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British Government Takes Drastic Step to Conserve the Supply |i and Prevent Imminent Trade Disputes. . : A despatch from London says; Under the defence of the the Board of Trade Pi _ from December it will assume control of all the coal mines in South Wales. A committee has been appointed, re- presenting the Board of Trade, the Home Office and the Admiralty, tu the administration of the mines, and "will meet to consider the question of wages. There has been a long dispute con- cerning the demands of the South Wales miners for an increase of the war bonus, The Board of Trade at- tempted intervention to procure a settlement, but the mine-owners ob- Jected to an investigation of their affairs with. a view to ascertaining whether they could justifiably meet the miners' demands. The action of the Government in taking over control of the South Wales coal mines is an entirely new departure, and appears to have been caused by the imperative necessity of | preventing a trade dispute from inter- fering with the coal supply. Earlier in the course of the war the Govern- ment had taken pn to control fe extent, fifteen per cent. bonus, despite the opposition of the owners. But with the continually rising cost of living the men contended that they were entitled to a further bonus, and that the great war profits the owners ad- mittedly were making justified their. demands. The owners especially ob- jected to an audit on the ground that) it was unprecedented and unreason- able. The coal owners have been general- ly condemned by both press and pub- lic, and numerous conferences have been held by the Board of Trade with the objeect of finding an issue from the difficulty, but all to no purpose, owing to the owners" irreconcilable attitude. a SCIENCE TO AID IN DEVELOPMENT Government Advisory Council on Technical Research. A despatch from Ottawa says: -- After ¢ year's consideration of the best method of Government procedure to .nciurage and assist in Canada manufacturing development based on scientific and technical research, the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Sir George E. Foster, has scoured the ap- pointment by the Government of an Honorary Advisory Council on In- dustrial and Scientific Research. The Council consists of University pro- fessors in the departments of applied science, and of men prominent in steel and engineering work. The zppointment of the Council is in line with action taken months ago by Great Britain and the United States when Governmental action was taken early in the war to secure the best expert advice, with a view to taking full advantage of the trade and manufacturing opportunities of- fered by the exclusion of Germany from the world's market. The ob- ject in view is to include technical and scientific the results for the development of production and trade. It is hoped that the free assistance thus offered to industrial firms will enable Canada to keep abreast of the world's manu- facturing readjustment during the war, and of the keen international competition which will follow it. - -- CUSTOMS REVENUE FOR PAST MONTH A despatch from Ottawa says: -- The Customs revenue for the month just closing is the second best for the present fiscal year, amounting to $12,203,619.96, or close to the $18,- 000,000 high record of April. The total is $2,884,833.26 in excess of the record for November last year. For the eight months of the fiscal year the total Customs revenue has been $04,728,097.79, an increase of $32,440,- 348.78. research and utilize | GERMANY IS READY T0 DISCUSS PEACE Terms Guaranteeing Existence and Future of Nation Are Required. A despatch from Berlin says: --In an address to the Reichstag on Wed- nesday, in introducing the Man power Bill, Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl- weg again announced that Germany was ready to end the war by a peace guaranteeing the existence and future of the nation. - In presenting