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n London says: Tele- bush country seized the Kahe rail- Further 'reinforcements reached him during operations. The Brit- ish inflicted heavy losses, but the Ger- i mans resisted obstinately. At night g in the vicinity of Kahe, the enemy|the entire Ruwu line was evacuated t resisting. On the 20th aby the enemy, who retired south- tish force occupied Arusha, dis-|wards, leaving a four-inch gun the enemy. longing to the cruiser Kbenigsberg: 'At Dussing the enemy attacked| The operations are continuing. g the night, but was driven off| ' Earl Kitchener telegraphed con- severe losses. In the meantime a | gratulations to General Smuts for his trong mounted force traversing the] brilliant success. BRITISH BLOW IN _|VILLA DEFEATED BY ENEMY DUGOUTS| ~ CARRANZA'S MEN Region. A despatch from London says: Sir John Haig reports that the British| A despatch from EI Paso, Texas, carried out two successful raids 58s: Villa was attacked and defeat- against the German trenches about | ed on Thursday night at Santa' Ger- Gommecourt and the Bethune-La Bas- | frudes by Carranza troops, according see roads. Three dugouts filled with, % 2 despatch received by General the enemy were bombed and blown Gavira in Juarez. General Gavira in. The Germans sprang a mine to | said he had received authentic infor- the north of Arras and two mines mation that after the skirmish at north-east of Neuve Chapelle, caus-| Santa Clara earlier in the day where ing slight damage to the British Col. Cano's command had defeated trenches. A grenade attack to the| Villa, the bandit chieftain was pur- north of Arras was repulsed. sued and again attacked late Thurs- The German forces which gained |92y night at Santa Gertrudes and a foothold on the small hill of Hau-|2&2in was defeated. ' Villa left sever- court a little over half a mile south- | 8! dead and wounded bandits on the west of Malancourt, on the west side field, and Gen. Gavira says one hun- of the Meuse on Wednesday, have not | dred horses were captured from him yet attempted to increase their gains, ! by the Carranzistas. From Santa and the French still hold part of the ; Gertrudes Villa fled to El Oso, where hill. he was reported to be reorganizing There was no infantry action on |his forces, Santa Gertrudes is a the Verdun front Wednesday night or ranch settlement in the Guerrero dis- Thursday. Wednesday night the Ger- | trict not far from Namiquipa. yan decreased the intensity of their A nT mbardment to the west of the river, which had been of especial violence ROUMANIAN GRAIN GERMANY. as a support to their infantry attack, 2 but. continued without lessening of in- tensity the bombardment on the east- ern bank of the river. In the Woevre the cannonade was intermittent, On Thursday heavy artillery fire the Ruwu River. J ere was bush fight- Several Dead and Wounded Bandits Were Left on the Field. A despatch from Berlin says It is semi-officially announced that con- tracts have been executed between the official grain-buying associations of Germany and Austro-Hungary and was resumed on the western bank of the Roumanian grain export commis- the Meuse, in the Malancourt region, gion for 100,000 car loads of corn and and on the front between Bethincourt- | all the wheat, barley and legumes Le Morte Homme-Cumieres, while 0 available for export, estimated at the east of the river and in the, forty thousand carloads. An agree- . Woevre the firing increased in vio- | ment has also been reached, 'accord- lence. ing to the announcement, whereby Roumania is to receive certain goods from the central powers. An effort will be made to make commerce mu- tually as nearly normal as possible, it is added. : a_i} yo FARMERS WILL CROP REDUCED ACREAGE Wages Are High, and They Expect / Trouble in Securing Help. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Many of the farmers of Manitoba, who Safimot secure sufficient help, have de-! Soldier cided to put in a smaller acreage. y i iv Wages will be beyond the reach ge ance, When Triplets Arrive, s a large percentage of the farmers.|. London--Private William Tunks, of "The help to be expected from the sol-| the Leicestershire Regiment, now in diers will not be as extensive as an-|{ France, has asked for an increased ticipated. Quite a number of men War allowance due to the arrival of have been drifting into the city from triplets in his home. £4 wobds, camp and other places, but the! Folkestone, England --- Miss Ruth farmers, not knowing when the seed- Roberts, 103 years of age, remembers ing will start, have been unwilling to When her father and three brothers secure these men at once and the re-| fought at Waterloo. She is one of ..