The Seaforth News, 1918-01-17, Page 2BRILLIANT OPERATION BY
THE BRITISH TROOPS
Attack. on Eight Mile Front Gained Greater Part of Baliceourtl
aucl the Western Section of Roeux.
Londo11, May 13. -Concentrated on
a front of seven or eight miles the
British troops during Friday night
and Saturday morning macre a bril-
liant attack on the Hindenburg line
from Bullecourtnorth across the.Arras-
Cambrai road to the north of the
• Scarpe east of Fampoux. The troops
established themselves in Bullecourt,
where hundreds of prisoners were
taken; ; and continuingthe offensive on
Sunday after desperate fighting pos-
sessed themselves of most of the vil-
lage. A German position on the Ar-
ras-Cambrai road, about two-thirds of
a mile wide, as well as a mile and u
half pf trench system near Roeux have
been taken, and the British occupy the
western section of Roeux,
It is evident there is not much left
of the famous Hindenburg line which
HOSPITAL WINO
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CANADIAN
was broken at Vimy, broken at Vend -
Lillie, an the Cambrai- St, Quentin
Canal, broken by the French between
Lu Fere and St, Quentin, and lastly,]
broken at Bullecourt, What there is
left, however, is of wonderfully strong
construction and could not be taken
at once in n general assault, except at
such a terrible cost of lives that vie -
tory would be almost as disastrous as
defeat.
Bence General Hang's taking it
piecemeal, patiently and deliberately,
only after every "push" has been pre
ceded by artillery preparation which
has flattened out the Prussian de-
fences and abolished the communicat-
ing tranches so that the sten in the
forward dugouts have often been with-
out food or supplies .for two and three
clays at a time.
Markets of the World
ttroadutufls
Toronto. May 15, Manitoba wheat.._..
No (foetal (lu tat11(119
1Au11tobe cuts -.670 official quotations.
m:ole710 turn - -No. 3 yellow, $1.71.
nominal, subject to en111arge, track
mato,
nntolt, oats --No, 2 w7lto. 70 to 780,
nominal; No. 3 white, 76 to 77o, nominal,
according 10 freights outside
elft Lull wheat- -No. 2 Winter, per car
lot $2,98 to Moe; No, 11 do 78,1)0 to
52.9s, aecortling t, freights outside.
-''v,. 2, nominal, t1'oo'dittg 79
frolghty utsld.e,
l0t11s>- 9ntlting, $1.40 to $1,43, aural•
11a1. according to freights outside.
ayh-N. r$1.03 9 031$.09..
5, 710111nal.
Manitoba four-lelret patents, n
Jute
hal; s, 013.001 91,1,1(4 pat31111(. in luta
lag's,. 514.50; su'oug'. batters', in. jute
fags, 01< 10 Toronto.
01/19111 smut'--\vin1'v. aeonrdl ng to
sample. $12.50 to $12.10, in begs, track
Toronto, prompt shipment.
611llfe t--'1' i' lots, delivered Montreal
freights hags 111012ded --lana per ton,
$42; shorts per ton, $45; mtddlin9s, Per
11116, 3.10 Rood feed flour, per' bag, $3.011
1flour,
HIay-ilfitra No.per ton, 413 to 913;
mi+091, l0r 1011, $0 to 111.60, track To
1 oto,
h tr'ai ('ar lots, per ton, $8.60 to $9,
0131.00 Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale
1111tter -ih'esti dairy, choice, 30 to 400;
creamery prints, 43 to 46e; solids, 42 1.0
43c.
Eggs--'New-1atd, in cartons, 44 to 461;
1111 "l' cartons, 42c,
Dressed poultry--t'hlokons, 20 to 20o;
-^--^-------'^-- fowl, 24 to 25e; (hcks, 33 to 250; stlttab,t,
.per dozul, $4,00 to 04.60; turkeys, 30
321. 21o; twins,
Cheese -\'Iv, large 2-/. to
4 to 'i triplets, 3 to Me; old,
�}g large.:' k lu•4s, lit.
