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Ca and Have A despatch from London says: The British, French, Italians and Russians have captured 167,780 war prisoners since April 9, when the 1917 campaign opened, according to a statement is- sued by the British War Department. The text of the statement follows: "The number of prisoners captured by the Entente allies since April 9, when the 1917 gampaign opened with the battle of Arras, up to Aug. 22 is: German war prisoners cap- tured by British .......... 46,166 German war prisoners captur- tured by French .......... 43,728 Chiefly Austrian prisoners cap- tured by. Italians .......... 40,681 Chiefly Austrians captured by . Russians .. 87,221 ---- ssessseensrenas Total . v.eevsesvsvenss. 167,780 GEN. CADORNA SCORES SUCCESS 20,000 Austrians and 60 Cannon Taken by Italians. A despatch from Rome says: Gen- eral Cadorna's army is still hard after the Austrians all along. the Isonzo and Carso fronts of the Austro-Italian theatre, and, aided by the valiant Ital- ian airmen, who are dropping bombs in great numbers on concentrations behind the enemy lines, it has made' further progress and taken additional prisoners and war stores. Already in the offensive, not yet a week old, 500 Austrian officers and 20,000 men have been sent behind the Italian lines 'prisoners-of-war, and in the neighborhood of 60 guns of va- rious calibres have been captured, in addition to mumerous others destroyed by the intensive gunfire of the Ital- ians. Austrian military headquarters in Tolmino sector was wiped out--in- cluding commanding officers--when struck by two Italian bombs, eee TRIBUTE T0- CANADIAN TROOPS Paris Newspapers Praise Gen. Currie's Troops. A despatch from Paris says:--The newspapers of the French capital all pay glowing tributes to the splendid work of the Canadian troops. Le Petit Parisien says: "If it were known what human misery, abnegation and self-sacrifice were involved in those 18,000 metres of trenches recently captured by the Canadians in this corner of hell, in which every German soldier fought like a wild beast, the people would be touched and thrilled. An enemy officer remarked of the Canadians, only once have I known a class of soldiers as brave and thoroughly trained, namely, von Kluck's men in p14." ----e BERLIN PUTS EMBARGO ON CASUALTY LISTS A despatch from Copenhagen says: --German casualty lists no longer are permitted to feave Germany. 2 MANITOBA: TROOPS IN VIGOROUS ATTACK ON LENS = Captiire Important Positions to Lost 43,000 to Germany, nied Rie prisoners captured by us since the beginning of the nn is 102,218. the , is a analy 481000, but tion as to small cap- tures made by the enemy in re fighting cannot be given until the ne- cessary information is received from Germany. tured by us in all the war theatres since the beginning of the war, ex- clusive of African natives, is 181,776. "The total number of prisoners lost by us since the beginning of the war, exclusive of African natives, but in- cluding Indians, is approximately 56,600." U.S. HAS FAITH IN RUSSIA Shows Confidence by Loaning Another $100,000,000/ ~ A despatch from Washington says: ~The United States reaffirmed on Friday its faith in the new Russian democracy, and ga concrete evi- an other hundred million dollars the Provisional Government. Announcement of the loan came from the Treasury soon after Secretary Lansing, at the State Department, had denied formally that reports from Russia were of an unfavorable nature, and declared that on the contrary con- fidential despatches to the Goyern- ment were the basis for his belief that the Administration at Petrograd was strengthening its position. CROWN PRINCE APPEALS FOR AID Germans Reeling Under 'Blows at Lens and Verdun. A despatch from London says: Reuter's correspondent at British army headquarters in France tele- graphs: "The Germans are assuredly reeling under the smashing blows at Lens and in Planders, where they have massed troops to the weakening of other parts of the line, The mag- nificent success of the French at Ver- dun is causing the Germans the gra- vest concern, and there is réason to believe that the Crown Prince is call- ing upon Prince Rupprecht for suc- cor." The German prisoners now total 7,689, while 24 guns were also cap- tured. meni" MILLIONS OF CROSSES GIVEN BY EMPEROR. Deputy Marquardt, of the German Reichstag, recently proposedthat a more extensive distribution of iron crosses be made. Emperor William has caused