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not of victory, peace, as he calls it, are entirely based. Each new . stroke will bring the inevitable end surface. Suddenly a vital spot will be touched. This may happen any day, and then will come a sudden shrinking of the German line and the abandon- ment of a large part, perhaps all, of ~ Everywhere in Champagne the Great Offensive Movement Con- tinues. A despatch from Paris says: More ground has been gained by the French, and everywhere 'in Artois and in Champagne the great offensive * continues. The booty captured in the first rush of the forward movement is growing rapidly as the work of counting is completed, so that now the seriousness of the German losses is much more clearly understood than was the case immediately after the first onslaught. The number of heavy field pieces ta- ken in Champagne alone now totals 121, * A bombardment of unusual intens- ity of the newly won positions in Ar- tois has failed completely to dislodge the French troops or even to shake the security of their hold. The latest entrenchments taken in this sector, on the heights between Souchez and Vimy, are being planted with heavy batteries. At several points the French troops have gained a footing in the second line, and some of them even went right through, but encountering Ger- | man reserves, were unable to maintain their progress. According to the Ger- man account these latter troops were captured. The Germans, however, ad- mit the loss of Hill 191, to the north of Massiges, where the French are not far from the railway triangle, the possession of which has been of the greatest advantage to the Germans, as one of the lines has been used for supplying the Argonne army. French Wounded in Paris. The wounded French soldiers now in Paris say that the system of wire entanglements built by the Germans was more intricate than anything they had dreamed of. Even after the big guns had. literally churned up the earth many of the stakes and entan- glements remained as a serious im- pediment to rapid advance. It would séem that in Champagne particula:iy it was the cavalry that can] the rout of the Germans first positions. The charge 8 horsemen, say the wounded, a fine spectacle, and was the thing needed £6 turn the Germans it 'Many of the men are wounded in the legs. It was the machine gun fire playing on them as they advanced that made the most wounds. A great many, too, are suffering from bayonet wou érn front, and their presence has already had the effect of slackening somewhat alligs' offensive. But heres» pods! of the offensive 'out on some other section this front." 'In fact, the corres = DUTCH AGAIN OF Lille, The tale of the booty, gratify-| ing as it is, is nothing like so enheart- ening as the clear and unquestionable proof that not merely the clearing of France and Belgium, but the definite defeat of the enemy, is within our power, That is the lesson of the last five days' offensive." BRITAIN'S SHARE IN THE WAR. Has .Done Far More Than Was Ever Promised. To read some of the jeremiads and the diatribes that are almost daily making their appearance in a section of the British press one might be in- clined to think, if he did not know, that the facts are all the other way, that the country had fallen far short of its duty in relation to the carrying on of the war, says the Ayrshire (Scotland) Post. That we were un- prepared at the start was not our fault. We may have been too optim- istic--indeed, the facts have proved that we were far too optimistic--in assessing the real meaning of = Ger- many's intention, but that was only to the discredit of Germany which went on playing a lying game over a long series of years. But from the day the war broke out down till now we have done our share, and far more of our share than we ever promised. As Mr. Balfour reminded us the other day we never promised to send more than 160,000 men at most to fight on the Continent. That offer, was "most gratefully accepted," and and the Expeditionary Force that we did send proved itself a tower of strength out of all proportion to its numbers in the early and the very dark days of the campaign. But for the navy, and it is