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x A despatch from Ottawa says general tariff increase of seven and! a half per cent. intermediate and five per cer Special war taxes including. One pér cent. on bank note circu- lation. CAL One per cent. on the gross income i Americ ged 55 ¥. preferential, with cer-| = 5% tea, n po notes." = |b (war stamp) on each let- ° ian) of trust and loan Som: | panies, g .. One per cent. on the net prem: |; inms of insurance companies except life, fraternal and marine. One cent on telegraph and cable, messages. Ten cents for every five dollars |t on railroad and-steamboat tickets. Ten cents on sleeping car and five cents on parlor car tickets. One to three dollars per passen- ger from steamboat companies car- rying to ports other than in Can- GERMANY WARNE BY UNITED STATES Latter Will Not Tolerate the Loss "of Life or Property on the High Seas. A despatch from Washington Bays: A very pointed warning to Germany against causing loss of American life or property in her efforts to enforce a blockade of the British Isles, and a friendly noté to Great Britain intimating disappro- val of an officially sanctioned gen- eral use of the American flag by belligerent vessels, were sent by the United States to the German and British Governments, and the full texts of both communications are made public. The note to Germaiy, which is stiffer in tone than was anticipated, warns her that the destruction of American neutral vessels and lives by Germany would be hard to re- + concile with friendly relations, and the United States would hold Ger- many to strict accountability and take any steps necessary to guard American lives and property. ox 800 German Deserters Have Fled to Holland A despatch from Amsterdam says: The Telegraaf has received a mes- sage from Antwerp saying that 800 German - deserters who had been ordered to the Yserthave fled into Holland. The despatch also alleges that iarge numbers of soldiers are deserting from the Antwerp forts, BRITISH VE cost of pro- e provisions announc- | ister of Finance on as: necessary." are expected, ¢ to. produce ei The rato add to the re twenty-five dollars, Death List 25 in the Earthquake A despatch from Rome says: The Giornale d'Italia on Wednesday published semi-official statistics of the fatalities in the recent earth- quake, from which it appears that about 25,000 persons perished. Of these, 23,407 were in the Province of Aquila, 422 in the Province of Caserta, most of them in the town of Abora, and 34 in the Province of Rome. The town of Avezzano, in the Province of Aquila, had the heaviest loss of any individual town, 10,819 of its inhabitants, which is equal to 96 per cent. of the population, having been killed, seamen gi Grandfathers Called to Fight for Austria A despateh from Geneva, Switzer- land, says: Austria is experiencing great difficulty, especially in Hun- ary, it is reported at Innsbruck, in mobilizing the Landsturm of she classes from the years 1878 to 1890, which were recently called to the colors, Women are said to be pre- venting the men, many of whom are grandfathers, from leaving their homes. re 32 Spanish Soldiers Lost in a Shipwreck A despatch from Madrid says: Thirty-one soldiers and one com- missioned officer, a lieutenant, were drowned in the Bay of Arzila, Mor- oeco, when a 'barque with 100 sol- diers on board stranded. SSEL FOILS SUBMARINE German U=2 Tries in Vain to Destroy the Laertes ~--Latter Uses Dutch Flag Atdespatch from Ymuiden, Neth- erlands, says: The (German sub- marines U-2 attempted to torpedo the British stéamer Laertes; which arrived from Java. The vessel es- caped by adroit manceuvres and fast steaming. When attacked-the | steamer was flying the Dutch flag. Captain Prophet was in command. The attack on the Laertes was mude while the vessel was steaming between the Meuse lightship and = Behouwen Bank. The submarine fired several shells, which damaged the steamer's funnel, compass' and upper deck. As this did not induce the captain to stop, the submarine made an unsuccessful attempt to torpedo the steamship. : The Laertes, when challenged by the submarine, was proceeding with- out showing her nationality. When asked to stop the vessel flew the Dutch flag. : A despatch from Rotterdam says there is reason to believe that the submarine sank. She was last seen in a cloud of steam. The Laertes is one of the smaller liners of the Ogean Company, a Bri- tish. corporation, plying between