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i v ' ~ A despa rom Ottawa says:--In a statement issued Thursday t Hon. W. J. Hanna, the newly-ap ed Food Controller, reviews the food gituation in Canada, emphasizes the "peed of the allies, urges economy and the prevention of waste in food, and bespeaks wholehearted public co- ' operation. Mr. Hanna's statement reads in part: "The outstanding fact of the food situation, 'which it is imperative that every citizen of Canada should realize at once, is that Great Britain, France, Ifaly, Belgium and European allies are wholly unable to supply the allied armies at the front and on the way. For nearly three years their man- power has been engaged in the direct work of war, and in some cases large areas of their most productive lands have been over-run by the enemy. Their food shortage and the food to _ supply the armies of Canada and the United States must be wholly provid- ed from this side of the Atlantic. The supply must also be sufficient to cov- er losses at sea, Australia, New Zea- land, the Argentine Republic and other countries are not now available to re- lieve the situation because of their re- U.S. TROOPS REACH FRANCE Advance Guard of Powerful Army to be Sent to War Against Germany. A despatch from Washington says: The advance guard of the mighty army the United States is prepa ing to send against Germany reached France on Wednesday night. In de- fiance of the German submarines, thousands of seasoned regulars and marines, trained fighting men with the tan of long service on the Mexi- can border, or in Hayti or Santo Do- mingo still on their faces, have been hastened overseas to fight beside the French, the British, the Belgian, the Russian, the Portuguese and the Ital- fan troops ¥n the western front. The American forces will be 8 net gain to'the allies. It will throw no single burden of supply or equipment on them. The troops will .be fed, clothed, armed and equipped by the United States.' Around them at. the camp on French soil on Wednesday night were being stored supplies that will keep them going for months, and more will follow. ITALIAN DESIGNS UNSINKABLE BOAT A despatch from Rome says:-- Umberto Pugliere, a naval engineer, has designed a new type of unsink- able cargo boat which has been accept- ed by the Italian Ministry of Marine The Revista Maritina, describing the ship, says the vessel has a displace- ment of 10,300 tons and can carry 3 sues An Appeal to the People of Canada Urging Increased Pro- fai duction--Adoption of War Menus and - a 1of to moteness and the shortage of tonnage.| Peas--No. 2. Irelahts outside. ation of Waste. "The crop of storable foods grown in Canada and the United States suit- able for shipment overseas threatens to be entirely inadequate to meet the demand unless the whole people de- termine by every means in their power, to make up the shortage. Every in- dividual is under a direct obligation to assist in rationing the 'allied forces. rote A i led-- $81; _ shorts, per ton, $38; good feed flour, There must be national self-denial and national co-operation to provide the necessary supplies. pt "Time and investigation will be re- quired to determine the best means of assuring adequate rations fy. the Canadian divisions and the allied na- tions andiarmies. But these are some measured that aré so obviously right that we ask that they be adopted at once and that the men and women of the Dominion pledge themselves to their observance. They include: "Maximum production; the largest possible consumption of perishable foodstuffs in order to liberate the storeable foods for transportation; the adoption of war menus; the prevention of food waste; the utilization and crea- tion of organized volunteer bodies to ing and conserving the food supplies." 5,800 tons of cargo. It has a double skin, the space between the inner and the outer hulls being filled with coal and other materials which is intended to protect the ship from mine or tor- pedo. REDUCTION IN U.S. COAL PRICES Coal Price Cut Follows Investi- gation Into Costs of Mining Coal. A despatch from Washington says: --An immediate general reduction of $1 to $1.50 a ton in the price of coal at the mine was agreed upon here on Thursday by representatives of the coal opergtors. This i is expected to be followed by still further decrease in |s4 price after investigation into the costs of mining coal and it is probablé that the Goyrnment will be given a still lower price than that to the general public. Hundreds of millions of dol- |y lars will be saved to the American people through this decision. The operators agreed to the imme- diate reduction at a meeting here on N Thursday after adopting a resolution by which coal prices would be fixed with the aid and approval of the Sec- retary of the Interior, the Federal Trade Commission and the Committee on Coal Production of the National Defence Council. : --pers Whatever else is neglected there should be no meglect of corn. Hay will give a light yield this'year, but if there is plenty of ensilage, the short- age in hay will not be felt. "ENEMY HOLDS DESPERATELY TO _ AVION, LAST DEFENCE OF LENS Gave Up His Trenches- Leading to Village Only Under