to be published the fact that 2,260,000 crosses of the second class had been distributed up to June 1. GAIN GROUND the South-West and Open Way Towards Heart of City on the South After Stubborn Battle. A despatch from Canadian Army Héadquarters in France, says:--An-|ed other turn of the screw was made on Thursday morning on the south-west front of Lens. At three o'clock, after a short, but intense bombardment, the Manitoba troops attacked the Green Grassier, a huge heap of pit refuse on the north banks of the Souchez River, by which our advance into Lens from the south was barred. The Fosse St. Louis, which consists 'of a tangle of pithead machinery, shot to pieces by many bombardments, was also attack- On a front of about 700 yards the Manitobans went forward from 200 to 400 yards and opened the way towards the heart of the city on the south as of War "The total number of German war| recent | I" "The total number of prisoners cap- Shim le, dence of its prt by loaning an-| 1" A despatch from Amsterdam says: tember. 3 nominal, according to ting, n of $1.20 to te trelgnts outst 2 outside. ba flour---Fitet patents, 903 secon 0; strong Pakers', o flour--Winter, accord 10.20, id rack ment; new ; = 2Car. Toth, delivered Montreal included--Bran, per ton, Jer ton, 843: miad1ings, per 6 to $46; good feed flour, per bag, Hxtra No. 2, per ton, $11.50 to Jr240; mixed, per ton, $9 to $10, track 0. Straw--Car lots, per-ton, $7 to $7.50, track Toronto. ' in jute in jute ts, horts, Country Prodnce--Wholesale Butter--Creamery, solids, per 1b. 39 ints, 1b.,, 893 to 40c; 40¢, to the retail th Solu BS dnc ov ew, e, 0 23¢c; twins, to 231c; ripiots, 23 io 234c; ola, large, 30c; twins, 30ic; triplets, 3042. : Buiter ren iry, choice, 86 to 87c; qpta ry prints; 42 to 43c; solids, 41 to 8: § 7 s--New laid, in cartons, 49 to 60¢; out of cartons, 44 to 46c. ¢ ressed poultry--Spring chickens, 25 ; fowl, 20¢; squabs, per doz., $4.00 to $4.60; turkeys, 26 to 80c; du Spring, 22 c. § Live poulty--Spring chickens, 1b., 20 to 22c; hens, 18 to 20c; ducks, Spring. e, Honey--Comb--Extra fine and heavy weight, per doz. $2.76; select, $3.5u to 32.76: No. 2, $2 to $2.26 tins, 24's and 6's, 15c. per 1b. Beans--Prime white, $8.50 per bush; imported hand-picked, $9.25 per bush; Limas, per 1b., 16 to 17c. Potatoes, on track--Red Star, bbl, 5.25; North Carolinas, bbl, $6.26; On- .tario, bag, $2.40 to $2.50. : Provisions-- Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 30 to 81c; do. heavy, 26 to 27¢; cooked, 41 to 42¢; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 36 to 38c; backs, plain, 87 to 38c; bone- less, 40 to 42c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 2% to 263c per 1b; clear bellies, 25 to 26c. ard--Pure lard, tierces, 264 to 26¢c; tubs, 263 to 26%c; pails, 26 to 26jc; eom~ pound, tierces, 20dc; tubsr 20%c; pails, le, z Montreal Markets A Montreal, 28--Oats--Canadian Western, No. 2, o 76¢c; No. 8, 738 to 74c; extra No. 1 feed, 73 to T4c. --Man. feed, $1.26. Flour---Man. Spi wheat patents, firsts; $18.00; 1812.60; strong bakers', $12.80; 'patents, choice, $13.00; stralg] ht rollers, 12.40-to $12.66; $6. 0 to $6.15. 60. x t , to $43. Midd 8 --$48 to $50. Mouillie--$60 to $61. ay --No. 2, per ton, car lots, $9.50 to $10. Cheese--F'inest westerns, 21%c; do, finest easterns, 218c." Butter--Choicest creamery, 42 to 42ic; do., seconds, 41jc. Hggs--Fresh, 50 to b3c; 48c; No. 1 stock, 44c; No. 40c. Dressed hogs, abatto! to $24.50; ork, heavy Canada, short mess. bbls, 86 to 45 pleces, $51 to $68; do., Canada short cut back, bbls., 4 55 pieces, $46 to $48. Lard, compound, wood pails, 20 1bs. net, 213 to 22jc; do. pure, wood pails, 20 1bs, net, "25 to 26dc. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Aug. 28.--Cash quotations: --Wheat--No, 1 Northern, $2.40; No. 2 Northern, $2. .. 3 Northern, $2.40; 0. 