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or Presents You Carit )o Better Than Thls.- RAIDS ON DOVER HARBOR Two German Submarines Alleged to Have Been Sunk, But is Not Confirmed by Admiralty The Ten for The one Useful Gift for Home. Office or School. Ap. propriatc for Men. Women or the Young Folks. Illustrated Folder sent on request. $2.50 to $50.00. Avoid Substitute!. In Attractive Xmas Gift Boxes. From the Best Stores Everywhere. L. E- VVuterman Company, Limited, - - Montreal. A GREAT NAVAL VICTORY A d<-:pat<-li from Dover says: It is reportedi tltat German submar- ines attempted a ra : d on Dover and that, two were sunk. There were me war^'ii'S in the harbor at I'M- tinio of the attack, and these un- doubtedly were tlie object of the submarines' v: 1. About 100 rounds wore find by the eastern pier hatk'i-ies durinaf the opera- tions. The gunners claim k> h ive sunk one submarine and to have hit others. Men o<n ships in the aeigjhboi&ocd of tin- attack say that it U-a<4t three submarines were hit. The night was very dark and a heavy rain and haze made search- light work difficult. Fortunately i lie forts were put on the alert about ! o'finck in th morning by the appearance off the harbor en- trance of an unidentified steamer ALLOW ME TO PRESENT MY BEST FRIEND ROYAL which refused to stop until ft shot, wax fired across h*r how. This ves- sel the-'i retired. SJie is believed to have been the tender of the sub- j marines. Half an it"itr lijtor, it it] said, a single submarine was Bicfnt- cd and one of the heavy guns in the harbor fired at her. This Kiib- nwrine, which evidently was the ad- vance scout, disappeared, but at half-past six the observers sighted a fleet of submarines several miles out in the channel. The chajjne! forts commenced firing in the direc- tion of the submarines and kept it up almost half an hour. At the same time a torpedo-boat destroyer flotilla put to sea. Large crowds gathered on the wa- ter front in the early morning h-airs and watched the searchlights and the artillery fire. / dmiral Von Spec's Flagship, the 5charnhon>t, Was tlvj l-irsi to Go Down A desp;-! 'i fmm l^)i>don says: ''The Nurnberg \\as also sunk. The pursuit of the Dresden continue^.' Tiiis brief u't~>age to the Admiralty froin Vie.- \<lm:r:il Sir Frederick Kturdee, commander of the British South Ar.ii-rii-an fleet which sank the Sj-hai iilmr-t . the < iii-isi>nau anil the Leipzig off the Falkland Is- lands, sho.-.cd iha-t th<- hus-'mi- - ->f < i! MIL; ! H li ; Lh - :i.. 'f < !-rman \.M--'i.i- is | i '..-. i-ding with d?s- p-itch. The engagement, '.me <f the Rre.-U'-st th.-u l.-i-- t-v-r been fought b"''.vren riirderii arMlips, l-i 'I only five hours. The Schai-Mh r ' \\ei-t <l >wn at tin- end of three boill-- :i> ' i Ini-i- .-;i,-iii followed .\'':'i ; i';il \.'i Spee's flagship to the bii'tmn I .\ , I'.nii^ '.-iter. The fildit- !'. i-i at half-past .-*>ven o'<-!< -k :ti \\u< in rni'm. and by half i t ui-lve I hi- 'anireV'ius un:l "f t'i (i";nian Minr-dr-oii had been dis- I d ol '-.' -ft ;in afternoon of da.' "i 1 :! !h" Hritish light cruis- ers to chase the Leipzig, the Nurn- be?g and the Dresden. The fate of the Leipzig wan soon sealed, and she was destroyed in lime fur tin- inclusion of the news in the first brief report which Ad jmiral Stnrdee flashed 'to England. Tlw speedy llritish cruisers then continued their pursuit of the re- maining beats. ;ind evidently over- took the Xiirn'ierg within a few li nirs. The Dresden was "tvrner- ' I later. Thus the Karlsruhe is left alone in the Atlantic, and is believed to be in hiding. That the |i,---de;i \va able to osi-ape un- seailutl in most unlikely. The Secretary of the Admiralty lias received a cable despatch from Vice-Admiral Sturdee of the British uiroii statiiiR that in the battle off tin- Falkland Islands, in which the German cruisers tfcharnhorst, Giiei-piiau and Leipzig were sunk. the British casualties, intalled seven men killed and four ..unded. \ ntossr.s \ - Mrrls Done by Briti*li So!