The Clinton News Record, 1916-10-05, Page 3STORMING SCHWABEN REDOUBT
DESCRIBED BY AN EYE -WITNESS
Last Defence South of the Ancre Was Strongest German In-
dustry and Ingenuity Gould Build.
A despatch from the British Armies
in the Field in France says: "You
have just time to get into a tree top
and see us go after the Schwaben re-
doubt," said a staff general to the cor-
respondent of the Associated Press
on Friday.
Attacks have been so numerous
along the British front in the last few
days that even if informed of all be-
forehand, the correspondents would
have to possess a dual personality to
be present at all. The offensive is in
one of its bit -by -bit stages, but is be-
ing pressed with sustained and tire-
less fury under the auspices of the
halcyon Autumn weather, for the past
week surpassed any other week since
it began.
First Attacked on July 1.
Schwaben redoubt is beyond Thiep-
val, which was taken Tuesday. A
crucifix once crowned this ridg
Where it stood became the centre o
the strongest defence German indus
try and ingenuity could build. Thi
was the goal of the Ulstermen i
their heroic charge on July 1, who
they fell face forward under ti'
storm of machine gun RES sea fro
the site of the former shrine whic
peasants working in their fields soul
see when they looked up from thei
labors in the surrounding fields an
villages.
In all the weeks since July 1 th
British made no further attempt a
this hill. Their trenches were in the
sameplace as before that day. The
"no man's land," or dead space, re-
mained where it was when the Ger-
mans first formed their defensive line.
But while they were swinging in from
the south, where the -grand attack on
July 1 had succeeded, they had given
Thiepval and Schwaben redoubt a fair
daily allowance of shell fire, though
making no infantry attack.
For nearly three months this soft-
ening process continued. Then who
the British had gained the ridges run
ping at an angle with the old Germal
line of Thiepval they began to talc
fresh interest in that old first line
Now they did not have to attack it in
front, but approached it from the side
as well as having it in a crushing
vise.
One German officer, who was cap-
tured, said he did not think the Brit-
ish good enough soldiers to attack in
this way, which was just the way the
British did attack after their lesson
of July 1.
"And we hope the Germans will
continue to think us stupid," said a
British staff officer.
Last Commanding High Ground.
But beyond Thiepval was that last
commanding high ground south of
the Ancre. Bare and brown it looked
in the morning, and distinct were the
German treeches which were going
"to get it" at a given moment. ,
illesanevMle all along the line of bat-
tle came just the steady gunfire which
has been maintained without intermis-
sion oe late. This keeps the Germans
always under strain, destroying their
works as fast as they can dig. They
never know when or where such
things as happened at Schwaben re-
doubt may happen.
And suddenly balls of smoke so
thick that they soon became a cloud
were laid over the German first line
e.
f on the ridge, and every, one breaking
from an ugly flash. Hissing, crashing
s death laid its gripping, clinging man -
tie over this trench, whose inmates
n could survive only by hugging their
e dugouts. Every shell seemed to fall
m between two imaginary lines of tape
h laid for the guidance of the gunners.
4 When the rain of steel ceased, the
British soldiers, timing their arrival
to its cessation, were over the parapet
and at the doors of the dugouts, Then
e on to the next trench in the same
t fashion the waves of shell fire swept
up the hillside as shields for the ad-
vancing waves of khaki.
Fighting Still in Progress.
There are creeping artillery bar-
rages and jumping barrages and many
kinds as the guns come playing an in-
creasingly skilful part. And the Ger-
mans came back, their shells scream-
ing through the British shell curtain,
trying to check the human waves.
But unless their curtains were laid in
n the right place they were waste. A
- line of infantry may be fairly safe
with a curtain shell fire a hundred
e yards on, either side. To -morrow those
. waves may break with sudden inten-
sity at some other point along the bat-
, tie line and another village or sys-
tem of trenches may be taken.
