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I 1HE COLBORNE EXPRESS, OOiaOBH«E i OKT. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER^, 1917 BRITISH TROOPS ACHIEVE GREAT VICTORY OVER FRONT OF 32 MILES General Byng's Troops Advance Toward Objective, the Railroad Junction of Cambrai--Take 9,000 Prisoners. A despatch from London says: The great Hindenburg defence line, upon which the German commander-in-chief had builded his hopes of holding the British from inroads into the open territory beyond, has been smashed, and the task apparently was an easy Yes, they ar Power Company' , girisi_-working as coal haulers in t I pumping station, thereby releasing i i London Hydraulic en for the fighting. FRANCE'S WHEAT IS LESSBY HALF Other Crops and Live Stock Are Much Reduced Compared With 1913. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Food Controller's office on Thursday made public figures of food production in France which are far below the prewar average. The most serious decline is in wheat, the 1917 crop being short 53.3 per cent., of 176,000,000 bushels, as compared with the production of 1913. The potato crop is short 33.1 per cent., or 165,000,000 bushels. The sugar beet crop has fallen off by 67.9 per cent., or 148,000,000 bushels. The number of cattle has declined 16.f per cent., or 2,435,000 head. The number of sheep has been reduced by 36.6 per cent., or 5,535,000 head. There has been a decline of 40.2 per cent., or 2,825,000 head, in the number of hogs. In order to conserve its much-reduced supplies of wheat, France re-1 quired that not more than 80 per cent, of wheat flour may be used in the making of bread, the remaining ] 20 per cent, consisting of rice, bar- j ley, oats, maize, beans and ground nuts. 122 BRITISH SHIPS LOST WITHOUT TRACE A despatch from London says:-- In the House of Lords on Friday Admiral Lord Beresford, retired, called Attention to the incessfng number of ships that are "missing without trace" and to the disclosure In the communications of Count von Luxburg, Attacking o i front of 32 .miles, ~ The British manoeuvre which has as its objective the encircling and capture of the important railroad junction of Cambrai, in Northern France. Cavalry, tanks and infantry are operating along a line running from west of Cambrai to south of the town. All of the vast area captured the past two days has been retained and consoli- tending from the Scarpe River east I dated with the exception of Fontaine of Arras to St. Quentin, with his Eng- Notre Dame, a village captured this lish, Scottish, Irish and Welsh troops morning, but subsequently lost as the General Sir Julian Byng, who planned result of a counter-attack, and carried out the attack, has made In addition to heavy losses in men one of the most rapid and spectacularjkilled or wounded more than 9,000 drives of the present war, catching^ermans had been made prisoner up the Germans completely by surprise to midday Thursday The British in the onslaught, capturing numerous j casualties are declared to be consul-positions which wc.'e considered im- i erably less than the number of pris- pregnable. 3 taken by General Byng's ! , Resist Fierce Attacks Launched Jj£ by Invaders. (SA A despatch^rom Headquarters of j j jr the Italian Army in Northern Italy, | J says:--The fourth Italian army under |noj General Robilannt is meeting the full acc force of the tremendous shock the ' §2S enemy has concentrated between the j i Piave and Brenta Rivers. In author- j toj itative quarters the correspondent was ' cor told that the enemy forces delivering j to* this blow are in the proportion of j I three to two as compared with the I fr| Italian forces, and this is practically bai the relative strength on the two wings i ba^ west of the Brenta, where General sar Pecori commands the first Italian army, and the right wing along the | 2 Piave, where the Duke of Aosta hold.s i the enemy as in a vise. $4E Separate Pieces? --Brooklyn Eagle. Of Germany's plans for the sinking of vessels in this manner. Lord Lytton, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, replying to Lord Beresford, said that in the three years, ending with October last, 122 vessels had been lost "without trace." The normal average in peace times, he added, was 15 vessels yearly. As the result of careful enquiry, Lord Lytton added, he had no reason to believe that such disasters were increasing. A despatch from a French Port, says:---The latest American transports to reach here had an exciting trip through the submarine zone. The first night in the zone two transports collided. One was slightly