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British Take Another Portion of di le Lens and its A despatch from London says: The Germans are keeping up with great in- tensity their offensive against the Bri- tish 'around Fresnoy and to the east of Bullecourt, but are being hard held by Field Marshal Haig's forces, The village of Fresnoy apparently remains in the hands of the Germans after its recapture Tuesday, but the Canadians and South Englanders are still holding vantage points around it, from which "the Germans are vainly endeavoring to expel them and put an end to their harassing fire. To the east of Bullecourt, where the ' British have established themselves a scant two miles from the outskirts Queant, the Germans -are striving hard to push back the British to pre- vent the capture of the southern end of the Drocourt-Queant line, which of | is undergoing a pefiod of comparative the German Trenches Defending Coal Fields, id would prove of great menace to the important town of Cambrai. The viciousness of the battle is indicated by the German official communication, hich announces that the fight for the ge is of a fluctuating nature. > The British evidently have pushed a step forward toward the capture the town of Lens, and the important coal flelds in its immediate vicinity. South of the Souchez River during a night attack another portion of the German front and support lines, to- gether with a number of prisoners, was captured. For the most part the line wher] the French are facing the Germans v calm, except for artillery duels and of the latter of which met with suec- cess. HOSPITAL WING ~ CANADIAN GIFT Queen Officiates at. Opening of New Section of Naval Institution. A despatch from London says:-- The inauguration of the new wing of the Haslar Royal Naval Hospital at Portsmouth on Wednesday by the Queen was the final achievement of a movement initiated at the outbreak of war by certain Canadian ladies. Miss Plummer, secretary of the Field Com- forts, claims to have made the original suggestion for the hospital ship, and which found the ready support of Mrs. Gooderham, Mrs, Ellen Bruce and Lady Drummond, with the result that $250,000 was collected. Of this $100, 000 was handed to the War Office for Military use. Another amount was devoted to the building of a wing to the Chatham Naval Hospital and the balance to Haslar. As the author- ities decided against the hospital ship the scheme for provinding a hospital for naval nurses was accepted. This new wing overlooking the most fam- ous naval centre of Britain bears a suitable inscription on behalf of the women of Canada. The opening ceremony by her Ma- jesty wus quiet but impressive, and Sir George Perley's speech handing it over, emphasized the magnitude of the war work carried out by Canadian women. A considerable number of Cana- dians availed themselves of the in- vitation to travel on the Royal train to Portsmouth, and they were favor- ably impressed with this permanent memorial of the Dominion's interest in the welfare of the navy. -ec.fP LOAN FOR BELGIUM \ FROM UNITED STATES | will Remove Heavy Burden From Great Britain and France. A despatch from Washington says: --The United States has arranged to make a loan of $76,000,000 to Belgium,' which will be expended by the Belgian Relief Commission. The loan will be advanced at the rate of $12,600,000 a month, of"which $7,000,000 will be available for relief in Belgium and $5,000,000 for relief in Northern France" By making the loan the United States will take the burden of -the re- lief of Belgium and France from the shoulders of Great Britain and France and conduct it from this country so far as possible. inns U.S. EXPERTS LEAVE + FOR RUSS CAPITAL Every Assistance to Russian Railroads | Will Readily be Furnished A despatch from Washington says: --Thé United States Railroad Com- mission to the Russian Government left Washington on Wednesday for Petrograd, where it will give as- gurances to the Russian national auth- . orities that this country stands ready. "to furnish all the rolling stock and other material that may be needed to ncrease the capacity and efficiency DAILY WAR COST _ 15 $37,000,000 Operations. A despatch from London says:--In the House Commons on Wednesday Right Hon. