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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY. JANUARY 18, A917 FOE FOUNDATION IS CRUMBLING KAISER IS DRUGGING HIS PEOPLE Bonar Law Announces Victory Loan --Premier Lloyd George Says Trap, Not Peace Terms, Rejected. A despatch from London says: The new "victory loan" will be an issue at five per cent., at the price of 95, the period to be 30 years, but with an option of redemption in twelve years. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the announcement at the Guildhall on Thursday, where British financial leaders assembled to launch the loan. The meeting was under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor, and Lloyd George and his Finance Minister were the principal speakers. Interest in the Premier's speech was whetted by his recent visit to Rome, which was expected to color his remarks and afford a keynote for the country-wide war loan campaign of the next few weeks. Foundation Crumbling. Bonar Law said that if the loan should fail--and it would not, he declared--there were other methods which could be applied, and the rate then would not be five and one-quarter per cent. The military position, the Chancellor said in his address, did not represent the true position of affairs. The whom Pre- so, he said, to drug those could no longer dragoon, rejected no peace terms," mier said, and added: "We were not offered terms, a trap baited with fine words, would suit Germany to have peace now on her own terms. We all want peace, but it must be a real one." The Premier said the allies w of the opinion that war was preferable to Prussian domination over Europe. The allies had made that clear, said, in their reply to Germany, and clearer still in their reply to .ASffri The grim resolution of the Entente Allies at the conference in Rome was that at all costs they must achiev,1 the high aim which was before them when they accepted the challenge the "Prussian military caste" to the world "forever of its menace, and Europe from unspeakabli potism." Defeat is Impossible. e Rome conference was under no delusions, Mr. Lloyd George tinued, as to the magnitude of the task of the allies, but felt no doubts to the results. The whole situa- great German military machine, he : ation was probed, the difficulties were declared, was resting on an internal, made to deal with them. All the al-which was "crumbling ir- ijes felt, he declared, that if victory resistibly before our eyes.' Bonar Law said that investment in the loan would be on better terms than would be offered in the future. There was no limit to the rate of interest the Government would pay for money, he declared, but so far as he could forecast the future a higher rate of interest than the present would not be paid. A Trap, Not An Offer. Prem • Lloyd George said Em- difficult, defeat was impossibh Victory This Year. The Premier said the navy had strangled the commerce of Great Britain's enemies and would continue to do so despite "all piratical devices of the enemy." With proper support at hand, continued, the armies would cl th$ road to victory during 1917. The best security for peace in Mr. Lloyd George said, NOTE IS CLEAR AND POSITIVE Demands Restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro. A despatch from London says: The Times' war editorial on Friday on the allies' note say3: "Eminently courteous and friendly in tone, clear and positive in statement, closely reasoned, and animated by the lofty ideals of politics, morals to which the people of the United States have always paid homage, the reply of the allies to President Wilson's note must command the assent and approbation of the LEADING MARKETS Toronto, Jan. 16. -- Man! No. f Northern $2,071: No. No. 3 do., $2,011; No. 4 v track. Bay ports. Old cro 'GIGANTIC MUNITIONS SMASH IN CANADIAN CAR CO.'S PLANT Manitoba oats -track, Bay ports. American corn, shipment within 3( Ontario oats--No. i nominal; No. 8 white, according to freights Ontarit days i trading C.W., 70S $1.73 i Si b ----- according Peas--No. 3, freights outside Barley --Malt)'.!.. , cording to freights outsidi V Buckwheat - "1 freights outside. Rye--No. 2, $1.37 to $: to freights outside. Manitoba flour--First p bags, $9.90: 2nd do., $9.4 --" do., $9, Toronto. flour -- Winter to $1.20, ac-according to .39, according Ontar'i. --?le, $ ^JVe«rhlro'&-.... real freights, bags Included, bran, p« ton, $32; shorts, do., $37; good feed flou: per bag, $2.70 to $2.S0. Hay--No. 1, per ton, $12.50 to $13.5( peror William had told his people ' obtained