ARE § CRIMSON WITH BLOOD RAW GERMANS HURLED AGAINST THE EARTHWORKS AT WARSAW, Fresh German Troops Rushed Into The Firing iine and a Gigantic Death Geapple 'legan On the Fros en Fields--The Russians Forced To Withdraw From the Beskid Pass, They Being Out-Numbered. Petrograd, Feb. 5.--One hundred d Germans are hurling them: selves it headlong rushes against the Russian earthworks west of Warsaw, it was officially announced to-day, One of the greatest battles of the war is developing. Seven divisions of Germans, comprising the flower of Von Hindenburg's armies, are making impetuous frontal attack: upon the Russians between the Hegura and Rawka. Behind them # hundred German batteries are play iag shells upon the czar's trénches The snowy fields west of the Polist capital are crimson with blood. Fifty thousand fresh German troops were rushed into the firing line, early yesterday, as reinforce < ments. They filled the huge gaps 'r the German lines, torn by the Russi: ap shells and Rusian infantry char ges. Their arrival was a signal fo: a renewal of the onslaught. Fo: twenty-four hours MacKensen's di visions have surged toward the Rus sian lines. The battle has become a gigantic death grapple with thous ands of men stabbing with thei bayonets, fighting with clubbed rifle and dealing death on the froze: fields In the Carpathians the Russians have been forced to withdraw fron the Beskid pass and where a superi or force of Germans and Austrian Were encountered it was officially ad mitted. West of 'the Beskids, how ever, the Russians have taken tw thousand prisoners. The Russians are performing bril liantly in Poland, the official. des patches reported to-day. Betweer Belimow and the Burza have crush. ed the German frontal attacks upor the centre of the Russian army and blocking the road to Warsaw. Following up their successes ai Wela Szydlowska, as announced last night, the czar"s armies have forced the Germans out of the vi). lage of Humin, captured by the en- omy on Tuesday, i -h War a Jladiumie Boustaefl, well known as ussian revolutionist, was een. _ tenced to-day to deportation to Si : 8 drastic measures taken by Buglana to cut off Germany from the 8 commerce are a commerci al Beuato Jor Denmark. Sassari, Maly, riots growing out of the agitation over the hig! price of : d are assuming a grav. er character. Crowds wemt abou the streets sackiing the stores. Greece is industriously making preparations p the headquarters arrived in Ge- 'The seveu soms had been kill- idows, Tea growing is a fine art. i a leaving fourteen children and four Xavier Col prem. - L HIT BY CUPID, Casualties Among Canadians In Beit. ain Were Fairly Heavy. When a Canadian lieutenant mar- ried a charming young French girl in Plymouth within a week after the arrival of the Canadian contingent at that port, war was forgotten by | the troops for a moment and tongues | wagged about the romance. And when a story appeared in a London paper announcing the wedding of a | British-born. Canadian soldier to a Belgian refugee, who could speak very broken English, the eternal! Question of "When will we go to the | front?" wae discarded for a short Space and tongues wagged some more. And again when The Mirror | published a photograph of a Cana dian alongside of that pretty girl, | who had been married after not see- ing each other for years, there was more food for talk about romance. " Truly there have been a number of romances since the Canadians ar- rived in England, but principally among English girls and men who have come back atter living in Can- ada for a time. Judging by the ane nouncements which appear occasions ally in London papers, there surely have been a couple of dozen or eves more, weddings of soldiers connected with the Canadian expeditionary force, On visiting the dead letter depart- ment in the base postofiice, in charge of Sergeant Ross of London, the other day, it was found that the ser- geant was greatly worried. "Now, wouldn't this sort of thing get your goat," said the sergeant to a newly- arrived letter addressed to "one of the Canadian soldiers." "I don't know what I am going to do with such a letter. We get lots just like this one." The letter was from a widow who is in search of a husband and evi- dently tired of trying to land one through a matrimonial agency she figured that there may be some brave men among the Canadians. The epistle read as follows: "London, Dec. 15. "Dear Friend From--- "Would any soldier of the Cana- dian contingent care to marry a wi- dow with three small children? The writer is quite young, not ugly, but, tired of her struggle against big odds, and has for two years support~ ed herself and little ones with her sewing machine, and would like to meet with a homely man who has no relations and about thirty years of age. Looks immaterial if of a kindly nature and lonely. Meeting to be arranged by letter. No photographs handy or I would send one, Answer is strict confidence, "Sincerely yours, 'Hannah , Stoke Newington." "He would bave io be a regular hero," sald the sergeant. "Three small ehildren and her name is Han- nah. Mein Gott." "I have written to her," spoke up one of the sorters. "And I got a lovely reply. I think there are about a dozen around here trying to break her heart. It is a crime, that's what it is." Waterways Commissioner. P, B. Mignault, K.C., of Montreal, who has been appointed a member of the Canadian section of the Inter- aational aterways Commission, Alling the vacancy caused by the re- drement of Hon, T. n, Post. 