MUST ABANDON Wilson Expects Germany on Merchantmen PIRATE POLICY to End Submarine War racti- i A de ats fro Bees’ watts Germany mat abandon her subma: programme the attacks on the on American lives and Ameri- ean vessels, No doubt exists here of the diffi- culty of the position in which this note places Germany. Nothing less than a repudiation’ of all she has f pI ally ans oe ies to do ee sub- en and ES =I meet the WS com: municated et her by the United Bee ped of its diplomatic dress, Ani President’s note carries not action, and as regards the most im- portant demand, that of guaran- pees for the future, ‘‘immediate eps’ are require: : a Bisaliy. the plain intimation is conveyed that the note itself is not all Germany must expect if any action is not forthcoming. WILL LOCK UP MALE PRISONER ‘Those Not of Military Age and Women Are to Be Re- patriated. A despatch from London says police stations in the East End and pleading for protection, explaining that they were being mistaken for Germans. ee are reaching the police uses belonging to ermans in the fashion- Shia Weet Whe are Mable to he urne barse placards in the windows of almost all business houses and m kets bear the w No “husiness rds Premier asquith Sopa in the transacted with Taek House of Commons thai, ‘al e ae ne alters of par- senemies over military age. eal be| tier rity occurred in) the repatriated.”’ He also said sed reigned of the East India. women and children in suitable | do ixty or seventy German cases. will be ‘repatriated, though shops were wrecked, Germans in ome might remaii e Govern- | the tity are uniting for self- ment proposes to segregate all|defence and police reinforcements adult male enemies for their own| are being rushed to the scene e safety of the x -Aacmish told the announc- jen pallog: of the Goyern- enfent ‘the nan mier “At this moment some 40,000 un- maturalized aliens, of whom 24,000 ‘are men, are at large in fee rtry. The Government proposes thet all adult males of this class id, for their own safety and ‘that of the ed be segr and in 1c © the Pitas age they should Be repatriate ~ Phe Government recognizes there eases in which justice and humanity will require that they be allowed ‘to remain. “Tt would be difficult to find a baa for the feeling of Skesne dignation aroused in al in this , unhappily, i “that innocent and Ree per- sons are in danger of ade to pay the pi enaliy fonsdhexoranek -of others. nti-German riots in the Hast End of London were renewed with ‘even greater violence me coed menselt he was at-| ai ‘tacke: police f icers ‘vors | to were ‘Born r clothes were torn from their backs . ne German was thro into a Miiorse yong wibh the neaheder ia is had been spending] u a similar fate by the intervention of the Mire were sovecal nina in their carts. down the streets at a allop, but in most cases they ultimately were run down and their vehicles A number of Russian. Jewesses. were icoking this morning to the Feeling in Johannesburg. pe ecesiney scene: of the Gens of citizens wait questing him to on the ground, where the peti- tioners stand while writing their na Another German flag was public in. front of the Paw HALL’ Plngaitie have ‘hoon dis: urging 8 boyeott of Ger- Exchange com- © has Ae a resolution see members of Teutonic birth to avoid the exchange during the war. = Mayor has consented to comply with the request that he call a mass meeting. BOTHA OC Chief City of German South-West Africa Has Been Captured. London sa: PIES CAPITAL. h Reuter Telegram Company says that Windhoek, ‘capital of German South-west Africa, was capture ithout resistance by of population 3,000 E Gen Botha’s Hecougbort the conquered terri- Sank, Botha, addressing his vie- torious troops, declared that the capture of the capital of German South-west Atria was of the “ut- most importar sion of German South-west Atri a? ceeded the, General dwelt the responsibility of the army care for children in Windhoek, saying in ae connection: nothing that nobody. w Military Examiner—What must a man ! e buried with mili- tary honors? Recruit—Dead SCENE INCREASES IN TERROR German Infantry Wretchedly Inferior to Artillery and No Attack Has Been Really Pressed Home A despatch from London says: rate, in equi- Poise and the scene increases in