-.lici> on liaillcllehl. A <! |:-:t--'i fi'-m Li.n<i..ii - Tw d i i! Victori'i ' i havi I- i'ii ;avar(le<l British s il<iiers ft.r \-.\\'.\- M tin- fii-ld nf Imttlc. One of ihfin v.::- conferred on Drummer Si- >ni ' M i; -lit A' '% "f tin; I. MII caslr:- Regiment, who. near \..'^ be-r. "after Irs, ofliecr. a plat'-on tut ;ind section cotnmaiidei . stnu-k d'lwn, to<ik conirnaiul ai'<l ii . <l in I'i'Idiiig the posi- tiuii." < >n !- i ocea'-ii us the dri'inniei <lisij;,miishe<l himself by bringing up ammunition under a lu.nv -hell jind rill'- iiie. i>ii<l under Rimilar conditions in bringing into << v-r fume wounded men, says the ofl'i' i;il account of the awarding of the honor The other recipient of the decoration is Lance Corporal Dobscjn nf the ( 'oldst ream Guards, who at Chavannes "brought into cover on two occasions while under heavy fire wounded men lying ex- I* d in the open." Twenty offi- cers ha\e hern appointed Compan- ions of the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry in action. i:i>ISON I'l.AM KUtNKI). \VorliKs Finest Laboratory Des- troyed Following i:\iiluMmi. A <lespatch from West Orange, New Jer.si-y, says: Fire destroy. xl viftually the entire main plant of the Kdis^m Company hero on Wed- nesday night, causing daniii^c C 'i mated at nearly i?7,000.(00, with in- suraiu-e tliat it is expected will re- duce the loss to approximately $6,000,000. It i.s estimated that about three thousand men and- wo- men will lie temporarily thrown out df work because of the fire. In all about seven thousand persons were employed at tihe. plant, but as the Htorage battery building across tho slreeit from the main pliant was saved with other buildings nearby, it will be possible to keep some- thing more than half tho force em- ployed. "Although I am more than sixty-seven years of age, I'll start all over again to-morrow, "said Mr. Fxlicon. "I am pretty well burned out to-nLght, but I will go right to work to reconstruct the plant." Hotly "I (iciienil Beyers pound. A despatch from Pretoria says : l*.e bi.< : y of Gen. Christian He.\ei-s. the rebel leader, who was drowned recently while attempting to escape across the Vnil Uiver from Ciovi-rn ment troops, has bwn found at Vliege Krall, not far from the spot where (Jen. lieyer.s was fipen to iun.k. The official announcement nays th it there is no doubt with regard !< the identification. SKVKNTY-FIVK MORK X TUSKS. They Will He Added to the -tail of i In- si.ii mn;i i \ Hospitals. A despatch from Ottawa says : Seventy five more Canadian nurses are to be chosen u-s an addition to the staff at the stationary hospitals which formed part of the first Can- adian contingent. They will be cho- sen from 2,000 applicants, and will probably be sent over before tihe second contingent goes. YOUTHFUL AVIATOR'S GALLANTRY Dropped Bombs on German Convoy and a Hours Later on a Squadron of Cavalry Hew A daspaitch from Paris says : A German Convoy and a detachment of cavalry have suffered consider- able damage at the handn of a 20- year-old Belgian, who only aix weeks ago volunteered for Hying work. The hero of this during ex- ploit has ben promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and will probably be decorated. Recently, though a Miff wind waa blowing, he net off in the direction of Osteind, but subne- <nintly turned south on caitching itfht of a German column in mo- tion. With tihe reekl.