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, referring to the west front, said the rapidity of the attack had forestalled the enemy, who had to fight in the open, with heavy losses, because he had not had time to pre- | pare trenches. Since April 1-we had | taken 20,000 prisoners, 2567 guns, 227 {trench mortars. While in the first 24 | days of the Somme drive we advanced | three and one-half miles on a six-mile | front, we had now advanced from two Ito five miles on a 20-mile front, where there were twice as many German divisions against us as on the Somme, and half of them had to be withdrawn. Our casualties in the present offen- sive were from 50 toh75 per cent. less than on the Somme. Our success was largely due to our distinct artillery superiority, in connection wit which the Chancellor paid a warm tribute to the flying corps. NEW OFFENSIVE IN MACEDONIA British "Attack on Four-Mile Front and Occupy small German counter-attacks, none|* 1 pee toba uote Hy wheat: 2 Winter, car eat--No. , lot, $2.98 to $8.00; No. 3 do. 96 to 32.08" ocording to freights ou : 0! lour--Firs bags, «00; second paten bags, Hit 50; strong Abate: , $14.10, "oronto. i tario flour--Winter, according, to sample. $12.60 2 J1a.80. in bags, h shipment. . 7 Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags included--B: per ton, Ji27 shorts, per ton, $45; mi to's Hi good feed flour, per bi i ~--Extra No, 2, per ton, $12 H X per ton, $9 to $11.50, track To- ronto Straw--Car lots, track Toronto. o P= 1, "Wh J 'Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 39 to 40c; Steamery Froh 43 4 46c; solids, 42 to Cc. Eggs--New-lald, in cartons, 44 to 4bc; out of cartons, 4dc. Ta Dressed poultry--Chickens, 26 to 28¢; fowl, 24 to 26c; ducks, 22 to 26c; Squabs, Br dozen., $4.00 to $4.50; turkeys, 8 Cc. Chees hy to 28¢; twins, 27% to 283c; triplets, 28 to 284c; old, large, 29¢; twins, 293c. oney--White clover, 2i-1b tins, 143 to 15¢; 6-1b tins, 143c; 10-1b, 133c; 60-1b, 13¢; buckwheat, 60-1b tins, 10 to 10fc. Comb honey--extra fine, and heavy welght, per doz, $2.76; select, $2.60 to $2.75; No. 2, $2 to $2.26. \ Maple syrup--Imperia) gallon, $1.65 to PPotatoes--On track, Ontario, per bag, $3.76 to $4.00; New Brunswion Dela- Fas, per bag, $4.26; Albertas, per bag, Beans--Imported, hand-pieked, per bushel, $7.00; dian, and-picked, per bushel, $7.76 to $8.00; an {itmes, per bushel, $7.60; Limas, per 1b, o C. ' e--New, large, 27 Provisions--Wholesale Bmoked meats--Hams, medium, 29 to 80c; do., heavy, 25 to 26c; cooked, 40 to dle; rolls, 26 to 27c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 86c; backs, plain, 34 to 35c; boneless, 26 to oo 1 .ard--Pure lard, tlerces, 26% to 26ic; tubs, 264 to 268c; pails, 26% to 27c; com. Jound, tiefces, 20% to 204c; tubs, 20§ to 09c; palls, 204 to 21c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 24 to 26c per 1b; clear bellies, 24 to 26c. Markets ate anadian A 8c Montreal Montreal, May Western, No. 2, 87 to ; No. 8, 86 to 87e; extra No. 1 feed, 86 to 87c. Manitoba feed, $1.19 to $1.20. Flour-- Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 16.10; seconds, $14.60; strong bakers', 14.40; Winter patents, choice, $14.50; straight rollers, 14,00 to $14.30; do. bags, HE to $6.90, Rolled oats-- Bbls.,, $8.50 to $8.75; do, bags, 90 Ibs, 4.26 to $4.50. Bran, Shorts, 46. Middlings, $48 Moulllie, 52 to $67. ye 04. 2, r ton, car lots, $13 to $13.50. Butter--Choicest creamery, 423c; seconds, 41 to 41jc. 8 --Fresh, 44c; No. 1 stock,/42c. Pota- toes--Per bag, car lots, $3.75 to $4.00. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, May 15.--Cash prices: Wheat--No. 1 Northern, $2.94; No. Northern, $2.91; No. 8 Northern, No. 4, $2.74; No. b, $2.49; No. 6, : feed, $1.45. . 2 C.W,, 8l1ie; No. 3 CW, Tic; extra No. 1 feed 78fc. Bar- ley--No. 3. § 9: No: 4, $1.24; rejected, United Sinted Markets Bariey-- 1.02; feed, $1.05. Flax--No. 1 N,W.C., 3.83%; No.' 2 C.W., $3.80; No. 8 C.W., TA6h. Minneapolis, May J! $3.02; July, $2.71. ' Cash: Bulgar Trenches. A despatch from London says: -- Macedonia contingents of the Salonica successes having been scored on Wed- nesday by the British, Serbian and Russian forces. Attacking on a front of about four miles in the Lake Doiran region, Brit-' ! ish troop on one wing took Teutonic 'allied trenches on a front of two 'miles and on the other flank advanced "on a front of about a mile. At the Cerna bend the Russians carried sev- eral trenches by assault, while north "of Monastir-the Serbians occupied two ' points of SBpport and took a few prisoners. Serbian official state- ment, dated May 9, reports violent artillery duels along 'the whole Ser- | | bian front. The Bulgarians bombard- ed Monastir with asphyxiating. shells, ! { the statement adds. A number of civilians . were killed. ' ALLIED MACHINE ] _ IS IRRESISTIBLE een "A 'despatch' - from Rome says: -- Rudyard Kipling, who has been at the fr.nt in France, and Las been making a short stay in Rome, compares the British army to's machine working so perfectly that no 'human power. can arrest it. He expredses the greatest admiration for the work of the Frenéh and British, which, he says, the Ger] mans are now powerless to check. The 1 ses--the heaviest in history--which they have incurred by their efforts to do so, must end; he says, in affecting Lo the Russian and Siberian ra With the advent of Spring weather in § army have become active, separate 33-23 ' $8.26) to $3.334; No. 1 Northern, $3.01 to $2.2%% Ci h J $1.583. O Flour, fancy patents, $16.30; first clears, 14.00; other grades unchanged. Bran, 34.50 to $385.00. Duluth, May 15.