The Exeter Advocate, 1918-2-28, Page 2GERMANS ANNUL RUSSIAN PEACE
OFFER; MARCH ON PETROGRAD
Bearer of Trotsky's Peace Acceptance Abducted by Huns, Whose
Entrance Into Russian Capital Seems Certain.
A desa-atch from Petrograd says; -
As the Germacis are developing their
attack along the whole northern front,
there is no doubt that they mean to
-take Petrograd by a quick blow.
Their sweep into the interior is go-
ing directly east from Minsk to Moe-
hilov, and by arnether Iine to Vitebsk
and Proves. They are meeting prac-
tically no
ractically'no resistance. The vast Ruse
than army is not putting up one-hun-
dredth part of the fight the few Bel-
gian troops did when the Germans
entered Belgium. The railroad tracks
are not even being disturbed. It is
the easiest conquest of history.
A despatch frann Rotterdam says:
-It is probable that Germany intends
to effect a military occupation of the
whole of the Baltic provinces and then
propose to Petrograd new conditions
which amount virtually to anne;.ation.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Nieuwe Rotterdanusche Courant, who
is evidently officially inspired, tele-
graphs that pending a new discussion
between the Central Powers as to the
answer to be sent to Trotzky, "the
military measure begun Monday will
be continued. The objectwvllich is
being sought for by these reasu'res
will probably be formulated ,•to
Trotzky as a condition of peace now
proposed by him."
The conclusion from this eignifi
cant' announcement seems to be that
the German Government regards the
original Brest-Litovs conditions as
annuled by Trotzky's recent breaking
off of negotiations, and intend form-
ulating now conditions dictated by the
result of the present military opera-
tions,
pera-tions,
.A later despatch from Petrograd
says: -The Russian Parliamentary
messengers started in a motor ear
from Rieshitsa for Dvinsl;, but near
the station at Antonopol were met by
a German automobile armed with ma-
chine guns. The Russian motor ear
was allowed to pass, but the Parlia-
mentary representatives and the Com-
missioner of the 5th Army were de-
tained and brought back to Rieshitsa
in the German automobile.
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ypurrqn*hite, r3.115 0. to 9S3c. flour -Unchanged.
bran -
Duluth, Feb.Feb.26-Linseed-53.76,, _ to
$3.851; to arrive, 13.760; May, $3.761
bid; July, 53.720 bid; October,- $3.50
asked:
Toronto, Feb, 29 -Manitoba wheat
No. 1 Northern. 52. >30: No. 2, do., $2.20'
No, 3, da 52:17§, No. 4 wheat. $2,101;'
in store Fort William. including 210 tax.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.7.V,e93gc; No.
2 C,W, 9122c; extra No. 1 feed. Mc;
Nd '6g tore Fort William
Live' Stook Markets.
Toronto. Feb. 26 -Extra choice heavy
steers, $12 to $12.25; do., goad heavy,
o. 1 feed y . e; in.
5 511.26 to 511.75; butchers' cattle, choice,
American corn -No. 3 yellow, kiln 511.50 to 511,55; do:,' ood, 510.90 to
dried, 51.95,tfacilc Toronto. 511.2o; do., medium, 510 25 to 510.50'
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 96 to 97c; do., common, 58:50 to 19.25; butchers`
t }te 95 to 9f, according to
\0. a ww t
freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. Winter, Per car
lot, 52.22; basis in store Montreal,
Pegs -No. 2, 53,70 to 53.80, according
to freights outside
co
to
t0
bulls, choice, 810 to 510.90; do., goad
bulls, 59 to '59,25: do., medium bulls,
57.85 to 55.50: do., rough, bulls, 56.50
to 57; butchers cows, choice. 510 to
510.50; do., good, 55.75 to 59; do.,
medium, $8 to $8,50; stockers, 57.50 to
$5.50: feeders, $9 to $10; canners and
cutters,to milkers, goodto
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Huns Strike at. Dismembered Russia.'
Map shows portion of battle line between Ria and nen ly formed' Re-
public- of Ukraine where the Germans threaten an offensive with ;Petro-
grad as the objective.
BRITISH REACH
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RIVEREARNEST
MEALS TO
Gen. Allenby Secures' Important
Military Base. By Capture German s in Retaliation
British Will Carry Air 'VVar. to
Cities lei i -. -oe to $1.65, a.
Barley-wlalting 56 $6 50 'lk 100r Hun Outrages.
