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Port Perry Star, 4 Aug 1915, p. 6

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Se Mh ons David Lloyd George, who f the progress made by his de- t in overcoming the shortage |" in s that had prevented the army Lon Continent from doing all i might otherwise have done. These new factories are being erected in the vicinity of the arsenals and the ex- isting armament establishments, and, the Government has completed in a few weeks the developments it is now ShEaged on on the supply of shells will di "This," said the Minister, "will not merely enable us to support our men, but will enable them to cleave their way through to victory." Markets Of The World Breadstuffs. Toronto, Aug, 3.~--Manitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $1.38% to $1.89; No. 2 Northern, $1.35% to $1.36; No. 8 Northern, $1.82, on track lake ports. Manitoba oats--No. 2 C.W., 62%¢; No. 8 C.W., nominal; extra No. i feed, nominal, on track, lake ports. American "corn--No. yellow, 86%e¢, on track lake Ne Canadian corn--No. 2 yellow, nom- inal, on track Toronto. Ontario oats--No. 2 white, 58 to b9¢; No. 8 white, 57 to 68c, according to freights outside, Ontario wheat--No. 2 Winter, per|1 car lots, $1.10 to $1.12; do., new, $1.02 to $1.04, according to freights outside. Peas--No. 2, per car lots, nominal, Secording to hohe outside, Bar! Good malting barley, nom- nar food barley, 60c, accor: t0| hard freights outside. Buckwheat--Car lots, nominal, ac-| cording. to freights outside. e--No. 2 nominal, according to trite outside. anitoba flour--First patents, te bags, $7; second patents, in gs, $6.50; strong bakers', in bags, $6.80, Toronto; in cotton bags, 10c more. Ontario flour-- Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $4. a seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags. foods. Co lots, delivered Mont- real freights--Bran, $27 per ton; shorts, $20 per ton; middlings $30 er ton; good feed "flour, i) per 2. Country Produce. Butter--Choice dairy, 22 to 23¢; inferior, 19 to 20c; creamery prints, 27 to 29¢; do., solids, 26 to 28¢c. Eggs-- Straight stock, 21 to 22c per | aw dozen, in case lots, and. selects, 238 to! to Poultry--Chickens, yearlings, dress ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 22 to 26¢; fowl, 14'to 15e. Chéese--15%¢ for large, and at Phe for twins. Old cheese, 21% to Provisions. Bacon--Long clear, 14 to 14 per lb, in case lots. 18 to "18%¢; do., heavy, 14% to rolls, 15 to 16¢; ' breakfast bacon," to 28e¢; backs, less backs, 24 to 2 Lard--Pure NE : tubs, 11% 12%.¢; do., - pails; 12 to 12%; @ pod lose 10" to 10%¢; "doi: Cc. 'Baled Hay and Straw. Ld Straw is quoted at $7 a ton, in car lots, delivered on track here. ay--No, 1 hay is quoted "at $18 to $13; No. 2 at $16 to $16, Business in Montreal. Montreal, Aug. 8.--Corn--Ameri- ean No. 2 Fellow, 89 to 90c. Oats-- Canadian Western, No. 8, 62c; extra No. 1 feed, 62c; No. 2 local white te, 61%e; No. 8 local white, 60%¢; No. 4 local white, b9%ec. 'Flour, "Man. wheat patents, firsts, $10; $6.60; strong 'bakers', oo 3 Qo, ed HE to $84.| rg the 0 men. contiested with arma- ments, and they were pouring in fur- supplies. His department enrolled 100,000 volunteers, it had been found difficult to remove | the majority of these from their pre- sent employment. =~ However, scores of thousands of skilled men who had enlisted had been traced, and ar- rangements were made with the War Office for the return of these men to the factories. Pork, Reavy Canada short mess, bbls., 85 to 4b pieces, $29; do., short cut 45 to 55 pieces, $28.50. tierces, 875 1bs., 10¢; 20 Tos, het, Sse; pure pure, Ibs.; 12 wood pails, 20 ihe. Rs totale" Winnipeg Wheat. Aug. 8.--Cash qhiota- hat 2 Newther a 0. orthern, Aorthern, si. UY. Oats--No. 2 OW. C.W., bbe; extra No. 1 feed ig To Barley No. ', 78¢; No. 4, 68%c; feed, 60c. Flax--nNo, 1 N.W.C., $1.39%; No. 2 C.W., $1.36%. Minneapolis Wheat. Mignon lis Au .--Wheat-----No. $1.65% oor 1 Northern, 1a on to 5 Xin 3 No. 2 Northern, 1.85% to $1.47% July, $1. 29 Sop tember, $1,075 A fun el low, 78% to Toe. A to: 3 payed to ble. Plows and bran uncha Duluth, Aug. 8--Wheat--No. 1 $i. 8%; 0. 1 Northern, $1. S15 Md rthern, $1. is to 5. 47; J $1.51; Ne 1-3 Lied Cash, $1.68%; Sul Los: Septem- ber, § $1.60. Live Stock Markets. 3.--Best heavy steers, 187 butchers cattle, ood a wi ood pail Wimni tions: -- $1.32% No. 8 plain, 22 to 2c; bones | pri ai prices from to h, as to size Hogs steady, | Sales of 3d lots were made : to $0.50 per cwt., weighed good, 5 of despatch from London says:-- chine gus, 1000 onde of in Nm ro, punds of small Ro 2500 men, the pris some 200 were wounded. Our capture of arms and material includ: ed one 40-pounder gun, twelve field and two mountain guns, several ma- Steamship men state that an imaginary line, known as the stability INTERNED GERMAN BOATS line, which keeps the steamers upright, was only four inches deep on|- the Eastland. These same men said the Government required this line to be 20 inches. On the majority of inches. the lake steamers this line is 82 On the larger steamers, which make the Georgian Bay trips, the line is 42 inches, preventing any Fossibility of a vipoyer, ; ONLY REMAINING HOPE OF THE TURKS latimation Any Such Plan Will be Nipped in Bud that the ships, including the by Surprising A 'despatch from Athens !| Enver Pasha issued an extraordinary do., 'good bulls, $6 - <50;. do. rough bulls, $65. "25 to $5.76; butchers cows, Shoice, 8.75 to $7.25; do., BH 2h medium, 5.25 to $6. 