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Ed raged day long, while ten thou- to the south another Bei ri force, which crossed the Ancre duringy the night and opened"an at- tack at daybreak, was driven steadily Into the enemy positions on the high ground between Bray-sur-Somme and Albert' and had already captured a thousand' prisoners, The Germans are retreating from the on between the two points where the British armies are hammer- ng them and where they are threat town We AT ¢ left in a pocket. The Albert has fallen into the iof the British, who are press: enemy hard. gy the Arras-Albert railway em- bankment and on both sides "of it nt olnte. "2 ESE positions and Taptured them, ing terrible losses on the enemy. then = pushed ts. They occupied to 'the. east "of bankment, snd were reaching out similarly at other points, at the same, time beating down desperate attacks' launched by thé enemy in an effort to regain his valuable lost positions, Hantelincourt | ed eastward at various : & ett Albert is a town in the department ; of Somme, 18 miles north-east of Amiens. It is situated on the Ancre River and is a pailroad centre... Be- fore the way it had a population of | more than 7,000. Albert has been the scene of some desperate fighting and in the recent British drive the town was surround- ed on three sides by the armies of Field Marshall Haig, the village Aveluy on the north and Meaulte 'n the south having been reached by them, Madkets of the World Breadstufts. Toi Aug. 27.--Manitoba Wheat --1In store, Fort William, nominal' (in- cluding 2%ec tax); No. '1 northern, 2.28%; No. 2 northern, $2.20%; 0. 8 northern, $2.17%;- No, 4 wheat, $2.10% Manitoba Oais_--In store, Fort Wil- m, No. 2 C.W., 92%c; No, 8 C. W., 88%¢; extra No. 1 feed 88%¢; No, 1 feed, 84%e. American Corn---No. 8 yellow, kiln dried; nominal. Ontario Wheat--No. 2, $2.22, basis | in store, Montreal. Ontario; Qats--New crop, No. 2 white; 77c to #c; No.. 8, 76 to Me. Rye--Nominal. Barley--New crop, malting, $1.08 fo $1,056. Onfério: Flour--W inter, in new bags, pro shipment, was quality, $10. 5, Montseal, prompt shipment. eas--Nominal. cxwhen ominal, Hay--Trachk, Toroato, No. 1, $18 fo. $19; 'mixed, $16 to $17. Straw-- Car lots, $8 to $8.50. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered, Mont- real sreigg tags included: Bran, | per tom s-shorts, $40. | Manitoba Flour -- War quality, 7310. 96, oToromp,. ne Cound Produce Wholesale mid candled, 48 to 49¢c; aid, 50 to 5lc; cartons, Fe mery, solids, 46c; do., 6 a2 47c; choice dairy =e dairy 0c; bl 36 to 38c.! es best grade), 82 to 34¢.! ey; red 231 to rl kD c; 8 Tinga 26%, fact of prints, rints, 3 leoma: ' A [eoc; twins, ' Anadian iy 3 50 to $7.50, oa $6,765 to $7. [oney Choice, 16 oz, $6 to $5.50 'per, dozen; 12 oz, $8.50 to $4 Bet dozen; @econds and dark comb, to $2.75. Bulk, 25 to 26¢ per ® Male 8 rup--Imper ial $2. fale 3 on tins, $2.10 per yr Jon, a sugar, per pound, 24 Provisions--Wholesale Barggibdplcats--Pigkled pork, $48; mess por aren Monta 00t of pickle, 1c less ; Smo) # + Smoked Meats--Rolls, 32 to 83c;| hams, "medium, 38 to 39¢; heavy, 30 to 81ck cookéd hams, 53 to St} backs lair, 44. 45¢; backs, boneless, 48 49¢. Bi reakfast bacon, 40 to 4lec. Cotta rolls, 86 to 8 Halted a Mester Lone clears or 80¢; in cases, 30%ec; clear be 28 to 28%c; at backs, 26c. Lard--Puté, tierces, 30% to 3lc; tubs, 30% dad 81%; pails, 81 to 31%c; rints, 8914 ¢. Shorteni & tierces, 6 to 26%%c; tubs, in flies, 26 % to %c; pails, 26% to 27c; Lb, prints, 27% to 28ou adm 'Montreal Markets eals i Au 27,--Oats--Cana- - aian Wester, No..2, $1.02 to $1.08; extra N 2d, 99¢ to $1.00 grade; -$ $11.05. Rolled oats-- Ba, 0 lbs. $6.20 to $5.80, Bran, $ Shots, $40, sa.56. i uillie, 27.0 Hay-- Seth! , car hy "$15. 00 to "3 0nd" Stock Markets Toranto, Aug 27 27. --Extra "choice v 50 to $16.25; ince Fiour ey hand- -pick- i $10.95 to jo. 75 to $11.00; do, eom« to $10.00; butchers' bulls, choice, $11.00 to $11.25; do, medi Mbulls, $10.25 to $10.60; do. roug bulls, $7.50 to $8.50; Dutehers' saws, choice, $10.25 to $10.50; good 9.25 to $9.50; do. madam, 38. 