The Exeter Advocate, 1918-3-7, Page 6GERMAN -BUSS PARLEYS REPORTED
ENDE»; BUNS CONTINUE ADVANCE.
Situation in Petrograd Critical As indicated by Departure of
Ambassadors• -•Foe Advancing in Three Columns,
A despatch from London ,says A
fnessage received by the Bolsheviki
Government in Petrograd from Brest-
Iitovsic, elated Friday, 'ordering a
train undermilitary guard to meet the
Russian delegates at Toroshaets, was
considered by the Government as prob-
ably signifying that the peace nego-
tiations have been broken off, accord-
ing to a wireless communication re-
ceived here from Petrograd Friday.
An ultimatum was handed to the
Russian Bolsheviki Government by the
German commander on the eastern
front on. Thursday, giving the Rus-
sians three clays in which to sign the
peace treaty demanded by the Teutons.
Coincident with this demand, the Ger-
man advance into Russia has been re-
sumed, There are apparently three
columns of Germans advancing into
Russia. One is near Luga, midway.
between Pskov and Petrograd; one is.
saki to be at Polotsk, midway between,,
Pinsk and Vitensk, and the other is at
Sebezh, 80 miles east of Dvinsk. An
official report says that the German
troops had reached the right bank of
the Dnieper River, north of Kiev.
That the situation in Petrograd has
become critical is reflected in the re-
port that the American and Japanese
Ambassadors have reached Voloema,'
the capital of the Russian Government
of the same name, lying far to the
east of Petrograd. The British and.
French Embassies have also left the
Russian capital, but nothing is known
as to their destination,
Reports forwarded by the way of
London say that the Russian troops
are destroying railroad property and
burning stores as they retire before
the Germans. At no point is there
serious fighting reported, but the ad-
vance of the Teutons is said to be
cautious.
AMERICANS STOP
GERMAN ATTACK
Fight First Big Battle in Salient
North of Total.
A despatch from France says—
American troops repulsed a strong
German attack Friday morning in the
salient north of Tout. There were
many American casualties, one of the
killed being a captain who graduated
from West Point in 1917. The raid
was a complete failure, three Ger-
man prisoners remaining in American
hands. The ground in front of the
American trenches ''ere strewn with
German dead,
When the enemy had been driven
back out of the positions the bodies
of ten German soldier s were found in
our trenches. Two German officers
were entangled in our wire and many
bodies were in sight. Eight were
visible through the snow storm at one
point.
The Americans lost many killed and
wounded, including officers.
BRITISH CASUALTIES
FOR FEBRUARY SMALL
A despatch from London says:—
British casualties for February were
smallest since last Winter, aggregat-
ing only 19,492, divided: Killed, 4,542;
wounded, 11,393; missing, 3,463.. Of-
ficers' casualties were: Killed, 219;
wounded, 411; missing, 94; total, 724,
Men's casualties were: Killed, 4,328;
wounded, 10,982; missing, 3,463..
If boiled icing doesn't harden try
boiling it longer,
FRANCE ACQUIRES
GERMAN SHIPS
Brazil Gives Over 200,000 Tons
Shipping and Votes Credits.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Chamber of Deputies has approved
the arrangement with Brazil for the
acquisition of 200,000 torts of German
shipping in Brazilian parts, contingent
on theepurchaee also from Brazil of
2,000,000 sacks of coffee and 100,000,-
'000 ,francs ($20,000,000) worth of
other goods; also for a 5 per cent.
' commission to intermediaries.
Fifty thousand additional workers
are to be put at the disposition of the
French shipyards to speed up the lag-
ging repairs and increase production.
Entire credits voted. exceed 700,000,000
francs, about $140,000,000.
PLOTTERS AGAINST
CANADA ARRESTED.
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A despatch from Detroit says: Gov-
ernment agents took into custody•here
shortly before midnight, five men,
who, it charged, have been engaged
in manufacturing explosive bombs for
use in destroying Canadian plants.
