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The Seaforth News, 1917-09-13, Page 3SWEDEN ACCCUSTD OF CROSS - VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY United Status Government Publishes Fact T1tat Neutral Legation at Argentine Was Used to Send Official Cipher • Messages: to Berlin., Washington; Sept: 9;•'-Diplamatie relations 'between the , United Status and Sweden .are strained to near the breaking point as the result of a dis- covory that German. official telegrams in.ciplter were forwarded to Berlin through the Swedish Legation at Buenos Ayres. The fact that messages from Ger- man Charge d'Affaires Luxburg at Buenos Ayres to the Gorman Foreign Office had been forwarded through the Foreign Office at Stockholm was re - coaled in an official statement by the State Dopartinent yesterday after- s:eon The messages concerned the diploe antic, situation in Argentina and dealt With the method to be pursued by sub- marines in sinking Argentine ships. Besides revealing the means in which Germany used pweden in her ' machinations in Argentina, the de - !snatches show how the Gorman !Charge, at the time Argentina was having a critical diplomatic centr•.o- versy with Germany over submarine destruction of her ships, was,sending through the Swedi sh`Legation inter- i motion of the sailings of curtain vas-, sels with recommendations that they bo atutic "without leaving any trace." In other despatches he was informing his Government how to regard Argen- tina's protests against the destruction' of her shipping. It is regarded as significant that -no steps haV'e been taken by the. Swedish Government, so far as the State De- partment ]snows, to punish its diplo- matic representative in Buenos Ayres. LS. TO SERE NEUTRAL S}ZIPS 406;000 Tons of Scandinavian Vessels May be Utilized. VERDUN. FOSPITAL :IS BOMBED D German Aeroplanes Dropped Shells and Killed 19 Inmates A despatch front, Washington says: Wounding 26. Shortage of ocean-going tonnage may A despatch from Grand Headquar- cause the United States to seize some tern of the French Army in- France four hundred thousand tons of neutral says: -The Vandelaincaurt Hospital shipping now in American ports. p in the region of Verdun was again Dutch and other Scandinavian ships y'hieh aro loaded with foodstuffs may bombarded by German aviators for be required, it.was said on Thursday, nix and.a half hours on Wednesdaykl to discharge their cargoes and go to and 2 oNneded.Tepersonshuts were killed' Australia and Java for wheat and and 20 wounded. The attacked contained only severely wounded mon sugar. who were unable to move from:.theii International law, officials point out, cots. gives belligerents the right to com-- The hostile aeroplanes flew over the. mandeehneutral ships whenever the hospital every twenty minutes from. emergency of war requires it. Under 8.30 o'clock' in the evening, -until 3 this interpretation the American Gov- ernment has just seized several Aus- trian ships which tools refuge in American ports when the war broke• M r out, ISHAF A r Dutch ships of 300,000 tons, and other Scandinavianvessels of one- third that tonnage, QUEBEC BRIDGE a have lain in iv 1 American.. ports loaded with, food- stuffs ever since the Export Con- trol Act was put into operation. Thus far the owners of the cargoes have refused to unload them, and the American Government has declined to permit the vessels to sail, FREIGHTERS FIGHT SiBMARI ES Six -Ton Roister Fell Into the . St. Lawrence River. A despatch from Quebec, Que. says: A six-ton hoieter for the centre span of the Quebec bridge slipped from the cantilever anus and is now at the bottom of the river with the mass of wreckage from the two pre- vious disasters. This mishap is liable to cause serious delay- to the lifting of the centre span of the bridge. Two men were slightly bruised and Four Merchantmen and Three barely escaped being knocked