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CANADIAN TROOPS HAVE ENTERED LENS AFTER CAPTURING HILL 70 Pushed Into Western Part of Coal City--Total Prisoners Cap- « tured Almost 900. Ten Counter-Attacks Repulsed. A despatch from the British Front in France and Belgium says: After a brilliant advance in which the Cana- dians captured Hill 70 and then swept on north-west of Lens, the at- tackers are in close grips with the Germans in the western part of Lens. A despatch from Canadian Head- quarters in France says: The taking of Hill 70 stirred the German higher command as nothing else has done on this front this year. Prince Rupprecht has made frantic efforts to recapture the lost positions and a grim battle was waged throughout the day, par- ticularly on and around Hill 70. Ten times the enemy came on, but they seldom got close enough for fighting with the bayonet or bomb, Hour after hour these attacking troops--including the Fourth Prussian Guards, one of the elite divisions of the G our artillery and machine guns, Their losses were frightful. A despatch from London says: The British made further progress east o: Loos, in the Lens area Friday morn- | ing, Sir Douglas Haig announces in, his official report, and the total of ; prisoners captured there has now reached 896. TO LOOK AFTER = - CANADA'S INTERESTS Inauguration of Association in | London to Promote This Country's Welfare. A despatch from London says: Ar- [ com- inauguration of the Canadian Association here, The ex- ecutive of the new organization will; be composed of the High Commission- | er, Sir George Perley, the Agents- General of the several. provinces, and bankers, with a few other Dominion leaders. The main object of the new association will be to watch and pro- mote Canadian commercial and finan- | cial legislation and the social interests! addition to the wheat stock of 70, 000; ' which have the welfare of the Em-| pire at heart. A careful lookout will also be kept | for whoever may at any time seek to exploit Canada at the expense of the good reputation of the Dominion. Apart from war organizations, the' only body which in any way approxi- mates to the new one is the Canada Club which formerly met for social purposes, but whose gatherings have been suspended during the continua- tion of the war. | --____6--_--_ FARMERS PROSPEROUS IN THE NORTH COUNTRY A despatch from Ce Cobalt says The bush fires which for the past number of years have been more or less of a menace to the development. of the North country have been conspicuous by their absence during the presext ee "to the present-time not | one fire of any importance has been BRITISH FOOD STOCKS GREATER No Fear That England Will Be Starved Out by U-Boat Campaign. A despatch from London says: Premier Lloyd George, time last year the wheat in this coun- try amounted to 6,480,000 quarters and that now it is 8,500,000 quarters. The stock of oats and barley, he de- clared, also was higher There had been a considerable sav- ing in bread consumption, the Premier said, and owing to the closer milling» and food economy there had been an quarters per week. (A quarter is' | equivalent to 480 pounds.) Mr. Lloyd George said the acreage | under cultivation showed an increase ! of one million acres, If the harvest! | weather was good the condition o food supplies was very satisfactory. | The Premier added that there had been an increase in the sugar-reserve. "The Government has come to the' conclusion," Premier Lloyd George ; said, "that with reasonable economy there a! no chance of starving Eng- land ou "The yo plans for dealing with submarines have been i increasing- ly successful." GERMAN CASUALTIES WERE 89,863 FOR JULY. A despatch from London says: Ger- man casualties reported during July]. - inthe German official lists, but not reported, due no doubt to the