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‘Yollastaies Mobitization Scheme Having Failed, Copan ‘is to Ee be Applied to Holders. 3 Bie x A despatch from Sontoe eae The sons not ordinarily residents of the Official Gazette announces that by ee eS a ie ‘new order-in-Couneil the Treasury is the order will be oe ae a ‘empowered under the Defence of the| soy days, and at an early date “all, + Realm ‘Act to requisition any foreign’ holders will be required to make isk 1Pecurties which may be required to full return of their holdings. The ;™ itrengthen Great Britain’s fin ancial | terms and conditions et we Elo i wil PREPARING DRIVE DIVIDING BRITAIN FOR FARM HANDS, IN SIX DISTRRICTS =a ‘Two Thousand Workers Will Be | Civil Marshalling of Forces tolt Secured in the United Carry On War at High States. Pressure. A despatch from Toronto says: An-| A despatch from New York says :— other “drive” for farm hands is to be| he Sun on Thursday morning publish- made in the United States sei Spring|ed the following special cable from by the officers of the Onta1 Ait a London under Wednesday’s date: ment of Colonization a pa igra- tion, Arrangements have just ‘een|lizution indieating Great Britain's completed to send five agents into the|adamantine determination to fight to states, thrés into New York Sta nd|a finish and ‘ory have crowded two into Michigan. ‘The start is being out any discussion of the attitude of made oyer a month earlier thant tt | the United Sn ae toward distant year and the work will be al sare league s for three m Labor's support, expressed atthe In that tee: it is confidently ex-|Manchester conference, has greatly pected, from fifteen hundred to; two! gratified the Government and _ wil thousand farm hands will be secured | pave the way for Neville Chamber- tari department’s agents will |lizing all industries and cutting down | travel all over the two States, adver- | the number of men working in on-| tising in local papers and using any} a method that suggests itself to attract Giteiog to the maximum the effi- ciency of all the vital trades. Mr for inexperienced men. Last year districts, Wales and Zeitut wvailable piticielt forces to carry 0! thamberlain’s scheme contem-| But Berlin Paper Claims That Swedish: ‘Aviator Will Make the ‘Attempt in May From CNG - foundiand. : - Germany Still Has 8,000,000 _ Available. A despatch from Berlin says: Esti- ‘total German losses in the the National of Berlin, in, says that there are ie bie for several years more. T! ives available. figures of | that ee Germans are see Baek of their forces than one believe “Nev exthclors ie losses mean an CO caution Germany has had in this way an addition of 1,500,000 to her forces.” The National Zeitung says that if the soldiers who have passed the age i b hee ae 850,000, or at the most one million, and continu “Germany still has at seat 8,00, on m to use on the front or fo! compulsory military service will break for experienced men and $15 to $25) Plates dividing Great ea into six| down, provided the difficulties of ali- d_ each | mentation do not become so great that about six hundred men were brought | constituting a division, re other cen-| the soldiers on the front also have the into the province as a result of a six a eing Leeds, Laeee eee Bie |to suffer fro weeks’ campaign, ngham, and Bristol. Although Winter work is be- Seis as basis, he inténds to a ‘a ing dong on the farms now the ee ibe war work and food production mand for tat is go large that two| the limit of the laborers’ capacity ak hundred applications have been pee maintain high speed until the war ed from farmers anxious to get first | ends. call on the men gathered up. Most of The first cali for usluuieass under them axe prepared to sign good men| the National Service rule was made a) on at once. few days ag ‘here is bts fe limit, Fae tis Sac and both men and women are accept-| ed. AE ee a eee the country to carry out a campaign of} N BANKS UNCLAIMED rerating G eiaiilae' Ch the early days'of | Balances