DISTRIBUTION OF BRITISH TROOPS oe TO MAINTAIN THE WORLD'S PEACE 264,000 ey Ore A206 600 in, Army _of the Rhine Serine, of France—10,000 to Aid in Adjus ae eo Italy and Jugo-S! , A despatth from London “says:— | had been reached at the Peace Con- The approximate distribution ae Ai! 650,000 troops Great proposes to keep under arms a tae world is again at peace was explained by War Secretary see in the House of Common: The ba vidaay ot foue: the Beer retary sald, te Great” Britain, | 120,000; army on the Rhine, 264, 000, In Italy and adjacent regions, Mr. Churchill added, there would be 10, RN Italy and the Jugo-Slays, saying: “We are keeping small forces of British troops there in many locall- been asked to do this is conjunction with our allies, because it has been found that these troops could prevent troubles between the local populations merely by their presence during period we are trying to settle things.” ‘This was, of course, continued the Secretary, done at the request and by the desire of both parties, who felt that otherwise there might be a grave political situation, and there were no troops anywhere engaged on a more merciful and beneficent task. In the Middle East and the Caucas- us there were 75,000 men, and hoped that they might be substantial- Py & ly reduced in the near These troops had been tXere to expel Turks ermans, and were there now merely to keep the people from flying at each other's throats until dectslons, he | under which Egy, feren In ndaaapotaiie? Great Britain had 30,000 men. After emphasizing the smallness of the number of troops actually in Russia, Mr. Churchill said peace treaty and to enable us, in con- junction with our allies, to influence a settlement in Europe,” Mr. Churchill, “the total forces we pro- pose to keep at our disposal are thus approximately 650,000 men.” Referring to a speech by a Deputy ho had attributed the situation in, soldiers and British generals Asa Thee of fact, Bri rule red 80 enormously, he’ latiertal vet had been military, but civilian. Of cours: in time of war, exceptional steps had to be taken, but the coun d been ~ Markets of the World igor Toronto, Ap. 8.—Manitoba Wheat, S20: ‘No. 2 No ay Wilt ise beers oats—No. 8 CW. 9944e; rejected, Ne feed, 96c, in store Fort William, corn—No, 3 yello $1.80; No. 4 yellow, $1 $7, track To: An 0. 70 white, 68 to Toe according outside. 720; No to brelghts"c 0, according to ray ataitise, 93 to 98c, nomin- al. Buckwheat—No, 2, 95e, nominal, . 2, $1.65, nominal. fanitoba dour — Government stan- dard, $10.75 to $11, Tor ario yur—{ Eeareinmuent stan- dase, As ‘a5 to. $9.75, in bags, Toronto inte bags lots, delivered Mon- car ‘tents, “bane included. Bran, $42 to $4’ int ton; mae: $44 to $4’ ‘7 er wat feed flour, $2.70 to a0 0. 1, $24 to $26 per ton; ee to '$23 per ton, track To: i en ie lots, $10 to $11 per ton. Produce—Wholesale. Bato Dates: tubs and rolls, 36 to 88¢; prints, 40 to dlc. Creamery, fresh made, rag 56 to 58. Eggs—New laid, 40 to 42c. “Dre: oe a idry 22c¢; fowl, ‘aenky Tings, i be; turkeys, aia, 2Te; ie, barr lew, large, 28 iM 28 twins, to 29¢; triplets, 29 DoiKet Stilton, 29% to 80c; ot, large, 29% to 20c; twin, 30 to 30 ers are et inj ca “the re- wing prices: choice, 46 to 58 to 60c; 6c; 0 Bde s—New aid 45. to 46c; new laid in Seb AT to 48c. sed ltry—Chickens, 35 te 40c; roosters, 28 to 0c; fowl, 37 to B8c} turkeys, 45 to 0c; ddceiiion, Ib, Be; squabs, doz., $6.00; geese, Ontarios, f.o.b, track eta car, lots, $1.10 oy $1: 15. sy primey ha May Limas, Bur- lde. ta oe fae 4.50 $0.00 dow. to) $4.00 18-07%, a iP, per “sole, gis et oe salem $11.20. to! $3.60 to 0, .| pails, 20 Ibs. net, 30% to ing ntreal, prompt. shipment in| choic ic) mé 68, $2.50 | took Provisions—Wholesale. (a3 Cee? meats— si |prints, 20% to B0c. Comp. tierces, to 25%c¢ tubs, 25% to, 26%; 26%c; prints, 27% pails, 26 to 2T%c. Montreal Ma Markets. 8.