Buck to freights c o o of Jericoo.
elan, according choice $90 to $140• do. coin, and med.,
y -Ni,. 3, 52.03 to w3.06, according to $7.25:
o
to $7 25 • • Yearlings � $1`1:75 � to 512,75' campaign.of 'air reprisals on German
•
Buckwheat -$1.7O to arc r
outside. Tlie A despatch from London says: The
freights 51 5o t 51.4 5G• sheen heavy Ss A despatch front London says 1
8
565 to ISO; springers. $90: to 5140; light
itis i rave ea
a freights outside. B P t
'Manitoba dour -War 4ua1•ity, $11.1 h 1 51G o0 hods feet and Jerusalem
lour- t . r
Ont trio flour -War duality, $IG: 'With the capture of Jericho'Genelal
and Montreal 519.25: do.; f.ob., 51 S "Reprisals" is a wwrord not officially
new bags, Toronto Montreal, Feb•. 26 -Choices: steers, 'Allenby „rias made another stride for -
0 ch lambs, 515 to $15.25; calves, good: to r
choice, 515 toCities and .towns is about to begin in
new begs, watered 878 do weighed off cars, "
6G h t
i•�hts .romnt stnpment q
ire' p d flout $10 t 511.60; good steers 50 to
linefeed -Car lots -Delivered -
rear freights, bars included: Braix, per .d 5s 25 t $9.00; choice f the Turks. Th lace in.if.w'is be be set clown here on.the very highest
' his task in clearilnm Palestine
510,25; to
butcher .cows, $9:50 to ward :_
us
d in Great Britain I-lowever; letit
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ALPS, BOMB � I AUSTRIAN TYROL
Attacked Munition _ Factories,' Railway Station and Bar,racks••-.
Many People Killed in the Streets.
A despatch from Budhs, Switzerland, eluding the railway..stltion,•barracks
says; Five filttente airrnen flying ove.l `and two newv munitiori'factories.
• ,, • I Soldiers alyd civgliarls wore L. rpris-
tlle Jullali tel \Vedaeethty afte.ruooti t eel, and, beim emice- s toured top an
folrfd that the to -we of Innsbruck, in,: air attack, relished into tIui stt'cets and
the Austrian Tyrol, was not protected ! many were killed. ''
) . Then I The (xerman Consulate Was hit and
1)y anti-aircraft �,LnS. all'Ine
i tlzt trains loaded with soldiers on their
ereirpon swooped down to within 300 ,
way to the. Trentino front wveie attack-
yarcls of the ground, picked out; tar-; , n ' 'gine g•ii s from ae low alt!-
ad by lac. ,, n ,
gets and copiously bombed them, in- tuck.
sw-.,e, Mr«sfwr.0_-«. ...
GERMANS TO RESUME
TRADETN BLACK SEA.
NEWS FROMENGLAND
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A despatch from Amsterdam says:
Advices received here from Berlin on
Friday say that it was announced in
the joint sitting' of the Reichstag that
it was planned to resume shipping in
the Black Sea after the mines have
been cleared away. " The ,plan -is to
expedite shipments to Germany from
elle' Ukraine, Germany to supply agri-
cultural machinery and implements in
return for grain.
r,
10; middlings r9.7n ` goo .cows, •. _ o } C to qe p le 71 i5. e p a
au horn; 'that if the Germans believe.
ton $31: shorts, per ton. I butcher bulls, .I9.o0 to 510.25; good thet
white, per ton, 545 to $x61 good feed bulls. 55.25 t0 Ss; canners' cattle, $6:60 fore war only a small collection
flour, per bag $3 40 ll ] 5x3 to$16' hovels,b t tacks and roads which they can Foal) London every moon -
Hay -No. prr on.
to $6; choice milk calves, ,. , or u 7
sheep, $11:50 to. 512; lanios; $i4 to $i6; �. ,. •,� light night; killing
Iv h'1 t $17 to 518 ng women children
mixed. select hogs, off cats $19 to $1, u0
and cripple's unable to find 51 ,
r - pass over a great conc_ete blldbe r cher
across Pl
sows, $tE.6o to 5lr. «hien the G h d built
track Taronta,
b of England to prevent aeprisals; they
}s d S14 to 51G, t ix.l: Toronto.