when nations banded them-that the Entente allies had rejected ] selves together to punish the peace his peace offer. The Emperor did breakers. GERMANY MUST KEEP (BRITISH WIN BELT PULLED TIGHT Peace Will Not Bring an Immediate Solution of Food Problem. A despatch from Amsterdam says: Dr. Michaelis, German Under-Secretary of the Interior, contributes to the VoTKS Zeitung of Cologne an article' warning Germany that peace will bring an immediate solution of food problem. He says: "We must expect for a considerable time, perhaps for many years, further limitation of consumption and rationing as regards the most important foodstuffs. Germany in the coming years of peace will have recourse almost exclusively to such foodstuffs as are produced within her own borders. Tonnage will be very scarce, and deterioration of the rate of exchange also will oblige Germany to import as little as possible." Pointing out that the German harvest, even when a full yield is obtained, can be made to suffice only if rationed, Dr. Michaelis says: "Thus even after peace it will be necessary to keep the belt pulled tight and there must be further sharp rationing. The yearning cry, 'Give us peace! Give us more bread,' has no inner basis. Of this we must remain conscious and not cry for peace on account of the scarcity from which we suffer." A despatch from London says: Telegraphing from Amsterdam, Reu-ter's correspondent says: "According to Les Nouvelles, Baron von Huehne, interim Governor-General of Belgh has published a decree announcing A despatch from Berlin says: Of that as the result of the court-martial 3 total number of officers and men of a number of Belgian civilians for In the German army who were wound- attempting by force of ed during the second year of the war j the frontier into* Holland on December TO per cent, fully recovered and went j 6th, thirty of them were condemned back to the trenches, according to of- 1 to death, but that, out of considera-ficial figures published by the German [ tion of the fact that they did not real-Government. Only 6.4 per cent, of j ize the gravity of their crime, the the wounded were completely unfit for sentences were commuted to life im-military service, and the other wound-1 prisonment. The decree concluded: ed were able to do military duty at, "In the event of any repetition of the home. Twelve hundred and fifty Sol-1 offence, I should not use my preroga-diers went blind during the war. | tive for mercy." IN PALESTINE Anzac Mounted Troops Destroy Turk Position At Rafa. A despatch from London says:-- The War Office reports: "On Tuesday our troops captured a strong enemy position consisting of six lines of entrenchments with six main redoubts and a central keep, covering Rafa, 30 miles north-east of El Arish, Egypt. The attacking force, composed of Anzac mounted troops and the Imperial Camel Corps, left El Arish on Monday, and the attack on the position commenced at 7 a.m. Tuesday. The fighting lasted until 5 p.m., when the position was finally carried. "After the engagement a Turkish relief force was located, advancing from Shalal, 16 miles east of Rafa. This force was engaged at a point about four miles from the Rafa position, and was entirely destroyed. "Up to the present we have taken 1.600 unwounded prisoners and four mountain guns. The enemy killed and wounded in our hands amount to 600." Country Frodnce- . Butter, fresh dairy, choice. 38 creamery prints, 45to 47c; solid 43|c. Eggs--No. 1 storage, 39 to 40 age, selects, 42 to 43oi new-laid, tons, 60 to 85c; out of cartons, 6i Cheese--Large, 251 to 26c; t\ to 26}; triplets, 261 to 26jo. Dressed poultry--Chickens, 22 „ . fowl 16 to 18c; ducks, 20 to 22c: squabs, Honey--White clover. 21-lb. tins, 14c 5-1 J>. tins 13 f. !"*•:; 10-lt, 121 to i So 60-lb., 12 to 13,-: buckwheat, 60-lb. tins 9 to 9}c. Comb honey--extra fine and heavy weight, per dog., $2.75; seleol $2.60 to $2.75, No. 2, $2 to $2.25. Potatoes--Ontario, per bag, $2.25, British Columbia, per bag, $2\2D; Ne-n Brunev ick Delawares. per bag. $2.45 U ans -- Imported, hand-picked, pel ., $6; Canadian hand-picked, per ., $6.50 to $7; Canadian prim.