IN MACEDONIA JI vet ) t)ne, 147x; 3 99), 7 tins, 1.08
g tc IT. , lU tins, 90-10 10-1b, L31je; I;0 4e.
bullonr'y t, 9010 tins, 10 le 0081.
Comb honey -•esus ane 0111 heavy
weight, per doe., $2.75; select, $2.50 •to
$2,75; No. 2, 52 to $2,25.
Malde syrup -imperial gallon, 01.00 to
$1.75.
potatoes -On trach, Ontario, per bag,
$3.75 to $4.00; New Brunswick Dela-
. - ----------• wares, per bag, $4.25; Albertas, Per bas,
Institution. `��� - $9.00,
despatch from Landon says:- r1 despatch from London says:-
Aiving o Macedonia contingents of the Salonica
•pita] at
NEW OFFENSIVE
in of British Attack - on Four -Mile
Queen Officiates at Opening
Front and Occupy
New Section of Naval
n..r.,...-. Trenches.
.,
The inauguration of the new f With the advent of Spring weather in
the Haslet Royal active,. separate
Portsmouth on Wednesday by the army have become successesacthaving been scored on Wed -
Queen was the final achievement of a esday by the British, Serbian and
movement initiated at the outbreak of Russian forces.
war by certain Canadian ladies. Miss Attacking on a front of about four
Plummer, secretary of the Field Com -
miles in the Lake Doiran region, Brit -
forts, claims to have Trade the original miltroops on one wing, took Teutonic
suggestion for the hospital ship, and lob allied trenches on a front of two
which found the ready support of Mrs, miles and on the other flank advanced
Gooderram, Mts. Ellen Bruce and on a front of about a mile. At the
Lady Drummond, with the result that
$250.000 was collected. Of this $100,- Cerna bend the Russians carried sev-
000 was handed to the War Office foe eral trenches by assault, while north
Military use. Another amount was
devoted to the building of a wing to
the Chatham Naval Hospital and the
balance to Hasler. As the author-
ities decided against the hospital ship
the scheme for provinding a hospital
for naval nurses was accepted. This
new wing overlooking the most fam-
ous naval centre of Britain bears a
suitable inscription on behalf of the
women of Canada.
The opening ceremony by her Ma-
jesty was quiet but impressive, and
Sir George Perley's speech handing it
over, emphasized the magnitude of
the war work carried out by Canadian
women.
A considerable number of Cana-
dians availed themselves of the in-
vitation to travel on the Royal train
to Portsmouth, and they were favor-
ably impressed with this permanent
memorial of the Dominion's interest
in the welfare of the navy.
U.S. EXPERTS LEAVE
FOR RUSS CAPITAL
Every Assistance to Russian Railroads
Will Readily be Furnished
A despatch from Washington says:
-The United States Railroad Com-
mission to the Russian Government
left Washington on Wednesday for
Petrograd, where it will give as-
surances to the Russian national auth-
orities that this country stands ready
to furnish all the rolling stock and
other material that may be needed to
increase the capacity and efficiency
of the Russian and Siberian railroads.
U-BOAT "KILLER" IS ENDORSED.
Author of Gyroscope Submits Pian
That Amazes Naval Experts.
A despatch from Washington says:
It was learned Wednesday night on
unquestionable authority that the Na-
tal Consulting Board has submitted to
Secretary Daniels and his advisers a
definite and completed plan to cope
with the German U-boats which has
proved a revelation to the best tech-
nical brains in the service here.
of Monastir the Serbians occupied two
points of support and took a few
prisoners. A Serbian official state-
ment, dated May 9, reports violent
artillery duels along the whole Ser-
bian front. The Bulgarians bombard=
ed Monastir with asphyxiating shells,
the statement adds. A number of
civilians were killed.
STEEL SHIPBUILDING
DIRECTOR CHOSEN
W. L Gear Appointed by the Imperial
Munitions Board -Govt.
Action Expected
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
The Imperial Munitions Board an-
nounced on Wednesday night that W.
I. Gear of the Robert Reford Com-
pany, Montreal, has been appointed
to take charge, under the board, of
steel merchant ship construction in
Canada for the British Government.