Soar:• -Car Iota, pec• ton, $8:,,,o to so, se < ,
Germans
a o anc and then trust to the Christian spirit
a• the "Jordan since the war bean a
Country Produce -Wholesale f � Convenient fords;: make it an import-
1may olt fora w iolent •awakening
ter --C_ eamery, D� � 9 ant 1m11tary base; the capture of
solids, net qia_: 47 tL..+�'9. .s a� TA�,5
froin•tlieir barbarous slumbers.
But
FRoNTis no er read. ea It is conceded, generally that the
which
to (a.r; prides, per 11, 43 to 4s1c, gives the British' 1 th d lead- dairy, per lb.. 36 to 33c.
Eggs. -Fresh gathered eggs. 50 to 520;
new laid, 55e.
Poultry Dressed. chickens, 26 to 25c;
fowl, 23 to 25e: ducks•, 23 to 240; geese,
21 to 320; turkey's, 28 to 300:
Wholesalers are selling to the retail
trade at the following prices: -
Cheese -New, large,' 23 to 211 e; twins,
230 to 2310; early cheese, 25✓i to 26c;
large twin, 26 to 261c.
Butter -Flesh dairy, choice, 40 to 41c;
creamery prints, 40 to 50c; solids, 47
to 4Sa.
Eggs -New laid. in cartons, 60 to G5c;
No. 1, storage, 50 to 51e; select storage,
53 to 84e.
Dressed poultry --Spring chickens, 30
to 33e; milk -fed chickens, 32 to 35c;.
fowl. 26 to 0c: turkeys, 35 to 40c; ,
ducks. Spring, 27 to 30c; geese, 27 to
28e.
Live poultry --Turkeys; 30c; Spring
chickens, lb, 22 to 20c; hens, 22 to 2Sc
ducks, Spring, 25e: .geese, 15 to 17c,
Honey -Strained tins, 21's. and S's, 20
to 22c per ib; 10's 20; G0's, 20c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bush.,
55 to 53.25; imported, hand-picked, Bur-
ma or Indian, 56,75 to 57; Japan, 58 to
55.25; Limas, 180 to 19e.
Potatoes Delaww ares, bag. 52.40 On-
tario:, bag, $2.30 to 52.65.
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats --Hams, medium, 64 to
350; du., heavy, 2S to 30o; cooked, 45
to 47c; rolls 25 to 30c; breakfast bacon,
40 to 42c; backs, plain, 43 to 44c; bone-
less, 45 to 460.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 25 to
290; clear bellies 27 to 25c
Lard -Pure lard,tierces 29 to 291c;
tubs, 20i,, to 2930; pally, 291 to'36c;
compound, tierces 251 to 26c; -tubs, 250,
to 26;c;, pails, 26 to 26;c.
n2ontreal I,TarketS
Montreal, Feb. 26--Oats-Canadian
western, No. a, 5110 to 51.11; extra No.
1 fee, 51.10 to $11.1; No- 2 local white,
51..09; No 3. do., 51.08; No, 4, do„ 51.07.
Flour -New standard grade, 511.10 to
511.20; Spring wheat, 511.10 to 511.20.
Itolled oat -Bags 90 Ibs 555.50. Bran,
835. Shorts, 540. Middlings, $48 to 550.
MouiIlic, 515 to 360. Ilay-No, 2, per
ton, ear lots, 517.
Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg Feb. 26 -Cash prices: --
Oats -No 32.1b 9333; No. 3 C.W.,
01ge; extra No. 1 feed, S93c; No. 1 foci,
SSgc; No. 2 feed 891c. Parley -No, 3
C.W., 51.661; No 4 ('.P 11.618; ' re-
jected, $7,57; feed, $L,26. Flax -No, 1
/ .W�.O.. 53.45; No, 2 C;,w„ 53.410; No,
3 C.W., 50.2.4,
Milted States ates markets
Minneapolis, Pei', 29---Corn---No, 3
yellow, 51.90 to 31.85. Oats -No. 3
sTRETcH a ing northward to the Turkish base at bombing of cities containing military
Nablus. i i "ons
biases supplies, troops and niuintr
I` dd`t` the ,11 controls the
will be one of the big features of the
Transfer of Considerable Part
road to the coast .and the mountain
`vat from this time on. It well veri-
highway from Jerusalem_ Tits,-, r:ks war in the , and veri-
Llelitin i rtant road talzly be a
of Line Below St are also deprived of ani zn po ez'ha s have a vital effect 'oil hasten-
ing
asten
From Fi'e?lch. running behind their front which en -perhaps,
the end of hostilities: 'Improve
g•
ments in aircraft have been almost
A despatch .from the British Army ed sectors, and it is even possible that magical since the war began, and the
in France' says: Another striking illus- magical
them to send troops to threaten-
tration of the co-ordination between
the allied armies on the western front
has been given in the successful trans-
fer of a considerable stretch of the
front below St. Quentin from French
to British hands. From the inception
of this, delicate operation no hitch -oc-
curred. Thousands of French troops
and scores of great batteries moved
the Turkish forces ,have been com-
pletely
oin)- 'world may well' prepare for astonislt-
pletely"separated. ing things.