off the U -Boats Reported Sunk, structure when the huge piece of met- al slipped its chains and dived down into the river. A despatch from an Atlantic Port says: -Tho story of a concerted at- tack by seven German submarines upon a fleet of twenty-two allied merchantmen steaming -westbound for American ports, was told . on Thurs- day by officers and men of four of the vessels which have arrived hoo'e dur- ing the last few days, Fear of the merchantmen -the biggest in the con- voy -were sunk by German torpedoes, but before the fight was over the com- bined fire of the cargo steamship de- stroyers had destroyed three of the 'seven submarines: The £ght is regarded as the quick- est and most costly battle for both sides that has ever occurred between submarines and armed merchantmen, and it is believed by the men who participated in the battle that the Germans are not likely to take such desperate chances again. ALLIES JOIN UP • `IN EAST AFRICA A despatch from London says: A inaction has .herrn effected between an Anglo -Belgian column and a Belgian column operating in German -East Africa, the two columns getting in touch 97. miles southwest of Kilossa, says the official statement. The Bel- gians have crossed the Ulanga River near Mahenge, -"We inflicted severe losses on the Germansretreating towards Mahenge," continues the statement. "We and firmly established at Tunduru. Nearly 40Q Germans. surrendered at Ii;akera, northeast of Kilossa, to the colored South Africans, who had invested Ma- kera." Cut out rhubarb seed stalks when- ever seen, and thus throw all the strength into the plant, -'i WESTERN, GRAIN CROP HARVESTED A despatch from Winnipeg says:--- A ays:-A violent storm from the north, ac- companied by heavy lain squalls, is driving over Manitoba, but tempera, tures remain higher. This is the first real interruption to what has been the most successful harvest and thrashing season of recent record. The entire grain crop of Manitoba is safe. This includes fields of oats that farmers even when they sowed them had no expectation would turn out other than green feed. Quite as remarkable as the con- tinued fine weather has been the sin- gular immunity from killing frosts - ox, indeed, from frosts of any kind. In this district cucumber beds are still untouched, Slight frosts are recorded in Al- berta, but the crop is long past the danger point there. In fact, never before in the crop history of the Can- adian prairie West has there been such a minimum of frost damage. An- other favorable feature is the optim- istic tone of thrashing reports. ANOTHER LOAN IN NOVEMBER, A despatch from Ottawa says: The fourth domestic war loan will be float- ed in November and will' probably be for $100,000,000, and at a rate which will net the subscribers nearly six per cent., although the definite amount and terms Will not be known for some weeks. Sir Thomas White stated on Thursday that between now and No- vember a nation-wide organization would be instituted to make the loan a success, STUBBORN AME IS RACING 4 OF r ON TABLELAND NDj %� S Z%� S11 tU �L'i1��►.7'�KaL'nA Italian Troops Under Gen. Cadorna Push Enemy Beyond the Chiapovano Valley. The Italian offensive has assumed a character of greater vigor on ' the tableland of Bainsizza, and is pushing the enemy beyond. the Chiapovano Val- ley. The enemy has tried several diversions at the east of Gorizia and on the hills between Santa Catarina and San Marco, all of these attempts being utterly defeated. ' Farther south the Austrians under- took repeated counter-attacks in great numbers, with no result. - Major Moraht, conunenting in Tho Pester Lloyd, says the dash of General Cadorna's army in the recent battle of the Isonzo has surpassed anything at- tempted before. Markets of the World greadstutts 7.ntonto;.Sept 1 -Manitoba wheat-- Noy 1 Northern $0.24; No., 2, 00, 82.2111 No 9, 30, 82.18; No, 4 Wheat, $2.05, in