Three quarters of Schwaben re-
doubt is in British hands, and five or
six hundred priaoners were shelled
Out of their dugouts, while the fight-
ing continues at this writing.
All along the line the British are
gaining ground.
425,000 TEUTON'S
ARE CAPTURED
The Russians Make Progress
After Series of Des-
perate Battles.
A despatch from Petrograd says
The Russian commander, Gen. Brussil-
off, has pushed forward hia extreme
left during recent days to the highway
running between Kimpolung and Mar-
amaros Sziget, tatting that important
Austro -German line of communica-
tion some miles above Kirlibaba,
After a series of desperate battles the
Russians succeeded in capturing a
mountain overlooking the highway,
which gave them an important stra-
tegic advantage, At the same time
they took a range of mountains over-
looking Kirlibaba.
According to the eorresondent of
the Novae Vremya, that town for the
first time in the campaign is under the
fire of the Russian cannon. Imme-
diately to the north of this district the
Russians forged ahead to the upper
reaches of the Charny-Cheremosh,
where the stream bends southward to
Kuty (Bultowina).
The extremely difficult mountainous
country is offering every advantage to
the defenders, and the adyance hags
been made against tremendous odds.
A noteworthy success has been
achieved by Gen. BrussiloiVe-eentre in
the neighborhood of Manouva and
Kharbuzoff, villages on the upper
Sereth, where the Russians have made
an advance in the face of strong Ger-
man reinforcements, capturing 1,500
Austro -German prisoners,
A recapitulation of the prisoners
and booty taken by Oen. Brussiloit's
army, as sent out by the staff, shows
a total, since the offensive began, of
425,000 officere and men made prison-
ers and the capture of 2,500 machine
guns and mine -throwers and 600 can-
non.
To say of a man that he will make
a good husband is Much the same
sorb of a compliment as to say of a
horse that he is perectly safe for a
Woman to drive.
25 MILLIONS A YEAR
TO SOLDIERS' DEPENDENTS.
Separation Allowances Now Over Two
Millions a Month Besides
Patriotic Fund.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Canada is now paying about twenty-
five million dollars per year to the
wives and dependents of the soldiers
who have gone to the front. Separa-
tion allowances, which a year ago to-
talled about one million per month,
now exceed two millions per month.
In addition to this amount paid
monthly by the Dominion Treasury,
the Patriotic Fund is now expending
about one million per month, distri-
buted among some 75,000 families,
whose normal source of income has
either been out off or seriously dimin-
ished by the enlistment of wage-
earners.
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CANADA ASKED FOR 5,000
RECRUITS FOR THE NAVY
A despatch from Ottawa says :-
Co-operation between military and
naval authorities is being arranged
in connection with the enlistment of
recruits in Canada for the British
navy. Five thousand is the number
sought Recruiting offices are being
opened at Halifax, St. John, Quebec,
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Van-
couver and Victoria, while every mili-
tary divisional recruiting depot will
also receive applications. Command-
er White, an old Royal Navy officer,
is in charge of the recruiting organ-
ization. Two thousand men by New
Year's are expected to be enrolled.
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STATE TO CONFISCATE
NEARLY ALL WAR PROFITS
A despatch from Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, says: -Mr. Higgs, Minister of
the Treasury, announced on Thursday
in the House that the Government pro-
posed to confiscate all war profits in
excess of a small maximum to be
established, and reduce the limit of
income tax exemption to $100, except
in the cases of married men and single
men with dependents, Old age pen-
sions will be increased to 12 shillings
6 pence.
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A Different ;Variety �f Shell Used Now
THIS, in every senee, imposing column was constructed by the Austrians
out of Russian shells which "failed to explode" in those days of tbi
War when the armies of the Grand Duke Nicolas were in retreat from Galicia
!Pile town where it was erected is now again In Russian hands, and thosc
pi the defending Austrians who did not surrender promptly ran away tor
ra4t to allowof their removing the monument. They found that Russian.
shells, nowadays, explode with considerable violence!
