victory flows in our direction markets ef the says david lloyd georgej roromo xo 1 northern 1233 no do 122 no 3 do si 19 on track bay ports manitoba oats no 2 cw 51c ntenle allies take the initiative never to be lost to the foe- no i teed cojct no 2 two 49e on track bay ports again yellow ssje on to 4sc american corn no track toronto omacip oats no 2 white i according to freights outside ontario wheat no j commercial 9i to ove no 2 do 93 to 95c no 3 do to s9e feed 85 to s6c nominal ac- a despatch frcm london says why have out- prospects improv- david lloyd george british minister ed the answer is the equipment of cording to freights outside of vvar pre3ding on thursday at an our armies has improved enormously a jilied conference on equipment de- j and is continuing to improve itarcd that the combined offensive of the british navy until recently he allies had wrenched the initiative h absorbed more than half the according to samjde 125 to 150 ac cording to freights outside parley malting barlv nominal 65 to 6ce feed barley nominal 60 to 62c according to freights outside 1 i m i buckwheat nominal 70 to 71c ac- rom the germans never he trusted meta workers of this country the cording to freights outside t turn n task of building new ships lejii wvzyv- erjsscd the watershed pairing the old ones for the gigantic manitoba flour first patents in jute he said ami now vi ory is beginning navv and fitting nnd equipping them jass 660 second patents in jute n bags s600 strong bakers in jute to flow in our direction is change occupies the energies of a million iags 580 toronto is due to the improvement in pien most of our new factories are ontario hour winter according to i sample 405 to st 13 in bags track equipment now ctnbpute most of the machinery 1 toronto prompt shipment 415 bulk the conference was held at tho b se u hundreds of thous- i seaboard prompt shipment war office and was participated in by an ot men and women hitherto un- freight biu albert thomas french minister of munitions general bailieff assistant minister of war of russia general adall olio member of the italian ministry of war and the new british minister of munitions edwin e montagu russians terrify teutons since our last munitions confer ence said mr lloyd george there has been a considerable change in tho car lots delivered montreal included bran per ton accustomed to metal and chemical 20 to s21 shorts per ton 24 to 25 midlines per ton 2 to 26 good feed nrunl- flour per bag 155 to 160 for work have been trained tions making steadily increasing output every month we are turning out provisions dacon lonftclenr is to 18e per lb hams medium 24 to 241c do heavy 201 to 21c rolls 19 to 19c breakfast to tierces 17 to 175c c compound 14 to hundreds of guns and howitzers light bacon 25 to 27o backs plain i 1 r 1 27jc bone ess backs 29j to 30ic medium and heavy our heavy guns f i lard are rolling in at a great rate and we j and palls 175 to 11 aro turning out nearly twice as much ammunition in a single week and what is more nearly three times as fortunes of the allies on that date much h s we fired in the the great champagne offensive in the great offen3 in september al- west had just failed to attain its ob- 1 though the ammunition we expended jective and the french and british j that battle wa3 th resut of many armies had sustained heavy losses w weeks accumulation the new without the achievement of any factories and workshops we set up ticular success in the east tne enemy i haye nqt t attained one their had pressed the gallant armies 01 russia back some hundreds of miles and the balkans had just been over run by the central powers the overwhelming victories won by the valiant soldiers of russia have struck terror into the hearts of our foes and these coupled with the im mortal defence of verdun by our indomitable french comrades and tho brave resistance of the italians against overwhelming odds in the southern alps have changed the whole complexion of the landscape now the combined offensive in the east and west has wrenched out of the hands of the enemy never i trust vb return to his grasp we have crossed the watershed and now vic tory is beginning to flow in our direc tion full capacity but their output is now increasing with great rapidity our main difficulties in organization con struction equipment labor supply and readjustment have been solved if officials employers and workmen keep at it with the same zeal and as siduity as they have hitherto em ployed our supplies will soon be over whelming i cannot help thinking that the improvement in the russian ammuni country produce butter fresh dairy choice 25 to 27c inferior 23 to 24c creamery prints 29 to 31c inferior 2s to 29c rggs newlaid 29 to 30c do in cartons 31 to 33c beans 450 to 500 the latter for handpicked cheese new large isc twins isic triplets lsjc maple syrup prices are steady at 140 to 150 per imperial gallon dressed poultry chickens 25 to 27c fowl 23 to 25c potatoes new nrunswlcks quoted at 200 per bag western 1 85 j montreal marfcets j montreal july is corn- bench wedge 1 foe line huns abut crisis ahead joltres forces close to peronne and germans are making desperate counterattacks a special cable to the chicago daily news from oswald f schutte in ber lin says the french have opened the third week of their offensive by driv ing within a mile of peronne a wedge into the german lines the germans have been making desperate counter attacks both north of the sommeand on tho french flank at barleux the germans realize that a crisis is still ahead the third week promises