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RE- PRISONERS A despatch from the British Army in France, says:--Complete success crowned the splendid surprise attack made by the Australians at dawn on Thursday against the Germans be- tween Villers-Bretonneux and the Somme. The enemy was taken entirely une awares and the bigframed fighters from Australia stormed their way through the bewildered grey coats Jwith little opposition--a veritable human tornado which left a wake of déath behind it. Hamel village was rushed and taken in short order. Vaire and Hamel Woods, with their nests of crackling machine guns, were passed through as though the Australians were doing a practice charge for their comman- der, and a line of enemy trenches east of these strongholds was cleaned out and annexed. About 1,600 prisoners were in the British cages this afternoon, while out on-the battlefield great numbers of the + N Assisted by Tanks Advanced a Mile and a Half on 4-Mile Front With Light Casualties. German Emperor's men lay silent un- der the brillfant sunshine which cpuld bring them no cheer. It took the assaulting forces about an hour and a half to complete their work, and at the end of that time they had, with exceedingly light casualties, wrested from the enemy a strip of territory four miles wide and averag- ing a mile and a half deep. By this operation they eliminated a salient in the British line and gained valuable high ground. : The Australians went Wver the top behind a large number of tanks, which were to pilot the way, Two minutes before that hour the British artillery all along'the sector dropped a tremen- dous barrage on the German defences from guns of all calibres, This was the first warning the enemy had of impending trouble. Not a word con- cerning the attack had penetrated to the other side. Even the great un- couth tanks had been got into posi- tion without the enemy being aware of their presence. FURTHER GAINS sa ON THE PIAVE Airmen Drop Blazing Oil on 12 Austrian Bridges. A despatch from Italian Army Headquarters says: -- The fighting that is in progress along the lower reaches of the Piave is as severe as was that of last week in this region, where mud, sand and water are every- where under foot and clumps of tall- growing grasses are frequent. To add to the difficulties, rain and wind storms occasionally sweep over the area. At four points the Italians attacked the Austrian position in this region, along a frontage of eight miles. In this comparatively small stretch mo less than 12 temporary bridges thrown across by the Austrians were destroy- ed by airplanes dropping small bar- rels of burning oil upon them. The Italian infantry are frequently seen a short digtance away, calmly waiting while the bridges are attacked from the air, the troops then being thrown against the remaining Austrians. About the most violent resistance displayed by any of the enemy troops is that of the Bosnlans and Herzegov- inans on this front, who are still wearing their picturesque turbans. As U.S. LAUNCHED 52 VESSELS JULY 4 A despatch from New York says: -- The United States launched on Thurs day a greater tonnage in ships than she has lost during thé whole pro- 'gress of the European war, Secretary 'of the Navy Daniels said in an ad- "dress at the Fourth of July celebration lof the Tammany Society. More than '400,000 dead-weight tons, he said, are 'going into the water from American shipyards as a part of the Indepen- dence Day celebration, while the total 'American tonnage destroyed by sub- (marines is estimated at 352,223 tons, "including 67,815 tons sunk before the United States entered the war. | "We have launched to-day," Mr. Daniels continued, "more than the Germans sank of the ships of all nations in the last month for which we have official figures, The recent enemy submarine activities off our coast resulted in the loss of 25,411 gross tons of American shipping. During the same time, 130,000 dead- weight tons of shipping were bullt, Bf Hin SHIP PRODUCTION WAS HIGH IN JUNE | British Admiralty announced that SURPRISE ATTACK| | | | A desptch from London says:--The American prairie schoone , famil far sights on the Fraace by the. Supply Corps of the U.S. army. plains