-ssiH-ss of in experience and youth, he flew very low over the enemy's Lines, so low that it was not until he dropped his firt bomb that tho Geranans grasp- ed the tact that this wan not <ne of their own aeroplane*. liefore they oould open fire on the youngwter, the mischief wan done. Three mo- tor trucks were destroyed, and the whole transport column, which was hurrying to the front, WAS thrown into confusion. Having ina*d his escape by rising to about five thou- sand feet, the aviator flew in the tlirec-tion of Bruges. South of that town, he observed , detachment of cavalry taking cover behind A clus- ter of farm housea. The first bomb he dropped went wide, but the sec- end foil into the midst of the squad- ron. The airman was not able to observe accurately the amount of damage he did, for the- Germans opened ftre with an anti-<aerx>plane gun, and a ahut severed hie con' trol wire. He thought he would jnsi manage to volplane to safety, hut he l-i mh'.l in tile flooded area area n<-a.r RnniaoapeUe, directly in tihe lime of fire from both sides. Howeve-r, ho was able to wade aaliorc and get to his own linee. Kven the aeroplane was ultimately brought in. RUSSIANS FOIL GERMAN SCHEME Check Tliivr of Five l-'orecs Which >Vcr i Converging I'pnn Warsaw. A despatch from London says : Of the live Austrci-German columns which for some days appeared to foe making steady progress in their invasion of Poland, three have suf- fered checks, according to official reports from Russian headquarters.. The column which was making a downward stroke from Mlawa, on the Ea-st Prussian frontier, and which was reported in one despatch from PetroRrud to be within fifteen miles of Warsaw, after an energetic offence was repulsed, and under counter ai:a<-ks from the Russians was compelled to retire at soin points. The attacks of the main German column, which had its front on the line between Lnd/. and Lowicz. ami whicji came down diag- onally from Thorn, were delivered with i,'reat f irce, but were", accord- ing to the Russian account, repuls- (.1 v.ith heavy losses to the invad- ers. That the Germans laid great ^ure on the siicc:-s;h of their attack here is shown by the fact that'dur- inj? the two days they faced the li'i-sian trenches seven times, and wi-re driv.-ji back by an effective fire. The other column which has suf- tVi-f-d i 1 -* that composed <jf German and Austrian tr< ip.s. which has been trying to out Hank the Rus- sian left south of Cracow. In this case it was the Russians who as- sumed the offensive. and tht'y claim that after a tenacious resistance they defeated the Germans, taking K-veral guns and 2,000 prisoners. Of the German columns opt-ratinif in the region of Petrokow and that advancing from Czenstochowa there is no news except the Russian state- ment that "on other parts of the front there have been no substan- tial changes." IMtlNCE 18 PROMOTED. liiTinii'-- I/ieiitenant in the (.ren.-idiei- l. lie A despatch from London Fays : The Prince of Wales, Second Lieu- tenant in tihe Grenadier Guards, has been promoted to a full Lien- tenancy. This announcement is made in the list of army promotions issued on Wednesday night. ALLIES BETAKE LOST DRENCHES Action Described as Oni- of the Most Hi-illinnt f the War. A despatch from Paris says : The swiftness of the action at the front, and the rapidity with which the for- tunes of war change from one'army to the other, has not 'been better illustrated in the present conflict than "by the events in a very violent engagement at Ypres, which is giv- en especial prominence' in the of- ficial eommuncations. The continual progress of the al- lies-' offensive has pushed back the German lines to such an extent that at various points they are compell- ed to resun t<i counter-attacks to save portions of their trenches from capture and iheir troops from en- velopment. One of these counter- offensives was directed at Ypres re- cently, and it resulte I in partial success fur the Germans. They di- rected a series of U^MUI!'; aif.ainst the allies' forces in this region and were repuls.ed .oh three occasions. On the fourth, however, they reach- ed the first line of the allies' trenches. This happening was announced in the communication in the afternoon. The statement is- sued bronchi the news that th: 1 lost Irene-lies hud been retaken at night. I'nciiTicially it is reported that this action was one of the most brilliant of the war. It is not thought in