even more bloodshed than last week for reports from the front are far from revealing all the horror of this fearful slaughter the german press are still forced to i rely upon the british eyewitnesses reports for real stories of the battle german authorities make nothing pub- lie except dry statements of the gen eral staff and reports of german cor respondents at german headquarters add little neither german nor neu tral correspondents are now allowed anywhere at any of the fronts luxury seen 1 london hotels menus are etravagant and lavish war has had no effect in reducing use of costly wines eldest brother of the late field- marshal earl kitchener of khartoum and of broome and his successor in the title col henry elliott chevallier kitchener second earl kitchener of khartoum the successor to field- marshal earl kitcheners title is a wellknown and able soldier and has wish make appreciably advance their line at various points a despatch from london says the british made a further advaneo north of tho somme according to a report received on thursday from general haig with contalmaison and the en tire german first line of defence on that nnd adjoining sectors firmly in their hands the british troops are britain asks munition workers to forego august holidays a despatch from london says the allied offensive on tho western front is only in its beginning declared pre mier asquith on thursday in an nouncing in the house of commons that the government had decided to ask workers to forego their august holidays because of the demand for striking to the eastward against munitions in france he expressed combles and bapaumo longueval a i conviction that the workmen would american no 2 yellow 9i to 92c oats cana dian western no 2 54 to 541c do no 3 53 to 53jc no 1 feed 53 to 53c no 2 local white 53e no 3 do 52c no 4 do 61c flour man spring been fighting for his country through- wheat patents ilrsts 660 seconds r- africa 6 10 strong bakers 590 winter out tne war me is in iiast airica patents choice 600 to 625 straight where he hilds a high position he is rollers 540 to 550 do bags 250 f plj- brother of the late earl he to 260 rolled oats barrels 505 to eiaest drotner oi ine late jan xie 545 do bags 90 lbs 240 to 200 f was born in 1846 and will be 70 on tion has been one of the greatest and liran 20 to v21 shorts 23 to 24 q c rm qecon earl t a middlings 25 to 27 mouillie 2s toi ytwuei o t stconu jau 13 a 32 hay no 2 per ton car lots 10 widower with a son in the navy com- to 20 cheese finest western 16 to j ttonrv franklin chevallier 16ic do easterns 14 to 15c butter manaer ra choicest creamerv 29 j to 293c kitchener born in 1878 who is now seconds 2s1 to 2s3c eggs fresh 35c th h t jv the selected 32c no 1 stock 29c- w me n it 10 uit iitluij in stock 2sc most unpleasant surprises the enemy has sustained still our task is but half accomplished every great battle furnishes additional proof that this is a war of equipment more ammuni tion means more victories and fewer casualties hungary is bitter over great losses since beginning of joffensive against italy they exceed 600000 the london morning post has ad vices from budopest which say that the losses of the austrohungarian army during the last six weeks were the subject of discussion in the lobby of the hungarian parliament the despatch says members who returned from the different fronts where they took part in the offensive against italy also in the tremendous fighting on the rus sian front all agreed that the losses must exceed 600000 since the begin ning of the offensive against italy the bitterness against the leaders of the army is very great and at the next sitting of the house the inde pendence party will again demand that those responsible for the situation shall be brought to account these be ing the two archdukes and geri con rad von holtztndorf it is more than no 2 winnipeg grain winnipeg julv is cash quotations wheat no 1 northern 1161 no 2 northern 1142 no 3 northern 1113 no 4 1061 no 5 1 no 6 96c feed 92ie oats no 2 cw 453c no 3 cw 441c extra no 1 feed 445c no 1 feed 44c no 2 feed 433c barley no 3 750 no 4 71c rejected 6sc feed 6sc flax no 1 nwc 177 no 2 c w 174 nlted states markets traps for zeppelins new detice is in the hands of the british government one of these days perhaps news paper readers may learn of a -izeppc- lin caught in ah aerial net some where in england just as the sub merged links of steel swept the seas and reduced the terrors of the ger- 3s t0 39jc man submarine to commonplace warlioc higher at ships so has a weapon been found to ltj t unchan render impotent the battleship of the i duiuth july is wheat on track no skv it is n simnle device hip invsm- i hard 1191 no 1 northern 11sj f i v t 1 no- 2 northern 1134 to 115 i no 1 tion of joseph a stelnmetz of pllllai northern to arrive 1174 no 3 north- delnhia and it is in the hands of tho ern on track 102 to s1028 linseed aeipnia ana it is in tne nanas oi tne i track s2 to 2015 to arrive 201 july 2001 bid september 2011 bid october 2 bid november 2 bid december 1981 bid to the peerage the new earls wife who was miss eleanor fanny lushington daughter of the lato lieutcol f lushington cb died in 1897 the second earl kitch ener entered the army in 1886 was lieutenantcolonel in 1893 and couonel in 1899 he has a distinguished mili tary record and it is interesting to re call that he went to france with his brother and fought side by side with him in the frenclparmy in the fran cogerman war of 187071 the new earl kitchener has one daughter junction point on tho high road sys tern