-; *" 1.50; Limas, per lb„ 91 to 10c. Provisions--Wholesale. ed and developed the best principles and traditions of Western c4j-ilization. The German Government hastened to avail themselves of a phrase which they picked out of the President's note in order to curtly refuse the information which he asked. They made 'avowal of their views as to th terms on which the war might be con eluded,' and told him in substance hi mistaken road to peace. The allies do not pretend in the present position to state all their war aims in detail, but declare the general objects, with more amplitude and precision than In any statement they have yet made to their own countrymen." The Only Terms. The Times then ennumerates the rms of the allies, viz: The restoration of Belgium, of Serbia and Montenegro and complete reparation for the damage they sustained, and the of the invaded territories of France, Russia and Rumania, with such reparation as is considered just. The reorganization of Europe, guaranteed by a stable regime and founded upon the respected nationalities and full liberty and security of all great and small nations. The restitution of territories previously severed from allied nations by force or contrary to the wishes of their populations. The liberation of Italians, Slavs, Rumanians and Czech Slavs from foreign domination. The retirement of the Turkish Empire from Europe. The expression "they must provide;^' restoration of the provinces torn from the allies by force against the wish of ne the inhabitants" is a clear reference, creamer] says the Times, to Alsace-Lorraine. ! 4,*;;: ^; The editorial concludes: "We feel No. °2 st< confident the excellent impression jbaK' car 1 which the allies' reply to Germany created must be confirmed and intensified by the more ampl, make at the suggestion of the Presi-<ip.\v.," 568c dent." Jleed- 54'°: N°- i feed' Barley--No. 3, Half a Million 3-lnch Shells for Russian Government Destroyed in Series of Terrific Explosions at Factories In New Jersey. ____do., heavy, 22 to 33i 36c; rolls, 19 to 20c; brea "7c; bin-ks, plain. '_'(; i > 30c. ired meat?--Long cle i • rd "•'urn lsn.1. tieivs . 21J to 23c; palls, 2: Montreal Markets. ntreal, Jan. 16.--Oats--Can 2, 71c; No. 3, 69c; extra N. _. Barley Manitoba food, ing, $1.30. Flour- "-wh.v.i oatents, " strong bakers'. *si.:jii; $8.%C:e'd(..Vba'g.-r,t|4i.10t oats--Bbls. $7.35 to $7.4 *3.5" to $3.60. lira Mlddlitu 211 to > 22ic; A despatch from New York says:-- A fire which broke out in the munition plant of the Canadian Car & Foundry Works near Kingsland, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon completely destroyed the factory, with a loss estimated all the way from $4,000,000 up to $10,000,000, forced the evacuation of a large part of the town of Kingsland, making 1,000 peopli imeless for the time. For the space of more than five hours northern New' Jersey, New York city and the western end of Long Island listened to a bombard ment that approximated the sound of a great battle, a bombardment in which more than half a million three-inch high-explosive shells were discharged. Yet so far as the police and hospitals of all that section have been able to learn not a single life was lost, and no one was injured. Comparatively few windows were broken in the surrounding districts, and, indeed, the material loss outside the plant itself and the telephone lines running near ,jt was very slight. Police Prevent Casualties. Consequently, as the flames reached each case of shells, and exploded the charges, the projectile shot high into the air--often several hundred feet. But as it descended the fuse, which alone could the charge, its fall was only that of so much metal. Even so, the fact that not one of the thousands of people in the neighborhood was hurt, sc far as could be learned, was due principally to the prompt police in clearing out the houses i dangered districts near by. Hudson, and about a mile east of the edge of the hill on which lie the twin towns of Kingsland and -L-yfmrTursl-,, The company was just finishing an $82,000,000 contract for the Russian Government, which had kept the plant busy for the past two years. Thirty-eight one and two story buildings had been erected in the rfteadow, and three shifts of 1,400 workmen each, mostly negroes, were employed in filling the explosives purchased from powder-companies into the shell cases, some of which were brought from the Beth-lethem 'Steel Company and others made by the Canadian Car & Foundry Co., elsewhere. The contract was within two weeks of completion, and one of the shifts was laid off Tuesday night. Fourteen Hundred Men Employed. At work in the plant when the Are broke out were the 1,400 men, a con-sderable number of office employees and two or three hundred guards in uniform, who have been patrolling the factory ever since its erection. It was 8.40 when theb laze broke out in building No. 30, when ten or twelve men were at work cleaning the brass cases of the shells