4, $2.36; $2.18; No. 6, $1. fos 22 0. «VV oy No. 1 feed, 694c; No. 2 feed, 68ic. Flax --No. 1 N.W.C., $8.34; No. 2 C.W,, $3.29; No. 8 C.W., $3.19. : % United States Markets Minneapolis, Aug. 28--Wheat---Sep- $2.21; cash No. 1 Northern, ; No. 2 Northern, S28 to 1.68. Flour--unchanged. .00. Duluth, Aug _28---Linseed--$3.67; September, $3.67 asked; October, $3.51 asked; November, $3.50 asked; Decem- ber, $3.44 asked. Wheat--No. 1 North- ern, $2.40, nominal; No. 2 Northern, $2.36, nominal. R Bran--$28.00 Live Stock Markets Toronto, Aug. 28--Extra choice heavy 0 $850 ; do, tchers'! bull $9 0 $8; do. medium bulls, $7 ta_ rough bulls, $5 to $6; choice, $8.26 to $8.60; do., good, $7.50 to $7.90; do, medium, $6.65 to $6.85; stockers, $6.50 to $8.40; feeders, $7.75 to $9; canners and cutters, $5.25 to $6.25; milkers, good to choice, $80 to $126; do., com. and med., $40 to $60; springers, $80 to $125; light ewes, $8.76 to $10.00; sheep, heavy, $6 to $7.50; yearlings, $10 to $11; calves, good to choice, $18.60 to ; spring lambs, $16 to $15.60; hogs, 5 watered, $19.50; do. weighed off cars, $19.76; do, f.o.b., $18.26. Montreal, Aug. 28--Choice steers, od steers, $10 to $10.26; 8.560 to $9.50; common, cows, $6.26 to butchers' cows, utchers' the other advances of the past week A had done on the north and west. Thé possession of Green Grassier will also enable our men to sweep with their machine'guns a wide tract of country to the south of the Souchez River, now ocetipied by the enemy, in- cluding the mining village of Sir] Antoine, Re ain ~| lambs, $12 to $1 s ig icles AE ft re That the French language, is more suitable for telephoning than English has been proved sineé London and Paris were linked by telephones. nominal, according to. in 'jute | Ing to | Toronto, 030,22 "| destroyed. 5 Miniater tion wi the rio as a ent source of fish food" supply for the people of the Province. As a begi: of this important national und, ng, lakes Nepigon will | ed. The resources of these impo waters have been ascertained, an state with exactness 'the quantity of fish obtainable for public use, it is known that the added food supply which will be secured for the people of Ontario will in the aggregate amount annually to several million pounds. The chief fish of these wa- ters are whitefish, trout, pickerel and sturgeon, of which whitefish is the most abundant. Bp : + FRENCH FORCES ~ TAKE HILL 304 Last Remaining German Strong- hold Fronting Verdun. A despatch from Paris says: --Hill 804, the last remaining important stronghold of the Germans fronting rdun, fell into French hands at dawn on Friday. The French infantry, who had almost encircled the hill in previous attacks, charged the German positions in a brilliant dash and car- ried them by storm, capturing/the re- mainder of the Germans entrenched there. 3 Following the onslaught the army 'has passed triumphantly through the "critical 'period of all offensives--the first counter-attacks. A Havas cor- + | respondent says the Germans massed tremendous forces and launched suc- cessive attacks in' dense waves, through which shell firé cut lanes. The assailants wavered and broke under the fiercest storm of gun, machine gun and rifle fire and hand grenades, not a single German reaching the cone "to | quered lines. ames --m------ WESTERN HARVEST °° IS WEEK EARLY Prospects of a Uniformly High Quality of Wheat Crop. A despatch from Edmonton, Alta., says:--Harvesting is well under way 1.93; lin the territory immediately tributary i to Edmonton. Operations here are at their height this week. This means that the last district in the West to commence harvesting has already be- gun, and that throughout the three Prairie Provinces the final period of the crop season has been entered fully to | @ week earlier than a year ago. 'Dan- ger from frost is now reduced to a minimum, and the Western wheat crop 'this year promises to be uniformly high in quality. ee freee TURNING OUT SHIPS IN AMERICAN YARDS A despatch from Washifigton says: --1In addition to the new ships which will be built there are nearly two million tons of shipping now building / ' |in American yards, which has been commandeered by the Emergency Fleet Corporation. A large part of the Government fleet and of the - mandeered fleet will have been - June 380, 1918. Building, com- mandeering and purchase of vessels will total about two billion dollars. coef. RAGING. IN SALONICA STREETS FIRE IS A despatch from Athens says:--A second fire is burning 'in Salonica, where great damage was done last | week by a conflagration which destroy- ed: a considerable part of the city, making: 60,000 persons homeless. Thus far a thousand houses have been nd Inne ne while it is not at present possible to|} pleted by the end of the fiscal year,|- TN AS! WEAKNESS. ~ | HAYE AN IDEA -- | HELEN WiLL BE OVER HER_PEEVE "| AND BE TALKING TO ME INFIVE. | 1 MINUYES = JUST WAIT] WOMEN'S GREAT liberate Outrage. A despatch from London says i-- Under the headline, "Twenty-two Killed by Bombs in French Hg 3 Airman's Deliberate Purpose," 'the Times prints the following from Gerald Campbell, dated Verdun