and the heights of martinpuich two and a half miles northeast of con talmaison which command the battle ground for miles around are the im mediate objects of their campaign minneapolis july 18 wheat july 1153 september 1153 no 1 hard 1213 no 1 northern 1165 to x11s3 ti r horn in 1r8 who was no 2 northern 1123 to 116j corn i norah j rance dorn in 18ha wno was no 3 yellow si to 82c oats no 3 j married in 1909 to major patrick al flour fancy patents 25 first clears 10c british government says the phila delphia north american the idea of netting and destroying zeppelins is almost as unique in its simplicity as was the seinirig of sub marines if consists of releasing a great number of hydrogen balloons tied in pairs or sets by piano wire several thousand foet long a perfect network of wires carried upward at great speed will drift a gainst the zeppelin the balloons are swept into contact with the airship or will float about it automatic or earthcontrolled triggers then release the bombs which are of two varieties high explosive or inflammable at or xdve stock markets toronto july is choice heavy steers 925 to 950 good heavy steers 900 w to 910 butchers cattle choice 910 bert forbes winslow a beckett the a becketts of punch no serville british of bishop of london says men should live mens lives there will be no more suave bri tish butlers and footmen after the war if the bishop of london has his does anyone suppose that after the war linen drapers assistants will re turn to the shops and be content to hand out laces to ladies again 1 he asked and answered his own ques tion of course not he continued that he hoped the sis cholceach world had seen the last of englishmen in the prime of life acting as footmen to 935 do good s75to ss0 do medium 850 to s60 do common 750 to 775 butchers bulls choice ssoo to 825 do good bulls 745 to 765 do rough bulls 475 to s525 butchers cows choice 750 to 760 do good 725 to 735 do medium 625 to 675 stockers 700 to 850 lbs 650 to 740 choice feeders dehorned 760 to soo canners and cutters 375 to 500 milkers choice each likely that the house will be dissolv- 1 about this time things will happen ed rather than that these high person ages should be made the subjects of acrimonious criticism a despatch from bucharest to the tolegraph says public feeling has been deeply stirred by tho general offensive of the allies owinu to an appreciable lack of meat hero the government has prohibited eating of it on three days of tho week british holding on the tigris river gen lakes troops arc at sannayyat fifteen miles below kut a despatch from london says tho british expedition in mesopotamia is still at sannayyat about fifteen milos below kutelamara on the tigris ac cording to an official statement issued on thursday tho statemont says that the british forces have been sub jected to an ineffectual artillery at tack to tho zeppelin in war time things are done on a stupendous scale not 20 or 50 but a multitude of balloons carrying al most a screen of contact wires will bo sent into the air and they will cover such a great area that tho airship will have considerable difficulty getting away from the net it has been shown said mr steinmetz that the highangle artil lery fire has failed against the ger man sky cruiser but what is worse the falling fragments of shells and unoxploded shells have seriously dam aged tho city of london the zeppo- lins which have raided nearly a dozen tinies had little difficulty in escaping unscathed while london really bom barded herself 7500 to 9500 do com and med 4000 to 6000 sprlngrs 5000 to he honed he con- 10000 light ewes 775 to s50 ln iv vt c 5 sheep heavy 500 to 550 spring eluded that england should see men lambs per lb 14c to 143c calves wllo had i to live mens lives good to choice 950 to 51225 do i j v medium 725 to s50 hogs feed and in these glorious days refusing to live temporary insanity a man in normal health should not suffer in this way is there such a thing as temporary insanity many people think that the expres sion merely covers the kindly inten tion of a jury to save relatives pain but numbers of doctors who have made a study of mental disorders emphati cally declare it is no idle term one doctor has stated that tempor ary insanity is a condition of double consciousness not dissimilar to epilep sy a person normally quite sane may have atacks of temporary aberration lasting little more than a few minutes especially after long bouts of hard continuous mental work being par ticularly liable if insomnia supervenes crimes have been committed in the early morning when the perpetrator has not really been properly awake and has been horrified to find what he has done this is a true case of tem porary insanity but it is comparative ly rare and a man in normal health would not suffer in this way a specialist in mental disease has stated that he knew a case in which a person was insane during a certain time each day and that others have been known when the patient was quite normal at ordinary times but suffered from a temporary fit of mania regularly once a month cooperate in this plan so as to make it plain to great britains foes that tho offensive in its present intensity of bombardment and assault would if necessary be continued indefinite ly the premier also announced that by royal proclamation the august bank holidays would be postponed and he appealed to all classes for the post ponement of all holidays until fur ther and definite progress of the of fensive had been secured restaurant thieves german gunners chained to guns a despatch from