t2(1onitobatoppe.ccP.No.21C.W., 6420, do store Port 13'1111am, nominal, American corn --No. 2.,yellow, nominal, track Toronto. Ontario oats -N0, 2 whlto, 60c, nomi- nal No, 3, do„ 000, nominal, according to freights outside, Ontario wheat -New, No. 2, $2,15 to $z ,20 n c rC O' dln g to freights gins oaiside. '..1'cas-NtitnJnal. Bat.lev-A1'altfng, new, $1,20 to 61.22, exeording to freights outside. Rye -No, 2. nominal, Manitoba Pour -First Patent8, in jute flags, 8;1,90; 3nd, do., $11,40; etrong bakers', do, $11, Toronto, Ontario flour -Winter, according to, mamma, e10.20; ,now, do„ $10.20, in. bags, traelt, Teronto prompt ahlp'nent. M111Yeed---Car lots-Uel!vered Mont,: real freights, bags included, bran, Per ton, $85; shorts, do., $42; middlings, do„ $45 to 040; good feed flour, per bag, $3.25. 1Sa --Ne. 1, new, per tone $11.00 to 011.50; mixed, do„ $8 to $0.50, traek To- ronto. Straw -Oar 1010, per ten, $7 to $7.52, traok Toronto, Country Produce --Wholesale. Butter-Ct•eamely,_,sollds, per lb, 39 to 392o; prints, per 1b„ 394 to 400 dairy, per lb., 33 to 340. xggs-•-per doz., 30 to 400. Wholesalers are selling to the retail. trade at the following prices r Cheese -New, large, 223 to 23o; twins, 223 to 294o; triplets, 23 to 2880; old, ,largo, 300; twins, 304c; triplets, 3020. Motto, -Fresh dairy, choice, 89 to 40.0' creamery prints, 13 )o 44o; solids, 42 to 420, 17ggs-New laid, In cartons, 52 to 54c; out of cartons, 46 to 400. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 26 to 30e;• fowl, 20 to 220; squabs, per doz., $4 to $4.50; turkeys, 25 to 30o; ducks, Spring, 22e, Live poultry -Spring chickens, lb„ 20 to 22c; hens, 12 to 20o; ducks, Spring, 17c. Honey -Comb -Extra fine and heavy weight, ner dor $2.75; seleot, 32.50 to $2,75; No. 2, $2 to $2,25• tins, 24'e and 6's, les per lb; 10's, 151c; 60's, •143 to 150.. Beans -No Canadian beans on market until last of October; imported, hand- picked, 08,60 per bush; Limas, per 1b., 16 to 16e, - Potatoes, on track -Ontario, bag, $2.16 Provisions -Wholesale Smoked meats-FIams, medium 30 to 31c; do„ heavy, 20 to 270; cooked, 41 to 42c; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 36 to 400; backs, plain, 37 to 88o; bone- less, 40 to 42c, Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27 to 273c Ib; clear bellies, 263 to 270. Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 250 to 26c; tubs, 253 to 263c; nails, 26 to 202c; compound pails 2s1 to 213c.21c; tube, 202 Montreal Markets Montreal, Sept." 11 -Oafs -Canadian Western, No. 2, 76 to 76c; No. 3, 74 to 76o; extra No. 1 feed, 74 to 76o, Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts $12;' seconds, $11.50;strong bakers', $11.80 Winter patents, choice, $t.2; straight rollers, 011.60 to $1180; do., bags, $6.60 to $5.75. Rolled oats- Bbis $8.35 to $9; do., _Rolled 90 lbs., 04,80 to, $4.40. Bran, $36. Shorts, 340. Middlings, 548 to $60. Montilla, $66 to $60. IIay-No, 2, per ton, car lots, $0.50 to $10. Cheese -Finest Western, 213c; finest Lanterns, 2180. Butter -Choices creamery, 413 to 42c; seconds, 4033 to 41c, Eggs -Fresh, ' 62. to 63c; .selected, 48o; No, 1 stock, 44c; No, 2 stook, 38 to 40c. Potatoes -Per bag, oar lots, $2.16 to $2.26. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg Sept-. 11 -Cash quotations 11 -Wheal 'o, 1 Northern, $2,22; No. 2 Northern, $2.21; No, 3 Northern, $2.16; No. 4, $2.05; No. 6 $1.80; No. 0. $1.02; feed $1.55. .Oats-i'9o. 2 C.W„ 645o; No. 3 C.W., 683c; extra No, 1 feed, 6330; No. 1 feed, 6060 No. 2 feed, 598c. Bar- ley -No. 3, $1,18; No.. 4, $1.14; rejected and feed, $1.10. Flax -No. '1 N.W.C., $3.818; No. 2 C,W., $3.213. 'United States Markets Minneapolis, Sept, 11 -Flour -Fancy patents, 26c. lower, quoted at $11.50; other grades- unchanged Bran -$28 to 422. Corn -No, 8 yellow, 02.08 to 32.10. Oats -No. 3 white, 563 to 664c. Flax - 08.313 to .