terror. Nothing is left of Ypres, its walls. ‘Nothin teat live in the city and the ve at Poperinghe to give the name of ed a new fleet of aeroplanes or have stimulated new activity in ones. Some flew over Dunkirk re- clouded with the ane of shrapnel s ecene. aroun! limes in front of Ypres are Tike a eee ‘of Galway bog slides. To such extent have the trenches “been knocked out ‘of shape’ that a has great deal of fighting @ open and wu ie ee shelters or the «sh “The a os of. the artillery has been as notable-as its a result of colos- try attack in the Ypres-distriot has really been pressed home. In the at Ypres. advances have been made almost lazily and placidly. oes oan not sow the cL thomoaile tilled. Se ee wan on no harvest, though the ploughing is terrible enough in. itself. It has m ithe side of the allies that they are engaged jn. a warfare between human and’ evil elements, £0 persistent has heen the sstlsives and gad-filled the enemy, and then so Slee ae their eee this feeling except at Ypri the battleebbs Peecae “Heavy German’ rei deboushed from. we Geol Trench towns occupied “i them and hold the ridge of Auber: <The mes (continue ‘their ad- The Blas horde of deri prisoners, who surrendered with srtain readiness. no time in the war have our men spoken with more wl ented ‘of the work of the French gunne: and guns, although at that losses have been heavy. No. infan- ome - battle has not yet reach- large German flag is spread | ¢! ic he | refused -| any lagny and a| ii German Hussars Searching a Russian Peasant’s Shop for Hidden Russians. wm,$8; dlo.,, medium, $7.10, to $7,505 do. cottimton, "$6.60 75 ‘atettens bulls, choice, 86.78 as to $120, }; do., 36.25 1p SE 0 Sa bulls, but choi $6.7: do. 2 to $6.60; do. 50 tO ito 25.504, fester, ‘700 to 1,000 25: ene and gente ot 5; milkers, choice, each, $60 to, $90; do... commor ium, $55. $45; epringers,. Li) ae ight ewes, $F Reavy, 85 to $6.30 do, Ducks, éatling lambs, sr did not believe was possible, an even gotten all about it until one day be unearthed a painting of himself that period from among the ol meres This he handed to bis wife as r his present GERMANS WORSE THAN SAVAGES Crime Unparalleled: Horror Committed by Kaiser’s rmies. A despatch from London says: Wien Canadians, secure..in. their from the devastated battlefields: of France and Belgium, hear stories nd the of crime and outrage conception of their wildest imagi Hotties draleepe tape BE eyenced for baueecepeal But aor e|last vestige of doubt has vanished. The powerful light of sworn evi- dence taken by ‘a specially picked i vernment ittee, Ambassador en turned on, the ey the d world, stands convicted of deliberately British oe crime of unimagined horror. any months mier quith named this.committee, whose personnel includes such men as Se erick Pollock, Sir Edwa: ie in structed them to ah sift’ all evidence of “‘outrages alleged to have been’ committed by German troops during the present war. This they have done, and their re- port is a document that will at- tract world-wide attention. The eport of this committee has re- or in last few months, but the members to be hurried, and only published it after they had th oughly established the ‘authenti of e y statement contained in Goushed in siipla: teenie, “ties -| port lays bare the story of a great ferman army sweeping across Bel- gium literally with fire and sword. Organized bodies of troops, direct- d by officers, systematically mur- Sasa young girls and, women were out- raged, and murdered; TH ests the object of the most revolting of crimes. Breaking into sien ance houses, German igkereteslis wine asifars atd selves, committing crimes of every es. | description while in a state of i toxication. Anxious to be si lously fair, the committee reports| y cases German officers it ae themselves were horrified and sick- ical wieanes going on) bu “J rely on your honor to perform| omni A ; this responsible work well and| Goamitted by. individual soldiers paibpblly: “more shocking than would be ex- ee pected ty warfare between civilized You can get a lot of things for Powers.” eee RRS “Sneak CONDITION OF THE CROPS. Statistics Office. Owing to the mild winter and sg fayoratle conditions which pre: vailed during the critical months o March and April, the fall