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despatch from Paris says: The defeat of the Germans in the By lent again shows that every ne the hem more or less equal forces and ve not been overpowered by num- 'bers the Germans have been made to feel the superior fighting quality of fhe poitus. Never, in the opinion of ti meh military authorities; will the jGermans break through these lines. At Rheims, as at Noyon, the enemy ell short of his elemental surprise. Everything had been carefully prepar- ed. French batteries of field and "heavy guns, which had been placed in iT on, quickly answered the Ger- 'man bombardment. French air pi- lots, who had previously reconnoitred _ the country, picked out the German _reserves and bombed them, had sig- "nalled their presence to the French guns, which poured forth a murdering fire on the enemy's lines 'h have had in front of | S 3 munications, thereby the advance eT troop: 8. sp . oy mek N led Germany's imgy jons 'of the su- perfor quality of French resistance are revealed by letters found on prisoners made in the recent attack. One of these is typical of the morale of the German soldier. This letter says: Enthusiasm and ardor have disappeared. The German army. now begins to realize that the. time of easy victories has passed, and that it will again see its soldiers piled up into walls of corpses. The memory of Verdun is being refreshed. French military circles regard the German attack at Rheims as a local action. They believe their main ef- fort will still be either northward to- ward the channel ports or southward toward Paris. AUSTRIAN ARMY SHORT OF FOOD Prisoners Ate on First Day All Rations Intended to Last Un- til They Reached Italian Stores. A despatch from Italian Army Headquarters, says:--At the begin- ning of the offensive the Austrians In the front line each received three rations of meat, one for each day of the attack until they reached the Italian stores. They were so hungry, however, that they ate all of them the first day. During a tour of the battlefront the correspondent talked with an Austrian prisoner, a member of a manufactur- ing firm with offices in all the great world centres, "I have been fighting for forty 'months," said the prisoner. "First, on the Russian tront, where I had an easy time, and now here, where the Italians are making things too hot for us. There is no food for the people of Austria, and next to none for the army. I had but a few pieces of bread and potatoes before the fight and since the fight began I have had none. "The army cannot last more than a couple of months at the best. There are no good officers\left. We have plenty of ammunition, but no one to use it properly." The Italian losses were compara- tively small, while to the known Aus- trian losses will have to be added the many Austrian dead which still en- cumber the wooded mountain sides. rene fee MILITARY SERVICE ACT HAS SUPPLIED 74,102. A despatch from Ottawa says: The following statement was {ssued on Thursday by the Department of Mil- itia and Defence: "In connection with the recent pub- lished returns, covering the opera- tions of the Military Service Act, it Is evident from some of-the comment in the press that the form in which the statement was made out has led to misunderstanding as to the total number of men obtained in relation to the 100,000 reinforcements authoriz- ed by the statute. "The total number of men obtain- #d by the machinery of the Military Bervice Act up to June 19 was 57,205, to which may be added for the pur- pose of determining the 'number of men available, 16,807 'who have 're- ported voluntarily." tn er mn 11 Destroyers, Many U-Boats Penned Up In Bruges Canal. A despatch from London says Twenty-one German destroyers, a large number of submarines and nu- rerous auxiliary craft are penned up the Bruges Canal docks as the re- sult of the recent British naval oper- ations at Zeebrugge, German sub- marine base on the 'Belgian coast. Thomas J. Macnamara, Financial See- retary of the Admiralty, made this announcement in the House of Com- mons, and said that the operations were more successful than at first had been supposed. He added that the German craft were now the sub- ject of constant bombing. AIR ROUTE TO British Air