Mr. Gear will establish an office at
Ottawa, and will at once assume the
duties of his position. It is under-
stood that Sir Robert Borden on his
return to Canada will at once take up
the question of further stimulating
shipbuilding in Canada, this being one
of the most important phases of
Canadian co-operation in war work
urged by the Imperial authorities in
London.
ALLIED MACHINE
IS IRRESISTIBLE
A despatch from - Rome says:-
Rudyard Kipling, who has been at the
• f:.nt in France, and Las been making
a short stay in Rome, compares the
British army to a machine working so
perfectly that no human power can
arrest it. He expresses the greatest
admiration for the work of the French
and British, which, he says, the Ger-
mans are now powerless to check. The
1 ses-the heaviest in history -which
the have incurred b their efforts t
y Y o
do so, must end, he says, in affecting �,iy a
the morale both of the army and the EMO ED
civil population of Germany.
Beans --Imported, hand-picked, per
bushel, $7,00; Canadian, hand-t'leked,
per bushel, $7.76 to $3,00: Canadian
Pr111190. per bushel, $7,50; Limas, per lb,
18 to 15o,
"10kedErovisioats� Hamss,olenale medium, 29 to
300; do heart, 25to 90c; cooked, 40 to
41e; rolls, 1 to 27e; breakfast bacon. 30
to 35c; backs, plain, 31 to 36e; boneless,
30 to 3So.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 209 to 253c;
tubs, 263 to 349e; pulls, 2577 to 270; 0001-
poand, tierces 2077 to 203o; tubs, 208 to
209c; pails, 20!1 to 21c.
Cured meats-I,ong clear bacon, 24 to
25o per lb; clear bellies, 24 to 250,
Montreal Markets
Mon treat. lie v 15.--oats-C'n nod la0
Western, No, 2, S7 to SS0; No, 3, S6 to 870;
extftd No. 1 •eed, 80 to 870. 170 1,77---
\lanitubtt 1'ee,l, $1.19 to $1.20. 1611/.-
11r
111,'_
i0anitoba Spring wheat patents, flrsta,
$16.10; se0onds, $14,00; strong bako•s',
$14,40; Whiter patents, choice, $14.50;
bstraighags, $6,76 to t rollers, $14,00 to 814.99; do.
$19.90. Rogsd oats-
Bb1s.,ii3.60 to $8.75; do, bags, 00 08.,
84,26 to $4.50. Bran, 843. Shorts,
$0S 0. to $57ntgs, $43 0 450. ]ton, lie,
2 $57, Has -No. 2, per ten, car
lots, 518 to $13.60. Butter -Choicest
crean101'Y, 429e; seconds, 41 to 4130. 23998
-1'resit, 44c; No. 1 stuck, 420. T'ota=
toes -Per bag, car' lots, 83.75 to $4.00.
Winnipeg Grana
W 111111pc9, May 15. -Cash prices; -
Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 92.94; No, 2
Northern, 2.01: No. 3 Northern, 82. S0;
No, 4, 78.74: No. 6, $2.49•. No. 6, $1.90;
feed, 91.46. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 315c; No.
3 C.W., 789c; extra No, 1 feed 782e. Bar-
ley -No. 3, $1.29• No, 4, $1.24; rejected,
$1.02; teed, •
61..03, 19ax-No. 1 N.W.C.,
83,39$; Nu, 2 O.W., $3.80; No. 3 C.
03.101.
CROP REPORT OF
THE Ng ANION
`'inter -frilled Wheat Area Esti-
mates Are Given,
Ottawa, Mal/ 13. -:rhe first crop
relied of the present veneer). Is-
sued 'Saturday by the Census and Sta-
tistie Office relates to the area and
condition of the fall wheat crop, the
eonditiou of hay and clover meadows
at the end of the winter and the pro -
gross of spring seeding, as reported
Uy eon' ospondents at the encs of April.