large amount of rain, which has kept the bush green and the underbrush more abundant than is usual. In practical: | ly every instance where farmers were burned out last Summer in the big fire, rebuilding has taken place and | their crops are better than ever. In a! good many cases the clearing of the ' land was made easy by the fire, with the result that a large acreage is un- | der crop than would otherwise hav been the case. ----4--__.. CHINA !S SEIZING ALL GERMAN ASSETS | A despatch from London says: The! Chinese Government, a Reuter des- patch from Pekin says, is arranging for the prompt Hquidation of the Ger- man Asiatic bank. Five officials of the Foreign Office have been appoint- ed to take over the accounts and cash | here and in the Shanghai. Canton Tien Tsin and Hankow branches. Chinese troops have seized Austrian concessions in Tienn Tsin, according to an Exchange Telegraph despatch, and German and Austrian shipping is being selzed at Canton, Amoy, Swa- tow, Shanghai and Nanking. The ves- sels Include several small warships. --_--_--_----_.__.. WOMEN HARVESTERS FLOCKING TO THE WEST A despatch from Winnipeg says: For the first time in Canada women are coming west for the harvest In sufficiently large numbers to warrant special train accommodation for them. Special cars on all harvesters' trains will be set apart for women, who will work in the fields if necessary. One train carry!ng women harvesters left Quebec on Thursday. ; Venice Tuesday. necessarily occuring in July, aggre- ted 89,863, as follows: Killed or died of wounds or Sickness . .......-.ece eevee 21,389 Prisoners or missing ......... 14,620 , Severely wounded ........... 13,896 | | Wounded and sfightly wounded 39, '958 | The total German casualties of all: classes since the begining of the war, exceeds 4,500,0 AUSTRIANS R AID VENICE HOSPITAL. A despatch from Rome te persons were killed and { when Austrian ys: Four wounded raided 27 aeroplanes A hospital struck by bombs from one machine |and two of the patients killed and 21 | injured, Several of the raiding planes are 'reported to have been brought down. | | Italian aeroplanes and _ destroyers ' fought off the raiders. SECRET WIRELESS ON ARGENTINE COAST. A despatch from Buenos Ayres says: A secret wireless station has been discovered on the coast of the} territory of Chubut by the Argentine' Navy Department. The authorities believe the station was to be used in! communicating with suspicious ves-! sels in the South Atlantic. DEUTSCHLAND TURNED . INTO WAR SUBMARINE. A despatch from Copenhagen says: The German commercial submarine Deutschland, which visited the United States before that country entered the war, has been converted into a war submarine, according to German fleet gossip. r t ft t f THE PIRATES WORK ON NEUTRAL SHIPS. Photograph shows a vessel wai has been torpedoed by German submarine, FROM OLD SCOTLAND RUSSIANS RETIRE ' NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER T0 A NEW LINE a ee Rumanians Forced to Withdraw Also in Face of Superior Numbers, d Ne noel pa --_ Da A despatch from London says: tegic withdrawal by the Rumanians to; Again the great Anglo-French war, the Soveia-Monastirik-Voloshkani line. | machine has struck the Germans in} Rumanian'! Flanders, and again it has been ste |i under pressure to! k Muncheliu and Monaso, and Ruman-| The vWiage' of lence ae jans to Movilitza, in the Fokshani #94 other important positions area. captured. Russian and Rumanian forces which; More than 1,800 prisoners, includ- has held the western bank of the ing 38 officers, already have been River Sereth on the Rumanian front, counted by the Anglo-French forces. were driven across the river by troops Some German guns also were taken. of of Field Marshal von Mackensen, ac-! The latest blow in the Ypres area cording to the statement on Thursday wag on a front of nine miles, and only of the German general staff: More on the extreme right were the allied | than 8,500 prisoners were taken and forces unable to make progress. 