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FRENCH 1 TO-USE LIQUID FIRE IN REPRISAL ON GERMANS inaciligy of This Terrible Ar arm ‘Over the Biyonet Has Been Exemplified at Verdun, A’ despatch from Paris says: Liquid | the newspaper, “the superiority of this terrible a over the bayonet. Ey communications are fire: has been the means by which the ¢| Even though it may expose the man communications, says the Journal Des strike it, on the oth i fore protec- | feate witness. weapon in repris: the Ger ENEMY DUGOUTS) IN TRAIN COLLISION Region. Credit. carried two successful raids’ day night see roads, Three dugouts filled with | train tithes ine ae caboose of the the: north of Arras and ch aie was so great that the locomotive was trenches. eee claimed rces a foothold on he small hill i4 the Flyer, eriti- of the bee esday, have not Railw: t the time of the wreck hill. {through connections between Chicago ‘Thursday. Wednesday night the G OVER ARMY AGE ACCEPTED. which had been of especial violence Seponeya tained $hs - bor tone who carries it to the danger of death trenches mentioned in recent official | th Chee “a fragment of shell should Debats, and the bond posumire Behe an attack of the Chamber of Deputi is en-|to which our The newspaper adds that France fire, attacks and ay use of a Salas at, ey se sal PO! {P “One can ea “understand, ” says Hed Aeecateee eat employ them. Suceespful Raids Against German| Toronto Flyer From Chicago Dashed ‘Trenches in La Bassee Into Freight at Port A'Wespateh from London says: Sir} A despatch from Toronto says: The Jobu. Haig reports that the British | Toronto ee from sees on yeu ed. through against the German. trencl about | freight aos a tells pas Port Credit Gommecourt ps the Bethune-La Bas- | station. of the passenger the: enemy were bombed pod ovat [freight train, cutting through in. 'the Germans sprang a north-cast of Neuve Ghapelle, caus throw1 ing slight damage e north of Arras was repulsed. Overend, engineer of the The German f eel ft ' Chicago Flyer, He Killed; James court a little over half a aie gate cally injured. The oe ‘oeehrr ‘ed on wesk of ih alah on the west side the main line of the Grand Trunk yet. atte fed te inroads their gains, the Flyer wa running at a hi and the epee still hold part of the jof speed. As this tr: was no infantry action on and Toronto, the line is supposed to the: Verdun front Wednesday night or | be clear for its passage. Ger- mang decreased the intensity of their bombardment to the west of the river, 48 4. sopport to their infantry attack, bul.continued without lessening of in- 250,000 Britons Between 45 and 70 to fe Home Defence. men between the ages for months past have been drilling, Malancourt region,| marching and digging trenches—has and an the front pects Rpetpacay | ais seigally accepted by the Gov- Le Morte Palpatine eres, while ence and i the cast of the river tl 3 Reteatorth | to be considered a portion Woevre the firing increased in vio-| of the Eier forces. lence, - The volunteers, who not being of- Bele “recomnized were not allowed to so clad themselves in pay field uniforms not very dif- ferent in color from those of the Ger- Wage Are High a and They, priest ‘Trouble in Securing He the A despatch from Winnipes’ says: Many of the farmers of Manitoba, who cannot Segure sufficient balp, have de-/ are cid put-in-a smaller acreage. | tic Wages “wil be beyond the reach of i NS eee WARMERS WILL CROP REDUCED ACREAGE have been drifting into thp city from woods, tamp and other places, but the farmers, not knowing when the seed- ing will start, have been unwilling to secure these men at once and the re-| ; sulf-is that they are being pete: up by contractors, ee RUSSIA CONSERVING HER