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Exeter Times, 1916-5-4, Page 2`Ni RY RULE DEC D THROUGHOUT IRELAND 'llajormt enerai Sir John Maxwell Sent from London To Take Charge, A despatch froze London says t--- the responsibility for these events, That }Yiartial law has been ,declared through-i?ktat obligation we fully recognize and out Ireland, and Major-General Sir intend to discharge. John; Maxwell, who until recently "Our allies already have been made commanded the troops in Egypt, has aware by Sir Edward Carson and Mr. gone over to take charge, the Irish Redmond," the Premier added, "that executive officials having placed them- the movement is sectional only, and selves under his instructions. He has has no sympathy from the repres- beeu given full disciplinary powers entatives of the Irish leaders." for the extension of the operations Mr, Asquith said that for obvious and the suppression of the rebellion. reasons he did not like to name the The revolt which broke out in Dub- other places to which the trouble had 'lin has spread to other parts of ere- spread, but there had been in the ;Nest hand, chiefly to the west and south,. and south, but particularly in the This information, together with the' west, places where there was a de - fact that the rebels are still in pos-j velopment of the movement. Very session of parts of the city of Dublin,i stringent precautions were being 't 1 Y authorities s toa• was given to the nation by the taken111inist- by the military ers in Parliament on Thursday. I deal with these places. There had been a small rising at Oficial Report. Ardee and Louth and a rather morel "The military operations for the ' serious one in Swords and Lusk, closet suppression of the rebellion in Dublin, to Dublin. l are proceeding satisfactorily," says Troops are Adequate. i a communication issued by Field Marshal French, commanding the Premier Asquith, who on Wednes-home forces, late Friday night. day had given reassuring news re -1 "What may bo described as the specting the situation in Ireland,; organized forces of the rebels," the. mired. something of a flutter of soil-; communication adds, "are confined to a few localities, the principal one be- ing the Sackville Street district, in which the rebel headquarters appear other parts of Ireland, the retention, to be the General Post -office. The by the revolutionalists of certain cordon of troops around this district parts of Dublin and the fact that fight- i has been drawn closer, and the rebels ing was still going on in the streets.' in this locality are now confined be - The government, the Prime Ministerhind their line of barricades, , further announced, was convinced that,' "Sniping from houses in which the forces now in Ireland and those parties of the rebels have estab- proceeding there were adequate to,lished themselves he various parts of deal with the situation. 'the city still continues. The district Restore Order First. 1 I. where this is most prevalent is that Replying to a question whether the north-west of the Four Courts, which Government had been warned of a' are still in the possession of the re - dangerous growth of sedition, Premier', bels. The clearance of these snipers Asquith said :- is a matter of time. "The first and paramount duty of"In other parts of Ireland the prin- the Government is to restore order cipal centres of disturbance are in and to stamp out rebellion with all County Galloway and in Enniscorthy. possible vigor and promptitude. That Disturbances are also reporbed at we are doing. !Killarney, Cionmel and Gorey, The "Behind that there is undoubtedly other parts of Ireland appear normal. an obligation which rests upon the! "The general trend of the reports , Government of making a searching indicate that the disturbances are lo-; investigation into the causes of and cal in character." ety by his statement on Thursday in the House of Commons when he an- nounced a spread of the movement to TWO PLOTTERS Dr. Walter T. Scheele, is