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) cross the ocean in ta four days. Cap- believe that the _ offer difficulties in *h_ expediting of certain classes of mail, including quicker transmis- sion 'of banking paper, is an import- le ness men could morning In New York Paris on Wednes- Ire, wi 'have Saturday > and in London or > FE gl Canadian Crop. Outlook "Bet- _ ter Than Average" ~ 'Winnipeg, Man --A "better than + average" wheat-crop fs forecast 'for "western Canada this year,; on the basis of preseit conditions, by\various + organigations whose estimates are * generally regarded as reliable. 1t is "vestimated that the wheat acreage is _ 'about' 19,750,000 acres, as compared 21,700, last year, there being ge 'this year of about 8 per, provinces, the acreage, i: Saskatche%un, y 1,275,000. & far he other principal grains ' ned, there is an increaked acreage this year devoted to thelr cultivation. "There are = 11,000,000 acres given over to. oats, an increase of near per cent. over last year; _over-3,000,000 acres is seed ed to bar- "Jey, this being an increase of 15 per | t. over last year, and 670,000 acres © to flax, or an-increase of 3 per cent, FRE built 'or likely to be builf¢' They thus | feet high. Calls Upon Workers to Enlist > * Before Impending War Moscow--Heralding" the beginning of defence week, President Rykoff, of the Council of Commissars, who also is chafrman 8 Labor 'and Defence, re- negha ir warming to the citizens of the imminence of war and the neces: sity for preparednéss; His published instruction declares that the Osovi- ackim, as the central organ of defence, must double its ranks during the week. "Whoever is not a.member of the Red Army," said' the instruction, "must join the ranks of. the Osovi- ackim and-be ready to'rise to the de- fence of union, Every worker must know how to use a. rife, how! to deal with gas attacks, and how to Sengtien 'the detedee of the: coun: ceased monarch is shown dt lls Mg a CENTRE, and at th & week will be deol hr e LEFT is Queen to, rallyfiig of pili oe sn A Marie. At the RIGHT Crown Prince resources." The newspapers launc Wa ed the campaign with editorials and cartoons intended to rouse - martial spirit. = . : (Some people wonder just how much rope these flladvised -disturbers will need to hang themselves. --Hd.} a SSR ROYALTY OPENS ~ MERSEY i last January, King and Queen Perform | A tour having been decided on, the ny at £7,500,000 |arst thing to settle is, of course, the Buildings in Liverposl | approximate date of leaving England. : oy The Prince is a busy man, with many Liverpool--King George and Queen , calls upon his time, and his engage- Mary recently opened the new £7,- | ment-book 1s certain to 'be filled: up 500,000 Gladstone Docks (a locked gutta. early in the year. As soon as basin . for. loading and. unloading' tne "actual" date fs fixed, a spell of ships), eaid to be the largest, foverish anxiety descends upon' the modern and. best equipped in "the: members 'gt his household, Perha; world. The docks Acres IN ex- the busfest 4mong them is his private' tent, unlike the rest. of the port of secretary. One of the earliest of this Liverpool, are accesible in any weath-' pmofal's. cares 48 to procure a stock er and almost in all stages of the ; ids, to the lax, REGE Losing his long battle against can: cer, King Ferdinand of Rumania died at Bucharest on July 20, (By Horace _ When the Prince of Wales goes ol touring, all arrangements have to a! _/ {planned many months ahead. Thus. DOCKS the details of the Canadian visit of His Royal Highness were worked out of all the newest and most authorita- yet. tive books: dealing with the districts | in the projected itinerary. A careful; digest of these volumes is then made | with a waterway 48 by his librarian; and, by studying it, feet decp. They. also provide 2% |the Royal traveller forms a very. good files of quayage 'with mechanical idea of what he will see. It, too, an oading and unloading machinery and expért happens to be lectiring on any 00 acres of storage warehouses. More of the 'places mentioned, the Prince 'than 170,000 tons of cement were takes an opportunity of going to hear used te.construct the quay walls, 63 him. On this account he has several ; {times been among the audience at the er of the Royal Geographftal -and the Royal Colonial Insti- have an entrance lock, 1,070 feet long by 130 feet wide ey Planning the Program. As may be imdgined, a tremendous amount of correspondence has to be g d out before the tour actually less. charged with responsible func: PLANNING THE How Arrangerients