16 guns captured. Germans resisted stubbornly, suffer- DISTILLING IN US, rcsite ton the ere tree STOPS ON SEPT. 8 | leave valuable positions in the posses-| Food Controller Makes Impor-' sion of the allies. Before the fighting between Lens! tant Announcement. A despatch from Washington says: and Loos had died out the French and | The Food Administration made the being towed into port, ANGLO-FRENCH | f $ Langemarck Captured and More Than 1,800 Prisoners--The French Gain Bridgehead. What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. t Corporal Tom Goring, of Smeaton, has been awarded the French Croix de Guerre. The sum of £158 was realized at a garden fete given at Springfield in ald of Edenfleld Red Cross Hospital. A "Rose Day" held at Coupar_ re- cently realized nearly £100 for the benefit of Imbless sailors and sol- lers. Mr. Menzies, schoolmaster at Ban- chory, has taken over the command of the local company of Volunteers. Lady Charlotte Lucy Douglas Home, of Bonky! Lodge, Duns, has left an un- settled estate valued at £25,569. The late John A. Harvey Brown, a well-known naturalist, of Stirling, has j Descartes £200 to the Denny Hospl!- al, rg t $5. 5s bi Dr. George Gardn for ve years a practising physietan Pg pi kirk, has died at a nursing home in , Glasgow. Private H. Norman McKenzie, Sea- forth Highlanders, a native of Peebles, has been awarded the Military Medal. Miss Helen Wilson, of South Ban- British moved forward north of the. 3 Ypres-Menin road. Throughout Thurs- ' ! ; day bitter fighting continued. On the eft the French occupied the gewand |. < between the Yser canal and Martje- |" vaart and then drove Germans _taskine, Faikirk, is among those men- important ruling on Thursday that all from the important bridgehead of,» 'tioned in Sir Douglas Haig's recent | Processes in the production of distil- Dreigrachten. despatch. led spirits for beverage purposes must Langemarck is a village in the fam- stop at 11 o'clock on the night of Sat- urday, September 8. Any effort to construe the law to permit the use of wheat, corn, rye, and other materials macmeaat William Flowers, one of |,Which had been hoarded, after that the official guides at Stirling Castle, {time, it was made plain, would be met who died recently, was buried with | With firm action. . | flit h i ee -- sr. QUENTIN CATHEDRAL SET ON FIRE BY ENEMY. Major Lord Douglas Graham, who ous Ypres salient, both has been awarded the D.S.O., is the | second son of the fifth Duke of Mont- . f. lro | Thourout. It was a peaceful village, situated in the dull, monotonous plains! $1 of Flanders, and the horrors of war. first broke over it in the fall of 1914, {during the first battle of Ypres. On that fateful April evening of two' | years ago Langemarck was directly east of the left wing of the Canadian _A despatch from Paris says: The talions in reserve. ..--- N WS IN ; F set fire to To the 'amazed Canadians in this Dressed err oes Cathedral, which 'is 'likely to be to- jittle village, late in the evening, of mess, barrels, 35 to 45 pieces, $61 8 : tally Seeroyed. April 22, 1915, came probably the first $57;, Canada. short cut ee ed ks cathedral of Church of St. , intimation of the enemy use of gas in' pound, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 213 to Almost One Hundred Million Quentin, reported ----- by - Ge; warfare. The tidings were borne to gic: do. D re, wood pails, 20 Ibs. net, ns, is one nest Gothic them by fleeing Turcos, panicstricken | Dollars Greater 7aee buildings in that part of France, and by a fear not Puteaan, their faces con- | Winnipeg Grain | Last Year. was erected between the twelfth and torted by the