--Wheat, No. 1 hard, .23; No. 1 Northern, $3.20 to $3.22; No, 2 Northern, $3.15; May, $3.20; July, $2.234 asked. Linseed, $3.60; May, $3.59; daisy $3.49; September, $3.414; October, Live Stock Markets Toronto, May 16.--Extra choice steers, 12.00 to $12.65; choice heavy steers, 11.35 to' $11.76; good heavy steers, 10.60 to $10.76; butchers' cattle, gholce, 11 50 to $11.76; do., Xood, $10.50 to 11.00; do,, medium, $9.76 to $10.00; do., common . t choice, $10.50 bulls, $8.60 to $9.00; do. rough bulls, 8.40 to $6.60; butchers' cows, choice, 10.00 to $10.76; do., good, $0.00 to 9.75; do., medium, $7.00 to $7.25; stock- ers, $7.50 to $9.00; feeders, $9.50 to 10.25; canners and cutters, $6.50 to 6.26; milkers, good 'to choice, $85.00 to 126; do., com and med. ach, $40 to 60.00; springers, $60.00 to $110.00; light ewes, $12.00 to $15.00; sheep, heavy, 8.50 to $10.00; calves, good to choice, 00 to $13.00; s lambs, each, 12. fi to $14.60; lam 16.25 $12.50 hogs, fed and water: $17.00; ; do., medium, . to ES ofr ara. i HP to $17.26; ori a RT 16.40. i ON al, May 16,~--Cholce steers, .76; good, $11.75 to $12: 5; bi 9 0 8 to $12; ol ected hogs $17.76 U-BOAT "KILLER" IS ENDORSED. A thor of Gyroscope 'Submits. Plan That Amazes Naval Experts A despatch From Washington says: 'It 'was learned Wednesday night on unquestionable authority that the Na- val Gonsulting Board has submitted to Secretary Daniels and his advisers a definite and completed plan to\ with the German U-boats which i proved a revelation to the best.tech- the morale both of the a¥my and the civil population of Germany. ° | SAY, Tom, ARE You Gong FISHING VP TO 4 |THE LAKE AGAIN TWS 1 | summer ® i Guess Tae |} BUNCH. WiLL Go "| SURE AM, IF GAR ARRANGE IT. \ eer 1 THINK OF 8 -- MBER SO Aad Gata--No official auot kia " corn-cNo. & Ww, noir, subject tariane ick To Onfarfo_oats--No. 2 white, 76 to 78e, | nominal; No. 3 white, 18" to, oma, to freights Gutside. I {border and withstood violent cour , per ton, $8.50 to $9, Te ~~ ed Bulgarian attacks south-west of first ca { inh penis ry SOULS | positions tenacious SEER SRE | West of Dolan and. of the | Vardar River Fr troops have 'ried by storm an ) ' south of Huma on the sitacks by the Bul miles to the west, and e border, the Serbians have ' : two Bulgarian works north of Pojar. In addition to inflicting heavy losses on the Germans and the Bulgarians, the Entente forces in the Macedonian theatre on Thursday and Friday cap- war, he predicted, cantile fleet would if some 50,000 prisoners and 450 guns, Attacking Germans Are Th If this is the result of defeat, then. Back at All Points With June, 1914, 8,900 vessels of gross $o1- | wo ors willing to go on being defeat- Heavy Losses. naage total 16,900,000 tons, The ed. We have kept on going and we corresponding figures in March; 1017, 34 going to keep on going. The Ar- ras offensive is much bigger than the Somme, and our next offensive will be bigger than Arras. A despatch from London says: |he said, were 8,600 ships aggregating Bitter attacks by the troops of Crown BT Bn maiste ol progres Pri Ri Germa: a ince cuppretly and Is % | was to be fealized, it would be neces- Crown Prince are being made against 4 m---- rn the positions, vital to the defences of | BAILY, he said, to provide an additional Lens and Laon, held by the British [100,000 workmen and to double the] ENEMIES OF RUSSIA and French. Field Mafshal Haig and | Weekly supply of steel, while, at the "USE DEADLY WEAPONS same time, allowing the present Ad > - General Nivelle are holding their re- he cent gains and throwing back the at- tacking Germans wit: heavy losses. South of the Souchez-River, one of the natural barriers to Lens, the Ger- mans have made a third attempt to recapture the positions taken by the British Thursday, and for a third time ave been thrgwn back, A momentary! footing lsd by Prince Rup- 'precht's men, aided by liquid fire, in the new British positions, but a bril- liant counter-attack recovered the lost Formidable Array of Obstacles to Organizdtion of New Govern- 6. ment A despatch from London says:i-- - The Morning Post has the following from Petrograd:-- While decent Russians are striving honorably to achieve political liberty by the civil methods of argument and persuasion, which, if sure, are neces- serily slow, the extreme parties-- miralty program to proceed. RUSZKY REMOVED