The Exeter Advocate, 1918-1-25, Page 6TS Y OVER TURKS
A aNTRA C DA c :DAN: LL S
le Between "Destroyers and Two Turkish Warships Results
in One Sunk and the Other Beached.
London, Jan. ` 0. -111 a naval action -
between Britieh
ctionbetweenBritish and Turkish forces .at
the entrance to the Dardanelles, the
Turkish cruiser Midullu, formerly the
Gorman Breslau, was sunk, and the
Spartan Yowas Selhn, formerly the
Gorman Goeben was beached. This
announcement was made by the Ad-
miralty to -night.
The official statement says:
°" rl.e Goeben and Breslau -Turkish
names Sultan Selinl and Midullu---
with destroyers, were in action with
the British forces at the entrance to.
the Dardanelles this (Sunday) morn-
ing, The Goeben escaped, but has
been beached, evidently badly damag-
ed, at Nagarapoint, in the,narrowts of
the straits.
"The Goeben is now being attacked
by naval air Graft.
"Our losses repor,'ted are the.
monitorRaglan and a small monitor,
the M -2S."
The German cruisers, Breslau and'
Goeben we•e in the Mediterranean Sea
at the outbreak of the war and fled
into the Dardanelles, seeking safety
from the British end French warships
that sought their destruction.
Since then their activities lir the
Dardanelles, at the Black Sea entrance
to the Bosphorus and in the:. Black Sea
along the Turkish Asiatic, the Russian
and the:Rumanian coasts have brought
then fame for intrepidity second not
even to the German sea wolves, like
the Dresden; Seeadler and the Kar',ls
riche.
LEADING MARKETS
13 eadstni7s
6 er onto, Jan. 2 T1anitob , wheat—
No, 1 Northern, 32,203; No 2, d0., 32.205;
No. 3 00,. 3217$; No. 4 wheat, .32,105;
in store s'oct William, including 250 tax,
Manitoba oats -Na 2 0.R 300, No,
3 G lir S2lo; No. 1 extra feed, Stec; 4o,
1 fcodo ,730; in store JF`o't 1\ illiaiu.
American corn--No.3 yellow, nomi-
nal, w'
Ontario oats --No, 2 white. 83 to 84c,
nominal; No, 3, do S3 to 830, nominal,
according to tx t41,1 , outsido,
Ont llo wheat—,New; No. 2 'Whiter,
32:22 basis in store T'fontreal.
1 as—No, 2, 33.70 Lo $3'.80, acoord'i,,ng
to t'ielahts outside.
Barley—Malting, 31.43 to 31,45, au-
o
cording to freights outside.
11uckwheat 3i.55 to 31.58, according
to freights outside,
nye-No. 2, 31.78, according to
freights oxltside.
Slsnitoba flout•—First patents, in jute
hags $11.50; do., seconds, $11; strong
bakers', stn. $16.60, Toronto.
Ontario flour—Winter, according to
sample, $10.10, in bats, Montreal; $9.95,
Toronto; 39.90, bulk, seaboard, prompt
shipment.
58xllfeed—Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included, --Bran . per ton,
335; shorts, do„ 340; middlings, do.,
33345'25, to 346; good feed four, per bag,
.
1 Hay—No, 1, new, per ton, 315.80 10
13,01.1611500.;
mixed, do., 313 to $15, track To-
Straw—Car lots, per ton, 35,50 to $9.00.
Country Produce-'ivlxolesale
INFANTRY RAIDS GERMANS DECLINE
I�T i3uc; prints,
s,tnxerysolids per lb, ,,443
!�J �i1tl� p 4lb. prints, Uer,:lb„ 45 to 15hc .daisy,
per lb , 32 to .340,
Eggs—Fresh gathered eggs, 50 to 52c.
ON BRITIsll
FRONT
BOLon
y �{p�gf OFFER to
poultry—,Chickens, 4c to 26e,
®jl.d1CD, S�i81 We sjt�a
fowl, 19 to 20e; ducks, E3 to 240; geese,
21 to 22c; turkeys, 2S to 30c.
Potatoes — Wholesalers are paying.
growers and country shippers, for first-
class stock, f.o.b., outside points, $2,95
Not .Acceptable in Present Form to 32.35 for Delawares, ancl $2 to $2,10
Weather Becomes Milder—In-
teresting Prisoners Taken
by Haig's Troops.
A despatch from British Army
Headquarters in France says: Small
infantry raids, with the customary
amount of artillery and air activity by
both sides, continue to be the order
of the day along the British front.