of both the U.S. and Canada, are being used in A despatch from London says: -- During the last week the Entente al- lies on the western front have taken more than 5,000 prisoners. A series of minor operations also resulted in their gaining possession of several important strategic points, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and obtain- | ing valuable information as to his plans for the immediate future. | Another satisfactory feature of the last week's operations was the work of the allles in the air, Great dam- age was done by the aviators to Ger- man communications and concentra. tions of men and material behind the lines. The superiority of the Entente air fighters is shown by the fact that during the last week, on the Bri- tish front alone, 173 German airplanes | were downed while only 36 British | machines are missing. 5000 GERMAN PRISONERS CAPTURED ON WEST FRONT IN WEEK British Downed 173 Hostile Airplanes_in Same Period--Much Damage Done by Air Raids on Enemy Territory. The text of the official report says: "On the British western front since - last weekly summary was issued, 122 German machines were downed and 73 driven down out of control, against 52 British machines reported as miss- ing." During the same period 14 separ- ate towne were raided and bombed. The airdrome at Boulay was raided six times; the railway triangle at Metz-Sablon, four; Mannheim, four; Saarbrucken and Thionville, thrice; Treves and Frescatl, twice, and seven other towns once each, including Karlsruhe, where a large explosion was caused in a metaleworks, "Naval airmen in the course of the week 'vigorously bombed docks, sub- marine bases and naval works in the neighborhood of Zeebrugge, Ostend and Bruges." BERLIN ORDERED NURSES MURDERED "Sink Without a Trace" was the Policy Acted Upon. A despatch from London says: -- Reuter's Limited is authoritatively in- the Italians advance they are finding' g,ping the month of June 134,169 formed that the outrage on the Llan- the dead among these already stripped | oro55 tons of merchant shipping was dovery Castle, which is the fourth by their comrades. There are other Austrians, however, who as soon as they are taken prisoner and find themselves safe within the Italian lines, cry, "Down with Austria!" ba: inf iieisa ROSS RIFLE FACTORY TO MAKE REVOLVERS A despatch from Quebec, Que. says: --The factory formerly occupied by the Ross Rifle Company will be re- opened in September by the North American Arms Company, Limited, a very large order for the manufacture of revolvers for the United" States army having been received by the new company, which has just obtained a charter from the Dominion Govern- ment and is capitalized at $2,000,000, the head office to be in Quebec." It is a purely Canadian company, the of- ficers being: President, T. A. Russell, Toronto; Vice-President, H. D. Scully, Toronto, and Thomas Craig, former general superintendent of the Ross Rifle Company, has been appointed general manager, and is also 'an the board of directors. The contract is to be completed by December 31, 1919, and it is said that the maximum num- ber of employes will reach 3,000. es FRENCH IN VIGOROUS THRUST CAPTURE 1,000 PRISONERS A despatch from London says: -- The French have struck savagely ~ against the German lines on Thurs- day, this time cutting through the enemy ranks near the town of Au- treches, south of Moulinsous-Tout- vent, where on Tuesday night they won a local success and captured pris- oners.. Here the Germans lost 1,068 prisoners. The French improved their positions by gaining rather high ground, which can be readily defend- ed when the Germans launch their | completed in the United {yards and entered for service. . The record of British shipyards for June fell below that of May, when a tered for service. That was the { highest figure for any month during | the last year. In April the shipping completed totalled 111,633, and in March 161,674 gross tons. EE --, is io GOOD HARVEST IN MANITOBA EXPECTED A despatch from Winnipeg says: -- Prosperity again stands at Manitoba's door. A rich and plentiful harvest is forexast in the first official crop re- port issued by" the Manitoba Agricul- tural Department. The report indicates