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h from Paris sags: = ely mat at 150,000: offensive is recognized 'Probably only the beginning rmined effort to take the fort- merly the key to the French d compares in violence and . losses to the battle of the Yser. The "French: assume the battle may con- "tinue for a fortnight. The German forces are known to be at least 800,- 000, supported by numerous 15-inch and 17-inch Austrian mortars, with all the heavy artillery used in the Serbian campaign and part of that formerly employed on the Russian observed early in December, when the first troops assigned to the operation were brought up. Eight divisions whieh returned from Serbia were sent to Belgium for a rest and then trans- ported to the region of Verdun in January. Five army corps in all are known to have been brought up to reinforce two corps which previously "held that part of the line between 4 'the! frst four boicin hE dh the famous : | Third Corps of Brandenburg, Preparations for the battle were! Etain and Vauquois. édly equal in valor to the - ian Guard; and the Fifteenth y Corps, commanded by General von Dhimioe, known in France as one of the most brilliant of the German general of- The French compare the ground gained by the Germans in the four days with twice that amount. taken by the French in the firsb two days of their offensive in Champagne, to- gether with eight "times the number of prisoners. The confidence of the French is unshaken by the fierce at- tacks and the slight bending of the | French line. The military critic of The Temps reports that heavy French reinforce- ments have been brought up. Lieut. Col. Leonce Rousset, another military critic, relates a conversation he had with a surgeon just returned from Verdun: On February 22, during the present battle, the surgeon saw an entire brigade, which was advancing in close order, caught by the concen- trated fire of the French batteries and annihilated in a few minutes, ® OVER90000 CHEQUES MADE OUT More Than a Third of Soldiers Assign Part of Their "Pay. "A despatch from Ottawa says: The monthly payments of assigned pay or _ separation allowances to relatives or dependents of the men under arms _ now aggregate more than $2, 000,000. More than 90,000 cheques are made "out each month by. the branch dealing with this part of the work. Over * one-third of the soldiers who have enlisted are now giving part of their pay to friends or dependents at home, and about one-quarter of the total force, representing approximately the married men, are on the list for sepa- ration allowance. It is interesting to note that the preportion of the men who are assigning their pay is considerably larger among the re- cruits of the past few months than 'was the case with thé men who went * overseas at first. This is accounted for on the ground that a considerably larger proportion of the laber re- cruits are Canadian-born, and have _ dependents or relatives in Canada. With the first and second contingents a large percentage was composed of unmarried men who were born in Great Britain and who had no family ties or dependents in this country. tei BERLIN OFFERS PRIZES FOR NEW NAME OF CITY. A despatch from Berlin, Ont., says: Canadians' will have an' opportunity of offering suggestions for the new name of this city. A public subscrip- tion is being raised, and liberal prizes will be offered for first, second and hird choices. - Suggestions will have be accompanied by reasons why the should be chosen, and the com- on will be Dominion-wide. The es will be . named: by the City aneil, me fr eee ADE OF DOMINION TAKES A BIG JUMP. Months Show an Increase of Nearly $800,000,000. A despatch 1 from Ottawa says: The Sotal trade of Canada for the' ten hs ending with January was ,869,000, compared with ,000 in the same ten months of preceding year. Imports totalled 004,000 and exports $505,265,000. Mion tt TO WIPE OUT CH dispatch trom Amsterdam says: $714,- | ga8 THE SMUGGLING EVIL, CANADIANS UNDER BOMBARDMENT "Our Fellows Are Paying the Enemy Back in His Own Coin" A despatch from Ottawa says: "Artillery bombardment upon the Can- adian line is very heavy, but so far our casualties have been comparative- ly light, five killed and eight wounded on Thursday, and our fellows are pay- ing the enemy back in his own' coin." Such was the announcement of Md- jor-General Sir Sam Hughes when Parliament met on Friday afternoon in response to a question by Mr. E. M. Macdonald as to whether the Canad- jan troops ab the front were involved in the terrific battle raging on Vers dun. The Minister replied that the Canadian forces were a considerable distance away from the Verdun fight- ing, but while under heavy artillery fire, were holding their own. 