MEAT SUPPLIES stgeing trenches on the outer London defences, rae thousands being so engaged each wi ROUMANIAN GRAIN BO} iron an Boudin: says: T UGHT BY GERMANY, a the Russian Minister of Agriculture will despatch from Berlin says Tt 4 Du ee official Beale woes aascetetiaris y and Austro-Hungary and “the Roumanian aa export commis- sion for 100,000 car loads of corn and all the wheat, barley legumes available for export, estimated at i forty thousand carloads. An agree- ment hi Iso bi l- 4 j Pridays and for the slowing of butcher) jn, Be the “mouncement here ‘ops on those certain fom ITALIAN COMMANDER — ARRIVES IN LONDON beattad Great” Reception from Pub- lic of British Capital. A’ despatch from London says: Gen- eral Count Cadorna, chief of the He ian, general staff, left Italy to’ ,; attend the military and political Cons ference of the itente nations at Paris arrived in London on Wednes- tually as nearly normal as possible, it is added. BIG GERMAN STEAMER DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS coast is reported in a bettad despateh yf at Bucharest on Sun pra a 7,000-ton aa flying ie n flag i is said to have been loaded vith foodstuffs for Constan- crew was captured by patch also re- ig of a score of small sailing she with catEoes of food. was at th Wl Marshal Eat Hise, the British W: n immens “throng of people, English and Ttalian, greeted Gen, scorns enthosiasticall ly. — SCORES ae OND iS EN EMPLOYED SoS EATST see ne $ RMS arinteh Yom Lanter says: % Da REDITED TO KAISER A vid Lloyd George, Minister of How, speaking in the House of Com- oh Watheaday, sid tht sores A desbatahy froma Phin sages! Teg reported here that the Berlin banker, Herr von Bleischroeder, has informed. Sauer poate Bust rs. that the to discuss peace is of oe Seba of Alsace- to France in exchange for jone of a colonies, such as Mada-| fe : eet Russia to ine ver rhe ape ert ite a Rast ae ous increase 01 in the output of the es ee ie men who in rene in: th -BXPLOSION KIL KILLS 1 2 IN GERMA’ "GATHERING IN THE SERBS. British Navy Gets fa German: S itaesoa As Fast as They RS Made. A despatch from Washington says: @ hundred. ; Cs Le, -seven sub- a TURCO- STON HE PEACE MISSION REACHES | ROME foal: News D Despatch to Lon- ve captured by the i as iene says that two Turkish | British navy since ‘the. outbreak of the| ‘and tyo Bulgarian agents have arriy- _ informal ed there to start on negotiations. the eo Bulgarians ested Sate. con-| reacted the United States coast tuck and an roceed to Rom office Britain’s “over age” army—250,000 | ¥: t Abe, according to freights autside, | | jute bags, sue strong bakers’, in’ jute he Ib, in case The} 98 ¢, pet OFFICER IN RIGGING OF A TORPEDOED STEAMER. ently & maalt British eteamer was torpedoed near the Egyptian coast , the Huns previously inviting tribesmen to witness the completely routed by General Lukin’s column. Markets of the World| Dreads Toronto, Mar. Manitoba wheat, Ne Northern, $1.08% $1.038%, fast! Co ee 18% to 18ej do. a a 4 ae 8ise. to sett le 28 to ar s—Per hag, ear lots, $1. a ic; seconds, 30 to [320 Pota- toes = Winnipeg Grain: Winnipeg, Mar. 28. Cash wheat:— 2 North- 2 $1055: i TAR "Fort Wi anitoba oats—No. 2 ©. No. » 40403 extra No. i, 99%e3 fo, 5, 90%6c; aie, N nite ed, 89%46, in store, Ford] No, 6, Sines fet, 11% Gate =No, illiam. 2 American corn—No. 8 yellow, 8c, 1f rican corn—No. 8 yellow, 78, ‘Re. 2 ici, wes on redk Toronto. (0. 4, 54; reiecte Canadian corn—Feed, 68 to 70c, on} Fle 0. 2 N.W.C. track Toronto. C.W., $1.9: Ontario oats—No. 3 white, 42 to E 48c; commercial, 41 to 42c, according | to freights outside. N like feed, series $1. United ee Markets. Mea sent: car lot $1 to $i. ; accarding to|40%e.. according to| fancy patents, | $4.50; other grades unchanged; ship- dc; ments 50,103 barrels. ~ Bran—$17.50 0 $18.50. to 6: i2e, ies it to Eke 28.