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~~ ONNORTHERN BANK OF te Strong Counter-Attacks Allies patinue. Advance: Cap- turing a Number of Villages Including Jel Cap: A despatch from the Frerch Army : France says: --Notwithstanding st German counter-attacks in the Chateau Thierry pocket, the allied troops advanced considerably" on Thursday, capturing a number of vil- lages, of which the most important is Oulchy-la-Ville. . ; The battle. took an extremely vio- fent turn on the northern bank of the Marne, where ~ Franco-Am however, pushed forward a distance of between two and three miles. On the other side of the salient a Ger- man attack resulted in the momen- tary capture of a dominating height known as 240, but the enemy posses- sion did not last. The Fronch and British organized an immediate coun- ter-attack and regained the hill, cap- turing most of the Germa:s occupy- ing it. "Fresh troops were thrown in by the Allies to meet the enemy blow. On both wings of the salient the ar- ALLIES STEADILY CLOSING IN 200,000 Germans Lost in Sois- sons-Rheims Sack--Ameri- cans Occupy Courpoil. A despatch from the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, says:--With the sides of the Soissons- Rheims sack coming steadily closer together, the German Crown Prince's generals are driving their men merci- Jessly in an effort to hold the allies off long enough to extricate the armies threatened at the bottom north of the Marne. The American and French are hever far behind the retreating forces, and the vicious rear-guard actions ar2 not sufficiently resistant to emable the Germans to proceed in the orderly manner planned. At Dormans, north of the Marne and east of Chateau Thierry, the Germans counter-attack- ed, taking the position, but were promptly driven out. They occupied Treloup, west of Dormans, and have held it. . Minor advances have been made by the allies in the woods in that part of the sector, while further to the east, south of Rheims, there were addi- tional allied success. The Americans have occupied Cour- poil, on the road to Fere-en-Tardefois, and the French positions have been advanced until Oulchy-le-Chateau is dominated by their guns, Nearer Soissons, the Germans fail- ed to hold all their positions, notwith- standing reinforcements and their desperate need. It is estimated unofficially to-night that the enemy losses are more than 200,000, of which 50,000 were inflicted by the Americans, The prisoners kone number over 26,000, and the losses in dead and wounded are ap- re a Oulchy-la- Ville. tillery duel was of the most violent character, as the Germans had con- eentrated most of their guns on their flanks." va "The Germans have strengthened their line and are counter-attacking determinedly on the whole front of the salient from the Ourcq to Vrigny, thus attacking towards the west, south and east. Apparertly they have decided to refuse to accept de- feat, and are making a further stand for the salient and a footing north of the Marne. "The enemy south of the Oureq is attacking in a south-easterly direction against the Bois-de-la-Tournelle and the line of Beuvardes-le~-Charmel. Further south attack and counter-at- tack are alternating in rapid succes- slop, and the fighting is of the most violent description. The enemy on the eastern wing of the salient has|ta attacked the new British salient en- closing the woods west of Vrigny. We are vigorously counter-attacking." BRITISH GAIN WEST OF RHEIMS Narrow German Salient by Ad- vancing Two Miles Toward Fismes. A despatch from London says:-- British and French troops have ad- vanced to Gueux and Mewsy-Premecy, in the battle sector just west of Rheims, according to information here on Wednesday afternoon from the battle front. The new line shows an advance of about two miles toward Fismes. This ou BN cavaon PT RTRPRT AT. i Breadstuffs Toronto, July 80.--Manitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $2.23%; No. Northern, $2.20%; No. 8 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.10%, in store Fort William, including 2%ec. X. Manitoba oats--No. 2 C.W., 903%ac; No. 3 C.W., 87%c; extra No. 1 feed, 87%c; No. 1 feed, 843%e, in store Fort William, American corn--No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln dried, nominal. - Ontario oats--No. 1 'white, 88 to 87c, nominal; No. 8 white, 85 to 86e, pofaizal, according to freights out- side. Ontario wheat--No.. 2, Winter, per car lot, $2.22, basis in store Montreal. Peas--No. 