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He person- ally directed that a number of the men be placed in his car while ha himself kept a seat and chatted affa- bly with the men as they drove to a hospital. An enthusiastic crowd cheered the young Prince at the station as he walked among the wounded, shaking hands with them. PASSENGER SHIP AHACKED AT SEA Orduna Escaped Fate of the LusitanU by Only One-half Second. The Cunard liner Ordima, bound from Liverpool to New York with 227 passengers, _ â- p-'luding 22 Americans, was attacked without warning, it was learned on her arrival Saturday, by a German submarine. Twenty miles from the graveyard of the Lusitania off Old Head of Kin- sale, the Orduna escaped the Lusi- tania's fate by one-half a second of time or ten feet of space, the Ger- man torpedo churning the water that distance behind the liner's rudder. Then the Orduna sped away. She was followed by the submarine, which rose to the surface, manned a gun on her deck and shelled the fleeing steamer. The attack was timed at ten min- utes to six o'clock in the morning, when all but' a. few of her passengers liy-siooping in their berths. Aroused, by stewards, the passengers dressed hurriedly and went to the upper , deck, where they put on lifebelts and took their places at the lifeboats. They heard the scream of the shells and saw the ocean spit up columns of water where the shells struck. When the fi re grew hot they were ordered, for their own protection, to the next deck below. j For half an hour the Orduna show- ed her heels to the assailant. Through marine glasses the passengers watch- ed the dark splotch on the water's surface astern. They saw the low- lying German warship coming on iwith a bone in her teeth, but the Or- dunfc's flight was faster than the pur- suit, aVi«L after seven shots had been fired, without- -effect, the submarine gave up the chase. INFANTRY FORCE CAPTURED PEAK Italian Contingent Which Was Ad- vancing Towards Falzarego Surprised Austrians. A despatch from Rome says: An infantry contingent of the forces ad- vancing westward from Cortina to- ward Bozen, where their object is to cut the railway serving Trent, has taken the Falzarego peak, 8,35& feet high, by a surprise attack. The forces which made the attack scaled the mountain by a route considered im- passable. The Austrians attempted to retake the position, but were re- pulsed. * . ARM FRENCH TROOPS WITH A SHORT KNIFE A despatch from London says: The Daily Mail's correspondent at British headquarters in France says: "The French arc arming their troops with a short knife for use in trench warfare, thus replacing the bayonet, which, when fixed in the rifle, is too long a weapon to give a man free play in the narrow trench- es." Rabbit Fur for Hats. Rabbit fur is said to be supplant- ing wool in felt h»A making in Aus- tralia, where thirty-two factories are in operation. The fur is considered much superior to the finest Merino for this purpose, and millions of rab- bit skins are used annually. Among the simple inventions which are awaiting evolution, and any one of which would make a fortune for its inventor, are: a bottle which can^ not be refilled; a nut for bolts which will not shake loose; a smoke-consum- ing appliance; a good pencil-sharpen- er; and a mean^ of driving away ^ies. GERMANS AGAIN WIN PRZASNYSZ Occupy Town in Northern Poland on Route of Their Former Drive. A despatch from London says: Abandoning for the moment their at- tempt to outflank Warsaw from the south, the Germans, probably under Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who is reported to have said that he would shortly astonish the world, have renewed their attack on the Polish capital from the north. They have not only captured a large number of prisoners south of Koino, according to the report issued by Berlin, but have occupied Przas- nysz, a fortified town of 50 miles north of Warsaw, which was ^ken by von Hindenburg in his great drive from East Prussia last winter, but was retaken by the Russians in their counter-offensive. This claim is partly confirmed by the Russian official report, which stated that the Russians, in the face of strong German forces, withdrew to their second line of entrenchments. This move on the part of the Ger- mans has taken the military critics completely by surprise. It was gen- erally supposed that Gen. von Mac- kenzen would, after being strength- ened, continue his attempt to reach the Lublin-Cholm railway, thus forc- ing the evacuation of Warsaw. But, as in all their operations, the Ger- mans have done the unexpected. The new ofl'ensive will probably be gen- eral, and