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The King of Italy, accompanied by the Duke of Connaught, at a decoration on the Italian front. Italian Official Photo, BRITISH "STEAM ROLLER" HELD UP BY HEAVY RAINS Although Gen. Haig Did Not Reach All Objectives Planned, the 'British Assault Met With Considerable Suecess On Wide Front. A despatch from London says: For the first time since he started his series of attacks against the German | positions in Flanders, Field Marshal Haig has had to cease an operation before all the objectives set out for were attained. It was not the Ger- man guns, however, that stopped the British, It was a more than usually heavy rainfall, which started during the battle, and turned the already swampy region over which the men were supposed to pass into a veritable quagmire from which they could not untrack themselves for a forward move. The drive, as has been customary in Haig's strategy, was started in the early hours of Friday morning and | ¥ aide like the nutty of the baked wheat, hii ally when, served with hot milk, "Delicious with slicéd poacties, bananas and other | fresh fruits. © Sg Wo rd) =X Manitoba, h 'oronto, Oct. be anitol wi 2 do., $ hiv Manitoba oats--) 66¢c; Nod C.W., 63c; extra Noo 1 Hg 3c: N feed, 626. In store Fort WILL nominal; No. 8. do., $1700 $40, no according. to freights outside. Ontario wheat: New, Made in Canada, 2.175 No i Sohbet 321 No Fort Rs including "2¢. No. American corn--No. 3 yellow, Ham. pal Ontario oats--No, 2 white, 62 to 63c, minal, $2.22; basis, in store, Jaonts Peas--No. 2, nominal. Barley--Malting, $1. 16 to $1.18, ac-) cordin lo freights out: Mahit extended from near the' Toutholst 'Wood to below the Ypres-Menin road. 'At several points the British troops succeeded in gaining ground over fronts ranging up to a thousand yards, but here the rain intervened and the fighting ceased for the day. During the forward movement over the six-mile front the . British , cap- tured in the aggregate about six hun- dred prisoners. The struggle was particularly bitter to the north of Poelcapelle and around Passchendaele, - In the latter region the Germans apparently have massed their strongest array of troops, hopeful of being able to stay a fur- ther press forward by the British to- ward the Ostend-Lille railroad. FRENCH STOP ENEMY - ATTACKS German Efforts Repulsed on Verdun Front and in Champagne. A despatch from Paris says:--The official communication issued by the War Office on Thursday says:-- "During the day the two artilleries were active at various points along the front, particularly ing the region of L'Epine de Chevregny, south of the Butte du Mesnil, where our fire ar- rested enemy groups who attempted to reach our small posts, and on the right bank of the Meuse, There were no infantry actions. #In Belgium during the night we broke up 8 German attack delivered east of Draeibank against our posi- tions between Victoire farm and Pa- t farm. "On the Aisne front an enemy pa- trol which was seeking to approach our lines in the region of Cerny was dispersed by our fire. "On the right bank of the Meuse (Verdun front) in the region of Hill 44, the Germans made an attack which enabled them to gain a footing momentarily in portions of one of our advanced trenches. After a spirited engagement we repulsed the adversary and remained masters of our posi- tions." tiem SULTANATE OF EGYPT OFFERED PRINCE FUAD A despatch from ox Cairo, Egypt says: s--Although the drder of succession to the Sultanate remains to be settled, the British Agent has called upon Prince Fuad, brother of the late Sul- 'tan Hussein Kemal, to assume the dig- nity. The right of succession of the heirs of Fuad will be established by agree- oat between the Government and the 'uprising is said to have had all the HAIG'S TROOPS IRRESISTIBLE «Steam-Roller" Ts Is Right Word, Major-General Maurice Says. A despatch from London 'says: Major-General Frederick B. Maurice, Chief Director of Military Operations at the War Office, in his weekly talk on Thursday with the Assqciated Press, after an optimistic review of the past week's work onthe British front in Flanders, said: "We have every right to be confi- dent when we.see what our men have done. But the fighting is hard, and we do not think that the present se- ries of battles in Flanders is going to end the war. There is a great deal more hard fighting before us. I would say that the importance of quickly as possible and in the great- diminished, "The word 'steam-roller, which was so often used in the early days of the war in connection with the|l Russian army, is exactly the right word to chi the British ad- vance in Flanders. It is an advance not rapid, but insistent, irresistible. It goes up hill very slowly, but now it is going down hill, and battles are following each other more and, more rapidly." meeps Mutiny on German Warships revolutionary outbreak on n warships at Wilhelmshaven about six weeks dgo is reported in a Central |F Newsdespatch from Co This elements of a widespread and organiz- ed revolt, and to have been suppress- ed only with the greatest difficulty. Several mutinous outbreaks. also are reported to have occurred amorg getting the American troops here as No. est possible" numbers has not beeny $1.31 A despatch from London says: --A o soldiers at the front. These were not] ed: M of such a grave character, the de- rk Fest. patents, in jute 311. 