The much milder wehther, accom-
panied by 'rain, has swept away the
last of the snow, but the mud remains
as the dictator of military affairs.
The British lately have secured
some interesting captives. One pris-
oner, who had been thrice wounded,
made a statement in substance as fol-
lows: The scarcity of food at home is
very serious. " There is little meat and
fatty substances, and practically no
bread. Potatoes are very expensive,
although there is no serious shortage.
The people are ir1 state of unrest,
but are afraid to attempt organised
disturbances. On Field Marshal von
Hindenburg's birthday small busts. of
the General were placed on the street
corners in nearly all German towns.
In most places the people hurled these
to the ground before noon. In Cologne
there are over 12,000 deserters' to vari-
ous prisons.
Another prisoner said that for: a PLAYING CARDS
by Central Powers.
A despatch •:from Berlin says' An
for Ontarios, Latest picture or Lord and Lady. Residing, who will
Wholesalers are ,selling: to the retail
trade at the following prices:— nection with the British Embassy at Washington.
Cheese—herr, large, 23i to 24c; twins,
official statementissued here on ' , early cheese; ',g, to 260;
�3 to 24$0
large twin �6 to 26�,c,
Thursday, giving the reply by the'Butter- Fresh dairy, choice ss to 390'.
Central Powers to the Russian pro- tcreamers-67prints; 4G to 470; solids, 46 1 $ 13d
to `460-»:
posals at Brest -Litovsk on Monday, 1lzargarine29 to 320. ti ,c�{ryq
ggs oto rage laccl, xn o i.l tans, 65 to 700; Q� � }� S LIFE �q
says the Russian proposals concerning Na, 1 'starar;e. 47 to 48c, 3,elecl. storage, ,, E S tlJ
the regions occupied' by the.: Central 50
Powers d'
the views of the` Central Powers that 24 to 26 c• e;. turkeys, 35 to 37duets
ill their present form they are unae- Live: 'poultry—Turkeys, 28c; Soling
ceptable. chickens, lb., 20 to -2'1c: hens, 20 to 24c:
Dyec.s
poultry-'--Springchickens, 27
lverge to such a degree from to ese; milk -fed chickens lb 30c• fowl
Spring,. 27 to 30e;' geese, 25 to 27c.
dupl.'s, Suring, 20 to 22c: geese. 200 to
The official statement says 'the 21e.
Russian proposals de not show a
compromisingattitude and do not sx
• consider the' opposite parties on a :Per
T beans -74 h ind-pissed, bus•hc,
t b 1` th 1 't adds,
again are pre- nig ox - noun $6.30 to $7; Japan SS'
rmas IG t 1 •
Honey—Conlb---T6xtra fne, 16 os.,
50 $
r i
12 oL $3: No. 2 2.40 to . 2 50.
a ned—Tins 75's and 'S's, 1D to 1950:
lb; lo's, 18i to 192,; 60's, 18 to 1850:
Jus asTs. e'vel' a ess, 1 $8 to: 38.25; impored, hand-picked, lBur-
the Central Powers $
o .7c. -
ared to give a` clearly formulated —
j p r tclog y .•Potatoes Del t��•ares. bag $_. 2,> to
i expression of their opinions and to $2.35; Ontarios, hag, $2.10 to 32.25,
try to find a basis for a compromise: Provisions—wholesale
For the Central Powers, as dis- S 9S ngi:.ecT meata9 ns, medium. 31 to:
tinct from the case with Russia the 3..c; ,los heave `?G to 27e. cooked 43 to
Taco
;peace with Russia has no connection loss, 4to 46
' 44e: irons; 28 to 300; bi:eal:fast l n,
announcement adds•
, a e0lreluffion of 4D to �2c' backs plaur 13 to •140 bone -
roils,
;
Cured merit0s—••:Gong clear bacon, 28 to
with a general peace and the Central
Powers are compelled to continue the
war against their; other enemies.
BARTER „GUNS FOR
year the German soldiers and people
had been promised' an early peace.
Emperor William, in reviewing,a di-
vision after the battle of Cambrai
said: "Peace on the Russian•front
is assured. It reinaiiis for us to
force an early' peace on the western
front."
LENINE ORDEIS
ARREST OF
KING
Rumanian Monarch to be Im-
prisoned at Petrograd.
A. despatch from Petrograd says:
p g y
Premier Lenine ori Thursday signed an
order for the arrest of King Ferdin-
and of Rumania, who is to be sent to
Petrograd for, imprisonment in the
fortress of St. Peter and ;rt. Paul.