'The heaviest fighting, according to official despatches received by the Militia De- partment, was north and east of Ver- dun. The French had completely smashed the first attacks, and the Germans were now using reserves and practically raw troops. In some places the front line of trenches had been broken, but, at the time of the latest despatches, the second line of trenches was absolutely intact. . PN FOE BANKS IN TROUBLE. Financial Pinch is Affecting . Some Big German Institutions. A despatch from the London Daily Express correspondent in Geneva says: "A banker who has just return- ed here after spending several months in Germany tells me that the prin- cipal banks in the chief towns on the Rhine, and also-in Munich and Drés- den, are in serious financial difficulties and some big'crashes may be expect- ed within the next three months. The losses involved will be at least £180,000,000," the banker added, "and if the war continued another nine months Germany would be ruined fin- ancially." oii. Airmen Bombard Station at Metz. A despatch from Paris says: A squadron of French aeroplanes on Wednesday bombarded a railway sta- tion on the outskirts of Metz and a tank. A great fire was observed, the War Office reports. The announce- ment follows: "One of - our airship squadrons bombarded with 45 projec- tiles, some of which were of large in the the sogion | calibre, the Metz railway station at | Sablon (on. the southern outskirts of A Plucky Russian Nurse. One of the party of Russian nurses who reached England recently on their way home to Russia from Nish, Serbia, where they had been nursing in the Serbian hospitals. They many narrow escapes and it took them seventy-five days to get to London from Serbia. CANNOT TAKE ALBANIAN POSITION Italians Have so Fortified Them as to Make Them Stand Any Attack. A despatch from Rome says: commander of the Italian troops at' Avlona, in Albania, has declared that his positions are now so fortified as to be ready to stand any attack, and. he is even able to take the offensive if necessary. = His second in 'command system of warfare, ae SIXTY-SEVEN KILLED IN JANUARY AIR RAID. A dsepatch from London says: The revised official figures of the casual- ties in the Zeppelin raid of January 81 over England were given on Fri: day as 67 killed and 117 injured. The official ommunication announcing the figures says: "The final figures of the air raid of January 81 are: Killed, 27 men, 25 women and 165 children, a total of 67; injured, 46 men, 53 women and 19 children, total 117. Grand total, 184. "These figures are . greater than previously given--b9 persons killed and 101 injured--because several persons reported injured have = died from their 'wounds, some children under 16 years of age had been re- turned as adults and'several cases of slight injury 'had been treated at hos- pitals and sent home without & record gy, 11%: No. 5, being made of them. : - "The number of bombs: dropped ag- gregated 808," EAR Sia Aes GREAT BRITAIN ADMIRES FRENCH GALLANTRY. try's Recognition to President. Lord Mayor of London on Wednesday King- the Fra nation, French troops, LORD. DERBY IN. "rmsd The! has undertaken to instruct the Al-" banian troeps according to the Italian' Lord Mayor of London Sends Coutts 2 A 'despatch from London says: The presented to the French Arise for conveyance to President Poincare an album containing an illuminated address and the seals of more than and gratitude of the signatories to- sympathy for in her sufferings and profound - a ne the . gallantry of the o/ OF AIR SERVICE BOARD, | Mani st. patents, in Jute Bags, | $7; second patents, $6.50 strong bakers; in inte. bags; 63 Di: Toronto. Ontario flour--Winter, to sample, $4.60 to $4.70, track, Tor- to $10.50 |onto; $4.60 to $4.70, bulk, seaboard, prompt shipment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont: real freights--Bran, per ton, $25; shorts, 'per ton, $26; middlings, per ton, $27; good feed flour, per bag, $1. 75 to $1.85. Country Produce. - Butter--Fresh dairy, 27 to 80; in- ferior, 28 to 26c; creamery prints, 34 to 86¢c; solids, 32 to 8lc. Eggs--Storage, 25 to 26¢ per doz; selects, 27 to 28¢; new-laid, 30 to 3lec, case lots Honey--Price, in 10 to 60-lb: tins, 12% to 18¢.. Comb--No. 1, $2.76 to 1 $3; No. 2, $2.25 to $2.40. Beans--$4.20 to $4.40, Poultry--Spring chickens, 17 to 20c; fowls, 15 to 16¢; ducks, 17 to 20¢; geese, 15 to 19¢; turkeys, 23 to 27e. Cheese--Large, 19¢; twins, 19%ec. Potatoes--Car lots of Ontario quot- ed at $1.70 to $1.75, and New Bruns- wicks at $1.80 to S190 per bag, on | | Montreal eal Markets. Montreal, Feb. 29.--Corn--Amer- i No. 2 yellow, 86 to 87c. Oats-- anadian western, No. 2 'b3%s¢; "do., No. 8; 51%¢; No. 2 local white, 48%c¢; | No, 8 do., 47%¢c; No. 4 do;, "46%e¢. Barley--Man. feed, 62 to 63¢; malting, 76 to 78c. Buckwheat--No.-2, 80 to' 82c. Flour--Man. Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60; strong hakers', $6.40; straight rollers, $5.90 to $6.00; straight rollers, bags, $2.80 to $2.90, Roller oats, barrels, $5.85; do., bags, 90 Ibs, $2.56 to $2.60. Bran, $28.60 to $24.00. Shorts, $26. Middlings, $28 to $30. Mouillie, $31 i to $88. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to $20.60. Cheese--Finest west- erns, 18% to 19c; finest easterns,' 18% to '18%c. Butter--Choicest creamery, 33% to 84%c; seconds, 31% to 82%c. Eggs--Fresh, 80 to 82¢; se-' lected, 26 to 27¢; No. 1 stock, 24 to 25¢; No. 2 stock, 21 to 22c. "Potatoes, with their Young Turk rulers is now per "bag, car lots, s, $1.8 80 to $1.85. @ Winnipeg G Grain. _ Winnipeg, Feb, 29.--Cash: No. Northern, $1.20; No. 2 Northern, re $1.756%; No. 3%: No. 6, 97%; feed, 91%¢. Oats--No. 2 C.W., 42%e, No. 's C.W., 40%c; extra. No. 1 feed, 40%¢; No. 1 feed, 88%c; No. 2 feed, Pasha, 875¢. Barley--No, 3, 65¢; No. 4, 59¢; feed, bdc: Flax--No. 1 $2.06%; No. 2 C.W., $2.08%. United States Markets, Minneapolis, Feb: 29. --Wheat-- May, 31.21% to pg July, $1.20% ; $1 6%; No: Co, mi --No. 8 yellow, 76 to. T7¢ 3, white, 43% to 48%¢. Flo he 1} whi Pe 20¢ lower, $6.70; first: hay ie - $6.00; other grades un- 64,357 to- $9.50; coi common, i WS, $7. to $7.75. Calves, milk-f od, 8c to 9%ge; grass-fed, 4%c to Ths oho, GREAT HEROISH HEROISM OF ITALIAN AIRMAN Wounded in Head and Blinded 'by Blood He Brings Dead Com- rades Down. A despatch from Rome says: De- tails now made public, concerning the recent Italian air raid on Laibach re- veal 'the heroism of Capt. Salomone, pilot of one of the Italian aeroplanes. On his return journey Capt. Salo- mone's machine was attacked by five Austrian Fokkers." He was severely. wounded in the head and temp blinded' by blood, while two other officers 'aboard the aeroplane, one of whom was Lieut.-Col. Barbieri, were killed outright. Despite the difficulty of sbeering, the bodies of his dead comrades having fallen over the lévers Salomone refused to surrender: He succeeded in refurning, and landed at Talmanova. Salomone is now recov- ering in a hospital. A medal has been awarded to Emi for valor, SITUATION TION CRITICAL IN TURK CAPITAL London, Feb. 24--An Athens de- spatch to The Morning Post says: "News from. Constantinople repre- sents the situation there as the most critical sirice the news of the fall of Erzerum has leaked out. The always latent dissatisfaction 'of the people assuming hourly more threatening proportions, both in the capital and {the provinees, especially at' Smyrna, German. dah for the open sea at an ime om Siving "a reason for iy the pressure of political o in ti 'but the innumerable re-. cent reports all pointing to the pre paration of a combined German naval, aerial and military offensive, with. the object of forcing peace and impressing neutrals, Vice-Admiral i Scheer has been appointed command- er of the German battle fleet in sue- cession to Admiral von Pohl, who, af- ter holding the position for a year, is retiring on aecount of ill-health." QP eet tems. YARNS MADE FROM PAPER PULP Factory Spins Threads: for Gas 7: Mantles or Ships' Cables. Londo hus, no doubt, added many new industries to its list since the war began, but few, perhaps, of great- er importance and fascinating inter- est than that of paper spinning and | weaving. / I have pad. the opportunity of see- ing some 'wonderful things in the way of yarns and textiles manufactured from paper pulp, and also of rte " demonstration plant at work spinning 1 threads of paper into twine fine enough ; for gas mantles and strong enough to hold a ship, writes a London gorre- .spondent. This wonderland is to be found n Southwark and at the works of Shel; Textilite Enginéering Compan which is now supplying British-mi machinery, made according to its pl ents, for the manufacture of eévery kind of thing imaginable which for-- marly was made of hemp and jute and BX. : ¥ 4 "The 'things you see around 'you, P said Mr. George Seaton, Mills, =the managing director of the company, "are new, and yet they are nqgt new. What T mean is that the people of China in the days of Confucius, prob- ably twisted a strip of paper in the fingers absent-mindedly and found it had remarkable tensile strength, but what we have done is to make that idea into a practical proposition, ers Sharing the populace. is in 'almost open | 2 lar ar is, "The Germans, with the faculty for itation, have spun r for : a Hi os. showed huis azoud : { the works. and demonstrated all the "ished fancy wal | coverings in pattern I according to processes, material, which in this case is.a reel 'of fine Canadian p to the highly fin- and 3 sol eo paper is first cut into strips, width of yarn or rope strand required, then twisted on frames very 'similar to' those ut .