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AA Men No A' despatch from British Head- iguanters in France says: Early y morning the Germans heav- ily bombarded with gas shells and 'high explosives west of Merris and the area around Villers-Bretonneux. There was no infantry action. Pos- sibly the purpose of these practice barrages is with a view to an early resumption of the offensive. During Wednesday we carried out a successful local enterprise south of the Ancre, advancing our front over a width of nearly half a mile to a depth of 400 yards. . e weather has improved and the airmen are doing deadly work over enemy positions. \ A despatch from French Army Headquarters says: Under the Ger- man blows the allied armies seem to be welded together as never before, There is now no point of junction at which the Germans' can thrust. The process of welding together the two armies is complete, but it will not stop there. Franco-British divisions will be moved about on a solidly-knitted front at the wish of our high com- mand as freely as German divisions. Against the enemy's territorial gains must be set the fact that he had to throw 140 divisions into battle in five weeks. A considerable number of these have been twice engaged and some thrice. Adding these reappear- ALLIES WELDED IN STRONG LINE Weak Point in Allied Chain--Foch's Reserves Equal Those of the Enemy--Preparations For Fresh Attack. ances together there is a total of 186 engagements of divisions, equivalent to a mass of two and one-half million mien whom the enemy has already put into battle. As a German division is never withdrawn until it has sust@in- ed severe losses, on an average of 2,600, it is reasonable to reckon the enemy's loss since the beginning of | the battle at not less than 850,000. The Germans began the offensive with a reserve of 650,000 in depots in France and at home. Behind these there is only the 1919-20 class, con- sisting of youths, half of whom are under 18. The enemy's genuine fight- ing reserve is thus half exhausted be- fore he has covered anything like half the distance to his goal. His reckless employment of divisions has left him with a total of 66 out of 206 in France| which have net yet been engaged. of these 12 are Landsturm divisions, which cannot be used for the purpose of an offensive. The Germans thus can have little hope that the remain- ing 60 divisions can accomplish what the first 140 failed to achieve. Already the German staff is most anxiously realizing that their re- not serves of fresh troops are greater than those under General Foch. 'We have been profiting by the lull to prepare to meet any fresh enemy effort. AUSTRALIANS ENTER ESSALT 850 Prisoners Taken in Palestine Advance. A despatch from London says:-- The official statement dealing with military operations in Palestine, issu- ed on Thursday by the War Office, reads: "On Wednesday morning while our infantry moved to attack the enemy in the foothills south and south-east of [Es-Salt, Australian mounted trogps entered Es-Salt, capturing 33 German and 817 Turkish prisoners. "In the course of these operations a mounted brigade debouched to watch the Jordan crossings was at- tacked by a superior force of the enemy, which had crossed the river during the night, and was compelled to fall back: Horse artillery batter- ies supporting this brigade, in the most difficult and broken country, were obliged to abandon nine guns which could not be saved, although the detachment and horses were safely withdrawn. Necessary support-for this detached brigade was immediate- ly forthcoming, and the operations are continuing. : "West of the Jordan local enemy at- tacks at several points were repulsed during Tuesday night." D E---- * End The amount realized by Paisley's Red Cross week was £5,600 after defraying all expenses. A LEEBRUGGE CANAL STILL BLOCKED German Efforts to Free It Are Without Avail. A despatch from London says:--It is established, according to a high naval authority, that the entrance to the Zeebrugge Canal is still. effective- ly blocked. Although the Germafis are trying hard to free it, they have made no progress in the work as yet. Mean- time, the anti-U-boat warfare has pro- duced satisfactory results during the past week, although the weather con- ditions in the North Sea have been unfavorable for such operations. " Ba ROBBED OF CLOTHING IN BERLIN STREETS A