extend from the Baltic around the East Prussian border to the Vistula, west of Warsaw, for all the Russian troops in this section must be kept busy to prevent them from concentrating at the point where the Germans hope to break through. This is the second time Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg has tried this. His last effort, while it freed East Prussia of the Russians, cost the Ger- mans an immense number of men and nearly involved them in disaster owing to the muddy condition of the ground. Now, however, there are only bad roads or lack of roads to contend with, but it is possible that the Germans have built railways to their northern front, as they have done in Central Poland. WUL m CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE Refusal to Allow Weapons and Ammunition to Pas^ Tlirough Roumania Favors Allies. New York Authorities Hound Dishonest Dealers. The device here shown ts an old-time favorite with unscrupulous deal- ers. It consists of a weight attached by a wire running through a hole in the counter under the scale by which customers are cheated from two to four ounces on each pound they buy. The Leading Markets Breadstuffs. Toronto, July 20.â€" Manitoba wheat â€"No. 1 Northern, $1.44 to $1.44%; No. 2 Northern, $1.41% to $1.42; No. 3, nominal, on track, lake ports. Manitoba oatsâ€" No. 2 C.W., 64%c; No. 3 C.W., nominal; extra. No. 1 feed, nominal ; No. 1 feed, nominal, on track lake ports. American corn â€" No. 2 yellow, 83 %c, on track lake ports. Canadian corn â€" No. 2 yellow, nom- inal, on track, Toronto. Ontario oats â€" No. 2 white, 59c; No. 3 white, 58c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat â€" No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $1.15 to $1.18, according to freights outside. Peas â€" No. 2, per car lots, nominal, according to freights outside. Barley â€" Good malting barley, nom- inal; feed barley, 65 to 66c, according to freights outside. Buckwheat â€" Car lots, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye â€" No. 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour â€" First patents, in i'ute bags, $7; second patents, in jute lags, $6.50; strong bakers', in jute bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton bags, 10c more. Ontario flour â€" Winter, 90 per cent patents, $4.75, seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags. Millfeed, car lots, delivered Mont- real freights â€" Bran, per ton, $27; shorts, per ton, $29; middlings, per ton, $30; good feed flour, per bag, $1.85. 50% to 51c. Flour and bran un- changed. Duluth, July 20.â€" Wheatâ€" No. 1 hard, $1.47; No. 1 Northern, $1.45 to $1.46; No. 2 Northern, $1.40 to $1.42; July, $1.45- September, $1.13%. Linseedâ€" Cash, $1.72; July, $1.70%; September, $1.74. A despatch from London says: Roumania has refused to allow weap- onu and ammunition to pass through her territory from Germany to Tur- key. To Berlin's demands she has sent emphatic rejection, according to the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company, who quotes the Verwaerts. This action is accepted here as presaging the conquest of the Darda- nelles and the capture of Constan- tinople by the allied forces. The pinch of scant ammunition supplies has al- ready been felt by the "Turks on Gal- lopoli. It found expression in the Franco-British gains on the penin- sula, important advances after many checks. As the direct line through Serbia was closed, German co-operation with Turkey was established through Rou- mania. Along the route which pass- ed from Vienna through Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia and Adrianople, Ger- man officers traveled to train the Turks in warfare and to lead their armies in the field. Along that route arms and ammunition were carried to the Turks defending the Dardanelles and Constantinople until Roumania evidently under pressure of the allies closed the railroad to the shell and. powder trains. To Germany, Turkish control of the Dardanelles means greater power in the fight against the Czar's forces, for if the allies win Constantinople and the strai:^ Russia can get ammu- nition througii the Black Sea, and German diplomats have admitted that the successes of the Galician cam- paign were due more than anything else to the failure of Russian muni- tion supplies. With the only land route to her Turkish ally cut off, Ger- many cannot send the weapons with which the allies were resolutely re- pulsed up to the middle of June. The Turks, already suffering from a scarcity of ammunition, are faced now with a famine. Resistance to the Franco-British changes in the penin- sula will be appreciably