Harwich and Dutch ports. It is supposed that the. submarine 'en- countered the liner off the Hook of Holland and prevented her entering Dutch waters. The captain at once headed north, and finally managed to elude the submarine and reach a safe port. x The Dutch authorities will make an inquiry into the attempt of the German submarine U-2 to torpedo a British steamer inside Dutch ter- ritorial waters. prevent the devel od ia bases and estab ; which might furth 4 though no submarines seen, the British Admiralty ment indicates, that raid | satisfactory /results, able damage is said to done to German gun: positio: way lines and railway stations: Tl Ostend station 'is reported been set on fire, and that at Blan- kenberghe to have been badly dam- aged. (German mine-sweeping ves: sels at Zeebrugge also came in for a hail of bombs, but the damage done to them has not been stated. At various points the airmen were received by the Germans with fir- ing from anti-aerial guns and rifles. None of the airmen are re- rted by sthe Admiralty to have Poo wounded in these attacks. One of the machines, driven by Flight Commander Claude Gra- hame-White, among the most intre- pid of the British fliers, fell into the sea while returning to its base after the raid was over, and the aviator had a narrow escape from drown- ing. Fortunately for him a cruiser was nearby and picked him up, and then towed his aeroplane into port. FRRENEREN ARs | Revolt Breaks Out In Transylvania A despatch from Rome. 'says: News has been received here to the effect that a revolt has broken out in 'Transylvania, where provisions hive been requisitioned for the army. while the inhabitants are stafving, The gendarmes charged the citizens, and many were killed or wounded, ; 8 An agitation bordering on insur- rection is spreading in South Hun- gary. Rioting has been repressed only through bloodshed. / el "OIN, SHORTAGE IN GERMANY. Price Charged Is Double What It Is In France. A despatch from Paris says: An official account of the situation at Douai, a French city under German | steady occupation and control, reports that petrol which is brought m Germany has reached the unprece- dented price of $1.40 a can. This is regarded as most interesting in already has begun to feel the scare- ity of illuminating and motor oils] upon which so much depends in this war. The price of petrol in Paris to-day is 70 cents a can, one-half the price exacted in Gefman territory. |! This is an increase of only six cents) to the can since the war began. ern, to $1.87 1 4 No. 1 har in from] } COWS, France, as it shows: that, Gong fghieey; § 10 5190; leamba, 7 12 a es ye iw; $8 to $8.50 & tom, in ear loty on 0. 1 new hay is qudted wt $17.50 \ % to $16, and No. 3 Provisions. Bacon--Long clear, 13 1-2 to 1c per 1b. in case lote. Hine dedi, 16 to 170; do., heavy, 14 14 to 160; rolls, 14 to. 14 1-90} reakiast bacon, 17 12 to 180; backs, 20 to ; boneless backs, 22 to 23c. : Lard--Market quien; pure," tub, 11 34 '0 120; compound, 9 34 to 10c in tubs, and 10 to 10 1c in pails. . 5 ¢ Winnipeg Crain, Wiani Feb, 16.--Cash--No, 1 3 No. 2 Northern, 81, i No Northern, $1.49 3:4; No. 4, 1.41 1-2; No. $1.57 1-2; 8: 2. C.W., 66140. ley, No. 3, B30; No. 4, Tle. Flax, No.1 N.W.C., $1.61 1.2; No. 2 C.W., $1.58 1:2. 0. 4 Montreal Markets, Montreal, Feb. 16.--Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 86 to 87c. Oats, Canadian West. Tor exten Nor} feed. Tas No. & 100s] ¥ Tic; extra No. No. 65 1-2 660; No, "white, 64 Buck. | The shortage of skill g bakers', $7.40; choice, $8.30; straight rollers, $7.80 to $8; straight Joliass. $3.70 to $3.80. Roll- ed oats, barrels, $7.25; bags, 90 Ibs., $3.50. Bran, $27. Shorts, $29. "Middlinge, $32. Mouiille, $34 to 837. Hay, No. 7, per ton car lots, $18 to $19. Ch erps, 16 1-2. lected, 3lo; No. 1 etock, 5» No. 2 ef 950. Potatoes, per bag. car lots, 50 t United States Markets. Minneapolis, Feb. hard, 81.58; No. 1 Northern, $1 $1.57 1.2; No. 2 Northern, May, $1.63 1.2. Co -N 4 72 34. May 8 1-2, rd, $1.56; No. 1 N No. 2 Northern, $1.52 to $1. Live Stook Markets. Feb, ~16.--Butchere' changed ands at $6.50 to $7.50. - Butcher cows and ba , $5.25 to $6.25 for one part and $5.50 to $6.75. "Mill ore i Toronto, ood uC I and for sheep ewes $5.25 to o, $8.15 to $8.20. They brought 90, fed and watered. Montreal, Feb. 16.