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Ontario oats--No. No. freights outside. Ontario wheat--No. 2 Winter, Jot, $2.22; basis | No. 2, $3. to freights outside. Barley--Malting, cording to freights outs! Buckwheat--3$1.83 t to freights outside. Rye--N Y freights fanitoba flou new ba Ontar' new bags, prompt shipment Millfeed--Car _ real freights, bags included: , $35.40; ayy mixed, $14 to Straw--Car track Toronto. 8c; the which ly populated by civilians, and as re- gards the character of the country, it is a barren gain. |Moreover, the en- | emy communications are lengthened. across long tracts of clay. "The weather has improved and on Thursday morning the 'nllies were effectively co-operating in large num- 3 rs, "At 10 o'clock Thursday morning the enemy made a formidable attack against Hollebeke, and fighting of great intensity followed. Masses of the enemy advanced in waves over heavy ground flanking Roozebeck, making a great target for the rifle- men and machine guns, which wrought what is described as terrible 'execus tion. ' - A despatch from French Head- quarters says: Relative quiet pre- FOOD BOARD vails from Hangard to Noyon. The French carried out a small infantry | ° attack at Grivesnes Chateau, locally improving their position in the park. The guns are active on both sides along the whole front. The Germans Dealers Notified They will Be|War have done little trench digging. The enemy airmen are more active, but | are showing little inclination to take the offensive. lar coup, again wirling masses of fiercely-bat- Spoor as the result of a new ched by the enemy between Germans are partiulcarly de- of capturing Messines Ridge be and pressed their at- ere throughout the sanguinary hand-to- fighting occurred at the places, tide of battle surging back and h for many hours before the en- mr finally abandoned temporarily § attempts here. Coincident with the attack north _ Armentieres the enemy continued push northwestward from Croix Bac below Armentieres in order complete the pocketing of the' lat- ytschaete, ~ 'hard 'Much r city. A later despatch says: "The situa- n in Flanders is regarded on Thurs- as fairly well in hand, but the ting continues on a heavy scale is likely to continue. the Germans achieved developed of an advance in the centre of the inal front of attack, helped out by Markets of the Worl Ws April 16---Manitoba 1 Northern, $2.23 ; Ni 0 : 3, do., $2.17%: 5 store Fort Willlam, includin 1 Manitoba LW. 92 N 'No. 1 feed. 89ic, in store American corn Ww Duluth, Minn, Apr 1 442 to 3101 alive. 0, May, 408, bi i July, $4.06% i ctober, responsible; large reduction in Tdve Stock Markets apples and potatoe Toronto, April 16 -- Heavy steers, | quantity choice, $13.26 to $13; do., good, $11.50 to a Jif; butchers' steers and, heifers: choles Valley and i» endl "60 to $13; do. good, $11.26 to $11.75: | tres was reduce ur do.. medium, $10 to $10.25; do., com- mon, $8.50 to $9.25; butchers' . | March by nearly 100,000 b choice, $9.76 to $10.50; 73%, good, 39,%0 0., Me yin, Pie: o $8.60; do. place Ht 4 3.6 Toronto, hibit importations. 2 white, 93 to 94c: 0, A 750 to $8; feeders, best, $9.60 to 10.80; stockers, best, $9.50 to $9.76; grass cows, $7 to $7. springers, choice, $100 to $185; do., com. | to med., es to $90; to $17; ., medium, ide. o $1.85, according sheep, choice handy, $13 to ne? 11 r--War quality. $11.10, [903703 watered, $20.25 to $20.50; 0. off cars, $20.50 to $20.75; do., f.0.b, Toronto and Montreal f $19.26 to $19.6 en) - | to jota---Delivered Mont choice butcher sows, $9 to $10.60; goo cows, to $9; butcher bulls, $8 to 10.50; canners' cattle, $6 to $6; calves, milk-fed, $7 to $14; some Jory choice at 10 to $16 $15; spring lambs, from aplece: choice select hogs, off cars, $21 to $22; sows, $19 to $20. lots. per ton, $8.60 to Country Produce-- Wholesale Butter--Creamery, to 48c; prints, per 1b, 48 fo 49¢; Oc. w laid, 35 to 36¢. Dressed, chickens, 26 to 28¢c; y + ducks, 26 to 30c; geese, , 81 to 22¢; turkeys, 30 to 3 'Wholesalers are sellin trade at the following 3 solids, per 1b. 47| UKRAINIAN GRAIN per 1b, 39 t Eggs--Ne A despatch received here from Kiev, Russia, says that an agreement was signed Tuesday afternoon by the Ukrainian and German and Austro- Hungarian delegates for the supply to the Central Powers of some 60,000,000 Poo one-third of a pound) of bread, fod- der, grain, peas, beans and seeds. O these 9,000,000 poods are to be deliver- ed in April, 15,000,000 in May, 20,- 000,000 in June, and 19,000,000 in July. The despatch adds that the de- liveries of the grain already have be- gun. ne Ar 29 MEN OF CANADA 830. dairy, choice, 41 to 42c; Putter--Fresh o B2c; solids, 49 to ereamery prints, 60 t boc. . Margarine--32 to Eggs--New laid, in cartons, 46 to 47 Dressed poultry-- fowl, 30 to 33c; 1b. to 43c; new laid, "85 to 880; to 46c. ore Zoyliry=--Turkg hy 0 28c; Heans--C: 60; Imp. dian, $6.50 t mas, 19 to T 80¢: chickens, to 33 hand-picked, Burma or o $7; Japan, $8 to $8.25; v5 Maple syru Imperial gallon, $2.26; wine