despatch from London says:--So acute is the scarcity of clothing in Germany that men and women are being attacked daily by ruffians in the streets of Berlin and stripped of their garments, according to German news- papers received here. Tt is said that one insurance office 'alone in Berlin is notified of an average of 200 thefts daily. Thread for mending clothing is said to be virtually unobtainable. Commenting on the food situation in Germany, the papers intimate that the hope entertained of speedy relief from the Ukraine has been dispelled. GERMANS ABANDON: ATTEMPT T0 TAKE YPRES; SUCCESSFUL FRENCH ATTACKS "- French Troops Capture Tactical Position Near Amiens--New Thrust For Arras--Lens Sector in Preparation. A despateh from" London gays: Signs are hot wanting that the Ger- man masses, checked by the British in their drive fdr the Channel ports in the novth, are assembling reserves for another stroke further south. On Thutsddy "hight ~~ and Friday the Germatidrtillefy had seemingly centred its firé onthe line: between Givenchy and the Nieppe forest, and it may be that the enemy soon will launch an' attack against this vital section of the British line. Despatches from the British head- quarters tell of a tremendous cannon- ade in the Lys region, which may be taken to mean the part of the Fland- ders. battlefield at or near Merville, where the Germans made their great- est advances after the fall of Ar- mentieres. Articles appearing in German news- _ papers would seem to indicate efforts to prepare the German people for an immediate attempt to take Ypres. Experts, writing what may be con- sidered inspired reviews of the situa~ tion, say that nothing would be gain= ed by the capture of the ruined city. This may mean that the Germans will turn their attention to some other part of the front for a new effort, and the bombardment of the lines near Mer- ville and further east may be the first step in an attempt to fotce a British retirement from the: Arras-Lens sa- lient. So far as known, no infantry fighting has occurred in this sector in the past day. While waiting for the Germans to make the next move, the allies have not been .idle. All along the line their patrols have been active, and at Hangard and Villers-Bretonneux, before Amiens, they have taken tactical positions from the Teutons. One of these positions was Hill 82, ment north of Castel, a height which af- forded good observation of the allied communication lines. 5 A despateh from London ss Havelock Wilson, president of British Seamen's during the war. Sea murders sunken. ships should not live to tell the tale, AE AUSTRALIANS AND CANADIANS Markets of the World Toronto, May:--Manitoba Wheat-- No. 1 Northern, $2.28%; No, 2 dog $2.20%; No. 8 do. $2.17%; No. 4 2. ; in store Fort Wil- lam, including 2%c. tax. Manitoba Oats.--No. 2 C.W., 86¢; No. 8 C. W., 88%c; extra No. 1 feed 83%c; No. 1 feed, 80%c, in store Fort William . A American corn--No. 8 yellow, kiln dried, $1.90 nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln dried, $1.85 nominal. 200 No.3 i eg Re c; No. 3 wl c, BCCO! to freights outside. Ontario car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal, Barley.--Malting, $1.64 to $1.65, according to frei outside Buckwheat.--$1.84 to $1.86, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye.--No. 2, $2.50, according to frieghts outside. anitoba flour, -- War quality, $10.95, new bags, Toronto. Ontario flour. -- War quality, $10.80, new, bags, Toronto and Mont- real freights, prompt shipment. Millfeed. -- Car lots-- Delivered Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $35.40; shorts, per ton, $40.40. Ha; No, 1, per ton, $17 to $18; mixed, $14 to $16, track Toronto. Straw.--Car lots, per ton, $8.50 to $9.00, track Toronto. Country Produces--W holesale Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, May 7:--Cash Oats--No. 2 O.W., 86%¢; No. C.W., $3.77; No. 8 C Mi , May yellow, $1.66 to $1.66. white, 78 to 79¢. Flou Bran--$33.14. 4.07; arrive, $4.01; May, Live Stock Markets Toronto, May heavy steers, heavy steers, heavy steers, $11.00 - to $11.25; choice, $11.00 to $12.00; bulls, $10.25 to $10.75; de., ers, $90.00 to $140.00; Eggs, new-laid, 40c; selected, new-: Butter.--Creamery, solids, 48 to 49¢; do., prints, 50 to blc; do., fresh made, b1 to 52¢; choice dairy prints, 42 to 48¢; ordinary dairy prints, 38 to 40¢;bakers', 36 to 88c; oleomargarine, (best grade), 32 to 33c. Cheese.