yet to be ap- prehended. r..1111 CONFESSED:DETAILS OF CHARGES OF INHUMAN TREATMENT. Germans in Custody in New York to Testify Againse Others. A despatch from New York says: Complete confessions given in return for immunity have been made by two of the eight Germans recently arrest- ed in the alleged conspiracy to place fire bombs aboard munitions ships, and they were on Wednesday after- noon telling their story to the Federal grand jury. This was made known by Assistant Unibed tates District District Attorney Wood, in charge of the investigation of alleged German plots. The two men are Capt. Chas. von Kleist and Ernest Becker, an elec- trician aboard the interned German steamship Friedrich der Grosse, where the bombs alleged to have been placed on various .ships were partly manu- factured. The others arrested in the case include Capt. Eno Bode, Capt. Otto Wolpert and Frederick Garbode, employes of the Hamburg -American Line. A ninth alleged conspirator, Three Cases of Soldiers at Moose maw Cited. A despatch from Ottawa says: De- tails as to the alleged inhuman treat- ment of soldiers at Moose Jaw by , hanging them up by the arms for comparatively trivial offences were furnished to the Commons on Wed- ' nesday afternoon by W. E. Knowles, following up his demand of Tuesday for an investigation by the Acting Minister of Militia, Sir Robert Bor- ' den. Mr. Knowles cited three cases. One soldier who fainted under the or- deal was "hung up" for being off i duty, another for insubordination, Viand a third for neglect to carry out orders. J. H. Sinclair, of Guysbor- ough, declared that charges of sim_ ilar brutal punishment of soldiers had appeared in some of the Nova Scotia j papers. Premier Borden promised that a strict enquiry would be made forthwith, and any officer guilby of cruel or unjust treatment of his men would be brought to book, NAVAL BATTLE L DESCRIBED BY MEN WHO WITNESSE IT 1 1 - • : Russell is Destroyed in the Mediter- All of Mexico to Take the Field iranean-702 Men Against Carranza. I ORT EA. Oce TEROA OFtNEI o PARIS- r21 ARIS r Rrtb 341 Babe TO BAGDAD intim . tip•° 'y. seer ; -r - sf Z Etta. te'�} l F!, .•:hr glee -2 , API''' r rj C-1 1, \A O k�. b.U' 'UlM eese ', -j�2 c. (�t�Oo,50 t'rrv,a•eL•19e a ♦RA1ilRolns) (Pel&SeZgn r` v�r„r�lt,• Tti..� �• rtncc,2nmm��-.�. .r . sti4rkt"*414.,r..,..• ?debba 9�.! Yw ? mit s ,•Y l i +futhiket T lI- fit 1 R.S, I l . NORTH SEA YA 14treti NAF�vtC H ye wee 'A 7 eseeeneor '' EMT FII,S ` j�ye�i1'$1"f,ii''''' J ` li urn erun 4JILDrt Sheikh Saad teal 1, 8 u< ti STD 414,01161 Gl��tw�'N'r„ L3F 436 Ls LXLL1l; tttr, .� $ BNAM�i, R 4I R 4VAR, eeeS SItteeell 'L she KB X.:YOND c?..kTKreaC MA4dS�llri.hS WEEK'S NEWS OF THE WAR. The English cease was again visited by German warships on Tuesday morning. They were sighted off Lowestoft by the British local naval forces and were engaged. They fought for twenty minutes and then fled. Before fleeing one of the vessels fired into Lowestoft, but little damage was done. Two men, a woman and a child were killed. Al, the sem e time fire was opened on Yarmouth, and one or two buildings vvere'"slight- ly damaged. About the sante time a fleet of Zeppelins made a raid aver the coun ties of Norfolk and Suffolk. This is the region in which are situated Yarmouth and Lowestoft: Some bombs' were dropped, but a fog made it im- possible for the enemy to get any accuracy of aim. The British fleet shelled the sea coast in the neighborhood of Zeebrugge on the 24th. It is reported ..that three German destroyers, after being hit, were forced to withdraw into the harbor. Little opportunity is being given the eremy forces to concentrate in Egypt. Aeroplane reconnaissance keeps the authorities advised of any hostile movement. During the week an attack was made on Quatia, but the force used was clot sufficiently strong, and a withdrawal was necessary. But this was only for a day. - Stronger forces were brought up and the enemy had to flee. Canadian troops have been in action almost continuously