The order for the King's arrest de-
scribes in detail the way it is to be
carried out and in which the King is
to be guarded. The Bolsheviki be-
lieve they have sufficient forces on
the Rumanian front to carry it out.
The evening papers declare that
the arrest by Rumanians of Aus-
trian officers who sought togo
through the Rumanian lines on their
way to the Russianfront to fraternize
with. the Russians, is one of the prin-
cipal reasons :for the crisis between
the Bolsheviki and Rumania.
Ferdinand Under Allies' Protection:
A despatch from London says:
King Ferdinand of. Rumania, whose
arrest has been ordered by the Bolshe-
vik Government, is now under the pro-
tection of the allies, according' 'to a
Petrograd despatch to the Daily Ex-
press.
German Traders Have Erected
I 400 Booths Along the
Russian Front.
A' despatch from London says: A
telegram from Berne to the Morning
Post says:
News has reached here from Hol-
land' that German traders have a1 -
ready taken advantage of the " situa-
tion in Russiaand have erected 400
booths at convenient spots along and'
in closest proximity to the Russian:.
front.
It appears that the Russian soldiers
are most anxious to obtain playing
cards, and they readily barter a ma-
chine gun for a pack of cards.
TO REPUDIATE
DIAT
E
FOREIGN
DEBTS
All State `Loans Made by Pre-
vious Russian Government
to be Invalid.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The executive committee of the Work-
men's and Soldiers' delegates have de-
termined to put before the Constituent
Assembly the decree passed by the
Council of Commissioners calling for
the, repudiation of foreign debts and
the invalidating of all' State' loans
made by the "Governments of Rus-
sian land -owners and ,of the Russian
Bourgeoisie."
The decree is effective f:o Dec 1
" No matter how high, prices climb,
writing paper. 'will always be station-
ery. •
RUSSIAN SITUATION GROWS .MORE ACUTE
t'
—CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED
British Ambassador Believes That the Bolsheviki Have the Real
Power in Russia and. Will Maintain It By Force.
Petrograd, ,Tan. 20. --The Constitu-
ent.Assem.bly has' bean dissolved: by
the Bolsheviki authorities, it was of-
ficially announced yesterday. Sailor
guards closed' the assembly at 4
o'clock yesterday morning.
Jan. 2'0; ---Sir George
Lannon, a 0'
lauchanan, British'_ Arrabassador' . to
ir;Iussia, who now is ip.London on sick
a' eave, on asaturday stated' that white
indicated
r des a.:hes dl
r6
Petrograd g �
a the Social Revolutionaries had an
0„etual majority in the Gonstitiaent As-
p,eonbly;,'that did not alter the fact that
e Beleheviki have the real power
ad wiU maintain it;lry force if neves-
1 e 'lei doctrines
��ry. The, .Bo sh 'vl ,
�spreading throe h,
illou� doubt, are g'
the L" .k
P Q i';tx 9�tf1 �'Lx- Ueo.
whole o s
% t- wig �
Ws , g
x
declared, and, they appeal specially to
those who have nothing to lose. He
added that white he was unable to
forecast the future, he was convinced
that Russia was not finished, because
such. a 'vast country could not be de-
stroyed.
e-
str. oyed .
"I believe that' the innate honesty
and common-sense of the people will.
enable her' to pull through," Sir -
George asserted,
The food situation in Petrograd was
very serious, he said, but the great
majority,of the British colony had left
Petrograd. "The general opinion
there is that the food may ;rail ..al>so]-
tttely thin month," Sir George conclud
ed, "and if famine conies one may ex-
iectanarcky, and with that everybody
1 .> y y
would be in peril."
29c; clear. bellies, 27 to 98c.
Laid—Pure lard, tierces, 285, to 29e;
tubs, 28$ to 294o; pails, 29 to . 295c;
compound, tierces, 24i• to 26c; Lubs, 242
to 255c; pails, 25 to 2550:
Montreal Markets
'Monlieal. Tan. 22—Oats r7anad:ian
western, No. 3•" 93' to 985c; extra No, 1
feed, 95 to 955e; iblo,-9 local white 92
to 925c; No. 3 local white, 91 to 915c:
No. 4 local white, 898 to 90c, Flour—
Manitoba ;Spring wheat patents, firsts.
