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Ro Air Ferce Roe of the' rs of the al Air Force' i at-Ostend Thursday morning, 0 od it clear of the enemy. Giimiral Keyes, commanding 0 patrol; landed at Ostend on ursday afternoon at 12.66 c¢'clock." A force of Belgians, assisted by French cavalry and infantry, is driv- ing northward to strike the bridges on the east and also cut the Ghent Canal, Wide possibilities exist in this movement, It is reported that patrols Youve al- ready entered . Bruges, the second | submarine base,' but there are large German forces still defending the city. The enemy was driven back rapid- ly everywhere on Thufsday and the Breadngufts Toronto, Oct. 22.---Manitoba Nia --No. 1 Northern £2.24%5 a Northern, $2.21%;. "No, 3 Rorthorn, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in store Fort William, not including tax. Manitoba oats--No, 2 C.W., 81%¢; $7; im; No. 2 C.W., 78%¢c; extra No. 1 feed, T8%e¢; No. 1 feed, "16%4¢. American corn--No. 3 yellow kiln dried, nominal, No. 4 yellow, kiln dried, nominal. Ontario oats, new crop--No. 2 white, 74 to 7c, according to freights - side, Ontario wheat No, 2 Winter, car lot, $2.81; No. 3 'Spring, $2. 2, basis in store "Montreal. Peas--No. 2; nominal, Bérley--Malting, new crop,* $1 to 1.06. /Buckwheat--Nominal. Rye--No. 2, nominal, Manitoba flour--O1d crop, quality, $11.65, Toronto Ontatio flour--War quality, crop, $10.75, in bags, Montreal Tolottios From: shipment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont: real freights, bags included; Bran, 31. 26 per ton; shorts, $42.26 per hi --No. 1, $22 to $28 per ton; ~ mixed, $20.00 to $21.50 per ton, track Toronto Straw--Car lots; $9 to $9.60, track Toronto. war old and Country Produce--Wholesale Butter---Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to 39¢; pounds, 40 to 41c. _ Eggs--New Inid, 52.to 55c. Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, 30 to 32¢; roosters, 28¢; fowl, 27. to 30¢; ducklings, 27 to 28¢; turkeys, 31 to dc; squabs, doz., $4. 50; geese, 2b¢. Live poultry--Roosters, 18 to 20c; fowl 20 to 24c; ducklings, 1b, 22¢; turkey, 27 to 80c; Spring chickens, 26 to 28c; geese, 20c. Wholesalers are selling to the re tail trade at the following prices: -- Cheese---New, large 26% to 27c; twins, 26% to 27%c; oid, large, 28 to 281%c; twin 28% to 9c. Butter--Fresh dairy, Shoigs, 45 to dé6c; Stenmery, prints, to 62¢; creamery, solids, 49 to sor. BRITISH DRIVING EASTWARD ASTRIDE THE LE CATEAU-CATILLON. ROAD Germans Fight Desperately to Protect Retreat Northward-- Haig's Troops Take Several Villages by Assault. A despatch from British Army. ened, and the Lille salient shortly Headquarters in France says:--Once should be obliterated. more the Germans have been forced out of wide strips of land all the way | River the British and Amricans con from the North Sea to the ' region; tinue attacking, east of St; Quentin in France. The greatest allied gains of Friday ance, "seem to have been made east of Douai,| THe where the British have sliced off a!the Le Cateau-Catillon road end have east of the| taken Bazeuel, 3,000 yards east of Le The last| Cateau, by assault. indicate] The Germans are fighting with the in their forward rush | greatest desperation here and along ns close to the|the battlefront southward to protect substantial corner on disappearing Lille salient. Toports received from here the Brit have reached ' junction of the Senses River and She ~ L'Escaut Canal, north of Cambrai, and gained nd about five miles . of ol romid and not Without ome the battle fine eS rapidly nearing the city and probably will be in it before is reported. entirely free -now of yp mans, thosé left 'in the city as rear: guaids having. been accounted fof. The Germans seem to be in full flight everywhere, especially from Belgium, for the gap through which they must escape be the ad vancing allied troops and the frontier | = of" Holland is constantly -bging nar: rowed, and unless the 'enemy moves rapidly large numbers may be caught. _A despatch from the Allied Armies in Belgium says:--Belgian Fatiols have entered Bruges and cavalry is operating .on both sides. Igian | guns are now firing from south 'of the city. : Margarine--38 to 34c. EggsNo. 