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Shatter and Oceupy the Enormous yal-Combles Barrier. msn. 'London, Sept. 16.--The British tore 'wide open =| ne enormous Combles salient. In a twelve-hour Bittle 2 the eight-mile front from h to Ginchy, in : the face twelve hundred } stormed, pierced, shattered and then occupied that stretch of the German front north of the Somme which hitherto had acted as a block to their advance on Combles and Bapaume, The barrier broken down, Sir Douglas |. Haig's troops pushed considerably be- yond it to the north-east, carrying the menace of the Somme drive almost as ominously close to Bapaume as it is to Combles and Peronne, : A The end of the fighting saw the British in possession of practically all the high ground between Combles and the Albert-Pozieres-Bapaume highway. Three villages--Flers, Mar- tinpuich and Courcellette--and High Wood, were completely captured, as was the greater part of Bouleaux Wood. The powerful German redoubt called "Wunderwerk" (Wonder work), because of its supposed impregnabil- ity, was taken by storm in the turning of the salient's tip near Thiepval. More than 2,800 prisoners were tak- en, including 656 officers. Thé day was the most successful for the British since the initial phase of the Somme battle. For three days their infantry had enjoyed compara- tive rest, while the artillery paved the way for the new crush. French Co-operated. The French, though net launching an attack on a large front, worked hand-in-hand with the British in drawing the ring around Combles still I German trenches farm, which fell into their hands yes- terday. The British took by storm a! group of German trenches south «of | 'Rancourt, two miles from Peronne.! South of the Somme they captured three Teuton trenches near the vil | lage of Berny-on-Santerre, taking 200 prisoners. er Apart from the results scored, the resumption of the British in the: Somme drive was remarkable for two. features. Never before has an attack been Marked by Such class and successful co-operation by the "eyes of the army," the aviators. The clash of the infantry legions on the blood- soaked ground was accompanied by a battle royal in the air, The British fliers were met by a cordon of Teuton aviators, and two air fleets with one another in daring, tenacity | and skill, e British, according to the night report from headquarters, | proved their superiority. Thirteen ! German machines were destroyed; nine others were brought down in a damaged condition. The British lost four. Cheered as They Charged. The second spectacular feature of the battle was the introduction by the British for the first time of a new type of armored motor car, whose | powerful traction enables it to cross trenches and shell craters as if going ! over smooth ground. A number of these new "wonder machines" whir- | red into the battle with the infantry and in the midst of the hail of shell the men cheered as they charged. | $8.1 | tins, 3 "No. Sans to frais 80 to '81¢ , 80 to '870, free 8 Jo She ming nde Buckwheat--Nominal, freights outside. minal, | aseord Rye--No.. 2, commeralal ights outside. nites flour--Pi stron i Torani Ontario flour--New winter, to sample, $6.25, in bags, track, prompt shipment; new, accor sample, a 5, bulk seaboard, prot shipmen pS ilifeed--Car lots, Seliysred Mohifel freights, bags included--Bran, per ton, $28. ° shorts, per tom, $29; _middli ed $30; good feed flour, per ¥ ew, per ton, $10 to $12; No. & 9 to $9.50, track Toronto SE lots, per ton, $7 to $& track Toronto. i Country Prodnce--Wholesale. Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 3%¢ inferior, 24 to 25c; creamery prints, 8 to 87c ; solids, 84 to 35c. ik Hggs--New-iald, 34 to 850; do. car- tons, 38 to 40c. ¢ Dressed poultry--Chickens, 25 to 27ef; fowl, 18 to 20c; ducks, 18 to 206. > Live poultry--Chickens, 17 to 18¢3 fowl, C. % 21% 22% 14 to 16¢; 'ducks, 18 to 16¢. Cheese--New, large, 21 to twins, 213 wo tes triplets; Hate jie oney--Hxtra fine quality; 23-1b. tin 128 to i3c ; b-b. tins, 12 to 120; 10-1 0; -1b,, 11 to 11 Comb honet: select, $2.40 to $2.75; 2, 32 to $2.26. . Columbia Rose, per bag, $2 ; New Bruns- wick, coblers, per ba, 11% to 12 otatoes--Ontarios, 2.26 ; British Boans-- Hand