Markets Of The World
• -
Breadstuff's'.
Toronto, Oct. 3. -Manitoba wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $1.720; No. 5 do., 21.682
No. 3 do., $1.855 ; No, 4 wheat. 21.601,
on track Bay ports. Old corn trading
Sc above new crop.
Manitoba oats -No, 2 C.W., Solo ;. No
3 C.W.. tem extra No. 1 feed. 600: No.
1 feed, 695e, on track Bay ports.
American oorn-No. 3 yellow, 96c. on
track Toronto.
Ontario eats -Na 2 white, ea to 66c :
No. 8 do., 62 to 51c, according to
freights outside. •
Ontario Wheat -New, No. 2, Winter.
Per oar lot, $1.40 to $1.42, according to
freights outside. Old cron-No. 1 com-
mercial, $1.38 to $1.35 • No. 2 do., $1.28
to $1.80 ; No. 8 do., $1.20 to $1.22.
.Peas -No. 2, $2.15 to $2,25, aceording
to freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 87 to 90c, nominal ;
feed 83 to 85e, nominal, according to
freights outside.
Bucticwheat-80 to 12. nominal, ac-
cording to freights outside.
By -2'$o, 2, new. 01.18 to $1.20, act -
cording to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, in lute
bags, $0.00 ; second patents, in lute
bags, $8.60 ; strong bakers', in lute
bags. $8.30, Teronto,
Ontario ilour-New Winter according
to sample, $6.50, in bags, track Toroato,
Prompt shipment ; new, $0.26bulk sea -
beard, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included -Bran, per ton,
827 : shorts, per ton, 230 ; middlings,
Per ton, 881; good feed flour, per bag,
$211.84 -New, No. 1, per ton, $10 to $12 ;
No. 2, per ton., 09 to $9.50, on track To-
ronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $7, on track
Toronto.
Country. Produce--Wholeactla
Butter -Fresh' dairy, choice, 52 to
33o '• inferior, 26 to 28o ; creamery
Prints, 37 to 39e ; solids, 86 to 37e.
Bggs-No. 1 storage, 36 to 35o ; stor-
age, selects, 87 to 38o ; new -laid, in
cartons, 40 to 420.
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 24 to 26o:
fowl, 18 to 20o ducks, 18 to 20e ;
squabs, per dee., $4.50.
Live poultry--Chlekens. 17 to 18e..,
fowl, 14 to llio ; ducks, 13 to Ise.
Cheese -New, large, 215, to Sac ;
twins, 212 to 22o ; triplets. 22 to 221e.
Honey -Extra line quality, 25 -lb. tins,
12e 6-1b. tins, 125e ; 10-1b., 115 to lie;
604b., 115 to 12c. Comb honey. seleet,
$2.50 to $2.75 ; No. 2, $2.25 to 62.40.
Potatoes-Ontario, 21.86 Britieh
Columbia Rose, per bag. $1.70 to $1.76 3
British Columbia Whites, per bag, 21.80
to $1.85 ; New 13runswick Delawares,
Dee bag, $1.85.
13eans--Hand-thicked, $6.26 ; primes,
86,00,
Provisions --Wholesale.
Cured meats and lard are quoted by
Toronto wholesalers as follows ;
Smoked meats -Hams, medium. 24 to
26c ; do., heavy, 22 to 23e ; cooked, 36
to 37o ; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c ;
backs, plain, 26 to 270 ; boneless, 28 to
205.
Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent
less than cured.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon. IS to
ISic per It,
Larci---Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 3.710 ;
tubs, 171 to 175c ; palls, 175 to 179e.
Compound, 135 to 139e.
Wfontrea,1 Markets.