effects of the i Winnines, PRa Cash quotations--> A despatch from Ottawa says: | fifteenth centuries. The building has scarcely able to gasp out the tale of Ribtencgs 2.40: No 03 x Northern, | Canada's trade, exclusive of imports! double transepts and the nave is 370 this new murder bythe Hun. The af 4; No. -6, and exports of coin and bullion and of ; feet long and 130-feet high. It is very whole world knows how the Canadians [{°¢¢;, | foreign merchandise shipped through | finely decorated and contains some met the new device, and the fatal --No. Canada, increased, according to a, handsome bas-reliefs. In the crypt of breach in the line to the left of them, ss tt | statement by Hon. J. D. Reid, Minister | 'the church are buried St. Quentinand and of the valiant, dogged struggle 3 | of Customs, by almost one hundred 'his fellow martyrs, St. Victoricus and , they waged that saved Ypres, Calais, °° }),/x $3.28 : million dollars in July last, as com- St. Gentianus. land the seas for tea k een $3.22; No. 3 "Cw. se $3.12; track ared with July, 1916, and by nearly: a Now Langemarck has been retaken. | *"~" a $090, 000,000 in The four anita ended MUNITIONS BOARD ELIGIBLES | | Then flesh and blood fought machin- | United States Markets _Jduly 31st, in comparison with the like | ery; to- pong A sere in en = cediinne apolis, nite senrne at---Sep- i 4 he value of mer- a Pa ' distances the German. Between e tember. 7s to. $2.66 to $2.66 Gorn a ign Bs commmnation in a despatch from Ottawa says: The losing and the taking of it represents Sa yellow. rity to $1 76 Oats--wNo. / perlal Munitions Board on Thurs- ' . det ined preparation of 2 White, 58 to 5% Flour unchanged. July, 1917, was $90,181,595, and in day notified ts male employees that . the patient, determined preparation Iran Toohanee July, 1916, was $63,622,687. Goods none of those eligible for mifittary aaa 'an Empire to beat to its peony ana- Duluth. Aug. a1 heat--No, 1 North fou " stat tion that knows no law of m $2.80, nomina oO. 2 + $e, ,entered for consumption in the months of the present fiscal , amounted to $382,100,850 as a | $249,867 | vice would be retained on the sta year after conscription has been put into gainst ,effect. It also gave notice that those 867 in the like period of 1916; enlisting prior to the operation of the f ¢ God. It must afford cae vsatisfac- | tion to the stalwart men who remem- ber that three days 'two years ago when they went into the Valley of the steer t3 ik wuteters'. serae | se af domestic Root: reacted jObligatory service measure would re- Shadow of Death for England's sake teers s. ed $33 * a0.. ; oa $9.50 to ,$177,366,148 in July last and $507,- | eeive half of one month's salary as a ' ' §a%5: do. medium, '$8.50 to $8.85; do., | 854, 674 in the four months' period. ponus, Thg announcement, which to hear that the great tide of ie common, $7.5 to $7.65; butehers: rr | They were $104,964,270 in July, 1916, was not unexpected, affects a large | Might of Right, never again to recede, choice, $5.50 to $9: do. good bulls, $7.60 -and $350,345,305 in the first four, number, for while the number of ree ecetaet signally their comrades 1° rough" bulls, sittn't $6; poten ; months of the last fiscal year. . 'el igibles now in the employ of the |!" death. $9 FO oon me Pe: . $6.65 to Exports of foreign merchandise board is small, as compared with a | : + Pegoders have shown a decided falling off. year ago, the lengthy payroll still in- | : o , They were in July only $2,850,372 and cludes the names of many who will' geRMANS MUST PAY 15 do... ¢ u $4 6 a 20; $8.56 in the four months $11,604,620 while come under the scope of the compul- IN GOLD FOR FOOD : Spriugers gt MO eB ro 87 6: in the same periods of 1916, they | }sory service bill. | yearlings, $18 in 3125: calves, good to sice, v o Ved reached $55,637,840 