The area estimated to bo sown to
winter wheat last fell is 813,400 acres,
of whioh 656,500 sieves are in On-
tario, 105,700 acres in Saskatchewan,
38,000 acres in Alberta, 8,000 ne1ee in
Manitoba and 6,200 acres in British
Columbia. In Ontario the proportion
of the area reported to be winter-
killed is 25 per cent,, in Manitoba 14
per cent., in Alberta 15 per cent,, and
in British Columbia 8 per cont. No
report on the winter -]tilling of fall
wheat is available for Saskatche-
wan, but as the proportions on the
two neighboring Provinces of Manito-
ba and Alberta 1100 14 and 15 per
cent. respectively, it is assumed that
the proportion of 15 per cent, also ap- 1
plies to Saskatchewan.
The result is a total estimated de-
struction through winter -killing of
187,000 acres of fall -sown wheat, or
23 per cent. This proportion is larger
than in any of the two previous years,
when, however, the amount of winter -
killing was exceptionally low, being
,not more than about six per cent. in
each year.
BLOODY BATTLES
IN MACEDONIA
French Troops Brilliantly Carry
Position to the South
of Huma.
.A despatch from London says: On
the lengthy front in Macedonia the
Entente forces continue their offensive
with success between Doiran and the
Cerna River. The British have check-
ed Bulgarian attacks south-west of
Doiran, and hold their recently -gained
positions with a tenacious grip.
West of Doiran and west of the
Vardar River French troops have car-
ried by storm an important position
south of Hama on the Serbo-Greek
border and withstood violent counter-
attacks by the Bulgarians. Twenty
miles to the west, and also near the
border, the Serbians have captured
two Bulgarian works north of Pojar.
IIn addition to inflieting heavy losses
on the Germans and the Bulgarians,1
the Entente forces in the Macedonian'
theatre on Thursday and Friday cap-
tured 300 prisoners.
Vatted States Markets
Minneapolis, May 15. -Wheat, May,
53.02; July, $2.719. Casae No. 1 ]card,
55,201 to $3.339; No. 1 Northern. 73.019
to 55.167. Corn, No, 3 yellow, 51.504 to
$1.534, Oats, No. 3 white, 708 to 729c.
Flour, fancy patents, 3116.10; first clears,
914,00; other grades unchanged. Bran,
034.50 to $35.00.
Duluth, May 15.-Wltent, No. 1 hard,
$3,23; No. 1 Northern, $3,20 to $3.23;
No, 3 Northern, $9.15; May, $3.20; July,
$2,239 asked. Linseed, $3,60; May, $3.59;
July, 83.09; September, $1.418; October,
43,30. •
Ydve Stock Markets
Toronto, May I5, -Extra 0110100 steers,
12.00 to 915.56; choice heavy steers,
11.35 t0 $$11,70; 90018 heave• steers,
10.50 to $10 76; butcho•s' cattle, choice,
5' 1 60 to $11.76; do., goad, $10.50 to
$11,00; do., medium, 50.75 00 $10,00; do„
conunol, $5,86 to $9.16; butchers' bulls,
choice, 010.50 to $11.00; do., Medium
gbulls, 78.50 to 59.00; do., rough bulls,
310,000 10 $6.50;
butchers'
$9.. 0o1 to
0000.75; 110., medlari',`$7.00 to 87.26; stock-
ers, 57,60 to $0,00; feeders, $9.50 to
$10.25; canners and cutters, $6,50 to
86,25; milkers, good to cltoloe, $06.00 to
$125; do., cont and 11100., acct, 840 to
$00.00; springers, $60,00 to $1.10.00; light
eees, $12.00 to $1fi.00; sheep, heavy,
$3,50 to $10,00; calves, good to choice,
012,010 to $13.00; splin9 lambs, each,
J4.'5 to 814,60; ls.mbs, choice, 514.50 to
16.25; dn„ medium, $10,60 to $12.60
11090, fed and watered, 510.80 to $17.00
do„ weighed off cars, $17.10 to 817,25
810,15 tolls() ,40•
.Montreal, tial• .-Choice steers,
512.26 to 212.713.
good, $'111!.7E to 512;
lower grades, $9.76; butchers' cows, 50 ,
to 511; bulls, $10 to 511.76; calves, $6.60
to $11; spring lambs, 58 to $12; old
sheep, 510 to $11; selected hogs 517,76
to $13. -
VICIOUS FIGHTING CONTINUES
AT FRESNOY AND B BLLLCOURT
British Take Another Portion a the German Trenches Defending
Lens and its Coal Fields.