during the week. In the neighborhood of St. Eloi the Germans have been making frequent attempts to recapture the crater positions taken from them on March 27, but the men froom. the Dominion have repelled every attack and caused much loss to the Germans. In the neighborhood of Verdun the French are taking the offensive more and more. They are also proving the superiority of their artillery fire over that of the Germans. There has been considerable fighting during the week, especially- in the neighborhood of Dead Mans Hill, but the French not only successfully defended that position, but even retook some trenches on the northern slope which had been captured from them some time before. The campaign in Mesopotamia gdves ground for anxiety. The Tigris is still in flood, and the advance of the British force to the relief of Kul -el -Amara is delayed. There has been some fighting with the relieving force, and the enemy have made great claims which have been discounted by the despatches of Sir Percy Lake. The Russians, since they captured Trebizond, have kept up their advance westward along the shore of the Black Sea. • No sooner had the first Russians who landed at Marseilles got half -way toward the battle front than an- other force equally big was reported as having landed there, boo. There is now no doubt of any intention of Russia to make any peace before the Allies do. MTN RAMON; ON THE VERGE BELGIAN COAST SUNK BY MINE OF AN UPRISING AGN SHELLED Rescued. A despatch from London says: The sinking of the battleship Russell was announced in the following official f i statement: - Russell, Captain William Bowden Smith, R.N., flying the flag of Rear -Admiral Fremantle, struck a mine in the Mediterranean on Thurs- day and was sunk. The Admiral, Cap- tain, 24 officers and 676 men were saved. There are about 124 officers and men missing." Under ordinary conditions the Russell carried be- tween 750 and 800 men. AUSTRIA PUTS DOWN RIOTS IN HUNGARY. Execution of Prominent Citizens in Prague and Other Cities. A despatch from New .York says: -Fresh revolts have broken out in Message Brought By Seaplane Sent Germans Prague, Pilsen, Tabor and other fan cities and many members Scurrying Homeward, The Lowestoft correspondent of The London Daily Mail says: - 'The scream of shells and their de-`' tonation as they burst inland was! the first intimation the people of Lowestoft had that for the second' • time German Dreadnoughts were off their shores. The people sprang from their beds, peering toward the sea, where, looming through the mist,; could be seen great gray shapes here! and there picked out with flashes of, flame as another shell came inshore.! "The inhabitants scrambled into' their clothes and, catching hold of their little ones, hurried out, not in panic, but out of curiosity, to the shore; to watch and count the German shells.' Seaplanes Chased Back. "The enemy did not have his own! way for long, The watchers saw Ger-1 man seaplanes, which a few minutes' before had left the vessels, came hur- rying back. The reason was soon apparent. From the south came' little clouds of smoke, drawing nearer every moment. A rousing cheer was, given as it was, seen that the smoke. was coming from British cruisers and destroyers, "The big Gerrnan ships Joose it stream of shells at the approaching; ships and then swung to the eart, but the German Admiral again , changed! his course when he found that the'. British force was not nearly equal tc. his five great cruisers and many de- stroyers. "'Every moment we expected to see our ships blown out of the water,' said one of our watchers, 'Our com- paratively small vessels were seeking to get at close quarters to the Ger- man giants and a perfect storm of shells screamed aross the water to- ward them, but whoever commanded our ships had great courage. Raiders Hit Frequently. "'The German shells were falling all around our craft but they did not reply until well within range. Then time and again they hit the German monsters. Once we saw a volume of flame leap from a funnel of one of the great warships. Another suddenly staggered but in a second righted it- self, though we could see steam and smoke coming from unusual places. 