5 to 75} do common, $7.26 to $8.00; stockers, $8.00 to $10.50; feeders, $10. 50 bo pe Sid. 00; canners and cut- ters to $6. 50; milkers, good ons o, 530000 to $125.00; do. com. and med., $65.00 to Jes 00; spri - $90.00 to 126.00; 1 ht ewes, $1 to $15.00; yearlings, fis, 00 to $16. 00; spring ambs, to 21%e¢; Fat | good to choice, $15 50 to $17.25; hogs hd and watered, $19.60; do. weighed | Tye. jie. 76. 27. i . ontrea --Che ice steers, $10.00 to $10. "80; good steers, $8.50 to $10.00; choice "butcher cows, $9.00 to $9.60; ood oe, .00 to $9.00; | canners, $5. to $6. ; butcher balls, $8.00 to RS, according pol Sauners, ..6.50 to $7.60; milk-fed ies ves, $12.00 to $15.00; grass-fed, $7.00 3 $8. 50; Pahaop, $13. .00; choice lambs, 18.00 to $18. + gelect hogs, cars, 19.50 'to $20.00; sows, $17.50 to .00; roughs and os down to ($16.00 meeps TAKE OVER QUEBEC BRIDGE WITHIN A FEW DAYS medium, mon, $9.0 | A despatch rom Ottawa ' says:-- | Severe tests made of the. Québec { Bridge on Wednesday are regarded by the Railway Department as very | satisfactory. ~The bridge will be | formally taken over by the Govern: ment with in a few days. For the past six months the Rail { way Department has been operating i trains over the bridge. Wednesday's test was, regarded, however, as the | severe to which the. bridge could: be put. dpi | ITALIANS HARVESTED GRAIN UNDER FIRE OF THE ENEMY | . i A despatch from om Washington shys: ----Italian soldiers and civilians have gallons, | 'succeeded in harvesting the grain on' munitions and grenades. | the right bank of the Piave River, to! under fire of the enemy, according to official reports from Rome. The | | entire distritt was swept, while the! | harvesters rked, by the enemy's artillery fire. ele | CZECHS IN SUCCESSFUL { ATTACK IN THE VOSGES A despatch from am Washington says: --Czecho-Slovak troops in' France have: participated in a 'successful at- tack against German positions in the Vosges, according to a despatch re ceived on Thursday at the headquar tional Counell. Nerina 20,000 AUSTRIANS, > 2,500 BRITISH LOST A despatch from London says:-- Austrian losses on the British front in Italy. between June 15 and August 16 were 20,000, according to advices received here. British casualties in the same period totalled 2,600, it is said. 100,000 PRISONERS J SINCE Ly. 18 A ipateh from om Paris saysiThe Allied armies have taken than 100,000 prisoners #ince July 18, says pday morning, thereby sedlng the fate ters here] of the Czecho-Slovak®Na-| P.EI. N Canada's Coal Problem--Facts a consumption of 'coal in Canada put into concrete. form. How can question of distribution be salved? WER Domestio Cosl (1 ©, Canadisn) Consumed | imported Co Coal 8 Coal © Produced in Canada Ba american) ' bout the production, importation and HOW CHASSEURS TOOK LASSIGNY | Gallantly Stormed Devitte Wood and Drove Out the Enemy. A despatch from the French Army on the Oise, says:--The fall of Las signy at noon on Wednesday followed 00 | five days of incessant fighting in the trenches of the old positions which were abandoned By the Germans in March, 1917. Grenades, mine-throw- ers and all other means of trench warfare came again 'intd play, and hand-to-hand fighting took place fre- quently. 62 ENEMY PLANES DOWNED IN WEEK Twenty-One Driven Down Out of Control During Same Period. '" / A degpatch from London says :--| British ar fl 'on the 'western front during go past week provides fiow confrontng Gerniany in the air, whch nfust increase in the near future as the growing air superiority of the allies makes itself felt. In the bat- tle area, probably owing to the re The Germans 'made a stout stand in Devitte wood, which bristled with ma- chine guns and madé an almost im-| pregnable position. A battalion of the = famous ~ Chasseurs, however, stormed the wood and took it yester- of Lassighy. 2 While the officer commanding the Chasseurs, at the head of his men | and with a rifle in his hand, led: them, to the summit of the height to the | east of Lassigny and. planted the French flag there, an infantry regi-; ment, advancing = from' Plessigr- -de- Roye, turned the famous Plemont| height to the north. Thus_Lassigny not only had fallen, but its possession by the French was made secure by the encircling of a! strong position from which the Ger- mans 'might. have delivered counter- attacks. In the fighting at close quarters, i and while the Germans were pressing| hard at one point in superior num- bers, a French lieutenant" feJl while directing his men. The men' were determined not to allow the body of the lieutenant to fall into the hands of the enemy. They had exhausted all their rifle and machige gun am- With nothing else to fight with they grabbed the picks used for dig- | ging 'trenches and drove back the Germans until the body of the lieu« tenant could be recovered. ee ree 4,002 RECRUITS AUGUST 1T0 15 Casualties Were 1,435, 45 Per Cent. of Them Will be Fit Again in 6 Months. A despatch from Ottawa says: --A net gain to the Camadian Expedition- ary Force of 1;115 recruits is shown in the recruiting figures for the period between August 1 and 15, given out by the Militia Department. The total number of recruits secured in Canada, the United States and England was 4,002, while total wastage report ed was 2,887. It is estimated that 46 per cent. of the "casualties will within a period of six months be fit for general) service. For the period mentioned Sulist. ments in Canadu numbered 8,144; in the United States 849, and in 9. | chnes haye been reported missing. . and | wastage of 2,887 men includ-| ed overseas tasualties to the umber » cent heavy German air losses over the Somme battlefield, enemy scouts are compelled to operate in" large | formations at a much greater height than = formerly. «Notwithstanding this, the British airmen continue to 'take a heavy toll of them. Severe air fighting has occurred on the front between Albert and the Amiens-Roye road, resulting, accord- ing to latest reports, in the destruc- tion of 62 en machines, 'and the driving down of 21 airplanes out of control, Twentysix British ma-~ This superiority has been attaine without any diminution of the aer activity in other sectors, a large num- ber of raids having beeen = made against enemy positions far behind the' German lines, in which more than 120 tons of bombs were dropped, and attacks on the Rhine provinces press- ed with the utmost vigor. Coupled with a virtual cessation of German air raids on London, the in- greasing number of bombing raids Germany, of which there were 82 uring "the past week, must be demoralizing, 'showing Germany that, in spite of her utmost defensive ef- forts, abe is unable adequately to, protect her air frontier, \ A Lm WAR TAXES AMOUNT TO ONE BILLION DOLLARS A despatch from. Ottawa says: -- During the presetn fiscal year the peuple of Canada will pay in extra taxation for the war at least.one bil- lion dollars, or alittle over one-third of the total year's revenue, The extra taxation is now almost equal to the total revenue before the war. In 1914.15 Canada's total Tevenue was only $188,073,481. For the present fiscal year it "will reach nearly $300, 000,000. For 1917-18 the total re- venue was $261,125,469, x Armas iis fy Mother Whenever I look in her kind eyes 1 think of the wide still sky, Where the breath God .like beauty lies $ 4 _ And the clouds a sailing by," Whenever her eare-worn face I see, Or feel her lips on mine; En omr Stes without sign. % } Hut Hutin in iid Sia de Paris, -- ot » |] ore the a striking indicaton of the difficulties| hbered by the enemy have been forced (hold on the Oise to Bretigny, midway in an able, but only n and to metal vena} from the British guns. One en was $ wavisaced wentmped ra -oyer