weakened. Roumania's refusal of Germany's de- mand is accepted here as an indica- tion that she will throw her lot with the Entente and attempt to wrest Transylvania and Bukowina, her "ir-' redenta," from Austria. Provisions. Bacon â€" Long clear, 14 to 14 %c per lb. in case lots. Hams â€" Medium, 18 to 18%c; do., heavy, 14% to 15c; rolls, 14% to 15c; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23c; backs, plain, 22 to 23c; boneless backs, 24 to 25c. Live Stock. Toronto, July 20. â€" Butchers' cattle, choice, $8.25 to $8.85; do., good, $7.75 to $8; do., medium, $7.25 to $7.50; do., common, $5.50 to $6.50; butchers' bulls, choice, $7 to $7.50; do., good bulls, $6.25 to $6.75; do., rough bulls, $5.50 to $6; butchers' cows, choice, $7 to $7.50; do., good, $6.75 to $7.25; do., medium, $5.75 to $6.25; do., common, $4.50 to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.35; stock- ers, 700 to 1,000 lbs., $6.25 to $7.75; canners and cutters, $4 to $5.25; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $100;- do., common and medium, each, $35 to $50; springers, $50 to $85; light ewes, $6 to $6.50; do., heavy, $4 to $5; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearl- ing lambs, $6 to $7.50; spring lambs, cwt., $10.50 to $11.50; calves, $8.50 to $10; hogs, off cars, $9.50. Montreal, July 21. â€" "There wore no choice steers on the market, and the top price realized for the best was $8, and the lower grades sold from that down to $6, while butchers cows brought from $5.25 to $7, and bulls fell $5.25 to $6.50 per cwt. Lambs sold at $9 to $10, and sheep from $5.25 to $6 per cwt., while calves brought from $1.50 to $10 each, as to size and quality. A weaker feel- ing developed in the market for hogs, and inside prices were reduced 50c per cwt., with sales of selected lots at $9.50 to $10 per cwt., weighed off cars. •{< . ITALIAN TROOPS jENVOYS LEAVE ARE INSISTENT CONSTANTINOPLE ITALIANS MAKE FURTHER GAINS Offensive Steadily Progresses Despite Desperate Resistance of Austrians. A despatch from Rome says: De- spite desperate resistance on the part of the Austrian troops the offensive of the Italian army continues, the progress, although steady, being somewhat retarded by heavy rains and the unseasonable character of the weather in the mountainous regions, where the bulk of the heavy fighting is being staged. In the brilliant attacks of the Ital- ian infantry recourse has been had to the bayonet, such charges proving highly effective against the resistance of the Austrians. I In the upper Val Camonica, the enemy, having advanced through the Venerodolol and Brizio passes, made ] an attack in force against the Italian \ positions near Rifugio Galibaldi, but , was repulsed with loss, leaving a few ! prisoners. The Italian troops after] driving back the adversary occupied the two passes which are at a height of more than 10,000 feet. Country Produce. Butter â€" The market is fairly steady for butter, with supplies large. : Choice dairy, 21 to 22c; inferior, 18 to 20c; creamery prints, 27 to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28c. I Eggs â€" "The market is steady, with straight stock selling at 21 to 23c' per dozen, in case lots, and selects 23 , to 24c. Poultry â€" Chickens, yearlings, dress- j ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 24 to 25c; fowl, 14 to 15c. Cheese â€" The market is dull; quota- tions, 17c for large, and at 17% for, twins. Old cheese, 22 to 22 %c. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay. No. 1, ton, $19 to $20, do.. No. 2, ton, $17 to $18; baled straw, ton, $7. Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, July 20. â€" No. 1 North- ern, $1.37%; No. 2 Northern, $1.34%; No. 3 Northern, $1.30%. Oats, No. 2 C.W., 60%; No. 3 C.W., 57%c; extra No. 1 feed, 57%; No. 1 feed, 56%; No. 2 feed, 55%. Barley, No. 3, 70c; No. 4, 65c; feed, 60c. Flax â€"No. 1 N.W.C., $1.51%; No. 2 C.W., $1.48%. Among the strangest strikes on re- cord may be mentioned those of schoolchildren, executioners, prison- ers, beer-drinkers, barristers, pau- pers, choir-boys, ministers, commer- cial travellers, and undertakers' men. ALL GERMAN RESERVES ARE CALLED OUT A despatch from Zurich says: It is becoming more clear that Germany has now called up her last reserves and that every available man is be- ing sent to the fighting line. Ger- mans of 45 years of acre residing in Switzerland have now oeen called to the colors. The most typical case is that of a German of 42 years, resid- ing in Basle, who, never having been a soldier, was called on a month ago. A few days : cro the family received a letter from the Russian frontier, where the man had been sent after a fortnight's military training. Business in Montreal. Montreal, July 20.