'Our ships were hit -they could hardly escape, so thickly did the Ger- mans plaster the water with shells.. The sea was so churned by the fast moving ships and the exploding shells that it looked like foam. Suddenly we saw a aeroplane coming from the north at a terrific rate. Whatever message it brought the Germans turn- ed tail and made off at high speed to the nar'hsast. As they fled one of the giants seemed in trouble. Our de- stroyer.; shot. after them and wor- ried them as they disappeared, tet. sound of 'the firing growing fainter and fainter.' of prominent Bohemian families, in- cluding Miss Alice Mazaryk, well known in America for her social set- tlement work, have been executed by the Government, according to advices said to have been received here on Wednesday by the Bohemian National Alliance, from secret sources in Aus- tria. 5,, '"The Bible tells us we should love our neighbors," said the good deacon. "Yes, but the Bible was written be- fore our neighbors lived so close," re- plied the mere man. A despabch from Washington says: Reports received within the past 24 hours at several of the European Em- baesies here have aroused grave ap- prehension in regard to the Mexican situation. These reports were to the effect that the Carranza Government is on the eve of a complete collapse, and that conditions in and - around Mexico City are more threatening than they have been at any time since the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz. .g 4 GERMAN OFFICER MUST STAND TRIAL. Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Was Denied. Boston, April 27. -Werner Horn, who attempted to destroy the -Inter-!' national Bridge at Venceboro, Maine, on February 2, 1915, must stand trial on a charge of illegal transportation of dynamite, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered on Thurs- day. SWISS FRONTIER CLOSED BY GERMANY. A despatch from Paris says: The German -Swiss frontier has been closed since Monday afternoon even to mails, says a despatch to the Matin, from Berne. Foreigners now hi Germany have been informed that none will be allowed to leave the country before twenty days have elapsed, the des- patch adds. GiNEIAL ACT CERTAIN IN GREAT BRITAIN King George Makes Journey From Windsor to London to Confer With Lord Kitchener. A. despatch from London says: Con -1 siderable gossip was occasioned in political circles on Friday nightover p ; an official announcement that King George made a journey from Windsor to London .in the afternoon with the special purpose of a conference with . • Premier envier Asquith and Earl Kitchener and immediately returned to,Windsor•, The War Council of the Cabinet sat for two hours on Friday morning, and essontbled again in the after- noon for another long session. Whe- ther another Cabinet crisis has aris- en is not known. It is possible that the King's visit to the Premier and War Minister had to do with the se- curing of the King's approval of the now military hill. The universal opinion is that there no longer is any alternativ(=to the introduction of a general conscription bill, with pos. :illy a clause giving another month for a trial of a scheme for :the volun- tary recruiting of married men,. BRITISH EMPLOY 3 BATTLE- SHIPS, 18 DESTROYERS AND 40 MINE -SWEEPERS. EAR hS for every SPORT and RECREATION 'ION Worn b.' eves member of the ta4889.dy SI1/.D BY ALL GOO Mac' IWALE S trkiiiniZZM' , (tin`•+Pf�.F;S!':*:Y.'rni.!++rr•'a+rrgstnt *rM1-,a34Ai Markets of the World Brew -Asti -life. Tot•onto, 1May. 2 itl•anitaba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.25; No ' do,, 31,23; No, 3 do., $1.19, track,:Bay porta. Manitoba otttti No, ' ('.'V., 53c: No, 3, do„ Glu; extra No. 1 feed, 51e; No. 1 trac reed,k 5nc:Cot•, en trace. Buy ports. Anmerican corn --.