--New, large, 23 to 23%c; twins, 238% to 28%c ; spring made, | large, 26 to 26¢; twins, 26% to 26%c. prime, bushel, $7.50 to $8. Foreign, hand-picked, bushel, $6.75 to $7. Comb Honey.--Choice, 16: 0z., $3.50 per dozen; 12 oz., $3 per dozen; sec-. Beans.--Canadian, Maple Syrup.--Imperial gallons,' $2.26; G-gallon tins, $2.10 per gal- on. Maple sugar, per pound, 24 to 26¢. Provisions--Wholesale Barrelled Meats--Pickled pork, $49; mess pork, $47. Green Meats.--Out of pickle, lec less than smoked. Smoked: Meats--Rolls, 32 to 83¢; hams, medium, 36 to 87c; heavy, 30 to 81¢; cooked hams, 47 to 48¢; backs, plain, 48 to 4lc; backs, boneless, 46 to 48c. Breakfast: bacon, 40 to 44c. Cottage rolls, 36 to 36c. ; Dry Salted Meats.--Long clears, in tons, 29¢; in cases, 20%c¢; clear bellies, 26 to 26%c; fat backs, 2bc. : . Lard. --Pure, tierces, 81 to 82¢; tubs, 81% to 32%c; pails, 31% to 82%c; 1-lb. prints, £8 to 33%e. Shortening, tierces, 26 to 26%c; tubs, 26% to 26%c¢; pails, 26% to 27c; 1-1b, prints, 27% to 28e. ~~ Montreal Markets Montreal, May 7:--Oats, Canadian Western, No. 8, 96¢; extra No. 1 feed, 6c. Flour, new standard Govern- onds and dark comb, $2.50 to $2.75. | is to $13.50 to $16.00; $20.50 to $20.75; do, to $19.50. Montreal, May 7.---Choice 60 to good $21 $20.00 to $21.00: GERMANS WILL MELT ues that the list capéd military confiseation. ge from headquarters reads: $5.85. Bran, $35.40. Shorts, $40.40. Mouillie, $75. ton, car lots, $17. A announcement that there will be no bulls, $9.26 to $9.75; do., rough $7.26 to $7.50; butchers' cows, choice, $11.26 to $12.26; do., good, $10.60 to $11.00; do., medium, $9.50 to $10.00; stockers, $9.50 to $11.00; feeders, $11.00 to $11.76; canners and cut- ters, $6.50 to $7.50; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to $140.00; do., and med., $65.00 to'$80.00;; sprin light ewes, lambs, $18.00 to laid, 42 to 48c; cartons, 43 to 44c.! $20.50; calves, good to choice, 13.00 to $15.00; hogs, fed and watered, $20.25 to 20.50; do., weighed off cars, .0.b., $19.26 'W., $8.55. United States Markets 7:--Corn No. 8 Oats--No. 8 r unchanged. steers, $12.00 to $13.50; good steers, $11.00 to $12.00; medium steers, $10.00 to $10.50; choice butchers' cows, $11.00 88%c; extra No, 1 fi 83%c; No. feed, 80%¢c; No. 2 food, Te. Bar Duluth, May 7:-- Linseed, yin 01 bid; uly, $4:04% -bid; October, $3.55 ask- wheat.--No. 2, Winter, per | ed 7.--Extra choice, 14.560 to $15.75; choice 18.60 to $14.00; good 13.00 to $18.26; butch- ers' cattle, choice, $18.25 to $18.76; do., good, $12:00 to $12.26; do., med- jum, $11.66 to $11.85; do., common, butchers' bulls, do., ium bulls, com. g- 12.00 to $15.00; choice selects, hogs, $22.00; selects, | ter's learns that 25,000 Belgian men and boys have been compelled to work on military operations behind the Ger- man lines in the region of Valencien- , under the whip of German sentries. The mor- tality in the deportees' camps is ter- rible. The numbers sent back as un- re BRONZE STATUES. A despatch from Amsterdam says: { The German Ministér of War has or- | dered an inventory of all bronze stat- throughout Germany, directing | em z indicate those which "can best be spared" with a view to their requisition for military use. He has also ordered an inventory of church bells, which have hitherto es- ; rl RUSSIAN FORTRESS IN CRIMEA © IN POSSESSION OF GERMANS A despatch from Berlin says: --Ger- man forces have occupied Sebastopol, the great Russian fortress in the Crimea. The official Sommunieatfon he "In Ukraine we have broken the | enemy's resistance before Sebastopol and occupied the town Wednesday ers and five machine-guns, {| Farther north the British rushed a machine-gun emplacement, clearing ley--No. 8 C.W., $1.50; No. 4 O.W,,|it out and bi id 1.46; Selected : 1.20 teed, 1.18, 3 out and Bringing back three surviv a Xe 0. 