MONUMENT ENT UNVEILED' ui ortified city there will be raids on
TO CANADA'S I YIIIOh"l'_ti1T.S. German cities. No one expects the
English fliers to go to Berlin just now.
A despatch from om Canadian Head- the German capital
P Canada, A .return trip to 1
quarters 'inn France says, . >n under present condition's would be too
France paid reverent tribute to ' the uncertain, but it may be said that the
memory of the Canadian gunners
who
Germans are not the only ones who are
making wondrous strides in the' per-
fection of, aircraft,
•
For every raid „on London or other
quietly and; methodically out of the fell in action dining the Vimy Ridge
line day.after day to make room.for operations, -when: Gen. Currie. unveiled
similar .British units. It was done` as a memorial erected to the gallant dead
easily as- though the whole vast pro- by the Canadian Corps artillery. Sir
gramme had been rehearsed: Julian Byng -was present, and with him
Great credit is due to the French for 'was Gen; Sir H. S. Horne, command
the excellent condition in which 'they ing the First Arany. •
left the defences in this important
region. Untold. confusion, perhaps \VAR COSTS' BRITAIN `
disaster,. might have resulted had the •' 331,920,000 A .DAY.
defensive system been inferior, burn it
is such as to draw the highest praise London a An-
from�• A despatch tramsays:
the British command. drew Bonar Law,, Chancellor of, the
,Exchequer, speaking in the .HIouse of'
DAYLIGHT SAVING Commons, said the average daily` ex
-
IN durin the four weeks end
IId BRITAIN MARCH 24. pend g
--.- ing. February 16, was $31,920,000,
A despatch from London says: Sir • '
Cave,Home Secretary, an- BRITAIN- CAPTURES 168 HEAVY, ,•.
George Y,
nounced in the House of Commons , HOWITZERS IN PAST YEAR.
that the Summer period would begin
March 24 and end September 29. A despatch from London says: The
- British captures in the past year in-
i1. Stands' the Poles. clude 168 heavy howitzers,• 68 heavy
I3ritali u 5
o>a
A despatch front Loddon says: ,The guns, 437 field guns, 1,057 trench
P
has instructed its mortars and 2,814 machine guns. This
British Government
statement was made, by Jalnes Ian
agent at Kiev to make, the declara'tioii
that Great Britain will` not recognize MacPherson, Parliamentary Under
•n peace in the East which involvesSecretary'for War inn introducing the
y
Poland without a previous consultation.
with Poland. •
,;
MORE UKRAINE 'GRAIN
THAN CAN BE MOVED.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
In am address to the Lower House of
the Reichsrath at Vienina, Dr. von Sey
dler, Austrian Premier, declared that
under the peace treaty with : the
Ukraine there had been:placed at.the
disposal of the Central Powers •the
Ukraine's surplus of. agricultural pro -
amts. This surplus was greater than
the Central Powers, at the most favor-
able estimate, could transport.
AMERICANS LOST 204
ON THE TUSCANIA.
. A despatch from London says: Two
hunch;ed and four Americans lost their
lives on the Tuscania, according to th
latest figures received at American
army headquarters. Of this total
there have been identified and buried
three officers and 137 men; unidenti-
fied buried, one officer' and 31 men;.
,
army estimates in the House of Com -missing (presumably went down with;
s
A Berlin despatch states that the
mons. •the hip
ENGLISH WOMEN ,DOINCv'"BIT."
Now Engaged in Forty Lines of War
Employment.
Those who have thought that the
women of England might not have
been doing their bit in the prosecution
of the war were astonished when'they
entered the imperial war exhibition at
Burlington House in London, to see
forty different uniforms -worn by .wo-
inen in service, says a correspondent.