--No. u yellow, H&c,' -.c, onto al, C';ur {t'ack aditanTQrcorc,nnt0 Peed, 74 to 76r, rremin- Ontario calp ,y n, 3 whitace, 45 1.0ng 46c; to conunorc'lal, 4.1 to 4uc, cordi freigtrts cuttslda Ontario wheat --No. 1 commercial, $1.01 to $1,0$ No. 2, do., 001. to 31,01; N 3, ., Swh 880.3. accodordin96gto to Ofre;eightsieccd outaldeat,e. 50 to Pews -No. -3 $1.25, according to sa.rn- pou1e,tside, 31,20 to $1.81), according to freights Barley -.felting, 68 to 5de; fee't1, 50 to Glc, recording to fr•etghts outside!, fref 1lgucitrts gvhoutside,eat-ti3 to 70e, according to 1tyO--No, 1 commercial, 00 to 31c; re- • Jeered, according to sample, 96 to 88.•, ac- cording to freights outside. Manitoba flour --i last pittents, in jute bags, $6.50; ,second patents, in jute $5. ba:'80s,, 301'o: rosrrto.trong baker: , in lute bags, • Ontario flour-Winte according' to sample 34.21) to $4.39 tract: Toronto, in bags; 31.25 to $1.35, bulk seaboard, 11rlIlfeeo c'ar lots, delivered 'Montreal freights Bran, per ton *24; shorts, per ton, 326, middlings, per ton, 326 to 327; good feed dour, per bag, 31.60 to 31,70. Corntry Produce, Butter -Fresh dairy. choice. 28 to 30c; inferior. 24e7 er ettmery prints, 33 to 35c; inferior, 11 to 32e. Eggs -New -laid, 23 to 24c; do, in car- tons:, 24 to 2,5e. Honey -Price::, in 10 to 60 -ib, tins, 139 to 14c, Combs -No, 1, 32.75 to *3; No, 2, $2.255 to $2.40. Beans -34 to $4.40, • the latter for hand-picked. Cheese -Large, 1940; twins, 193o, iun, 1iaple syrup --31.50 per imperial gal - Poultry -Chickens, y -Chit ke ns, 21 to 22c; fowls, 19 to 29c; duels 94 to 25c: turkeys, 25c. Potatoes -Car lots of Ontarlos, 31.65 to $1.70, and New Rrunawicks at 31.80 to 31,855 per hag. on track. Provisions. Ilacon--Long clear, 169 to 17c per ;b., in care lots. :leans -'tedium, 21 to 2 c: do,, heavy. 17 to 20c; rolls, 179 to 18c; breakfast bacon, 21 to 21c; backs, 25 to 200: boneles,, hacks, 29 to 29c. Lard Pura lard, tierces, 15* to 159c, and pails, 153 to 10e compound, 1325 to 14;0. •- Winnipeg C}raiu, Winnipeg, May 2. Cash prices:- Wheat No. 1 Northern, $1.158; No. 2, do.31 134; No. 3, do., $1.094; No. 4, $ .,079 No. 5, 993c; No. 6, 919c; feed, 954c. Oats -No. 5 (L11 464c; No. 3, do„ 444c; extra No. 1 feed. 444c; No. 1 feed, 43c; No. 2. do, 42c, barley -No, 3, 640; No. 4, 59c: rejected, 56c; feed, 56c. Flax -No. 1 N.-W.C., 31.854; No. 2 C.W., 31.813. Montreal Markets. Montreal, May 2, -Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 37 to Sj'Sc. Oats, Canadian The Rotterdam correspondent of the Western, No. 2. 543c; Canadian western, London Daily Mail, telegraphing local white, 51 to 5\1 cx No 3 local white, Thursday, says: 50 to 50$c; No. 4 local white, 49 to 4953• "A British squadron resumed the toar77a' hFloixreTfan. Sprint; whetat n t5 bombardment of the )3elgian coast at ents, firsts, 36,60: seconds, 36,10; strong 4 o'clock on Thef;sday morning. 36' stralght9 Dile s,$o.30 to 36.40; 00, Mine -sweepers have cleared the coast bags, $2.45 to 32.50, gorts Rolled326Oats, bar - waters of mines, and nets have been .to 32.45 OI3ran6 $24. bSh. 311°- laid to guard against submarines. filings. 328 to $30. Mountie, 330 to *35. The Germans anticipate a severe at- •Hay, No, 2, per ton, car lots, $20,50 to 321. Cheese, finest western, 18 to 189c; tack, finest easterns, 179 to 178c, Butter "In Thursday's bombardment the 30 toe303<'. ~Eggs,' r esh, 2Gc.e;Potatoes; British force consisted of three bat Per bag, car lots, 31. • 70 to $1.723. tleships, 18 destroyers and between 30 m ;tea states Markets, and 40 mine -sweepers and mine- Minneapolis, May 2.-�vhea.t. May, layers. Two of the battleships bom- 31,199 July, $1.19 to $1,194; No. I hard,. 