clearly that the crop is about six days ahead of its normal schedule in 70 per cent. of the places reporting. Of the remainder, about 20 per cent. claim normal condi- ' tions prevalent, and the other 10 per ' cent. show a tendency to backward- ness. EE SULTAN OF TURKEY HAS PASSED AWAY A despatch from Amsterdam says: --Mohammed V., Sultan of Turkey, died at 7 o'clock on Wednesday. night, says a Constantinople despatch receiv- ed here by way of Vienna. Mohammed V., thirty-fifth sov- ereign of Turkey in direct descent of the House of Osman, founder of the empire, came to the throne by a coup d'etat on April 27, 1909, after have ing been held for thirty-three years a prisoner by his brother, Sultan Abdul II, in the royal palace and gardens in Constantinople. Kingdom, total of 197,274 gross tons was en-! of eight flying officers. hospital ship torpedoed this year, was deliberate and premeditated, follow- ing upon orders given the submarine commander by the supreme German authority, which alleged the presence The allega- ' tion is foundationless, and could eas- ily have been tested by the right of; search. There is no doubt that the submarine endeavored to slaughter all witni®sses of the crime, according to Count Luxburg's phrase, 'Spurlos versenken." - It is clear the German high com- «mand has settled a plan to destroy | hospital ships as far as possible. | SE. AR THOUSANDS ARE READY TO, WORK ON FARMS A despatch ffom Ottawa says:-- Highly satisfactory gesults in connec- tion with the registration of the man | and woman-power of Canada have ! been obtained, according to Senator G. | D. Robertson, who, on Thursday, is- sued his first statement of returns from various constituencies in which the work has been completed. Al- ready the Registration Board has secured the names of thousands of people willing to give assistance in agricultural work, particularly dur- ing harvest time. real mnt Canada Presents France * With Fully Equipped Hospital A despatch from Paris says:-- President Poincare went to Joinville le Pont, where Sir Robert Borden, in the presence of Gen. Currie, commander- in-chief of the Canadian armies, and several prominent Canadians, present- ed him with a fully-equipped Canadian hospital. . The hospital contains 520 AERIAL FORCES CO-OPERATED IN BATTLE SOUTH OF SOMME A despatch from I says:-- British aerial forces co-operated with land forces in Thursday's attack against the Germans south of the Somme, according to an official state- ment on aviation operations issued Friday night. Eleven German air planes were destroyed and ten driven down out of control as a result of combats. Four British machines are missing. ee fee GERMANS FURTHER SQUEEZE BELGLUM 4d. A despatch from Amsterdam says: --The war contribution which Bel- gium has to pay to Germany, says Les Nouvelles, has been raised from 50,- 000,000 francs to 60,000,000 francs monthly. francs per head. The Germans have convoked the provincial councils to discuss the method of payment by the Belgians. id Z This is equivalent to 750 | U.S. TRANSPORT SUNK--6 LOST Former German Liner Torpe- doed on Homeward Trip. A despatch from Washington says: --The American transport Covington, homeward bound after landing several thousand soldiers in France, was tor- pedoed and sunk in the war zone last Monday night. Six members of men, with the ship's officers, have been landed at a French port. No army personnel or ssengers Wwe aboard. pe ge = The Covington is the second of the great German liners seized at the out- break of the war to be sent down by Germany's sea wolves, and is the third American troopship to be de- stroyed. All were homeward bound, i The former Hamburg-American liner i President Lincoln was sunk last May 81, and the Antilles, formerly a Mor- gan liner, was sent down last October BNC Ia Sl CANADIAN TROOPS SAFE IN ENGLAND A despatch from Ottawa says: --It 'is officially announced through the | Chief Press. Censor's office that the : following troops have arrived in Eng- i land. Artillery draft No. 10, Toronto; !Artillery draft No. 31, Toronto; C.O. 