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of Ex me bp over ten thousand Minin over 4 'hundred: million dol At from the Palace, there are idings of juterest in Versailles; he of dite Dame, built by ; er Protestant Church the English isi being in no remarkable. fonts cout 'court (Jeu de Deputies 'of a SEA WNOT map of Barope 'and considering fate of former Kaiser {5 ded and a leh a Bei f| Gorniany on January 18, 1871, There also, on February 26, 1871, the pre- > signed be Marshal MacMalio: i 1{ there the + Versuities agi army" of Gov- ernment troops. pon | the Susan in Paris. © Until 2879 the spat, of .the French EAE, ' Referring to theginterier of the Palace of Versailles, Mr. Baldwin says: "Unless. we possibly except 'Gallery of Battles, 'of all 'the i ments ie the Palace the Galerie des. Glaces is. the most striking: Certainly it is the most historic. This magnifi- cent room is lighted on one eide by seventeen: great windows in © white fnarble aréades. © On the other side ,| ing. the memo seas representatives' w the chairman states that ER Governments had u unreservedly agreed to. bear their 'share of 'whatever ex- pense was iuvelfed a Ho lB commission, herdliag, econ She th Ses 8 discharge itd thsk if' no or niggardly ky oS grulih adopted the fecommendation' that the | most editable method of honoring those whose graves could not be found |. | or identified would be to'place a tab- let, appropriately inscribed, in a come. 3 ADmo tery near the spot where it is believed the! the men were killed. It is estimated i that there will be at least a thousand cemeteries. The commission decided to ask the Indian Government to 'formulate proposals for the establish- |' ment of an agency iy India for the care 'of British gravel there. | The commission 'also warmly thanked the itoba. quality, Sn, . or jg $37.25 per ton; vis Hay---<No. 1. 82 to. $22 B pe Te ors mized $19 io $20 pos lo, trick Tor Straw-Car lotsy $9.50 to $10.0, track Toronto. Country Produce holessle > Egge--No, 1 storags, 65 to Gee T1818 to : quality, down Three Ci Delegates At Inter- Allieg Conferences [Liberty says it understands Gre A' despatch' ST a Ta ¢ ponding arcades are Union of South Africa Government nr A or] "three ® pundred bev- for its most generous offer to mieet eifed mirrors. Strengthened by their the entire cost of cemeteries and for |'. But ey, solids; 51 to 63¢; white marbles onvironment, they the provision of memorials to officers ido, prints 58 to Gbe; choice dairy ; and men of the Imperial forces dying | prints, 45 to 47c; ordinury' dary within the Union. prints, 88 to '40c; balers' 83c; BRITISH PEACE he Ne large, 21% to 296} DELEGATES NAMED 28 to 28%c; spring made, large, Dominions to Appear at Con- vg to 20¢; twins, 29 to 29%5¢. Comb Honey--Choice, 16° oz, 31.50 ference as Small Nations. A despatch from London says:-- to $6.00 per dozen; 12 oz., $3.50 $4.00 per dozen. Maple Sy rup---Tn b-gallon tins, $8.25, . . : Premier Lloyd George; Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer; A. J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and George Nicoll Barnes, Privy Councillor, have been 1 appointed plenipotentiarias 'to the HG 0 Ter. ack bons to ing Pepce Conference by the British Cab. (ottags rolls, 85 to 86e. inet, acording to the Express and the Drq_Salted Meats--Long clears, inv Mail. 'tons, 80c; in cases, 30%c;" clear bors Sir Robert L. Borden, Premier of lies, 28 to 28%et fat backs, 26c. Canada; William Morris Hughes, | La ro obutes reed, 2835 ns Premier of Australia, and General tu a Bd to Ot bia iis, 30% to 30% " i 313. Shortening, Louis Botha, Bremier of the Union b Gercas, 26% to 25%c; tlibs, 256% to "of South Africa, will _ be. colonial 26¢; pails, 26 to 26%c; 13h. prints, representatives, who will have seats 27 fo 273he: i bly Algeria, has 1 tation, People of TusenborgD : Want Republic odeinied A despatch fiom Metz aay large crowd paraded before the Srapd Ducal Palace in Luxemburg: on day, requesting