51.253 Et banded the coast between Zeebrugge $1,233 No. 2 Northern, $1.179 to 'CIIINESJ REBELS PIAN .ADVANCE ON PIICIT. .An Arany Several Hundred Thousand • Ras 1len Organized. A despatch from San Francisco says: A rebel advance on Pekin, the: capital of China, has been ordered by the Chinese revolutionists, according to a Shanghai despatch to the Chinese Republic Association here on Wed- nesday. An army of several hundred thousaitcl under Luy Ung -Ting, f.r- o •e commander of Yuan Shi,Kal s forces in Hwang Si Province, and Gen. Lung Chi Icwang, formerly with the Government) troops in I{wing Tung, will begin the march upon Pe- kin soon, it was stated.. PUSS TROOPS REVIEWED IN MARSEILLES STREETS. A despatch from Marseilles. says: The Russian troops which arrived hire on Tuesday held a dress parade )n Wednesday morning in the presence of a vast crowd which cheered them wildly. The troops were reviewed by Col. Verstakosky, their. commander; General Menassier, Governor of Mar. scilles, and M. Schramech, Prefect of Mars'i3illes, While the review was in progress bands on French warships played the Russian and French Na- tional Anthems. The Russian troops city, paraded through aha. Fre- ceded by little girls who strewed flow- ers in their paths, KIN RELIEF SHIT' AGROUND IN TIGRIS Attempt to Send Supplies to Be- leaguered Troops Failed. A despatch from London says: A relief ship sent by the British with supplies for the garrison at Kut -el - Amara grounded in the Tigris four miles to the east of Kut, it was an- nounced in an official statement on Friday evening. "An attempt made on the night of April 24 to send a ship with supplies for the Anglo-In- dian forces shut up in Kett_ though carried out with the utmost gallantry, unfortunately failed," says the of- ficial announcement. "Our aeroplanes discovered the ship aground near Ma- gasis, about four miles east of Kut." g' BRITISH TRAWLER SINKS FOE SUB, A despatch from London says :- The destruction of a German sub- marine by a British trawler off the north coast of Scotland is described by Dutch newspapers recieved here. According to the accounts, the sub- marine had halted two Dutch steam- ers, when a trawler appear ed and killed with its first shot four mels who were standing on the deck of the submarine. The trawler then sank the submersible with a second shot. The entire -action lasted fess than ten minutes. The papers say the sub- marine was of the latest and largest type and carried a crew of sixty, all of whom were lost. BRITISH THROW BACK ENEMY AT ARRAS. A despatch from London says: The report from British headquarters France issued by the Official Press Bureau on Friday night says that in the morning an attempt by the Ger- mans to enter British trenches north of Reclincourt, just north `of Arras, was repulsed. The artillery bombard- ment has been violent both east and west of the Meuse in the Verdun region. East of the Meuse the Ger- mans shelled_the Frenchpositions be- tween the Cote du Poivre and Ddua- mont. No. 1 Nor hern, $1,209 to e ---'- and Knocke, including Heyst and 51.213 , Corn -No. 3 yellow, 763 to 779c. NO NEGOTIATIONOS Oats -No 3 white, 4 to 43c. dour, WITH BULGARIA. Blankenborg. The fire was answered fancy patents, 5c higher, Auoted at 36,40; by the German batteries. The third fiowerst clears unchanged; second clears, 20u Squoted at $3; shipments 52,400 battleship concentrated its fire on barrelr;s Bran, $13.60 to $19. Lord Robert Cecil Minister. of War A despatch from London says :- three • German torpedo boats which nulutl,, May 2. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, Trade denied in the House of Com - $1.206; No. 1 Northern, $1,1.9$ to $1,205; , left the harbor immediately after the No. 2 Northern, $1.168 to $1,178. Lin- mons on Thursday afternoon that attack began. One of these was hit seed cash and May, $2.088; July, 32,10. Great Britain was carrying on semi - several times, and returned to the Live Stock Markets. official negotiatibns with Bulgaria. harbor seriously damaged, supported Toronto, May 2, --Choice heavy steers. Tie reltiinded his questioner that Great b consorts 9.90 to $9.20; butchers cattle, claoree, y a $3 2 $ 5 Britain was precluded by the spirit of by the British before the bombard- $$7.25 to $r.60; butchers »ills, choice, $7 "6 t $7 "C• d od »rli $6 86 