to the Reichstag the bill for the national auxiliary service (providing for com- pulsory service of civilians for war purposes), Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg made an address in regard to the military situation, and the pur- pose of the bill. It was the Chancel- lor's sixtieth birthday, and his desk was decorated with chrysanthemums. "The war continues, with its de- structive forces," the Chancellor said. "Accordingly our enemies desire it, They celebrated the past Summer as a period of victory. But did they ob- tain what they wanted? Our lines! are unbroken and Rumania, through' which a great change of events was expected, is now atoning for what she | did. God has helped us up to the present. He will help us further." tees FOE FORBIDS NEUTRALS TRADING WITH ALLIES. Fresh Effrontery Contained in a State- ment Is#ued at Berlin. A despatch to The Wireless Press| at London on Friday from Stockholm reports the issuance of an official statement at Berlin regarding the acquisition of supplies from Entente sources by the Scandinavian countries and Holland. The German Govern- | ment, according to this statement, is firmly resolved not to allow Sweden,' Norway, Denmark or Holland to con-| tract through the medium of Great: Britain or other Entente powers any | D purchase of provisions or raw mater- ial the acquisition ~of which would Lin tend 'to deprive Germany of these necessaries. OVER 100,000 BELGIAN WORKMEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEPORTED Are Being Starved in German Camp in Attempt to Make Them Sign Work Contracts. A despatch from New York says: -- Pierre Mali, .the Belgian Consul in New York, made public on Thursday night the following cable message re- ceived from Carton de Wiart, Belgian Minister of Justice, at Hayre, France: "According to the last information zvoelved here more than 100,000 Bel-|a : workmen have already been "th out of their homes and taken Shao slavery in unknown places. The mothers, wives and children who want to retain them are driven back by the Germans and are torn with despair. bread, through the Bis Govarsments to 10,000 of these tes actual- ly kept together in . u Camp, and 'the Germans are 2 Solan them with starving system to fry to get them 3 sign work contracts, What do the American people, whose Belgian Sofie work i io) Lk into serious danger, think onts--No. 2 white, WS ht No. 8, do., 62 Ontario, RO Ea {3a Pn Ed o, frei ink Pk ai 50 to $1.42, according uts! r--First patents, in jute nd Jo. $9.70; #tro Fv 'oron Ontario flour -- > Winter, according to sample, $7.65 fo. 7.76, in bags, . | Toronto, rotupl-sl pment. M ter Dell vered Mont- real sian hts, b uded, on $32; bags" incl $36 to 37 lito white, per ton, iw do: good feed flour, per bag, hs 2. 8; y Prod 'Wh Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 40 to 43¢c; creamery prints, 46 to 48c; solids, 44 to 44jc. No. 1 storage, 41 to 42c; stor- age, selects, 48 to 44c; new laid, in car- tons, 68 to Joss. out of cartons, 56 to §7c. Cheese--! e, 24 do 24%c; twins, 24} to 2380 tri triplets, 24 Live pou 15 to 16e; fowl, 13 to l4c; ducks, rN to 16c; tur- keys, 2b to 28c; geese, Spring, 14 to 16c. ressed poultry--Chickens, 21 to 23 ic; fowl, 17 to 19¢; fy, 18 to 20c; squabs, per dozen, $4 to § 50; gL keys, 80 to 8G¢; Sesde, Spri , 17 to oney--White aa 23-1b. tins, 13 to 1340; 5-1b. tins, 18 to 13jc; 10-1b., 1 to 13c; 60-1b., 12 to 124; buckwheat, 60- 1b. tins, 9 to 'oie. Comb honey -- extra fine and heavy weight, per dozen, $3; lect, $2.50 to $2.75; No. $2.25 t 0 $2. %0. Mincemeat-- Fails 28 Ho 10 to 12¢; o 11e. 0 per bag, $3.2 British Columbia Rose, per bag, $2.10 5 2.35; New Brunswick Delawares, per $2.36 to $2.40; Prince Edward Tsigna Whites, per bag, $2, track To- ronto. Cabbages--Man,, per on, $45. Beans -- Imported, hand-picked, per bushel, $6 to $6.25; Canadian primes, $5 to $5.50; Lima, per lb, 9 to 10c. Provisions--Wholesale. Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 24 to 26c; do., heavy, 22 to 28c; cooked, 83 'to 3bc; roils, 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, Li to 27c; backs, plain, 26 to 27¢; bone- less, 28 to 29c. Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent less than cured. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 18 to 18jc per 1b.; clear bellies, 18 to 18io. Lard--Pure tard, tierces, 19% to 20c; tubs, 20 to 204c; pails, 20% to 204c; com- pound, 16% to 1 160. Cooking oils -- White, tlerces, 16ic; 100-15, tins, 16%c; yellow, &c below white, Montreal Markets. Montreal, Dec. 6--Corn, American No. 2 yellow, $1.12 to $1.14; Oats --Canadian Western, No. 2, 69jc; No. 693c; extra No. 1 feed, 68%c. Barle 3, Se: feed, 1.06; malting, $1.30. our -- Man. pring wheat Jatents, firats, $10.30; se- conds, $9.80; strong bakers', $9.60; Win- ter tents, choice, $10; Straight rollers, to $9. 20; straight rollers, tes to $4.7 Rolled oats -- barrels, 7.45; bags, 0 1bs., $3.60. Bran--3$30. horts, Bi middlings, $35 to $37; ' mouille, $40 to $46. Hay--No, 2, per i ton, car lots, $13. Cheese--finest west- erns, 26 to 264c; finest easterns, 24 to 24jc. Butter, choicest creame 43% to 44c; seconds, 424% to 43c. aE Fresh, 60 to 6bc: selected, 42c; 1 1 stock, Fie No. 2 stock, 2 Poiatoes-- Per lots, $1. $1.90. ea og Fo Abattolr Killed, Je. 50 to $16.75; COUN, $15.75 to $16.2] Winaipos sain, Winnipeg, Dec. 5.--~Wheat, No. 1 Nore thern, 9 No. 2 Nat $1.88; 8 Northern, si. 88; No. 4, $1.66%1; Ko 5 1.403 No. 8, 3 403. Oats--No. WW. Ofc; No. 8 C.W., 694c; extra No. 1 feed, 594c: No. 1 feed: b8§c; No. 2 feed, 6Tic. Barley--No. 3 , $1. 06; No. 4, Joc; , Tejested. 82c; feed, 82c. Flax--N $2.584; No. 2 C.W., $2.55. United States Markets. Minne pol, Dec, 6.--Wheat, Decem- Der LR ay, $1.84. Cash, No. .1, $1.83} to $1.864; No. 1 Norther ha Th to $1.824; No. 2 Northern, $1.74 | to $1.804. Corn--No. 3 yellow, 86 to 87c. i Oats--No. 3 white, 50% to blc. Fron: anchanged. Brad, § $27.60 to $28. uth, 0. 1 hard, $1. on No. 1 Northetn, t, 1.82; No. 2 Nor- | thern, $1. e to $1.79; December, $1.80 seed arrive, Novembe: Der $2, bs 2.704; $2.774; 74; May, $2.84. a. Stock Markets. Toronto, ec. 65.-- Butcher heavy, to $8.7 r choice, st 0 to $7. $0; d 16 7.50; oo Flediu $6. 50 to $6.90; do., comm $5. ; butchers' bulls, choice, Tet 52 Bd $7.50; do., good bulla, | 6.40 to $6.50; do., rough bul 8 $4.50 t B: "buterters own, chote 3s. 26 to "i goiso 80; osha ers, Rae mies ters, 3 > $4 C90; miikers, choice, each, Ms Ba Jus: £5; common and m, Tig ht ewes, 8.75 to 7.26 to 3ibo; choice, do. medium, 8, 5. 30 to $9. fogs sh gh gra. 30, adn ana, to WiLeh! RUMANIAN J] T STC HELS issued by the International ow glia" 175; No. 3 do TE to] A dopaich from Rome sey xo | Ru. track | po! | AUSTRIAN AMBASSAD MAY BE GIVEN SAFE CONDUCT Impression in London That Request From the Washington Gov- ernment May Prevail. ' A despatch from 1 says: A strong impression prevails here that Great Britain will grant the re- ie i quest from Washington for reconsid- eration of the refusal of a safe con- duct to Count Tarnowski von Tarnow, the recently appointed Austro-Hun- garian Ambassador to the United States. OR TO US. as forwarded by Reuter's correspond- ent, says the Austro-Hungarian Gov- ernment did not .make the appoint- ment of Count Adam Tarnowski von Tarnow as Ambassador to the United States until after assurance had been received from the United States that a safe conduct for the Ambassador would be forthcoming. THE FUND'S NEW PRESIDENT. Duke of Devonshire Becomes Chief Executive of Patriotic Fund. The new Governor-General, the Duke of Devonshire, has manifested his interest in the work being carried on by the Canadian Patriotic Fund by consenting to become the President of the Fund. This position was held by the Duke's predecessor, the Duke of Connaught, from the inception of the fund until his 'departure from Canada and the present position of the fund in national confidence and financial strength is largely due to his