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MONTREAL, CARDINAL, TORONTO, BRANTFORD, FORT WILLIAM, VANCOUVER. cant TRIBUTE TO INDIAN TROOPS General French Says They Are Performing a Great Work in France and Belgium A despateh from London The Official Press Bureau in a statement issued Wednesday, pays tribute to the bravery and adapta- bility of the Indian troops . now serving in France and Bel gium, saying that they are performing a great work notwithstanding the fact that the nature of the country in which they are fighting is entirely different from that to which they are accustomed, General French, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the field, has expressed himself as greatly pleased with the bearing of these troops, and has says:sent the following message to the ndian corps commander: "Please congratulate your Indian troops on their gallant conduct, ,and express my gratitude to them One of the first r action was heavily « iments te enter elled while en- tren. gz. Basiaage a 5m res. martkable indifference throughout the novel experience, igno: shells. The task of storming « vil- lage of tactical importance was as- signed among vcthers to Indian troops, who advanced under heavy fire and machine gun fire with a dash and resolution worthy of the highest traditions of the army. WIRELESS TELEPHONE. The Inventor, At Rome, Intercept- ed a Message from London. Rome, Nov. 4.--Don Domenico Argentieri, the priest who has in- vented a pocket wireless receiver, expe rimented with the receiver to- ay at the British Embassy in the presence of the British Ambassador and military and naval attaches, ion Argentieri connected his re- ceiver with a water pipe, and with ordinary telephone wires and inter cepted a conventional wireless mes- sage sent for the purpose from Lon- don GREEKS inn HELP. 100,000 Would Mobilize in Canada's Defence Says One of Them, A despatch from London, Ont., says: Peter Smiries, of Grand Ra- pids, Mich., the millionaire Greek poolroom man, while on a business trip to this city on Wednesday, de- clated that throughout Canada and rl United States there are 100,000 8s who could be easily mobi- Heed to help defend Canada from an fnvasion of American Germans | SIXTH WAR ISSUE. Keen Demand for Seventy-five Mil- | lion Dollars Treasury Bills. j A despatch from London says: Applications were issued on Wed- nesday in London for the Govern- ment's sixth issue of six months' Treasury bills for £15,000,000 ($75 | 000,000). There were again larg e tenders od by pounds, 2 shiifines| and 10 pence. This makes a tota of £90, 600. 000, 000 (#490,000, 000) in Treasury bills issued by the Goyr- ernment for war purposes -------" -_. AN EPIDEMIC EXPECTED. Water Supply Tory Limited in City | of Antwerp. | A despatch to the London Ex-| change Telegraph from Rotterdam says: Antwerp dx vctors predict an | early epidemic oying to the fact! that the only available water sup- ply comes from the River Nethe, | which is contaminated by the bodies! of many slain soldiers. The re building of the reservoirs which were destroyed by the bombard- ment has not been permitte LOSS OF GERMANS 1,750,000 ©: Opinion of Hilaire Belloc, the English [Military Expert A despatch from London says:} weeks or so. fallen in the main Hilaire Belloc, writing to the Daily]|upon the trained troops of the £5 eet benahad 'rman Josses|¢nemy and with particular severity Mail, timates the German losses upon his bedy of officers. This loss | to date at 1,750,000 men, "I know,"' he writes, "that this' figure looks startlingly large, but the various steps by which it is arrived at are got, I think, open to criticism. It would be easy, by a little manipu- lation of the figures, to make out very much larger totals. I have at- tempted, on the contrary, to fix the Sowest conceivable minimum."' The _ igure, 1,750,000, includes losses by sickness, fatigue and acel- dents. The strict German losses in the ficli--men hit or caught--he puts at more than 1,250,000. ""These lusses," he writes, "have, almastsup to within the-last two of 1,750,000 at the very least, which | has already fallen for the most part} on the trained army, an equals | the untrained mass be hind it, has fallen most heavily on the first and |. best. It comes to more than a fifth; of ail the two possible categories combined ; more than a fifth of those avho can ever make rea! soldiers, and of these more than a quarter of the first line. '"'There," he continues, "is the chief military feature of the strug- gle at the present moment, Of all the available material for anvthing approaching a true army, a quar- ter has already gone. | j tion, | Train