picked $6.80; primes ans--Hand- ,.. $6.80; $5. picket primes, 1 fre 12 mm Hay--N. per ton, § Straw ¥ A A ---- : ; Provisions--Wholesale. * Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 24 to 26c ; do, heavy, 22 to 23¢; cooked, 35 to 87c; 'treakfast bacon, 26 to 27¢; Backs, plain, 26 to 27c; boneless, 28 to IC. 5 Pickled or dried cured meats, 1 cent less than cured. TAKE NO PRISONERS ORDER TO GERMANS Them With Bayonet. "A despatch to New York says: From official British sources The New York Times received on Tuesday the translation of a letter found on a rman prisoner captured in the bat- POINCARE'S THANKS TO BRITISH KING. A despatch from London says: President Poincare telegraphed King George in reference to his award of Verdun: ; "The French army has received with pride this high testimony of esteem given by the august sovereign of a great friendly allied country." The King in reply, said: "It was a real pleasure for me to award the tle of the Somme, The prisoner, writing to his family in Stuttgart, said : or- | that the Germans had received ders "to take no prisoners, but to despatch them with - the bayonet." With 'the translation came a photo- graph of the original letter, which was addressed to "Karl Koch and family, Kaltenal, near Stuttgart." A part of the letter, as officially translated, follows: "And now we had three days' rest, and I could get nothing at all to drink except costly wine. It is very dis- agreeable to us that we are obliged to go through it once again; you can- not conceive it. S06 many of our com- rades are missing, who have fallen or heroic town of ' Verdun, whose name ever shall evoke ineffaceable recollec- tions of victory in her glorious re- { sistance against' the stubborn and re- iterated attacks' of 'the commdn en- emy." ea: CANADIAN CHAPLAINS WERE BADLY WOUNDED. A despatch from London says: In- formation received by the Canadian the Military Cross to the town of © Military Cross to the 36 meats--Long clear bacon, 18 to_18ic per 1b. Lard--Pure Lard, tlerces, 17 to i) : tubs, 173 to 17§c; pails, 178 to 17fc. Compound, 13% to Yao. Montreal Markets: € Montreal, Sept. 19.--Oats--Canadian Western, No. 2,°603c; do. No. 60¢ ; extra No. 1 feed, 60c ; dic. F 9 ~--No. 2, per ton, car lots, 13 to $14. Cheese--Finest western to 213c., do. easterns, 20} to 20c. But- ter--Cholcest creamery, 36¢; c.. Eggs--TFresh, 46 to 50c ; 88c ; No. 1 stock, 34c; No, 2, do, , 2, Qo, 30c. Potatoes--per bag, car lots, $1.5 $1.65. 0 to 1 Grain, nif Winnipeg, Sept. .19.--Cash pi jgem Wheat, No 1 Northern, $1.58% ; No 2 Northern, $1.56 ; No, 8 Northern, $1.53% ; o. 4, $1473; No. 5, $1.38%; No. 6, $1.164 ; feed, $1034. Oats, No. 2' C.W. 60c; No. 8 C. W., 49¢c; feed, 49c; No. 1, 48jc; Barley, No 8, 86c ; No. 4, 76c ; feed, 76c. Flax, MN: $1.88; No. 2 C. W., $1.85. " o. 1'N. . United States :Tarkets. Red Cross show the injuries received on the battlefield by Father 0'Gor- | man, of Ottawa, to be serious. His injuries consist of a fractured femur and wounds in his left arm and hip. | were wounded during the week, and now we are obliged to go through it once more, Oh dear! Here we have proper Englishmen against us, and The chaplain is in the hospital at Ca- miers. Col. Steacy has no information |as to how the chaplain received. his wounds. Major G. W. Wood, the ! Northern, Minneapolis, Sept. 19.--Wheat, tember, $1.62§ ;: No. 1 hard, $1.703 1 Northers, $1.63%1 to ; $1.69% to 4 yellow, 82 to 88c. Oats, No. 3 white, 42% to Flour unchanged. Bran, $20.00 to $21.00. Duluth, Sept. 19.--~Wheat, No. 1 hard, 1.66% ; No. 1 Northern, $1.643 to $1.66%; 0. 2 Northern, $1.61F to $1.62]; Sep- tember, $1.643 bid. Linseed on trac and to arrive, $2.06: September, $2.0 asked ; October, $2.06§ bid; November, $2.06% 'asked ; December, $2.054; May. $2.09 asked. , Sep oh No, 8 Mroiminal, 'Socordine 0 rst patents, in jute] FR Re aE | Provinges, the bulletin says: t| last year, and 15.67 bushels in 1914. ; eee pre Preliminary Estimate of Y of the Wheat Crop. A despatch from Ottawa says: In a bulletin issued the Census and of th Anan so of the yield sts victories last week of the wheat After a reference : : : to the Teduced yield in the western | {enSive hos achieved what If Ontario and Quebec grain yields