inspiratien and personal devotion to its interests. The new Governor- General evidently proposes to take the same active part in promoting the welfare of this great national under- taking. > ---- GERMANS INCREASE LEVY ON BELGIUM. A despatch from Paris says: The German- authorities have issued a de- cree imposing a further payment of 10,000,000 francs a month on Belgium, according to a Havre despatch from Havre. This is additional to the ex- isting levy of 480,000,000 francs. The despatch says that the provincial councils have been convoked for De- cember 2 in order to approve the new ------i - 130 SOLDIERS KILLED : IN JAPANESE WRECK A despatch from Toki says i-- hnudred and thirty young soldiers have been killed in a collision of a freight train with the train on which they were being conveyed to Aomori, a seaport on the north coast. ] NEW MACHINE GUN. Allies Getting it--Can Fire 1,500 Shots Per Minute---Make 200 a Day. A despatch from New York says: -- The New York Sun on Thursday morn- ing says: "A satisfactory test was made yes- terday afternoon on a capable of firing fifteen hun shots a minute, and so easily handled that a little girl can manipulate it. The test was made for the benefit of re- presentatives of the British and French Governments, for whom the new death-dealer is intended. The gun is of a new pattern manufac- tured by the Marlin Arms Company of New Haven, Conn. The gun is fed from a long tape to which cartridges are attached, pass- ing through the weapon from side to side while the gun is in action. The cartridge used is of .762 millimetres diameter. The weapon has a range of 8,000 yards, and is said to be par- ticularly well adapted for use on air- planes, for its weight is only about that of the average rifle. sm -- PRISON POPULATION SMALLEST FOR YEARS. Prohibition, Opportunity for Employ- ment, Enlistment Have De- creased Crime. A despatch from Ottawa says: The penitentiary and prison population of the Dominion is now smaller than it has been for years. Prohibition, em- ployment conditions, and the enlist- ment of the "adventurous spirits" in the war have combined to decrease ils. Practical- t the "slack been on for months. OT oar ae tain Penitentiary in Manitoba, for instance, there are not enough prison- A telegram received from Vienna, | pose Entente Powers generous in return for a free and South America, Lotd Robert Ce- cil said: 'Of course, it is well known that Germany had very definite ambitions in central and South America even be- fore the war, but I am unaware of any peace having been offered us on the terms mentioned by the Morning Post. We have no knowledge that such overtures ever had been made here." Firing Takes Place Betw French Sailors and ; Reservists. pl A despatch to the London Dailyy Mail from Athens, timed 11,46 a.m.,' Friday, says: "Firing has taken place between French sailors and reservists on the slopes of the Acropolis. Passengers. from Piraeus say that when passing the Thesee railroad station they wit- nessed the fighting. This, accord- ing to other information, was between French sailors and Greek troops, "A panic has begun in Athens. Crowds are rushing through the streets and shops are being closed. "Two French cruisers have entered Phaleron harbor." x Sit reet-- RESEARCH BRANCH TO AID INDUSTRIES A despatch from London ~ decided which the Marquis of Crewe, President of the Oounell, will preside. Sra.st presunt to keep the, prison fu- A dowpateh' from London says: | Sixty-six persons, a majority of them | soldiers, have been killed in a rail- {way accident at Herczechalen, The i njused aggregated 150, Ri, Tr 32 shes member of | The national industries. | TEUTON GOVERNOR OF SERBIA - KILLED IN RAILWAY ACCIDENT | Train Carrying Persons Who Attended Late Emperor's Funeral in Collision--66 Dead, 150 Injured. : the Governor of Serbia were tote Joliet. : The train was travelling Yieuna. snd Budapest with a funeral of Emperor Francis ¥9 Scgording 30 4 ielegiam fro ¢ LL a Al