#ult is that they are being snapped up! a family of twenty-two ' and never by 'contractors. {has married, smoked, drank or used SNEAE, TA | snuff, EXPLOSION KILLS 12 London--Lieut. Edward P. Mulock, IN GERMAN COLLIERY! ET SOME WAR ODDITIES. Asks For Increase of Allow- who died at Neuve Chapelle, made his will on a sheet of note-book paper, leaving $75,000 to a chorus girl whose weekly earnings totalled $7.50. er et Bee A despatch from London says: 'Twenty persons have been killed inj an explosion in the Preussen colliery, - near Milchowitz, Silesia, says a des-' SCORES OF THOUSANDS patch to the 'Central News from Am-| OF WOMEN EMPLOYED erdam. Lima Wore * A despatch from London says: Da-| TURCO-BULGARIAN PEACE vid Lloyd George, Minister of Muni- MISSION REACHES ROME tions, speaking in the House of Com- mons on Wedgesday, said that scores A Central News Despatch to Lan. of thousands of women are now at don from Berne says that two Turkish, work in the munition plants. Their | two Bulgarian agents have arriv- participation in this labor, he said, ed there to start peace negotiations. had. resulted in an enormous increase The Bulgarians requested safe con-jin the output of the plants replacing | » and will proceed to Rome, the men who were in the army. NCH T0 USE LIQUID FIRE aE rity of 'This Terrible Ar » a Exemplified at Verdun, li id | the newspaper; "the superioril io | this terrible though 0 ronto; $4.1 'prompt shi 28 to 29c. PETTY OFFICER IN RIGGING OF A TORPEDOED BIEAMER. at ehtly a small British steamer was torpedoed near the Egyptian by ey U boat, the ns previously inviting tribesmen to witness the sinking from the hills in the vicinity, so that they might get a good idea modern barbarism and be correspondingly impressed. The picture shows Petty Officer Johnston in the rigging. Subsequently the tribesmen were completely routed by General Lukin's column. Markets of the World Breadstuffs. Toronto, Mar, 28.--Manitoba wheat, new crop--No, 1 Northern, $1.08%; No. 2, $1.06%; No. 8, $1.03%, in store, Fort William. est westerns, 18% to 19¢; do., east- erns, 18% to 18%e¢, Butter--Choicest 82¢. Eggs--Fresh, 28 to 29¢. Pota- toes--Per bag, car lots, $1.70. apnea Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Mar. 28.--Cash wheat: -- a No. 1 Northern, $1.08; No. 2 North- Manitoba. oats--No; 2 C.W., 42%e¢; ern, $1,06%; No. 8 Northern, No. 8 C.W., 40%c; extra No. 1 feed, '$1.02%; No. 4, 99%c; No. 5, 90%c; $034; No. 1 feed, 89%ec, in store, Fort iam, | American corn--No. 3 yellow, 78¢,! No. 1 feed, 40c; American corn--No. 3 yellow, . 78, | No. 2, feed, 38¢c. Barley--No, on track Toronto. Canadian corn--Feed, 68 to 0c, track Toronto. Ontario oats--No. 8 white, 42 to ma 43¢; commercial, 41 to 42c, according United States Markets. to freights outside. : + . Ontario wheat--No, 2 winter, per | Minneapolis, Mar. 28 _--Wheat-- car lot, $1 to $1.02; No. 1 commercial, | May, $1.10%; July, $1.10%; No, 96 to 98¢; No. 2 doi, 94 to 96c; No. 8 hard, $1.16%; No. 1 Northern, $1.11 do, 91 to 92¢; feed wheat, 85 to 88c, | to $1.18%. Corn--No. 3 yellow; 75 according to freights outside, {to 76¢. Oats--No. 8 white, 39% to Peas--No. 2, $1.50; according = to!40%e¢. Flour--Ten cents higher; sample, $1 to $1.80, according to fancy patents, $6.20; first clears, freights outside. $4.60; other grades unchanged; ship- Barley--Malting barley, 62 to 64c; | ments, 50,103 barrels. Bran--$17.50 feed barley, 59 to 62c, according tq to $1 ? freights outside. Buckwheat--68 to 69c, freights outside. Rye--No. 1 commercial, 86 to 87¢; rejected, according to sample; 83 to 86c¢, according to freights outside. . Manitoba flour--First patents, in jute bags, $6.50; second patents, in foie bage, $6; strong bakers', in jute ags, $5.80, Toronto. - Ontario flour--Winter, according to sample, $4,056 to $420, on track, To- b to $4.20, bulk seaboard, | 4 pment. 3 Millfeed, car lots, delivered Mont- real frdights--Bran, per ton, $24; shorts, per ton, $26; middlings, per ton, $27; good feed flour," per "bag, $1.60 to $1.70. Country Produce. Butter--Fresh dairy, 28 to 8ic; in- ferior, 23 to 25c; creamery prints, 84 to 86¢c; solids, 32 to 84e. Eggs--New-laid, 28 to 20c; do., in cartons, 80 to 8lc. Honey--In 10 to 60-1b. tins, 18 to 14c. Combs--No. 1, $2.75 to $3; No. 2, $2.26 to $2.40. ; Beans--$4.10 to $4.40, the latter for hand-picked. Poultry--Chickens, 19 to 20c; fowls, 15 to 16¢; ducks, 17 to 20c; geese, to 20c; turkeys, 28 to 2bc. Cheese--Large, 19¢; twins, 19%c. Potatoes--Car lots of Ontarios, $1.65 to $1.70, and New Brunswicks ab $1.75 per bag, on track. 