are Made | the world-war broke out, he was serv- NCY WILL FUNCTION IN RUMANIA Michael, who was proclaimed heir Prince Michael a regency will admin: on the" abdication of Prince Carol, | ister the royal prerogatives. In view Carol, who 1s separated from his wife, lof the complicated politieal condition former Princess Helene of Greece, 18 of the country unrest and disorder, shown BELOW, his wite at RIGHT. minority of | TOUR Ferdinand. The baggage-master's job' 1s to sée that none of the portmanteaus and suit cases go astray. pronounced vigilance. PRINCE'S Wyndham) the | it is feared, may follow the death of {+ by another member of the staff | throughout the trip; and in this wol- | ume is written up at the end of each day a very full account of the Prince's doings One copy of the previous week's entries is despatched to King George and Queen Mary; one to Prin: cess Mary; and others to his brothers and various relatives. After the tour is finished, the completed diary, to- gether with a selection of photo- graphs, is cpecially bound in purple morocco, and copies are deposited in | the libraries at Buckingham Palace, | Windsor Castle, Sandringham, Marl borough House, and York House, An- other copy goes €o the British Mus- eum, and thus forms invaluable ma- terial for future historians.--Mont- real Star. crt Shanghai Numbered Among Great Ports Great Britain wi Town Hall by the Mayer cf Aucl and, supported by the chairmen of the Chamber of Commerce, and 4 Minister. of the Crown and the Gov ent has gone to a good deal of trouble to facilitate the work of the mission. The sentiment in favor of British goods in New-Zesland Is strong, but the British motor menufaciurer does much Jess businigs here than his American rival. American cars for the most part are cheaper, and are able to surmount the obstacle of the preferential tariff in faver of British Empire goods, Moreover they are considered by most people to be bet- ter suited to New Zealand conditions. They are more highly powered, and tho New Zealander likes 3 car; that will travel quickly on the flat and take hills wtihout too much changing of gears. It i» also contended that the American carts better adapted to New. Zealand's bad roads. On the ler hand champions of the English car say that fts relative defects have been exaggerated. They maintain thgt it wears well, 'and they point to lesser consumption of fuel Of recent years European cars have become more popular on this market. Improvement in roads has favored them and so has reduction in thelr price. s In the aggregate the New Zealand market Is small, though its value per capita is the highest in the world, The delegation will spend three weeks In New Zealand. In welcome ing them the reprsntative of the Gov- ernment said that in the two years in which it had concentrated on motor manufacture, Britain had recaptured more than 80 per cgnt. of its lost trade, BRITISH PROTEST ABYSSINIAN ATTACK Caravan Is Rushed by Ethi- opian Troops London--The British Government has lodged a photest with the Abyse sinfan Government against an attack cn a British camel caravan traveling in the Province of Hrrar last month, The caravan was carrying supplies for the Majharaja of Kutch, who was with a party, including Sir Geoffrey Archer, formerly Governor-General of the - Sudan. 2 Permission to enter Abyssinia had been asked from Ras Taffari, the re- gent, but the local Deputy-Governor apparently denied that he had been welcomed , .| _ Washington--Shanghal, a city of| warned of the caravan's impending ar- Thid calls 'for { 2000 000 population, with commereial | Fival. 3 . van was rushed by Ethiopin troops . {buildings and residences in the model y p gg idly rain Skient simplied | settlement comparable to those of any | With the result timt there were a The upshot was that the cara- d on | 1Arge western city, has a shipping [dozen fatalities among the British Halsey, who. has filled the responsible | trusted "him is of the sanf§ pattern | '4'8 Somalis in charge of the outfit and legibly marked with the Royal cypher. Still;-as-the number of pleces is more than a hundred, he has some anxious moments lest, when his back Is turned, any ome of them should Post of comptroller and treasurer to his Royal Highness since 1920: 'Born In 1872, Sir Lionel became a neval cadet on the Britannia in 1886, and afterwards went to the Royal Yacht, He saw active service in South Afri- | chance to be annexed as a "souvenir." ea-and did so well there that he was | This has never happened yet. Still, specially promoted to the rank of | there is always a possibility