Montreal, Oct. 3. -Corn -A merican
No 2 yellow, 07 to 93c. Oats -Canadian
Western. No, 2, one ; Canadian West-
ern, No. 8, 619c ; extra No. 1 feed, 619 ;
No. 3 muse white, 56c. Barley -Mani-
toba feed, Site. Flour -Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, firsts, $0.10 ;
seconds, 28.60 ; strong bakers' $8.40 ;
Winter patents, choice, $8.25 ; straight
rollers, 17.60 to $7.90 ; straight rollers,
bags, $3.60 to $3.76. Rolled Oats -Bar-
rels, $0.26 to $6.10 ; bags, 90 lbs., $3,00
to $3.16. Bran, $27 ; Shorts, $29 ;
middlings. 281 ; mantilla $14 to 536,
Bay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13.00.
Cheese -Finest westerns, 209 to Sic ;
finest eastern% 201 to 205e, Butter -
Choicest creamery, 370 ; seconds, 88e.
Eggs-Irreeh, 15c ; selected, 380 ; No,
1 stock, 34e ; No, 2 stock. 80. Pota-
toes. per bag. ear lots, $1.25 to $1.50,
Winnipeg Orilla.
Winnipeg. Oct. 3. -Cash quotations :
Wheat --No. 1 Northern, $1.639 No. 3
Northern, $1.679. Oats -No. 2 C.W.,
5390 ; No. 8 CW,, 523c ,• extra No, 1
feed, 523c ; No. I feed, 523c ; No. 2 feed,
IBarley-No. 3, 920 ; No. 4, 875 ;
rejected, 800_; feed, 80e, Flex -No. 1
.C.,$1.991 ; No. 2 CW., 61,061,
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United States markets,
Minneamais, Oct. 3.--Wheat--Deeem-
ber. $1.009 to $1.603 lvfay, $1.583 to
$1.59. Cash -No. 1 hard, $1,,67$ ; We. 1
Northern, 21.633 to $1.643 ; Na.
Northern, 51.685 to 21.633. Corn -No, 8
yellow, 83 to .84e. Oats -No. 3 white,
489 to 44e, Flour unchanged, 15ren-,-
$21.50 to $22.50,
Duluth, Oct.S.-Wheat, No, I hard,
01.889 ; 1 Northern„ $1.080 to
$1.673 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.602 ,to 21.639,
December, 11,609 bid. Lineeed-22.135 ;
October. $2,17 asked ; 'November, $2.17
bid December, 02.161 asked. may,
82.20e asked.
Live Stook Markets,
Toronto Oot, 11,-Clood heavy steers,
9.00 to t8.26 ; butchers' cattle. good,
17,60 to 7.76 ; do., medium, 26,75 to
7.0$ ; do., common, 15.50 to 26.26 I
butchers' bulls, choice, 7.10 to $7.36 ;
do., good bulls, 26,40 o 25.50 do,,
rough $1,50 to $5.00 ; butchers'
sows, choice. $8,25 to $6.50 ; do.,. good,
H.75 to MOO ; do., medico], $5.50 to
.60 ; stockers, 700 to 850 iles, 28.00 to
20,50 ; choice feeders, $6.25 to $7.00 ;
canners and, cutters, $0.50 to 64,50 ;
millterS, choice, each, $70.00 to $90.00
do. Dom, and med., each. $40 to $60.00 :
springers, 55eho to 000.00 ; light ewes,
1,1.00 to 27.50 ; sheep, heavy, $4,50 to
.50 • calves, good to choice, $10,50 to
$12,00 ; spring Iambs, choice. 210,56 to
$10.50 ; do, medium, 10,00 to 25.75 ;
hogs, fed end watered, shoot doe
weighed off oars. $12.15 to 12.20 I do.
f.o.b., $11.40.
Montreal, Oct. S. -Butchers' steers,
good, 27.10 to $8 ; fair, $6.20 ; medium,
$5 to $5.50 : cows, good, 0.25 to $6
fair, $5.25 to 55.60 ,• common, 24 to Si ;
canners, $5.25 to $3,10 • ' Gutters, 03.76
to $4.60 ; bulls, best, 56.76 to 26.26 ;
good, 25.25 to $5.76 •. fair, 04.75 to $6 ;
canners, $4.26 to $4.75 ; sheen. Sc to 70;
lambs, 90 to 10o ; calves, milk fed, So to
Sc ; grass fed, Sc ; hogs, selects, 511.25
to $32.26 ; roughs and mixed, lots, $10
to 600,70.1'sows, $9 to 29.60.
GERMAN DEFENSE
IS CRUMBLING
German Armies Will Be Wasted
Before They Reach
Meuse.
A despatch from Paris says: -
French jubilation over the continued
success of the allied armies is reflect- ,
ed in the following symposium of
Views expressed by foremost military
critics and observers :
By Gen. Berthaut-The fall of
Combles and Thiepval on the same
day destroys the validity, of the Ger-
man claim of invincibility. The Ger-
man defensive is crumbling, and the
allies are methodically hammering
away, Still more decisive successes
are ahead.
By Gustave Herve-The German
armies will be completely wasted be-
fore they reach the Meuse. The
moment will arrive when the 'wall will
be breached and our victorious armies
will bury the Germans under an
avalanche. Let the God of arms
give us six weeks of fine weather and
we shall see what the Germans will
get,
By Senator Humbert -Prince Rep -
precut is mistaken. The war mater-
ial with which we are crushing his
army has been produced in France and
Great Britain. Our war industries
have outdistanced the Germans, and
we now proclaim our superiority and
win his respect for the first time,
WOMEN EXCEL MEN
IN MAKING OF SHELLS
Their Employment by Company in
Welland Successful.
A despatch from Welland says: -
The employment of women by the El-
ectric Steel & Metals Company in Wel-
land in shell making has proved a
success beyond the expectations of the
company. In fact they are doing
better than the men. One woman
has equalled in eight hours the best
record made in ten hours by a man
on the same operation; during the day
she handled 1,200 shells, having a
gross` weight of a ton and a half. The
women are making upwards of four
dollars per day. E. Carnegie, pre-
sident of the company, states that two
hundred women will be employed. The
company has 300 applications from
women who wish to undertake the
work.
WATERS OF THE NILE
HIGHEST IN 22 YEARS
A despatch from Cairo Says: -The
waters of the Nile are at the highest
stage reached in 22 years, and the
Ministry of Public Works has issued
a warning that every precaution
should be taken in view of the danger
that the Nile may burst its banks.
The flood hi the Soudan has fallen,
but the surface of the river in lower
Egypteis from. seven to twenty feet
above the level of the surrounding
country.
CANADIAN PLAQUE
FOR RUSSIAN HOSPITAL
A despatch from London, says: -A
small plaque with the Canadian arms
on carved oak, and finely wrought with
beautiful colors, is being sent by the
Canadian Government Offices to Pet-
rograd to be placed in the Anglo -Rus-
sian Hospital, Canadian Ward. The
plaque is the work of a 'young Can-
adian artist.
_ es.
Bat it is more blessed to receive
than to be given away,
fY MILLIONS
CREDIT OFFERED
Canada Ready to Advance That
Amount to Britain.
A despatch from Ottawa says :--
Following a conference with Canadian
bankers on Wednesday, Si e Thomas
White, Minister of Finance, cabled tlee
Chancellor of the Exchequer that the
Government was ready to make an
advance to the Imperial Government
to the amount of $50,000,000, to be
availed of in payment for munitions
and supplies purchased in Canada,
The above amount will be taken from
the new war loan, which has been
doubly subscribed, It will be recall-
ed that at the conclusion of a similar
conference held after the last war
loan was floated a similar amount was
set aside for similar purposes. The
new 'fifty million credit will bring
Canada's advances to the British Trea-
sury up to two hundred millions.