military circles that the new attacks on Ypres mean a de- termined effort of the Germans to break through, but have been launched for the purpose of taking off some </f the pressure which the allies have been exerting at virtual- ly every foot of the line from Al- sace to the sea. , IN BUYING YEAST CAKES BE CAREFUL TO SPECIFY ^ ROYAL tttX ' DECLINE SUBSTITUTES. YEAST .CAKES E.W.GILLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO. WINNIPEG. MONTHEA!.. AMMUNITION IS RUNNING SHORT f New Instructions Issued by the German General Staff to Artillerjmen A despatch from Paris fays: A copy of instructions issued by the (German general staff for artillery fire, found in a village^ near the Aisne in a room which was aban- doned hastily by German officers, seems to have confirmed the report that the Germans are finding it ne- cessary to economize in ammuni- tion. The order says that new in- structions arc necessary because the lessons of the war do not agree with the instructions given in pe.-n- and because Germany's industry, working at its maximum, cannot provide the army with munitions in- ! definitely. The artillery therefore is recommend d to fire only when it is worth while and not to fire at night, owing to the impossibility of aiming. The officers in charge of artillery firing are urged to use aeroplanes and captive balloons thoroughly for observation before firing and to avoid arn.'sage, meaning the "wa- tering-pot" firing to which the Ger- mans hitherto have been addicted. "If riich widespread firing is in- dispensable," the order r-ays, "fix limits and avoid wasting ammuni- tion. Strong positions should; be ready to be assailed after a bom- bardment of one or two hours. If an ,-i'sault does not follow the bom- bardment immediately, ammunition Ls wasted." The Germans are believed now to i be following these instructions. ui;i! It FOR SHELLS. A despatch from Montreal Bays : So successful were the Canadian manufacturers in satisfying the Bri- tish War Office with the quality of the 200,000 shrapnel shells ordered from several firms as a test, an order for 600,000 is now to be dis- tributed among the various Cana- dian concerns which arc capable of handling such orders. Col. A. Ber- tram, who is chairman of the Shell Comittee, says that prior to the war no attempt had been made in Can- ada to make such shells. ARE FED WITH PROJECTILES Loaves of Bread Containing Heet and Cans of Water H,urled Daily to Enemy's Lines A despatch from Paris says : The French semi-official narrative of re- cent operations at the front te^lls (.his incident relating to the situa- tion in Alsace : "To the north-we-i of SenonH, near La More Henri, all the counter-attacks of the Germans were repulsed. It is at this point that we retained possession of a blockhouse les than thirty feet dis- tant from the- trenches of the en- emy. The French sergeant and the four men who have taken up their positions in this bhsckhouae arc kept supplied with food by their comrades In the following mnanc-r : Ivoaves of bread are hollowed out and inside is placed meat, or can >f water. Then at certain times the day those food -projectiles a thrown over the walla into th blockhouse." nivsumK JEWS. Over 2.OO.IMin Have Been Driven From Poland. A despatch from New York say*: Approximate!; 2,000,000 Jews have been driven from their home in Russian Poland, according to a cablegram from the Prtrograd offic of the Jewish Cul.ini/a'-. n bj ucia- tioii. made public here ;n Wednes- day by the American Jewi-'-i I; Committee. The message- , in part, read as follows: "The Jews of al) Russian Poland and the grer.ti-r part of the Jews in the Provinces of Kovno, Vilna.