have, been greatly reduced by dro in August; but in the Maritime vinces and in British Columbia condition of the grain' crops has jeld / driven a wedge right through the ore {ginal German front, has d o. | "broken the line" of bo impreg-' nable fortifications stretching across. She France from beyond the north-west~ land. | The village 'of Bouchavesnes and Abbe Wood farm beyond it: were Sealy behind the Sows auf trenches per cent. of barley and 1.8 per cent.' aerial observation showed to of flax will fail to produce any crop' barring the French Sdvange Whea the of grain. These percentages repre~ Somme offensive began.. That under sent deductions from the areas sown | the menace of the onrushing French tide the Germans have hastily con- 'of 1,482,300 acres of spring wheat, : structed other lines still further in the 849,000 acres of oats and 69,100 acres of the lost positions does not de- of barley, It is consequently esti- mated that the total yield of wheat| tract from the moral valua of the this year will be 168,811,000 bushels Achievement that filled the battle- from a harvested area of 10,085,300 Weary troops with enthusiasm. acres, as compared with 876,303,600 Tremendous' as is the moral value bushels from 12,986,400 acres last|°f the latest success, its strategic year, and 161,280,000 bushels from 10,298,900 acres in 1914. The aver- age yield per acre is 16% bushels, as compared with twenty-nine bushels It is estimated from the reports of 'correspondents that, of the areas sown about 13.7 per cent. of spring wheat, eight per cent. of oats, five NEW SILVER MEDAL ; ; FOR ARMY SERVICE. Badge Being Awarded to Nurses and Voluntary Aid Members. . A despatch from Ottawa says: It is learned unofficially, that Canadian FRENCH MERCHANT MARINE GROWS DESPITE THE WAR. A despatch from New York says: The annual report of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantic, better known as the French Line, made public here on Wednesday night, shows that France's' merchant marine has grown instead of diminished since the 'war began, in spite of Germany's sub- marine warfare. Among other ves- sels, the company has built and placed in commission a modern pas- senger steamship of 14,800 tons, and it has maintained an uninterrupted passenger and freight service between France and the western hemisphere. Despite an almost total absence of tourist travel, a reduction of west: ward emigration traffic, and losges in- curred through submarine activity, the report shows a substantial pro- fit, due to large freight traffic. ep BIG RAID FOR SHIRKERS AT FAMOUS RACE-COURSE. A despatch from London says: other dominions, "tHe colonies, and India, gre to Tocelve's Rew silver me- on leaving army. new medal, which has the approval of Majesty the King, will be giv officers and men serving at home sbroad since the ma War, who leave the army age physical SxSruity ~wotade or si ness--arising from such service. badge is' being awarded to members of Queen Alexandra's Military Ser- vice, to members of the voluntary Ni to members of the voluntary aid detacliment, and to civ- ilians' attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2 | ei BEST GERMAN AIRMAN KILLED IN ACTION. "A despatch from Amsterdam says: The German lieutenant, Fahlbusch, whose successful exploits in the alr have been mentioned recently in of- mans asserted was impossible, It has cut be : and by their thas definitely | the boasted tinued to be quite favorable. ~~ | 0 frontier to the limits of Switzer. | soldiers, in common 'with those of the | eo German fI x 2 a y Dow menace ir already sweep with thelr art : in from Paris a withdrawal to the inner line, Douai, Cambrai, Laon, that famous: "short ening of the front" that is here to mark the beginning of end, Ci LR a Of more immediate value is Peronne is now under French fire from the north, west, and south, which cuts it from all = communica- tions except along ' communication port, Now instead. of being "before Per- onne," the French are at its very. gates. Er 3 CALLED WONDERS New Type of Armored Car in Use on the Somme i Front. . a A despatch from London 'says i The reference in the official statement issued by the War Office on Friday to a new type of armored car, is the first official