The Minisber of Finance also enlist.
ed the co-operation of the Bankers'
Association in promoting a "cam-
paign
of thrift" throughout the Do-
mlt is further stated that a commit-
tee of the Bankers' Association was
appointed he advise with the Minister
in the matter of "considering a class
of security which will attract the sav-
ings of those of slender means who
may be willing to offer such savings
to the Government for the purpose of
war expenditures."
It is not stated what the 'nattire of
the above scheme may be, but it is
suggested that the Government may
be contemplating another issue of
bonds in small denominations, follow-
ing the British precedent, where pur-
chasers could obtain ehem through the
poetoffices in denominations from $5
up, with interest at five per cent,
THE UMBRELLA ANT.
One of the Most Destructive and In-
teresting Insects.
Of the many species of ants that
inhabit tropical and semi -tropical
countries, the umbrella ant is one of
the most interesting. The insects
have the habit of cutting small round
pieces about a quarter of an inch in
diameter from the leaves of trees,
which they then carry to their bur-
rows; from that fact the species is
also known as the leaf -cutting ant.
The process of stripping the trees of
their leaves is carried out methodi-
cally. The ants on their predatory
expeditions, divide into two parties,
one of which ascends the trees and
cuts the leaves from their stalks
while the other party remains on the
ground, seizes the leaves and cuts out
the disks. Each ant, in carrying the
disk to its burrow, holds it over its
head as a man carries an umbrella;
hence the term "umbrella ant." Ac-
cording to a writer in the Field, the
leaves are stored in underground bur-
rows until they decay. By that time
they have become covered with a kind
of fungus that forms the food of the
ants. In other words, the ants raise
mushrooms, and use the leaves for
mushroom beds. In gardens umbrella
ants are very destructive, for they
confine their attention to the most
valuable plants and spare the weeds
and poorer plants. They are especial-
ly fond of the leaves of orange trees,
and will often strip a large tree in. a
single night. Their underground
burrows sometimes extend for miles,
and often undermine lawns and gar-
dens. The ants also display engin-
eering skill in their surface manoeu-
vers, for they make regular roads
across grassy ground by cutting down
plant stalks and weeds that impede
their progress.
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MARRIAGE AS A BUSINESS.
Easier to Have the, Knot Tied In Scot.
land Than England,
It is easier to be married in Scot-
land than in England, English visi-
tors to Scotland open their eyes in
surprise when they read in news-
papers an advertisement like this;
"Marriages, privately completed, in-
cluding court fees, 16s. Call or write.
Particulars free."
A new professeon is developing -
that of arrangimg swift marriages for
soldiers on leare--asid certain firms
find it worth their while to pay for
daily announcements in newsipapera,
indicating their willingness to meet
all legal requiremeats on the cheapest
terms, It Is a war industry and a busy
one,
Before the war, marrla,ges registet-
e.d in the Sheriff Court of Mt:burgh
were about 650 a year, Last
yeas -
there were 1,700. This year's total
will probably be higher. Soldiers on
immediate orders for the front or
soldiers and sailors on short leave
from the front account for tide boom
in the marriage market, which is not
discouraged by the authorities.
By Scottish law a marriage is fixed
and final if a man and woman solemn-
ly accept each other as husband and
wife in the presence of two witnesses.
DAMAGE BY FLOODS
THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA.
A despatch from M- elbourne, Aus-
tralia says :-Flouds have made
breaches in the river levees in this
region, infindating 100 square miles of
country, The town of Moropux has
been virtually submerged. Satin
had ten inches of rain since Thursday
lost. Six inches of rain have fallen
at Melba Urn e.
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GERMANY HAS LOST
''A FAMOUS AV,A.TOR
A despatch from Berlin alas:-
Lieut. Wintgens, who, next to Cap-
tain Boelke, was Germany's most
famous fighting aviator, has been kill-
ed in an engagement with Entente
allied aviators, He was buried, ac-
cording to his own wish, on the spot
where he fell.
,
It is said that lasighter will cure in-
digestion, but the trouble is that the
man that has it does not feel like
laughing.