'Regiment draft No. 28, Quebec; C. O. Regiment draft No. 70, Quebec; Eng- ineers' draft No. 41, St. John's, Que.; Dental draft, A:M.C. reinforcements, V.AD. Nurses, Toronto. ----eee 5 AUSTRIAN CROPS ARE DAMAGED BY NINE-HOUR SNOW STORM A despatch from" Zurich says:-- Vienna newspapers of Wednesday re- port violent rain storms and abnor- mally low temperatures in every part of Austria-Hungary. There also {were severe snow storms.and frost in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia. { The snowfall continued for nine hours and greatly damaged the crops. The Sand-shoes Used by Our The soldier™n the picture took ca minent feature in the landscape. The sert sand. Without them the unaccus beds, which number will soon be in- expected offensive. speom-- -- mm "he Doins to prove full of pitfalls. Soldiers Sand of the Desert. tion, and shod with them the men can travel without difficulty over the de- in Palestine When Negotiating the re that the footgear should be a pro- se sand-shoes are an excellent inven tomed and treacherous surface is apt i Ra TI the crew are missing, but all the other. | tierces, $10.95 bags, To War treal gs : American Fi gl ge dried, nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln tario oats--No. 2 white, 80 to 8lc; No. 8 white, 79 to ' ro 180, rdi e--No. "$1. according ti ibis outside. zB . flour -- War uality, bags 'Toronto ond Toy ; {pment feed--Car lots--Delivered Mon- i , bags included: Bran, per ton, $35.00; shorts, $40.00. Hay--No. 1 per ton, . $14.00; mixed, $11.00 to $12.00, track Toronto. 4 Straw--Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to $8.50, track Toronto. \ 7 ¥ Country Produce--Wholesale Eggs new-lail, 456 to 46¢; selected, new al , 47 to 48c; cartons, 48 to c. Butter--Creamery, solids, 46¢; do., fresh made, 46 to 47c; choice dairy: prints, 41 to 42¢; ordin dairy prints, 88 to 40c; bakers', 36 to 38c; Sleomargarine best grade), 82 to Cheese--New, Jarge BY% to 24; " twins, 28% to-24%c; spring made, large, 25% to 26¢; twins, 26 to 26%c¢. eans---Canadian, - prime, bushel, $7.50 to bushel, $6. .00. Foreign, hand-picked P35 0 $7 di Sei Com Hongy- Chojes, 1. oz., $3.50 ozen; 12 oz. ozen; sec- Da and dark con, eh Maple syrup--Imperial gallons, ga 2.26; 5-gallon tins, $2.10 per Sallon. aple sugar, per pound, 24 to 26c. - Provisions--Wholesale Smoked meats--Rolls, 32 to 83¢;' hams, medium, 37 to 38c; heavy, 30° to 81c; cooked hams, 50 to 51¢; backs, plain, 44 to 5c; backs, boneless, 48 to: ic. Breakfast bacon, 40 to 4lec. Cottage rolls, 35 to 36¢. " Dry Salted Meats--Long cleats, in tons, 80c; in cases, 80%c; clear bel- lies, 28 to 28%c; fat backs, 26c. -- tierces, 80% to 3lc; tubs, 30% to $13%c; pails, 81 to 81%} prints, 82 to 3435, She! . 6% -- Soih to bros 1b 26%c¢c; 8, e; 1-1b. ts, 27% to 28ec. . Montreal Markets Montreal, July 9--Oats, Canadian | NF the 0. 2, 96%¢c; extra No. 1 feed Flour, new . standard 11.05. Rolled oats, 1bs, $5.10 to $6.15. Bran, . Shorts, $40. Mouillie, $67. Hay, o> 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50 to 16. western, y , » Live Stock Markets . Toronto, July 9--Extra choice heavy steers, $156.50 to $16.00; choice heavy steers, $14.60 to $14.75; butchers' cattle, choice, $14.50 to $16.00; do, voy. S18. 15 to $14.00; do., medium, $e to $18.00 do, common, $10.00: to $11.00; butchers' bulls, choice, } ' ; do, good bul $11.50; do., medium bulls, 0.60; do.,, r bulls, 7.50 to $8.50; butchers' cows, choice, 12.00 to $12.50; do., good, $11.00 to $11.50; do., medium, $8.50 to $9.25; do.; common, $7.00 to $8.50; stockers, 700 to $11.00; feeders, $11. 11.50; canners and cutters, $6.00 to. 6.50; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to $140.00; do., com. and med., $65.00 to $80.00; springers, $90.00 to $140.00; light ewes, $13.00 to $18. arlings, $15.60 to $17.0 0 to 22c¢; calves,' Montreal, July steers, $11.00 to $12.50; inferior, $10.00; butchers' bulls, $10.00; butchers cows, $7.50 to $10.00; sheep, $9.00 to $12.00; lambs, $18.00 to $19.00; calves, milk-fed, $9.00 to $15.00; select hogs, $16.00 to $16.25. eom------ a Si $3,000,000 SUBSIDY ; ¢ TO FLAX-GROWERS 5 A despatch from London says:--Th House of Commons has second reading of roviding for a Government subsidy of £600,000 to promoté flax growing in Ireland, to replace the lost Belgi#h and Russian crops ald to provide material for th = of $19.00.to $19.25; sows, x