â€" Corn, Ameri- can No. 2 yellow, 84% to 85c. Oats, Canadian Western, No. 3. 63 to 63 %c; extra No. 1 feed, 63 to 63 %c; No. 2 local white, 61 to 61 %c; No. 3 local white, 60 to 60 %c; No. 4 local white, 59 to 59%c. Barley, Man. feed, 72c. Buckwheat, No. 2, 79 to 80c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60; strong bak- ers', $6.40; straight rollers, $5.40 to $5.80; bags, $2.50 to $2.75; rolled oats, barrels, $6.25; bags, 90 lbs., $2.90 to $3. Bra 1, $26. Shorts, $28. middlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $40. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to $21.50. Cheese, finest west- erns, 15% to 16c; finest easterns, 14% to 15c. Butter, choicest cream- ery, 28 '4 to 28%c; seconds, 27 to 27 %c. Eggs, selected, 25c; No. I 5>Kk, 22 to 22 %c; No. 2 stock, 19% to 20e. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 50c. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, 14 to 14'4c; pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, $29; Can- ada short cut back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $28.50. Lard, compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 10c; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 10% c; pure tierces, 375 lbs., 12 to 12%c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 13 to 13%c. United States Markets. Minneapolis, July 20. â€" Wheat â€" No. 1 hard, $1.40 to $1.40 V4; No. 1 North- ern, $1.39 to $1.49; No. 2 Northern, $1.36 to $1.46; July, $1.36; Septem- ber, $1.11%. Cornâ€" No. 3 yellow, 77% to 78 %c. Oatsâ€" No. 3 white. DEAL RUSSIANS TITANIC BLOWS Hindenburg Forces Making Furious Efforts to Cut Muscovite Front. A despatch from London says: The Russian front, running from the Baltic in the north to Bessarabia in the south, a distance of nearly a thousand miles, is being subjected to violent attacks by the Germans and Austrians. In the Baltic provinces Gen. von. Buelow, who is using large forces of cavalry, has crossed the Windau River, and is moving toward Riga, and is declared to have taken 3,600 prisoners and six guns in the first liattle. In the Przasnysz district FMeld Marshal von Hindenburg, who is making his fourth attempt to reach Warsaw, has twice broken the Russian lines, and compelled the de- fenders to retire toward the Narew River. In Southern Poland, after a period of inactivity. Field Marshal von Mac- kensen is again on the move, and claims to have captured some Rus- sian advanced positions which stood between him and his objective, the Lublin-Cholm railway. Simultaneously with these attacks which are the main ones, the Austro- German armies are on the offensive west of the Vistula River, in Ctntral Poland, and along the Dniester River, in Galicia. As was the case in the drive through Western Galicia, the Russians are fighting stubbornly, and on occasions are turning and de- livering vicious blows at their op- ponents. But whether they will be able to hold their present lines is problematical. The Close Ends. A hungry young cyclist had put up for the night at a vmyside inn and found the supper rather scanty, the most substantial part of it being a single sausage roll. "Is that the best you can do in the way of sausage rolls?" he asked. "Why," said the host, "isn't it good?" "Oh, it's good enough, perhaps; but the ends of it don't suit me." "The ends! What's the matter with them?" "Too close together," said the hun- gry youth, and the innkeeper took the hint. Are Determined to Carry the Bridge- head of Gorizia at Whatever Cost. A despatch from London says: Pri- vate advices describe the Battle of Isonzo as the greatest fought as yet on the Italian front, the attacks of the Italians being almost incessant and most determined in character. The bridgehead of Gorizia has suffer- ed greatly from the bombardment of the Italians, who seem resolute to carry the position at whatever cost \ in order to develop the operations on ' the east side of the River Isonzo. The whole front along this line is strewn with thousands of dead. The mountain slopes are also spotted with the bodies of attackers and defenders alike. The new Italian offensive seems to develop all along the front in the Tyrol, Carnia and Trentino. A new device has been adopted by the Austrians. Peaks and high slopes of the mountains have been fortified, and the men are under cover behind \ rocks and great stones built up all ; around the peaks. When attacked by great masses from below they blow up these fortified positions so that great boulders roll down on the on- coming enemy like an avalanche. The Italians have captured two miles of Austrian trenches in the Carnic Alps, according to a despatch received from Villach, an Austrian town on the River Drave, 52 miles north-west of Laibach. I The Alpine troops, the despatches say, dragged their artillery to the heights near Roskofel, which is situ- , ated at an altitude of 6,600 feet. The Italians also are said to have captured two important ports south \ of Gorizia. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHINESE DROWN Fire Is Now Also Sweeping a Large Area in the District of Canton. A despatch from Hong Kong says: Tens of thousands of natives are esti- mated to have been drowned by the floods in the Chinese provinces of ! Kwantung, Kwangsi and Kiangsia, and the desolation in the devastated ' districts is terrible, according to the latest reports reaching here. j A fire-swept area of one mile and raging fioods handicapped the work I of rescue in Canton. The city was â-  in darkness, the water having inun- ' dated the machinery of the electric ' light plant. Missionaries arrived seeking the as- ! sistance of the United States gunboat | Cattao to aid in the work of rescue. The last report received here from Canton before communication was cut said that the Christian hospital was in danger from fire. ' A despatch from Rome says: It is confirmed here that a disagreement between Enver Pasha and the two, German envoys at Constantinople,' Gen. von der Goltz and Gen. Liman' von Sanders, has resulted in the de- parttire of the latter for Berlin. The despatches which bring thia news say that many Germans in Tur- key are leaving the country hurriedly, and that as a consequence the well- informed Turks feel that there is little hope that the Dardanelles will be able to hold out. The lack of mu- nitions in the Turkish army is said to be a matter of very serious impor- tance. Bread and foods of all descriptions are scarce in the capital and else- where, while the wounded soldiers are rect'ving very inadequate attention. The wheat crop in Anatolia is said to have been ruined. The Ulemas no longer mentoin a Holy War, and are exhorting the people to be calm. SPY EXECUTED AT TOWER OF LONDON Admitted at Trial That He Was In the Employ of German Secret Service. A despatch from London says: Robert Rosenthal, the self-confessed spy, who was arrested with an Amer- ican passport in his possession, was executed at the Tower of London. He faced the firing squad bravely. Rosenthal, who was posing as the agent of a gas mantle concern, was arrested Ijecause a letter from him to Captain von Prigcr, the head of the secret service of the German Admir- alty, was intercepted by British secret service agents. At first he claimed to be an .American citizen travelling for an American concern, and also an agent for an American relief com- mittee. He did not hold this pose long, but arising at his examination, made a military salute, and confessed himself a spy. Ho created a sensation by announc- ing that Captain von Pariger had a complete outfit for forging American passports. Carl Lody, the first man to be shot in the Tower, also had one, he said. The revelations caused a stir in London, and a report was sent of it to Washington by .Ambassador Page. After his confession Rosenthal was speedily convicted, but his execi.tion was postponed from June 15 in order to obtain more information from him. He tried to commit suicide, but was saved in time. Nothing is known of his antecedents. Boots wear out faster in summer than in winter. Wireless Service From Canada to Germany Telegrams for transmission to Ger- many, and via Germany to Austria- Hungary, Turkey and non-belligcrcnl countries, will be accepted at the local telegraph offices. The rate from To- ronto to points in Germany will be 56 cents a word, and to points beyond Germany 64 cents a word. Such messages will go by wireless I via the Sayville station, which is noWj operated by the United States Naval i Department. All telegrams will be ! accepted at the sender's risk, must be \ written in plain English or plain Ger- i man, and will be subject to censorship \ by the Canadian, United States and German authorities. Martial Law to be Declared in Germany A despatch from Copenhagen says: ' of the Social Democratic pamphlets A private despatch from Berlin, which '' demanding a rapid conclusion of the , , ,,, n „ war owing to increasing prices of all was passed by the German censor, , i . «• m ,.• i i n i . *^ . . . foodstuffs. Martial law will be de- says excitement is growmg rapidly ^ blared all over Germany to suppress among the German people on account all demonstrations. â- â€¢i«(»-'j>.s