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ok the Region of Dvinsk Wi "their offensive on an extensive ale. On the whole front from Riga to Baranovichi, a distance of about 800 miles, the Russians are being hutled against the Further to the south 'General Kale- dines is driving steadily forward to-|lin ward Kovel and has captured two vil- lages and a railroad station on the Sarny-Kovel road. Military critics of the allies assert that unless the Germans can halt the Russian ad- vance in the immediate future they will have to withdraw their lines along the entire eastern front and prohably abandon Lemberg. In the tremendous offensive against Field Marshal von Hindenburg's forces General Evert is leading the Czar's troops in furious attacks ex- tending along a hundred-mile front from the Vilna line in the north to Baranovichi in the south, Preceding their infantry assaults by a bombardment of such intensity dur- ing its 24 hours' duration, that the German lines. Sicly i} to offer a half-hearted enou A a half-| resistance, were swept aside at the point of the bayonet ag the Russian wave surged through the' shattered es, So overwh was the Russian attack in the region south-west of Lake Narocz, where Petrograd claims the greatest successes in the new drive, than an enormous number of prisoners and a vast amount of booty were taken by the attacking forces. Furious fighting is continuing aleng this whole line. The Germans, speed- ily rallying from the first Russian on slaughts, are launching counter-at- tacks in rapid succession in an at- tempt to win back the lost positions. Unless the Russians can be checked immediately at the vital points where their first thrusts have succeeded, it is believed that their whole lines in dangered. $25,000,000 PLANT ~ WILL BE ERECTED United States Steel Corpora- tions' Plans for Works at Objiway. A despatch from Ottawa says :-- That 'erection would start immediate- ly of the big steel plant which the United States Steel Corporation plans to erect at Ojibway, near Windsor, Ont., was the statement made by Mr. Wallace Nesbitt, K.C., on Friday, Mr. Nesbitt was in the city arranging cer- tain departmental matters in connec- tion with the going ahead of the work. The company over two years ago secured a large tract.of land at Ojib- way, but little has been done up to the present. It is understood the plant to be erected will cost about $25,000,000. pets e------ BRITISH TRADE FIGURES. ™ Exports Higher in June Than in Any Month Since January, 1914. A despatch from London says :-- The Board of Trade figures for June show that imports increased £11,027, 000 and that exports increased £14, 041,000. Exports were higher than in any month since January of 1914, and 87,000,000 in excess of July of 1914, the last month before the beginning of the war. The principal increase in imports were: Food, $5,000,000; wood oils, fats and chemicals, £6,000, 000. The increase in exports was principally in manufactured goods, of which £8,600,00 was cotton textiles, $1,260,000 woollens, and £2,000,000 iron and steel. prs AGT Ry MUNITION WORKERS POSTPONE HOLIDAY A despatch from New York says :-- According to a news, agency despatch rom London on Thursdsy the Scot- tish miners have agreed to postpone all" their July holidays at the request of Minister of Munitions Lloyd George TEUTONS' LOSSES IN MONTH 500,000 A despatch from Paris says: 'Ger-| man and Austro-Hungarion losses of men, according to figures presented on Wednesday by the Matin, It states that the Russians have taken 282,300 unwounded prisoners, 4,700, 14,200. Multiplying the total of pri- |, soners by two, to estimate the number | $ of killed and wounded, it gets an ag- gregate of slightly more than 500,000, or more than twelve army corps. 3 EE ib INDUSTRIAL GERMANY ANXIOUS FOR PEACE A despatch from Berlin says :-- Numerous scientists, industrialists and 2 culture, have formed a German Na- tional Committee under the chiarman- ship of Prince von Wedel, says the Koeinische Zeitung, with the aim of "awakening a uniform understanding? conclusion of peace which shall guar- antee a secured future empire," In|p doing this, says the Koelnische Zei- tung, "all one-sidedness is to be avoid- ed." ---- RISING AGAINST THE AUSTRIANS A despatch from London says :-- } rising against the Austrians has brok- 3 en out in Montenegro. Its leaders is|y a former War Minister, upon whose head the Austrians set a high price. The Montenegrins who have risen| country. The rising is prompted by } the destitution in which the inhabit-| ants have been left by Austria. 