A despatch from London says: The
Germans are keeping up with great in-
tensity their offensive against the Bri-
tish around Fresnoy and to the east
of Bullecourt, but are being hard held
by Field Marshal Haig's forces. The
village 'of Fresnoy apparently remains
in the hands of the Germans after its
recapture Tuesday, but the Canadians
and South Englanders are stili holdinti
vantage points around it, from which
the Germans are vainly endeavoring
to expel them and put an end to their
harassing fire.
To the east of Bullecourt, where the
British have established themselves a
Scant two miles from the outskirts of
Quoant, the Gellnans are striving
hard to push hack the British to pre-
vent the capture of the southern end
of the Drocourt-Queant line, which
would prove of great menace to
the important town of Gambrel. The
Viciousness of the battle is indicated
by the German official communication,
which announces that the fight for the
village is of a fluctuating nature.
The British evidently have pushed a
step forward toward the capture of
the town of Lens, and the important
coal fields in its immediate vicinity.
South of the Soucllez River during a
night attack another portion of the
German front and support lines, to-
gether with a number of prisoners,
was captured.
For the most part the line where
the French are faring the Germans
is undergoing a period of comparative
calm, except for artillery duels and
small German counter-attacks, Bono
of the latter of which met with sue -
0e58,'
FIOM COMMAND
Famous Russian General Ts
Superceded on the
Northern Front.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
General Ruszky has been removed
from the chief command of the army
on the northern front. IIe remains,
however, a member of the Council of
War.
The Moscow executive committee of
the Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele-
gates is opposed to the idea of a coali-
tion Government, and advocates the
immediate summoning of an all -Rus-
sian congress of soldiers' and work-
men's delegates,
The Provisional Government will,
however, insist on coalition in order
to force the Socialists to share in the
responsibility of the government of
the country. They have repeated the
appeal recently issued warning the
people against anarchy and civil war,
with a possible return to despotism,
"Cali she he 5ee1?" sniggered Kath-
leen. Shure, an 01 think she can;
she's six feet high, and four feet widel
Can she be seen? Sorra a bit of any-
thing 1100 can ye see whin she's about."
BAL OUR WELCOMED
IN NEW YORK
British Commissioner Was Im-
pressed by Wholehearted
Enthusiasm.
A despatch from New York says:-
Arthur••James Balfour, Great Britain's
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
and members' of the British commis-
sion accompanying him to this coun-
try, received a welcome of amazing
proportions on their arrival from
Washington late on Friday. Mr. Bal-
four wasso impressed by what he
termed the "whole -hearted exhibition
of enthusiasm" everywhere, that later
in a speech at the City Hall he assert-
ed if those on the other side of the
Atlantic could have had. a glimpse of
it, there would be renewed determina-
tion to carry through the struggle at
all sacrifices.
LOAN FOR BELGIUM
FROM UNITED STATES
Will Remove Heavy Burden From
Great Britain and France.
A despatch from Washington says:
-The United States has arranged to
make a loan of $75,000,000 to Belgium,
which will be expended by the Belgian
Relief Commission.
The loan will be advanced at the
rate of $12,500,000 a month, of which
$7,000,000 will be available for relief
in Belgium and $5,000,000 for relief in
Northern France,
By making the loan the United
States will take the burden of the re-
lief of Belgium and France from the
shoulders of Great Britain and France
and conduct it from this country so
far as possible,
BRITISH SHELL U-BOAT BASE.
Naval and Aerial Units Co-operate In
the Bombardment.
London, May 18,-A naval and
aerial bombardment of the Germain
submarine base of. Zeebrugge, on the
Belgian const, w110, according to re-
ports received here from Rotterdam,
the most destructive yet made by
British warships.