the Grands Duchess and" ©! of a republic, A commi safety has been ap is being i ai selected, storage, BS to G0¢; cartons, After re- new laid; 76 to 78c. able | Britain' has at' comm: le Spe' "goes on to say: "Behind lie b : ems of the sum that will ultimately 8 produced in vepayment of our loatt | to Allies and dominions, and | of the amount we s! tout of Germany against our Py "damages. All "s he abdicatjp tion of tho these uncertdinties affect not only the the Prgelamation question of how much the Government * I . . e-every year in taxa- iw problem of nance: | fetving to the Tres "recover Provisions--Wholesale Barvelled Meats -- Pickled pork; $48; mes; pork, $47 Green M Meats---Out of pickle, 1c Jess than smoked. Smoked Meats--Roills, 32¢ t6 33¢; hems, medium, 38 to 39¢; heavy, 80 to 31¢; cocked hams, 51 to 52¢; moka; wr 3 : Discussing "i "ie Csr of "We are, on Raper, still very FHrach : celfor ' vorpiiukt! "in his dha budget: speech fast: I all we ing Spring ang Summer Will 'had borrowed abroad: during the-twar ome at Rate of 45,000: we had borrowed 30 der to relend a Month. o Allies, so that with Yegard to our : ¥ own war cost we Had been selfcsufile: Aiespateh Srom, Ogawa sys: --1It ing. The figures officially published; is stabed in mi rcles here that the in so far as they. can bo understood, i y +more than bea: "ext i stamens < | ta 'Canada of the last units of the The" article suggests. that military" forces 'of Canada now sery- Britain should entirely. wipe ing overseas in. Europe. - " loans to her Allies, Russia, Gallery of Battles, Palace of Ver-saiiles, Peace Conference. The, Meeting Place of the Lowis XV. (1716-1774), who lived and died in the Palace, contracted the three treaties of Versailles with Aus-| trim there, Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette of Austria, also re- sided there. With the passing of years and the French . Revolution came Emperor - Napoleon I. (1804-1815), who visited Versailles very infrequently. Then, under the guise of 'restoring it, Louis Philippe dismantled the Palace grace- fully, but, = paradoxicaily, he did re- Sars it in general ja something of ts former splendor by converting it into a museum, He collected an im- mense number of paintings and sculp- tures, which, aside from the historical portraits . in the Palace and certain pieces of sculpture in the gardens, have no great artistic memit. This work of restoration cost $5,000, 000, Vorstl tlh SneRbitg. ob oe] of + place where, on November 30, 1782, Bas preliminary 'articles of 'peace be- tween Great Britain and the United 'States were signed 'by "Benjamin Franklin. In the following year, on September 8, Britain, France and dazzlingly reflect the light, and give its name to the hall. Here it was that ra cynic once said of the assemblages which used to gather within these walls: "Statesmen who sit in a glass house should not be surprised if na- tions throw stones." The great room is further decorated by trophies in gilded and chased copper, and on. thé ceiling are paintings tracing Louis XIV.'s military © history, paintings which took | Le Brun four years: to execute. - In the Grand Monarque's time this hall must have been spe- cially worth seeing, for all the furni- ture--the tables and chairs and stools, the tubs for the orange trees (which were his delight), the cafide- jabra and chandellere--were of solid silver and enamel. "It was in this room that the pre- liminary agreement of 1871 was tourists | signed, and here'it was that William |" 'of Pribsia 'was proclainted German Egmerat: Perhaps in this very p a new tréaty of peace will be signed which, while bringing law and order to the whole world, will signalize the end of the German Fm. pire. It thus will have found its of- ficial beginning and official end in this place. "For a time the great palace of Versallles, and not. Paris, was the ohn | veal Capital of France. To-day, for | hitherto have seemed to. thabit | but by the ghosts of