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Was Carrying 2,179 Soldiers, of Whom 1,912 Were Rescued. 8+ dead on both "| England Medical Board last month. _ --e eens he A despatch from London says:-- | dropped Five German aeroplanes were brought | A despatch --QGeneral Mannerheim, Foland. | nd | ~| tion a ---- NDREDS OF CANADIANS BEING RETURNED "A despatch from London saysi-- comb' continues working among N Canadians in England, three hunderd, "Dressed men last month were sent to reserve the Canadian Medical Service. thousand Canadians in were examined again by the Over FIVE HOSTILE MACHINES : SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH British aerial operations are report- ed in an official statement as follows: "Nearly five tons of bombs re] Tuesday on hostile targets. | down in air fighting, and 'four were driven down out of control. . A hos- tile observation balloon was brought down. Four, of our aeroplanes are missing. "One and a half tons of bombs were dropped at night on an air- | re south-east of Cambrai and on enemy billets." io DESPARATE BATTLE BETWEEN WHITE AND; RED GUARDS from - Stockholm says: of the Government forces in that were organized to enfo the | authority of the Finnish Diet, has de- feated the Finnish Red Guard and the; Russians at Uleaborg, and taken pos- | 3, gession of the city. This is the most important victory as-yet scored | $20 by the White Guard, as Uleaborg was the chief military depot of the Rus-|{ siang in Northern Finland, and con- |" [tained rable storés of ammuni- ery. Military observers now ntly predict that the whole of N pe ha e of Uleaborg lasted -two days, and there were several hundred \ trp tn 2 BRITISH NAVAL JORCES. BOMB OSTEND MARINE YARDS pac trom Kriss 'naval' 'have bombard od Ostend, sestsding Xo a despatch| ' were. : seer © ST! Pot oes War $2.2 and: $2.35; Ontarlos, bag, "Se. 10 to $2. we o|tubs, 29 to 294e: xed, $1 ide | EEE i Gary, Eothered eggs, §0 to §2¢; TA 2 to 380; | te tor rs ih Wholesalers ise to the retafl trade at the 'tollo gol eese--New, large, 23} to 24c; twins, 23% to 1, surly © cheese, 263 to ry oe cholce, 38 on Ban. ne=3g t 32¢. w laid. in cartons, 86 jo Toei 700; storage. 49 to 60c; seldot st 5 to 63%. ultry--Spri chi ken 0 Diane mitk-ta chickens, | 3 owl, ie to 80c; turkeys, ducks, Spring, 7 to 30c: irkeya, 300; 26c; oi i to 100; Keese, 27 to to 26c; | wh : The Bothwell Parish School Board have granted to all the teachers in their employment a flat increase of The Military Cross has been awarded Major Wolfe Murray, Gordon son of Commander Wolfe Murray, Tain. After thirty years' service, Inspec- tor James Butler has retired from ation of Great Britain have ated lished a branch in Glasgow. It is Stated that the Secretary for [Scotland is gonsidering the purchase il the Island of Lewi William Urquhart, of Autchterarder, has been appointed inspector under FE (ha bon apple" oe i 60's, 20c. hand-picked, bush, ed, picked, get 5 to $7; Japan, $§ Liman 170 © 18fc. bag, to - Provisions--Wholesale - Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 33 to 34c; do, heayy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 44 to 6c; roils, 28 to 30c; breakfast bacon, 40 18% ie plain, 43 to 44c; bone- less, 4 Cu clear bacon, 28 to 290: leap Di bellies °3 to q--- lard, tlerces, "389 to 290; ils, 29% to 29%c; ie 0 26c: tubs, 264 | compound, tierces, 2 to 26ic; palls, 26 lo Montreal 3 Markets Montreal, Feb, AT als Canad Western, No 33 extra No. 1 toad, | fl.oz No, 3 local whites $1.00); No, § 0. §94c; No. do: 9840, Flour-- ani toba Spring ee tents firsts, i 80; do., seconds, $11 10; 10.90; st: fhe rollers, "bags; $6. 26 to 5.40. Roll of 90 lbs. $65. 30. 1 | 11 ifeed--Bran: shorts, $40; $48 to Fsbo: moultiie. 368 to 364. Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50 to, Cheese--Finest westerns, 21ic: 21ic, Butter--Cholcest creamery, 474 to 48¢; seconds, 46) to 47c. Bggs--Fresh, b8c; Selected, b2c; No. 1 stock, 48¢c; No. 2, 6c. Pota-~ toes-- Per bag, cyr lots, $1. %0 to $2.25. | har innives one eb. Oats--No. 8 § Barley-- , 3 54; Tejected ad 1 N-W.C, $3.2 N No. $, do.,-$3.18. United States Markets Minneapolis, Feb. . 12--Corn---No. yeHow, - $1.75 to $1.80. Oats--No. 2 White: '883 to -843¢c. Flour--Unchanged. , Tat uth, Feb, 12--Linsead--On track, | 3.088 nN $3.674; to arrive and May, 3.354;, July. $8.80 bd: October 33.163: Flax-- $8,234: Live oo Markets Toronto, Feb, 12-<Extra cholce heavy Sieery. 