Two submarine sheds were blown
up. Sixty-three persons were killed
and upwards of a hundred othere were
taken to hospitals,
3,000,000TONS
OF S`WIIP S YEARLY
i
Pt'og;ram of British Shipping
111inilatel.• to Meet the Sub
Menace,
A• despatch %ram London sem-
During a discussion of the shipping
problem in the house of Lortls on
Thursday, Earl Curzon said that the
Admiralty had the first claim and the
first call on the national shipbuilding
r050118eos, The roma of the British
naval program, ho stated, would be
that after the war Great Britain's
naval tonnage would exceed the naval
tonnap,'a of all the other nations of the
world,
In making hi statement in the
Iloese of Lords, Lord Curzon an-
nounced that the program of the Min-
ister of Shipping provided for the alae,.
ation each year of mercantile shipping
aggregating 3,000,000 tens gross.
The Government, . said Lord Curzon,
W05 taking the most drastic steps in
its power to acquire merchant ships by
building or purchase, and after the
war, 11e predicted, tiro British mer-
cantile fleet would be equal to 01 -
ter that before the war,
Lord Curzon gave figures showing
that before the war the United King-
dom had 45.3 per cent. of the mer-
cantile shij'y1 under 1,000 tons each,
and 45.2 poi cent. in December, 1916,
In ships exceeding 1,600 tons each,
he said, the United Kingdom had in
Jane, 1914, 3,900 vessels of gross ton-
naage totalling 16,900,000 tons. The
corresponding figures in March, 1917,
he said, were 3,500 ships aggregating
nearly 16.000,000 tons.
If the Shipping Minister's program
w9.0 to be realized, it would be neces-
sary, he said, to provide an additional
100,000 workmen and to double the
weekly supply of steel, while, at the
same time, allowing. the present Ad-
miralty program to proceed.
ALLIES HOLD
RECENT GAINS
Attacking Germans Are Thrown
Back at All Points With
Heavy Losses.
A despatch from London says: -
Bitter attacks by the troops of Crown
Prince Rupprecht and the German
Crown Prince are being made against
the positions, vital to the defences of
Lens and Leon, held by the British
and French. Field Marshal Haig and
General Nivelle are holding their re-
cent gains and throwing back the at-
tacking Germans wit,, heavy losses.
South of the Souchez River, one of
the natural barriers to Lens, the Ger-
mans have made a third attempt to
recapture the positions taken by the
British Thursday, and for a third time
have been thrown back. A momentary
footing was won by Prince Rup-
precht's men, aided by liquid fire, in
the neer British positions, but a bril-
liant counter-attack recovered the lost
trenches and left the British line un-
changed.
ANOTHER MORAL TRIUMPH.
China's Victory Over Opium is Bright
Chapter in Her History.
Moral triumphs seem sometimes
very slow to win, and yet every day
brings one to its consummation.
At last the Indian opium traffic with
China has come to an end, and Britain
wipes out an old and ugly stain, and
the new republic is emancipated from
a great evil.
In 1907 the British Government en-
tered into an agreement with the
Chinese Government, fixing a ter
years' limit to the importation of Ito-
dian opium into China, and the ten
years expired on the 31st of March
last. China had herself more than
lived up to herpart of the bargain as
to the reduction of the cultivation of
the poppy and the consumption of
opium; in fact, the edict prohibiting
both was promulgated in 1906.
The story of the thrusting of opium
upon China makes a Clark chapter in
the history of Anglo -Chinese relations,
and there will be great satisfaction in
the fact that at last that chapter, as
far as may be, has been blotted out,
And China's victory over the opium
habit is certainly one of the most re-
markable and splendid chanters in
her history. The only parallel to it
in modern times has been Russia's vic-
tory over the drink evil.
ALLIES CAPTURE
50,000 TEUTONS
Total of 450 Guns Also Taken
in Spring Offensive,
A despatch from London says; The
recent partial success of the Germans
at Fresnoy, on the Arras front in
France, has not upset the British
plans of operation nor has it caused
eerprise, said. Major-General Freder-
ick B. Maurice, Chief Director of Mili-
tary Operations at the War Office, in
his weekly statement on Thursday.
As a matter of fact, the General add-
ed, the British Staff has been surprised
that the Germans have not suceeedod
before in making gains in view of tate
tremendous counter-attacks whiob
they have been hurling against the
tiBrnitishued; front. The Chief Director con -
"Bodies of Teutons continually have
been sent against the British over
open ground without any apparent
regard for casualties, but the British
have hold their line when it might
have been expected they would give
way, :and have inflicted tremendous
losses on their opponents.