not too much to say that Europe would by this time have been under the heel of Germany. Whatever has failed in the war the British Navy has not. Fam- iliarity with its deeds may have blunt- ed us to their' towering importance, but the facts are there to spéak of for themselves. We have brought our troops safely from the ends of the earth and have landed them in France and in Egypt and on the Gallipoli Peninsula without the enemy ever once daring to challenge the right of the*sea to them. We have kept both ourselves and our Allies in ample stores of food and of raw materials, And never orice since this time last year has Great Britain looked back. Her 160,000 men on the Continent have swelled to over a million; = and there are larger armies than these at home ready for action or in course of preparation to take the field. Then, where would the Allied cause have been but for the power of British fin- ance? The facts are to well known to call for any emphasis; they offer the flat contradiction of self-evident truth to any suggestion that Great Britain has failed in her duty, or that she is failing in it at the present time, ll 240 GERMANS KILLED = IN MUNITIONS FACTORY. A despatch from Stockholm says: The newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, on the authority of a business man, who has just returned from Germany, says that 8 great explosion occurred in an ammunition factory at Wittenberg, Prussia. Two hundred and forty-two workmen were killed and many in- jured. i A IMPLAIN as he said, ! PELIN VISITS | Gen. Foch, French er of t Marshal Sir John Fromen con Foch. = Gen. Foch, consi is in absolute charge of he Markets Of The World . Breadstuffs. Toronto, Oct. 5.--Manitoba wheat-- Néw crop--No. 1 Northern, 97c; No. 2 Northern, 95¢, on track lake ports, immediate shipment. ; rican corn--No, 2 yellow, : 72¢, on track lake ports. Canadian corn--No. 2 yellow, T4c, crop--No. 2 on track Toronto. Ontario ~ oats--New white; 87 to 38¢c; No. 8 white, 35 to 87¢; rejected oats, 81 to 84c, accord- ing to freights outside. ntario wheat--New No. 2 Winter, per car lot, 88 to 90¢c; wheat slightly tough, 80 to 85¢; sprouted or smutty, 66 to 80c, accord freights outside. : Peas--No. 2, nominal. v Barley--Good malting barley, 52 to Bde; feed barley, 48 to 4b¢, according to freights outside. Buckwheat--Nominal. Rye--No. 2, 86¢, nominal, according to freights outside, : Manitoba flour--First patents, in jute bags, $5.75; second patents, in ute bags, $5.25; strong bakers', in te bags, $5.05, Toronto. Ontario flour--New Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $3.80, seaboard, or ronto: freights in bags, prompt ship- ment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- real Sreights~ Bean, $24 - per ton; shorts, $26 per ton; middlings, $27 ton; good feed flour, $1.80 per B. . : re. Country Produce. Butter--Fresh dairy, 26 to: 27¢; in- ferior, 22 to 28¢; creamery prints, 30 to 81c; do., solids, 28 to 29%. ing to samples and 91 he army of the no 'and Field forring 14 'the Headquaiecen of Gen," rench army of the north. Eo 81% to 31%e; seconds, 80% to 30 Eggs--Fresh, 85c; sel 82¢; 1 stock; 28¢; No. 2 stock, 24 to Potatoes--Per yo car lots, 6bec. hogs--Abattoir killed, $18.76 to $14. Pork---Heavy ;Canada short mess, bbls, 35 to 45" pieces, $28 $28.50; Canada short-cut back, bbls. 45 to Bb pieces, $27 to $27.50. Lard ~--Compound, tierces, 375 lbs, 10c; wood pails, 20 Ibs. net, 10%¢; pure, tierces, 875 Ibs., 11% to. 1%¢; wood pails, 20 1bs. net, 123% to 18¢c. 3 United States Markets. Minheapolis, Oct. 5.--Wheat--No. %ec; No. 1 Northern, 93%¢c No. 2 Northern, 87% to September, 96%¢; December, %c.' Corn--No, 8 yellow, 65% to 663c, Oats--No. 8 'white, 82% 83%c. Flour and bran uni Duluth, 5.--Wheat--No, hard, 96%¢; No. 1 Northern, 95%ec; No. 2 Northern, 93% ; Montana No. 2 hard, 97¢; September, 96c; December, 92%e. Linseed--Cash, $1.82; Sep- tember, Jie, December, $1.77%c. ew Spring C. 0. k, Oct. 5.--Flour easier, to $6.15; $6.66 .656. Rye Hops quiet. frm, Co Toronto, Oct. 5.--Best heavy steers, 7.76, to 1 butchers' ea or 7.680 to $7.75; do., } 50; do., mi - 0. 