11.25 to Fry 90; do., good heavy, 0 HY; Jutcherd, cattle, «<holce, do., $10.2 § fo. $10.50; o., $9, 80" to 5. 6 8 mon, $8 to 38.50; butchers' fi gt 9.50 to $10; food m bulls, 3 o to $8; 9; do.. mediu rough bulls, $5. 36 to 85 : "butchers cows, Choice, $5.50" to $8.60 9; do. medhur, %. 76 to £00 00; | stocker $7.60 to $8.50; fee ggrs oh 0; fannsra and ih: $5.78 to 5.26. 3 a to Shotes, $90 to $125; do, gon, and med. $65 to $89: springers, to Ino; Na co ewes. a: 60 to $14; sheep. eRvY, Jeariings. $11. TT to $12.75; ae. 5; calves, good to choice, is > His: hogs, fed and , watered, $18.76 ghed off cars! $19; do. fob, $17. 75. em mes Sel ie GERMAN CITY BOMBED- BY FRENCH AIRCRAFT com- A despatch from I Paris says:--"On February 5, "one of our bombing| escadrilles flew over Saarbrucke, | | dropping 8,610 kilograms of projec- | tiles, Attacked by several groups of | enemy aeroplanes, our crews 'accepted | battle and brought down three German | machines and then returned intact to! theit own lines." . rd ee pr Sponge cake can be made with pota- the Fret a sin in the --_----_ Colonel R. Balfour Graham has been appointed to take charge of the Craiglockhart War Hospital. Rev. Jacob Sykes, Seaforths," and son of Jack Sykes, Fochaber, has been awarded the Military Medal. W. D. Esslemont, advocate, Aber- deen, has been appointed secretary of the Aberdeen Granite Association. Sergeant James Main, son of Alex. Main, Lossiemouth, has been awarded , the Military Medal for gallantry. Robert Brown, secretary of the Scot- tish Miners, and twenty-one years a councillor, has been re-elected provost an of Dalkeith. The Women's Emergency Corps Hospital Supply has raised over £200 by a sale and entertainment given in Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, All the school boards of Caithness have adopted a minimum salary for assistant teachers, commencing at £80. The late Dr. Archibald Campbell, of Perth, has bequeathed £12,000 to Aberdeen Mnivepsity for the advance of medical wor Miss K. M. Robertson and Miss F. M. Robertson, Nairn, are gazetted as- 8 joi ' sistant administrators in the Women's ; Auxiliary Corps. The Church Army flag day held in * Glasgow recently realized the sum of £878. The sum of £637 was realized. on a 8 children's flag day held in Edinburgh | { cently. He was one of the and Leith. Over £70 was realized at a military | concert given in Brora in aid of war charities. N Sr ee tpet---- IMPORTATION OF CORN TO SATISFY ALL NEEDS Andespatch from Ottawa says: -- Ts | The Food Controller has announced: | that arrangements had been made with the authorities at Washington, | under which the United States War Trade Board has apportioned to Canada sufficient corn to meet the monthly requirements of this coun- try. This corn will be moved just as quickly as the transportation situation will permit. The Bureau of Licenses of the Food Controller's office, in turn, has apportioned 'part of this corn among Canadian importers in accordance with their monthly needs, so that in future these importers will not be required to secure a separate import permit for each purchaser. rere rns 12 NORWEGIAN SHIPS * SUNK IN JANUARY A despatch from Washington says: --A cable despatch to the Norwegian Legation from Christiania, says that during the month of January 12 Nor- wegian vessels, aggregating 18, 805 gross tons, were 'lost by the war," and eight Norwegian seamen ---- ea---- lives. Solving the Mysteries of From The Middle West BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- TISH COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys ond Girls Are : Living. Medicine Hat's bank clearings for 1917 were close to thirty million dol- lars. Edmonton must borrow a million and a half dollars for current ex- penditure. G. D. Venini has been elected chair- man of the Calgary Separate School Board. Controller Gray, Winnipeg, wants to have a complete building inspec tion of the whole city. The province of Saskatchewan col- lected during December almost $100, 000 for the Red Cross. W. J. Dyson, Calgary, has been elected president of the Alberta Great War Veterans' Association. - nipeg, is home on furlough, but ex- pects to return to France shortly. Ww. Mitchellton, Sask., was burned re- cently, the loss being about $20,000. The dates for the annual conven- tion for rural municipalities of Sas- katchewan have now been set as March 6, 7 and 8, to be held in Moose Jaw. Sergt.