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The Clinton News Record, 1915-07-22, Page 3IMAMS MOUNTING HEAVY ARTILLERY Balkan Situation Hourly Becoming More Unfavor- -: able for Germany and Austria. A despatch from Rome ity•s; The - Giornale d'Italia, commenting on the fact that tae situation on the front remains unchanged, points out that the lull is due to delay caused while helivy Italian artillery is being Mounted on important and dominat- ing positions beyond the Isonzo: As aeon as this work is completed, the taper says, the Italian advance will be rapid. , Meanwhile, the paper• ,continues, the Balkan situation is hourly becom- ing more unfavorable for Germany and Austria. When Balkan interven- tion comes, the paper concludes, the Germanie allies will be compelled to sue for peace. Tao boyish Crown Prince of Italy motored to the railway station to meet an incoming train of wounded soldiers from the front. He person- ally directed that a number, of the men be' placed in his car while he himself kept a seat and chatted affa- bly with the men as they drove to a hospital. . • An enthusiastic crowd cheered the young Prince at the etation as he walked among the wounded, shaking hands with them. Markets Of The World Breadstuffs. Toronto, July 20. -Manitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $1.44 to $1.44%; No. 2 Northern, $1.41% to $1.42; No. 8, nominal, on track, lake ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 64%c; No. 3 CM., nominal; extra, No. 1 feed, nominal; No. 1 feed, nominal, on track lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 1331/2e, on track lake ports. \ Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, nom- inal, on track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 59e; No. 3 white, 58e, according to freights outside. . • _ Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $1.15 to $1.18, according to freights outside. Peas -No. 2, per car lots, nominal, according to freights outside. , Barley -Good malting barley, nom'. mel; feed barley, 66 to 66c, according to freights outside. . Buckwheat -Car lots, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye --No. 2, nominal, according to $7.75 to $8; do., medium, $7.25 to $7.50; do, common, $5,50 to $6.50; butchers' bulls, choice, $7 to $7.50; do., good bulls, $6.25 to $6.75; do., rough bulls, $5.60 to $6; butchers' cows, choice, $7 to $7.60; do, good, $6.75 to $7.25; do., medium, $5.75 to $6.25; do., common, $4.60 to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.85; stock- ers, '700 to 1,000 lbs., $6.25 to $7.75; canners and cutters, $4 to $5.25; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $100; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $50; springers, $50 to $85; .lightewes, $6 to $6.50; do., -heavy, $4 to $5; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearl- ing lambs, $6 to $7.50; spring lambs, cwt, $10.50 to $11.60; calves, $8.50 to $10; hogs, off cars, $9.50. Montreal, July 2f. -There were no choice steers on the market, and the top price realized for the best was $8, and the lower grades sold from that down to $6, while butchers cows brought from $5.25 to $7, and bulls fell $5.25 to $6.50 per cwt. Lambs sold at $9 to $10, and sheep from $5.26 to $6 per cwt., while calves brought from $1.60 to $10 each, as to size and quality. A weaker feel- ing developed in the market for hogs, and inside prices were reduced 50e freights outside, per cwt., with sales of selected lots Manitoba flour -First patents, in at $9,50 to $10 per cwt., weighed off jute bags, $7; second patents, in jute cars. ags, $6.50; strong bakers', in jute bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton bags, 100 more. Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $4.75, seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags. Millfeed, car lots, delivered Mont- real freights -Bran, per ton, $27; shorts, per ton, $29; middlings', per ton $30; good feed flour, per bag, Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 141he per lb. in case lots. Hams -Medium, 18 to 184iic; do., heavy, 14% to 15e; rolls, 14% to 15e; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23c; backs, plain, 22 to 28c; boneless backs, 24 to 25e. Country Produce. Butter -The market is fairly steady for butter, with supplies large. Choice dairy, 21 to 220; inferior, 18 to 20c; creamery prints, 27 to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28e. Eggs -The market is steady, with straight stock selling at 21 to .23c per dozen, in case lots, and selects 23 to 24e. Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18e; Spring chickens, 24 to 250; fowl, 14 to The. Cheese -The market is dull; quota- tions, 17c for large, and at 17% for twins. Old cheese, 22 to 22%c. Baled Hay and Straw. SPY EXECUTED AT TOWER OF LONDON Admitted at Trial That He Was In the Employ of German Secret Service. A. despatch from London says: Robert Rosenthal, the self-confessed spy, who was arrested with an Amer- ican passport in his possession, was executed at the Tower of London. He faced the firing squad bravely. Rosenthal, who was posing as the agent of a gas mantle concern, was arrested because a letter from him to Captain von Priger, the head of the secret service of the German Admir- alty,was intercepted by British secret service agents. At first he claimed to be an American citizen travelling for an American concern, and also an agent for an American relief com- mittee. He did not hold this pose long, but arising at his examination, made a military salute, and confessed himself a spy. He created a aensation by announc- ing that Captain von Pariger had a complete outfit for forging American passports. Carl Lody, the first man to be shot in the Tower, also had one, he said. "The revelations caused a stir in London, and a report was sent of it to Washington by Ambassador Page. After his confession Rosenthal was speedily convicted, but his execution was postponed from June 15 in order to obtain more information from him. He tried to commit suicide, but was saved in time. Nothing is known of his antecedents. Baled hay, No. 1, ton, $19 to $201 do No. 2 ton $17 to $18; baled straw, ton, $7. Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, July 20. -No. 1 North- ern, 0.37'W; No. 2 Northern, 41.34%; No. 3 Northern, $1.30%. Gate, No. 2 C.W., 60%; No. 3 C.W, 57%'e; extra No. I. feed, 57%; No. 1 feed, 56%; No. 2 feed, 55%. Barley, No. 3, 70e; No. 4, 65c• feed 60c.Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., $1.5i%; o. . $1.48%. - Business in Montreal. . Montreal, July 20. -Corn, Ameri- can No. 2 yellow, 84% to 85c. Oats, Canadian Western, No. 3, 63 to 63%c; extra No. 1 feed, 63 to 63%e; No. 2 local white, 61 to 61%e; No. 3 local white, 60 to 60%c; No. 4 local white, 59 to 59%c. Barley, Man. feed, 72e. Buckwheat, No. 2, '79 to 80c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60; strong bak- ers', $6.40; straight rollers, $5.40 to $5.80; bags, $2.50 to $2.75; rolled oats, barrels, $6,25; bags, 90 lbs., $2.90 to $3, Bran, $26. Shorts, $28. middlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $40. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to $21.50. Cheese, finest west- erns, 15%, to 16e; finest easterns, 14% to 15e. Butter, choicest cream- ery, 28% to 28%c; seconds, 27 to 271/41c. Eggs, selected, 25c; No. 1 stock, 22 to 22%c; No. 2 stock, 19% to 20e. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 50e. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, 14 to 141/1c; pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 36 to 45 pieces, $29; Can- ' ada short cut back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $28.50. Lard, compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 100; wood pads, 20 lbs. net, 10%c; pure tierces, 375 lbs., 12 to 12%c; pure, wood toile, 20 lbs. net, 13 to 131/2c. United Stet& Markets. Minneapolis, July 20.----Wheat-No. 1 hard, $1.40 to $1.401/2; No. 1 North- ern, $1.39 to $1.49; No. 2 Northern, $1.36 to $1.46; July, $1.36; Septem- ber, $1.11%. Corn -No. 3 yellow, '77% to '781/ac. Oats -No. 3 white, 50% to 51e. Flour and bran un- changed. Duluth, July 20. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.47; No, 1 Northern, $1.45 to $1.46; No. 2 Northern, $1.40 to $1.42; July, $1.45; September, $1.13%. Linseed -Cash, $1.72; July, $1 . '70 % ; September, $1 . 74. Live Stock. Toronto, July 20. -Butchers' cattle, choice, $8•25- to $8.85; do., good, The Wheels Covered With Straw to Keep Them Cool -Artillery Wagon at Cairo. The excessive heat of the summer sun in Egypt and other places of similar latitude has an injurious effect bpon artillery, especially upon the tires of wheels, and these, as our photograph shows, are covered with straw tea protect them from the sun. The photograph was taken in the square of the famous Kasr-en-Nil Barracks at Cairo. Similar coverings for artillery are, of course, used hi the field as a disguise to conceal the positiOn of guns from hostile aircraft. Recent war news from Egypt has concerned chiefly the accommo- dation of wounded and prisoners from the Dardanelles, and has recorded no further attacks on the Suez Canal. It was reported recently from Cairo that most of the Turkish forces in Sinai and 'Syria had been withdrawn to assist in defending the Dardanelles. latatisialalargagaalsaaalaralMaalt. Settling the Land ,:tairaTteumraratomEsEssmai From the Termite Daily News. When one talks of State -aided colo- nization as a means of solving the is need for adequate organization of the project While, the war is still on. The soundest, .sturdiest and most pro- gressive element df the Canadian population sprang