whea' t being rop is reporte excep- tionally good on April 30. In On- tario, where 1,043,000 acres were sown- as. estimated last all se more than 6.8 p.c. winter lilled, and in Alberta, with 230,000 acres estimat the propartg aitem cite tr only proportions are lower than Sp way pence mone 09 for Ontario and lower than in her a8 was 19 in ‘Ontario and 15.6. in rta. In Ontario the area winter year to 71,000 acres, and in ta to 14,300/acres. au figures, dedveted from. the eas wn. leave 9 acres in pier and ais pee in Alberta as areas pee ia Uae ie be. iar! veste 0,900 acres in Mani- 300 acres. in Suckatdhewsn and 6,000 acres in British Colum- bia, the total area under wheat to be harvested oie year the genes condition on April 30, sured by the standard of ii as com] 1 last year, Zand 5 in Alberta, as under the chaitmanship of Viscount | mo ass meeting Br to voice protests against “Germany’s| 2 an hae pl crop, as com) Report Issued by the Census and te r previous year on record for | 6 the percentage | gays Killed amounts. this|¢) fearrange ber} ous BATTLESHIP GOLIATH SUNK British Submarine E-14 Avenges By Sinking Two Turkish Gunboats A despatch from London. says: The British battleship Goliath ‘has y| been torpedoed in the Dardanelles. It is feared 500 lives have been lost. cae ash of the loss of the Goliath wa: - i je House of - | Common: Win: Spencer Churchill, re rte Le of the Ad- miralty. Mr. Churchill also announ that the British submarine E-14 haste. and-a Turkish transport. doed The Goliath was torpe and Ee by Turkish destroyers | last nig! The Goliath was attacked and sunk while protecting the flank the French troops in their land Despate! ce to the Admiralty from Vice-Admiral Michael. De Ro- wed | and Ven, of| She was armé beck, commander of the Seta fleet in the Dardanelles ane operations, said that twenty cers an an of the Goliath's crew had been saved. The battle- ship normally carried a complement of 750 ‘iho: Cicliaifi “wae a aistoe ahip-ot the Canopus, Ocean, Glory, Albion geance, She was comman ed by Captain Thomas L. Shelford. 5 ae Goliath was one of the older battleships of dreadnouht type. She was built 1898. Her complement was 750 The G Goliath was 450 feet long on the water line and 74 pee Her displacement was 15.880 toni h four 12-inch and twelve 6-inch guns; twelve 12- rs, six 3-pounders and two machine guns. She had four torpe- do tubes. compared with 87. For Ontario the figure is highor than in any yea’ since 1910, when 95}4 was recone for ‘Alberta, ‘this year’s 007 lon was only ex: last year aod i condition for the la on April 30 was 91 which, converted into stan- dard of 100 as representing the average condition at the same to Ls i oh small, 0 p.c. ets i estimate for all ‘Ca nada m- pared with 14 p.c. a year ey ‘22 ‘The’ av last year Olay 8). 298:D-0, in To13 and 7: RUSSIAN DRIVE MOVES QUICKLY New Offensive is Forcing Austrians In Rout to the Pruth Riv despatch from London says The Russian offensive in far Bast. © tern’ Galicia faba Bukowina is meeting witl tinued success, pooording to thie oficial teport: Px ceived from . Counter- attacks by the Austrians have fail- ed entirely to check the advance of the Russians, and the enemy's forces were in disorderly retreat, own some‘ 20 ae north ot ie Pruth River. Two Austrian | battalions were an- nihilated b; ussian sehen 5 and several: toes A nun! German attack in and the Carpathians, except for the pierre that the fighting creased in intensity on a grea of the- front. An earlier ‘official note, referring to the enemy’s suc- last fortnight, no tactical success. rese: by a flank blow, enabled our, ae v a. lin intage- po! final retreat. earty revenge.”” is ready ing le, TAKS: Your es Chicagoan—bid fair ne an easier task and far less tir. none is a device for use with any or pencil. A grip is provided for the fingers of the writer, and the shape of levies, with a weight placed in the lower potion i of it, makes the movement of the writing instrument an easy matter. other invention is a pen and panel holder. . Slipped over. the a pen or pencil, this device which is provided with a sleeve through which the index finger is assed, also makes writ'ng a Pane to be enjoyed. outsi 7 | $26 w ton, and shore at $28. 