—Oats—Extra eed, 81%4c. wheat, new standard wri eae wood Live Stock Markets. Toronto, April 8—Good heavy steers, $14 to $15.75; choice butcher steers, $13.25 to $13.75; butchers’ cattle, choice, $18.00 to '$18.75;. do, Food,” $12.50 to $13; do, medium; $11.50 to ‘common, $10.50 to $11; Bulls, choice, $10.75 to 11.75; do, medium bulls, $9’ to $9.25; do, rough bulls, $7.75 to $8.25; butchers’ cows, choice, $11.50 50; do, good, 0.25 to $11; do, medium, $9.25 to 0; do, comm 50 to $8; stock- gts) $8.70 to $11.50; feeders, $11.50 t j canners an ers, $5.50 to is milkers, good to choice, $90 to ; do, com. and med., $65 to $75; springers, $90 to $150; light ewes, $12.50 to $13.50; yearlings, $12. t 4; spring lambs, "$16.50 to $19.50; calves, good to choice, $14 to $17 hogs,’ fed and watered, ue $20.50; do, weigl ed off cats, to $20.75; do, foo. do, count | Exploring oarty Dritted 9 Months in Arctic Circle fh from Fairbanks, Alas- ka, says: = Stocker Storkerson, Arc- to| tie explorer, probably will arrive this Fort week : e by Captain Alex. Allen, Dele Guise wots Btorkerscn and four men recentl; k would carry them west to the low sreaiea dala: < stead, it ca: circle and landed diese Py Baila Pein their starting point. Storkerson was command the when illness Tintse Stefansson to dead the north. Flossie Gay—“You'll never catch| ° me again going out to dinner with an pea el” Her Friend—“Wwe broke?” Flossie—I en whether he was broke or not, but he ran a blue pencil] SeeGigh met half my order!” it Indicating That Talking, Not Fi administered through civilian authori-| ;, ties. ts,| Roumanian Press Bureau. | Col. Walter Brown, 26th above photographs Sane nae is ‘one |, two pilots, an yrs yaad at rest. Inset is a pict after seeing service with the Nort The Latest | in British Flying Boat the F2A flying boat, the latest chi er, an engi em and a ure of Lieut. M. A. Gardiner, R.A.F., h Sea Patrol. wireless operator. e “bird” while in the fie Sith a-cimlplete qagrenead GF OE tout Onthe,xinrnda «:photonrenh of tae in British seaplanes. A’ crew of tograph on the left who has just returned to Toronto, Cita TO DEAL WITH HUNGARY ighting, is Required in Enemy Country. A despatch from Pari ‘The departure of General Jan Chritian e the situation is petieved by the allied officials to have improved e Roumanian victory over the Russian Bolsheviki union ie the ex- ane of Hungary, evine- ing a profound paler ae ate re- lations with the ies, in co-oper- (Hungary, dapest), have received orders to oc- cupy the new line of demarcation fixed by the Paris conference, accord- ing to an announcement issued by the allies armies have been received enthusias- tically by the various populations who are, living in constant fear of a Bol- sheviki invasion. CANADIAN SOLDIERS AWARDED ADDITIONAL DECORATIONS ‘# tinguished Service Order awartled ‘to! Lieut Cote, ‘Bagial, ith Battalion, and John MacKenzie, of the Engineers. Bar to Distinguished Service Order to Sa saeae Loomis, Brig.-Gen. Grierbach, Lie Ba’ siguion: Major Terence Jones, 4th Battalion. Distinguished Service 0 Majors John Blair, McLean, 4t nte ; John Millar, 85th Battalion; | Maurice Plumer, Artillery; George Treleaven, edieal | Corps; Captain | Richard :| Giles 46th Frederi stalion: 4th Battalion Eilon Purvis, ath "hattal lio} Second bar “to. Military Cross to Lieut. Evans Ross, 28th Bat- ion. sa thes fa tha Military Cross has been awarded to Lentenants George Baldwin, 47th Batt.; Fredeniek Barnes, 38th Batt.; Captain Adolph Berner, 47th Batt. Carvosso, dayne Cave, Ernst, 85th 102nd Batt.; Rifles; 8 att.; Liewtenants William Jenkens Artillery ash, Captai ™m, ; Batt.; Walter MacDonald, 44th Batt.; ‘aptai MacG: Mounte Rifles; Lieutenants Frederick Pye, Mounted Rifles; Benjamin Skinner, 10th Batt.; Edward Wattin, 10th Batt. pNeat hie RS d GEN. ALLENBY RESTORES ORDER IN EGYPT. A despatch from London says: ee the situation in Egypt, where dis- and in Bellal. Twelve military col- umns are in operation in upper and oss man Aero Bus, which i its initial flight between the two capital Se and General Allenby, who is now in Weecee ple, the giant aeroplane “fhe Far don in the rem: been occurring, reported | It may be recolet d that pri that order had been restored in Cairo | service betws The Learners. ° ae eth unused to weight and bur- ° uttie ‘legs, uncertain, timorous, We oul ae behold your faint sue- Your “doubted stumbling seems so in to Each three See journey is a wild ad- ure, And perils lurk in floor and carpet spaces, Far eo the phetiarins: chair and ‘The ipeaiee here 5 Maven arms and face: x 0 But ee an dare—for life is spun of And ei oy step your earnest jour- neys lengthen, As gpa grows out of careful seek- and As ile legs little purpose gthen. We smile and hardly think of long days comin; When ues BEY Aves with firm and Mipteling Tanah move little feet t falter, Louk ater we who smile are quiet dus' Se sate Military Courtesy. A British officer who has just re- ped out with increasing. severity of expression. the hear a conversation between two natives of the sq “What does our ieee mean by “As you were?” inquired one Askari. er’,” replied the other, “is a Sper the Wie llstanken ims tbventay tor | when he wants