front, Wednesday evening: "In the bom- bardment by German aeroplanes of the French hospital, news of which has al- ready been telegraphed, 22 people were killed and 60 wounded. © Most of the victims were hospital nurses and orderlies, but there were also some wounded soldiers. In one part of the hospital grounds were lodged 180 wounded German prisoners in care of the very orderlies who were done to death by the German airman. . All of them 'escaped untouched. MUST EXERCISE ECONOMY IN COAL Sir George Foster Makes State- ment Presenting Fueb- : -Situation. A despatch from Ottawa says: An intimation that both Canada and the United States might have to be placed on "coal rations" was contained in a statement upon the fuel situation which Sir George Foster made in the Commons in reply to a question by Mr. W. E. Knowles, of Moose Jaw. This course might be necessary, Minister of. Trade and Commerce said; so as to-distinguish between absolute- ly necessary services and those not 80 necessary. Further, he stated a distinct call would have to he made to all interests to save coal just as food was being saved. ee pps ADDED TAX IS PLACED . ON INCOMES IN U. 8. - A despatch from Washington says: Advocates of conscription of the coun- try's wealth won a decisive victory when the Senate by a vote of 7 to.0, adopted the Gerry amendment to the War Revenue Bill, raising $40,000,000 » additional revenue from incomes, : ra RR ; oF Ypres-Menin Road the Scene of - Strenuous Battles. - A despatch from London says: The British continue their | methodical fighting on the Ypres-Menin road. During the past 24 ho they 'have made gains over their front, varying in depth from a quarter to half a mile, notwithstanding the tenacious resist- agce of the legions of Crown Prince Rupprecht., Perry Robinson, telegraphing to the Times under date of Thursday, re- fers to the scattered fighting on the Flanders front as follows: "The most valuable advance, though not » yards in depth, was made in the dij perately-contested region of Glencorsh wood and Inverness copse where the strategical value of the high ground made the determination of the Germans evident. to hold it as long- as possible regardless of expenditure of life. These two small woods have seen almost as prolonged severe fight- ing as Delville wood and High woods last year. - Neither is yet wholly in our possession." : emer ies SALE OF POULTRY . FOR THE segs A despatch from Toronto says: The Canadian. Poultrymen's_ n _Re- lief Association are going to hold a sale of pure bred poultry at the Can: adian National Exhibition, Toronto, on Labor Day, September 3rd, 1917. Any Ontario breeders who have not already donated still have time to help along this good work by sending their donations to -Raymond E. Burton, R.R. No. 2, Hamilton, Ont, who will forward shipping instruc: tions and tags. This work is authorized by the Allies' Agricultural Relief Committee, of which Dr. Robertson, of Ottawa, is chairman, and is backed by the Do- minion and allied Governments. All proceeds will go for the relief of wives and families of Belgian poultrymen in the devastated regions. This will also be a chance for breeders to buy stock from some of the best flocks in Ontario and Quebec. KING GEORGE SENDS MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION TO RU British Peoples A despatch from London says: King George has sent a telegram to King Ferdinand of Rumania, express- ing admiration for the resistance the Rumanians and Russians are offering to the enemy and expressing confi-| 'very gallant resistance they are mak-.. Wateh With Admiration the Gallant Stand Made by King Ferdinand's Troops. - w ~ ing to the assault' of the enemy: "The British peoples are closely following the course of the great bat- tle now raging and trust in the valor of the Rumanian and Russian troops dence that the efforts will not go un-iunder the leadership of Your Majesty rewarded. The telegram, says: "At a time when Your Majesty is engaged in a bitter struggle in dex fence of your country, I desire to con- vey to you the admiration of the Brit- ish peoples for the magnificent way in which the allied armies under your {command have fought and for the to bring the enemy's efforts to nought. "British forces in the west, in co- operation 'with' their gallant French comrades, are. striking hard at the common enemy and will continue by all mea their power to render all possible assistance to Your Majesty's forces, their allies" = eon