0) de- ti ceived strong reinforcements, and He fo MARKETS OF THE WORLD REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Breadstuffs. Toronto; May. 18 Flout—Manitob: 90 guolediat $640 re 36.19, 6.15 te onto freight EAS 1 Northern, quot, somewhat worm- oe appearance, ere, Alice,’’ said Mrs. Mump- ser, proudly exhibiting the picture to the servant. ‘That is a portrait your master, painted when he was a dhild.” ‘Alice gazed open-mouthed at the nab ieh an: ‘Lor’, mum,” she said, after some moments, “‘what a pity it is we have to grow up, ain’t it?” Why Adam and Eve Were Happy. The teacher in one of the Son abiad qshoplenysedolk gees the delights of the Garden of Eden, its fruit trees and bright baielse and the placid life our first She then asked ane enta Jed Ghat. question :—‘‘And; children, — wh was it that Adam and Eve were $0 happy, so perfectly happy. there?’ Please, madam,” answered the child promptly nd eagerly, ““eause they was always in the country.’ Kept from Cal: A despatch from London say’ feeling of hatred among the Ger- now stronger against the mans Can Se ae the © rest British forces. They say: “If it we shows have been through to Calai: Stating the Question. “Bobby, you must go to church with me this DTA gs ‘Mamma, why ‘Bobby, ould! H you ike st a #4 & church with “Well, Bobby, _ wouldn’ you Tike to go to church with me this morn- ej ing?” “Nope.”” = nominal, Go: iallibg gradea, 12 16 Tea. cuteloe. Bye The market, is: dull at. $1 to $1.06; Peas—Prices are nomin: Corn—No. 2 new Bay port Amer quoted at ts, and No, 3 at’ 80 1-20, Bay. ports. Buckwheat—No. 2 quoted at 80 to 820, Bran and ehorteBren_ le’ quoted at ggiiiled Sate—Oar lots, per. tyeit of 90 libs. Country Produce, ter—Offerings are fairly large, and peel sigedy: TUnilioe# detrys Anne. Book Inferior, Bi to Mics creamery ‘prints, 3 t0 j do S0G8, 19 10, So, >The market teady, with sales at ee por dozen, in case lots, Beane—The auarket is quiet’ ah, 3.10) to lor prime, Md $3.20 $3.25 for handpicked, Poultry—Chickens, dressed, to. 200: ducks, dressed, 18 to ies fowl, Bw turkeys, eye Cheese: othe. nese ote ready, eink quoted at 38 s4e for largo, and’ at % 1. jo tw oes—Ontario, 60 to 65¢ per dag out of Seapen and ein Jin oar ae. New Bru wicks, car lot per Provisions. Cured meats are quoted as Bacon, je gaa 15 34 to ie ipa ay a casi edium, 17 1 1-20. do. 6-1-8 t9, 1605 sells (1446 14 1-20} Hrealact ipaobas 18 & 3 backs, 21 to boneless backs, tanto arket, is quiet, with prices steady pure lard, tbe, 11 84-40. cy doy pail 0 12 1-2. Compound, iubs, 9 3-4 # do. paile,'10 to 10 1-40. Baled Hay and Straw. Dealers are paying a6 follows for car Jog idelingries ‘on, Argok, uoted. 7.8 to 88.50 a ton in vga tot deliveries ‘on track fay—No. ay is quoted ‘at $17 to gif.s), No. io, Boat $14.50 to $15.50, and No. Sat $12 Business in Montreal Mopinta vant 18—-Corn—American _No, vel io Bie. Oats Canadian West: a Winter patents ght pollens, #7 ad bay to $34, nes ne: per ton, car lot Cheese Pinest westerns, 18 1:2 a finest: sterns, 18 to Be 14e. pute ea: Choicest, erenmery: Bf to 50 Ege asiooted, 40 do., No. Potatoes “Per Tag oak leh ates, Dreieed bogs: Avatior killed, $15 eres Bork envy meea, to. 45. eae Se 35 ada. anos eat. back, 0. Lard compan & pails, 0 | ts Tai ise Food pala, 8 ie, Winnipeg Wheat. 18.— fet uotations— (0. 2, Nort] 4 1-2} No. feed, 3-No. pee a 2 feed, 687-80. Barley—No. 3, age oe. Bite No. TN.W.C, St No. 2.6.W.,. $1.29. United States! States Mi TS. Max, a Mhex No 3 : Nowthonn sah 4 sea tive , Stock Markets. ‘To the end of his days Lord Rob- erts always slept in # camp bed. Tt takes 2,300 silkwors to pro- duce one pound of silk. o correct rhyme has even been found for the word ‘‘month,’ Don’t believe all you‘hear, or say all you believe. lead the takes Many a man ‘Ye able to simple ne Bie ne his wife in board Old Rox! cigh, “Consent to you laughter? No, sir! mpecunious Suitor—‘‘Well, sir, if jae the way ey foe) about it, I can’t say that Donald MacMaster, K.C., informs us that a friend of his who has j returne rmany says ss } Mothers Avoid More thi lion _qlurngna aan et cont: sadly quan- tities, “They have realite peril to little children that ac- companies the use of fly poisons. the Ci Betterment Mi Which comments ‘upon ca a being poisor “The danger to children { iors