to say ‘Iam sorry, I have made a mistake,” Nae ae, Steadfast in adversity, wounded and wounds, Britain's have never pes nor faltered—Gen. Pershin| officer over=| 7 BRITAIN TO PRESS Will Spend $6,000,000 Annually With Propaganda Around . Trade is ready with a plan for the re- of the consular service and the ectabilb ent of commercial attaches. spend at least £1,- 250,000 on the com- Several associations of British manu- facturers intend to take advantage of this new activity on the part of the government. The largest of these re- directly, or through Allied near! 0, rms, ectors of this federation said: “We shall spend this year a third of our income and another £20, 000 from our reserve on the eet 9 ment of-British overseas trade. met commissioner has been stationed have another commis- pitas in Madrid, and a third will tour South Africa and report on the pos- sibilities. We have ing Brazilians summer. “One of our representatives to tour England this is in ™ | Serbia with the British Government commercial mission, and another has gone to Holland to investigate the of- fer made by, the Dutch to form a cor- poration to encourage British trade. we go on as we have begun we shall the world with British trade “They wi comin travelers, but they will | nav r hand than the ae or Sa attaches, and Te- jorts will reach British saRathauisars the day after they come to hand.” Bene sts Bp Aeroplanes are the modern magic | sede of the world—Mr. Handley Pag Interior of Farman Aero Bus Between Paris and London An interior view of the comfortable passenger quarters in the Far- Ae now in oper: arkable tim height Mr. etween Paris- paid od yia Biarritz f 1,500 meters. Farman, the originator of t st_which will shortly be inaugurated will be Madrid. ation between Paris and London, In ing fourteen peo- arryi ath” made the flight to Lon- ime a 160 sicher ne returned in 190 minutes. r to the wai the two cities was six hours and forty-five minutes. the NE were delighted with their experience. nel the machine flew at a lower Egypt, the General's report add-| aboard the machine and the passengers spent the remaining time playing = and the complete restoration of | cards. wand order was only a matter of {ee routes and one of the x the fastest train and AN he air route, is studying many new and FOR OVERSEA TRADE »-"s. the Globe. a despatch from London says:— | ab) he new Department of Overseas invited eight lead-| Wie and WIRELESS TELEPHONE FROM LONDON TO AUSTRALIA. British Cabinet Soon May Exchange Opinions With Premiers of Far-Off Dominions. a. Fleming, probably the pate Sane wireless expert, de- clares that membé of the cabinet sitting in Australia may “before long” exchange opinions with the cabinet sitting in London by wireless tele- telephony since 1918, mostly due to the demands of the war. Of | value, he 6 advances m: in directional wireless Seieatey Directional receiving stations now always operate in pairs, thus enabling them by trigonometry to locate pre- cisely a ship or af “The rmans,” says ae ae “used this method t position of mene ne lost in the loud seg it ferent object. Admiral Jellicoe men- tions this use of directional wireless the enemy,—which rendered great caution necessary for use of wireless by an isolated ship or convoys. Four such directional wireless stations are and when fogs are p) 2 8 ntrol ‘hrot such directional wireless stations will be of enormous importan: Can be Heard fe ers Ae The writer says recent technical im- "| provements in valves have constituted a wireless receiver of extraordinary sensitivity. v8 “A detector that is not only a quali- ulate speech in radio telephones. Tele- Phonic sounds can be le loud enough to be heard in airplanes, even in spite of engine noises. “Another important development of the three electrode valve is due to the that it could be used for the generation of electric os- cillations as well as their detection. 