$8:963. Duluth, Sept. 11 -Linseed, $3.804; Setiteinber, $3.890 asked; October, $3,393 asked; November, 03,82 bid; December, $3.34 bid, - Live Stook M- arkets Toronto Sept. 11 -Extra choice heavy steers, 511.00 to $12.40; choice heavy steers, $10.00 to $11; butchers' cattle, cboice,...$10 to $10.50; do„ good, $0.40 to $9.76; do., •medium, $$.75 to '00; do., common, 37 to $7.35; butchers' bulls, choice, $8.35 to 09.75; do„ good bulls, $7.60 to $3; do., medium 'bulls, $7 to $7.25; d0., rough bulls, $5.00 t0 0.00; butchers' cows, choice, $3.25 to $8.50; do. good, $7,25 to $7,75; do„ medium $6.65 to $6.85; stockers, $7.25 to $3.50 feeders, $8 to $9.25; cankers and cutters 16.26 to 26,26; milkers, good to choice, 80 to $125; do„ coni, andmed., $40 to 50; spungera, $80 t0 $125;: light ewes, 10 to $11:50; sheep, heavy,6 to 7.50; yearlings, $11 to $11.60• calves, good to choice, $14 to 915.25; Sjpiing lambs, $15 to $16.60; hogs, fed and watered, $18.26; do„$17,25,eighed off cars, 818.60; do., 2.0.b., w Montreal, Sept, 11-0113eice steers, $10,25 to $10.76• good, $9.75 to $10; lower grades, s8 to 33.50; butchers' cows, $0 to $8; bulls, 06.76 to $8.75; bulls, $6.15 to $6.25; cows, 05 to $6,25; Ontario lambs, 014.50 to $14,75; Quebec lambs, 312..75 to $13.75• sheep, .$8.60 to 9.50; ohotee milk -fed calves, $13 to 14; good, $11 to $12; grass-fed stook 3,00 to $10; selected bogs, $17.26 to 17.76; rough and heavy -weights, g 1 - e 10,25. 6.7G t $ GERMANS BEATEN ' - IN EAST AFRICA Defeated All Along the Line, Says Report Heaehing London. London, Sept. 9. -Defeats for the •m all Ge' 1 t, ai s along tio line JtGor Germann East Africa are reported in an offi- cial statement to -day. Tho text reads: "Telegraphing on September 8 the General. Officer ,commanding in chief in East Africa reports that on that day the enemy resistance at Mpondas, fifty-three miles south of Mallenge, was overcome and all the German po- sitions were occupied. Our troops are in pursuit. "Belgium columns have passed the Ulanga River, moving towards Ma- hengefrom the north. A German force, driven successively from Mpe- pus, sixty-five miles southwest of Ma- henge, and from Malinje, eighteen miles north north-east of Mpetos, re- tired southeastward and is being pur- seed by our columns from Lupembe. "In the southern area the German forces dislodged from Tumburu has retreated towards Liwale. It is re- ported that at present there are no German forces in Portuguese. Nyasa- land south of the Royuma River." MORE- ADVANCE -BY CANADIANS Area Within Lens Still Remain- ing in German Hands is Further Reduced. A despatch from Canadian Head- quarters in France, says: -Another of the small surprise attacks which al- most nightly reduce the area within Lens still remaining in the enemy's hands took place 'at 3,30 this (Theirs - day) morning and resulted in the cap- ture of a row of houses occupied by four companies of the First Regiment, First 'Guar'd' Reserve Division.' Men from British Columbia, accustomed in civil life' to finding their way about, did the work, and. did it well, sustain- ing few casualties themselves while inflicting a considerable number on the enemy. TEUTONS ABANDON COUNTER-ATTACKS , - Austrians Remain on the Defen- sive en Isonzo Front. A despatch from Udine, Italy, says About 30,000 prisoners have been tok- en to date by the Italians in their pre- sent offensive, while the total losses of the Austrians are estimated at 120,000. The Austrian plan now seems to be to abandon counter-attacks and remain on the defensive along the eastern ridge of the Bainsizca pla- teau, where their positionsr-3uch as Cercek, Drags and Volnik, about 1,000 feet high, dominate those occu- pied by the Italians by several hun dl•ed feet, at the same time centrin the efforts of their best troop on the Carso in the hope -of checking the slow but determined march of th Italians towards Trieste. 