- Grodno, Volyni. Pe- doli and l!e---ir;ibia. are suffering. The number of refugees and <! *ti- tute approximates 2.000.000. Ex- tiemc distress also prevails among the Jews in the Galician provinces occupied by the Russian armies." CHOLERA IN CKRMANV. In Austria-Hungary the Disejisi- Is Sprcnding. A despatch from Rotterdam says: The Berlin Hoard of Health, a cording to information roachini? , Rotterdam, reported 36 cases <>{> cholera in Germany during the i month of November. In Austr.a, especially in Gnlicia. th cholera is spreading rapidly. Eight hundred and forty-four cases were reported during the Srst week of November, in which period there were 331 df'aths. There were SO deat-hs in Vienna. In Hungary during the same week there wr*e 532 ca?s of cholera. .* I'm sian Militarism. For years ths spirit of Pru irilitari-rn has. overshadowed Eu- rtipo like some thunder-cloud : for ye.irs the wealth of nation'^ has been drained to k< -.-;. j m with its iri- creasing armaments, says The Lon- don D.iilv News. T^iat we have all known, and new at l.i-t is the na- ture of the power a;ai ; ! c t which we have equipped ourselves in'Jy s-?on. The hordt-s of Huns have poiucd iiit of their fortres?s on t' ir grand quest of svbihiinir the world. ?-.> tliat, a-, their L- -r<i said, no event shall happen in n i.v quartor of it w:t ; ;cu: its c ise>it. That is their avowed a.;cl s."i aim. and to coinp.-i-- i: ' . shown that they will shrink from nr savam-ry. That is why the civi lized nations are up in arras tn hunt the llur. ~ TROOPS STORM TRENCHES The Indians Fought Hand-to-hand With ue mans In the Dark A despatch from London says: Arthur W. Leech telegraphs to the Daily News from Northern France : "Very early, but very surely, tne Indians have been adding to their record of military achieve men ts. In the early flours of Monday morn- ing, when it was considered the effect of a bombardment which had ci.tisidernbly shaken up the Ger- mans had given them a particularly sleepless night, the Gurkhas left their trendies with knives and l.ajonots. They crept over the in tervening ground like panthers stalking their prey, then suddenly , they opened an awful hullabaloo 'and fell on the Ge.nr.ans in their ! <>wn trenches no troops in the world could be.v the Gurkhas at that kind of wa 1 fare. The kukri did much sv. if havoc, but some of the WOIUK'-\ brought back to the Britis'i lij ported tliat the butt end- < '" wore also u-ed. "While the first line of. were being sto.ni d uiih CMS other cum; ai.i - charged forward. vllin- , ing. and the G rraans t bee's. Thev <litl ' \ - , caine under ;!u i-ff-cii- their own artilh-r.\. "As a r suit ' he Ihdtans '-;i;i' d ' tions in t'i ': ; Indian casi ,-i the result* :i ! SERVIANS' GREAT VICTORS Despatch Declared That 20,000 Prisoners, Cannon* and Much Material Taken Hnv A despatch f ix>m Maine SAJ-R : The Servian Legation ' makes public a report from Servian headquarters to the effect that the Servian army IIAH won a complete victory, result- ing in the rev:ij>titre of the towns of Valjevo and U^hitza, in Servia, and th rout of ti Austrian corps. Tho Aufttrians. says the rorMirt, aban- don-ed every;.hi-ig, even their trea sure dhest. Tlie Hcrvi.ns took 20,- 000 prisor.e-H, 50 cannon and large quantities of rifle, ;nachine guns and munitions of every description. A Hava Agency despatch frou N ish naya : "The crushing offensive move ment of the Servian army has be>ei> successful along the entire front The Austrians are retiring in th greatest disorder, losing a larg number of prisoners and can no and war material. At one poin ,-iU.iie the Servians touk a, 000 p onerg, and tiie band ami the tin of the 22nd Regiment. ' ' GOVERNMENT PROVINCE OF Interest lit April and October Dag /f October, 1919 Denomination of $1,000 Issued free from succession duties, Provincial and munici- pal taxes. These debentures are a direct entire Province of Ontario. of the At no period in recent times has it been possible for the invest r to make nurchases of Pr vince of Ontario securities on -uch favorable te m. Price, par and toorued Inter st to yield 3%. Orders may i.t lelegraphtd at our expense A. E. /IVIES & CO. Union Ba.k BuiUJm^ Tor ,ito i abo i cial and For t wel Jm (f *- it: