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A despatch from London says: 4 'GShortly before dawn, after heavy artillery preparation, the enemy de- * livered a strong local attack on a front over a mile south of Houltholst On a great part of this front his attack broke down under the fire ..of our troops. At one point, how- ever, on the left of our line, where the attack was pressed with great deter- mination, and supported by ' troops ng flame-throwers, some of the soldiers holding our advance posts were compelled to fall back 'a short distance on a front of about 500 yards. "After severe fighting later in " the morning a counter-attack was launch- ndon says: An |e official statement from General Haig | front line, and heavy losses wére in- flicted upon them. Our positions are completely re-established. Our casu- and in the subsequent fighting were light. abl i "Sussex troops carried out a suc- cessful raid east of Laventie, and with few prisoners. Hostile artillery show- ed considerable activity at-a number of points, particularly in the neigh- borhood of Flesquieres, in the Given- chy, Neuve Chapelle and Armentieres sections and east of Ypres." Eee 1 gag » "BLACK SEA IN HANDS OF ENEMY Russian Fleet There Comprised at Least Two Super-Dread- '_ natights and Some Minor Craft. - A despatch from London says: Al- though the fate of the Russian Black Sea fleet is still a mystery, it is be- lieved that as a result of Germany's peace with the Ukraine it has practi- cally passed into Teuton hands, and with it the compléte domination of the Black Sea. At least two super-dread- naughts and a number of minor craft were comprised in the Russian fleet. It will not be surprising if these ships eventually join the Goeben. What is now considered certain is that Germany is planning to use con- siderable of her strength in the Near East, Naval men believe that Ger- many is already preparing for the rapid development of the Black Sea transport service so as to get forces into Asia Minor. With Rumania out of the war, large Bulgar-German 'forces can be used against Salonica while the German-Turkish forces oper- * ate in Asia Minor. BRITISH GAIN IN PALESTINE Gen. Allenby Makes Further Ad- vance of Three Miles .on Eighteen-Mile Front. A despatch from London says: -- British troops astride the Jerusalem- Nabulus Road in Palestine have ad- vanced their positions alofiw a front of 18 miles to a depth of three miles, War Office announced of i The text of the statement reads: > "Palestine: From Monday to Thurs- day our line astride the Jerusalem- Nabulus Road was steadily advanced. Little opposition was encountered. "Yesterday the advance was to a maximum depth of thrée miles on a frontage of 18 miles. * "On ,Wednesday night the enemy blew up his bridge over the River Jor- dan at El Ghoranieh." AE. dha REAR BRITISH CASUALTIES FOR PAST WEEK 3,343 ek A despatdh from London says: -- For the first week of March, British casualties were "3,343, the, lowest of any week for several months. The official report for the week was: Killed or died of wounds--Officers, 63; men, 628. Wounded or missing =Officers, 179; men, 2,478. The total casualties for February, ; 8 low month, were 18,961. tf ---- Production of Pleasure Altos Reduced. A despatch from New York says: Production of pleasure automobiles will be cut 80 per cent. during the pre- sent fiscal year as a war measure, ac- cording to a decision reached here on Thursday by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. The reduction applies to the entire uncompleted sche. ~dule for the year. TURKS SLAUGHTER THE ARMENIANS Every Male--Man, Boy or Baby | ~Is Being Put to the Sword, A despatch from Jondon says? "There [is evidence, based on state- ments by German Consuls, and, there- fore, hatdly to be prejudiced," says a despatch from The Hague to the Daily Mail, "that as the Turkish troops ad- vance to re-occupy Armenia they are literally exterminating all the re- maining Armenian population at Sao- |, Cured sun, on the Black Seat "Every Armenian male--man, boy or baby--was put to the sword, while similar atrocities are being perpet- rated, town by town and village by village. The handing over by Rus- sia of the trans-Caucasian district will simply mean extermination, at Ger- man instigation, or at least with Ger- man approval, of the population left BELGIAN CAVALRY Drive German Troops ' From Position' and Capture One Hundred. A despatch from Havre says:--The Belgians crushed two sharp German attacks on the night of March 5. The tion, over a front of two kilometres. It was stopped by artillery fire. The second was south of Stuydekenskerke, directed against positions held by dis- mounted cavalry. After a violent artillery - preparation, men belonging to three German regiments, all being specially picked storm troops, suc- ceeded in gaining a foothold in the Belgian line. A vigorous counter- attack made by cavalry drove them |back, with severe losses, from the positions which they had been ordered to hold at all costs. took 100 unwounded prisoners. GERMANS WATCH ~ CREW DROWN -- Norwegian Ship Sunk---Six Sur- vivors Rescued. A despatch from London says: The Norwegian steamer Havna, of 1,160 tons gross, has been torpedoed without minute. The crew of 18 had no, time to launch a boat and jumped into the sea. The captain and five survivors were landed Monday night. With five companions, Capt. Her- mansen spent a terrible night on =a raft, exposed to intense cold. They found an upturned lifeboat at dawn and managed to right her.. They had drifted about for 50 hours when res- cued by an American destroyer. One man died in delirium; the others had | their feet frozen. : The Germans. watched the men gtruggling in the icy water, said Capt. Hermansen, but did air . offer any hundred yards beyond their former | alties in the enemy's original attack |: little loss to themselves" captured am DEFEAT ENEMY: first was against the Beverdik posi-|' "The Belgians | fo warning. She sank-in less than one} ) 113 %, 8 shorts Ay ded L314 to $16" track Tor Straw--Car lots, per ton, track Toronto! Es 0, \ $8.60 to $9, --1 Country Produce--Wholesale Butter--Creamery, solids, per 1b. to 47jc; prigts, per Ib. PL to dairy, per 1b, 36 to 38c. Eggs--New laid, 41 to 42¢, Poultry---Dressed, (J 26 toy 28¢; fowl, 26 to 7c; ducks, $3 £0 24c; geese, 21 to 220; turkeys, 80 to 86c. ° Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following icon, Cheese--New, large, 23 to 23c; twins, , 5% to 26c¢; 23% to 23%c; early cheese, large-twin, 26 to 26%c. _- - utter--Fresh dairy, "choice, 40 to 41c; creamery prints, 61 to b52c; sglids, 49 to boc. Eggs--New laid, 46 to 7c; new laid, artons, 48 to 60c; No. 1'storage, 40 ©, in c to 42 oultry--Milk-fed chickens, , 47 48¢c; Dressed 36 to 370; fowl, 30 to 33c; turkeys, 40 to_4be. , Live poultry--Turkeys, 80c; chickens, 1b., 26 to 28¢c; hens, 30 to 83e, Beans--Canadian, hand-picked, bush., 3 imp. hang picked, Bur- fan, $6.60 to $6.76; Japan, $8 to $8.26; Limas, 19 to 20c. | -- Provisions--Wholesale_ Smoked meats--+--Hams, medium, 34 to 86c; do. heavy, 28 to 30c; cooked, 45 to, 47c; rolls, 28 to 30c; breakfast bacon, 40 to 42c; baaks, plain, 42 to 43c boneless, 456 to 46c. red meats<--Long clear bacon, 28 to 9¢; clear bellies,-27. to 28¢c, Lard--Pure lard, tlerces, 29% to 30e; tubs, 29% to 30%; pails, 30 to 304c; cem- pound tierces, 268 to 26c; tubs, 256% to 6ic; pails, 26 to 26jc. Montreal Markéts Montreal, Mar. 12--Oats--Canadian Western, No. 8, $1.11; extra. No. 1 feed, 11; 0. 2 local white, $1.10; No. 8 local white, $1.06; No. 4 local white, $1.05... Flour--New = standard Sprin wheat grade, $11.10 to $11.20. Rolle oats--Bags, 90 lbs; $6.60. Bran, $35 Shorts, $40. Middlings, $48 to $50. Moutllfe, $60 to $62. Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $17. Winnipeg Grain _- Winnipeg, Mar. 12--Cash i! Oats--No. 8 OW. 9940; No. 8 O.W, ¥ oe . $1.87; No, 4, $1.82; ; feed, $1.50. Fiax--No. 1 N.W.C.. i 334; No. 2 CW. $3.78%; No. 3 C.W., 3.61, 2, diy United States Markets Minneapolis, Mar. 12--Corn--No. yt yellow, $1.80 to $1.85. - Oat is Fite 02k to s9ic Flour visi \ ; wd Transportation Facilities For Gen. Pershing's. Army ° Arg Satisfactory. A despatch' from Washington says: Troops and supp for General Pershing's forces now are moving to France on schedule time, it was learn- ed on Thursday on high authority. While figures may not be published, it was stated positively that transport-: ation requirements of the army are] being met by the Shipping Board, and the immediate situation as to ships was described as satis?actory. In view of this assurance that the tain its place as a fighting unit on the battle front, reports from the Western front are being scammed more eagerly than .ever by officers here for the first signs.of the 1918 campaign. It is felt strongly that the opening of major, operations in ! | what President Wilson has predicted will prove the decisive 'year of the great war will not be much longer de- layed. Bf amma How to Restore Frozen Plants. The- proper way to. treat frozen 4 plants is to place them at. once in utter C. darkness where there is little or no artificial heat, as in a closet or cellar, and allow them to remain without light until the weather moderates suf- ficiently to thaw them... When the lants have thus thawed naturally lots. standard, $9.70 a barrel in 98 cotton sacks. Bran--$32.98, 4 Duluth, Mar, 12--Linseed--$4.11 to 4.23; arrive, $4.11; May, $4.11 bid; uly, $4.083 bid; October, $8.70 asked. = ' Live Stock Markets ronto, Mar. 12.--Hxtra chojc aM eers, $11.76 to $12; do., a 11.86 to $11.69; butchers' cattle. choice, $11.50; do., goad. $10.60 to $11; $10 to $10.26; do.,.com- 25; butchers' bull o $8.75 to $9;,de., m stockers, $7.50 'to canners and cutters, milkers, good to choice, $90 to $1 com. and med. $66 to + Spr $90 to $140; light ewes, $18.50 to , heavy, $6 to : 9.76; do., f.0.b., $18,765. Montreal, Mar, anners' cattle, $5.60 to $6 per 10Q pounds; milk-fe calves, $12 to,$16; sheep, $11 to $13; lambg, $14 to $16; cholce select hogs, oft cars, $19.50 to $20 per 100 pounds, BRITISH. CRUISER CALGARIAN SUNK oed Off Irish Coast--48 Lost Out of 610. A despatch from London says: The British auxiliary eruiser Calgarian was torpedoed off the Irish coast on Saturday last. She was struck by four torpedoes, but of the 610 persons on board all but 48 were landed at an, Irish port. The people of the same town, who a few days ago won: - the gratitude of the American people by their~kindness to the survivors from the Tuscania, have extended their hospitality in the last fi days * to nearly 500 men from the Calgarian, one of the finest auxiliary cruisers in the Atlantic service. The Calgarian was torpedoed in the late afternoon Torped Jl. "A young 5; | which was BS. | or brains. they will be found green and fresh, and then may be taken again into dhe sunlight, If they are put into a cellar they should be covered with boxes, pa- pers or carpets to'prevent the light] reaching them. It is the sudden change + | from extreme cold to heat that breaks the tissues and causes the plant to "die from loss of sap. Is Knowledge Golden? A university president was eom- o | plaining about the worship of wealth ' | that has seemed to characterize the twentieth century. an," he said, "asked me e more, estimable, riches " 'Brains,' said I, of eourse, but it sometimes seems as if in these times the only way for a man to convince people he has braifis it to get riches,"" PED AER * 'One of the surest methods of reliev- ing pain is to use hot moist applica- tions. The articles needed for this treatment are: Hot water, pieces of soft flannel twice the size of the area be made of folds of flannel, or better, of cotton batting quilted between lay- ers of cheese-cloth, and some kind of a wringer. The flannel is. wrung out by placing it in the centre of a towel and twisting the ends of the latter in opposite directions. This device can be improved upon by making a hem in either end of the towel and running sticks through the hems. By twist- ing the sticks in opposite directions 'the flannel san be wrung very dry. To apply, cover ihe painful part with 'the protector, then femove flannel from 2 wringer, test it with the back of the hand, and, if it is not too 'hot, place it under thé protector and United States will be able to main-} to be covered, a protector which may |: put it down slowly to avoid burning wp ----- + ;Danube__is - Ceded to ° 7% Central Powers. A despatch from Amstel says? A preliminary peace treaty een Rumania and the Central powers has been signed, says a despatch = from Bucharest. El LR Under peace agreement Rumania cedes the province of Dobrudja as far as the Danube to the Central powers. Ru- mania also undertakes to further the Hransport of Teutonic troops through Moldavia and B bia to Od Provinge of Dobrudia as Far as) the terms of the preliminary |' +h. Scoot An official German statement said Rumania had accepted the conditions of the Germans for gn armistice. Ap- patently the signing of a preliminary treaty followed almost immediately. A despatch from London says: The pdras SE, sn imposed by Germany upon' Rumania, it is contended here, not only definitely takes her out of the war, but places - her geographically at the economic. mercy of the en- emy. All pretence of "no annexa- tions, no indemnities," is openly aban- doned in the clause requiring "recti- fication of the Austro-Hungarian fron- tier," which involves the loss of the valuable oil fields. The cession of Dubrudja, not to Bulgaria, but to the Central Powers, suggests that" therp is a conflict in the Quadruple Alliance over the division of the booty from the spoliation of Rumania. FSSA NSE SN, FINLAND REPUBLIC BIGNS PEACE TREATY WITH GERMANY. A. ao ---- 7 A despatch from Amsterdam says: | Official announcement was made Berlin on Thursday of the signing of a peace treaty between Germany and Finland, and also of trade and ship- Ping agreements and a supplementary rotocol. ; 5 wd Pi Vo - Finland, on the conditions of the treaty, agrees to cede no territory nor showar a net. logs in | ines is not known afi ly ] however, that the ! paign has pra effective? creased efforts this Spring wil steady decrease in the pumber of « boats available to prey en 'allied ahd ~ American shipping. op AL American naval officials appear to be satisfied that the weapons with which they expect to exash final- ly the submarine menace are forth- coming. Increased numbers of patrol vessels of various types, appliances, and devices to make them more ef- fective against underwater craft, and the increased skill of navy personnel are among the things upon which they count. It has taken time to de build the weapons, but they are ginning to become available now. SACRE SSR CANADA'S NET DEBT TD 18 NOW $1,010,780,470 A despatch from Ottawa saysi-- Canada's net debt stood at $1,010,780,- 470 on Feb. 28, an' -increase during in] February of $13,251,263. The total gross debt of the Dominion on Feb. 28 was ~ $1,096,308,869. Total assets were $085,612,889.. Total war ex- penditures for the eleven months' period to the end of February was $207,849,726.. 2 x Revenues show an increase. In February, 1918, the revenue was $21, grant territorial rights to any foreign Finland's independence by all the pow- ers. The fortifications of the Aland Islands-will be removed, 7 Mower without the previous consent of Germany, who undertakes to exert, herself to Secure the recognition of 226,872, as compared wi $17,518,- 473 in February of last year. Ex- penditure on account of consolidated fund was $11,328,497 in February of = the present year, in comparison, with: $12,681,964 in February, 1917, Paerfic' oe | the patient. -Change these appli tions every Tow, tuples; do not al i help. not far from the place where the low them me cool. lies in ints at which Japan. may strike at Russia in the Far Bust Vladivostok and Harbin. Li ToM; How DO YOU WELL HELEN, | IF You Hap A LIKE THE RIBBONS WEADACHE: , ) Thin || TWAY WouLD BE A ST WAY To ADVERTISE IT (