311.60; seconds; 311.10; strong .'bakers',
$10.90: straight rollers, bags $5.2,5- to-,
35.40. Rolled oats—Bags, 90 lbs,, 35,302
Bran, $25. Shorts, $40. Middlings, $4$
to 550. Tiouillie,' 356 to 353 Fray—No,
per ton, car lots, 314.50 to 3155.50.
Clieesc—Finest westerns, 215c; finest
easterns, 215e. Butter, -Choicest cream-
ery, $465 to $470;• seconds 443 to 46e
Egags—Fresil 58e selected, 52c; No. 1
stock, 480;' ha. 2 stock, 4'6c. }-'otataes
Per hag, car lots, 31,90 to '$2.98.
Winnipeg' Grain '1
Winnipeg;, Jan. 22—Cash quotations:
-Oats No, 2 C.W., 90e; No. 3 C.W.
82ie extra' No. 1 feed, 8140 No. 1 feed,
77. c No. 2 feed, 743c. Bailey,—Np 3
31.44; No. 4, $1.30; rejected: $1.20:
feed 31.20. Flax—No. 1 N.W,C., $3.195;
No2 4.\\"., 33.155.
United States ?Markets
Bolshevik Premier Shot at by
- Members of Crowd in
Petrograd.
.A despatch from Petrograd says:
An automobile carrying Nikolai Le -
nine, the Bolshevik Premier, was fired
upon Monday night, when he was driv-
ing to a meeting of the Council of
People's Commissaries. Four shots
were fired. Lenine was not hurt, but
the bullets shattered the windows of
the automobile and a Swedish Socialist
with the Premier was wounded in the
hand. The attack was madejust out -
side the hall iii which he had been ad-
dressing 8,000 of the:Red Guard, who
were going to the front. As !iris auto-
mobile swung through, the crowd four
Shots 'flashed in the darkness. One of
the bullets missed its nark by only
a few inches. Scores of arrests were
nlade,
-EW RUSS ARMY'.
FOR THE ER • N
�T
First 5,000 Volunteers. of' New
"Army of Democracy„
Leave Petrograd.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The first5,000'volunteers new
z o:f 'the n r
Socialist army have left for, the front,
sped by one of the most enthusiastic
demonstrations the cit ha e n i a
months.- Red flags lined the route of
Minneapolis, Jan. 22---(1n --No 3 the parade and scores of:bands played
Yellow. . $1.64 to $1.67. Oats --No. 3 revolutionary .music.
white, to 79c.. Flour unchanged. Ten thousand Bran, $,,2 .50.t sand other volunteers for
Duluth,' .Tan 22-Linsee,—On trach, the new "arxaly of democracy" are
83.53 So $8.68 ax rix c, $3.53 .snaggy now
enrolling in the Petrograddistrict
33.53 bid; May.$3.50 bid; 1111y, $3,441 gra
bili; 0ctobet, 3,,.30, laominal. alone. The volimteers are responding
to a special appeal'to the people is-
�ive r
Stock oc Markets ' ,
is
sued by h
A
the : ,olshevalciGovernment
is -
Toronto. San, 22--1.-'eti•a. choice heavy , ' . �` ..
steels, $12 to 313: do., good heave, : and by the Russian Commander -in -
$11,40 to $11.75; butchers' cattle, ehoice, chie.f,..Fnsign Iryleniko,
$11.50 to $1.1.75; do goon $1050 to ,
311.25; do.. medium, 310 to $10.50;' do.,
common, $9,25 to 39.50; hatchet's' bulls.
choice 310,25 to 311; do., good bulls,. 39 I
to 39 50; : do., medium bulls, $8.25 to
38.75; do., rough bulls. 37 to $7.4,0;
butchers' cows, choice. 39.75 to 310.50:
do., good, 38,75 to $0.25; do., meClium,
57.76 to 38: canners and cutters, 36 to
37.25; stockers, 37.25 to 38.75: feeders,"
39.25 to 310; milkers, good to choice,
$95 to $140;' do corn and'med $96 to
$56. springers, $90; to $130; light ewes,
TALIAN bEFEILIT
S
shortly take up the it social and diplomatic cll.ltie$ in con•
-
•
GENERAL STRIKE
BY AUSTRIANS
100,000 Men Reported to Have
Quit Work in' Vienna
and Neustadt.
