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"The Lord of ios is With You Against ¥rench Insolence and British Stubbornness." : 7 r w A ch from Berlin says: Em- . peror William on his recent visit to 'the troops on the Somme front in France made the following speech, ac- _ cording to the correspondent of the Tageblatt: "Comrades, following an impulse of the 1 have hurried to you from the 'front to bring you the greet- ings of your comrades there and the thanks of Jt the Fatherland for the four months' hard struggles on the Somme, and. for the heroic manner in which you have fought. The world's history knows no parallel for the struggles in which you are participating, and for the tness of your deeds. For cen- turies these battles of the Somme will stand as a blazing model for the con- quering will of a united people. "In you that German will will find expression under whatever circum- stances to prevent the "from Jrostrating, us' to the < rou, and to rm against French = insolence' and British stubbornness. From all German regions you stand like a metal wall of German sense of duty' op and self-devoted valor, fighting to the last: breath, | comme "On all sides the German people stand in a tenacious stroggle against half the world and against the mani- fold superiority of numbers, Even though it continues hard and endures long, yet the Lord of Hosts is with: you; Those at home have besought Him, and He has inspired you with strength and courage. Trust in God bravely, feeling that you are fighting in a just cause. "Thus I greet you, comrades. Hold out, the Lord will give His blessing to the end." PROSPERITY FOR "WESTERN CANADA Grand Trunk Traffic Manager Predicts Tremendous Develop- ment and Presperity. A despatch from Montreal says: ACROSS BORDER Von :Falkenhayn Forced to Re- tire From Important | Positions. A despatch from London says :--On "All indications show that the volume of immigration into Canada from the United States at the close of the war will be remarkably large," said Mr. W. P. Hinton, traffic manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, who ar- rived here on Thursday. Mr. Hinton reports a very gratify- ing movement of settlers into west- ern Canada during the past summer. These settlers have been possessed of éonsiderable means and good equip-' ment. They were doubtless attracted by the lower prices of farm lands which generally prevailed #nd by the' certainty that even if one crop can secured equal to the general yield of last year the entire purchase price of the land will be regained. "Western Canada," said. Mr. Hin- ton, "is on the éve of tremendous development and prosperity. Splen- did prices have been obtained for the grain. The crop movement 'was deferred by fully a month, but Octo- ber weather has been extremely favorable for threshing and shipping, | and the grain is now moving freely, ! and this will further stimulate trade, | "The country districts at no time within the past year have been able to secure their full supplies, as it seems quite impossible , for eastern: manufacturess. to keep the demand supplied promptly. Farmers are ex- ceedingly prosperous; their purchas- ing power was never so great, and' perhaps a striking illustration of this fact is that approximately $2,000,000 more than any other year has been expended in the purchase of automo- | biles. In fact, the automobile seems, to have b a farm ity, and even if we are disposed to consider it an extravagance, it certainly adds, to the joy of living in the agricultural districts of Canada. "If we had our 150,000 men we have sent to the front with us again it would take some speeding up of eastern manufacturers to furnish even the necessaries of life in the west." ae WAR BETWEEN BOYS IN ANOTHER YEAR. Allies Will Then be Facing Youths of > AT in'the German Army. /A despatch from London says: The war threatens soon to become a strug: gle between mere boys. The pace is said to be entirely too fast for the older men long to endure. It is as- serted here that next year the En- tente allies will be facing boys of sev- enteen in the German army. General Sir Douglas Haig, com- manding the British. Expeditionary forces, is said to. have objected to the 'sending out of men of middle age. He 'wants men from eighteen to twenty- five years old, After the latter year x is the fighting value of the 'human unit shows a rapid and steady decline. 