1 storage selected storage, 52 to in cartons, 60 to 6Zc. 2F Dresied apn ot We "Ca A despatch from Lender says:-- [Lille #3 in possession -of the allies. The 5th' British army encircled and captured - the great French manu: facturing town on Thursday. 50 to Ble; : new-laid, ol. 38 to 0 dscns, Ib 2,152 38 to 40c; a , $8. 38¢; ey 38 0 Beg Squabs * Beane--Canadian, as dipichnd, bus., hand-picked, Burma or In ian, $6; Japan, 7; Lima, 18 to 18%c. oney new crop--| ain 60-1b, tins, 26c3 101b. tins, ies Eh, Voy 28¢c." ° Combs--Doz., $3 Provisions--Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 37 to 39¢; 'do., heavy, 80 to 82c; cooked, 52 to bde; rolls, 32 to 38¢;wbréakfast bacon, 41 to 45¢; backs, plain, 46 to 47¢; boneless, 50 to 52c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 30 to 81c; clear bellies, 29 to 30e, Lard-- Pure, tierces, 381 to 81%c; Describing the surrénder of the city the correspondent of the Associ ated Press at British ' headquarters wires: "At 4 o'clock on Thursday morning the German command at Lille order: ed"all the inhabitants to assemble as *| promptly as possible. As they hur ried through the gloom of the streets they observed the. garrison marching 'out. They were told to go out to the British lines and meet their friends. Then came the rhythmic tramp of infantry, which gradually died away. The Germans had de: parted from Lille. 'At dawn a British 'airman flying | 60; geese, Ts {ing the enemy ian hing guns and. other bosty taken m | Douai Also; Occupied by Haigs Troops--W, onderful Scenes - nessed in, the Liberated Towns, , wi over the cit; . thoy) bl y beheld a most ming g oe # yr The sireets with civilians Who i wire Faniey Lerchiefs Yating 'hand Not 3 soldier could hyd seem. quickly & turned and carried the otk back to the B; lines. Patrols na] i and entered the Cl , British" drums wore beating through the streets of Lille on Thurs- day morning, while the British patrols advanced east of the city in contact! with. the ng Germans. The evacuation of Ld} ond the British en: try into the city. was one of the most dramatic events of the war, British troops entered the town of Doual on Thurgday, after overcom- tance on the line of the Haute Deule Oanal, according to 'the official. statement from the War Office. on Thursday night. tubs, 31% to 82c; pails, 31% to 32%c; prints, 83 to 33%hc. Compownd, tierces ( co 25% to 26c; tubs, 26 to 26%ec; pails, 261 to 26%¢; prints, 27% to 28c. 6.76; milkers, good to ¢ ice, $90. 00] ; do. com. and y $65.00 $160.00; De es $i, OL 6 ewes to $14.00; Montre:1 "I Markets rlings, $15.00 to $16.50; spring Montreal, Oct. 22.--Oats, extra No. | lambs, $15.50 to $16.25; calves, good 1 feed, 93¢. Flour, new standard grade, to choice, $14.00 to $17.75; hogs, fed $11.60 to $11. 65. Rolled oats, ¢ bag and watered, $18.25; do, weighed: off 90 Ibs. $5.20 to $6.80. Bran, $37 «cars, $18.50. Shorts, $42.25. Mouillié, $68 to $70.| Montreal, Oct. '22. --Choice steers, Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $24 to {$11.50 to $12. 50; good steers, $10.00 $25. Cheese, finest easterns, 25% toto $11.00; Poorer oality $9 to $9.50; 25c. Butter, choicest creamery, 49 butchers' "bulls, to $10; poorer _|to 0c. Eggs, No! 1 stock, bde. Po-|qaulity, $7.50 Hs $8.00; choice but: tatoes, per-bag, car lots, $1. 90. Dress: | chers' cows, $9.50 to $10.25; canners, ed hogs, abattoir killed, $26.50 to[$5.50 to $5.00; lambs, $15 per 100 $26.00. Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 |ibs.; Sheep from Su to $11; choica Ibs. net, 81% to 33c. select hogs, $18 fo $19; roughs and: ------ heavies, $16. / Live Stock Markets pir Toronto, Oct. 22. --Extra choice Well Matched. heavy steers, $14.25 to $15.00;] A farmer, when asked is his horses thuice heavy steers $18. SG $id. .00; | were well matched replied: utchers' cattle, choice, "Yes, they are matched first-rate, 3 00 30 $0.50; do, com: One of them is willing to do all the | mon, $8.00 to $8.50; butchers' * pulls, Work the other is i he; choice, $10.00 to $10.50; do. medi Shon ~ CZECHS HAVE ENTERED PRAGUE Capital of. Bohemia. Now in the- Hands of Rightfal Inhabitants. A despatch from Copenhagen daye: ~The Czechs are masters of Prague, according to a Berlin despatch to The Berlingske Tidende, = Czech money is in circulation and the Czech flag waves over Hradschin Castle, Prague is the Capital of Bohemia, which recently was reported to have cared its independence of the Austro: Hungarian . Monarchy, where a general strike was re have developed into a great revolution, bulls, $9.50 to 985; do. rough bulls, $7.25 to $8.25; butchers' cows, choice $10.25 to $10. '50; do, good, $9.00 to $9.50; do. medium, $7.50 to $8.00; do. common, $6.50 to $7.00; stockers, { IN BEL $8.00 to $10.50; feeders, $10. 00 to $11.00; éannens and cutters, $56.60 to Possession A despatch from London says: The | French have captured the town of | Thielt; in Belgian Flanders, west: of Ghent, and have passed on 2,000 yards east of thé town. King 'Albert and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium entered Bruges at 10 o'- clock Friday morning, Belgian infan- try forces taking possession of the city. Zeebrugge, Germany's second submarine base on the North Sea, has also been captured by the allies, Out. of the sack between the Belgian coast and the Lys River the remnant of von Arnim's 'army is fle¢ing in an endeayor to reach his new line extend-; ing from Antwerp to Sedan, through' Namur and stabilize it for the time being to the Swiss frontier. The Germans are preparing to in-' undate the low-lying lands south of the River Scheldt in Eastern Belgium, a Central News' despatch from Ame sterdam teports.. The inhabitants 'have 'been ordered \to aba tof their East of Le Cateau and the Sensee They fought an day Friday against stubborn resist: which in all cases was overcome. British are driving east astride a ee : aun ng A BouseHoLD. Ties. DRIER JET BE, | ALRIGHT , BUT HE'S NOT REE H Finished a FOUR MORE TOWNS LIBERATED com > GIUM AND N. FRANCE British Occupy Turcoing and Roubaix, Belgians E ater Zeeks e and French Capture Thielt--King Albe: bert in VEE of Bruges. Gen. Plumer's army in the Lille sec- tor has occupied Turcoing and Rou- / baix to the north-east of the manu-|' facturing city. Berlin officially admits the evacua- tion of Turcoing, Roubaix, ; Outend, Lille and Douvai. - = In Belgium the day has een oe- cupied principally in the line-straight- ening. The limes now pivot on Bruges, one running generally to the coast n a Ostend = and the second slopin off ito the south-east. Heavy fighting wag" reported . at only. one place on Friday, This was Oostre- osebeke, south of Thielt. e Bel- gians and French wanted .the town and the ground nearby, as the Ger- mans were holding 'it as a sort. of salient. So the Belgians went out 'and fought for it, and after a furious bastle the pallet 7 "riddled enemy took o his heels. = Now =the Belgians ave the Rang d orth of Turcoing an ix th in France tish, bo % shawls, The iim} preparations as chloretone and J ine are well adapted for this purpose. In fighting previoys dec- tors found quinine a useful preven- tive. One grain of sulphate of qui- nine mixed with (but. not dissolved in) a wineglagsful _of cold water | makes an excellent-antigeptic gargle.! The anti-microbic properties of quin- | ine are well known and its use as des. ribed above at once relieves the symptoms of sore throat, which re- sult from the strain of the fight be- tween the white blood corpuscles and the invading germs in the tonsils-- the body's first line