"During the month since the of-
fensive began we have taken twice
the number of prisoners, four times
the amount of ground, and five times
the number of guns taken in the
Somme offensive. The British and
French between them have captured
some 50,000 prisoners and 450 guns.
If this is the result of defeat, then
we are willing to go on being defeat-
ed, We have Rept on going and we
are going to keep on going, Tho Ar-
ras offensive is much bigger than the
Somme, and our next offensive will
be bigger than Arras.
DAILY WAR COST
9750D0,000
Average Expenditure of Great
Britain for Military
Operations.
A despatch from London says: -In
the House of Commons all Wednesday
Right Ilon. Bonar Law, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, referring to the west
front, said the rapidity of the attack
had forestalled the enemy, who had
to fight in the open, with heavy losses,
because he had not had time to pre-
pare trenches. Since April 1 we had
taken 20,000 prisoners, 257 guns, 227
.trench mortars, While in the first 24
days of the Somme drive we advanced
three and one-half miles on a six -mile
1 front, we had now advanced from two
to five miles on a 20 -mile front, where
there were twice as many German
divisions against us as on the Somme,
and half of them had to be withdrawn.
Our casualties in the present offen-
sive were from 50 to 75 per cent. less
than on the Somme. Our success was
largely due to our distinct artillery
!superiority, in connection will which
' the Chancellor paid a warm tribute to
the flying corps.
ENEMIES OF RUSSIA
USE DEADLY WEAPONS
Formidable Array of Obstacles to
Organization of New Govern-
ment
A despatch from London says: -
The Morning Post has the following
from Petrograd: -
While decent Russians are striving
honorably to achieve political liberty
by the civil methods of argument and
persuasion, which, if sure, are neces-
sarily slow, the extreme parties -
Anarchists and Sot.ial Revolutionaries
on the one hand, and the upholders of
the old regime and agents provac-
teurs, and, above all, the vast organ-
ized body of Germans -are using
deadly weapons in the streets and
lavishly- expanding money. These
Germans gra largely real Reich-
steucher, who have lain concealed here
or got across the frontier during the
revolution or through the Russian
lines at the front during the orgy of
"brotherhood of nations" which lasted
for weeks and has not yet been entirely
checked. To these must be added
hundreds of German spies who were
incarcerated in the prisons and liber-
ated with ordinary criminals during
tho first hours of the revolution, and
unknown number's of German prison-
ers of war, who have taken advantage
of the newly -declared liberty of Rus-
sia and of the nloujik's apathy or mis-
understanding of the situation to es-
cape from 'Siberia and elsewhere.
INFLUENCE UPON 'RUMANIA
OF TIIE RUSSIAN REV1Oi4:ITION
Country for the First Time Has a. Labor Party -Planks jl1 Its
Platform.
A despatch from Ungeni, Rumania,
says; The revolutionary movement in
Russia could not remain without in-
fluence in this country, whet'e hither-�
to there has existed neither a Social-
ist nor Labor party. Fridriy morning
twenty members of Parliament as-
sembled to :formulate the basis of a
Labor party, which adopted 11 pro -
i gramme of which the following are 1
the main points: (1) Distribution of
the land among all who work the land;
(2) votes for women; (3) rights for
Jews who took part in the campaign
of 1918 or the present war, With re-
gard to the foreign policy the Labor
party asks for energetic prosecution
of the war until German militarism
is crushed, The now party has already
established contact with representa-
tives of the Russian Socialists,
THE LOAN
SEE LOATI-IU9)
BOW SOME UNSCRUPULOUS PER-
SONS TREAT -THE NEEDY,
Pathetic Story of a Predicament in
Willed u Soldier's Wife
Found Herself,
The woman's eyes became tnbist as
she gazed into the embers of the dying
fire.
She was looking back on a moment
of madness. As she went to bed elle
Prayed that God in His matey would
find some way out of the labyrinth of
despair into which that moment of
madness had led her, Saye London An -
ewer's.