25 PER CENT. OF OUR BACON STILL REQUIRED BY BRITAIN GERMANS. . SEARCH out. BOSPJTACS • AS OBJECTJVS• FOR BOMBING Travel Considerable Distances to Carry Out Policy of Night Raids on the Hospitals. A. despatch from London says i•-- of excellent work, One otfieer of the Perry Robinson, telegraphing on. Fri- American army medical corps was day, sa s,"TheG, Germane s e ' t in killed ym n persist pandthree wounded. iv i to Five t ix famutt iI s policy of night,raids on American numbers of the .staid were; hospitals, of which I have already told also wounded, besides ten patients, you, and which 8risonel's confess to be two of the latter Having sines died, It deliberate, must be clearly understood that the "In one of their latest raids they Germans do not merely not seek to selected a series of hospitals near the avoid hospitals in their night raids. coast, of which two are American. They purposely search them out and They dropped three bombs on the Iia,- travel considerable distances to bomb vaid Hospital, which' has been a -point them. FIGHT RENEWED r IN VERDUNSECTOR AUGUST RETURNS ARE FROM OLD SCOTIAND NOTES OF INTE1tEST F1BQ111 UER BANNS AND 13RAES. What is ` Going On in the highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia, The Military Cross has been award- ed to Captain George Robertson Lipp, son of G. Lipp, chentiet, h'ochaber, The land owned by the Duke of Sutherland has an acreage ef'1,850,- 545, and gives an income of £141,607, A discharged soldier named Lough, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, rescued two ladies from drowning re- cently at Spittal. ' Another £100 has been sent by the Edinburgh Red 'Cross stall to the Lord 'P'rovost's Fund, • which now amounts to 43,850. Four thousand and fifty-six fat T cattle were sold during a recent week in the Caithness markets, and realiz- Strong Attacks by Crown Prince ed high prices, Smashed by Petain's Armies. John Kele has resigned the chair- manship of the Aberdeen School London, Sept. 9, -Again the French Board, and has boon appointed man - and the Germans are engaged in ex- ager of the Blind Institute, tremely heavy fighting in the Verdun commenting on the week's losses from Sergt. John Alexander, of the Cana - sector, with the Germans trying to re submarines and mines, says the total diens, and a son of Wm. Alexander, coup their losses of the end of last losses of all vessels, including fishing North' Watten, won the Military Med- week en the right bank of the Meuse, vessels, for August, shows the low - but with General Petain's forces hold- est average. He adds; "There is a al at ernVimRidge. ing them back almost everywhere and manifest decided hill in submarine ae- Robert McGowan, of Elgin, who covering the ground with their diad. Levity, due, it is hoped, to the increas- has taken up military duty; was pre- en effectiveness of the measures talc- $cited with .a substantial cheque by Over a front of nearly two miles the g a number of his friends, Germans Sunday morning, following en to deal with the U-boats. Whether An additional war bonus of three unsuccessful attacks Saturday' night in the submarine effectiveness has reach- shillings a week has been granted the sector of the Bois des Fosses and ed its maximum is an important point, to the sergeants and constables of the Bois des Caurieres, returned to There is no evidence in these statistics Elgin, and to the county police force. the fray with renewed vigor, especial- upon which a conclusion may be According to the Edinburgh Ob- ly around Hill 344. At some points based either way. The fluctuations of servatory, on the warmest day this French trenches were captured by the the five weeks of August do not show year, so far, the thermometer regis- Germans, but from these later they that there is a progressive diminution tered 78 degrees in the shade. were driven out and the French lines in the number. of, vessels sunk which Captain the Hon. Ronald Ion Mac - were entirely re-established. In the might give substantial hope that we Donald, Cameron Highlanders, and fighting around the Bois des Fosses have seen'the worst. son of Lord and Lady MacDonald, Saturday night the Germans left near- There- are still many signs that Skye, ha's been awarded the Croix de ly 1,000 dead on the ground before the nature and extent of the danger is Chevalier. the French positions. not fully realized, Its most acute The St. j awrence Cricket Club have phase may not yet have been reached. very kindly placetheir new cricket the number of she s they claim edoandi at the disposal c oral of'the -wound- RITES GAIN to have sunk." p soldiers at the V.A.D. Hospital. A goodly sum was realized at a NE �T concert given by the children .of the till AR 4J TI THE BLUSHING ENGLISH112AN. Montpelier and Viewforth district of Edinburgh, in aid of the British Red Does the World's Greatest Deeds But Foss Slight Advance North-East of Hates To Be Praised For It. Sergt: Major Wm, Cameron, of the Gordons, and a native of Dyce, re St. Julien -.Bombardment' One of the Englishman's greatest carved the D.C,M. and the French In Flanders. One is his impatience of praise, . Military Medal for gallantry in the London, Sept, 9. -At vareons points He hates;`gush." You may black- field. on the front held by Field Marshal guard himtraduce him, say nasty Through the aid of the Courant things to him. He rather likes it; he Fund, eight thousand of the poor and Haig the British troops have deliver- smiles and goes on with his job, You destitute children of Edinburgh were ed successful attacks, especialer-ly may even declare yourself his implac- given one of the brightest days that north-west of St. Quentin, whore Gable enemy. If you don't actually be- come into their lives. man positions on a front of several gin shooting, he won't turn a hair. He ' The last execution of et Scotch hundred yards were captured and is -slow to quarrel. He would much witch took place at Dornoch-in 1792, prisoners taken. North-east of St, rather play cricket. He is tremend- and the sentence' was pronounced by Julien the British lines were slightly ously self-contained and just a trifle the 'Sheriff Depute, Captain David advanced, In Flanders the British unimaginative. Bat begin to praise Ross, of Little' Dean. guns are still roaring in the mighty hint -he will blush like a schoolgirl. Miss Oag, of Thrumster Little, has bombardment that has been in pro caught writing a love -letter, and tell collected in that district one hull - grass for more than a fortnight, but you to "chuck it, and not be such a dyed and fotu'teen dozen of eggs, as yet the infantry,has not been .loos- blighted idiot!" which she has sent to wounded sol- ed for the impending dash into the en - He waters the desert; he bridges diers in the military hospitals at emy territory\ the ocean; he founds mighty g y young Aberdeen and Cromarty. nations destined to 'rule the world; he GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET sets the pace of the world; he keeps AN AEROPLANE UNDER FIRE.' STEAMING ACROSS THE BALTIC the reins of a team of Empire which -. U -Boat Statistics For Month Show Lowest Average. A despatch from London says: The London Times naval correspondent, Stockholm, Sept. - 9. - -It is reported s by the Svenska Dagbladet that Ger- man naval forces of considerable e strength have been observed in the Southern Baltic, taking a northerly course. The leading squadron, it says, consists of submarines and torpedo boats, with cruisers following. It is believed to be the German Baltic fleet, reinforced by part of the high seas fleet. A great naval attack on Russian Baltic coast towns is expected, BRITAIN INDF.yj?ENDENT OF FOREIGN FOODSTUFF London, Sept. 9. -Baron Rhondda, the Food Controller, in an interview with the London correspondent of the Amsterdam Hanclelsblad, declares that the subrnal•ine