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Barley--Malting, $1.35 to $1.87, nominal. Buckwheat--$1.80, nominal. R e--No. 2, $1.90, nominal. anitoba flour -- War quality, $10.95, Toronto. Ontario flour -- War $10.65, in bags Montreal a onto, prompt s {pment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, uality; Ri Tor~ gain when seen on the map is of gvi- dent importance for it greatly nar- rows the salient created by the Ger- mang in their drive of last May. It is no longer proper to speak oO the pocket as running from Soissons to Rheims for the newest advantage of the Entente allies has pulled the eastern edge of the pocket eight juoiles' to the westward, making Mery-Pre- mecy the marker for the eastern rim. The mouth of the pocket is now only 21 miles wide and the whole dis- trict between the two sides is under the range of Entente allied guns. The advance of the British and French forces along the battle front between Rheims and the Marne to Gueux and Mery-Premecy represents a gain. of about 1% miles along a front of three miles. The town of Gueux lies to the south of the River Vesle and is about five miles directly west of the Cathedral City. Mery-, Premecy is a short distance north of | the Fismes-Pargny railway and is about 10% miles south-east of Fismes, which is in the centre of a line run- ning between Soissons and Rheims. ee leet ? ton, track Toronto. CANADIANS CONCEDED BEST ARMY OF SIZE | hams, medium, 37 to $36 per ton; shorts, $40 per ton. Hay_No 1, $16 to $17 per ton,| track Toronto; mixed, $14 to $15 per ton, track. Straw--Car lots, $8 to $8.50 per Country Produces--Wholesale Wsraacia IF OF OF OF AT RTT O_o OUR MTRTRTRTRTRIETOT TOT RTE RE REPT ITSTRTRT ETAT Ms ory ot ol COMPARED WITH OTHER NATIONS ON THE BASIS OF.THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS TO THE D ACRES OP' LAND IN FARMS , ---- LE = J $16.50 to 17.00; spring lambs, to 20%ec; calvi good, $13.50 to $17.00; hogs, fed Fir $19.00; do, weighed off cars, 'Montreal, July 80.--Good steers: $10.50 to $.00; butchers' cows, 3B fo $10.00; butchers' bulls, $7. $9.00; choice milk-fed calves, $18.00 to $15.00; pdorer $9.00; sheep, $12 00 lambs, $18.00 to $21.00; choice sel hogs, cars, $19.25 to $19.50. J a ---- CANADIAN TROOPS ARRIVE SAFELY IN ENGIPAND $16.00; yearli A despatch from Ottawa says: --It is officially announced through the Chief Press Censor's office that the following troops have arrived in the United Kingdom: Infantry, Imperial recruits _In- fantry, draft No. 43, No. 2 Construc- tion Battalion (colored), from Lon- don, Ont. , Infantry, draft No. 29, 1st Depot Battalion, Western Ontario Regiment, Londgn," Ont. Infantry, Draft No. 46, 2nd Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, Kingston. talion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, Kingston. Infantry, draft (part) No. 66, 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba Regiment, Winnipeg. Cavalry, draft No. 66, 34th Fort Garry Horse, Win- nipeg. Infantry, draft No. 35, 1st Bat- talion Saskatchewan Regiment, Re- gina, Sask. Infantry, draft No. 65, 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba Regi- ment, Winnipeg. Infantry, draft No. 68, 1st Battalion, Saskatchewan Regiment, Regina, Sask. Draft No. Eggs--No. 1 candled, 48 tuo 49c¢; selected, new-laid, 50 to blc; cartons, 52 to Bde. Butter--Creamery, solids, 4b¢; do. fresh -made, 46 to 47c; choice dairy prints, 41 to 42c; ordinary dairy prints, 88 to 40c; bakers' to 88¢c; Slemargurine, (best grade), 82 Cheese--New, large, 23% to 24c; twins, 28% to 24%c; spring made, large, 25% to 26c; twins, 26 to 26%c. eans--Canadian, prime, bushel, $6.60 to $7.50. Foreign, hand-picked, bushel, $6.75 to $7. | Comb Honey--Choice, 16 oz., $3.50 per dozen; 12 oz., $8 per dozen; sec- onde and dark som yl 2 50 to ug aple rup--Impe: gallons, ! $2.25; b-gallon tins, $2.10 per Jol jon. Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to . { Provisions--Wholesale | Barrelled Meats--Pickled pork, $48; mess pork, $47. Green Meats--Out of pickle, 1c less 'than smoked. 82 to 83c; Smoked Meats--Rolls, 38c; heavy, 30 | 74 (part), Engineer Training Depot, St. Johns, Que. Infantry, draft No. 79, Ist Depot Battalion, Eastern On- tarlo Regiment, Kingston. Infantry, draft (part) No. 80, 2nd Depot Bat- talion, Ottawa, Ont. Cavalry, draft No. 58, Royal Canadian Dragoons, Toronto. Draft No. 58, Railway Operating Troops, Nnagara, Ont. Probationary paedical officers. V. A. D. nurses. Details. A total of 3,685. + Ape Picture of the Desolation In Wake of German Retreat A despatch from Paris says: --An eye witness on the banks of the Marne thus describes the scenes of desolation in the wake of the German retreat: "Clusters of dead Germans are seen on all sides of the big wheat-covered plain. The Marne scintillates in the sunshine. The region, apparently, is | deserted. A lone bird sings on a tree. But the two artilleries seek each other, d .00 to gr spring | Infantry, draft No. 47, 1st Depot Bat-|, further baék to the north, and the forests now have been almost entirely to! cleared of Germans. | South-west of Rheims heavy rein- | forcements evidently * have been : British, French and Italians, are fight- ing. In the immediate region of Reuil, where