from such Military stock, and' this blood flowing in the veins of our people, has had much to do with the eager.response of the country in the ,present conflict. The character and standards of the peo- unemployment problem and of get- pie who are to inhabit 'the Dominion ting more immigrants on the soil, the is quite as important a consideration mind goes back to earlier experiments in land settlement by more or less direct Government intervention. It was largely owing, to the activities of the company of One Hundred Associ- ates and their successors under the French regime that Quebec secured its present population of over 2,000,- 000. One of the original company's obligations was to bring out 200 set- tlers from France every year, free of charge, to provide them upon landing with free lands, and to support them on the land until they became self- supporting. The King of France of- ten assumed much of the expense. When the company grew lax in its efforts at colonization its privileges were withdraivn and the country was INFANTRY FORCE CAPTURED PEAK Italian Contingent Which Was Ad- vancing Towards Falzarego Surprised Austrians. A desPatch from Rome says: An infantry contingent of the forces ad- vancing westward from Cortina to- ward Boson, where their object is to cut the railway serving Trent, has taken the Falzarego peak, 8,355 feet high, by a surprise attack. The forbes which made the attack scaled the mountain by a route considered im- passable. The Austrians attempted to retake the position, but were re- pulsed. Force of Drops of Water. It seems almost incredible that so small a thing as a drop ' of rain should injure the propeller of an aeroplane, but such is the case, as- serts the London Spectator. At so great a speed does the propeller re- volve -1,200 revolutions a minute, as a matter of fact -that a raindrop hits it with such enormous force as to chip a piece of the wood away. Some idea of the hardships entailed by fly- ing through the rain at sixty miles an hour may be gathered from the fact that an aviator who recently went through such an experience alighted with the edge of his mopel- ler fretted as though it had been gnawed by rats. The raindrops had chipped pieces out of -the blades and also bruised the aviator's face owing to the force with which they hit against his flesh. Wireless Service From Canada to Germany Telegrams for transmission to Ger- many, and via Germany to Austria- Irungary, Turkey and non -belligerent countries, will be accepted at the local telegraph offices. The rate from To- ronto to points in Germany will be 56 cents a• word, and to points beyond Germany 64 cents a woad. converted into a Royal Province. For the next 100 years, or until the Bri- tish occupation, the French court granted tracts of land to seigneurs upon a modified feudal system, the grantees undertaking to bring out settlers and get the land under culti- vation. The King continued to assist with shiploads of immigrants, but then, as now, it was often found diffi- cult to keep the adventurous new- comers to the "prosaic task of tilling the soil." In those days the fascina- tion of the forest and the lure of the Indian fur trade drew the settlers from the land as the amusements 'and attractions of cities and railway con- struction have drawn them in this age. On arrival at Quebec the newcom- ers were met by officials and friends, who quartered them and cared for them until they got a start on the land. The immigrants of the last twenty years have not been looked after nearly so well. Instead of be- ing taken to their destination, located on the land, and phepherded through the difficulties of the first few months or years in a new country, they have been left to go where they would in the summer and drift into the cities in the winter From the French Such messages will go by wireless via the Sayville station, which is now operated by the United States Naval Department. All telegrams will be accepted at the sender's risk, must be written in plain English or plain Ger- man, and will be subject to censorship by the Canadian, United States and German authorities. as their productivity in dollars and cents, and therefore it is that for more than one reason disbanded sol- diers will be welcomed as pioneer farrnera. seigneurs the immigrants got farms on nominal terms. In fact the condi- tions were so light that any settler of reasonable industry and intelligence. could meet them without difficulty. In time the seigneuries occupied all the fertile territories bordering upon the rivers, which were the only through transportation routes. In time also some of the seigneurs rea fused to allow settlement on favor- ably -situated water frontages. They began to hold their choicest lands out of use, in the hope of ultimate gain. In 1707 the Intendant complained to the