--~Prime beeves, 7 1-20 to near 7 sc; medium, 6 to 7 1-40; com. mon, 4 3-4 to § 34c $40 to $80 each; : to 8c; hogs, a. rN A temperance lecture in a prohi- bition town isn't always a case of carrying coals to Newcastle. Marriage isn't a failure if the con- tracting parties have two heads, our hands ond one heant. : A despatch from Paris says: An appended note to the official state: ment of the French War - Office makes an 'announcement which is received with the liveliest satisfac tion by Parisians. It says that in addition to destroying a German signal balloon in the vicinity of Oagny on Wednesday, af. they brought, down @ Giérms plane; the pilot of which. pro be Lieut. von Hidelin, 'remembered as the aidaciops avia- | tor who last September He will be ow over Panis, dropping bombs which the' death - of several non-comb ants, and added fo this a note in ing Parisians to: surrender follows for oar, ith the | 'House of Northern, 15, No. 3 H bomb dropped by Brit Commons on - Wedne: night passed without division th army . estimates for Se. : | vote the Government blank cheque for fips pus plying to points rai bere ok the House, Harold. J, Ten- nant, 'Parliamentary - Under-Secre- tary for War, said, that in case of a raid on England, Gen, Sir Tan amilton was in command of a mo- bile force, which was ready to go 4. -anywhere at any time... Si There was considerable discus- Serious Shortage : of Skilled Workers A despatch from London 'says: ed workers in engineering and ship building ea. rge ; 'tablishments, owing to the :| numbers of these men who have gone to the front, is so serious that an enquiry was opened by repre- sentatives of the Government and trades unions for the purpose of de- ;| vising methods of assuring the full se-| productivity of these adjuncts to military operations. The trades unions will be asked to waive some of their regulations during the per- iod of the war crisis te ; ALLIES ARE MASTERS. -- German Offensive Moves Cease 'in 'Belgian Dunes. A despatch from Boulogne, 55 | France, says: From a very reliable source I am in a position to state that the allies are now absolute masters of the dunes, Jays a 6 res-. pondent. Little by little 'the Ger- man offensive movements changed, and after a short defensive they gave way before the allied troops. With regard to the district' About Ostend, .the Germans have become greatly alarmed at their position. Large reinforéements arrive daily at Ostend from Bruges. The health of the German troops is becoming extremely grave, At Mons over 50 per cent, of the garrisons are 'in the hospital suffering from typhoid fever. At Antwerp 12,000 soldiers are in the hospitals suffering from fever. ons re 35 Killed by Bomb In An Antwerp Fort A despatch' m London says: The Daily Mail's Rotterdam corres- pondent says he learns that 35 Ger- man soldiers were killed in one of 'the Antwerp forts last Friday by a airmen. = a | eo ; Sy 3 AY | War, felt so strongly about ter, Mr. Tennant said, th about to issue an order e grants of leave to tho who declined to be i ' ator. © suggestion that the Ta oie ti i 'bantam battalions" was being sidered. Inthe ining districts. he said, there were many men ui , the regulation" height, who desire ta gerve in the army, and that some of them already were in training, BAGATRILE FIGHT Germans Lose Heavily in Trylng take French Fortifications a Marie Therese. A despatch from London sa; Tremendous slaughter marked ? rogress of the terrific battle about Bagatelle on Friday. After four days of desperate fighting the Arg- onne battle reached its climax when the Germans charged down wu the "French fortifications at Ma Therese in solid colimas four® breast, and column abr umn across. a front mg yards wide. Ey 'The guns of the fort ur deadly shell fire into the soli as soon as they were we. range. The line of col ed under the withering fire, they came on. When wit) in rifle range the quick-firers and ketry of the French sent in a show of bullets that was a veritable hur: cane of death. Ra y ~ The carnage was more than hu- man courage could withstand, and column after column broke, erumb- led and turned, leaving large nam: bers of dead on the field. = = ei Steamer Badly Hur Be By Torpedo or. Mine A 'despatch from Scarborough, England, says: new a: steamer Torquay, of = Dartmo was towed into Scarborough har in & pinking condition after & striking a mine or ha pedoed eight miles ea The damage sustained by a was gmidships, one boiler g een penetrated. One man was killed and two were injur i n Daily recefitly built a | reports | some- di the allies 3 'nal, into: explosives from The. vo)