-Major Adams and Knight rounded up 18 defaulters of the Military Service Act in Moose Jaw in one evening. Ten claimed to be American and one claimed to be a German, J Twenty-five thousand "teen age boys will be raised by the Y.M.C.A. of Saskatchewan in the campaign or- ganized by the national council of the Y,M.C.A: to aid with the crop this year. F. A. D. Bourke, a pioneer rancher in the Battleford district, died re- earliest { members of the R.N.W.M.P,, and held also the post of farm instructor to the Indians. Efforts are being made by the Saskatchewan Department of Agricul- ture to have grain screenings ground at Saskatoon and Moose Jaw in the Government 'elevators in order to pro- vide feed for live stock breeders. It is announced that the Manitoba i department of public works will short- |ly call for tenders for the erection of 'a deaf and dumb institute at Tuxedo Park, Winnipeg, to cost in the neigh- borhood of half a million dollars. Nineteen million three hundred and eighty thousand bushels of whéat are peg, showing a big decrease compared to the -same week in 1917, when 33,- 887,000 bushels were stored. ees pr ee Easy. The lieutenant was instructing the squad in visional training. "Tell me, Number One,' he said "how many men are there in that trench-digging party over there?" "Thirty men and one officer," was the prompt reply. "Quite right,' observed the lieuten- ant after a pause. "But how db you know one is an officer at this dis- tance 7 lost sir" A ------------ "Cos he's the only one mot working, Lieut.-Col, 8S. W. Prowse, of Win- . Pritchard's general store at 1 Sergt. stocked in elevators west of Winni- of the Machine Gun, Men in this branch of the service have become so effi nt a can assemble and dissemble their guns, while blindfolded. , a thy NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cia! Werld. The Margate Education Committee are supplying penny dinners for needy thildren. It is proposed to give London fire- men an increase of fifteen shillings a week until after the war. King George's Fund for Sailors has now reached the sum of £250,000. The Lord Mayor of London's Hali- fax Fund has now reached the sum of £58,000. Two million cups of tea are given every week by the YYM.C.A. in Frahge and Flanders. There are now 5,063 prisoners of war working ip agriculture, and 1,400 | more are to be employed. There are 8,150 British Red Cross | ambulances now at the front and | twenty tons of spare parts are sent from England every week. The Army Council have decided to grant military funerals, where pos- sible, to discharged and disabled sol- diers. The Tyneside works suggest that peace terms should provide for an in- ternational shortened working day. The additional war bonus to be given to the police of the city of Lon- don will amount to £12,000 a year. Captain Batten, V.C;, M.C,, of Road Manor, Bath, who was reported miss- ing, is a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe. ! The Rev. J. Pugh Jones, curate of St. Anne's, Brookfield, Highgate, has joined the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot. Paddington Council has laid in seven hundred tons of coal tg be sold in small quantities in case of emergency. Sergeant Cooper, V.C., was present- ed with an illuminated address and £160 in war bonds at Stockton-on- Tees. . Private Thomas Thompson, Durham Light Infantry, was presented in the hospital at Ongar with the D.C.M. and Military Medal with bar, The British Government is consider- ing the formation of an all-British company for developing oilfields out- side the Empire. The Food Production Department has booked orders amolinti 0 10,000 tons of seed potatoes for planting by small growers in 1918, The school children of Hurst, Berks, have collected one ton two hundred- weight of horse chestnuts for the Governmen The Military Cross has been award- ed to Lieutenant A. Walsh, son of Mr. Walsh, Labor M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. It is not proposed to order women employed at the Ministry of Munitions to wear a khaki uniform, The London post office officials have contributed 107,000 ,razors for the troops at the front, Lord Clinton sold 5,790 acres of land in North Devon from which he realiz- ed the sum of £91,000, | A-Waterloo medal awarded to Ser geant Hugh Hines was sold at the galleries of Messrs. Glendining & Co., for £19. All the graves of Ganadian soldiers dying in England are to beg marked with a temporary oak cross. i] ws AWRULLY SURPRISED AT THE PRICE ~ ONLY $ig2e 1 DID DON'T ITs PRETTY BUY IT-- You THINK