london says british soldiers on the fighting lino and thoso wounded on the somme say that they found german machine- gunners chained to their guns to pro- vent them from retreating people who know the least are apt to assumo the mostx briggs noshcrilftfss i all- paljb jacbriegsivsoiis hamilton i 3cjfcasi females fashionably dressed fre quent best places an unpleasant aspect of the social changes brought about by the war is tho increase in tho number of female restaurant thieves says london tit- bits they aro fashionably dressed and frequent tho best restaurants and they reap their reward in the cloak rooms ladios when going in to dine often as a matter of habit or pure absence of mind set down even valu- ablo articles of jewollcry such as braceletwatches on one side for a moment when thoy come to pick it up again it is often gone these swell thieves are sometimes ex tremely shameless in one caso a re ward of 5 was offered for tho heturn of a missing article it was actually brougnt back by tho suspected thief j but thcro was np evidence against her of course and sjio refused to hand tho watered 1115 to 1125 do weighed off cars 1140 to 1150 do fob 1065 montreal july is butchers steers good 9 to 950 medium 775 to 875 common to fair 725 to 825 fair to good 650 to 7 medium 55 25 to625 cows good 6 to 7 fair 550 to 575 common 5 to 525 sheep 7c lambs 10c calves milk fed 9c to 10c grass fed 6c hogs selects 1176 to 1225 roughs and mixed lots 1050 to 1150 sows 975 to 1025 few marriages in germany taxes to encourage matrimony arc being urged the terrible elimination of the youth of the nation is causing great uneasi ness in germany the leipzig neueste publishes an articlo off the position of germanys family life as a conse quence of the war it says hundreds of thousands of healthy young men have never comoback from the fatherlands battles in 1914 half tho marriageable women in tho empire remained single owing to tho dearth of men what will happen after the war if the state does not in terfere patriots would like to see taxes imposed with tho object of en couraging marriage and to discredit bachelordom the journal suggests that all families of more than six should be completely freed from taxation no unmarried officer should ever expect to receive an increaso in salary every now born child should mean promotion for the father the government is reminded of the importanco of building workmens homes and garden cities which are at present lacking unless all this is done in time it says a victorious war will be of little use to futuro generations anything but a mans life war after tho jewel back until she actually fingered r tlle cas t in the world tht j j bravo when there is danger the reward eighteen bulgar regiments mutiny a despatch from bucharest says eighteen bulgarian regiments are re port d to have mutinied killing their german officers eighty german merchant subs a despatch from copenhagen says german newspapers state that eighty new submarines of the same type as the deutschland will be built at kiel and bremen twelve are expected to bo completed by august nothing you can say of tho dead is going to help tho deajl in tho slight est but a single word to the living may bo the difference between success and failure fw weajr agjggg think it over most of the born leaders of men aro women what is freakish today may be good form tomorrow there are none so deaf as those who will not hear when money talks even a faint heart may win a fail- lady with a little assistance on her part suspicion has so many fingers that ono of them may bo pointing in your direction some men measure their fun by the amount of suffering they sndure tho next morning a pessimist is a person who is worrying because it is going to be so miserably cold next winter never tell a big strong man that ho is a liar j it is better to pay someone elso to break the news to him even the man who has not had his appendix removed can find some fun in telling of his visits to the dentist most people have their fair share of curiosity but tho greatest curiosity in the world is the person who hasnt any there is no harm in the younger generation reading the books they do provided that they do not let their paronts get hold of them jail for refusing to makemunitions war prisoner writes of ottawa mans plight a despatch from ottawa says canadian prisoners in germany were sentenced to a year in jail by the ger mans for refusing to make war muni tions according to a letter received here from corporal ian a simons formerly a prisoner in germany and now transferred to the internment canip in switzerland he writes that corporal harry hogarth of ottawa is one of those who refused to make munitions and it is expected he will have to serve tho years sentence which has nlready been imposed upon him steps have been taken to bring it before the authorities so that it can be investigated as according to the hague tribunal prisoners of war are not called upon to make munitions foe sank 101000 tons of shipping during june a despatch from berlin says an official statement issued on wednes day night says in tho month of june sixtyono of tho enemys mer chantmen measuring about 101000 tons were sunk by german and aus trian submarines or by mines 460 irish rebels will be released a despntch from london says tho advisory committee appointed to con sider the cases of men arrested in ireland during tho recent rebellion and still under detention has recom mended the release of 400 of them this recommendation will be given ef fect immediately herbert l samuel secretary of slate