When:The Children Rush
In Fr m Sch ol,
and shout for "something AA
to eat", cut off generous
slices of bread and spread ‘,(
with
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eta sea delicious of tabie syrups for Caddie Cakes, Waffles and Hot
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In 2, 5, 40 and 20 pound tiner-and 3 pound "Perfect Seal" amulets.
At all grocer's. Our new recipe book, "Desserts and Candies.' shows
the new and field WaY to make a lot of mod thince. Write for a espy
to our Montreal Office. It's free.
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From the Ocean #Shore ACROSS THE BORDER
BITS OP NEWS FROM THE
MARITIME PROVINCES.
Items of Interest From Places
Lapped By Waves of the
Atlantic.
There is a boom in shipbuilding in
Nova Scotia.
President Smith, of the New Yor
Central, visited Halifax last week,
Rev. E, N. Sawdon of Mount Stew
art was beaten and robbed by thug
in Charlottetown.
A state reception for the incomin
Governor-General will be held at eith
er Quebec or Halifax.
The steamer Amelia went ashor
near the Magdalen Islands. She Iva
towed to Halifax for repairs.
A number of veseels such as wer
in St. John last year, are expecte
back shortly to load codfish for Bur
ope.
M. Israel Keyes was burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the
store and residence of Keyes Bros.
Elmsdale, N. S.
The results of the provincial ex-
aminations show that Cumberland
Academy, Amherst, had the most suc-
cessful year in its history.
The power cruiser Prince, of the
Biological Station, St: Andrew's, N.
B., is searching the depths of the sea
for data and marine life,
31. Dore, secretary -treasurer of the
parish of Valleyfield, was killed when
struck by a New York Central train
at a crossing on Larocque road.
U. S. Consul -General at Large Tot,
en, was a guest of honor last week,
at a dinner party given by Consul -
General Young at the Halifax Club.
Samuel D. Freeze, veteran land sur-
veyor, and well known all over New
Brunswicic, is dead. He was the dis-
coverer of the tungsten mines on the
Miramichi.
An unidentified Scotch boy from
the Cossar Farm, Upper Gagetown,
N .13., was drowned when a steamer
from Hampstead backed into the small
yacht in which he was sailing.
A fifteen -year-old St. John's, Nfld.,
lad cleaned up $60 during school va-
cation by cutting out and curing 800
pouhds of fish, sounds and tongues,
which he sold at seven cents a pound.
The buildings and grounds sur -1
rounding Macdonald College, Ste.
Anne de Bellevue, P, Q., are very
beautiful this year, in spite of the
weather, which has not been favor-
able.
Seveseteen-year-old Wm. Witherall,'
flipping boy in the cable steamer(
Dahlia, at St. John's, Nfld., was caught
in the forward cabin and burned to
death in sight of some 200 people. I
A. meeting of the Anti -Automobile
Association was held in Charlottetown
recently and passed a number of re-'
solutions, the chief one being to
banish automobiles from the island.
The fish from Canada suits "the
soldiers. Alfred H. Brittain, man-
aging director, of Maritime Fish Corp-'
oration, Limited, is of the opinion
British buyers will take Canadian fish
after the war.
WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN
THE STATES.
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Latest Happenings in Big Republio
Readers.
Condensed for Busy
A gain of $5,000,000 for the month
, of August by the Postal Savings Bank
K is reported by the Postmaster -General
1 Chicago's housewives are out for
-1 the scalps of dealers who are jug-
s; gling with the prices of foodstuffs for
I their own profit.
g Increased price of crude oil at the
e close of the European war is antici-
pated by members of the National
e Petroleum Association.
!
e., pricesde-
mand forand
a
d a sfederal n embargoinquiry infood
en,shes
Food dealers made a formal
o shipment of products abroad.
e Americans are producing seventy,
five per cent. of the color dyes con-
sumed here in normal times, says
!Dr. Thomas H. Norton, Government
expert.