with denatured alcohol before the process of filling was begun. Somehow, from somewhere, a spark fell innto a tub of the alcohol thout and set it ablaze. One theory is that plode; an electric drop light hung above the tub had become short-circuited, and that the spark was a piece of burning insulation. There was another story that the spark fell from the carbon of an arc light high above. However it began, the tub of alcohol was ablaze in a moment, and the workmen The munition plant lies in the Jer-j building turned and fled without de-sey Meadows, seven miles west of the' lay. FIVE LIVES LOST IN MONTREAL FIRE Allows Himself to be Killed to Give* $ Example and Prevent Retreat. -. - Northern, J «»• 2 Northern, $1.86 tc No. 3 yellow, 91i to 921c ' 54Jc. Flour- i, $27.50 t 0 - ' : Nu . A despatch from Paris says: "Al- j changed, l lowing himself to be killed resting on $i^aj"tNoJ to give an example and Northern, $i.»;ij prevent a precipitate retreat," reads, ju"y,ee$.S2j uni the orders of the day recording the; death of Lieut.-Col. Patrice Mahon. It! Llve 31 at the Pass of St. Marie aux ! $9.7(srto fills'; d Mines, in the Vosges. Twice before he d>utoh(';rs' £at„tle' had tried to save the pass, the second to"»f.50;' time leading a victorious counter-at- butchers' tack. A hot enemy attack the third f°|05d o^ieV butcher' time forced the French to retire. $7.76'to $8.50; do., good, Mahon, dismounting from his horse, to"tT%%; chrieVfeed'ers,7*' crossed his arms and stood in front of nel? lu,d cutters, $4.60 'to one of the French guns facing the and m". dium.' *JX liJ t?,° enemy until he was killed. The body $50 Northei... „ I to $1,851; May, $1,873 ive, $2,861; May, $2,901 itookers, $5.65 i number of of- watsred. $13; i A despatch from London says: The Times in an editorial on Wednesday regarding the recent Wa^ Council held in Rome, says: "The conference just concluded in Rome may well prove one of the turning points in the war. More | month: than one vital decision was reached . month; with complete harmony. The road to victory, though it may be long, is now running straight to the appointed A despatch from Berlin says The: Berlin municipality, says Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, has announced that, notwithstanding the unfavorable conditions of production, it will be possible for every citizen in Berlin to have one egg between January 12 and January 31, but that noth-at present can be said regarding supply of eggs after this time. BRITISH CAPTURE POSITIONS ON FRONT OF NEARLY A MILE Several Raids Also Resulted in the Bagging of Large Numbers of Prisoners. A despatch from London says :-- The British official communication issued on Thursday night says: "A number of minor enteprises were undertaken last night with excellent results. South of the Ancre we entered the enemy trenches at two places in the neighborhood of Grandcourt, and took prisoners. Early this morning a local operation on a large scale north-east of Beaumont-Hamel was completely successful. Our troops carried an enemy trench on a front of three-quarters of a mile, and tablished our position. An enemy counter-attack this afternoon was caught in the open by our artillery, and broken up with loss. One hundred and seventy-six prisoners, including four officers, were taken in the course of the operations in this area. "Enemy trenches also were raided last night east of Armentieres, and north-east of Ypres. Many casualties were inflicted on the enemy." Instead of Worrying about the high cost of living, just buy a package of Grape-Nuts --still hold at the same fair price. Enjoy a morning dish of this, delicious food, and smile over the fact that you've had a good breakfast and Saved Money Isn't that a fair start for any day? FOE PRISONERS ON ISLE OF MAN READY FOR PEACE. They Are Learning Trades and Mastering Languages. A despatch from Douglas, Isle of Man, says: They are busily engaged in preparing for peace in the prison camps on the Isle of Man. Here are nearly 25,000 German and Austrian civilian prisoners. Many of these have been residents of the British Isles for ten or fifteen years, and expect to go back to their civilian employment as soon as peace comes. Others have been in England for much shorter periods, and plan to seek fresh fields. Two years of imprisonment has a sobering effect on the most frivolous, and the frame of mind of the internment camp prisoner is almost uniformly serious. Some are learning new trades, others mastering new languages, others studying the course of the war in map and law book with a view to being on the spot for post-war developments of business and commerce. Most of this preparation for peace is being done by the prisoners' themselves. Maid Perished While Making Attempt To Save Children. A despatch from Montreal says:--■ Fire claimed five victims in the destruction of the Idealograph Moving Picture Theatre, at 1691 Notre Dame Street west, at 2 o'clock Thursday morning. The victims were the children ar/d maid of '©rCand Mrs. Leblanc, a dentist, at 1689 Notre Dame Street west, who were in the family' living quarters on the third floor. Dr. HELP TO WIN WAR AND SAVE MONEY Dominion Government Issues Certificates to Assist the Thrift Campaign. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Minister of Finance, Sir Thomas White, has announced some of the details of the coming issue of war-savings, certificates in connection with '"■^Jhocampaign for national wartime " saving and further co-operation by the the their four children in charge of the maid and an elderly servant, Mme. Bouchard. public generally toward war financing. ™ war-savings certificates will be . issued in denominations of $26, $50, Mrs. Leblanc were out spending j and ?100j maturing in three years, dng with friends, and had left be obtainable from any bank or postoffice throughout the Dominion. The issue prices will be $21.50, $43 and $86 respectively. Thus for every $21.50 now loaned to the Government $25 will be returned at the end of three years. The discount of three dollars and a half constitutes an interest return of a little more than five per cent. Provision is made whereby the certificates may be surrendered at any time during the first twelve months at their purchase price; after twelve twenty-four at $22.2 and after twenty-four months, but within thirty-six months, at $23.25 for every $21.50 originally loaned. Consequently the longer the certificates are held the higher the rate of interest return. The opportunity thus constantly afforded of investing small amounts with the Government will enable tha general public to contribute by their savings towards winning the war, aa well as promoting at the same time individual thrift and economy throughout the Dominion. The new war-savings certificates will be advertised generally through- Why He Supported the Fund. The task of raising the Canadian Patriotic Fund is not all serious work. It is illumined here and there by flash-of humor, and everywhere there p out touches of human nature that add zest to the work. Take the case of a Quebec county councillor., His council had been asked to contri- out Canada next week, bute a certain sum yearly, and ficer of the Fund called on him to re his endorsation of the proposal. He listened to an explanation of the details, and then started to estimate what the new taxation would imply to him. Then he said: "All right. 11 vote for the grant. I find that will cost me eight dollars,--but I'd ther pay even twenty dollars than ,.to the war!" $663,000 For Province. A despatch from Walkerville says: Succession duties of the $4,000,000 estate of Edward Chandler Walker, former head of Hiram Walker & Sons, distillers, will amount to $668,-000 the Ontario Government has notified the executors. This is said to be the largest amount paid into the Ontario Treasury from any one estate. CEREALS ARE TO BE GROWN IN LONDON ROYAL PARKS To Stimulate Private Land Owners to Similar Activity -Sanction of King George. A despatch from London says: Ai A despatch from London says: Fod der and cereals are to be grown ii Richmond and Bushy Parks as the first step in the new food campaign. Exchange Telegraph despatch from London's parks are royal property, Copenhagen says that Sweden lost 183 and the step has the sanction of King j torists and horseback riders. west district of London. Richmond Park is of 2,255 acres in area and eight miles in circumference. It is a favorite summer resort, being frequented by crowds of pedestrians, n: ;hips, aggregating 113,000 tons, last George. The idea is to set an exampl year, of which 100 were torpedoed, and stimulate private land owners to with the loss of 27 lives, This report similar activity as a means of increas-comes from Stockholm, and adds that ing food supplies. during the same period Sweden built Richmond and Bushy,Parks lie near 81 ships, aggregating 47,000 tons. jthe Thames in the fashionable south- Charl 1637 had the park enclosed used it as a hunting ground. Bushy Park contains about 1,0.00 acres. It 'has numerous whitethorn and horse chestnut trees, many of them planted by William IIL