4 TO CONFER PEERAGE UPON SIR EDWARD GREY A despatch from London says : The King has decided to confer a peerage upon Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, according to the Daily Chronicle. ; TEUTONS LOSE 500,000 MEN IN THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN German and Austrian Soldiers Captured, 230,000--Officers, 4,500 3 ~--Wounded 200,000 to 220,000. A despatch from Petrograd says:i-- Nearly half a million Austrians apd Germans have been put out of com- mission since General Brusiloff 'great arvance a month e ad total of prisoners to date is in numbers 285,000, of which 4,500 latter at 200,000 bo 220,000. The Aus- trians Zhedemuinate wismingly among prisoners, but among dead and wounded it is ssid that a fairly large percentage are Germans, The losses in stopping the Russian ad- vance on Kovel and in i to helplessness, Russians hurled | | with astc 'ease, 1 astonishing ub ] Ee Poincare of France. - ( cruelly bled in the great The Russian Ambassad I pare in the picture.--(London the northern sector will be greatly en- |, Malt b No. 1 feed, 500; track according to freights to 98¢c; No 2 Tat 23 ing: oi freights outside. eas----No, the 'past month total half a million ears to sample, to 66a; according to freights outside, the Italians ing to freights outside and the Anglo-French forces | cordin Toronto sample, $4.06 to $4.15, Toronto, freights, b: included-- $19 to $2058 ncluded--Bran, middlings, feed flour, per bag, cartons, 30 tb hand-picked, of the German people for an honorable | 27¢; fowl, at Hams--Medipm, 23% to 24 The London Times understands that a | 27 have taken to the wooded parts of the | 3 Noxtharn si 10 -- r N. Barley--Malting, Manitoba spring wheat bag, car lots, $1. io. Oats--No, sagt 3 1 5 de qu dat Lp Br &i Het rthern PRESIDENT OF One of the ontstanding- e, 'BREADSTUFFS. July 11.--Manito wheat-- hern, $1.19%; No. Sao. $1.183; Ba ts. at No C1 Heer th: co; Nc. 2 feed, 49¢, on track corn---No, 3 yellow, 88¢, on Bay ports; 87c, on track "Toronto, Ontario oats--Iio. 3 white, 47 to- 48c, Ontario wheat--No, Rice. to 95¢; No. 8 iy 8 to 86c, nominal, LAY accord- 1.70 to $1.80; $1 26 to $1.50, ac- outside. g barley, nominal, 66 feed barley: nominal, 60 to 62c, . 2, nominal, Barley--Malt! Buckwheat--Nominal, 70 to Tle, ac- e--No. 1 commercial, 94 to 95e, fic- to freights outside, ao Manitoba flour--FPirst patents, in jute Ags, $6.60; second patents, in jute bags. .00; strong bakers', in jute iy $6.80, Ontario flour--Winter, according to in bags, track Prompt shipment; $4.00 to oar 4.10, bulle seal d, prompt shi Milifeed, car lots, delivered oan shonts, per ton, $28 per ton, 34 to $25; .65 to $1.60. COUNTRY PRODUCE Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 7c; inferior, 23 to 24c; creamery, ne representatives of commerce any agri-| 29 to 81c; inferior, 28 fo 350 to 29¢; do. in| Eggs--New-lald, , 28 Beans--3$4.50 to $5.00, the latter for Cheese--New, large, 18c: twins, 183c. Mapie syrup---1.40 to $1.50 per He. erial gallon: Dressed poultry--Chichkens, 26 'to 28 to 2bc. Potatoes--Firm; Ontarlos in car ots $1.86, and New Brunswicks h er bag; Western, $1.95. 8b 3115 BALED HAY AND STRAW Baled hay--Best grade, per ton, 15.00. . Straw--Per ton, $6.00 to $7.00. PROVISIONS. Bacon--Long clear, 18 to 19¢ per Ib, ¢; do., heavy, 04 to 21c; rolls, 19 to-193c; breakfast acon, 243 to 26ic; backs, plain, 263 to ©; boneless backs, 293 to 30jc. ard--Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 17ic, ns. pails, 17% to 173c; compound, 14 to -- WINNIPEG GRAIN, § Winnipeg, July 11.--Cash quotations: 0. Northern, $1 123; 3 0. Northern, No. 5, 95%c; No. 6, ats--No, 2 CW, "W., 48lic; extra No. 1 feed, i . 1 feed, 433c; No. 2 1§c. Barley--No.: 8, ' 72¢; No. 4, 68c; ected, 63c; feed, 68c. Flax--No. 1 W.C., $1.69%; No, 2 C.W., $1.663. 1. ; 1.074; No. 4, $1.01%; 2c; y LT % 44c; No, MONTREAL MARKETS. - *1/ men' left. "He said that he was glad 4 loc A 76 to 7s hy OUD atents, firdts, $6.10; strong patents, choice, $6.00 to $6.40 to $5.60; i Rolled oats-- 6.60; seoonds, £50; gone 4 24.00. "Mouillie, n easterns, 1k 0 es Sraamer te 0. Porky 830; No. 1 sto ok, 2%. Potatoss Bs UNITED STATES MARKETS HE Fy & er, in the pi Calm, | fied--the eléc Poincare pre Markets of the World 1 commereial, 97 A Sweden, resulting in the purchase'of products which otherwise = probably 16.00 to 17.00; do, low grade, per ton, $13.00] No.| ONE PLATOON LOST . kers', | selec 11.765. ti $12.25; mixed: $10.00 to $1100; $10.00 FE - ' & - : BOUGHT PRODUCTS : . GERMANY IS SEEKING. British Money Used in Holland and Sweden to Buy Foodstuffs. i? A despatch from London says: Neutral diplomats express the belief that the 'existing orders-in-council will be superseded by the declaration of an actual blockade, in pursuance of Great , Britain's avowed intention of strengthening her legal position. No evidence of an actual change in the administration of the blockade has been procirable since the announce- ment of the abondonment of the De- claration of. London. However, the increased economic pressure on Ger- many which recently has become ap- parent is due, according to the best informed neutral 'diplomats, to the