—Wheat—No. jo. Northern, fle 30, Duluth, Mar. ‘kwheat—68 to 69¢, according to aah $1.12%; teint outside. 1 commercial, 86 to 87c;|$1.05% to $1.05 fos rding to sample, 83 to| eae Stock M oie Manitoba flour—First jute bags, $6 nts, ‘onto, Mar. 28. ice 50; second patents, in! ssocrs Gee eoesine bags, $5.81 Ontario Hoar Winer, according to § uF aacae le, 0. 5 Y tos $4.15 to $4.50, bulk seaboard, meson, S08 wee bt ate mpt shipment. aus Millfeed, ear lots, delivered Mont- cows, choice, § real freig nulls; $5.5 ton, $27; good feed flour, » $1.60 to’ $1.70. Country Produce. Bi —Fresh dairy, 28 to 31¢; 0 ferior, 23 to 25c; creamery vant 34 Hight, 500 to en to 36c; Site 82 to 34c. anners, $4 to $ sees—Nev-lai, 28 to 29¢; do., in $4.75; mi canta 30 t $85; 3) ringers, sites {oe to 60-1 Ib, an 18 to veal, choice, Combs—No. 1, $2.75 to $3; No. ium, $7 3 do., €01 25 se: ie to $2.40. lambs, yearlings, $10 to $ 4 ap to $4.40, the latter called lambs, $7 $7.25; for hat each, $7 to 105 y-ewes, light, oultr: try-—Chickans, 19 to 20c; fowls, wy 50 "to $9; sheep; heavy, and bucks, 0 16¢; ducks, rte as geese, 18 $6.50 to $8; hogs, fed and watered, % 200; turkeys, 28 ti 10.85; do., f.0.b., o., weigh- Ch 196; tine; 19%e ed off cars, $10.35. lots. of ‘Ontarios, ontiealt Mai Rew Bronswicks mee $8 to . ae cher steers, $1. and to ab gi. 15 per ae on tra Bui 6255 at $7.50 Provisions. Bacon, long clear, 16% to 10%4e per 30 ‘ae; ae ; medium, -25; milch cows, choice, each, Tah casein Wanner via to” in, ech, $70 to $75. Me, ie pails, 14%4¢; compound, 12% $10.25 oi "hb: (eae $103 Sows, $7.75 to. $8. shee |6 to 8c; lambs, 9 to 12e. scale mill fed, 6 to 9c. i Montreal M Markets. Montreal, ee dian Western, No. 3, 50 to 50 : 50 ie ‘50%e; No. i aieal white, ae to, eer Us 3 do, 47 to Ate 46 nee ey Manitoba, What Happens to ane weet From 08 to ore one 5. Fou pater oo tars direction of a bullet fired from r wheat a ovine train is explained by the eply of the editor of the “Scientific eraeea to Eee following questions) submitted to him - a train is running at a ae a 0) te $25; midlings, &27 bo $80; motile Ging onthe Saeeaa te “sain lie, $80 to $83. Hiay—No, 2, per. to wit TaN Oae: UE the car lots, $20 to $20. ese Fin: ot oa WHEN A SHOT DROPS. ane bal ne rs! A tel patents, engi $6.10; straight roll- 7 fesds etn $: A despatch from London say: The number z oy of ae soldiers| { who hav mayoral is 41, "500, -according to 5 | him al oe good, $5.75 to $6.50; rr ee Ta ‘hole, bi iss + $8 ot medi Hogs, gles $1L forsi1. 50; roughs, "Tuxpa mixe Y replies on ; ne case you propose, the bullet’ aie it left ee il Se fps prevent drive on Verdun a 's throw for victory, and does ee he, that the end of eerie is near at hand? Its desperateness ‘ace of inevitably” Bet eat losses any attack toward Pari: man fifteenth corps ea oe jis was be’ anti-F offer and it seems to expr verity. San the last visit of the King war mus! him an be quickly brought to a any new campai aut is noticeable that the troops who je the greatest sacrifices at Vei aii weversvrleninaliss Ueda puesta flower and pick of the German army, and naturally the supreme Champions * che Kaiser is at bay, and has to save the country and himself by do- ing something extremely desperate and before the attacl edu called a council of his leading gener- obtained _ their was consolidated as never before, and that they were assoming 2 victorious offensive. Hence that German effort in that theatre aula be useless. In the Balkans, Germany would only be working for.the benefit of the Bul- and make fresh effort for thamselves" "Salonik i ras admitted to