that it commander. During the European |may! War he took a strenuous part in the Battle of Jutland. The admiral is, of course, fully experienced in all the multitudinous requirements that bring a Royal tour to a successful issue, for he accompanied the Prines on his: re- cent. journey to Canada. Perhaps the member of.the Prince's suite who has as much responsibility as anyone else for. everything going 1 well is his private secretary, Sir God- | $1.60 cif. ports. frey Thomas. Educated at Harrow, Man. oats--No. 2 CW, nominak; his first career was diplomacy. When (No. 1, feed 69%c; Western grain quotatiops in c.i.f. ports. corn, Toronto freights, "Logging" the Tour. A careful "log," or diary, is kept TORONTO. ing 'on the staff of the British Am.| Ameri n bassador in Berlin ,and many stirring | No. 2 rel kiln dried, $1.16% ; No. adventures were his before 'he found 3 yellow, kiln dried, $1.14%. himself safely back in England aah, | The third important post in the bags included. Bras, per ton, $32.26; Prince's personal staff is that of shorts, per ton, $35.25; middlings, n-waiting, a position held by $42.26. Brigadier-General Gerald" Trotter. He | Ont. served for twenty years in the Grena- ("0 vy dier Guardg (the Prineg's own regi ment); and fought in South Africa and France, He is also thoroughly famil- iar with the etiquette "and routine of 'Court life, for, prior to going to 0) House, he was a Gentleman uj the King at Buckingham Pala Important: Subordinates. '1a i In addition to the high officials al-! Dl pout old crop)---T in in ready mentioned, the. Prince's per Roronto, $5.90; hoard, sonal staff on his four includes a num- $5.90; new crop, $! ber of gubordinates, who are © the | aans--Can. han $9.90 bushel .b. sl points, freigh Barley--Malting, nominal. Buckwheat--Nominal, - R; No. 2, nominal. to . flour--First, 189.05; in jute. $8.90 pat., in jute, $8.40. yrup, per .30; Fresh - ras, ts, 20 to 1c; seconds, 24 er--Creameries are, selli , No. 1, 85 to 86%c; No. | trade of 30,000,000 tons annually that soca to all parts of the world, says a { report to the Department of Com- | merce, from Julean Arnold, commer cial attache at Shanghai. The relatic ns between Great 'Britaty and Ethiopia have been unsatisfactery for some time past, partly owing to the Anglo-Italian economic treaty, Firms of all nationalities maintain | Which the Abyssinians belleve inteng- offices in Shanghai, and its canals | ©d the partition of their country into | : Grain, Produce and Livestock | i ee RR Lt Man. wheat--No. 1 North., $1.70% ; No. 2 North, $1.66%; No. 3 North., Millfeedl-Del., Montreal freights, | 3 [ints, Tr oats--Bbe, fob. shipping, 15ic; Te a haat 20, LL Maavy. bet mons +o. $0.5 4s at., in cotton, | butcher cows, oronto second | to $6.76; do, 90 lots, a in bulk; dpicked, $3.00 to im- per 5 gal 1; maplo sugar, 3 to 3c; | grades ng-- Reservations may be made for , 34. eo selling prints to , 86 torte; Np and creeks are lined with mills and |8Pheres of influence, and partly owing factories both foreign and native, Of |!0 indiscreet public utterances of an the 30,000 foreigners settled in Shang. | Englishman in Egypt about the cone | hat there are 3,500 Americans. tinuance of slavery in Abyssinia, PROVISION S--WHOLESALE, Wholesalers are quotinf trade: Smoked meat§--Hams, med., 30c; {cooked hams, 40 to 42¢; smoked rolls, [25c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 80c; backs, boneless, 32 to 42c¢. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 [to 70 Ibs., $21; 70 to 90 Ibs., $19: 90 (to 100 lbs. and up, $18; lightweight jrolls, in barrels, $11.50; heavyweight | rolls, $88.50 per bbl. Lard--Pure tiefces, 14% to 15c; |tubs, 16% to 16¢c; pails, 16 to 16%c; 17 to 17%c; shortening, 18%; tubs, 14%c; pails, blotks and tins, 16%c. CATTLE AND HOGS. to the $9; do, fair, $8 to $8.25 / butcher steers, «hoice, $8 to $8.75; do, fair to good, $7 to $7.96;-butcher heifers, choice, $8 to $8.50; com, $6 to ; od, $5 to $6.75; do $4.50 to $5; , cannes and cutters, $2.50t0$3.50; butcher, bulls, good to choice, $5 to $6; do,' med., 50 to $4.75; do , $4.25 to $4.75; baby beef, 8.60 to $12; feeders, choice, $7 to 7.65; stockers, choice, $6.50 to $7; do, fair to med., $5 to $6; springers, choice, toy oe i milch Soa choice, $70 3..p to medium cows, $45 ; cal hoice, $12.50 $1 $10.50; are: paying, deliv- moth : Sergt Major Hawkins : who won the Prince of | Wales prize at Bisley. £ont ; Twin en Surprise Packets. ladies In boxes only.--Prospectus of a New York banquet to Colonel Lind: i bergh, i pr! ; fp iy A Packing "Em In. 1 The lodge has more than 20