Council Organizes Service From United States to Begin About September. A despatch from Washington says: --Establishment of an alr route to Europe from the United States 'in order to bring the full force of Ameri- can effort in the air to bear against Germany has been decided upon as a definite project by the British Air Council, the new organization into which all British Air Service has been merged. This was disclosed on Friday by Major-General William Brancker, Controller of Equipmént on the coun- cily who is in Washington to discuss | this and other projects relating to air warfare with American officials. Plans for an initial flight across the Atlantic in August, September or Oc- tober of this year are already well ad- vanced. American co-operation is sought and Gen. Brancker hopes that the first machine to make the cross- ing will carry both British and Ameni- can pilots. At least three British pi: lots, regarded as qualified for the trip, are now here and several types of ma- 'chines produced in England have am- ple fuel capacity for the 40 hours of flying it is estimated the trip would take. \ ----eia BRITISH DAILY DEMOLISH ZEEBRUGGE REPAIRS. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The entrance to the harbor at Zee- brugge is blocked, according to Lieuts. George Coward and John Read, of the British Royal Air Force, who landed in the Province of Zeeland, Monday, and are to be interned at The Hague. In an interview publish- ed in the Telegraaf, they say the Ger- mans are working day and night to clear the passage, but each night British aviators demolish the Ger- man's progress. The cement ships gunk in the harbor are still there, and the Germans are afraid to blow them up for fear they will also destroy the sluices. The lieutenants assert that no submarines can enter or leave Zee- brugge. The blockade of Ostend is not so complete, but the Germans are having great trouble there, cree AQ msc, FOOD BOARD'S REMINDER OF STARVATION IN FRANCE. A despatch from Ottawa says: A bulletin isBued' by the Canada Food Board reads as follows: The population of France, our ally in this war, was about 89,000,000 when the war broke out. About 7, 000,000 dble-bodied men were con- scripted, 1,000,000 have since been killed, and over 1,000,000 more were put out of action. Agricultural pro- diction has dropped to nearly one- third. Women, children, old men and crippled soldiers are struggling to till the flelds of France. Horses were also conscripted for military service, and French women hitched themselves to the plows and harrows in place of draft animals. Frenchmen are fight- ing Germans, French women are fighting starvation. Deaths from starvation among the allies in Europe since the war are estimated at 4, and pd EUROPE PLANNED Markets of the World Breadstuffs Toronto, June 25--Manitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $2.28%; No. 2 do., $2.20%; No. 3 do., $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.10% in store Fort William, including 2%e¢ tax. 3 Manitoba oats--No., 2 CW, 86%¢; No. 3 C.W., Sane extra No. 1 feed, 88%¢; No. 1 feed, 80%, in store Fort William, ? American corn--No. 8 yellow, kiln dred nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln dried, nominal. - Ontario oats--No. 2 white, 79 to 80c: No. 8 white, 78 to 79c, according to freights outside, Ontario wheat--No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal. Peas-- Nominal. Barley--Malting, $1.18 to $1.20, ac- cording to freights outside. Buckwheat--$1.80, according to freights outside. Ryé--No. 22, $1.90, according to freights outside. ' Manitoba flour -- War quality, $10.95; new bags, Toronto and Mont- real freights, prompt shipment. Ontario flour--War quality, $10.65, in bags, 'Toronto and ontreal} promph shipment, Millfded--Car lots--Delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per fon, $85.00; shorts, per ton, $40.00. ay--No. 1, per ton, $18.50 to $14.50; mixed, $12.00 to $18.00. track Toronto. Straw--Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to $8.50, track Toronto. . -- Country Produce--Wholesale Butter--Creamery,. solids, per lb, 42% to 48¢; prints, per lb, 43%ec; dairy, per 1b:, 86 to 86c. \ Eris ew laid, 86 to 87c. A Poultry--Roosters, 28 to 25¢; fowl, = to 80c; 'ducks, 25 to 80c; turkeys, to trade at the following prices: -- Cheese--New, large, 23% to 24c; twins, 28% to 24%¢; old, large, 26% to 26¢; twin 26 to 26%c. Butter--Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 to 42¢; creamery prints, fresh made, 46 to 47c; solids, 44 to 4be. Margarine--28 to 33c 1b. Eggs--New laid, 40 #0 41¢; new laid, in cartons, 44 to 4bc. . Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, 6bc; roosters, 28¢c; fowl, 88 to 40c; turkeys, 40 to 46c. Live pouliry--Spring, chickens, 56¢; Jeosters, 26¢; turkeys; 30c; hens, 83 to Beans -- Canadian, "hand-picked, bushel, $8.76; imp., hand-picked Burma or Indian, $6.76; Japan, $8.50 3%.-1b, tins, 10 to a to $8.76; Limas, 18 to 20e. Maple aw case, $14.50; imperial gallon tins, per tin, $2.26; {al five-gallon cans per can, Re ) 16-gallon kegs, ; to | springers, $90.00 to 0c. Wholesalers are selling to the retail | A New Use For the Gas Mask. An American soldier in camp "somewhere" who does not intend to weep while he's peeling onions. { gal, $2.00; maple sugar 1.1b. box, pure; per 1b., 24 to 26c. - Provisions--Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 36 to 88¢; do., heavy, 80 to 82c; cooked, 50 to blc; rolls, 82 to 38¢; breakfast bacon, 41 to d4dc; backs, plain 44 to 4bc; boneless 48 to 4c. red meate_]ong clear bacon, 30 to 81c; clear bellies, 29 to 80e. Lard--Pure, tierces, 80% to 31%c; tubs, 81 to 81%e¢; pails, 8134 to 81%c; prints, 82%c¢; to 83%c. Compoun tierces, 26 to 26%c; tubs, 26% to 26%c; pails, 26% to 27c; prints, 28 to 28%c. : M eal Markets Montreal, ne «25--0ats--Cana- dian Westera, No. 2, 97%c; extra No, 1 feed, 94%ec. Flour--New standard grade $10.95 to $11.05. Rolled oats --Bags, 90 lbs, $5.10 to $5.16. Bran, $35.00. Shorts, $40.00. Mouillie, $70.00. Hay---No. 2, per ton, car lots, $16.50. Live Stock Markets Toronto, June 25--Extra choice] heavy steers, $15.50 to $16.00; choice heavy steers, $14.50 i $14.75; but- chers' cattle, choice, $14.50 to $15.00; do., good, $18.76 to $14.00; do, med- fum, $12.00 to $12.50; do, common, $11.00 to $11.25; butchers' bulls 12.00 to $12.50; do. good 11.50; do., rough : 0; hutchers! cows, .50; do. good $11.50 to $11.75; do., medium, $10.00 to $10.50; stockers, $9.25 to $11.00; feeders, $10.00 to $11.50; canners and cutters, $5.60 to $7.50; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to $140.00; do. com. end med. $65.00 to $80.00 $16.25 t 0s ve bun ewes, . 0 .00; year $18.50 to $20.00; spri fambs, 28 to 26¢; calves, $10.00 to $17.25; hogs, fed and watered, $18.00; do., weighe off cars, $18.25; do., f.0.b., ; Montreal, June 25--Cholce steers, $13.50 to $15.50; good steers, $11.00 to $18.00; choice butchers' cows $10.00 to $12.50; poorer quality, $7.00 to $9.50; butchers' bulls, $8.00 to $12.00; milk-fed calves, $9.50 to $15.00; select hogs $19.00 to $19.50. DAMAGE BY FROST . IN NEW BRUNSWICK. A despatch from Fredericton, NB; says: From all sections of the pro- vince come reports to the Department. of Agriculture that heavy frosts on Th y night have ruined crops. Buckwheat has been aid low and must be replanted. Potatoes have been af- fected, but it is thought they will recover. Beans, corn and tomato plants were nipped. The temperature © {and trians had 4 | bomb weighs less than two d hoped to their fro! 'and. gain the Astico River Valley, ch leads to Vicenza on the plains ow. : oH # Still farther south, between Fos- galta and San Dona: di Piave, Italians have f pushed back the vaders, and unofficial reports assert of Capo Sile, lying on the edge of the marsh region, some twenty miles east of historic Venice. It is mot outside the range of pos- Vsibility that a large number of the rans are in a fair way to be tak- en prisoner by the Italians, for a large pumber of the pontoon bridges which they threw across the Piave River over the 14%-mile front between the Conegiano Railway bridge and the Zenson loop have been carried away on the bosom of the swollen stream. At any rate the loss of these bridges will necessarily seriously impede the rein- forcement of the Austrians on the west bank of the stream and the re- plenishment of their supplies. A despatch from Rome says: Ttal- fan forces on Thursday continued their counter-offensive on the Piave NEW ENEMY