'paster-General of Canada, is one of Jhe best known and most prominent members of the Montreal Bar and a well-known authority on internation. al law and a distinguished member of the law faculty of McGill Univer- sity. ; The appointment has been upprov- ed by the Imperial Government, which is necessary in the case of such international tribumals arising from treaty agreements. Mr. Migoault was born at Worces- ter, Mass, Sept. 30, 1854, and is a son of P. B. Magnault, M.D., and Catherine O'Callaghan. cated at Worcester, St. Mary's Jo- suit College, Montreal, St. Francois lege and McGill University snd is a BCL, AM, LLD and a K.C., having been called to the bec Bar in 1878 and created a Q.C. with success In Mont. 1878 an} was syndic of the Bar in 1905, a ba Sagder 2304 snd was presented with his portrait in ¢ by the Par on leaving office in 1907. Canada's Wheat Aven. The Canadian Department of Agri- culture is alert to the of pro next sity grain fession real A 'HOMANE TRAP. Canadian Woolman Has Invented a Device to Prevent Suffering. North of Sioux Look-Out about 208 miles, which is to sly in the district of Patricia, formerly called Keewa- tin, Land of the North Wind, lives Mr. Allen McMullen, some time of the Peage, Athabasca, and Mackenzie River country, originally of British Columbia, and, during the gold ex- citement an active Klon A Mr. McMullen has been trapping and prospecting in the far Northwest all his life, that is since at the of fifteen he Joined forces with his father in the Rocky Mountains of B.C, He came down into the James Bay ¢ountry a few years ago, and finding that there were few white men in the region of Patricia, he settled down there for a while, with|® two or three pals of his. Allen Me¢- Mullen hak done what nobody in all the years that trapping been 4 feature of industry in th country has had the heart or the brains to do. He has invented a hg- mane trap, a trap that catches the little furry animal and kills it is stantly. ' It has been endorsed by the Huniame Society, For centuries men in the pursufi of fur have considered it quite legit mate to snare, or dead fall, or spri trap, irrespective of the 1 cruelty involved. Animals are caug without compunction or protest any convenient manner, so long the method employed does not injupe the fur. The common spring catches the animal by the leg and breaks it. Then the little animal must bear the pain for days until the trapper returns, or must die slowly of pain and cold. iy Mr. McMullen has thought of these things in the course of his thirty years of trapping. He has seen ani mal suffering enough in that time, God 'knows. At any rate he has thought out a humane trap. The idés is a combination of the old-fashioned snare noose and a strong steel spring. A little box is used instead of the little Indian house of driven stakes. In the box is a hole about the size of a mink's body, and the bait is hung on a hook inside the box, at the back. The hook is a hair trigger, releasing the spring at the slightest touch. The spring draws up the noose of fine wire cable, which hangs around the edge of the circular door way, and does so with such strength and force that the little animal's neck is broken instantaneously. "My trap is rabbit-proof," said Mr. McMullen, 'No xabbit is going into a place like that to eat fish and meat. A rabbit don't live on that kind of food. The trap is safe from the Whiskey Jack, too. No Whiskey Jack can get his head in far enough to set ft off. Every trapper in the North knows what a cursed nuisance Region Likely To Prove Great Min. the Whiskey Jack is. He seis off about one trap out of every four. He goes pecking at the bait, and if hel don't get caught himself, with his interfering with what don't concern him, he spoils the trap for any fur that might have got caught if he had ot it alone. The fur is not injured) by rir And an animal can't the steel big, fine-looking " t " Mr. McMullen is a tch-Canadian trap lines, to the value of his foot off, like Sin the | Ottawa, Feb. 5.--Sixteen million dellars is the te monetary value of the present war to the tex- tile and woolen industries of Canadas Bo far. How much more will come 'n the future is a matter for conjee- ture, but it is stated that the Cana- dian-made articles have generally met with the approval of Canada's customers, and there is every indica- tion of continued orders. From a osition a, idieness Cana- cian mills have come to be now run- ning at 3 To date it is estimated that there 'have been placed, on aceount of the British government alone through its Canadian buying agents, orders for khaki clothing to the extent of $1,250,000, with another order in contemplation valued at four mil- lions, a million-dollar order placed by the war office direct, and clothing vrdered by the Canadian militia de- partment. approximating $250,000. These orders for khaki goods alone total $6,500.000. >} War orders for knitted gopds to the value of about six millions have ltept the mills busy, while certain $1,250,000, formerly imported from Germany and Austrian will hereafter be man- ufactured 'n Canada' Canadian blanket manufacturers have benefitted to the tune of some- thing like $1,500,000 from the war. Recently an order was offered Can- adian mille for $1,650,000 worth of blankets for the French government. Of that amount they were able to take only $1,250,000, and the re- mainder had to be placed in the United States. Twenty-eight mills have been engaged on the big order. Shirt-makers have been busily en gaged on good-sized contracts for the British and Canadian governments, while orders for the British service tap to the value of $60,000 have been placed with other firms, Or- ders for kit-bags, haversacks, tents, etc,, have kept other factories busy, while the tremendous export of bread and foodstuffs has created a neavy demand for cotton and jute "bags, there being zn increased out- put of these amounting to 25 per cent. in the past three months. ORE CREATING SENSATION ing Camp For Silver, Gold, Zinc. North Bay, Feb? 5.--Prospectors are still pouring in from the Ruther- glen region, re to North Bay with marvellous ples of mineral ore in silver, gold, molybdenum, plat- inum ang zine. There is no doubt that Rutherglen will be of the biggest mining Satin | " this coun try, Tora 0. 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