mention of a Jevelopment Which has been much whispered abou recéntly in army circles. Those. wha have seen the new vehicles refer to them as "tanks," while the soldiers who have been handling them have given them the nick-name of "Willies." The object which the designers sought to obtain Was to render a heavily Armo motor car capable of being operated in the shelltorn and roadless mounted on ordinary Wheels could not be used, Although = no details of the car's construction have been published, the Times says : Ou Hiyentors have not hesligise y to tread unbeaten paths.. We may imagine the feelings of German infantry in shell § Je. ave orders to take no prisoners, but Other Canadian chaplain, Who was to despatch them all with the bayon- | Wounded last week, is an inmate of et, which I would not be sorry to do. | the hospital at Boulogne with a gun- But they are always getting more [Shot wound in the leg. : Military police carried out an exten- Live Stock Markets. sive raid for shirkers from military Toronto, Sept. 19--Choice heavy steers, service on Wednesday at the New: § $8.35 to $9.10; good heavy steers, $8,00 market race course just before the * 'prisoners from us, and what do they a io Jaa0: a tte rod, $1.60 race for the classic St. Leger was| - * do with them?" do," common, 3 0-to $6.25; butchers started, Racing has been in abeyance | : ° NO, RICE FOR KAISER. bulls, choice, $7.26 to 37.50 ; "do. '00d fom over: 'month, and: thousands of be bulls, - ; gh' bulls, +oF- Over a. 4, and: thousand : BIX MONTHS GIVEN FROM SWITZERLAND. ois% | men tended. Rveryome apparently | ¥ TO U. 8. DISTURBER. am : cars | OF military cluding reporters, A despatch from Paris says: The 95; ord { jockeys Dona bettors, race- Swiss export commission has refused | feed 3 - 0; cad! | course groo =} A despatch from Montreal says: a personal request of the Kaiser. ito} Doreand cutters, ancora, | alled Sictals nd Srooms Was com For interfering with recruiting . on furnish his table with rice. Baron and 0x 00.00 i | as he entered, and the soldier-police- Craig Street, Arthur Holland, of Os- Yon Romberg, the Sexman Minister at iQ "30.57% man demanded the production' of . vy. ' Berne, 'aske s Governmen x : ce, y 'e "an _attestation or registration Jee: Ny Tons eianoed by Judge, authorize the shipment of 200 1035+ 'ealve m. $8.00 to $10.00; €ard, or, in the absence of this, ® birth | In jail or a fine of $50, this being the pounds of rice for the consumption of , hogs, fed and watered, $12.25 to i 36 ; | or 'exemption c cate, thins prin- first cfise here under the new Orden: the Emperor and his family, but the ; do. welghed off cars, $12.50 to $12.60 } enclosure the first hotir's pro. | fn-Council 7 | export commission, being tied by an| "Rontreal, Hept. 19---Cholce steers, os were almost fruitless; pro-|. : agreement, with the allies was unable $11% to 3; alr ar $6784 3r.00 "tug | GUELOES METS almost fruitless; pro- to comply with the request. ~ butchers' cows bought 36.60. to 36.76, declared themselves Irishmen and not ra od, $6 to J0.35 common $6 to $6.76 a liable to registration. k x 3 DICKENS' GRANDSON IS KILLED, ¢ : al IN ACTION. RE --] ficial despatches, has been killed in action, according to the Vossische Zeitung, i u ) 85 ; to 860.1bs., $6.00 to $6.50 ; ers, dehorned, $8.30 to $7.0 $s. 0:10 $4.80" 0° to $90.00; each, §40.00 'to 00 to $90. ssi in Great Rejoleing Tt med:, gers, $50. to $8.00 One of 'Bravest rons in An ---- MINNESOTA GETS $1,250,000 FROM J. J. HILL ESTATE. * "A despatch from. St. Paul, 'Minn., gr 'says: Minnesota will; receive approxi-| A despatch from London says: mately, $1,250,000 as an inheritance Major Cedric Charles Dickens, grand- fax from the estate of James J. 'Hill. {500 of Charles Dickens, was killed in It will be the largest in the history of | 2tion in France, Monday. - the State. Probate Court officials of | ---- T Ramsey county 80 declared on Tues- | - Painless dentistry is the art of ; i drawing #t mild. Recognition of Service Performed in Battle of Jutland 5k iis| HONORS = ARE ~ AWARDED . TO! ; NAVAL HEROES. Ive weight. Salected hogs, $1535 oo : jiz ee and the lower grades at $10.25 12 per owt. welghed off cars. TWO BRITISH GENERALS KILLED AT THE FRO! A despatch from London oy