The men were arrested near a little
town named Brighton, Mich., 35 miles
outside Detroit, and brought here un-
der close guard. Their names are
withheld for the present.
Britain Releases 817 Prisoners.
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
Three hospital ships bringing 217 in-
valid German prisoners from England
for repatriation have arrived safely at
Rotterdam.
JAPAN TO
PROTECT EAST.:
Entente and America Agree to
confide Task to Japs Alone.
ri despatch from Washington says;
—Indications now point to an agree-
ment between the Entente Powers and
America to confide to Japan alone
the task of taking such measures as
may be necessary to combat German
aggression and influence in Siberia,
and to, protect the military stores at
Vladivostok. No final conclusion has
been reached, however, and it 'was
said in high official quarters Friday
night that conditions were changing
so rapidly and so many new factors'
were entering into the problem that
it would be unsafe to predict over-
night what the issue might be.
A despatch from London says: --
According to The Daily Mail, it is.
understood that the allies have decid-
ed to ask the Japanese to take any
-steps-necessary for the protection of
the allies in the Far East.
Stress is laid on the fact that the
British and Japanese intervention in
Russian affairs is not to be construed
as an act of hostility to Russia or the
Russian Government. _. Its purpose is
to safeguard menaced allied interests
and to protect stares and munitions at
Vladivostok, and to assist Russia to
lighten and eventually lift the burden
of the German yoke.
URGENT REQUEST
COMES FOR FOOD
Great Britain Wants All That
Can Be Spared, and
Quickly.
A. despatch from Ottawa says:
"Every carload of wheat or flour and
bacon or frozen meat that Canada can
get to the seaboard is badly wanted."
Suchis the effect of a cabled mess-
age received from the British Minis-
try of Food rby the Chairman of the
Canadian Food Board.
"Compulsory rationing of meat, but
ter' and fats came into force on Mon-
day throughout London and the home
counties. Fourteen niillion:peopleare
now restricted to about 114 pounds of
meat, 4 ounces of butter or 'margar-
ine and 1/z pound of sugar per week.
By March 25 compulsory rationing of
these foodstuffs will be universal in
the United Kingdom. The congestion
on the railways in the United States
continues to aggravate the already
serious situation. Every carload of
wheat or flour and bacon or 'frozen
meat that Canada can get to the sea-
board is badly wanted.
"The Italian Government Commis-
sion states that the food situation
there is unchanged, but all the allied
countries are naturally affected by
the decreased imports reaching them
from Ai)terican ports."
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NOW, MR. HUFF-
NEW ISSUE
Offering -of
$6,900,000
Five Year 6% Refunding Gold Bonds
CITY OF MONTREAL
DATED lst DECEMBER,. 1917 'DUE lst DECEMBER, 1922
Interest payable half -yearly ---1st June and December.
Principal and Interest payable in Gold at. the City Treasurer's Office,
Montreal, or at the Agency of the Bank of Montreal, New York.
Bonds issued in Coupmn form in denominations of $100, $500
and $1,000.
ISSUE PRICE --PAR.
A full half year's interest will be paid let June, 1918.
The bonds therefore give a net yield to the
investor of about 61%.
THE BANK OF MONTREAL; Fiscal Agent of the City of Mont-
real, is authorized to offer the above-named bonds for public sale
on behalf of the City, at par, without accrued interest, payment to
be made in full on 8th April, 1918, against delivery of the bonds/at
nutty Branch, in Canada, of the BANK OF MO-NTRJFAL; or of any
bank the applicant may specify, or at the Agency of the BANK OF
MONTREAL, New York or Chicago.
The issue is made to refund a like amount •of Montreal Three
Year 5% Notes, the original :issue having been made for public
works, in anticipation of a permanent loan.
Beginning 25th February, 1918, a; plications for the bonds will
be received by the BANK OF MONTREAL, MONTREAL, or any of
its branches, from whom application, forms and copies of the
prospectus giving full particulars of the issue may be obtained on
request. The offering is subject to withdrawal on or before the 18th
March, 1918.