and $122,627,072) voici A despatch from m London says: Ac-|° Montreal, Aug. 21--lambs, Ontario respectively. | EX-CZAR TO BE SENT $14 to $14.50; Quebec, ui? 50 to $13.50; a, ee | TO FRIGID SIBERIA. cording to Dutch newspapers, several sheep, $8 to $9; milk-fed calves, choice, +4: + on" milion eggs destined for Germany $13 to $14: good, $10 to ae ass-fed, British Discover Dyes. \ . i$6 to $9; hogs, $17.60, $17.76 and $18; A despatch from Petrograd says: ®ve been held up by the Dutch Pooh 'heavy, mixed, sows, to $17. Ancther step in the way of British) Pp 'authorities on the German frontier, iY: Ses independence from German dyes has, The semi-official Russian news agency been effected by the discovery of an announces to-night that former Em- acid dyestu® of exceptionsl quality, | peror Michelas and bis forally were -- promised to pay for the eggs producing a variety of bright shades|removed from the palace at Tsarskoe | gold, but at the last moment they of blue. Other British dyes produc- | | Selo and that it was reported they | be oe paper money, which the Dutch ed since the outbreak of the war are| were being transported to Toboisk, |i oa to accept. showing a big sale. Siberia. | ia says a despatch from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Co. The No, 1 yh at $2.40; white, $2. Ham ot, $2.5 No, 3. 3 to freights 'outside: ba bags, $12. relghts, Ly WIN IN' FLANDERS & out of car Dre paned poult ao---Sor io chickens He geht. The 3 oF" Xe impo 0. | line, and in it were bulked several bat- | $f Toronto, $2.40; No. 8 Northern, NS. 32, nominal, Manitoba oats--No. 2 C. age rican corn--No. 3 yellow, nominal, rack "Tor onto. ntarlo oats--No fon 2 Wink ig age ° = 3, Ontario whe ate NG $2.30, nom 2, Pe of omiined, reights outsi Barley ovMalting, nomin. o freights outside. Ry No. nominal, relghts outatie, aks. ond pate 12 ae fg 'flour--Winter. 20, 9 bags, No per "mixed, per tone $9 w--Car lots, wast "Toronto Country Prodace--Wholesale per Ib., 374 to y. solid per Ib., Sic, mttaer --C ream r nis, 0 to Egges--P. z., 38 to Who reer att cone New 23 to Cc: ite neers prints, 40 to Ye. lgga--New-laid, in carte tons, 44 to 45c. o 30c; wl, 20¢; squab: $4.5 turkeys, 25 oe Spring. " e poultry --Spring ch he 2c; 16 to 18c; "Hone y--Con mb----bx tre Bean Mo Fr rted, Pai econds, ug. $2.50 to $2.65. a wi Whol sptrodg bakers', per ton, $7 Cc. ducks, w., $2. Sa "to according al, according to according track Toronto, ton, $11 to $10, ons, 1. Us r doz., 30 ickens, 25 per --Re ed Star, oF iL. enal ae <e Ss, 27 ; backs, piste 36 o do.,, sa le: : ro nominal. Barl --Ms anitoba $1; Smoked mente Hane: medium, 26 t cooked, 41 akfast bacon, to 37¢; ev--Mi Live Stock Markets Might Start Fire. In piles of trash or old rags, a pro- cess sets in that, under certain con- ditions, may produce heating, sometimes, in the end, fire. Greasy or, oily rags are expecielly dangerous. Markets of - the Worl Aug. zi--Mant oba wheet-- i DIGTINEL tate Fort "wie 76c, track new crop, according oba flour--First patente, in 38 ed 90; in jets to $7.60, 8c. exalers are selling to the retail 'solids, a8 49 to 50c; Ib.. 20 Spring, fine and hea elect, $2.50 to $8.50 per bush.; b $5.50; Ontario, clear hacen. 26 to he per clear 'bellies 5 to Lard--Pure lard, tlerces, 25. pn 26c; tubs, 252 to 264¢; pails. 26 to 264c: com. pour, tierces, 20dc; tubs, 20¥c; patie, Montreal Markets 21--Oats--( eaten do. No. 3, 8 apitoba Sprin Sarousp Aug. 21--Extra choice heavy $ heavy car $2.58, to to .60 to track $7 38c; $4.00 ucks, vy ush.; bbl.. 30 to to bo and <The Doings of the Duffs. HELLO A HELEN, erie Toe uignT GLAD Yo YM/ALL DID, LONE "ry LiKE TOSTAN ALONE BUT IN A CASE LIE THIS | DON'T MIND IT -- HAS BEEN TO SEE THS FRIEND ERY AIGHT THis Week a NEKO 0 |HDEED WHO 1S THE SICK FRIEND HELEN? 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