0 produce vigirous, high- frequency, oscillations in an their amplitude by means of a speak- |! ing microphone placed es one or the other circuits of the valv “To see ‘adio telephony we have to radiate elec- tric waves, ne abulitte of which is varied proportionately to variation in the air pressure of the air wave pro- duced by articulate speech. For re- detector, ste h enables us to hear this speech ¢ By this cuetansion of a thermonic generator and detector radio tele- phony is now perfectly conducted. Airplanes and airships are provided with a trailing air wire or antennae, rmonic receivers and generators. Speech is now possible to or from an airplane so provided at a distance up to GS reek Orders for manoeuvres a issued from aoe station at replies can be giver Aen Dispense With Aerial Wire. “By means of directional wireless and radio telephony airplanes and air- ships ean have their location given them when at a height of several thou- sand feet and can be gu }o. their destination, So sensitive are these modern valve receivers that it is pos- sible now t sages on a small Ausloaed_ aireptionst pee in the airplai y difficulties attending sedpphinlo spac uiOust: cables and {8 clearly more articulate, “Radio telephony has already to a certain limited extent been accom- plished across the Atlantic, and before long perfect telephonic transthission of speech by this means will bo in operation not only across the Atlantic, but probably even from Great Britain to Australia, The Premiers of the great self-governing dominions which form the British Empire may be able and state t their physical bodies are separated by thousands of miles. iectres agen tbe as GERMANY ABLE 70 P, 6,000,000,000 fret IN CASH. from aris Says: Regarding the ‘subject of the financial be imposed on Germany, ‘The Echo de Paris says that the Coun- ceil of Four belteves that Germany will be able to pay immediately six billion money-of various kinds. materials and manu- factured goods from Germany, {t says, will reach an undetermined sum which some optimists estimate will amount. to thirty billion francs, ? BRINGING uF Fe ISN'T IT TOO How bo rou fA“ Y Be BAD: THEIR SON AS KOON Hey 1S WEAK- +100 MINDED? Vh— i} Xe Vay ag . ae a . ; oo i ome @ the | an to Reternines uae position So, a dif-| @; >» = eek Hauling Pays. In these days of farm-labor mee Lage te Moca behoove any of wu scorn a mechanical device that soi even in part take the place of a man, has lay to be placed in the agricultural Yid you know that it is ‘an estab- é it can e times the distance that. hree with wagons can cover in a giv Hence, we nave the illuminating fact that one man and one five-ton trock can do the work of eight men,. eight wagons, and sixteen pees: how much man one -ton truck, including: the purchase price of the truck, and see how | ould take truck mi wr themselves. And d y fo don’t forget that there are trucks as light as one-ton for the smaller farm- w's figures are based on reports fon every section o: ‘y farm opera’ ithe estimated cost ot hatiag in wagons from farm ipping points,” says Andr i wheat, 88 cents for corn, pnd 4 48 for cotton; for doing the ing in motor trucks or by fh the averages are 15 cents for wheat o “tr and 18 cents per ton mile Pe co} ed largely on the usual charges in the made 3.4 round trips per day over its ange me while 6 1.1 trips jover, the 9-mile distance. If the pes wagons, 1 trips alone would place them in the lead. it the fact is, taking wheat for example, that the average wagon- load was 56 bushels, while that of the motor truck was 84 bushels. hauling 39 bushels, with truck averaging 58 bushels, Of the 1,478 county reports which were received, Andrews tells us that 898 mentioned motor trucks being produce from the ere were many reports of use for light traffic, for wagon trips and the scarcity of farm 2 ti Togs were hauled preferabl: otor trucks on account of the relatively small amount of shrinkage com: with hauling in wagons. Some coun- hicles had not yet Staal ‘toes gare! use for hauling grai other p: ducts. Thousands of individ pie: tor trucks engaged in intercity haul ing are duplicating, in sie and ton ge, the work done by a corres- ponding number of freight cars, A railroad train of 90 cars will haul no more meteor than a caravan of 90 t The 3 irik freight car travels ey 20 miles a day, and will aril 100 miles in the time, The average Reais of a o 5 freight car is 75 tons, and while a five-ton truck carrie: bat fifth of the load of the railroad car, it travel: five times as fast, freight car's perform: Pape. plans,are aise sist the farmer to haul his crop bs fash or to a central station, saving e fi specie in | the good roads bringing. the tracks; bay which ever may be the case, the @ truck peers road. A go road is one that will permit truck sand motor traffic the year round, and n for certain, sla alone. Queen Mary Asudod Modal By the fis cae Government A. despatch rey Paris says:— ae Av elt a prints several of nai of persons to pa hom the “Prench "Ooveriane nt ‘has award. medals. Included in the list ae 24 Saag to whom silver or wit first class medals are awarded are Queen eee on Great Britain aaa the King of 8)