0; '2na, do., $11; strong bak- $10.60, Toronto, tent 43 to 44c, 2, $1.75, e--No. trelants outside. Ontario flour--Winter, according to sample, $9.80, in bags, Montreal; §9.60, Toronto, prompt shipment. Millfeed--Car lots Delivered Mont- real freights, bags included, bran ton, $35; shorts, do., $42; middlihgs, 45 0 $46; good feed flour, per bag, Hay--No. L new, ae on $12 to $13; mixed, do, $9 1, Toronto. ~ Straw--Car Ad = ton, $7 to $7.50, track Toronto. according to Wh 1 y Butter--Creamery, solids, per 1b. 43} to 43c; iia" Find 1b, 48% to 44c; dairy, per 1b. Eggs--Per dozen, 3c. 'Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at th the ie Tollowing prices:-- Cheese--New, large, 28 to 28ic; twins 23% Son atc: friplets, 3 to 24c; large, 80c; twins, 30kc; triplets, 30de. Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 40 to dlc; Sfeamery prints, 45 to 46c; solids, 44 Eggs--New laid, in cartons, 51 to 63c; out of cartons, 46c. Dressed poulery-_grring chickens, 2! to 30c; fowl, 20 to 22¢c; Squabe, per dos., 4 to $4.50; turkeys, 28 to 8c; ducks, pring, 22c; geese, 16c. ve poultr y--Turkeys, 220; Spring ghickens me 200; hens, 15 to 20¢; ducks, pHing, 16; geese, 12¢. y--Comb--Extra 1 Her Ts oz, ye dl No 3 5% > $2.50, trained, tins, 2 iy an 6's, 18c per 1b; 10's, 17 to _174c; 60's, 16 to Mec. Beans--No Canadian beans on market until Jagt of October; imported hand Pigked . Hod per bush; Limas, per: lb, 0'1 botadoes: on track--Ontario, bag, $1.40 to $1. 1S Provisions--- Wholesale Smoked meats---Hams, medium, 80 to 81c; do. heavy, 36 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 420; roils, 27 to 28¢; breakfast bacon, 38 lo to H backs, plain, 89 to 40c; bone= ess to d4c. Cured 'meats--Long clear Dagon, 27% to_28c 1b; clear allies 263 to 27c. rd--Pure lard, Horses, 26% to 27¢; 268 to 27ic; A = 2740; Somnould tierces, 223 to 22§c; pails, 22} or 23 2 Wh Markets Mon Oct. ~ 16.5-Oa Wont ea, 2, T04c; No. '8, 76c; extra , 6c; No. 2 local white, 72¢; Tle. Bar) arley> patents, firsts, $11. ond strong bak eres $10.9 Winter Bn holes, NIE Si Hai rollers, $10.7 to $11.0 Fi 20 to 35.21 Jie 11 $4.00, ig $43, Mi 60: +i 11,60 AH goo." wester 21 finest hme id 1s holcest Sreamery, pioh to 46o; to Jao to Butter hel saiecied Te or No, +4 {tga 48 ta Per bag, car lots, SL. 'Winn Oct. pola Oot 4 apo) Sp Buiuth, Sot io Linseed, $3:028 arrive, $8.084; 'October 3 i002 BS Ee RIA 03; "December, -§2. ed; May, $3.02 asked: States Rr ToM, HERE COMES, THE wise] | WiLL THINK DLACKENES ~60 hve GU il No, 2 Winter, eal, the gun 8. 1 A despatch from London Nays: Am official statement on British aerial operations issued-on Thursday says: "On Tuesday and Wednesday naval air patrols attacked enemy trenches by thachine gum fire. - One pilot, being heavily shelled by anti-aircraft guns, descended and attacked the gun CTeWS, geatiaring them and "silencing Barly on Wednesday naval raids were made on the Thorout and Lich- tervelde railway junctions and trains. Large quantities of explosives were dropped. All our machines Fobgrped, » SI, PRICE OF POTATOES NOT TO BE FIXED A despatch from. Ottawa 'says:-- The Food Controller has decided not to fix an arbitrary price for potatoes. This decision has been arrived at as the result of a meeting here of repre- sentatives of the Eastern Provinces, 5} out a acting as a Sub-specidl Committee of the Fruit and Vegetables' Committee of the Food Controller's Office, Re- gistration of wholesale handlers of , otatoes has already been ordered, 'and"it will be unlawful for any per- ,son to engage in the wholesale potato business without & license. \ A re- 9 gulation is now under consideratio ! which.will require such dealers to tak H to do business, and to 'file regular reports of all their trans- actions, covering the purchase and sale of potatoes. The sub-Committee decided not, to fix the price at $1.26 per bag to the consumer, after asserting that the oo of producing a 90-1b. bag in the five Eastern Provinces was as fol¢ lows: Ontario, $1.27; Quehec, $1.60; New Brunswick, $1.85 to §1.505 Nova Scotia, $1.06; Prince Edward Island, 90 cents. To these costs must be added a fair profit to the grower, freight, and the profits' necessary to the wholesaler and retailer. lps MINISTER FORCED TO RESIGN AS RESULT OF MUTINY IN NAVY. A despatch from om. Amsterdam says: Vice-Admiral von Capelle, the German Minister of Marine, has resigned, ac- cording to the Frankfurter Zeitung. _Vice-Admiral von Capelle, who suc- ceeded von Tirpitz in 19186, announced £0 | in the Reichstag last Wednesday that a plot had been discovered in the navy 4 paralyze the efficiency of the fleet 5. (and, force the Government to mal peace. -He said that the guilty parties had received their just = deserts, and | attempted to- link Socialists with the plot: TheeSocialists and their news- papers have attacked both" the Chan=| | cellor and the Viee-Agmiral. for their statements.' HAP ola GERMAN RAILWAYS » ARE SHORT OF FUEL A despatch from London saysi| 3¢; | The German state railways ar: faced with a great shortage of fuel \and|' . | drastic limitation of traffic has begun, according to reports reaching here. The railroads propose to levy. heavy excess fares on trains so as to discourage all except unavoidable bush. 