IFire wiped out the entire business
district and more than half the in-
dustrial section of the village of
Phoenix, ,0.
N.Y0.,cauping a loss of more
n
Cracksmen chiseld their way into a
3,000 -pound safe in the jewellery
store of Steman &.Norwig, Baltimore,
Md., and escaped with gems valued
approximately at $15,000.
The American Ambulance Field
Service in Prance announced the for-
mation of a section to serve with the
French army in the Balkans. It will
include thirty ambulances.
The first frosty air of fall has
started hobos migrating south.
Florida and the coastal regions of
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and
Louisiana are the destinations,
Rear Admiral Casper Frederick
Goodrich, U.S.N. (retired), aged 69,
is to wed again. His engagement to
Miss. Sarah Minis Hays, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. I. Minis Hays, of Phila-
delphia, is announced. •
That the officera and crew of the
New York, of the American Line,
fought for seven hours a fire that
threatened to destroy the ship, was
revealed when the steamship arrived
Sunday from Liverpool.
Climbing over a stone wall at his
home, Elmer Decker, 40 years old, a
farmer of Sparta, N. J., accidentily
discharged the shot gull which he waft
carrying, the charge entering his hody
Instantly, directlyabovethe heart. Be died,
The stock of the Eddystone Am-
munition Corporation of Philadelphia,
has been acquired by the Anglo -Rus-
sian Commission, and in the future all
munitions made at the plant will be
manufactured under the supervision
of representatives from the allied
governments,
the steamer St. Paul to rejoin the
British army, e
Who had several encounters with Im-
melman,,the famoue German bird
man, to leave New York Saturday by
army,, to whom he offered his services,
the Royal Flying Corps, an American
caused Captain Edward A. Kelly of
tion section of the United States
Indifference on the part of the avia-
tion
United Family.
An old couple in the South were
much dietressed, owing to their in -
reeling poverty. Thinking their
on in the North would help them,
hey wrote, stating their trouble, and
eying that if he did not aid them
hey would be obliged to go to the
oor house.
A couple of weeks passed, and
hen came a letter from the son, say-
ing;
"My Dear Parents -Just wait an-
ther week and I'll come home and go
ith you. Your affectionate son."
' 65 Bushels to Acre.
A despatch from Lethbridge, Alta.,
says: -Thrashing returns beginning
to come in from southern Alberta
points show more phenomenal yields,
Sixty-five bushels of wheat to the acre
have been procured on some farm a c
near Lethbridge. One man has an ,so
entire section which averaged him
forty bushels.
Pa's Horrible Anger.
"Ma annoyed Pa terribly last t
night."
"That so?"
"Yes; he lost his tem in, absolute- o
ly."
',Did he strike her?"
"No, but he got so mad he forgot
himself entirely, and even threatened
to joined the troops and go to war."
No, Cordelia, a bee is not neces-
sarily as angry when it stings as the
victim is,
GERMAN MILITARY EXPERT
ADMITS DEFEAT IN PICARDY
And Demands That the Submarine Campaign be Again
Reintroduced.
A despatch from Berlin says: -
Major Moraht, the Military expert of
the Tageblatt, discussing the latest
developments on the Somme front,
•
"We should err in under -estimating
the effect of this tactical success of
the enemy.. It grows in importance
in view of the bravery of the Ger-
man troops defending Thiel:mai, but I
know not why our courage should be-
come less than that of the enemy,
who is carrying the burden of many
defeats inflicted by Germany and her
allies during two years."
Referring to the passage in the re-
cent official statement from grand
headquarters that the allies' success,
has been achieved through the aid eg
"the war industries of the entire
World," Major Moraht says:
‘"If our dovernment has effective
means in hands for hindering this
military aksistance from neutral
States, it should not hesitate in apply-
ing it. The blood of our brave fight-,
ere on the Somme is too precious to
justify us in not utilizing every means,
for diminishing the losses from the
iron flumes thrown by hostile artill
lery.e