for home affairs informed the house of commons on wednesday second domestic war loan in september terms of war issue will settled a few days beforehand be a despatch from ottawa says canada will float a second domestic war loan in september according to an official announcement made here on thursday by sir thomas white minister of finance the amount terms and price it is stated will be settled a few days before the issue while economy in food is practised in many homes the public service of meals in london hotels and restaur ants is maintained on a scale which is only a degree less lavish than that of the days before the war if evidence were required that the demand for such meals is but little abated it could be found by collecting a days menu cards from the coffee rooms restaur ants and grill rooms of london brigh ton and bournemouth writes a lon don correspondent extravagance is more openly dis played in london than in cities whero the population is less numerous but what is true of london is true of tho country as a whole a journalist whose duties during the past year have taken him to many places within the british isles says that his only experience of a drastic curtailment of the normal variety and quantity of food offered in hotels was in ireland durirfe the week of the sinn fein re bellion and that curtailment aroso through the impossibility of getting supplies in cardiff in sheffield in man chester and in glasgow the catering is quite as good as in normal times and among locai residents who uso the hotels for the entertainment at meals of customers or friends the money spent on food and wine3 goes beyond the normal the samo com ment applies to the seaside hotels particularly the more pretentious of those along the south coast a typical case what is done at one hotel must ba dono at others of a similar class at a typical first class hotel in- london guests were offered for breakfast por ridge and cream a choice of fried whiting grilled mackerel or bloaters a choice of another dish of scrambled eggs bacon or ham and eggs bacon and sausage minced mutton or cut lets and fried potatoes there would also be preserves and marmalade at ordinary times this fare would not be regarded as an unwarranted concession to the tastes and appetites of visitors but the question might fairly be asked whether five course luncheons and seven course dinners are essential at a moment when food prices are a burning question with the people similar catering is to be found in any good hotel in any city in the country luxury in soho even in soho the usual number of dishes is steadily maintained at one restaurant whero hundreds of people dine every night the followirlj bill of fare was placed last night before the patrons hors deeuvre choice of two soups choice of sainton croquettes or white bait choice of braised beef with as paragus tops escallops of sweet breads and peas orbouchee a la reine punch a la romaine chicken and salad neapolitan ices cheese and dessert at an adjoining restaurant whero it is always difficult to get a table the dinner consisted of hors deeuvres soup filet of sole york ham with ma deira sauce chicken and salad ice and dessert so far as london is concerned it must be admitted that a considerable proportion of the diners in the re staurants and grill rooms are officers and mon in uniform and that many of these may be men on leave from the front who are quite openly out to pluck tho best they can from the com forts and luxuries of town during their limited holiday but these soldiers are not alone among the consumers of much food and drinkers of cham pagne what is fitting in their case is irri tating only in the case of civilians who aro making money out of the war and spendirl it carelessly and in the pur suit of pleasure in the private as well as tho licensed hotels of seaside and inland watering places there are thousands of people who aro daily sitting down to three most substan tial meals and solemnly eating their way through every course placed be fore them and with many of them their only excuse would appear to be that they havo nothing else to do m of newfoundlanders only overseas trocps engaged in operations behaved with noble steadiness and courage sold by all coop shoe dealers vtobv by evtr remser w the hmjgf tho london times correspondent at british headquarters in france sends tho following the newfoundlanders were the only overseas troops engaged in these operations the story of their heroic part cannot yet be told in full but when it is it will make newfoundland very proud tho batalion was pushed up to what may be called tho third wave in tho attack on probably the most for midable section of the whole german front through an almost overwhelm ing artillery fire and aevross ground swept by an enfilading machine gun fire from hidden positions the men behaved with completely noble steadi ness and courage may force chloroform use french likely to make it compulsory in army surgery the french academy of medicine is considering tho advisability of recom mending tho government to make the uso of chloroform compulsory in tho army not only in serious operations but also in all cases where the treat ment is painful at present french soldiers are ob liged to submit to vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever but they cannot be compelled to accept chloro form against their will a committeo has been formed to study tho question as well as that of rendering compulsory the injection of scrums in all cases whero the latter aro declared to be necessary by the doctor ii