No; elle had not committed any sin,
In that respect her conscience was
clear. But she had been very indis-
creet. And she know that her indiscre-
tion would wound to the core her sol-
dier husband who had been fighting in
Prance for seventeen long months.
Joe was a straight chap, He could
not do an underhand action if he tried.
In some things he was almost parsi-
monious. Borrowing money was one
of them, Sae hated it,
Joe's father had been.riiined by a
moneylender, and it hacl embittered
the lad's whole life. He hated money-
lenders, and he hated borrowers. ; He
heard of judgment summonses, brok-
er's men, homes being sold up, vam-
pires waiting as the men left their
work, women and men drowning their
sorrows in drink, and even becoming
thieves, because they could not pay
their loan instalment to the money-
lender.
In Shylock's Clutches.
It was on his mind when he Dame
home on final leave before going to
the Front,
"You'll 1,'ub along on the separation
allowance' and what bit you've got,
lass!" Joe said. "And if I'n1 out yon-
der long, and you run short -well,
struggle on! But, whatever you do, '1
lassdon't borrow! Promise!"
She promised. She knew how
strongly her big, burly Joe, with his
straight, simple, trusting heart felt
on the subject. And now, as she sat
in front of the dying fire, her heart
was heavy within her, for she had
broken her promise. She was in the
clutches of a money -lender -a Shy-
; lock as ruthless as the creation of
Shakespeare's brain.
There was a man near her home
who lent money to the wort,ers, and
had pressed into his service women-
touts as unscrupulous as himself.
They induced others of their sex to
borrow small sums, on which they had
'to pay interest at the rate of two-
pence in the shilling a week. .
Tints, when Joe's wife fell ill, when,
for some reason or other the Post
Office refused to pay the separation al-
lowance to her messenger, and the
soil and heir, aged flirt, caught a touch
of bronchitis -when, as I say, these
three tiny tragedies happened to-
gether -Fate ordained that the fe-
male temptress should come along
and insidiously whisper in het' eta. how
easy it was ..to borrow a couple of
pounds Per a time.
She was tempted, and she fellFor
weeks she paid out twopenso in the
shilling. Then sire got behind in her
payments. And now, at the moment
when she had reached the lowest
depths of despair, she found herself in
debt to the extent of about throe
pounds ten shillings.
In the Nick of Time.
A letter, which seemed to scorch her
lis it lay in the . bosom of her dress,
told her that on the morrow Shylolk
would enter the little hone, of which
she and Joe were so proud, and pro,
coed to levy the distraint obtained.
from a 'county court judge, who had'
granted it in ignorance of the real
facts.
She went to bed, without sleeping,
and arose with a splitting headache.
At eleven o'clock she told the kiddy
where she was going, and made her
way to Shylock's office, There she
pleaded, as woman never pleaded to
usurer before, for time to pay her
debt. Her plea fell on deaf ears.
Either she found the money within
one ]lour, or the distraint would bo
levied. She was in the midst of pour-
ing out a final plea, when the door of
the spider's office burst open, and in a
moment she was sobbing out the' story
of her shame on the breast of her hus-
band Joe Toe, unkempt and unshav-
en, boots plastered thick with the
mud of French trenches; Joe, with the
glad 119117 of love shining from his
honest eyes
He put his wife tenderly on one
sidle, then turned to Shylock, and ask-
ed the amount of the debt. With his
unshaven jaw set grimly, he counted
the full 011100117 out of a pocket in his
body -belt, and took a receipt iu full
discharge and settlement. Then the
lovolight disappeared, and he turned a
blazing gaze on the moneylender.
I'll not trouble to describe the ter-
rible thrashing ,Toe gave the usurer,
All I need say is that afterwards h3
was in bed 101' three weeks.
"It's lucky, when I came home unex-
pectedly, the kiddy told me where ,you
had gone, latest" said Joe, 0,9 they went
home. "I guessed the rest!"
And when they were seated in the
wee nest which had been saved from
Shylock' clutches by Joe's p%ovidlia-
tial advent, ho locked her in his ars 0
and forgave' her.
I told. you Joe was a good husband.
Don't you think' he proved 17?
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