King of this new "spirit of busi- ness speculation, which has always more �f cunning and chicane than of truth and righteousness in it." Those greedy seigneurs were the for -run- ners of the railways and other large speculators who foryears have with- held accessible lands in Western Can- ada out of cultivation in the hope of larger profits. Rebuked by Royal Decree. A 'Royal deuce characterized the seigneurs' attitude as "repugnant to His Majesty's intentions," and forth- with forced their hands. They had to give free deeds to would-be settlers whether or no, and, however the value of his land grew, no seigneur could exact more than the original nominal rental from his -tenants. Under this system bdth banks of the St. Law- rence, from Montreal to below Que- bec, were occupied, as were also both banks of the Richelieu and other tri- butary streams. For some time past The Daily News has advocated such arrangement with the transportation companies and other speculators in the West as will make the accessible land in their possession available for actual productive settlers on equitable terms. Such a deparaire would close up the gaps of untilled sections along the transcontinental railways and greatly add to the national food out- put, and therefore to the national wealth. Get Soldiers On the Land. As early as the middle Of the seventeenth century the Carignan regiment was disbanded and settled upon the soil, as were some British regiments in Upper Canaria after the Napoleonic wars. Here again history is about to repeat itself. The close of the 'present war should witness the settlement of tens of thousands of Canadian and British soldiers upon lands of their own in the several Pro- viriees. Earl Grey has proposed in London the creation of a huge lea - or this parpose a al three Useful To -Day. Charles Le Moyne, probably the best of the seigneurs, gathered the stones from the land near Longueil and used them in building houses for the settlers, His grist mill mid his brewery operated upon the products of the settlers' farms. It was the custom of the day for the seigneur to grind his tenants' grain. Le Moyne spent money on roads and other use- ful improvements, so that he soon had e model seigneury, supporting a large number of comfortable and happy habitants. Some of the more industrious and intelligent settlers themselves became seigneurs. Thus, despite primitive conditions and many defects the seigneurial system did much for Lower Canada in the early days. Its strength lay in its use of what was virtually State -aid in the promotion of settlement on the land, and in the support of the settlers un- til they got on their feet. The earli- est chapters of Canadian history thus present a precedent for carrying set- tlers directly to the soil and financing them until they become securely es- tablished. The same Plan adapted to modern conditions has worked out successfully in Argentina New Zea- land, and Australia. In 'the twenti- eth century Federal and Provincial Governments must take the place of the seventeenth century seigneurs. No time should be lost if the existing unemployed and the immigrants who are to come after the war are to be handled in a way that will be most advantageous to them and to the country. GERMANS AGAIN WIN PRZASNYSZ Occupy Town in Northern Poland on R'oute of Their Former . Drive. RED CROSS PUBLICITY. News of All Countries. The British Red Cross has collected and administered over $7,000,000 at an expense of 1% per cent. The cost of the stores management in- cluding distribution was only 3% per cent.. Ass -order was received for a com- plete hospital at Calais, In five hours there was dispatched from London a train containing a com- plete personel, 120 beds, a large amount of stores, 3 motors, and 8 ambulances. The Red Cross hospitals at Bou- logne handled 7,000 wounded in- one day. The Russian Red Cross are. running laundry and bath trains in which 2,000 men can bathe daily. The French Red Cross owing to the suspension of industry in France has had to make appeals for money in England. Its hospitals contain over 1,000,000 beds. France has stationed German pris- on camps • in Corsica and Algeria. The French Red Cross is sending supplies to the German prisoners. Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, died in 1910 in poverty, having given his whole fortune to the society. The Argentine Republic sent 50,000 francs to the French Red Cross. It was distributed equally amongst the belligerent countries. The American Red Cross is sup- porting one thousand beds in fifteen hospitals in Turkey. It is the only neural branch of the International Red Cross which is conducting opera- tions in the Ottoman Empire. The Japanese Red Cross is con- ducting a hospital at Netley, England. It has a hospital also in the Champs Elysees, Paris, and another in the "Italiarislcaya," Petrograd. Padcages sent to prisoners of war in Germany through the agency of the Red -Cross are exempt from cus- toms duties. The British Red Grose has 863 auxiliary hospitals containing 25,000 batdasisin addition to the thilitary hos- A French Red Cross medical bulle- tin authorized by the French Ministry of War states that the mortality rate amongst wounded has been 3.48 per ITALIAN TROOPS ARE INSISTENT A despatch from London says: Abandoning for the moment their at- tempt to outflank Warsaw from the south, the Germans, probably under Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who is reported to have said that he would shortly astonish the world, have renewed their attack on the Polish capital from the nortla They have not only captured a large number of prisoners south of Koino, according to the report issued by Berlin, but have occupied Przas- nysz, a fortified town of 50 miles north of Warsaw, which was taken by von Hindenburg in his great drive from East Prussia last winter, but was retaken by the Russians in their counter -offensive. This claim is partly confirmed by the Russian official report, which stated that the Russians, in the face of strong German forces, withdrew to their second line of entrenchments. This move on the part of the Ger- mans has taken the military critics completely by surprise. , It was gen- erally supposed that Gen. von Mac- kenzen would, after being strength- ened, continpe his attempt to reach the Lublin-Cholm railway, thus forc- ing the evacuation of Warsaw. But, as in all their operations, the Ger- mans have done the unexpected. The new offensive will probablyThe gen- eral, and extend from the Baltic around the East Prussian border to the Vistula, west of Warsaw, for all the Russian troops in this section must be kept busy to prevent them from concentrating at the point where the Germans hope to break through. This is the second time Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg has tried this. His last effort, while it freed East Prussia of the Russians, cost the Ger- mans an immense number of men and nearly involved them in disaster owing to the muddy conaition of the ground. Now, however, there are only bad roads or lack' of roads to contend with, but it is possible that the Germans have built railways to their northern front, as they have done in Central Poland.' . Are Determined to Carry the Bridge- head of Gorizia at Whatever Cost. A despatch from London says: Pri- vate advices deeeribe the Battle of Ivan aa the greatest fought as yet on the Italian front, the attaelca of the Italians being almost incessant and most determined in character. The bridgehead of Gorizia has suffer- ed greatly from the bombardment of the Italians, who seem resolute to carry the position at whatever cost in order to develop the operations on' the east side of the River Isonzo. The whole front along this line is strewh with thousands of dead. The mountain slopes are also spotted with the bodies of attackera and defenders alike. The new Italian offensive seems to develop all along the front in the Tyrol, Carnia and Trentino. A new device has been adopted by the Austrians. Peaks and high slopes of the mountains have been fortified, and the men are under cover, behind rocks 'and great stones built up all around the peaks. When attacked by great masses from below they blow up these fortified positions so that great boulders roll down on the on- coming enemy like an avalanche. The Italians have captured two miles of Austrian trenches in the Carnic Alps, according to a despatch received from Villach, an Auetrian town on the River Drove, 52 miles north-west of Laibach. The Alpine troops, the despatches say, dragged their artillery to the heights near Roskofel, which is situ- ated at an altitude of 6,600 feet. The Italians also are said to have captured two important ports south of Gorizia. Among the strangest strikes on re- cord may be mentioned those , of echoolehildren, executioners, prison- ers, beer -drinkers, barristers, pau- pers, chola-boys, ministers, commer- cial travellem, and undertakers' men. WAR'S RECORD TO DATE. 2,228,800 Dead, 1,705,000 Prisonera Among 8,770,810 Casualties. According to an official appeal is- sued to -day by the French Relief So- ciety, the French casualties from the beginning of the war up to June 1, 1915, total 1,400,000. Of this num- ber 400,000 are reported killed, 700,- 000 wounded and 300,00 taken prison- ers. This statement 18 the text for the following computation, from official soulees, giving the latest estimates of the total casualties of all the Pow- ers engaged is the great war: - France, Killed, 400,000; wounded, 700,000; prisoners and missing, 300,- 000; total casualties, 1,400,000, Great Britain Killed, 116,000; wounded, 229,000; prisoners and miss- ing, 