in Cash or Unpaid Cheques| or Drafts Total $1.131,269. - | are gi ‘A despatch from Ottawa says:—|battalions according to their fitness side her sat a wrinkléd, leathery old Geveral thousand people scattered| for various kinds of work, the strong-|man with bandaged head. He had eee Se THEIR LITTLE EVENING SHOOT. ‘Adventures of a Dispatch Rider on the Western Front. rode into Festubert, which was Ieull of sates says-Capt. W. H. L. Wat- |son in his Adventures of a Dispatch put Speakers are spreading all over |my motor cycle under the cover of an larch and reported to the general. He was sitting at a table in the stuffy hi when soldiers for fi ghting | room of a aera dirty tavern. were polly ‘As fast as recruits} At the far end a and Hightenei | a w { forgotten that they have more than|Land Service Corps and the weaker) been hit by shrapnel. The few wits one million dollars, all told, in the/ones joining the munition-making Shar 3 banks of Canada, The ing, the demands for wai a ms, and eyen the scribes PARIS IS IN THE GR sara ion have paobiven inden bent of OF ARCTIC WEATHER. it. The annual Blue Book giving the] 4 despatch alances was ‘from Paris says: France is in the grip of the severest m dogree Fahrenheit on Friday ev is iat "Bordeaux there were several de- ‘Athiont sro s of fi The number of deaths ; wThe from cold Sal the sufferings of the/ 00 Since the last report the total of un- sey claimed balances had increased by ‘#Ke" ne = a ‘ a situa: $65,000. ‘The Bank of Montreal has {0% 60-oPer te itt en icciged to which nobod st ‘ wank feaetal a S1L379) # toe uel to the rene SS ae deck ate DIET OF PRUSSIA RB ode, small dealers who have no convey- e ce OASTS OF FUTURE, | of wolves into the department, and} [hears are ravaging the fields in | despatch dies Tension says: The} Loir Valley. Prestent of the Prussian Upper| os i $300,000 IS PAID FOR ae A WESTERN FARM. A despatch from Saskatoon says: ‘|-Phe Weltzen farm, situated eighty miles from Saskatoon, on the Elrose .N.R.) Line, has been sold to. the He wip PeCR Oe ES. the Entente,! seottish Wholesalers Co- operative So- the fateful hour we ne Seca Beapirecle aprroacning: [eet oor mon ales SNS gdten tine watites been Bec gomprines ten owsand ight § : Swed ie abused wher rere aoe Brat dda ici atscwintec en ve serious and matured people, accustom- ee ed to victory, ave standing behind the Emperor; Our ‘iron will shall tarn| WELL CARE FOR 200 th deaduecd tie atin Meet a dan, BELGIAN FAMILIES | 3) iyo, . We sheaka the Germans start at the | W' other end of the village street, BY to a more prosperous future.” A despatch from om Brantford says — Brantford and Brant county w Friends are the people that make ere the care of two hundred Bel. life endurable. gian families at a cost of $500 Boge Fifteen airships only were being/!y, oubling their previous to the appeal BRITISH FOOD DIRECTOR CUTS AMOUNT OF BEER 10 BE BREWED . \ Only Holf The Ontput of the Year Preceding the War Will Be Allowed. A despatch from London says:/ Injmeasure of temperance or : of social order to reduce the soot of | reform, foodetuits, by breweries, Baton _De- | "The fact is,” the Food Controller <3 {contin a “the barley, sugar eae vonport, the Food Controller, a de- | other in cided that the quantity of beer to be! réauired ie food. Tp fact, it is veally brewed for the year beginning in.@ Aes stion of aes versus. 2 i “April sblall-be wakivi a .| The order of the Tood Controller Litre eatricted to 70 Per! i withhold from bi 000 cons of barley and 36,000 tons of th ot edients used in brewing ar war. Baron Dev ones in gi the :hject of his order, estriction | must hot be use Fa ——_* GREEK GOVERNMENT ein, é APOLOGIZES TO ALLIES) No 92 e had ever possessed were gone, an @ gave, every few seconds, » little |“°R ete ha he croaks of e. ‘Three telephone operators were working with strain faces at their highest apap The age, nee had a smashed by shrap- nel, and bits of glass Sade things | § crunched under foot, The room was full of noises; the crackle of the