the . battle line turns sharply toward Rheims, the French have ~ captured several important | points of vantage, including the vil- {lage of Reuil and also advanccd their line northward, notwithstanding the violence of the Cerman. counter-move. To the north-east, where the Germans are facing the British, the Germans have, recaptured Mery and [Till 294, BRITISH TANKS BLAZED TRA Co-operated With French Infan- try in Assault North of Montdidier. in France-says--British tanks blazed the trail Yor and co-operated with the French infantry in its recent ground- gaining assault north of Montdidier. The victory was important for, by hurling the enemy lines west of the Avre River from the high ground be- tween Morisel and Montdidier into the valley on a front of more than two miles, thereby compelling withdrawal from other positions the French some- what relieved the pressure on Amiens and the surrounding territory and in addition captured some high ground which gives excellent observation over much enemy territory. ip me, WHAT ONE BUDDY . DOES WITH HIS PA A despatch from Alexandria, La. says:--The question of what an en- listed man in the American army thrown along the front, where thee A despatch from the British Armies does with all his money has been financial affairs of one member of a regard. The soldier receives $83 a month. Of this $16 is sent to his mother, $5 is on a Liberty bond and $6.50 is deducted for insurance, answered here by-a disclosure of the| e \ resistance / to /the _ French pressure has been very deter- ¥ mined on the heights beyond Soissons. Big allied guns have been the sectors before them over which Jf is purposed to push forward for" capture" of Fere-en-Tardenois when the time is ripe. . Meantime allied = big guns over the entire salient 7 ue to throw shells from all a nto German forces inside the big bag. pulled up 3 in this region and are Ay 3 ON GERMAN CITIES British Establish Record For : Long-Distance Bombing Attacks. A despatch from London says:i-- Thoughout the week the aerial fight- ing jon the western battle front has been of a violent character. From a trustworthy source it is learned that during the week the British downed 76 enemy machines and drove down 15 out of control. Fifty-one British _ machines are missing. : One hundred and fifty-four tons of bombs were dropped during the week. The week's record for long-distance bombing attacks was the heaviest of the war. Twenty-five separate raids were made into German territory. Thionville was bombed four times and the famdus poison gas factory a munition works at Mannheim twicgh~ The blast furnaces at Burbach and the railway and factories at Offenburg also came in for shelling twice. Aerial attacks on German naval and submarine bases on the Belgian coast continued day and night. Up- wards of 20 tons of explosives were dropped on Zeebrugge and Ostend. On the Italian front the air fighting resulted in th& downing of 19 enemy machine-gun conipany at Camp Bau-i machines, without the loss of a single British aircraft. BRITISH COURT v % RADS IN WEEK ~~ leaving a balance of $6.50 or ap- : MOURNS, EX-CZAR proximately twenty-one cents a day.| A d from -- As Uncle Sam provides him with King deeputeh, om, London, British everything he desires and the twenty-| Court to go into mourning for four A, .._| to 81¢; cooked hams, 50 to Ble; backs, sweeping the roads, farmsteads and or Jor Wi ii vi Ty aysi--| plain, 44 to 45c; backs, boneless, 48 woods. When the roar ceases occas an e high standing : ito 49c. Breakfast bacon, 40 to 4lc. gionally, it is as if one was transport- ian Army Corps at the front is the Cottage rolls, 36 to 36c. ed suddenly to a calm syl h retreat subject reference in a letter whih|, DY sad Meats-_Jong, Sear =n \ then comes the odor of death." bene cents is idle wealth, he has de- palling. let BIGGEST BATTLE OF WAR RAGING Seventy German Divisions Iden- tified--25,000 Men and 500 Guns Taken. A despatch with the French Army in France says:--Up to the present 70 German divisions have been identi- fied in the present fighting zone, and the battle therefore may be regarded as the biggest since the beginning of the war. The prisoners taken number over 26,000, and more than 500 cannonsand thousands of machine guns have been captured. Of the prisoners 14 per cent. belong to the 1919 class, showing that nearly all of these boys already have been incorporated in fighting units, - If all of them have been utilized they would form from 17 to 18 per cent. of the German strength. ' Information received proves that the 1920 class, which it was intended ~ to be incorporated in the army of October, has been ordered into the units in September. Most of those _of this class are not 18 years old. Lieut.