gallon, $1.75. } Provisions-- Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, oe; do., heavy, 30 to 32¢; rolls, 81 to 32c; breakfast bacon, 4c; backs, plain, 43 to 44c; bone- 0, eats--Long clear bagon, 29 to 313 to 82¢c: tubs, 333c; pails, 32 to 32ic; Compound tlerces, 26 41 to 4 Cured m return tabled in Parliament on Thurs- day at the request of Mr. Ww. S. Mid- dlebro, Chief Government Whip, shows to c. to ' that up to the present time 29 @dc; tubs, 26 7c; prints, 27% to 28c. Lard '31% to + 2 33% Montreal Markets April 16--Oats--Canadian ; extra No. 1 feed, white, $1.06; Ne, 8, n Montreal, Western, N 1.07; Ni do, $1. % wheat grad oats--B ran, $3 48.50; , per ton, car lots, | BRITISH CAPTURE , PALESTINE TOWNS 'Winnipeg, 18--Cash prices:-- ts--No. o; extra No. 1 1 fi United States Markets Minnea one weather; The territory enemy OVer-ran was sparse- 8---Linseed-- do., canners', $8.26 to ¥9; do. common, milkers and calves, choice, $16.60 . $14 to $14.75; do. avy and fat bucks, $ 0. Montreal, April 16--Choice steers, $12 $13; good steers, $10.60 to $11.18, ame leon ALREADY EN ROUTE. A despatch from Amsterdam says: ds (a pood is a little more "than WON VICTORIA CROSS ae A despatch from Ottawa says: --A Canadians have won Victoria Crosses for deeds of valor on the battlefield. The names and particulars of the in- published in cable despatches. --l-- municipal authorities of fitted with electric light. SPLENDID PART ARDING| PLAYED BY CANADA Has Cost to Date 835 Millions and 100,000 costs about $7.50 to build a STOPS HO Prosecuted if Stocks Al- Jowed to Spoil. m Ottawa says: The om Ottawa says: The tale of Canada's out] ure for the attainment involved in the present | tions is told in the great ures with which Sir Robert Borde: roduced the discussion of minion's fifth war appr in Committee of the Wh A despatch fro Canada Food Board new anti-waste and ant . | ders made by the board hav! in part at least, s in Canada. The | the Annapolis | leading marketing cen- ing thi th of ing the ORES 0 hrills to the listener; but e Prime Minister's state- ded by a mew and clear-! of the magnitude of of the financial bur- of the struggle. + 1017-18 Canada's war f expenditure at home and abroad so $885,950,010. To that f the disbursements for r are as estimated, king a total since the of $1,352,227,828. As ter pointed out, how- oes not represent all The smallest reduction hi som A A " y .28; oo ine Winnipeg, yhsre 1 36; utchers' bulls, 3 $052 $9431; do. wood, $9.25 vo Joion: | zels of apples were in store 'solely b they are, food produc ér appreciation 80, as compare e Canada Food Board the chief food in- peg enquiring whe- e liable to be has telegraphed spector at Winni| ' [ther these holdings ar 5 | marketed without'] en care of without od Board is prepared to ire dealers to dispose of thout delay. Very con- e supplies of onions are re- d in British Columbia. that they are the present yea $516,277,804, mal outbreak of war the Prime Minis ever, that sum d the expenditures of the much as certain out in Great Brita 'siderabl ported to be hel Dealers are warned liable to prosecution if any part these stocks be allowed to spoil. : 0 CENT PAPERS IN BRITISH ISLES in have not yet been reported and included in the amounts. as . 4,000,000 MORE" ACRES : A despatch from London says:-- UNDER CROR THIS YEAR. The last one-cent newspaper in the British Isles; the Daily Express, has now gone up to two cents. now has one 6-cent morning two at 4 cents and the remainder at 2 The afternoon papers except one, which A despatch from Victoria says: Prof. W. J. Black, commissioner ad- ministering the Agricultural Instruc- timates there will be an addition of 4,000,000 acres un in Canada this year as compar 1917. Half will be in the east of the Great Lakes, nearly a million acres 600,000 in Quebec, are all two cents, sells at 'four cents. German Long-Range Enemy Airmen in Killing Babies where many of the e Maritime Provinces. oO acres in the Western A despatch from Paris says:--The half will be in Sas- bombardment of Paris by the Ger- man long-range gun was resumed Thursday afternoon. provinces, about Boiled rice served with any stewed The total victims 4 " fruit makes a good, inexpensive des- bombardment were four killed and ~ JLD TIME 4% 67 8.9 100 12 $6 7. 6 9 lon _4ULY JUNE - dividual acts' of heroism included in the return are the same as already ED AYR te ali ad DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME s 8 . n + 4 A despatch from London says:-- British troops on April 9 advanced their line north of Jerusalem, in 3. | Palestine, to a depth of one and a half miles along a front of five miles, the British War Office announced on Thursday. Notwithstanding. the stubborn resistance of 'the Turks, the How We Will Gain an Hou for Play Under Canadi's Daylight "Saving n. one hour. Observe ting the clock on own our hours am Shows the effect of set time without cutting d that it gives us an extra hour of play- and El Kefr. British captured the villages of Rafat| ¢ work or sleep. ep . The "Doings o a London suburb as a refuge during air raids. It ETRE r - ilitary writer, MUST RAISE FOOD |85.t Fst che 6: =v. certain principles laid down b . at Ottaw AIRSHIPS RAID brugge and Ostend. .. tricts. O in penetra some. bomb en. Further details are not yet avail-| of bombs were dropped on Bapaume, able. The raid is still in progress." |on villages south of the Somme and. 