London, Jan. 20.—_A general strike
is on throughout Austria, according to
an Exchange Telegraph despatch from
Paris to -day,: which reports 100,000
nien quitting work' in Vienna anti Neu-
stadt, closing 'deft n all the war fac-
tories. The strikers are described as,
openly anti -German and the move-
ment as both political and economic,
and 'especially ` aimed at securing
Public demonstrations, it is added,
have been held in many places at
which hostility towards Berlin for
trying to force the Austrians to con-
tinue the 'war was voiced,
ALLIED WARSHIPS.3
A i! A r'V L aQ 1i l BY�:
Bomb German Submarine Base
on Belgian Coast.
London, Jan. 20. ----On the : western
front- in France and, Belgium the mili-
tary operations apparently . are in-
creasing all along the line, as com-
pared with .those of the past few
weeks, when little or no fighting, ex-
cept artillery duels and minor raids,
was'.: carried out..
Entente allied warships have bom-
barded Germany's submarine base
at Ostend, on the Northern` Belgian
coa.st,` while around Ypres, between
Lens and St:4 Quentin; on the Chemin.
Des Dames, on the.. St. Mihiel sector
and north of the Rhine -Marne Canal,
there has been a. notable increase in
theoperations the infantry. The
rsby
p
probabilities are with the " return of
good. weather the expected big battles
may take' place.
I
IN :A
RE SEIN
i°�I�"d�r�lil SAI �g II iZdi'
CIVIL
A.
GAINS IN RUSSIA
Bitter Conflict Between Bolshe-
viki _ and Ukrainians.
A. despatch from London says: -The
Stockholm Ukrainian Information
Bureau announces that it is in posses
Sion of information showing that the:
Russian Bolshevilti troops are tearing
up railroads, destroying stations and
undermining bridges in order to cap-
ture or disperse Ukrainian troops conn-
ing .northward.
The bureau says the Bolsheviki
troops repeatedly have lured Ukrain
iari.units into a trap near Minsk,
disarmed them, committed various
deeds of violence and• sent them north
as prisoners. The announcement adds
that great numbers of German prison
ers are returning from Siberia and
that the Ukrainians are taking their
places,
GERMANS NOT BUYING
THIS YEAR'S WOOL CLIP.
A despatch }song Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina, says: The 1917 wool crop is
now 'nearly shorn,- and , , of
quite so large as that of last year is,
however, regarded here as highly sat-
isfactory , in quantity, quality and.
price. The largest buyers on the
wool market to -day are the officials
representing the Entente Allies, who
are purchasing large quantities"de-
stined to the armies. American buy-
ers are' now familiar 'figures ur'es on the
market .and do a business second
only to the French and English re.
presentatives.
The German firms are not buyers to
any great extent, but they are always
on the spot and generally ready to do
business i11 small lots at low prices.
These German firms must, indeed, hold
an enormous stock of wool in their
warehouses; they were large buyers in
1914 and 1915 and middling last year,
and while not haying
bought h
mac
this season, due te,the high prices,
they have not been telnptedto unload'"
their' stocks on to the, market, which
they could have done at great profit.
A. arentl they pp y propose holding out •
till the end of the war, and 56 he pre- -'.
pared for the ensuing commercial con-
flict,
CANADA'S TRADE DXT VG BY SCORES
FROM P:NFUMONIA.
$13 to 51.4:; sheen, heavy, $8.00 to $7.75; Bloody 'Repulse For the Teutons
yearlings, ':12.25 to $.13,25; lambs' $18
to $19,50; calves, good to ehoi c 314, to - on Sector Nearest Venice.
$16,60; "hogs, fed and watered $Tri, do.
weighed off cars, $19.25; 'do., f,o:b:, $18'. A despatch from Italian Headquar-
e s eels, $1eset's
good steers, $71 to $71 "5• d'
� me ran, In Northern Italy, says:—The
i
steers, ,.$io to $1.0.50; lxut,her nulls, ,,enemy•has received another bloody re -
Cl 3 $r0 t $Y0 j5'
xo ce. o good balls, . $9;25 pulse on the Lower Piave in the sector
to 39.75; butcher cows, choice $1.0 to
310.50: good cows,' 30.60 t4, 39.75; can- ,nearest Venice, Here his ,attack was
Hers, $5.50 to $6 sheep, 312 to $13; thrown.., bads after four Hours of
lambs, $11. to 316; grass calves $7
$8;i milk -fed 'calves, $1.4 to $:f 6; hogs, desperate lighting, The enemy suf-
cho ce selects, 319.76. :feted heavyy losses the
ground "being
strewn with 'his dead.
The Italians captured 150 prisoners
and a large quantity of guns and war
material".