DEVICE R OF FRIGHTFULNESS A despatch from Paris says:--"Flie- germaus," a device of frightfulness, is' the name given by the Germans to a recently perfected bomb which, ac- cording to their own claims, will multiply one hundredfold the precision and effect of night bombardments. The pounds, en- abling an aviator to carry hundreds at a single trip and is said to be employ- ed especially against crowds of peo- ple, Instructions found on the person of a German aviation officer made pri- soner the other day say that in order to get the greatest efficiency and per- mit the low flying aviator to see the result obained, the following method is employed: First, the aviator must throw several incendiary bombs on the object of attack. After a pause of some minutes. to permit the crowd to gather around the burning object, as they naturally would in order to extinguish the flames, the aviators must swoop down and throw this fliegermaus into the midst of the group. i lentes BRITAIN SPENDS : ' $34,400,000 DAILY. A despatch from London says: Great Britain's daily average expendi- ture during the current financial quar: ter was £6,848,000 (84,400,000), said Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in introducing a 'vote of credit for £500,000,000 ($2,600,000, 000) in the House of Commons. Mr. Bonar Law said that the pre- sent vote, which would bring the to- tal war credits to £7,842,000,000, would cover expenditures until the end of August. 'The debt due Great Britain from her allies is £1,870,000,000, Mr. Bonar Law sald, while the dominions owe £206,000,000, i em TORONTO TO MONTREAL ~~ FLIGHT IN 270 MINUTES. ! A despatch from Montreal says: Capt. Bryan Peck arrived in Montreal via airship from Leaside, Toronto, at noon on Friday. He 'flew the 330 miles in four hours and 80 minutes, the last half of the trip being in a furious gale. 'He was accompanied by a "Sori 1 on the trip. ~The aviator 1a at Bois Franc, where a guard machine until at the lowest point on Thursday night a 32 degroms : i y oy begins on Monday. "3 1 Have 17, NA BOY. ez A DOS, AND DOGS = ZOMATE CATS | Zrp pp PPS of soldiers took over charge of the. the trip back to Leaside | that they have recaptured the village stru ing headway either in Montello pla- teau or that section of the country ly= ing between the Treviso-Mestre a the San Dona di Piave-Mestre rafl« way lines, where the fighting ha hard and cruel all the week, wi Austrians sorely pressed at every point and harassed on both sides of the river by the Italian small guns and also huge pieces belonging to the navy, mounted upon floats, which move about the-waterway at will. 3 NOT T0 BE CALLED _ BEFORE HARVEST Fifty-Five Thousand Men of M. Years of Age Register For Service. A despatch from Ottawa says Fifty-five thousand men of nineteen years of age vice under the Military Seryice and, as indicated, it is not the infgen- tion of the Government to call an; the men to the Colors probably the harvest is over. ; Keen satisfaction is expressed with the way 'in which the young men re- sponded to the call to register. In a number of cases the number of regis- trations was considerably higher than the estimated possible registration, Over the Dominfon as a whole actual registration was 98.11 per cent, of the estimated possible registration. Registrations by districts were as follows, the return for Quebec dis- tricts still being incomplete: London, 5,888; Toronto, 9,248; Kingston, 5,261; Hull, 916; Montreal, 924; St. John, 8,018; Charlottetown, 878; Kenora, 809; Winnipeg, 8,198; Vancouver, 8,018; Regina, 5,042; Cal- gary, 3,104; total, 65,281. Improved conditions in the Province of Quebec are reflected in the Montx real and Hull figures. In Montreal actual registration was 108.77 of the estimate, and in Hull 91.28 per cent. - Estimated possible registration for the Dominion was 56,244. a FOUR MILLION TONS TOR OF COAL FOR CA & A 'despatch from JVashington says: . --Arrangements to ship 000,000 tong of coal to North-western" States and portions of Canada via the Great Lakes were made to-day by the Fuel and Railroad Administrations. = Ap- proximately four million tons of ins quantity will go to Canada. ; 4 3 ¥ [TALIAN TRANSPORT TOR- 'PEDOED--- 640 PERISHED, have registered for ser-... =