, 503 trench mortars and -1,318 machine guns. Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb., 20 to 25c; hens, 1S to 20c. • Honey -Cr'mcitort'Iland 115efiLvt3O weight, per „ 92.75; select,$2. $2,75; No. 2, $2 to 52.25. Beans -Imported,' hand-picked, $9.00 to $9.50 per bush.; Limas, per lb., 19 to 20c, Potatoes -Red Star, new, bbl., $S.00 too 1110).; North Carolinas, new, 'bbl., $8 Provisions --Wholesale Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 30 to 31c; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 420: rolis, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 33 to 36c; backs, plain, 36 to 370; bone- less, 35 to 400. Cured Meats -Long clear bacon. 26 to 269c.per lb; clear bellies, 25 to 26c. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 27 .to 271c; tubs, 27.2 to 279c; pails, 274 to 279c; compound, tierces, 2190; tubs, 219c; pails, 22e. Montreal Markets Montreal, •.July 10 -Oats --Canadian Western, No. 2, 81 to 819e; • do., Cana- dian Western, No. 3, 'ISO to 804c; extra No. 1 feed, 80 to 809c. Barley -Man. feed, $1.18. Flour -Man. Spring wheat Patents, firsts, $12.50; do., seconds, 512; strong bikers', 411.80; Winterpatents, choice, $12.50;. straight rollers, $12 to $12.30; do.,, bags, $5.75 to 55.00. Rolled oats -Barrels, $9.00 to $9.25; do., bags, 90 lhs., 94.35 to $4.40. Bran, $32. Shorts, $38. Middlings, $40 to $42. Mouillie, $44 to $47. Hay, No.' 2, per ton, car lots, 912.50 to $13. Cheese - Finest Westerns, 219c; do., finest east - erns, 219c. Butter -Choicest creatriery, 36c ; do., seconds, 34c. Eggs -Selected, 37c; do., No. 1 stock, 33 to 34c; No., 2 stock, 28 to 30c. Potatoes -per bag, car lots, $4.25 to 54.50. Winnipeg,' .Tul3r 10 -Cash quotations - Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $2.20; No,2 Northern '$2.17' No 3 Northern,$2.12.• No.4, $2.00; No. 5, $1.76; No 6, $1.59,; feed,. '51.19. Oats -No. 2 C.W.,‘739c; No:. 3 C.W., 729a; extra No. 1 feed, 739c; No. 11 feed„ 729e; N. 2 feed, 70,9c. Barley - No. 3, $1.25; No. 4, $1.20; feed, $1.10; rejected, 51.10. Flax -No. 1 N.W $2.65; No. •2,C.W., 52.612; No 3 C.W., 52.464, 13a.sis contract for wheat -July, $2,18; August (first half), $2.13. • United States 1VIarkets Minneapolis, July 10 -Wheat -Tilly closed- $2.22; September, 51.85; cash - No. 1 hard, 52.42 to $2.47; No. 1 North- ern, $2,32 to $2.42; No. 2, do., $2.22 to 52.32. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 51.74 to 51.75. Cats -No. 3 white, 709 to 71c. Flour - Fancy 1°at:11:Itsgrag.e1s271.10r;:chafinrgsetd. el je3trosri 910.70; Oth ,---$29 to 531. I Duluth, July 10 -Wheat -No. 1 hard, 52.26; No. 1 Northern. $2.25; No. 2, do., $220. Linseed -$2.77; July, $2.77; September, $2.76; October, 52.71. • Live StoCk Markets • Toronto, July 10 -Choice heavy steers, $10.75 to $11.25;' butchers' cattle, choice, $10.50 to $11; do., medium, $9.25 to $9.75' do., common, 98.25 to 58.75; butchers' bulls, choice, $8,50 to, 29.50; do., good bulls, 98 to 58.50; do., medium bulls, $7.50 to 58; do., rough bulls, 55.25 to $6; butchers' cows, choice. 58 to 59, do.,57.°50 90stockers,tlD18n; e dium, 57 40 e -98 to 59.10; canners and cutters, 55 to 56; milkers, good to choice, $90 to 565; do., com. and med., 540 to $50; springers, $S0 to $90; light ewes, $8 to 55.50; sheep, heavy, 56 to $7.50; year- lings, $8.50 to 59; calves, good to choice, 514 to $15.50; spring lambs, lb., 140 to 15c; lambs, yearlings, "19 to 510.50; hogs, fed and watered, 516.75; do.,weighed off cars, $17; do., f.o.b., 516. Montreal, July 10 -Choice steers, 511.50 to $12; good, $11 to $11.25; fair, 510 to 510.75; common, $9••to 59.75; butchers' cows, 58 to $10; bulls, 58.50 to .510.50; calves, $7 to 512; spring lambs, $6 to $8; sheep, $7.50 to 59; selected hogs, $16.75 to 017; • heavy- weights, 515.75 to .51,i6. A home evaporator makes it possi- ble to save considerable fruit on the farm that otherwise would go . to waste. The evaporator is placed over the kitchen stove so that no extra fuel is consumed. Dried apples, peaches, plums, raspberries, blackberries, cher- ries,' etc., are preserved in this way with little trouble. In the winter the (hied fruit soaked overnight in fresh water makes excellent sauce when stewed,, also pies and puddings. 