Strong Compulsion--Canadian Heavy Artillery Pounding at Final Teuton Stand. A despatch from the Canadian Headquarters in France, says:--The enemy clings tenaciously to Avoin. He gave up his trenches, which were on a slope leading up to the village, a little over a quarter of a mile from the first houses, only under strong com- pulsion. They were dug in chalk, and our artillery observers had no dif- ficulty in seeing the effect of every shell dropped in them. His new line is immediately in front of the most westerly row of houses in Avoin. It is connected with cellars and dugouts in the village, to which the occupants can retire when heavily shelled. Strong Canadian patrols were sent out ne last night along most of the front to learn something of the conditions in this trench line. They found it strongly held by the enemy, and were unable to enter his defence. Our heavy artillery has once more taken up the work of destruction. When the Avion line is rendered un- tenable the defenders = of Lens will have but one shot in their locker. Be- tween Avion and Lens thereisa con- siderable stretch of marsh land along the Souchez. This Las been flooded and wire entsfiglements have been constructed on the eastern side of the flooded area. North of the river, during the night, enemy posts were raided by the Eng- lish Midland troops and a number of the enemy were killed and taken pris- |, oners. There, as it is to the south; the German new line is strongly held. ts tel. nominal. according] | to_freights outside, ' = : it ur--First patents, in Wi sample, $11.00 to t. delivered Montreal "0 Petra No. 2, per ton, $13,50 to mixed, per ton, $9 to $11, track Straw--Car lots, Conntry Produce--Wholesale Butter--Creamer lids, per 1b. 36 to 53 to 36c; dairy, holesalers are selling trade at the following price large, 30c; twins, utter--Fresh dairy, ghoce, laid, in cartons, 87 to 38¢c; turkeys, 20 to 2bc.~ Live poultry--Spring chickens, 1b., '26 Honey--Comb--E askist the Food Controller in increas-|¢s7 2 Potatoes--On trac Albertas, per bag, 3 Re ew, North Carolinas, new, erial gallon, $1.76. c. oxtra fine and hea 2.75; select, $2.50 bbl, $11.60 to $12.00 Maple Syrup--Imp Beans--Imported, hand-pic to $9.50 per bush.; ewes, $8.60 to to | to $7.50; yearlings, $11 to $12.60; calves, food to choice, $13 to $15; Spring lambs, Provisions--Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 30 to do., heavy, 26 to 27¢; cooked, 41 to ' rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 33 to 36¢c; hacks, plain, 86 to 37c; bone- | 8 Long clear pacon, 25 to tubs, 27% to 27ic; pals, 274 to 2186: 141600 Jo $16.35; "heavyweights, $1 Montreal Markets 3--Oats -- Canadian extra NO. 1 feed, A Flour--Manitoba spring y do. | A cablégram received at the office of ! the Commissioner of the International Rolled oats--Bar- $9.10; doi, bags, 90 1bg, $4.36 $13; do. strong bakers', do., straight Tollers, rowers © hea - » do., finest easterns, 21%c: --Choicest creamery, 3b6c; to 2 stock, 81 to 32c. Winnipeg Grain 3--Cash _ pricesi-- No. 1 feed, 69ci Cc. 32 i: No.3 Cw. United States Markets Minneapolis, Minn, Jul y, September, $1.713; d, $2.5 $2 Oats--No. 3 white, 30,632 barrels. Bra h, M ly 3---Wheat--No: .1 Northern, $2.32; nominal. Li September, $2.95; Live Stock Markets July 8--Extrda choice heavy steers, $12.25 to ¥2.800 2 \ 0 $ holes. $11.40 to do., medium bulls, ., medium, $7.50 to o $8.60; feeders, 3 On July first Canada celebrated the. semi-centennial celebration of Con- federation. x 7' Looking back over the progress ac- complished in Canada ng those years, thé many remarkable achieve- ments seem hardly possible. The 'industries of Canada' have pro- gressed step by step as the population increased. Among the older "truly Canadian" firms {is The Williams o. Co., Ltd, of Oshawa, Ont, makers of the famous Williams New Scale Plano. : - R. S. Willams came from England "land established this concern in 1849-- 8 years ago. Canadians will feel roud to know that they have such a "truly Canadian" piano--the Williams: New Scale, which they can be proud to place in their home. >The Willlams- Piano Co. at Oshawa will be glad to send interesting points concerning the "Artist Choice" piano, free upon quest. 2 80 to $110; do., com. and med, cach: 40 to $60; Springers, $85 to $110; igh $9.60; sheep, heavy, $6.50 i to 5.40; milkers, good to choice, 16c to A6c; lambs, yearlings, $10 to $11; hogs, fed and watered, $16; do. 26; ' do.,, f.0.b, weighed off cars,. $16. $16.25. Montreal, July 3--Cholce steers, $11.50 12.00; good, $11.00 to JL; falr, 0 to $12: sheep, $7.50 to $9.00; spring lambs, $6.00 to 100; selected OKs, to $16.26 : ---- CROPS ARE SMALLER THROUGHOUT EUROPE A despatch from « Ottawa says -- Institute of Agriculture for Canada gives the following official-erop data: The wheat crop of France is pro- visionally estimated at 161,674,000 bushels, or 756 per cent. of the 1916 I | crop. Wheat production of India 879,- 090,000 bushels, or 119 per cent. of last year, and 105 per cent. of the 26,638,000 bushels, or 94 per cent. of the 1916 crop, and 108 per cent. of the five years average. cent. of average. cent. of average. Netherlands and Switzerland. investigation. mand's