campaign is no longer causing anxiety regarding England's bread supply. "In o,neieespoct," i emarkod the Food Contedller, "the submarine. campaign is a blessing. It has acted as a stimulus to cultivation, so that within a year the United Kingdon( will be practically independent of imports, so far as the chief foodstuffs are con- ceroid," A despatch from Ottawa says -A statement from the Food Controller's office says: '""Great Britain and ou1 allies still require at least 25 per cent. of Canada's output of bacon, which will be purchased through the Government buying agency established in the United States for the purchase of Canadian and American bacon, butter, ham and lard. A glance it: the fol- lowing figures will show what Canada has already done; Canadian export of ham, to the United Kingdom, France end Italy in pounds for fiscal years ending March 31st: 1913 36,032;597 1914 23,620,861 1915 72,041,209 1916 144,228,501 11947 207,284,673 LLOYD GEORGE'S ARMAGEDDON. A despatch from Birkenhead, .Eng.; says: In the „course 'of a notable speech here on Friday, Premier Lloyd George said: "The war began in the East and not in the West," said. Mr. Lloyd George. "Russia wo.s the first in, be- cause she undertook to champion the cause of Serbia. France was brought in heeause she had undertaken a solemn treaty obligation to stand by `Russia in case of an attack. Belgium was brought in because site was on the direct road to France, Great Bri- tain was brought in because she 'had given her word to defend Belgium." • S TROOPS AT THE FRONT WANT. MORE MEN SENT G tr A despatch from Londarl says :- en, Ser Arthur Currie says that the stops in the field want more sten, whether it be by conscription or raised by voluntary methods. So far the morale of the Canadian troops has been well maintained, stat- ed. the General, by the knowledge that reinforcements are always forthcom- ln the los th lat to ce 70H Th be Mo AN A -L Bel Go van g. In 'the. last action our casualties re only one Third of the German ses, as we had accounted for 09 of eir battalions. The enemy had ely retaliated with numerous coun- r-attacks, but these had been sue- ss,fuliy met by new plans. ANKSGIVING DAY SET FO ,,.:OCTOBEli 8 A despatch from Ottawa says o date of Thanksgiving Day has en set by the Secretary of State fornday, October' B. • ETHER: AMERICAN - LOAN TO ALLIES despatch from Washington says: owns of $1.00,000,000 each to Great tain and France were made, by the vernment, bringing the total ad- ' Iced the Allies up to $2,266,400,000, THANKSGIVING DAY FILED FOR OCTOBER 1. Ottawa, Seltt. 0. -It is understood that Monday, October lst, has been named by the Government as Thanks- giving Day. a New Zealand has seven government forest nurseries, the output of which varies front 2,,00,000 to 0,000,000 trees annually, Prisoners From Russian Front Captured by the Italians Udine,- Italy, Sept, 9. -Violent storms have transformed peaceful streams into torrents, torrents into rivers and plains into lakes of mud on the Isonzo front. Notwithstanding these conditions the cannonade con- tinues, while raiding parties snake dar- ing dashes to snatch minor positions from the enemy, Each party brings back a certain number of prisoners belonging to regiments just arrived from the Russo -Rumanian front. 'Some Austrian gunners who have been cap- tured declare they have been brought hero from the western front. RUMANIANS AGAIN REPULSE ATTEMPTS TO PIERCE FRONT. A despatch from London says: 'An official Rumanian communication slat- ed Septa 4 reports an enemy attempt to break through the Rumanian front between Varnitza . and Monastirora, which was repulsed after fleece fight- ing. would run away with any other driver; One of the Most Spectacular Effects of the Whole War. As the sun sank lower and lower in the west, says Dr. William Boyd in With a Field Ambulance at Ypres, the ominous pall of smoke that hung