t entertaining any peace ;negotiations 5,60 to 33.90:do.,goo 5to S. 0; "Thorough preparations were made do., medium, 38 to r5,25i ao„ 001 n. the agreement with her allies from Ment Dutch territorial waters beingo , . r r, o., , t s, o $7; Jdo., rough buns, 34.65 to $6.16; with any of their common enemies marker by colored buoys." butchers' cows, choice, $7 to 17.50; 00., good, $0.35 to 30.75: do., medium, 86 to without the knowledge and consent 6,26; do., common, $5,26 to 35•c5; of the other parties to the agreement. stockers, 700 to 860 lbs., $6.75 to $7.76; clroice feeders. dehor ned, 950 to 1,000 ----.-:«---•-- ihs., 37.60 to 38: canners and cutters, $3.50 to $4.40; milkers, choice, each, $76 ]FIVE SONS IN KHAKI; NO MORE FARM HANDS FROM UNITED STATES.to $100: do., common and medium, each, $40 to $so; springers, $50 to $100; light TWO ARE INJURED. --- ewes, 23.50 to $10; sheep, hear,' 35 to ----. Only Poor Class of Men Can 133 $7,60, yearlings, $10 to $13.35; bucks Ades titch from Bralntford sa s: and culls, $3,60 to $4.50; lambs. choice, F y Secured Now. $11 to $13.60; calves, good to choice, 5.6 The five sons of Mrs. J. Harrington, • A. despatch from Toronto says: The Ontario Department of Colonization to $t2; do,. medium, $7.26 to $3.50; ;116 Walnut street', are now in Ichaki, hogs, feet and watered, $11 , 50; do„ '1ii Sed err, ears, 311. s5; do., f.o.b., i Mrs. Harrington received word that and Immigration has recalled its spe- Montreal, ',coy 2.- -Fair steers)at 56.75' her son Fred had been ascended and E0111 $8; butchers' Bows from 36.25 t0 38, admitted to hospital. Later word was cial off •Michigan, ti c,a mels from 'where anal bully from_ $7 to 33.6o per 100 lbs.; they have been drumming up farm clone calves, $ to 9c, ancl the lower received in a letter that another son, grades et 4 to Go per 1», Sprtni lambs Pte. Earl J., who has been in hospital hands to relieve the scarcity of help t'rom $4 to 53 each, yearling iambs and. in Ontario. The venture proved a sacs old sheep scarce and firm. Selected hogs,! for a year, had undergone another cess close to five hundred mon having $12 to $12.16 per 100 lbs., -weighed are operation, which improved his condi- cars. been secured, bub the floating supply of good menhasbeen exhausted, and those available now are not considered of proper quality, There'are lots of good farm hands hi the State, hut the, special officers when they went after them found that the farmers had most) of them tied up under contract. The scheme to get :Farm hands has helped more than the farmer. Some of the men secured, after landing in Ontario and getting within the sound of the bugles, have promptly enlisted fe. overseas service. The Department of Agriculture is now satisfied that with mensecured and the help- retir- illeset of ed farmers and High school boys re- leased for farm wart: the situation bhis summer 'will be well met.. BRITAIN WILL TIGHTEN COMMERCIAL BLOCKADE. A despatch from London says: --The report that .Creat Britain intends to tighten the commercial blockade is reiterated in a despatch from the Copenhagen correspondent of the Ex- change Telegraph Company, who says there are persistent rumors to that effect in circulation there, It is stat- ed, he aced:;, that Great Britain desires all Danish merchants to pay in ad- vance through London for goods pur- chased in America, with the object of gaining thorough control over the commercial connections of neutrals ton very much. LISBON ARSENAL FIUED BY GERMANS. A despatch from Paris says: A re- port that two Germans had been ar- rested on the charge of setting fire to the naval arsenal at Lisbon `is con firmed by newspapers of that ciby, says a Haves despatch front. the Por- tuguese capital son Wednesday. The fire occurred on April 18, resulting in the destruction of two buildings with considerable scientific equipment, in- cluding naval charts, and the Govern. Ment Immediately instituted an in- vestigation, which indicated that it was of incendiary origin,