confidence ce in the SOVEREIGNITY OF L Teo average of the five years, 1911-15. | 2 | Japan's wheat crop is estimated at} $1.95; No. 6, $1.76. The area sown to wheat in Italy is 10,626,000 acres; 91 per. cent. of last year's acreage, and 89 per cent. of the five year's average; India 83,041,000 acres of 110 per cent. of 1916, and 108 per cent. of average; Tunis 1,310,000, or 88 per cent. of 1916, and 102 per Area sown to barley: France 1,475, 000 acres, or 95 per cent. of 1916; Italy 544,000, or 91 per cent; of 1016, and 89 per cent. of average; Tunis 1,038,000, "| or 84 per cent. of 1916, and 92 per Area sown to oats: France 6,437,000 acres, or 83 per cent. of 1916; Scot- land 1,040,000, or 106 per cent. of 1916, and 109 per cent. of average; Italy 1,- '$611 0,000, or 130 per cent. of 1916, and ; | 92 per cent of average. The cofidition of cereal crops on June 1st was good in Ireland and Italy, average in India, Egypt, and moderate in France,.Great Britain, Luxemburg, 'A despatch from -Amsterdam, says: --Detalls of the miners' strike in Luxemburg, which the Germans sup- pressed, have reached the Telegraaf. Over two-thirds of all the Luxemburg workers -struck at the beginning -of June. The workers demanded a share of the enormous war profits of these mines from work fof" the German , |army. The Luxemburg Government to | warned the people that the Germans §1 : ; would send troops fo prevent disturb- ances, and that the troops would be quartered on the population. In June 16 per cent. of the miners at Dodelange struck, whereupon the Germans is- sued a threatening notice to all towns in Luxemburg forbidding meetings BRAZIL REVOKES' NEUTRALITY DECREE South American Republic Lines Up on the Side of the Allies. A despatch from Rio Janeiro. says: IGNORED AGAIN BY THE GERMANS Sent Belgian "Slaves" to Replace the, Strikers and Threatened Residents With Summary Execution. ever before. 7 x and declaring that the demonstra tions would be suppressed by force of arms and the leaders arrested for treason and tried by court-martial. The Luxemburg Government pro- tested strongly against the new at- tack against Luxemburg soverelgnity. The Germans replied with "slaves" from the Etappe region, compelling them to replace thel strikers. The . following day 1,000 more deport&d Belgians arrived at Luxemburg, The strike leaders were summoned before the military governor and flatly in- f formed with menacessthat the strike y must cease. The~following day the \ strikers, whereof §0 per cent. were 3 without food, capitulated. SERB TRAITORS WERE EXECUTED > Army Officers Hatched a Plot i to Overthrow the Present a Regime of Serbia. Be A despatch from Salonica says: Several executions took place in the --Brazil has revoked her decree of neutrality in the war between the En- tente Allies and Germany. Although no anndundement has been vouchsafed as to whether the South American republic will actually enter hostilities by its revocation of neutrality it definitely aligns itself formally on the side of the United States and the Entente. wv. S. RED CROSS TOTALS $114,000,000. A despatch from Washington says: Henry B Davison of the Red Cross War Council, who has been in charge of its seven-day campaign Tor $100,- 000,000 for war relief work, on Tues- day announced the success of the pro- ject. The subscriptions received ag- gregated at least $114,000,000. CANADIAN TROOPS / A despatch from Canadian Hea On the north our hold upon advance of the heavy enemy shelling. outskirts of Salonica on Wednesday. Col. Dimitrievich, Major Vulovich and ; an Austro-Hungarian volunteer, Malo- N\ babach, concerned with many others in a conspiracy of a Serbian secret society to overthrow the present regime of Serbia and substitute an oligarchic form of government, were shot. : Many others implicated received long terms-of imprisonment. ' --tlpee TIMES RED CROSS FUND : EXCEEDS $35,000,000 "- A despatch from London says:-- The Times' fund for the British Red Cross and Order of St. John on Thurs- THER WAY THROUGH AVIER: Second Attack in Twenty-four Hours--Advance by Way of Laby™, rinth of Ruined Houses--All Objectives Are Attained. quarters «in. France says:--Fighting their way forward, amid a labyrinth 'of ruined houses, over which the smoke of battle hung densely, the Canadians at sundéwn on Thursday night were more than half-way, through Avion. The attack, which was the second in 24 hours, was made in conjunction with the British troops, all of whom reached their objectives. Hill was made absolute by the gallant | damaged. Our guns did much coun- h cn lars who | ter-battery work to 'the east of Lens, went forward without check, despite day passed seven million pounds. FIGHTING The German trenches on the east ern side were occupied within-half an hour after the attack began. Through- out the day there had been ir.cessant artillery activity. The Germans kept Coulotte and Lens-Arras road under shrapnel fire throughout the afternoon, evidently to make difficult .the as-/ semblage of troops for a further ad- vance into Avion. : : Their fornger front line, on the out- skirts of Avion, was also hammered with high explosives and considerably where most of the eremy's guns are now located