2 C.W., 42¢;, No. 8 C.W., 40c; = extra No. 1 feed, 38%ec; 3, boc; No. 4, bdc; rejected, 51%c; feed, 513%e. on | Flax--No. 1 N.W.C., $1.94; No. 2 C.W., $1.91. . luth, Mar. 28 Wheat No. x i hard, $1.12%; 0. orthern, according fo 8130% to $1.13%; No. 2 Northern, $1.06% to $1.09%. Live Stock Markets. " Toronto, Mar. 28.--Choice heavy steers, $8 to $8.85; butcher steers, choice, $7.76 to $7.90; do; good, $7.80 to $7.50; do., medium, $7 to $7.26; do.,, common, $6.25 to $6.75; heifers, good to choice, $7.25 to $7.85; do., medium, $6.50 to. $6.75; butcher cows, choice, $6.50 to $7; do.; good; $5.75 to $6.50; butcher bulls, choi $6.50-to0. $7.25; do., good bulls, to $6; do., medium, §5 to $5.50; do., rough bologna, $4.40 'to $4.50; feed- ers, 900 to 1,000 1bs., $6.40 to $6.80; do., bulls, $4.50 to $5.50; stockers, 700 to 800 lbs., $6 to $6.50; do., med- ium; 650 to 750 lbs., $5.75 to $6; do., light, 500 to 650 lbs, $6 to $5.50; canners, $4 to $4.26; cutters, $4.50 to $4.75; milkers, choice, each, $60 to $85; springers, $60 to $85; calves, veal, choice, $11 to $12.50; do., med- ium, $7 to $8; do., common, $5.50 to $6; lambs, yearlings, $10 to $18.50; culled lambs, $7 to. $7.25; spring lambs, each, $7 to $10; ewes, light, ) {$7.50 to $9; sheep, heavy, and bucks, 18 $6.50 to $8; hogs, fed and watered, $10.36; do., f.0.b., $9.90; do., weigh- ed off cars, $10.85. Montreal, Bu choice, $8 to $8.25; good, $7.50 $7.75; fairly good, $7 to $7.25; fair, > $6.50 to $6.76; medium, $6 to $6.25; Provisions. butchers' steers, common, $5.50 to Bacon, long clear, 1634 to 16%ec yor] $56.76; canners, $4.25 to $b; cows, ., in case lots. Hams--Medium, 20 choice, $6. to 21¢; do., heavy, 15 to 17c; rolls, 17 $6. to 17%e¢, breakfast bacon, 21 to 2dc;. $5. backs, plain, 26 to 26¢; boneless backs, '$7. p 5 3g i 6 'lard, tierces, 13% to Se. 25; milch choice, each $85 ch, $70 to 1 Over the Biyonet| 'modium, $5.75 to $6; common, $5.50; bulls, choice, $7 to coast ood, $6.50 to $6.75; medium, filed creamery, 83 to 84c; seconds, 30 to { '| Receives Great Reception from Pu day from the French capital. Gen, counter-attacks, are advancing. $5.50 RUSSIA CONSER 0 Mar. 28.--Butcher steers, BIG | No. 6, 82%ec; feed, 77%e¢. Oats--No, 'reported: here Kaiser is prepared to discuss peace on the basis of the cession of Alsace-| Lorraine to France in exchange for one of her colonies, such as Mada- | gascar; Russia to have Constaninople, with a protectorate over Turkey in! exchange for Poland, which Germany and Austria would divide. No war indemnity is mentioned in the al- leged proposals. ITALIAN: COMMAND - Ma IN LONDON 3 A despatch Tron | Jamion says: The lic of British Capital. Russian offensive Dvinsk region A despatch from London says: Gen. i8 rapidly developing, a desperate eral Count Cadorna, chief of the Ital-; battle is raging to She, soups ian general staff, who left Italy to Dvinsk , according ng Sv She Perogead attend the 'military and political con-| official = report, v 2 ference of the Entente nations at; Lake Vargunek General Kuropakin's Paris arrived in London on Wednes-: forces, after having repulsed several Cadorna was met at the station by|Violent hand-to-hand figh took Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, the Place all of Wednesday night in 'British: War Secretary. An immense region north of the to 'throng of people, English and Ttalian, | north-westward' of Li fom VING A . & oe ER MEAT SUPPLIES A despatch from London says: Russian Minister of Agriculture will shortly introduce a bill in the Duma prohibiting throughout Russia the killing of live stock on ys and ments, the Germans were dislodged Thursdays and fixing the number of i % cattle that may be sluughtered on prom (he woods in the vicinity of 'other days, says a Reuter despatch. + : ing Russians from Petrograd. The bill will pro-i Siting te and" cap- vide for prohibition upon the sale of ' 3 s s tared 18 machine guns; 26 field mor- all kinds of meat in markets, restaur- ,- : 'ants and hotels on Wednesdays and tars, 10 trench mortars, two mine- Fridays and for the closing of butcher Wars, a 'shops: on those days. ~~ | CH surrounded by wire entagle- eee GERMAN STEAMER ' DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN: A desp ondon sinking by & Russian warship of th 75 to $7; good, $6.25 to Steamship Esperanza off Kali Akra, in the Black Sea, off the Roumanian reported in a Router despatch Bucharest on Sunday. _-- 6 | GATHERING IN