BRITISH:. AIRMEN
RAID NEAR %LETZ
A despatch from London says:—
The following official communication
dealing with aviation was issued
Thursday evening:
"In spite of very had weather Wed-
nesday night, bombs were dropped 01)
large sidings at BernsdorPf, thirty-
miles southeast of Metz, and on the,
railway south of Metz.
"All our machines returned."
-4
TWO BRITISH DESTROYERS
WENT DOWN IN GALE
A despatch from ' London s� ays.•
--Pho
British Admiralty announces' the lees
of two tbrpedo-boat destr
p avers in. a
violent gale and a heavy snowstorm
Wednesday night.
The vessels ,:.-ran ashore on the
Scotch coast and
were totally wreck-
ed and all 'hands on hoard lost, e
,xoept
one malt,,.,,
d
,BurSt waftl_plpe5 may be mended
by wrapping dry.loather tightly over
,h_ 1' � 'The swelling
,
the 1 olc.s° 1 sl 111ng of the le:alli�
er; when 'wet, stops the leaks,
ITALIANS TAKE
NEARLY 500 PRISONERS.
A despatch from Rome.says: The
following communication was issued '
by the War Office on Friday:
"Along the whole of the frontH
Aggregated $2,068,400,971 For
Last Nine. Months of 1917.
p
A despatch from Ottawa, : Ont., says:
—For the nine months of the 'fiscal
year ending Dec. 31st, the total -trade
of the Dominion aggregated $2,068,-
400,971, as compared with $1,700,3377,-
790 for the same period last year. For
December Alone it was to the value -of
1213,305,644, as against $201,193,194
for December, 1916. Exports from
the Dominionfor the nine months'
period'` included domestic products to
the value of $1,257,684,900. Domestic
exports for the same period last year
were to the value of $861,629,813.
These figures are exclusive of coin
and bullion,
there have been brief artillery actions " BTI
S GAIN
and limited patrol activity. Our artil-
lery made, concentrations of tire on the
reverse of Col Caprile and Col Dela
Berettal: The enemy's fire, which was
more lively against the southeastern
slopes o:f, Montelio, 8yas answered by
Brittsh batteries, which shelled, mov-
ing troops'between Mina and Canareg-
gto:
"On the southern slopes rof Sasso
Roeso and on the northern slopes of
Moate Soiarolo enemy ,patrols were
driven basic with'hand grenades.
"During the ,actions of Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday in the Aso -
hone ,area and east of dapo Sile, a
,:
total " of: thirteen ,4011 ofXlcet's and 478
imen nisi 1.8 nhichilies and two
bomb -throwers were captured:"
IN PALESTINE
ST E
Advance on a Four -Mile I+Tont
Twelve Miles North of
Jerusalem.
London, Jan. ' 2d.—The War Office
last night issued the :following state
in.ent in regard Lo the operations in
Palestine s
,'Yesterday our line was advanced
- imum' depth th of a mile on,a'4-
toamu,c p
,i r
' 7 f
mile front in the neighborhood 11borhood o.
1 6
Dural,
.twelve mikes north Jeru-
salem. $mo prisoners were captut
ed:'
A despatch from Fengehen, Shansi
Province, China, says: The hotbed of
the, pneumonic -type plague 'prevalent
here and in other parts of Shansi Pro-
vince, is at present Paotech,ow, on the
Hoang -Ho, west of Ningwufu, and
the villages surrounding it. The na-
tines are dying by scores in tha
streets.",,Appeal;5 for help are• being
sent broadcast by the American doc-
tors, recently sent .into the Province to
investigate the plague conditions.
JAMAICA TO ISSUE
WAR BREAD AND CAKES.
A despatch from Kingston, Jamaica, .
says: The Government has announced
regulations for the issue of war bread;
cakes and, buns. Only 50 per cent. of
wheaten flour may be used. Further
regulations are expected soon.
RETURNING TROOPS
DOCK. A.1' ST. JOHN,
A despatch from St. John, N.B.,
says: A large transport docked hei'c
on Thursday with some ninety 'pas,
songer"s, thirty of them Crnadian;:ofti'
cers homecoming from war, included'
among them was Capt., C. B. Cock.,
bairn, of Hamilton, a graduate of the ..
Royal Military College at Kingston.
UKRAINE BECOMES
• AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC,
A. despatch frolic "Stockholm sayst
The proclamation of 'Turkestan as ail;
autonomous republic, allied to the Fed.
oral :republic of Russia, is annauncect
by the Ukraine.