These show that women are engaged
as messengers,` munition and agricul-
aural workers, nurses, &c,, and that
they are the pride of .the girlhood- of
Not satisfied with this shown) • -01
women ma lager s
have issued an appeal to have women
engaged in out of the way positions
report, that' their jobs may be added
o he d ily it creasin lists.
Boys and Girls Can Help.
Seventy-one thousand boys and girls
of school age last year increased the
agricultural output, of Ontario to the
value of $125,000. Every farm boy
and girl • this year should be encour-
aged to rear a pig, a calf, a batch of
.chickens or to grow a plot of pota-
toes, beans, corn or vegetables.
See that all implements and hal•
mess are in shape for spring opera-
tions.
perations.
"Why does that hen insist on roost-
ing on the mail -box?" "Very natural!
She Was hatched from a parcel post
egg "
There has never", been sb wide-
spread and, active a demand.for - seed
corn and it is sure to increase within
the next few weeks. ,
"Father!" "Now, Tommy, no more
of those silly questions!" "This isn't
silly; I just want to know if the earth
were destroyed while a mart was up in
an aeroplane where would he land?"'
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE
Occurrences in the Land That Reigns
Supreme in the Commei-
cial World.
It was stated in a city - of London
court tha-t a. substitute had been found
for starch.; `
The King and the Prinee• of Vales
each sent £5 to the Cheyne Hospital
for Siicic Children as a Christmas
donation. `
I During the month of November the
Overseas Club , headquarters collected
o-.
sem � for various war ftlliils the sl f
2,14,509.
A firm of London tug owners' was
awarded rc100 for salving a, cargo' of
oats worth £.1,285 from a barge
wvineli hat, been subnleiged.
During the month of.November last
i;
,-eight thousand two hundred and sixty
'tons of fish were sent to Billingsgate
for sale:
Mrs King of Worthing"h•ts o'iven
to Cambridge University £1,000 five
per cent. war stock :for the
went of a scholarship on
search.
esta s i-
fever re-
A'London woman, who_ ,does. not
want her name known, gave a cheque
for £750 to the Motor Transport
Volunteers.
The officers and mon of a West
York Regiment presented to the city
of York two guns captured` by the
regiment at Cambrai; ,
At a meeting in`Dariington it was
decided to open a national fund to
commemorate the career of Brig.. -Geo.
Bradford, V.C., a Darlington man.
William Henry Scott, a chemist of
Biggleswade, was ,fined 220, for refits- '
ing to billet, soldiers. _. '
The Londdn. Education -Committee
have granted a scholarship to the son
of an Austrian who has fair sons in
the British army.
The London Colrimittee 'of the
French Recl Cross have.sent to France
8,000 fruit trees and 50,000 cabbage
plants for restocking the farms and
orchards.
A silver rose bowl and address were
presented to Miss May Baird by the;
, n.c.o.'s and men of the R.F.C., •. in •
recognition of her work in providing
free club accommodation.
ONTINUEL ADVANCE. EAST:.
A�'CAPTURING SI
Immense, Booty Taken, Including •8,700 -Men, 425 Officers, Over
i 300 Guns and Nearly 5,000 Motor Cars.;
A despatch from London says: The
German troops have. entered Minsk in
their advance eastward in Russia, ac-
cording to the report from German
Headquarters on Thursday evening. '
The Russian town of Rovno has
been cleared of the Russians, the Ber-
lin War Office reports. Trains with
about 1,000 cars, many laden with
food, have been captured, as well as
airplanes and an incalculable amount
of war material.
Between `Dvinsk and Pinsk the
Germans are pressing eastward.
General von Linsingen's movement
continues. Important railway and.
highway junctions have been. occi:t="
) 3o men wa Russian ritten confirination''of the
m'es •cvir 4,3 213wit
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acceptance' of peace terns has pass- ,
ed the German lines. This disposes of "'tee
rumors 0f the fall of the Leniine-
Trotslcy Government.
-- The Gerinan Wa • Office announces
that 1,353 guns and between • 4,000
and 5,000 motor cars have been cap-
tured. from the Russians. -thus far in
the new campaign. The Germans have .
made prisoner a General commanding
an armJ, 425 officers and 8,700 men.,
Rovno is the host easterly of the
triangle of Russian fortresses in Vol-
hynia. Lutsk, the western citadel - in
the triangle, capitulated to the Ger-
mans on February 18 without fighting,
The third fortress in Volhynia, Dubno,
lies about midway between Rotoloand
the town of Brody on the Galician
frontier.
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