-Col. Hugh Clarke, Parliamen- | | tary Under-Secretary for Affairs, has received from Sir Robert tubs, 80 Boden. of his letter, says: «You will be glad to know that the Canadian Army Corps is univer- sally recognized as the most effective and formidable force of its numbers in any of the beligerent armies. As to this, there is no question in the mind of any man who has spoken to me on thessubject." PL 300,000,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT IN AUSTRALIA A despatch from Washington says: -- Nearly 300,000,000 bushels of wheat is stored in Australia, the Food Ad- ministration was informed recently. Details of the guarantees surround- ing 1918-1919 wheat harvest in Aus- tralia also were transmitted. The Australian Government. has guaranteed 83 cents per bushel and to this the Commonwealth has added 12° cents, making the price 95 cents to the pro- ducer. -- In Buenos Aires the cash price for wheat is $1.44 per bushel. Cash corn is selling there for 62 cents per Sir Robert, in the course gis;e. prints, 32 to 82%c. ies, 28 to 28%c; fat backs, 26c. Lard--Pure, tierces, 30% to 38lc; to 81%ec; ails, 81; to Shorten-| ing, tireces, 26 to 26%c; tubs, 26% to 26%c; pails, 26% to 27c; 1-lb, prints, 27% to 28c. Montreal Markets Montreal, July 80.--Oats, Canadian western, No. 2, $1.01%; extra No. 1 feed, 98%c lour, new standdrd grade $11.05 Rolled outs, bags, 90 bs., $5.20 to $5.30. Bran, Shorts, $40. Moullie, $68. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50. : h-- * | "Live Stock Markets i 1 Toronto, July 30.--Choite heavy steers, $13.76 to $14.75; butchers', cattle, choice, $18.25 to' $18.50; do. ood, $12.50 to $12.75; do, medium, $11.35 to $11.85; do common, $9.00 to $10.00; butchers' bulls, choice, 11.00 to $11.25; do. medium bulls,' 10.25 to $10.60; do. rough bulls, 7.50 to $8.00; butchers' cows, choice, 11.00 to $11.26; do, good, $10.50 to $5.25 to $8 $8.25 \ 10.75; do. 'medium, o $8.75; do. common, $7. ; stockers, $8.00 to $10.50; 10. $11.00; canners and cutters, $5.50 to $6.50; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to $125.00; do, com. and med. $65.00 to $75.00; springers, $90.00 50 to Th SAY, WHATS HAPPENED 0 THE NEW DRASSIE | JUST BOUGHT P11 HELEN, | L_1 AND PAID 8d Now ITs Gone to $125.00; light ewes, $13.00 to Doings of th DOUGHT A; 1&8 NesTERDAY 32 FOR IT -- epee White, Black and Yellow Races Intermingle in Battle Line A despatch from the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front says:--Intermingled in the line of battle and along the roads are white, black and yellow races in all the units, and the big machine is moving with- out a knock or a lost motion. Now and then the color scheme to the rear of the fighting line is broken by a col- - umn of gray-clad prisoners, whose appearance is always quickly noticed by the troops who are more accus- tomed to the khaki of the Americans and British and the blue of the French. eee Aree. Nephew of Former Chancellor Among Prisoners of the Marne "FT A despatch from Paris says:--| Among the prisoners captured in the Aisne-Marne battle was a nephew of Prince von Buelow, the former German Imperial Chancellor. The officer, who was-a battalion commander, was astonished to hear.that there was a larfe American army in France. He said he had been convinced, as had all Germans, that the American soldiers in France did not exceed 50,000. cided to open a savings account.' Foe Has A despatch from Paris says:--The | latest news from the Aisne-Marne bat« | tle front is particularly favorable. The !Entente allied progress, it is believed, has not yet come to an end. Despite stublorn resistdnce the Germans have been oblige to give up Oulchy-le- Chateau and it is thought that the Teutons cannot long hold Fere-en- Tardenois. La Liberte says the Germans must be considering a retreat to the banks tof the River Vesle, as fires and explo- "gions are multiplying in the German lines and the Teuton provisions and other stores are in flames. The Ger- mans, the newspaper adds, either must retreat or face disaster. With the capture of the town of Oulchy-le-Chateau the allies are near-- ing the summit of the plateau over- Been Driven From Most of Territory Gained in Attack of July 15 Along the Marne. weeks for former Czar Nicholas of Russia. looking Fere-en-Tardenois., . Further north the capture of Villemontoire was effected after sharp fighting in the streets and in the deep caverns nearby". To the east of Rheims, the French under Gen. Gouraud, have recovered virtually the entire line of advanced posts which they abandoned when the Germans made their first onslaught on the night of July 14. The famous Main-des-Massiges, which marked the eastern extremity of the Gefman of- fensive line, is again in allied posses- sion. Everywhere this region is cov- ered with German bodies, which the enemy has been unable to bury since he suffered such terrific losses from the allied artillery when he was con- centrating for. this French lines. is assault on the