2| A tremendous crescendo of gunfire parently In the Lys region. etnias mrmeicimn GERMANS ADVANCE INTO COSSACK REGION. to -- A despatch from Basel, Switzerland, says: German troops in Ukraine, with a base on the line between Ekatefino- the region of the Donetz River Coal Basin, according to a despatch receiv- ed here. - . The Donetz River coal region is in the eastern part of the Government of Kharkov and extends into the Government of the Don Cossacks, advance in Southern Russia has ex- tended to a line almost directly north from the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov. DRAFT IN IRELAND ) postponing the operation of the Na- tional Service. Act, or conscription, as respects Ireland, beyond May 1, to which it had been postponed previ- what measure of success it gets be- I a ey 0: iors | tion in Ireland, which, it is \sald in cows, $5.50 to $6.00; hoice but-|some quarters, is not likely to be at- | ehers' bulls, $12.00 to $13 00; good tempted in the next few weeks: ry gi » $12.00" Wedhin, a ----------Lr . ; comironer afr, $ $9.50; milk ica calves, TOIL UNDER LASHES 3 00 to $13.00; Spring lambs, OF GERMAN SENTRIES. 8.00 &o $13.00; Spring lambs, { -- Tu A despatch from London says: Reu- nes and Maubeuge alone, fit are replaced by fresh recruits. ent of hel and Firemeén's Union, in a statement as regards the |p sacrifices of the mercantile marine, |ir says that 15,000 British seariten have | been murdered by German pirates are growing because the Boche is more determined than ever that sailors in IN SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. A despatch from British Head- quarters in France says: The Ger- mans have not renewed their efforts to advance in Flanders or on the Somme, and their objective timetables indicate that they are finding, their jas much heavier than'they anticipat- On Thursday night there was much bombing activity on both sides, our airmen inflicting "heavy casualties, The Australians carried out success- ful minor operations at Villérs-Bre- tonneux, while the Canadians mopped up a strong post, taking seven prison- has broken out on Friday morning, ap- | slav and Kharkov, have advanced into This report shows that the German 1S POSTPONED. A despatch from London says: An or- der-in-Council has been issued €urther ously. Some of the morning news- papers gay the postponement is due to the Government's wish to intro- duce a Home Rule bill, and to see fore proceeding to enforce conserip- Survive--Seaman's League Advocate oH Order Protecting Migratory Birds. collections of birds' eggs is now offi- cially put on the list of national crimes. The sport is banned, accord- ed. The order is passed under the provisions of the migratory birds con- vention, passed last session. the protection of migratory game gratory non-game birds, which in- habit Canada during the whole or any are established for ducks, geese, brant or rails, and other edible wild fowl, from December 15 to August 81, both days inclusive. The killing, capturing, injuring or molesting of insectivorous birds, their eggs or nests, is prohibit- ed throughout the year, except where special permits are granted to recog- nized museums for scientific pur- These insectivorous birds in- poses. clude robins, woodpeckers, wrens, meadow. larks, humming birds, whip- poor-wills, thrushes, and "all perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects." A close season swans and nearly all shore birds, and duck and eiderduck. ------ raat A despatch from the American Army in France, says:--"Buddies" is the new sobriquet for the members of the American National Army in France. While the entire allied world able name for Uncle Sam's forces, the men fresh from America took the task upon themselves, and "Buddies" is the result. From east to west, from north to south, "Buddies" is the ac- cepted brand of comradeship. It means "pal," "comrade." It is safe to say the American forces will take to it with alacrity. "Amexes" and 4gammies" were distasteful to the men. np ee-- UNITED STATES TROOPS tide 'now flows into France ume not heretofore approximi army into France," to use the Premier Lloyd in the House of Commons. 5 ok cops Tommy, You Look. | {LiKe A Mou copie. IN THAT gn | You Just "TD TO o Also Collecting of Birds' Eggs-- A despatch from Ottawa says. jhe old and often cruel sport of Ss robbing birds' nests and making ing to an order in Council just pass. The new regulations provide for | birds, migratory insectivorous and mi- ~ part of the year. New close seasons - other' for ten years is proclaimed for cranes, a olose season for five years on wood . has been hunting around for a sult- MOVING, TO FRONT) A despatch from thé American Army in France says: America's khaki in a vol- mated. The United States is literally "dumping an George fecentlyl uskd- 3 AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN nal : ADOPT THE NAME OF "BUDDIES™" #