tele-| phones, the crooning of the woman, the croak of the wounded old man, | Nee oe ties like Marcsiliea| |the clear and incisive tones of the gen- ral and his brigade major, the rattle jt of not- too fur distant rifles, the boom- and occasionally the ter- aeraneiie crash of a shell 4 bursting in the village. ‘There was the sharp cry of shrapnel n the street and a sudden ‘rattle apilagsthewiole ni: man and child fled ee fron to 67c.” “ahs door, followed feebly man. ‘The brigade seis uted the general to work in some less un- healthful place. The telephone oper- |k GRRE momen Odalag ga the general endeavored to persuade the brigade major to go first, and fai cieastven. atwiee deotalenst see that led to the courtyard of the tav-|% ern. The crashes of bursting shells grew more fre- quent, and the general remarked in a ‘2 @ ¢ dry and injured tone: * “Their usual little evening shoot before putting up the shutters, I sup- pose. But the Germans “searched” the village. Now, to search a village 2 io ~ | be it were, in ee goo e crashes came nearer and nearer, un- til a shell burst with a scream and a thunderous oar on our right. Welz built by Britain on the outbreak of the| owing to public sentiment answering |Duted away at our cigarettes for a he were anywhere but in the cursed village of Festubert by Beth-| § was fs scream an v7 burst three Hoiisas away, at our left. fie The Beemer ee piel little evening shoot We marched back Iv ery sly a the darkness to 1910 ‘A despatch trom London says 1—= In compliance with one of the demands of the Entente Powers recently agreed jto by Greece, the Greek Government n Thursday handed to the Entente| © ister a note formally expressing Athens were fired on by Greeks. pabehcad nar reais eh ‘To Indemnify Losses by War. A despatch from Paris says: The Chamber of Deputies has Pianinontly. adopted a bill providing for the in-, demnification of persons visi houses and Properties 2 Sess damage os reason at abe larm my an’ ind Lieut. M. Nees a ore ae di cae a | rene Aviation Corp: Stoel New York, but will aie nee month "1 oe a ae in his attempt to chine with him, but it was TeresibTs |to get 2 ue in seh because of | Mac! and: ae opt. Sundstedt is Sweden's fore- t aviator, and holds the ree secant it betwee holm and Paris, a distance - | 1,600 a0 lb jometres, during which was obliged to land only once for fot terviewed as to the flight, veady | sing them as le The machine ‘o| will be a triplane and wal x1|width of approximately a recite three propellers, with ne of abcut 160 horse-power each propel The captain may fly the m Florida to St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will san wait for | LEADING. MARKETS _. | $6: $i cho Feeders, aia Te to, $8.50 canners. ‘and cut 4 | $2 20. aogording te freights oiuside, $2.85, Country Produce— autter—- Fred aac cpgien 3, te. 90; ery a oAvhitte clover, eh Ue; Proviaic jolesale. Smoked eRE: mediuim, 25 to i are Potatoes” Per bag, car lots, $2.26 ci Sask., are petitioning for higher 8i ars 180 feet, and f The school teachers of Yorkton, Ohare apt. Hanson is eerie “a com: pany of Scandinavians in Saslatshe- wan, Five times as many enlisted in eae uary, 1916, s in December, 1916, in Alberta. Second Lieut. Douglas Brown, of the Bank of Ottawa, Regina, has been Elise. in action. te Capt. Geo. Purvis, at one time pe "rahe, has been awarded the uae Melfi rer Bask a without light for acer ‘dys owing to a breakdown in = Cnty has never been le a the power house. study in schools, cote aoe a Titers m housewives have pledged few few ashing” soe = and thi en thd — themselves nt support the Red Cros: manners thi i : roe ener $1,200 was donated to vy ae Basan the Red Gross Society of Calgary by | fo of beginning to ising Pere ichen, ane Aerts “good. seoetine as a cul Hales Barton, Moosomin, has re-| tural and social asset ceived the Military Cross for bravery Good manners are = a mere effec 4s: oe with Field Ambulance] tation. They are personal capital — end vase training. They are wortht ~The Grain Growers’ Grain Com-| more for getting on in the ona than) pany, with headquarters at Winnipeg, | are Aaah of the studies pursu 3 and girls. Schooling praia fails successful year in its ten years’ his-| to instil the habit of courtesy is worth’ tice fores in ondet that oie ‘may taka bad-aennerss lower’ tele > posnasenel over provincial duties of the North-| and injure him sii ty West Mounted Police so thet the lat-| The time val learni ter will pare more time to guard 18\is when y , for then one te toe border lin conscious or "ihimself, but it is The Department of Agriculture of] too late to acquire abr wee ae the inion Government, is carrying nedoek in mature life, because on illustration work in crop produc-jhas then become Be iia ta tion and cultural methods with: darth: Good breeding, when once acquir4 ers in the provinces of Alberta and{ed by the child, becomes second naq Saskatchewan. ture as good ae i HALF MILLION SPE man. NT s | IN RELIEF WARRANTS. | ad idea if the old-fashioned dancing | master could again be made one of favorable weather and make the flight | Government Gave $100,000 For Fire| the teachers in our » for hi across the Atlantic to ae poole | Sufferers, $400,000 For Seed made it his business to teach polit Ireland. Later | in West. ae and good behavior in com: ce and at home. The family is th ____. |__ A despatch from Ottawa says: A a sires these fine and useful art B40 to 3865 ~camon eave ey (eatement of expenditure under Gov-| should be taught, but homes jla $8.10; butchers’ ‘us choles, $8425, to | peraor-General’s, warrants during the | them, because tho parents themselves| H UA 0 "to, $8.00 2 | ; |eurrent fiscal year tabled in the Com-| were not taught, In England, France a mons on Thursday shows that the/and other European countries, where, cA hiueieirsing choles, sp) et “Fe0.00 to $105 SU DAD, ce 9 $14i la to nedtui f : nega, fed and. watered, Go, weighed off cars, $14.50 ;, do, f.0.b, to i butthers” cows, $8 to $8.60 good, $7 to 7.50; can $5 i Bo0d, n- ners, $e50 to 36; Ives, $5. to $6 ; $10 to $11; lambs, $18. to HOR choice select hogs, off cars, $14.50 0 BERRIEN Ss SERBIANS Ee ile BULGAR CAPTORS. ‘A despatch from Paris says: The following statement from the Serbian Press Bureau is forwarded from Corfu i | Bulgarian slavery, has ached ee ‘0. }lines. He recounts that hee ‘with other peasants, was deported by force hefore we Bulgarian retreat and compelled ‘o labor in trenches under the arti ed of poor food and hard labor, and said numerous deaths resulted. puademmient Goeaetetis 24e; ‘ IRISH-CANADIAN RANGERS ARE CHEERED IN DUBLIN. ae despatch from Dublin says: The ug) ish- bee streets to wrellin gton Bar- to|and Saskatchewan. to Government appropriated and expend-| good old ideas of family discipline $1 00,000 for the relief of sviffer-| prevail still, good manners among tl ers by forest fires in Northern On-| children are the rule. tario last summer, and $400,000 for 8 > the purchase of seed grain for farm- ers in digtress in Manitoba, Alberta THE MOSQUITO PERIL. Medical Discovery Showing Danger, NEEDS OF BRITAIN From Malarial Parasites. / TO BE FIRST SUPPLIED.| One of the greatest discoveries in’ eked it of: a despatch from London says: Th¢} pr, Ronald Ross, who, at Calcutta, in ritish Government has refused per-| July, 1898, found that the spores of anes to the Hadfields, Limited, to} As Dr, Ross hi proceed with work on the contract for act route of infection of this great Shells for the American navy “so disease, which annually slays its mil- Jong as the seiisaeles of war con-|}jons of human beings and keeps tinue.” The announcement is made in| whole continents in darkness, was re- the form of in oticiat ating by Dr.