1, 26 to 27c per dozen, 1 E in case lots; extra at 28 to 30c, Honey--No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 113c; do, retail; 12 to 16c. Combs (wholesale), ® lozen, No. 1, $2.40; No. 2, $1.50 to Poultry--Spring chickens, 20c; fowl, 16 to 17c; ducklings, 17 to 18¢; tur- keys, 22 to 24c. ; hoes 14% to 15¢; twins, 15 to c. - i Potatoes--The market is' quiet; with car lots quoted at 65¢ per bag, on track. i ' Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 14 to 14 Ib.,, in case lots. Hams to 19¢; do., 16 to 186¢c; $2. ; 1 io 1 $8 to. to $8.75; Shes, .50; 'Spring lam $7.26 "to $1 0.950 Mor oh choice, the fighting in the great offensive of the allies on the western front: "The first charge /by our men from ie" Vermelles ranches in the grey light of morning, wi 'carried them right through the village of Loos and to the summit of Hill 70 and be- yond this, will rank as one of the most glorious exploits of the British army. - "Nothing could stop them. Two German trenches defending the village fell first; then a race across some open country and they were in the streets of Loos. Some hand-to-hand fighting with bombs and bayonets, and then out of the village to the slope of Hill 70, about half a mile to the east. The last desperate rush soners are in excess of three corps, 120,000 on the fifth day fighting on the western amount of booty is enormous. 79 cannon hate been dragged ithe © rear of the French lines with a mass of uncounted material, including rifles, machine guns, ammunition and sup- lies. Pp : RE The battle continues without respite. In Artois the French troops pressed forward step by step until they had | reached the dominating height known as Hill 140, and the extensive orchards. to the south. This hill, the highest in the vicinity, commands a great ex- panse of country to the north, and - once he French. guns are placed on - its mit the German communica- tions for miles around will be imper- took them to the summit, some going | {lled. even beyond until checked by a strong earthwork . defence with num machine guns, § 000 need TL "The, enemy's batteries had by this {time begun to concentrate on: the to. slopes of the hill, and therefore our men were ordered to dig in about a huinidred yards from the summit, "Pierce fighting continued around the hill on Sunday and Monday. The PUreé, | new army battalions played an impor- tant part in the attack; men who had no experience in real fighting sprang forward to the sound of the officers' whistles with a dash and gallantry which nothing could stop. Paying no heed to the terrible fire poured on them from the hidden guns, they to| pressed forward at a steady pace, making their way through the barbed wire entanglements, forcing the ene- my's trenches and bayoneting the Ger- 'mans in them. : "Germans caught hiding in cellars, from which they kept up a steady fire on the men dashing through the streets of the village, were hauled forth; machine guns firing through holes in the walls of cottages were charged and captured. Semmens FIVE PERSONS KILLED DURING MOSCOW RIOT (¢ In Champagne the struggle contin- | 'ues no less furiously. . French troops are gradually making their 'way 'ug the Tahure heights and are -- in. along the approaches to the | 3 itself. These heights, like the crest ~~ of Hill 140" in Artois, will afford the French, guns a clear sweep towards the an communications at the: rear, and will make it possible to so embarrass the German operations that a continued defence of that region will be very difficult, 3 East of Tahure and horth of: siges, where the fighting was {0 ter as at any other point on tHe i front, the French made fresh gains in spite of the furious resistance be- ing offered by the Germans. There is no doubt of the character of this re-' sistance. The Germans are doing the stiffest fighting yet displayed by them in the west. i i Perhaps the heaviest fighting since 1 the offensive began is now going on, for the British are attacking the Ger- man third line of defence south of La Bassee Canal, and the Germans have brought up reinforcements against both the British and the French, and are making every effort to retrieve the lost ground. Belgium, despatches from Holland say, has been denuded | Submarin Tor dt dong ved |