British campaign in Holland and 6.00 Io! i. MEH to * would have found their way to Ger- ----s "l STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION. People Are Fleeing to Relief Ships for Refuge. A despatch from Rome says: The eruption of Stromboli has become serious: The flow of lava is spreading to the sparse coast settlement, burn- ing and destroying houses, and the population 'is fleeing to the sea and taking refuge on relief ships sent from Messina. Telephonic communication 'with Messina has been interrupted, There are many signs of seismis dis- turbances throughout Italy. The heat has been intense for the past two days, Berth shocks occurred - Wednesday morning at Ancona, Rimini, Belvedere, Marettimo and other Adriatic dis- tricts, but no loss of life hds been re- ported. ] ee rn 117 MEN IN ATTACK A despatch from London says: A Canadian officer in'a London hospital states that when he started in the re- cent attack he had one lieutenant and 144 men. When he finished, the lieutenant was dead, he himself was badly 'wounded and he had only 27 to be wounded in the big fight rather than to be sniped. ---- 3 | to $8.00 each: ves, 'choice, $7.00 to| $3,758 cosas $5.00 to § 0 3 pla solentist SAYS - NE UTRAL DIPLOMATIST The German' People Are Showing Unmistakable Evidence of i Underfeeding. A despatch from London says: A neutral diplomatist stationed in Ger many, who recently visited London, informed his colleagues here that it was impossible to give an exaggerated many, # description of the depth and breadth of the German public's desire for The food scarcity was becoming serious, he 'said, and the population generally was unmistakably showing evidence of underfeeding. In one of the greatest German cities--not Ber- lin--at a hotel 'whose name is familiar to thousands of 'Americans, a neutral was unable to arrange for a dinner which he wished to give for a few friends, though his requirements were most modest. - ; "A Copenh; despatch says: The newspaper - Heindal Sch g states German bread Is not eatable, as it contains putrified potatoes. in the soap being used is caus: diseases, particularly among STRANGE FACTS OF SCIENCE. The world's highest powered motor. ship has been built in Italy for the Brazilian navy, its oll motors develop- ing 6,400 horse power. The Spanish government ' is plan- ning to build an electric railroad from: Madrid to the French frontier to con- nect with French lines. To enable migratory fish to rise over waterfalls, dams and. other ob- structions in streams, a Canadian fisheries official has invented an auto- matic elevator. The coal in one of the largest new mines in China lies so near the sur- face of . the mined with steam shovels after the' covering soil is removed. ound that it will be Figures compiled by the Italian gov- ernment show = that the world pro- duced 4,000,000,000 bushels of wheat 'last year, an increase of 800,000,000 bushels from the year before. Experts connected with the govern- ment of India are considering the use of submarine boats from which men can be released to gather pearl shells from the bottom of the ocean. A submerged oak forest covering several square miles, from which logs more than 100 feet in length have been taken, was discovered by Rus- 'sian engineers while dredging a river, il 5 | steam | Economy of fuel Sousymption in often repuires the mixing more kinds of coal and an invented a coaling has: Bazge that mixes coal.as it delivers it ong fnvestigation a French has declared that tubers MEXICO'S GREAT WEALTH Mining is the Leading Tndustry---Oil Fields Are Rich. Ri Mexico has an area of 767,005 square miles. Mining is the leading industry of the country, Mineral wealth is vast and varied. In addi- iron, copper, zine, tin, platinum, lead, mercury, manganese and any number of others. While the silver mines are numerous and yield enormous returns, there is little doubt that the coal de- posits will become of even grester' valde in the future development of the country. ~The oil fields, especially those of Tamauliva, near Tampico, and those in southern Vera Cruz; are a very important possession. The olls produced are not of the highest grades but are largely used as power fuel, comprise some of the cereals and other food products of the temperate x and- most of the leading products o the tropics, Manufacturing indu has reached the stage of méi great part of the home demand fu manufactured goods, "where the raw material may be produced inthe coun try, cotton manufacture being the most important textile industry. To- bacco Is equally so. . The chigf exports value. are gold, sliver, ofl, copper, ont .. 4 JY fee, henequin or e and her fibry rn wr 'ber and other forest pr and gking, chiopeas, tobacco The imports argel of Schleswig ~ tion to gold and silver are deposits of = The sigricultrral resources of Mexico of the country in the order of their.