'ness journeys, A large number of y fast: trains have been elimin i a er: sted: hogs, | ET a om R qo in, J A despatch from Washington says? ir ow oir Lr "drew upon his collection of secret German diplomatic correspondence again to shed further | light upon what the Gérman Foreign Office and General Staff were doing in! this country while at peace with the United States. He gave to the public, without com- ment as usual, three brief cablegrams, disclosing: that more than a year be- fore submarine piracy drove 'America to war 'thé Berlin Government instrueting Ambassador von B to arrange for destruction of Canadian railroads and 'to use: Irish-Americans in Sartying oi on sabotage in their own country. showed, too, that von Bernsto#ff "on bp part was even at that early date seeking authority to support a sampaign to influence Con- gress. my Snel S-- $700,000,000 IN SHELLS SENT FROM CANADA A despatch from Montreal says: -- Canada has shipped sufficient tonnage of shells to the Old Country to build! nineteen bridges 'across the St. Lawzene ence, each equal to the Quebec Bridge, or sufficient to build sixtytaix ttleships, of 18,000 tons each, so 'Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Ber. tram told the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in an address on Thirsday night. 'Sir Alexander said the to value of all the munitions and supplies sent .oversess since Sept. 1914, had reached 'the enormous total of $700,- |# 000,000. The work was carried on in 400 factories in Canada, three-fifths in the manufacture of shells and two-fifths on components, basic supplips shipbuilding. ; EE a HEAVY FIGHTING IN RUMANIA WITH ALLIES TRE 'AGGRESSORS A despatch from om London says: The prospects of a return to heavy fight- ling in Rumania with the allies = the aggressors seem good. On the Ru- manian plain and near Braila tha Rus- sians have heavily bombarded ' the Teutonic allied position, while the T® Germans in reprisal shelled the - fm- portant Danubian town of Galatz, thelr shells causing several fires. On the northern sector of the eastern front near Ke the Germans, Toliow: ing a bombardment, Fin back the] ns" he vicinity St 'the Pskoff high road ] rs FRANCE. BPRODUCHS a A Gonpibth Poa om Ney |=Feanse ns Jor 4 yess been produc ells for th 250,000 Smiis DAILY | Ho York says: German Shortage of Sugar » Serious, wh Says Food Controller: i" 'A despatch from Montreal says; The possibility of the banning of the manufacture of candies, confectionery and jam because of the sugar shorts. age was hinted by Food Controller Hanna in the course of his address to the Housewives' League here Thursday, be § ' Mr. Hanna said that the amon of raw sugar avilable for the Tre- finers in Canada and the United States was so small as tobe the sub- ject of alarm in both countries. Dur-~ * ing the past ten days a crisis had des" veloped, but drastic measures | were. being taken by the Departments of Food Control at Ottawa _and/Wash= ington to insure a steady supply. Cuba, since the war began, was the world's main source of sugar, and the United States was in close contact with the Island, and Canada was not, Mr. Hanna said that a members of, his staff_had been in New x ing to secure even a mod ply, but had not succeeded. The last consignment of raw sugar for Can- ada was now on ts way. here." EE NICHOLAS ROMANOFF OBTAINS. TRANSFER 5 'despatch from Petrograd says:-- Nicholas 'Romanoff, the former 'Em- peror of Russia, and his family have been transferred 'from Tobolsk, Si- beria, to the Abolak Monasteryy four- teen miles from Tobolsk. The trans- fer was made at the request of 'the former Emperor. He complained that his Tobolsk prison had no ger in which he could exercise and also that he and his family were annoyed by the curious crowds which surrounded the house all day long. WILL BE NO REDUCTION IN PRICE OF WHEAT. A despatch from Ottawa says The . view in official circles here is b th price fixed for wheat will be un: ang: ed. While no official guarantee i en that all wheat offering will Byught ft the price, it is asserted ere need be no apprehension in Shae T don | see why there should be any f 'a reduction in the price," a. igh authority informed the Canadian Press Limited. "It is the price fixed for the erop." ---- ed | GERMAN SEAMEN ARE SHOT 2 FOR REFUSAL TO TO MAN U-BOATS | A despatch from m London says LiRe here by way - growth of 'al