25: do., Serifion, § $4.50 to] b; feeders, g 6.50 7.560; stockers, 700° to 900 1bs., 5. 26 to .25; canners and cutters, to ,26; milkers, choice, each, $i 8 to De 0. ba! singers 2nd medium, each, SE $60 o $08; light do, 3 Searing lambs, $6. $8; to $50; amb n cwt., 10.76; calves, $4 to $10.50; hogs, off cars, $9 to $9.15; do,, fed and watered, $8.76; do., f.0b., Montreal, A; 3.--Sales of the ® heat steers were 3 at $8, and grades sold from that down lo "86, While, butchers : oo 4 3.50 1s Tou, rom . . owt." Best lambs offered at $9, Fr] the a's con of at $8, ila) 80! emand for Do Thea INVISIBLE AEROPLANES % LATEST GERMAN PLAN A despatch from Amsterdam says: Germany = possesses invisible aero- planes, according to the Cologne Gaz- ette. The wings are made of a clear transparent material called cellon, which is the invention of a German engineer named Knaubel. ' Cellon, which is manufactured from cellulose and acetic acid, is tough, pliable 'and non-inflammable, and is used instead | sm of canvas. A machine covered with cellon is said to be virtually invisible above an altitude of 3,000 feet. Herr Knaubel made his first experiments with the material two years ago. J simi eich 'In the Middle Ages people in Jand yore the beaks, or points that th message to his troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula before the last big attack: It ran thus: "Soldiers, you will fight with all your strength, At least oo will resist as long as possible, fon' ond] can promise you within a month's time I shall be able to send you to your homies: The life of Serbia '#annot now last longer than a month. With- 50 in that time the German armies will to} crush her and will come to our aid." I learn that great pressure had been put on the Germans by the Young Turks to fulfill the promise to gend German armies through the Bal- kans to the assistance of the Turkish forces. The Young Turks regard PERSONS OF NOTE. Anecdotes and - Facts About People Whose Names You Know. On an occasion Lord Fisher may be [to walking in St. James's Park, Lon- with his wife. Very simple in his of dréss, he is partial to a dou coat and a flat hat, similar to popularized by Mr, Churchill. {- These warm, sunny = aftérnoons he likes to uncover his head, and then one notices the stiff, white hair has a tendency to fall on the forehead in a Napoleon-like projection. The late Mr, was. probably the smoked the most cigars of d day; in his case the gove tot by the number he: by the strength of the leaf « Sea rom th sump ft ove otors it, and go on. i When the ? Sir Move of Allies the achievement of that plan as the only hope for the Turkish Empire in Europe, A prominent military ¢ who has just completed a tour of the Balkan States, and who latterly has 'been in Austria, expresses to me the belief that such an effort will be [the next great move on the part of the Austrians and Germans, Should this cross move be made it will have immediate and important results in this corner of Europe. - unwise to give details which are with- in my knowledge, but I think I may be permitted to say that counterbal- ancing events are moving rapidly and the enemy's plans may quite be nipped in the bud by a surprising move of which the public should hear: at an early date. Fr but he hes been over t6 the ye his square figure, it is him, and' when he, strolls on: a is ford Bary 18 onl | Wi It would be | HAVE JURNED AROUND A dJespatoh from Ne York says: -- The War h from New Yo 'Board Brooklyn es in aes?) y six German steamships at Pier South Brooklyn, another sitet the detained fleet of the make a "dash for the marine tendent burg-American Line said it was the Hamburg the Second, had for end in the dock. Sate: had been near i metal of flected the com 'objec turning the ps sides of ns was to readjust the compasses toled some extent. : : NO MORE GIFTS OF TOBACCO French Government Cannot Under- take to Effect Delivery. A Sespatih from New York: says:-- Hereafter the hardships of the French soldiers at the front will not be light- ened by the gifts of tobacco and elgarelics which been Fe a them in the past by The Fron "postal authorltis have authorities hi ere that ae to effect the flelivery smokes to the soldiers prisoners of war in France. I ona quence it 'has been. found Impossible to collect from the addresses the Customs ste to which all such | 1 -- op name | EE "The ton of ties wounded from Nasiriyeh has com menced." HE PASSPORTS MADE] INB Gormine Enter England xs - gens of US. and Switzerland, CA despatch from London says:--It 2 has been learned on high auf Fad here hat the ho British authorities Have ; German subject who kad in PRE a forged American. which the arrested man ad« is not genuine.~ The Joged document had been compared with the original passport which was jssu- ed to. a bona-fide Ameri can citizen.! Ei on Surpiegl, WU eb sesh lon © ii Washington, shows that the. ! BS is a dangerous imitation. The arrested man is un rave declared that the false was given to him in Antwerp officer, ment is said to have taken up with the German Govern< as the imitation that is so clever # constitutes a danger to Ameri« ¢ans abroad. = The real passport on which 'the bogus one is based was issued to an American business juan . who reached and left that Germany March country April 8th. This was at his home with his pass- when the of the false. i

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