of defence. Quinine is also given internally with succes as a preventive. In one of the more recent outhireaks in Europe, an experiment was fried in which the men of one squadron of a regiment of cavalry were each-given 7% grains of quinine in 3% ounce of whiskey daily Jot 22 days, whilst those of the other squadron wegpe given none. The latter squadrong had from 22 to 44 | cases each of influenza, whilst the squadron rettol with quinine de- 1 veloped only 4 cases. Inhalatioris of important in athe: in tha household: ~ ° pr the' nose. and (2.) Discharges mouth: should Ror 'be allowed to get dry on a pocket "handkerchief or in- side' the house, office or id They - Haould at once be colle in paper clean rage and burned. . If this cannot be done, they should be drop. .. ped into a vessel containing water. (3.); Infected articles" and "rooms rhould be cleansed and disinfected. Use disinfectants: everywhere. Wash Ahe hands frequently. - (4.) Those attacked ould not, on any account, ming! h other peo- ple. for at least a period of ten days from the commencement of the at- tack. In severe 'eases, they should Temain away from work for a longer period. (5. Y Special attention. should be given to cleanness and ventilation. Warm clothing should be worn, the foet should be" kept. dry and all un- necessary dkposure" avoid | NO OPPOSITION-TO BRITISH ADVANCE ON ALEPPO fa despatch from London says: In Syria the Turks are not offefing any opposition to the British advancing towards Aleppo. It is reported that a force of 12,000 Turkish goldiers is being concentrated at. Aleppo under -| Gen. Limon von Sanders. British forces already are north of Homs, 100 miles south of Aleppo. The British are, making good progress in repairing the railways in the country to | they have o overrun. SES ca CANADIANS JOIN IN PURSUIT " OF THE FLEEING' INVADERS LA despatch from the British Army in France says: North of the. Sensee -- "| River the British formations, in which': are included Canadians, are advanc- . ring with a speed which 'seems to in-. creasd. constantly. ' For many miles north of the river it is only wi greatest of difficulty that the manage to gain contack now an with the fleeing enemy, 50 fast is the enemy going east. - ONE-FOURTH OF GERMAN GUNS TAKEN BY ALLIES a A despatch from. Puls says: guns captured from the Germans tho FPritish, French~and Americans fin the last' three -months number 4,- | 600. "This represents, Sne-foueth of { all their artillery. - BRITISH, 'FRENCH AND Many Villages \ Amer ¥ A despatch from London says: This, was a black day for the German arms. Nite from Lille 'to the sea a wond- 1 crop of brilliant successes was tbeing garnered, the British 4th' army, with 'an American division, attacked on a front of nine miles. north-east of Bohain and south-east of Cambrai, wherg heavy fighting has taken place all day. The British 'carried thé line of the Selle River on the whole front south of Le Cateau, establishing themselves on' 'the railway | beyond the town. 'Seven German divisions were hurled back after determined counter- attacks and 8,000 prisoners captured.' The new thrust was ° eat a point where the 'enemy was effect his main retreat, - A despatch from the Frefeh Forces | says: Progress' continued to by iid "ADVANCE SOUTH Captured and 3, 000 Prisonctn Taken by" Anglo. icans--French Take Village of Talma.- ing to . IANS | OF LE CATEAU "Thursday on the edgtern wing of the battlefront in the. face of stout pop. tition. The German resistance was especially determined 'west of Gs Pre, in the _Argonne, where the | ans §fill hold Badin Farm #. ar salient. A Gen. Gouraud's Tien have in Hill 222 and the village of Talma, - 1,000 yards to the north, and Little Talma, about the same 'distance south of the hill from where the me pends avound the American positions Jor of Grand Pre. The bth Frene under Gen, Guillaumat, former tary Governor of Paris, ist 'serious if (J ned a foot}