|yealed. These minute spores enter Christopher Addison, the Minister of the salivary gland of the mos- Munitions, in which attention is called| quito and pass with vs poisonous sal to the fact that te Bali steel” out- i. directly into the blood of m put is under h FRENCHMAN BAGS 27 Boe PLANES. | a disease-spreading mosquito could |inteet more than one ‘person, Re- A despatch from Paris says: An of- jcent experiments have proved that an Hed statement issued on Thursday | Titonged “malarial mosquito can infect. persons without again ol wtLieut, Gu: tuynemer on Wednesday, Haining blood from an origin: thai ay brought down his second German air-/ of infection, and t an infected, plane for this day near the railroad | mosquito re retains her ability to infect station at Chaulnes. This brings. up| with malaria for at least twenty- five! to twenty-seven the number of enemy | days. mosquito empties airplanes destroyed by this pilot. /her available supply of malarial para- Lieut. Herteat one man, she may infect a brought down his seventeenth air-|second man a few hours or a few plans which crashed to the ground days later through a new generation near Parvillers.” f parasites. This is a most import- aa discovery, for it shows that the FRANCE TO ADVANCE individual disease-laden insect is PH FARES ON RAILROADS | veritable machine gun in point de it emphasizes the ee anes sity for samning bite the breeding} ‘A despatch from Paris says > mosquito. :—Pre- liminary steps toward increasing rail-| Places of the racks, Crowds of ‘workers watched | 1’ | th h along the quays. Wh A woman. will admit te the battalion turned into Westmore: but that she is heavier than ‘she waa land Street the music of the bands a year ago is not one of Leone large numbers of people from ops and warehouses. The fine ap- Deane of the men created a favor- able impression. Also at College were heartily cheered. HiRes oes FINANCES: HERSELF AND ALLIES. | © A despatch from om London, says: Sir 0 i lrelix Schuster, speaking on Wed) nes Limited, of of which he is the Governor, discussed the British Anapelal: situa: tion, Regarding operations the s. bic 5 United States, Sir Felix said: tn ade dition to loans, a great many Ameri-) ra ‘ae és 2, |own, but our allies’ requirements. peer Sainte ER WAR TO END EN AUTUMN. Sir See Parker Sa Says Economic Col- e of Germany Pending. A ae tch from Moi ere Sir Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist, and member of the British House een arrived in Montreal on Wednesday from New York, where he Janded from a steamer on Sunday. Sir Gilbert predicts that the war will end next autumn, if not a little earlier than that. The end will come, he says, tb aay and the smashing of the Ger- iss :|man lines on the western front by the 00 | Anglo French forces. a Peas | PEACE WITH VICTORY a 2 &. A bil ii will be east in the Ghasbet ot Deputies shortly, SOLUTION. INL A despatch from om Léndon says: The Bishop of Sheffield, presiding at « diocesan conference recently and ma ing reference to President Wills address, said he believed with Alet 9 sa aver in peace without victory, FOR It was “a positively ludicrous impos-| HEADACHES, BILIOUSNESS sibility.” 'The bishop deprecated the CONSTIPATION, tall: of malting compromises with evil 1.490 GERMAN PAPERS INDIGESTION SUSPEND PUBLICATION. | __ Nearlaifoutmineraiinentsandmany sy of the serious ones, too, are traceable to A despateh’ from London ways: The| tame tinarder of the eomach, er, and Cologne Gazette says no fewer than) eee ee en i weanbure 1,430 German newspapers and peri-| futatence, he dacs, cont ration, snd odlieals are no longer able to appear. | a ost ot ater dtr ae Tallst ee to it that yout etomacty vee SEVEN TURKISH V ESSE } and bowels.are equal to DESTROYED BY RUSSIANS, TRY ie ee hase i ee | totake 30 drops of Mother Seigel’s §: An offical report frm Petrograd duly ait iter meats, ye nmap orher n the Black Sea one of our| sufferers have tunished indigent one and af thelr ele says: aaleaeiies sank four schooners near the Bosphorus. ‘Three other schoon- exs that were encountered by. the sub- marine were obliged to beach them- selves, breaking: up in the prevailing storm Boney < Got 1 Then. “You haven't sed weeks,” bitterly iepratiae ne rae tist’s wife: “Are you sure?” he questioned, ab- be sently. “Then who is it 1 sige kissing 2” :