damaged while the other had a small hole torn In her bow and a few projecting guns damaged. The temporary repairs were made and the ships proceeded. The following night a submarine attacked the transports. The wake of a torpedo was seen off the bow of one of the vessels, but no conning tower or periscope was visible. The transports raced ahead and succeeded in reaching port safely, where the collision damage was repaired. A despatch from Washington, I says: Greece is rapidly preparing to take her part in the war. A cablegram received here on Thursday from Athens, via Switzerland, says many new divisions of Greek troops swiftly formed have taken their places at the front. The morale of the new troops is declared to be excellent. A despatch from London says:-- The Associated Press has received the following telegram from France: "Canada will be intensely interested in the splendidly successful attack on I _ro^£s"°, the River Scarpe. The credit of the : $1.95 for ' victory goes to General Byng, the j tl.^0^t *\ Canadians' former Commander. With j cheese-him are some Dominion Staff officers | e'\Ju who elected to go with him when he ! Butter-left the Canadians. One unit was led \ creamer j-by a Canadian officer, who, since the j "niggs--: Passchendaele battle, joined Byng's 1 sto: Bplendid army. The tanks which broke ° through the German defences have hundreds of adventurous young I gpr ,r4,o:.K"«1 Eggs--Fresl- d 26c; fowi 1 CANADIANS TO CAST VOTES AT POLLS IN UNITED STATES ite : --A despatch from Ottawa says:-- nK j For the first time in the history of the to I Dominion Canadian polls will be es-^ ' tablished in the United States. Many j Canadians have joined the Royal Fly-< ing Corps and are stationed in one of lo.,' the Southern States. For these, mili->K- I t*ry polls will be established, and the 17: men will (|ist their vote in the elec-Sf) : tions as though still in Canada. Fur-I ther, once a soldier leaves Canada his j female relatives are entitled to vqte. i Therefore, female relatives of Canary1 | dians in British or Canadian units in I the States will vote as well as the sol-t'L diers themselves. From Erin's Green Isle NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE-LAND'S SHORES. Happening In the Emerald Iris a» Interest te Irish- AIRPLANE BOMBED CONSTANTINOPLE A British Machine Flew 2,000 Miles in Series of Eight Flights. A despatch from London says: The Admiralty announces that a S " R1^nn' Sans- I stantio^ti'bee'n fully acc ■ ed by a large Irish Constabulary, ferred from Ballymote to Kilkenny. , -.- , - The maximum salaries of surveyors' plane which fl, assltants in the County of Wexford | British base in have been increased from £120. T. Krane, a jarvey the vicinity of Con-jeen fully accomplish-ritish bombing aero- Claremorris, 1 s fined £100 to ! a series of eig' I places include belonging to the total disti twenty shil- ! two thousand i horse with a lings for driving ■ on its breast. - , ! The striking farm laborers at A despatch from Copenhagen says: | ^Jj^* and Malhuddert have ,The Bolsheviki press agency oftcial^^ at ^ original ly reports from Petrograd that all of . returneu Premier Kerensky's troops have sur- i • nd that the Bolsheviki also | rendered f The first prize of £25, given at a aid of the New Schools, ; ibazaar ^iriv^^WeLoirirrrkm^Wr: pained a complete» »M wai by the Mercy Con- fesco< says a despatch. tojhe Bei j^ Sergeant-Major Byrne, s The machin thirty-one hoi be a world's rt journey, and i During some m winds and heal perienced, and|,, of 200 miles cr try, where il any machine ij popular the Flying Corps. , Spri A despatch from New York says: Ten thousand tons of sugar, which had been purchased for the Imperial Rus-Government before the revolution and stored in a warehouse here, was j s.m^Qedh" seized by Federal Administrator \ 4,'.: rolls, George M. Ralph. It will be placed' 38 to 42c; b upon the market immediately. j ecured me bought for the Gov- ; to 28c lb ernment of Former Emperor Nicholas j tuD^r 27J t< by the Marine Transportation Service ; compound, t Corporation. After the overthrow of ito pa the Russian dynasty there was no I claimant for the sugar. The trans- j Montreal portation corporation attached it as ! JJ'jj™' f part of the personal property here of $1.33: F Nicholas Romanoff, the deposed sove- ^roug lak reign, in a suit to recover $2,800,0.00 ' bags, $5.20 for alleged breach of contract. !horts-'-$4i i sso. Moui: _____my~bf l"Bu',0% against ..