7 "The good soldier 'of to-day, 'it seems, taut be of the age. whee | els in the more strenuous athletic aero 'Danube to the Monastir front: a large part of the. Transylvanian frontier the Austro-German armies of General von Falkenhayn have been driven back across the border and have suffered heavy losses. The Northern Roumanian province of Moldavia is now practically clear of the Teuton in- vaders, This means that the Russo-Rouman-| 1 ian troops are again in control of the four Carpathian passes--Oituz, Gyi- mes) Tolyges and Bicaz. The menace 0 passes of the Transylvanian Alps, where the Germans are thrusting at Bucharest via Kimpolung and Predeal, and at Buzeu and the Czernowitz rail. way via Bodza pass. Even here, Pet- rograd announces, the pressure of the Teuton forces have been arrested. The Roumanians have won Mount Karek- haras, south of Bicaz, and some 26 miles. south-east of the junction point "of the Roumanian, Transylvanian and Bukowinian frontiers. This indi- cates an advance of several miles into Transylvanian territory. i 132 ALLIED PLANES invasion is now confined to the|l a. 3 do. 2 50 to ge, wheat ot, $1.68 to ny or Brights % Be at Ra $1.56; No.2 $1.05 to $1. he $1.00, 5 § , Toronto, ; tario flour--New Winton, a ing to sample, nny Toronto, teen or ota, det elivered Mont- - Hire ts, ba; Bisivig Bran, per ton, $30.00; Br middling, je hon, $51.00 a oni per hag He y--New "No. 1 per ton, $12.00 to $13. 00; No. 2, ber ton, $10.00 to $11.00, track Toronto, Straw--Car lots, per ton, $9.00 to $10.00, track Toronto. Country Produce--Wholesale. Wholesalers are selling to the trade at the following prices: -- Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 87 to 88¢; inferior, 82 to 83c; creamery prints, 41 to 48¢c; solids, 41 to 428, Eggs--No. 1 storage, 36 to 37c; storage, selects; 38 to 89¢; new-laid, in farions, 46 to 48c; out of cartons, 44 0 Dressed poultry--Chickens, 21 fo 22¢; fowl, 17 to 19¢; ducks, 18 to 20c; squabs, per dozen, $4.00 to $4.50; tore keys, 80 to 36c; geese, Spring, 17 to Hive poultry--Chickens, 15 to 17¢; fowl, 13 to 14c; ducks, 18 to 1bc; tur. keys, 26 to 28c¢; geese, Spring, 14 to Cheése--New, large, 22% to 23c;' Swiss, 23 to 28%c; triplets, 28% to! Honey--Extra fine quality, 20-lb, tins, 18¢c; 5-1b. tins, 12% $0 1 10-1b. 11% to 12%ec; 60-lbs., 11% to 12¢c. Comb Boney ext fine and heavy wei 3; Sieh $2.50 to $2.75; yy 3, ds Potato 2m 24 ing: by Hy Wi British: Columbia Rose, per Sides to $1.85; British Columbia ites, per bag, $1.90 to $2.00; New Bruns- wick Delawares, per bag, $2.00 to $2.10; Prince :-Edward Island Whites, per bag, $1.76, track Toronto. " -- bage--Man., per ton, $40.00 to Beans--Imported, hand-picked, per Pusha. $56.00; Canadian primes, $3, 75 TO AID ROUMANIA | ovo! Four British Machines Fly 300 Miles From Inbros to Bucha- rest. A despatch from London says:-- One hundred and twenty-eight French aeroplanes have arrived in Roumania * for reconnaissance work on the Tran- sylvania and Dobrudja fronts, says a ' despatch from Bucharest to the Wire- less Press. - Four British aeroplanes arrived at the Roumanian capital on Thursday from Imbros, an island of the Grecian archipelago, Flying from ! the Island of Imbros across central Bulgaria to Bucharest in a straight line, the British machines travelled a distance of about 800 miles. Hopes iperebie HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS CONFRONTTHE SERBS Battle for "Monastir Grows 'More Severe and Likely To Be " Prolonged. 2 . + A despatch from London says :-- Rolled' The Chronicle's Athens correspondent says : The battle for Monastir con- tinues with unabated vigor, but the continual arrival of the enemy's rein- forcements makes the struggle a very severe one, and likely to last for some time yet, seeing that the Roumanian pressure has failed to relieve the situ-|® ation. On the contrary, the Bulgars have been able to send men from the psi SE ha DO NOT LIKE DOSE OF THEIR OWN GAS. 2 1 Re. $ A despatch, from B Berlin says: | ferring to the e Cheha! Soman an- Provisions--Wholesale, Cured meats and lard are quoted to the trade by Toronto wholesalers as follows :-- Smoked meats--Hams, medium to 26¢; do., heavy, 22 to 23c; om, 2 85 to B87c; "rolls, 20 to 21c; breakfast Dacat 26 to 27c; basks, plain, 26 to 27¢; boneless, 28 .to 2! Pickled or less than cur Cured meats-- Long clear bacon, 18 1 dev per lb; clear bellies, 16 to c. Lard--Pure lard," tierces, 17% to 18¢; tubs, 18 to 18%; ails, 18 to]. 18¢; compound, 15% to 1 i6%ec. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Oct. 81,--Corn, American No. 2 yellow, $1.12 to $1.13. Oats, Canadian Jesters, No. | 2, Soe; doi, No. -8, 8 %e 66%ec. $1.00. Pirie, man.," § pring heat patents, firsts, $9.80; seconds, $9.30 Strong 'bakers', $9. 10; 'W Winter choice, $0.50; straight oo, $9.20; do., 4.25 0 meats, 1 cent 1 $28 i or ouiller lots; n, car gy alt terns, esh easterns, 21%c. Butter, "choice. oat eT 12 ac; Seconds 39 C. er es! 0 3 selected, 88¢; No. 1 stock, 8de: No. | stock, 0c. Fusion, per bag, car lots, $1. 60° to $1.70. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Oct. Ca uots- tions: -- Brooms - a No. A Northern, a Ne'd 'No. i hy res $1 to $68 Re ; rley, Jo dar Teed, 90%e bol N wii | Thousands of Them Are Being ed Deported to Prussia, A despatch from London says: The | German reign of terror in Belgium is taking its full course, the special cor- respondent of the Times at Amster- dam telegraphs. ' "The Telegraaf," he says, "learns that lists of burghers designated for. forced labor in pursuance of the new German order are posted everywhere in Belgium. Many burghers already have been removed. "On Monday another 5,000 citizens were taken from Ghent and sent to Germany. Though a « telegram from the German Wolff Agency. reports there were 1,000 spectators *at the opening of the so-called Flemish uni- versity at Ghent, including teachers and students, the occasion passed un- observed by the majority of the in- habitants because of the impression caused by the removal of so many citizens, "The 5,000 were taken to thé rail- road station amid tears and lamenta- tions... Groups -of citizens drove through the town in vehicles, singing patriotic songs and sarcastic verses about the Germans, but there was no resistance. 8 "The previous week there were dis- turbances in which burghers. were wounded. The impétence of the people against the military was then demon strated. The Germans have warned the public in proclamation against resist- ing or insulting the troops. "Also the Germans have announced that all Belgians selected for removal must procure two pairs of boots and | woollen blankets. At Selzaete 5,000 persons have received orders to pre- pare for deportation. At Oudenarde 5,000 have been named. At Melle, a suburb of Ghent, 600 burghers who for the last six weeks have been en- gaged in forced labor at Dixmude have returned. They complained of bad food and treatment and looked pitiful. - There are similar reports' from Hainsilt." : hile se NEW DREADNOUGHTS HAVE 18: INCH GUNS Marvellous Products of Naval Wark, A despatch from Providesess 'Rhode p . | Island, says:--The Journal in a des-| patch from London on Friday says: "British Admiralty officials are de- lighted with the marvellous work that has been done in British dockyards in the building of new Dreadnoughts. 290; "Wonderful results, which have not up to this' time been made public, have 'been accomplished in this direction. Twelve new battleships of the Super- | dreadnought - type are now practical- ly ready for sea. Pour of Yess, the four largest and most methodical 'preparation and splendid onslaught of the men, Should Fort Vaux fall under the Ph iE on Fel ry 26 stored, and the months ot effort, on hs part of the' German offensive will, as regards actual territory held in this sector, have gone for naught. The loss of Doua t is officially ad- mitbed in Berlin, as is the failure of the counter-attacks, ey CANADA'S BIGGEST ROLE LIES IN THE FUTURE. Baron Shaughnessy's Message As He ! Boards the Steamer for A despatch from New York says: Baron Shaughnessy, in an interview granted a representative of the Can- adian Press as he was about to board the steamer Kroonland on Wednesday en route to Europe, predicted a great- er Canada, industrially and political- ly, when peace is declared. "Though bleeding with sacrifices and bending with effort in behalf of the great Em- pire of which she is an integral part," he said, "Canada's biggest role in the play of nations is not now, but in the 4 future." The of the Domin- ion, he said, showed that what mis- a takes have had to be rectified have] been due to short vision, and that the deeds most criticized had been of over-anticipation. As between those two Canada would after the war steer a middle course of steady develop- ment, "Canada is an Empire in itself," continued Baron Shaughnessy. "Its population is not a fraction of what it should be, of what it is capable of becoming, or what it will be after the war. We are now taking steps to pre- pare for the future, and are anticip- ating an immigration that should be unprecedented in Canadian history." ema? GREEK ARMY CUT DOWN TO 35,000 ALL TOLD. | A despatch from Athens says; In compliance with assurances given to the French Minister, the King on Monday signed a decree Teleasing from active service, half of the class of 1918, now with the colors, as well as other miscellaneous Jevies under] training. - This reduces: the military force in Greece from 60,000 to 35,000, § thus disposing of the differences be- tween ers on the ground of , Greek army to the Buffpte N one RR TET RAMAN. | pons of offence that vs art hes wh placed on the rate with a speed of and the Entente Pow- 1 fice on Wednesday. between the. and Austrian seaplanes, in which one of the Austrian machines ' was cap- sized and another fell into a lagoon at Baseleghe, on the Italian coast near Caorle; also is reported. The Austrian squadrilla had been throwing bombs on n Cagrle, yi : FRANCE MAY IMPORT : MANY FARM THPLEMENTS, A despatch from 1 'Brantford says: The agricultural implement export trade from Canada after the war is likely to be increased through action 7 taken by France, which asked Hon Col. Harry Cockshutt, President and Managing Director of the Cockshutt Plow Company, to prepare a report or farm machinery for labor ovine: This report has been forwarded the French Government. If the 2 f creases, Brantford, 8s a centre' industry, will reap a big harves hich hob their. presence in the indicate The careful mother should her child's bowel mi Many diseases to fen are suscepti ble, first A, a Ra