'A despatch from Paris says:--Ger:|on military objectives at 'Ostend and man airplanes attempted & raid on the | Zeebrugge. One of our machines Paris district Friday night. They | did not return. dropped a few bombs, but-it is not| «On Friday the Sablons railway known whether there are any casu-|station at Metz was bombed success: orders expressing its disapproval -of the growing disregard of this regula- regiment Ardenne, a capture of Jerusalem had become @ OR JOIN THE ARMY practicable possibly. tends. acrom Palestine from the Mediterranean ta the Jordan River, passing about Wi Only Farmers Who Show Ade- : 7 | mil yiorth of Jerusalem. Alon quate Results Will Be Tle Ie Aitorrandan, i the Turco. Exempted. German attack is_ being made, the British have pushed some distance A despatch from Ottawa says: The attention of farmers receiving condi. | north of the port o" dalle, which ie tional exemption from military ser- important because *y serves as : tonal ee date fs directed to | Dus for the. British sea commu sh, which have been tions and also is connected by railroad central appeal judge with Jerusalem. The capture of Jaffa hich apply to all exempt- and the cutting of the railway line ed men in this class. SPE | probably are the immediate objective: The need for troops cannot be exag- : gerated. On the other hand, the ne- cessity for maintaining food produce 35 HUN h PLANES tion is likewise pressing. The ex- - emption granted farmers is granted 4 ecause of the conviction that IN ONE DAY \ or may be, more useful in - tion than as troops at the m------ of the enemy. y |i Mp Bombs Dropped on Metz Rail: Way Station, Also on Zee- . saysi-- which were destroye: down by British aviators on Thursday. v A despatch from London Thirty-five German airplanes, 21 of d, were brought Enemy Also Attempted Air |The official statement on: aerial ac- bombs tivities reports the dropping of Raid on Paris District. on military targets behind the battle A despatch from London, saysi--|front and on a railway station at A German aerial raid wag made on] Metz. The statement reads: the east coast of England Friday| "The mist which prevailed the last evening. One or two of the raiders few days continued until late Thurs- succeeded in penetrating further in-| da afterncon, when there was gre activity in the air along the whole and, Field Marshal French's report said: | front. Twenty-one hostile machines "Some hostile airships crossed the|were destroyed and 14 were driven east coast this evening, and proceeded | down out of control. to attack certain Eastern Midland dis-| "Four of ours are missing. Two of ne or two raiders succeeded | our machines reported missing yester- ting further inland, where|day have since returned. : s are reported to have fall-| "During the night over eight tons fully. Twenty-two heavy bombs were dropped, all of which burst on the rail- a es Mustache an Army Badge. way and sidings. All of our ma- It is against the British-army regu- chines returned." = ' lations for an officer to shave _his up- -- kn i + per lip, and from time' to time the British War Office has issued general TWO Ney Dpea a AVY -- L.A despatch from Amsterdam says! The mustache long-has been regard- | --Two new. dreadnoughts have been ed as a military badge. Only one regiment in the Austro-Hungarian | war, according to the Vossische Zeit- cavalry may go smooth faced, and this | ung, and have participated in the is because during the Seven Years War recruits were so scarce that this | the Islands of Oesel and Dago. Th. ; once had to go into battle vessels are the Baden and B when "there were nothing but. beard-| which were launched in 1015, at ; Jess boys in its ranks. It behaved |and Danzig. They fire 88-centimetre with such gallantry, however, that | 'shells. : its members remain beardless to the SRE A 3 present day. ce ler Poor Overworked Words. It is declared by a philologist that nine words do one-fourth of our verb- al work, and forty-three words one- | MacPherson, Parliamentary Under- half. The nine most useful words are: Secretary of the War And, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, you, | a questioner. : Among the thirty-four are: About, all, [en to "construct a British gun capable as, at, but, can, come, day, dear, for, |of throwing a shell more than 80 get, £0. added to the German fleet during the bombardment of the fortifications on BRITISH TO CONSTRUCT GUN. \ TO THROW SHELL 80 MILES. A despatch from London says: In the House of Commons on Friday JL Office, informed | that steps had been tak- miles. [36 No0k shoPPNG | a | ow! py present | : \ wie conpraions