11131 Gte 33 Cis IL 3111. Piano Firm 18 Years Older than C9federalion BRFISII TAKE 117,776 PfflSONERS Markets of ib World AND :739 FELD GUNS On July first Canada celebrated the semi -centennial celebration of Con- federation. Looking back oyer the progress ac- complished in Canada during those years, the many remarkable achieve ments seem hardly possible. The industries of Canada have pro- gressed step by step as the population increased. Among the older "truly Canadian" firms , is The Witham Piano Co,, Ltd., of Oshawa, Ont.; makers of the famous Williams New Scale Piano. R. S. Williams came from England and established this concern in 1849- 68 years ago. Canadians will feel proud to know that they have such a "truly Canadian" piano -the Williams New Scale, which they can be proud to place in their home. The Williams Piano Co. 1 at Oshawa will be glad to send interesting points concerning the "Artist Choice" piano, free upon re quest. THE MAKING OF AUSTRALIA Some Facts in the History of the Great Southern Commonwealth. The establishment of the Common- wealth of Australia has the easiest date and form of, government to re- member in modern history. It was proclaimed on the first day of this century, January 1, 1901 -the date, which the majority of us consider the beginning of this very important cen- tury. Australia is somewhat smaller than Canada, having an area of about 3,- 000,000 square miles. The earliest parts settled were inhabited for a time by a rather large proportion of Eng- lish criminals. It was in 1788, eighteen years after Captain Cook explored the east coast that Port Jackson was found as a penal station for criminals from Eng- land, and the settlement, for the next fifty years, transportation of convicts being virtually suspended in 1839. This oldest of the Australian colonies, New South Wales, •had made a fair start in free industrial 'progress from 1821. The convicts were allowed- con- siderable freedom for money -making, about the only thing being denied them toward the end of the convict period being the right to leave the island continent. The first British Governors at Sydney ruled with despotic power. They were officers in command of the garrison, the convicts and the few free settlers. A. population of 30,- 000 M. 1821 formed _the infant Com- monwealth of New SoutWee.Wales,prem ises Ballbridge. three-fourths of them being convicts- A conference was held at the City perhaps ' the strangest collection of of Dublin Municipal Technical Schools on "The Industrial Education of Ap- prentices." The Russian Order of St. George Figures For All Theatres of War Since the Outbreak -Not a Single Gun Lost on French Front in Two Years. A. despatch from London says: the western front in the first few Figures given on Thursday by Gen. months of the war, pt one gun hav- Maurice, Director of British Military ing been lost since April, 1915. Since .April first of this year British and French together on the western front captured 509 field and heavy guns, 503 trench mortars, 1,318 machine guns, and 63,222 men, In all fields of war the British have taken 117,776 prisoners, among whom native levies captured in Africa are not included. Prisoners captured by Germans from British forces number 51,088, these ninety-six, eighty-four were lost on including Indian and native troops. , Operations, form a basis of some illu- minating comparisons. In the whole theatre of war since the outbreak the British have taken 739 German field guns and lost 133, of which thirty-- seven have been recaptured. These thirty-seven are not included in the figure 739, making the total British losses 96 in guns, as against 739 taken froin the Germans. Of these From Erin's Green Isle CHINA IN THROES • OF CIVIL WAR NEWS 13Y MAIL FROM IRF LAND'S SHORES. Happenings In the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- men. • The best quality of pigs are sold at the Castlerea Market for 131 shillings per hundred weight. The new Rose urban rate is 10 shill- ings in the pound, or fourpence more than last year's rate' - large sum was realized at a free gift sale held at Bray in aid of the Bray Hospital War Supply depot: Charles Dawson, who was twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, died recently at his home, 52 Merrion road, Dublin. M. Murray, Kingstown, has been ap- pointed a Justice of the Peace for Dublin County by the Lord Chancel- lor. Twelve and a half acres of amid, in- cluding two acres of cut -away bog, in the county of Cavan, haVe been sold for 2560. A most successful Flag. Day was held at Wexford, in "did of the Irish "regiments 'and the Irish prisoners of, The Dublin Victuallers' Association have under consideration the regula- tion. of wholesale and retail prices of meat. The Council of the Rol ,Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, are seriouslyconsidering the closing down of part' of ,the hospital owing to lack of funds. The Right Hon. Mr. Justice Pim, and the Right Hon. Richard Robert Cherry were sworn in as Lords Jus- tices, of Ireland during the Lord Lieutenant's absence. As a mark of appreciation of the late Holden Stodart, a Dublin jour- nalist, a cot bearing his name has been opened in the Duke of Con- naught's Hospital, Dublin. The annual demonstration of the Dublin Boys' Brigade took place re- cently in the Royal Dublin Society's citizens the world has ever