be impregnable. Greece was veering, and could not be depended upon. n the direction of Egypt the situation was extremely desperate er enesas Ge ese capeure of Erzerum Turkey already had become a dead ya, and Wi crying for German h Tinie. Germany, wax teed OTE towards. France, but the Republican a at they were when they repulsed the furious German attacks at the Yser, and these things sate against the effectiveness o: to be +) bring the new Russian and British armies into action, before the people 25 attack on Verdun, it is said, contrary to the advice of his leading generals, as his only ho) The Kaiser visited his son, prince in command, pd called ed i his Prussiat at least all that saninitied of that once invincible phalanx, and the wees {$1 1.10% to $1. 13945 No, 2 Northern, 19%. prel his hour has come, and Tete bring no relief a his totter the gallaat “French n, b 5 ed the Teich Mati taney thaceente the Germans, and held peeink ae numl ete ai inonterabe lies’ front i he t the imperial armies of ir lightning- el- gium and France before the battle of the Marne, and in Russia in » The ee of a Germai rofound throughout Dowd the Central PSSM “bane oat om SUBMARINE OIL LINES. of Tuxpam, Mexico. any of the meee productive wells in the Sta‘ Vera Cruz, Mexico, are aaansted near the port of m, y of the large oil steam-| The oil com- a herine tansiines topics where the largest oil tankers can be con -jveniently moored for loading in any state of the tide and weather. There’ are now ae of these wichy iron ples in pti hes the @iatucters and tout os Phe are nearly a mile Jong. They terminate in forty-three feet of wa- ter, where it i set oe that waves ave “no effec When the: were laid avers erated fotths end of each 120 of flexible hose. hose is closed and allowed = tg | the sea. ea w marked by all Sy tend ¢ ial : a dete rise the Hel to ae deck of the Sian rece it to the tank openings. pre speeds are ection, the paces ty Parliamentary ae ‘ound directly under the 9 ome un, William Hayes Fisher the} S Ty cal Government of the way offensive September—probal tkfoweh Belgium, and mite ars —by direct legislatio: jon. to being bitten off by the Allies? ee will be extended after May ist wi General von Deimling told the Ger-/ fee of $5 to Re: wi ve, and a considerable time after return exact, of soldiers It is credibly reported that during ious Wanitol a Act of Saxony poration officers surrounded Ontario License the ‘to sell in wholesale quantities soldiers would be unable to undertake | scientific and mechanical purposes, up-' provided for. infractions of the law. " VILLA DEFEATED BY (D a! Col. a fe: Villa and Asia at dead and wounded. bandits na the en. G: thelr ground | Loi the Kaiser are incapable of operating | to/ effectively by even thei ie like methods that succeeded in * ae 3) How Ships Are Loaded at the Port mn, | I we A Toe taturallantion papers, ed him: | f laying When not in use, the free end of the |. smi |e hose net a stout chain. When the | tank steame Biil- Effective Without Vote of Blectors, Bul Pro ion Made for Referendum at End cf War. in Features of t! pratibition will _go ath eet a bly on September 15 production of ders as to use to which liquor will be devoted. tail licenses vit or ndee cal itn sale to individuals upo1 exception doctors utes ahd‘ to qoebetae ntil, not more thi it at a time or a fixed, RE payment of nominal Maohents not se than two gallons Il licenses, with a few ill be taken after war Ontar = License Board will be re- constituted with membership of three, and charged with administration of new laws. Bill not to interfere with importa- tion of a toe Drivele use or es $10. ere kee intario he aa Ne? Act fol- cept for incor- of improvements taken