FROM COMMAND Famous Russian General Is Superceded on the trenches and left the British line un- Anarchists and Social Revolutionaries changed. Northern Front. on the one hand, and the upholders of = SARS, A { A despatch from Petrograd says:|the old regime and agents provac- a: General Ruszky has been removed teurs, and, above all, the vast from the chief command of the army. ized 'body of ermans--are on the northern front. He remains, deadly weapors in the , st however, a member of the Council of lavishly expending money. War. | Germans... are largely real Reich- The Moscow executive committee of steucher, who have lain concealed here the Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele- or got across the frontier during the gates is opposed to the idea of a coali- revolution or through the Russian tion Government, and advocates the lines at the front during the orgy of immediate summoning of an -all-Rus-| "brotherhood of nations" which lasted sian congress of soldiers' and work- for weeks and has not yet been entirely men's delegates. y checked. To these must be added The Provisional Government will,| hundreds of German spies who were however, insist on coalition in order incarcerated in the prisons and liber- to force the Socialists to share in the ated with ordinary criminals during responsibility of the government of the first hours of the revolution, and the country. They have repeated the| unknown numbers of German prison- appeal recently issued warning the [ers of war, who have taken advantage people against anarchy and civil war,|of the newly-declared liberty of Rus- with a possible return to despotism. = | sia and of the moujik's apathy or mis- -- understanding of the situation to es- " or 8 Be termed the whole-hear: exhibition| v sadical sbiange, in' the feeding cape from Siberia and elsewliere. of enthusiasm" everywhere, that later | io y;ve stock should be made gradual --_ in a speech at the City Hall he assert- | : ace gracus™| «How did you get rid of that bore ied if those on the other side of the Jones and his prattle about his new | Atlantic could have had a glimpse of baby?" "I introduced him to Brown, it, there would be renewed determina- who has a new car." BALFOUR WELCOMED IN NEW YORK British Commissioner Was Im- pressed by Wholehearted Enthusiasm. A despatch from New York says: -- Arthur James Balfour, Great Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and members of the British commis- sion accompanying him to this coun- | try, received a welcome of amazing | proportions on thei arrival from Washington late on Friday. Mr, Bal- four was, so impressed by what he A y. ~ 'According ' to estimates made by owners of farm tractors the length of life of the machine, if used for plow- Hon to sary through the struggle at ing, increases according to the y r{ "Can she be seen?" sniggered Kath. : | of plows pulled. Better material and |leen. "Shure, an Oi think sheican; ¢ construction in the larger and heavier | she's six feet high, and four LEA STEEL SHIPBUILDING tractors is considered responsible for| Can ghe be seen? Sorra a Sidi any- DIRECTOR CHOSEN | this, bn ' -*| thing\ilse can ye see whin she's about." 4 'W. I. Gear Appointed by the Imperial Munitions Board--Govt, Action Expected A despatch from ( Ottawa says:-- 'The Imperial Munitiohs Board an« 1nounced on Wednesday night that W. I. Gear of the Robert Reford Com- pany, Montreal, has been- appointed to take charge, under the board, of steel merchant ship comstruction in Canada for the British Government. Mr; Gear will' establish an office at Ottawa, 'and will at onco assume the duties of his position. Nt is under- stood that Sir Robert 'Borden on his : : : return to Canada will at once take up fluence in this country, where hither- the question of further stimulating! to there has existed neither a Social- hipbuilding in Canada, this being one ist nor Labor party. Friday morning ¢ impe phases of twenty mbmbers of Parliament as. Canadian co-operation in war work: sembled to formulate the basis of a gees by the Imperial authorities in| Labor party, which 'adopted as pr dori Se = gramme of which the following are INFLUENCE UPON RUMANIA ~~ + OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Time Hasa Labor Party--Planks in Its Platform. = hay Country for the First bis : ary the) main points: (1) Distribution of the land among all who work the land; (2) votes for women; (8) rights for Jews who took part in the campaign of 1013 or the present war. With re- gard tothe foreign policy the Labor party asks for energetic prosecution pr the war until German militarism : ed. The new party has already A despatch from Ungeni, Rumania, says: The revolutionary movement in Russia could not remain without in-