the: oy 'ad effort! During CZECH VICTORY Ny 0% Wir Decid Viet Died Vitry Ove Bot Forces in Baikalia, A despatch from London sayal< Lord Robert Cecil, the Britisi Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, an- nounced on Friday evening that re- ports had been received in London to the effect that the CzechoSlovak forces in Trans-Baikalia had captured the town of Berchnieudinsck, south of Lake Baikal, and had achieved a br 4 8 cided victory against the Bolghe forces. Allied troops bn the Ussuri River front, north of Vadivostok, out-num- ¥ to withdraw - after heavy fighting! says a despatch fo' The Daily Mail from Harbin dated Wednesday. British and French troops were en- gaged in, the battle, but the brunt of the fighting fell on the Cossack and Czecho-Slovak troops. Japanese | units: aided in the retirement. Bolshevik "monitors opérating on Lake Hangka are harassing the allied SBR {C Czech, forces. Commands are being given the Bolshevik in German. - : The. Ussuri' River forms the cast ern boundary of Manchuria. Soro emt 10,482 CASUAL 130 Officers and 1,474 Men Have © Been Killed in Action. 8 A despatch from Ottawa says:-- Hon. Martin Burrell, Acting Minister of Militia, in a recent statement to the Canadian Press, referred to the recent Canadian offensive. "Since the first of August," said 'the 'Minister, "the Canadians have marked their entry into the fifth year of the 'war by achievements which 'have confirmed the reputation of the Canadian corps as the most formid- able-fighting force-of its size on the Western battlefront. The- recent advance made by our: men has "been important In its results and: brilliant in execution. In "the ast three weeks they have captured 10,000 p. 'oners, 150 guns, and 'thosuands r During this sa machine guns. brief period they have suffered 10,482 casualties in killed, wounded 'and tt and have detained additional missing, 130 officers and 1,474 men oo "been killed in action." | GERMANS RETREAT RAPIDLY BRR 1 THIRD AND TENTH General Mangin and 'General Humbert Capture Thousabds: of Prisoners and Great Quantities of Trophies. ' A despatch from the French Arm in France says:--The retreat of the Germans™ before both the Third and Tenth Arench armies continued on Thursday, with increased speed, over a large part of the battletront, and, in. spme cases in diforder. / "General Mangin's men are approach: ing the Coucy forest and are nearly on the line held in April along the River Allette. They have also widened their between Noyon and Chauny. { The 'French advance towards the roads leading {to Chauny addp another menace to their line of retirement; and | explains © the acceleration of 'the enemy's retreat, Bourgignon, St. Paul- .eux-Bois and Quiney fell into the; hands | of the French on Thursday, giving] then and of the oy of the rom the region of .Cou Je: oR to the Oise. Bl x ns Humbert's troops hed are pressing the enemy %. Hav. |ing occupied the height of. Plemont, fighting from just south of 'Lassiguy; 'which they surrounded on Wedne they have "completes | heen taken since Wednesday anlie \and trophies in such great quantities thot it hag been Impossible thus far coun 0 have be ca tured, Spode =. = : General Mangin's troops vaio seven "iiles during the night and this morning were rushing the enemy's rearguard _so energetically that the retiring columns were thrown tuto confusion. A later despatch from Paris says: ~The latest "advances of Gener Mangin's army, while not comple turning the Chemin-des-Dames pi tion, menaces it seriously and the fate - the. German troops between the le and the Aisne remains uncer- hin, according to military observers ere I It is decidedly gerne Noyon that "5 the principal effort of the French armies at. present is being aimed. | Noyon ,is menaced from thé north: = west and north-east and also from the south, and ad the enemy is reduced ta: its left" flank, © which~the guns fare vourigg a tre: Along the whole om Albert to Cou