over the town took on the most glorious colors, deep orange and gold, fading away at the margins into darkest Pur- ple. In the meantime an aeroplane had been coming up behind us, and con- tinued to make for the German lines, soon dwindling to a mere black clot against the brilliant blue of, the sky. Suddenly, in a flash, in .the twinkling of an eye, `a little white ball about the size of your hand appeared against that brilliant blue close to the aeroplane. One moment there was nothing except the immense blue dome, the next, although you heard nothing or saw nothing comings -there was that little fleecy cloud hanging high in mid-air. That is one of the most spectacular effects in the whole war. When you have been out here for some time you are likely to grow somewhat blase, but the sight of an aeroplane being shell- ed never loses its fascination, The , appearance of the first puff of pure white shrapnel smoke against the deep blue of a cloudless sky is one of the most dramatic things you can imag- ine. The aeroplane was travelling at a good speed and soon there was a long String of little white clouds to mark its course. Now and then we lost sight of it and would fear that it had been hit, but on listening intently we could hear the faint drone of the en- gine coming down from the great height. Suddenly it made an abrupt, right-angled turn, thus indicating the position, of the hostile battery that it had been observing, and a moment la- ter our big guns began to speak, All round us wore hyacinths and speed- wells and forget-me-nots, and the red un was sinking ,in golden splendor in the west. And still the: shrapnel buret round .the aeroplane, and 'still those rest colo n of bi g m s b acls smoke rolled. up from burning Ypres. Tho effect of this garden 'campaign annot be overestimated, It has .nt� roared production beyond the wildest lr'tanis of its -x1`O Y.2t213 $• s a big factor.114 the food propared- 066 programme. - and upset the chariot of the Common- wealth; but he hates to be told about it. If he makes runs, it's all right; if he's bowled out first ball, he waits for the next innings, and tries to get the other man out. He sometimes overdoes this kind of sang froid, and is misunderstood in consequence. He loves to pose as a bit of a slacker," but when it comes to doing things no other man on the globe can beat him. --y BRITISH AIRMEN BOMBARD CONSTANTINOPLE RAILWAY A despatch from London says :- British naval aeroplanes penetrated far inland in Turkish territory Sunday night, dropping bombs on the city of Adrianople,about 137 miles north- west norbh wast of Constantinople, says, an of- ficial statement. The main line of the Belgrade -Con- stantinople railway, part of the Ber- lin -to -Bagdad route, passes through Adrianople. To Test Diamond The public is frequently deceived in precious stones, leading a prominent diamond merchant to publish the fol- lowing test: When a diamond is quite clean and dry place on the surface a tiny drop of water, and then take a needle or pin and try to move the drop about, If the diamond is genuine the drop can be rolled about intact. On the other hand, where the gem is an-. imitation the water spreads directly it is touch- ed with the needle point. Test smelled diamonds with a tumbler of water. Into this put,the suspected article and examine its ep- pearance. A real diamond' will show up in the water with starlting clear- ness, and it can never be confound- ed with the water. On' the outer hand, the imitation looks indefinite and. it is sometimes difficult to see it at all. When cooking vegetables have the water boiled where turned over then; let then(.boil briskly for a short time; then torn down the gas as low as pos- sible, or set bn `top of the stove, and still have the boiling going on evenly, The vegetables will be better, cooked s and that nerve reeking sensation of 1 Water boiling over eliminated.