kings, P: y the nonce, it may become the Capital of the world. Here and there work: men are invading partments which Lin order to Dieserve order and secure when the congress takes up business! of intérest to the dominions they rep- present, it is said. According to the Express, an important decision was reached by the Cabinet in providing that the dominions will appear at the Peace Congress as small nations. The delegates will go to Paris on Saturday for-the purpose of at-| tending sittings of the inter-allied | conference; 4 my asa SNOWSHOED 100. MILES TO * ENLIST WITH CANADIANS Ra A despatch from London says:-- Captain John MacGregor, of the Can- adian Mounted Rifles, who was re- cently awarded the Victoria Cross, wap a native of Cawdor, Nairnshire, Scotland, where his mother lives. At the outbrealt of the war he snowshoed 100 miles to enlist. For leading the | to charge at Vimy Ridge in 1917 he re- ceived the D.C.M. and his commission, and in January of last year won the Military 'Cross and a captaincy for pis determination 'and gallantry at $ By 70. rere Makshal Foch Will Congent. : f To_Prolong The Armistice | ers, i A despatch from Basel says:--The North German Gazette of Berlin says that upon the request of Marshal | Foch, allied and German plenipoten- tiarfes 'will moet January 14 or 15, at-Treves, to discuss a prolongation of the armistice. The Daily Chren- icle urges the associated 'when renewing the armistice to stipulate - for the right of occupation of any strategical position they may desire e----- he Montreal Markets * Montreal, Jan. 14--Qatsn<Extra No. 1 feed 90c.* Flour=New stan- dard grade, $11.26 to $11.85. Rall- e doats~bags, 00 Ibs, $4.26 to $4.50. -- $37.20, Shorts, $42.25. Moullie, | num $68.00" to $70.00. lay---No, 2, per ton, car lots $20.00 to $21.00, Cheese--Finest easterus, 24 to 25¢, Butter--Cheicest creamery, 52% to b63%ec, Eg s--Selocted, 56 to No. yihle & Roos + car Tots $1.70. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $25.50 to $26.00, Lard--Pure, wood pails, 20 lbs, net, 31 to 32%c. Live Stock Markets Toronto, Jan. 14.--Choice héavy sheers, $13.00 to $13.50; 50; ig cattle, choice, $11.76 to; $12. good, Sil. S108: 4s $11,50; do, 10.00 to $10 ; to $8.60; bulls. Fonch $10. $11.00; : Vio, medium bulls, $9. $9.50; "do. rough bulls, $7.50 to bu iehers JS choice, $10. 2% $10.76; do k .50; milkers, $90.00 to $140. 00; do: com. ed to. 875,00; paring- $90.00 to _$1 40.00 ewes, 890.00 ¢ to $10:50 yearns 318.90 tok ing lambs; $15.50 to Fi good to choice, $16.00 8.00; hogs 1 nd watered, 2 30 40 § 5; cars, $18. Ea 35 $19.0 00; do. $18. it $18°5 oF s off f.0.b. For the present there will be noi seating. up in the Tefurn; "of 'troops beyond numibers " 'alretidy' ar- ranged: for, 20 in Jaduary, in- creasing: to. 30, in Feburary, but in her spring and. 'summer months the ber returning to Canada will rise to. 45,000 'monthly. Several § Pactars ehiar iutojthe cone siderations 'governing 'the. these troops bo Canada, such as i po EERE $0. 8 to EE oa 201 8 Choe eturn. of a: Belgium; Serbia: and others; faking a presentsto eur late bro- 3 in arms, much 'harder hit than - are, of their promises to. pay. "We do not seem to have weakened otiy' international position 'ti (the ex. - tent of much more; thin 2,000 mil- i lions, by borrowing abroad and sales of securities," says$ the article, "and 2.000 millions' ig: only half the sum that was ustially accepted, Liefove the | war as the 'amount of our: overseas IT] investments. «So thato we are still nearly half as much a creditor coun- iisgiont que loans to Allies. Relative. iy, of course, the weakening is great: er; because America antl' many -neu- | trals have-incréased their wedith very rapidly during the war, while We have losing; but thére seems to ba no' 'veason for the view that wer are mot longer a creditor country, especially as we have another foreign account {inc our: claim on Germany." Fran {fing try as before the war, even after wip-