„. Kaledine, head man of the Don Cossacks, and at the same time General Krasnoff, a member of Kerensky's staff has gone to Kaledine's headquarters to open negotiations with him." A despatch from Ottawa says: It I is officially announced through the THE HOLY CITY Five 27J ' Chief Press Cer Montreal Markets has been awarded the D.C.M. and the J | Military Medal. S. Tomkins, a general dealer at 25 Hill street, Dublin, was fined £5 for failing to label a quantity of lead which he had for sale. Mrs. O'Hehir, of Claremorris, was Capture Village Within sent to prison for cruelty to her chil- j Mijeg q{ Jerusalem, dren and the children sent to the industrial School. j A despatch from London says: Word has been received of the death British troops marching on Jerusalem in action of Denis Higgins, R.D.F.,! were on Monday last within five miles former member of the Roval\ of the city and carried at the bayo-I net's point a village almost in the 1 have ! shadow of the Mount of Olives, It was stated that the allowance of war bonus 1 on the top of this elevation that the to road contractors in the county will j Kaiser endowed what ostensibly t™ amount to £1,204. feed, 83o. Bar: .petawawa; Forestry, Aldershot: 'ralght rollers; ! Royal Flying Corps, pilots, Toronto: AIRMAN'S $2,500 PER WEEK. Buttei-r,'r.'.-," A despatch from Ottawa says: report on the results of sea-fishing j ta operations in Canada for the six | months from April to September, and also for the month of October, has j o< been issued by the Department of the \ tf, Naval Service. It is stated that in N< comparison with a similar period last j h 1 year the landings of cod and halibut j on the Atlantic coast have increased j by over half a million hundredweight. ! The herring catch for the six months j ur-- this year, however, was far below that! f^f of last, amounting to only 645,844 cwts. as compared with 946,487 cwts. The quantity of salmon taken on the Atlantic coast during the season of 1917 was 1,578 cwts. short of the previous Winnipeg Grain No. 1 feed. 6f»io; United States Markets. Office, that th~ _ ©rafts:--Royal Canadian Regiment from Halifax; 5th Royal Highlanders, Montreal; C.M.R. Depot Hamilton; A. M. C, Montreal; Cyclist Platoon,! Quebec; Naval, Quebec; Artillery,! j Usually Receive One Hundred and j _______________ Twenty-Five Dollars for Trial Trip, j m,MI . IXT „ " . elTtJ i I tain Laureati, who flew from Tu. gUSMATNh liN ^AUCASi• j Big fortunes have been made by the ! London. One who has known hi WIN BIG VlC10K\.|airmen who tegt new airplanes. There j timately tells me that he was a have been instances where a single I tremely delicate boy, but a very aviator has drawn a check for $2,500 ; age0us one. week's work. ] On one occasion, when he was i seldom that these highly train-1 ^n years old, he was walking across n get less than $500 a week, for j a fjgid, with a governess and two oth-| they usually receive $125 for every j er ]ad4s, when "he party were attack-1 trial trip they make. They are re- ! ed by a bull, who came rushing A~ ! a hospital, but this "hospital" I turned out U be a fortress with guns i commanding the surrounding region. -*-. The Boy and the Bull . The flying hero of the hour is Cap- about •hut ev.": ,..jl> jute: Bran --$33 I Dulutti, -3.364: to > s catch. A despatch from Petrograd The Russian Caucasus i won a marked success against the ■ enemv along the River Dyal, accord-! pi ing to information reaching the army j. and the Workmen's and Soldier': Delegates. The Russians initiated an j ta"ined and pa'id by private" firms on ^ai"d* them bellowing and tossing his attack and overcame the enemy, cap-; KOvernment contracts, and from the i head. The party were fortunately turing 1,600 of them, of whom 134 : n&ture rf the risks they run their re., c]ose t(j a gate opening 0n to a lane; officers. The morale of the j wR].d jg not extravagant. ! the gate, however, was locked, and Every time they go up in a new ma- | the ladies had to climb it. The future chine--even though it has passed the : aviator stood calmly facing the ap-severe factory tests--the expert flyers ! proaching bull whilst the ladies climb-take their lives in their hands, and 1 ed the gate, over which they then more than one has come to grief ow- ! helped little Marius Laureati, just as ing to some structural defect in the the bull made his charge, machine that could not be detected! Another second's delay and there until the strain of flying brought it to j would have been no Captain Laureati light. I to-day.__ troops is s^aid to be excellent. j A despatch from Amsterdam, says: j --A Berlin despatch quotes the Lokal I Anzeiger as saying that the British 'used from 150 to 200 tanks on their i advance on Cambrai. 30 oinga of