Applications should be addressed to the
BANK OF MONTREAL, MONTREAL'
and, should contain full instructions as to place of delivery • and
payment suitable to the applicant, and the denominations of bonds
required.
The issue is made with the approval of the Minister of Finance,
Ottawa..
LEADING ..
TS
8readstuffs
Toronto. Mar. 5—Manitobl�a, wheat—No.
1 Northern, $2.234; No. 2. ido:, 52.204i
No. 2, do.52.17i ; No. 4 wheat, $2.104,
in store Fort William, including 24c tax.
Manitoba oats—No. 2 C.W„ 974c; No.
2 C.W., 9-10c; extra No. 1 feed 924c;
No. 1 Peed, 895c; in store Fort William.
American corn—No." 3 yellow, kiln
dried, 52 06, track Toronto.
Ontario oats—No. 2 white, 97 to 98c;
No3 white, 96 '10
970, according . to
Ireights. outside,
Ontarlo wheat—No.'2 Winter, per car
lot, 52.22; basis in store Montreal.
Seas—No. 2,53.70 to 53.80, according
to freights ouside.
Barley—Malting. 91.65 to 51.70, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat—$1.78 to : 51.80, according
to freights outside.
Rye—No. 2, 52.05 3052.10, according
to freights outside. -
Manitoba• flour—War duality, '511.10,
new bags, Toronto.
Ontario flour—War quality, $10"70,
new bags Toronto and :Montreal freight,
prompt shi-pment.
Millfeed—Car lots ----Delivered Mont-
real freights, bags included: Bran, per
tonour, 535; shorts, per ton. 540; middlings,
hite, iSaliegn t$3.on40.,. 545 to 546; good feed
wfl
I-iay—No,. 1, per Lon, $31 to X$15;
r 1
mixed, $1 k to $. G tra •ck Toronto:
Straw—Car lots, per ton; 58:50 to $9,
track Toronto.
Country Produce—Wliolesale
Butter—Creamery, solids. per lb., 47
to 474o; prints, per lb., 4710. to 18e; dairy,
per lb.,; 36 to 38c.
Eggs—New laid, 49 to 50e.
Poultry Dressed, chickens, 26 to 28o;
;owl, 2S to 2.7c; ducks,^ -23 to 34e: geese,
01 to '220turkeys, 30 to 35c.
areselling tot retail
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trade at the Pollowrrrg'j]rrces.
Cheese New, large 23 io 234c twins,
224 to. 2330 early cheese, 254 to 26c;
Jorge twin 26 t0 2640.'
ButterFresh dairy, cholce, 40 to 41c;
a r ealnery prints, 11 to 520; solids, 49 to
50e - •
' Eggs --New laid 650; new laid, in
rartons. 58 to 60c; No. 3 storage '51 to
5 c
9 1 ilio -f
Dressed 1 s d > ultr M ed chickens,
y
32 to 35C; fowl, 26 to 30c; turkeys, 35
to 40c: clucks, Spring, 27 to 30c; geese,
2r to 28c.
Live noultry---fur evs 3oc• .Chickens
lb., 26 to 28e; hens, 30 to 33e; dudes,
Spring, 25e; geese, 15 to .1.70,
w1,7 TOL C.,3 ft7d2.113.
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Beans—Canadian,, hand-picked, bush.,
55.25 to 58.50; imp. hand-picked, Burma
or Indian, 56.75 to ,57; .Japan, 58 to
58.25; Limas, 1S to 19c.
Provisions—Wli olosale
Smookcd meats—Hams, medium, 34. to
35c; do., heavy, 28 to 30c; -cooked, 46 to
47c; rolls, 28 to 300; breakfast bacon,
40 to 42c; backs, plain, 42 to 43e; bone-
less, 45 to 46c.
Cured ineats—Long clear bacon, 25 to
29c; clear bellies, _27_ to 28c,
Montreal Markets
Montreal, • Mar. 5—Oats—Canadian
Western, No, .3 51,114; extra No. 1 feed,
51.115 No. 2 local white, 51.10: No. 3
local white, $1'.09; No. 4 Local white,
51,08. Flour—New standard Spring
'heat grade, 511:19 to $11.20. Rolled
oats—Bags, 90 lbs.. 56.60 to 55.70.
Bran, 535, Shorts, 510. Middlings, $48
to 5531 Moulllle 560 to 562. Hay—No.
2, Per ton, car lots, $17.00.
Winnipeg. Grain
Winnipeg, Mar. 6—Cash prices:
Oats—No.1Z*., 9740;' No.3 C.W.,
910c; eietra No. 1 feed. 5654; No. 1 Seed,
890c; No. 2 teed, 864e 73ar•lcy--No. 3
C.W., 51764; No. 4, $1.714; rejected,
51.42; reed, 57.40 a'la.x—No. 1 N.W.(!.,
$3.69; Na. -2 C.W., 53.5544;. No, 3 C.W.
52.360:
Live Stock Markets
Toronto, Mar, 5—Extra c:hoicc heavy
steers, 51175 to 912;" do good heavy,
511,40 to $1165 butchers rattle choice,
$L1.25 to $11,-35, do., good, $10.76 to 511;
MR ..RAID ON
CITY OF VENICE
Austrians Carry Out Reprisal
For Italy's .Raid on Innsbruck.;_
A. despatch from London says:
Gothas dropped over' one hunched
bombs on. Venice Tuesday night out of
a sheer lust(for destruction. Bombs
fell` close to •the Ducal Palace, the
Bridge of Sighs and Saint' Mark's
Church. The despatch suggests that
these escaped serious damage. Else-
where the damage is grave. Two con-
vents Were, struck' and nuns were vid-
tiros, One-third o:e' all the houses in
Venice are now reported ruined:
A despatch from Vienna says: The
official statement issued at the War
Office Thursday night says:
"In reprisal for the.Italian air raid
on the open town of Innsbruck our,
flying squadrons on Tuesday bombed
railway stations and military works
of the naval port of Venice. Many
do„ medium; $10 to 510,25; du., corn• i hits resulted mitres.
mon, 59 to $9.25; butchers' bulls,
choice, 510 to 510.50; 63o., good bulls. 59
to 50.25; do., medium bulls, $7.86 - 20
$8.50 do., rough bulls, 46.5550 to $7;
butchers' cows choice, 510 to $10,50:
do„ goon 58.75 to 9; do., medium, 53
to 58.50 stockers, 57.50 to 58.50; feed-
ers, 59 to 510; canners end cutters, 50
to 56.50 milkers, good to choice • $90 to
$140; do, corn and med., 585 to 550;
springers, 590 to 5140; light ewes 513.50
to 514.50,: sheep, heavy,. 99 to 57.25;
yearlings $11.76 to $I2.76-; lambs, $:18
to 18. ,
5 c6 calves, good oto'choice, $.IG to
517; hogs, fed and watered, 519.60 to
519.60; do„ weighed off. cars, $19.75; 00.,
i o ., $1S r
b 50 to $ 1s,6a..
3Iontreal Idar. 5 --Steers, 'from 59.50.
to 5.11.30 according to nullity; butchers
bulls, 58 to 510.50,; butchers' cows. $7;50
WAR TA.X NETS ; 8127,350 f
IN MONTH OF JANUARY
A despatch from Ottawa
says:---
Th.e„sum of $127,350 was netted to the
Government during the month of
February by the war tax, aceording
to dthe etate'lnent issued ssne
c from the
Inland Revenue Department on Thurs-.
day. The total revenue e 'from alI
sources for the month ivas $2,555,597,
to 510; canners cattle,' 55.50 to $6,59;
milk calves, 513.50 to 515,50; sheen, -$1:1
to 513;. lambs, 5.1 Y,.. to 51.6; . "scicct hogs, RCntcml>ee 'that, 11't'OWil nee 19 m(is't.
Oft car5, 5:1.9; G0 to $1175. -ter- wh01e5Unle.
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