83,000; total casualties, 428,000. Russia -Killed, 733,000; wounded, 1,982,000; prisoners and missing, 770,000; total casualties, 8,485,000. Germany -Killed, 482,000; wound- ed, 852,000; prisoners and missing, 233,000; total casualties, 1,567,000. Austria -Killed, 47,000; wounded, 160,000; prisoners and missing, 40,- 000; total casualties, 247,000. Serbia -Killed, 64,000; wounded, 112,600; prisoners and missing, 60,- 000; total casualties, 226,600. Turkey -Killed, 45,000; wounded, .90,000; prisoners and missing, 46,- 000; total, casualties, 181,000. Japan -Killed, 300; wounded, 910; prisoners and missing, none; total casualties, 1,210. Grend total - Killed, 2,228,800; wounded, 4,837,510; prisoners and missing, 1,705,000; total casualties, 8,770,810. Note. -No report has . been made officially Of Italian losses. The Close Ends. ENVOYS LEAVE NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE Occurrences in the Land Thal Reigns Supremo in thta Com. 4nerolui World. Female letter•earriera have starte4 auty at Gourook Post Office. , The Savings Sank of the county ; and city, of, rerth, has *at attained its centenary. Out of 2,00 employees under Edda - burgh Corporation, 496 are serving with the colors,. The new tionvaleacent Soldiers' Home in Cruff, has been, occupied by men recoveidng from wouaaa, etc. About forty members of the kirk Citizens' Training Corea have joined the regular forces of the Cr° The tar distillation work0 of Du r 'dee Corporatioa Gas Waricla erected at a cost' of $18,000, has now been opened. . At a large meeting of fiklinburgh tramway men, it was decided that tat, employment of women on the care ap opposed, . Considerable damage was causal by a fire that broke out at the- farm of Paxton, South Mains, Bum,, occupied by Robert Nis -list. The stock of herrings at Peterhead Is being considerably reduced. Mm', G. T. West shiped a cargo of about 6,000 barrels to Russia. James. Hunter, porter of Townlitad, Glasgow, was knocked down and in, stoutly killed by a passenger train to the east of Bishopbriggs station,. , A provisioaal Statement on, the fine anpial returna of Glasgow Corporation. tramway& for the year ending may 81, states that the traffic receipts show a decrease of about $40,000, A number of male teachers in Johnstone and Paisley sehooln are working in their spare time in the en- gineering firm of John Laing & Son, • Johnstone. Mr. James Black, a Crimean and Ine diem Mutiny veteran, has died at For• dell, in his 78th year.' He was burled with full military honors in Mossgreen cemetery. The deotookplace suddenly frouT heart trouble o r. ose eDav Creetown, one of the best knciwn pub- - lie Men in the western district of the Stewarty. ' j A memorial tablet to D. George Ogilvie, for many years headmaster of George aVatson's College, Edinburgh, has been unveiled in Daniel Stewart's College, Edinburgh. The Glasgow Corporation Gas Com- mittee have agreed to recommend that the gas rate for quantities up to 500,- 000 cubic feet be raised from, 46 cents to 60 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. Provost McCrae has received a re- ply from the Lords of the Admiralty' to the memorial of the Nairn fisher- men asking for an extension of the present fishing area. The request was refused. Glasgow Town Council has passed a resolution calling on the Government, In view of the scarcity of cattle and the prevailing high price of meat, to remove the embargo on the importa- tion of Canadian cattle. The magistrates of Glasgow have been requested to allow -women to be employed in licensed premises to take the place of men who have enlisted. A meeting of the magistrates is to be held to consider the matter. The Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow adopted a resolution express- ing regret at the proposal to remove the Tolbooth Steeple and representing to the Corporation the importance of maintaining it on its present site. A despatch from Rome says: It Is confirmed here that a disagreement between Enver Pasha and the two German envoys at Constantinople, Gen. von der Goltz and Gen. Liman von Sanders, has resulted in the de- parture of the latter for Berlin. The despatches which bring this news say that many Germans in,Tur- key are leaving the country hurriedly, and that as a consequence the well- informed Turks feel that there is little hope that the Dardanelles will be able to hold out. The lack of mu- nitions in the Turkish army is said to be a matter of very serious impor- tance. Bread and foods of all descriptions are scarce in the capital and else- where, while the wounded soldiers are receiving very inadequate attention. The -wheat crop in Anatolia is said to have been ruined. The Memos no longer mentoin a Holy War, and are exhorting the people to be calm. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHINESE DROWN Fire Is Now Also Sweeping a Large Area in the District of Canton. A despatch from Hong Kong says: Tens of thousands of natives are esti: mated to have been drowned by the floods in the Chinese provinces of Kwantung, Kwangsi and Kiangsia, and the desolation in the devastated districts is terrible, according to the latest reports reaching here. A fire -swept area of one mile.and raging floods handicapped the work of rescue in Canton. The city was in darkness, the water having inun- dated the machinery of the electric light plant. Missionaries arrived seeking the ae- sistance of the United States gunboat Cattao to aid in the work of rescue. The last report. received here from Canton before communication was cut said that the Christian hospital was in danger from fire. A hungry young cyclist had put up for the night at a wayside inn and found the supper rathea scanty, the most substantial part of it being a single ausage roll. "Is that the best you can do in the way ef sausage rolls?" he asked, 'Why," said the host, "isn't it good?" "Oh, it's good enough, perhaps; but the ends of it don't suit me." "The ends! What's the matter with them ?," "Too close together," said the hun- gry youth, and the innkeeper took the hint. ARM FRENCH TROOPS , WITH A SHORT KNIFE A despatch from London says: The Daily Mail's correspondent at British headquarters in France says: "The French are arming their troops with a short knife for use in trench warfare, thus replacing the bayonet, which, when fixed in the rifle, is too long a weapon to give a man free play in the narrow trench- es." Rabbit Fur for Hats. Rabbit fur is said to be supplant- ing wool in felt hat making in Aus- tralia, where thirty-two factories are in operation. The fur is considered much superior to the finest Merino for this purpose and millions of rab- bit skins are used annually. Among the simple inventions which are awaiting evolution, and any one of which would make a fortune for its inventor, are: a bottle which can- not be refilled; a nut for bolts which will not shake loose; a smoke -consum- ing appliance; a good pencil -sharpen- er; and a means of driving away A City in Salt. In the war news from Galicia, we have occasionally heard the name of Wieliczka, some six miles from Cra- cow. Wieliczka is an interesting town, not for, what is in it, but for what is under it. The salt mines there are the greatest in the world and the most wonderful. They actu- ally form an underground city. The Wieliczka salt mine is two and one- half miles long from east to west and 1,050 yards wide from north to south, says a writer in the Manchester Guardian. It has seven levels, and the lowest is nearly a thousand feet deep. It is entered by eleven shafts. The dif- ferent levels are connected by flights , of steps hewn out of the rock Salt. In the miae are chapels, tramways, a railway station, a ballroom, and several other halls, all hewn out of the rock salt with elaborate archi- tectural decoration. There are sixty-two miles of pony tramways and twenty-two miles of railway. All these lines, and the principal passages, or "streets," meet in a sort of central cavern. Here is the central railway station, with spa- cious waiting rooms and an excellent refreshment room. It looks, accord- ing to one visitor's description, "more like a summer pavilion than a railway station, with its latticed galleries and its rows of stately pillars gleam- ing white and iridescent." The oldest "building" in the mine is the Chapel of Saint Anthony; it dates from 1691. It contains three altars a pulpit and much statuary, all elaborately carved out of rock salt. But services are now held in the mod- ern but equally elaborate Chapel of Saint Cunigunde, which is entered by descending forty-six salt Steps. The chapel is fifta• yards long, fifteen yards wide, and thirty feet high, and is used regularly for worship. The ballroom is a huge room, where the miners often hold their festivals. A miners' orchestra plays regularly in the hall, not only for the dances, but for the entertainment of visitors. The mine has been worked for at least eight hundred years. It belongs to the Austrian government, and gives work to one thousand men. Boots wear out faster in glimmer than in winter. LAST RESERVES BATHE BEEN .CALLED UPON cloppatch from Zurich says: It i.?:kontiuks more clear that Germany haS laciVa Coaled pp her last reserves and, tIntfli la7eay nvoilable man is be- ing OWE to the fighting line. Ger- rnape of 45 yeara of age residing in Switzerland have now been called to the colors. The most typical easeit that of a German of 42 years., reside lag in Basle, who, 'never having been a soldier -was called on a month ago. A. few gays ago the family received a letter from the Russian frontier, where the man had bum sent after a fortnight's military training.