from tt iit Wholesale a aie will be licensed} a reaty: fines Pacbine up to $1,00 for and sentences up to eight months Rae DISABLED SOLDIERS WILL BE TRAINED © A Start Has Already Been Made in Quebee With Toy- Making. A despatch from El Paso, Texas, A de: er an Ottawa says: ‘The says: Villa was attacked and defeat- Military itals Commission an- ed on Thursday night at Santa Ger- nounces tere re now 1,300 men, in- eG y Corranse troops, eoraie ing Mates and out-patients in me ee toa tch receiv: Ger eral § ae homes. e be- as iy Juaree. ! Genel tavl taken to ee tenn in “these aeid'ho had ‘received anehague tnreks homes, an » the mation that e skirmish at Vocational terete, has ae elias Santa clara earlier in the day where 4 from Queb r- ‘ano’s command had defeated Menten Oe ‘the installation of an Villa, the bandit chieftain was pur- ¢d¥ipment for elemen: sued and again attacked late ‘Thurs- tring d ht at trud d_valescen' clea ade Ger trades And ited sc the eley ade arate a number of local ladies have see field, and Gen. Gavira says one hun- teat interest in toy-making as an dred horses were captured Plas him occupation for convalescent lalate. ese ladies have procured ie He CARRANZA’S MEN Several Dead and Wounded Bandits Were Left on the Field. ated, _ | Campaign Directed A Against Extrava- in London. ee the Government has ap- pealed to patriotic Britons to give up So) dismiss all m: ants in the intaraatt of the army and do- is pe ie apace Girl, Disguised as jailed on Transport. ilar’ line: ;made for ihe cecabllslntant of classes ‘in general subjects in the home. This policy will be followed throughout the Dominion. Sn TRIED TO JOIN BROTHER. Soldier, or national economy, ee staffs maintained at End houses in London is declared to | be een scandalous.” How ae of Miss Maude But- Lady rence is leading a cam- jler, paetiony years old, to get to the paign ae West End extravagance | front, where she could nurse her bro- ata cit bes er Meclices experience Alaguised as a soldier is tol shows cae nothing but legislation cent issue of the London Daily Tele - some stop the | pr, i Sauandering of money on useless lux- "| Ury. Tay at appeal eal “T say ees amibatlcely writes) Lady Lawrence in an indigns letter pee two sae before her voice be- to the London erates: nithat no trayed h private person has the right to em- ae ofice asked Ere Butler, \ as sh 3 known, why “he” was not with “nis? unit. When tte girl re- plied that she had no unit the officer became suspicious, cal the ¢apbain’s cabin, and tho only, shrug their shoulders | a, fed to their full capacity. The gin ing nature o} ‘work, expecially where women are concerned, demand: he existence of a constant and dvawn on at any time, lurope. ‘ore le SOME WAR ODDITIES. e ship Miss ie received 9 purse atiedioy e men, ant 18 said she would use the money to pay her passage to Europe aboard _ an- other ship, NEW SOURCE OF HEAT. An Inerhauntible sae Deep Down Earth. swe 0 ries into the sats we find a steady increase of tem) ture, So marked is this increase that it has been pie ola propos to make ver; p borings in order to obtain munpllen’ of warm water ‘tor | heating our towns. bg go and Waiferdin soagentd thod for supplying warmi Soldier Asks Ror. Ine Bieroane of Allow. ance When Triplets Arrive. ndon—Private William Tunks, of war allowance fue Ae. the arrival of triplets in his Folkestone, glkad? — Miss Ruth Roberts, 108 years o! of age, remembers er father and three brothers ever pee married, sael tan or used Mendon=Lievt Haward-P. Malock, saa ied at Neuve Chapelle, Assailing the Government. » a Dane, peplied The judge you satisfied wit i fhe general 3 it you?” ‘Yas, yas; only I would like to see more rain,” replied the farmer.