andthe dangerto adults eis means oes iderable.”” £ the s wines tate, Risateal Sours mn fhe aime subject too a nto states eke ay a poiso Gangsters as the phosphorus sb Where there are children, oF where children visit.” PUT SQUARELY UP 10 THE KING Italian Cabinet As its His aia to Take Command of the Situation, despatch from Hae says + With the rejection by Italy of the final offer of territorial feds other concessions on the part of Austria and the opening of Panieianean sa it is believed here tl the Cabinet will ask Kin, Victor Em- manuel to take su of the situation and tru ie eet & é Judgment to do what heat/tor the interests of the Giornale D’ Toulin ihe oriee of. Baron Poreign Mini tt bes widesprea “Italy is determined on the Hest ‘St tise national aspirations, cost what it may. It i this rea- son that the Gocbiedt hastened war preparations — whicl en completed, caused Austria to compensations, thus a eriagas the claims of Italy. Tried to Arrange Peace. “When the Austro-Italian nego- tiations were initiated Signor Gio- successfu Portune letter affirming fall one 1, however, determination to resort to war, the conversations were resumed. yertheless, Austria, besides offerin, insufficient concessions, attemp! a dilatory policy and tried secretly to ‘concluda a separate peace with erie Italian Government. there- upon opened negotiations with ti allies, which anager net served to inorease AN ustrih hs offers The expression ‘“‘pigeon sa daeert arose from the ‘Chinese attem pt pronounce the si Ene ancl through various forms, be- “pidgin,” and then ‘ ‘pisgoon.’? CDi per English’’ is a strange jar- gon of many languages, but ‘busi- ness” is carried on by it. Reach A despatch from London says: Officers aprivin, on France tell that ithe British troops, infuriated over the iiualiedia isaster, are fighting with great vigor and more, fiercely than’ ‘ore th intensest indignation. The Motning Post correspondent: t/in Northern France says; “‘At no: ave the Germans displayed er determination bri through at all sacrificing large numbers of ‘men, violating e of God and man, in a aehokes deen iti Se: has Te been of the most desperate. de- Despite losses; we have Hast Obstacle to Lille. “On the next sector, that of the Fol- wing. up our quiet, but. steady, Sromeeks around Soe ee am Houplines;— both hich places are now under heavy punastae Tn ma an troops—Pathans, and Gurk- Ags May 19-—Butchers’ cattle, vice, $8.25 to $8.65; do., oes $7.00 “Wwe opened then upon the ridge eak | our artillery DEATH ROLL IS APPALLING Enemy Sacrifices Men By Thousands in Effort to Ypres ‘ a bombardment which, if it age not exceed in intensity that of Neuve Chapelle, continued for a much longer period found d/ that, profiting by previous experi- ence, rmans had nirepathoried. their defences tugouta and shelters rete and steal. that,-after having carried the ridge the Anst lines of the ain trenches, apparently obliterated. by fire, we were caught by PONS machine guns cunning- ly placed, so that they should os- cape the ‘general Sone ee “Wh pened on us at greatly with short range our untenable, and. w ourselves with the footing of the aie slopes. o! e ridge in the To meet our onslaught FS Aubers the have brought up great. masses of men, and they had apparently been eon= centrating at Lille, “Preceded by: @ terrible bom- bardment, our troops-delivered an attack upon the famous railway triangle wesb of La pcoenneee hh ve were enabled to ja tack upon ithe ridge, the last ob- strong have they made their trench- stacle between us and the plains| es 0} and iron pla lead to Lille, some five or that i it was found our artillery had really made very little impression sine around at Fromelles| upon. ther n wire entangle- of our old Neuve Cha-| ments wore pretty. mearly intact. ay ground, the horse sh: hy my also eye runs in a north-easterly | sbrabogem. He left his two: first Shite. seat and before Fromell ines empty of men and-materials here lies a small wood, similar to undergo bombardment, which _which proved» a therefore harmlcss, but he was 2} eeerabing at Neuve Chapelle. BLE for onr infantry in ‘his ‘third | This ae. eens eaptured by. our] line. + the same time the now famous brick’ fields ‘of “this*paxt “of eo ae were veritable nests of machine