seen. The gold digcoveries of 1851 produc- ed exciting and progressive times. Wheri the "rush" started in 1852 im- has been awarded to- Petty Officer migrants from North America, China Fred Wallace, R.N.A.S., for gallantry and Europe poured into Melbourne off on the Roumanian front. the ships at the rate of 2000 persons A movement is general about the a week. The population of Victoria Irish Midlands for the employing of was doubled in a year. shop assistants where farm labor is The Commonwealth consists of six urgently needed. States, called the 9riginal States of The Department of Agriculture has Struggle Between President 'and Newly Made Emperor. A despatch froth San Francisco says: -China is in the throes of civil war and a battle is being fought be- tween troops of the southern provinces. fighting for the preservation of the re- public, and the northern forces of the young Emperor, according to cable ad- vices received here on Wednesday by the Chinese Nationalist League. The first clash *as announced as having occurred on Tuesday by officials of the league, who claim the source of its in- formation is unqueetionable. The advices on Wednesday state that President Li Yuan Hung is safe in Pekin and Mice -President Fung Kuck Jung is directing troop move- ments in Nanking. According to the despatches the soldiers of President Li in the Chi- nese capital are steadily gaining ground. A despatch from London says: - The Pekin correspondent of the Ex- change Telegiaph Company says that the advance of the northern and southern Republican armies under Tuan Chi-Jui, the former Premier, and Gen. Feng ICwo Chang, the former Vice -President, respectively, has com- menced. GERMAN TROOPS THROWN BACK Strongest Offensive Since Ver- dun Broken Down Everywhere. A despatch from French Front in France says: -After their strongest offensive effort since Verdun the Ger- mans found themselves, on Thursday thrown back everywhere along_ an 11 - mile front on the Chemin-de-Dames, leaving the ground thickly strewn with their dead and having failed to take even one French soldier prisoner. The French lines remained intact, and the French commanding general, who wa.tche,d the operations through- out from the front trenches, was able to declare that not a single yard of territory had been lost. BRITISH TROOPS New South Wales,' Victoria, Queens- taken possession of 66 acres near land, South Australia, Western Aus- Nevem, belonging to the Marchioness MOVE FORWARD tralia and "Tasmania. Three is a of Winchester, for non-compliance with the tillage order. What's a Necktie Good For? Senate -and a House, with six Senators from each State, renewed to the extent of one-half every three years. The House is elected on the proportional basis of population. Women vote. In City Streets. ' To you' cycle?" asked the insur- ance agent. "No," replied the applicant for a policy. "Ever race in a nibtor boat?" eNo.e "Drive much in an automokile?" "Never." "Ever go up in an airship?" "Never want to." "Sorry we can't insure you. There's too much risk insuring mere pedes trians.' • Man's only nen-utilitarien garment is the necktie. It's as useless as a monocle. Yet we wear it.- We'd feel awfully awkward walking down the street without one. Once upon a time the necktie was used to fasten the collar ont- But now it doeSn't do that. Man's necktie is the Indian's eagle feather, the cannibal's necklace of teeth, the mid -African's ivory ear- rings. Its' his pride, on which he bestows much thought, great care. We wonder what would happen to the vanity of the human race, masculine half, in case of a necktie famine. If there is,a low spot that has been If "a boy earns ten cents he wants too wet for ordinary seeding sow mil - it; he is not willing to trust the rich- let. Hay will be on the light side, est man alive. and millet will help out. 1=ttrziariniii.e,111,11,2=001211,112MMIVIECHEmri16111 'Make Gains in Flanders, and at Messines Ridge. A despatch from London says :- In an attack against the German lines south-west of Hollebeke, in Flanders, and on the northern end of the recent British advance against the Messines Ridge, Field Marshal Haig's troops have driven the Germans back on a front of 600 yards. The gain was made south-west of Hollebeke (near the Ypres Canal). Prisoners were captured in raids in Nieuport vicinity. Better a small amount of well- pre- pared food that is palatable 'than a large quantity left over, for serving leftovers is among the extravagances of housekeeping, because they repre- sent a double outlay of material, time and heat. �f -itlat./3 13 -113.151., • 1 viots‘k" AnNT Torn DID WITH Tfle MAGAZINE WAS 12EADIRG DID Y00 "TAKE L , hA\i MAGAZINE Tom- HAvE V) GOT MY MAGATINE.' I.V4V-i`i DON'T `,(0t..) ANSvNER - I GOES5 1.417°A14 DOFF AM GoNs. uT tt• , • „1"441:".'ifi