Dashes Tats Washed Out jand all | s mn = ae red sak called a day, in Tiluctrated Wa ar Néws.) } RSC Newspapers Admit That Recruiting Are Not Adequate to [leet Crisis A despatch from London says: In' view of the reassembling of Parlia- ment, when an important debate on military matters is expected, it is interesting to note the trend of opinion as expressed in the news- papers, which, with almost complete' of the unanimity. admit that the prese: methods of .recruiting are not aie that an quate. to meet the crisis. -- ) Soe tire London n Wednesday published autora 'poling: out the need of more men being re- eruited, and even such radical or- gans as the Chronicle -- the Daily News urge that steps in this direction. The C Chronicle says IN BRITAIN the Present Methods of that to beat the Germans back into ir own territory we must be able to put in the field early next year more than a million men, and have at the same time vast numbers in reserve for reinforcements. The ened correspondent G Heeeid, generally 4q an r of the Opposition, whose object is to obtain information concerning civilians suitable for military ser- com document will be circu- =a wee selected areas, the Heral CANADIANS FOR THE FRONT: Their Training is All A despatch from London says: That the Canadian troops need not |be detained much longer at bury Plain is the opinion of the |Lendon Daily Telegraph, which, 'commenting: on the King's inspec- says: "Now that their train- ing is all but complete, the time has jalmest come for them to join' the} 'fighting line. They could have no But Complete and They Will Not Be Long Detained on Salisbury Plain better sénd-off than the praise and endouragement from their Sover- eign and the Minister for War."' is opinion, coming from such a responsible journal, the ideas expressed in certain quanters that the Canadian expedi- tionary force would require several months' training before the troops would be fit for service in the fight- ing line. HU NDREI DS - DROWNED. % Bridge on Sicilian Railroad, A despatch from Messina, Sicily, says: <A railroad train running be- tween here and Palermo was wreck- ed on Wednesday morning. The re- ports received up to the present! time declare that all the passen- gers on board, with one exception, the members of the train crew lost their lives. bridge on the line had been washed out by . Unaware of this condition, he train crashed down into e river bed, and the cars were over- turned in the water. nn CHRISTMAS SEALS ALLOWBSD, Must Not Resemble Postage Stamps or Bear Numerals. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Post-office Department has again consented to the use o Christmas seals in aid of charitable institutions, but only as stickers, on the backs of letters. They must not resemble postage stamps or bear ---- or indications of value. 0. 2 fool Esha Ew 1mm outelde, amply refutes | 14 1-% EMPLOY BRITISH SEAMEN. Shipmasters So Urged'by the Boned of Trade. A despateh from London says: e Imperial Merchants' Service| § Guild has received from the Board of Trade official notice concerning the employment of British subjects on ships during the war. It is espe-, cially requested that masters of| British ships shall engage British | 'rather than alien seamen as far possible during the period of the war, --P-- | -s GERMAN "PRINCES I KILLED. | Sp Six of Them Were ee Ke Over Twenty | Years of Age. . A despatch from London says: Reuter despatch from Amsterdam | Says the Berlin press states that; $ eight German princes have killed in the war, cix of them aged between 18.and 20. There is noth- ing to confirm the report that the Crown Prince is dead, nor to ex- pldin the reason why--as reported from Belgian sources--all the Ger- man flags in Brussels were at half- aig Ast ast on Sunday. German Depot off Brazilian Coast \ despatch from Cardiff, Wales, says: An officer of the Cardiff steamer Cornish City, which was sink by the German cruiser Karle ruhe in the Atlantic. says the Ger- mans had a depot on an island off the north coast of Brazil} and that with this base and with powerful Wireless apparatus on their scout ships. they were well informed con- cerning the movements of British steamers and. cruisers. 4 2, Kia B3e. lS BEST YEAST IN THE WORLD. DECLINE THE NUMEROUS INFERIOR : IMITATIONS THAT ARE BEING, OFFERED ' AWARDED io. HONORS AT ALL EXPOSITIONS EW. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED. Sei lepc hat TORONTO ONT. MONTREAL TREATMENT OF WOUNDED Carts Containing Men Torn by Shrapnel Held Up Because They Would Delay Guns brutal almost beyond belief. Carts containing men torn by shrapne! have been he'd up for hours by the roadside without the cecurants hay ing received surgical attention be , cause their passage woud d-lay tne transfer of men and guns. A resi- dent of Thourout who was impress- ed as a stretcher-bearer behind the Yser said that a long line of vehi- cles bearing wounded and working its wey slowly toward Thourout was stopped frequently to permit the escort to examine the wagons and remove the dead. Those who sur- vive suffer te erribly from the lack of medica] comforts.' A despatch from London says: a new concen: tration of the enemy. s front in Western Flanders to the belief in Bruges"an other Pointe in Northern Belgium that the Kaiser is personally direct- ing the operations. "The rman bivouacs are sur- rounded at night by-rmounted pick- ets to prevent desertions. The fighting area is becoming | congested with wounded. Owing to} the continued use of the railways to *| bring up fresh levies, the Germans appear to have lost all feeling of humanity towards their wound and in the last few days have been PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS |: SErrPoRTs rrom SBADE CENTEES OF Breadstuffs. v. fang slags sy firet jute bag ente, 86.10; strong baker 90; --_, four, 90 per Sent. atarie, quoted at $4.45 to $4.60, seaboard. Wheat-"Manitoba No, i. Northern, new, $1.24 1 No tario wheat, No. Py ye at $1. 10 = $1.12, at outside points. 49 to 50c, outside, and a ack, Toronto, Western Gan: he 13 34 Hs 1.10 3 34 17 1-44; Ha. a poeeers rthe _ ong. 334 hard, $1. oie 'Flour 'and. bran un- 1 hard, 2 North- Linseed, hanged. Duluth, Nov. $1.18; ie i Northern, ern, $81.1 December, $1.39 1-2; eben. $1.38 THB LEADING AMERICA Wheat, $1.17; $1 No No. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Noy. 10.--Bu 8' cattle, 4 Boot -- ded a n, 86. E) chaiee, "WT. 15 to 87. 35; do ood to 87; do., rough bulls, és to $6: "bate here' cows. choice, 86.7 t "Onte Ontario, 62 to 630 ga ada, No. 2, waned. at 62 136, and No. 600. Barle 63 to 660, 2 at Gio. mn uoted at a 5 outside. m , 84c, Toronto, and d shorte--Bran, $23 to $24 a ton, and ghorte wt $% to $27. si.38 to 85:3 gude--Car lote, per bag of 9 Ibe., 3 $40: #40 calves, 41-2. to 8 1-2: chast, ii 1-2 "to -_ 5 1-40; lambs, 2, 140 7 He; hogs, 7 3-4 to Be. ig a ory Botier Tete dai oS oS ; creamery Abin 28 1-2 t 'w to 27 1- AMERICAN MACHINE BATTERY 32 to Takes Place of "What Was Before Anglo-American Brigade. dozen, ifoney 8 to 12 3-40. ib. for strain-! alee ge 75 per dozen; No. | 82 to $2. | Egga-- ea he selects, A despatch from London gays: A Pp eultryChickene inet. ae "i few weeks ago the Anglo-American er tekane ¢ pao 1B to Bde. , Brigade, which was cceneee' en- heese--New, large, 16 to 16 i4o; twins, tire y of and financed entirely by 16 Socne-¥rimn, bushel, 82.75 to $2.85; Americans, was disbanded. But its hand-picked. 82.90 to 83. Oi two hundred and sixty odd members Potatoes Dotarion, Se, per bag: Brune: do not return to the United States. wine. cer lem dbo. oper "Uae. i "They will still be able to fight for fe cause of the allies, but they will 'fight under the name of the First Battery, Provisions. Wholesalers are eelling to the trade on Pecglen « Machine which is feierine Bry. past Meate-Rolls-- has just been taken over by the Smoked 14 12 to Ibex hame, media War Office. It was rumored that 181-2 to 190; hea 16 to l7c; brea " +7 ma i bacon, 18 1-2 to 19c; long clear bacon, tons the dropping of the name Anglo- cases, 15 to 15 1-4c; backs, p American Brigade followed a re- 2le; oo Med Ls ponsions Lae -- than | Mest by the American Ambassador, emoked. a who also suggested that those sub- Lard--Pure, tlerces, 12 to 12 t-te; com- scribing to the fund réfrain from pound, 9 3-4 to 1c. waking their donations public. Balod Hay and yaw. [ --- = Dealers are paying as Som for car | VESUVIUS MORE ACTIVE. lot deliveries on track | . . nenem oe te le atetee at Log $0 to $8 a ton, in / New Fissure Has Opened at Bottom c q . ' Hay~No. 1 new hay ts + quoted at 9 | of the Old Crater. 16 t $16. 50 on track here. No. 2 at $14 to $14.0, and No. 3 at $11 to Dhine ! A despatch from Naples says: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been atigmented because of the opening of a new fissure in the bot- tom of the old crater. From this hew opening an extraordinary amount of smoke and a great quan- tity of ashes is being emitted. This is blown by the wind tow: "-- the seashore, clouding the ages | around the gulf and oink: the Island of Capri, 20 miles south of Naples, which appeats as if in a mist. en winsipas , Grain. Winnipeg, Frag 10.- ag $1.19 14; No, . 3 Northern, ", -01 6, % 1 1 North- "Pteed, 53 'So . Qe. arley 7; 3, 69 1-2¢ py rejected, 0 12e; yo 60e. N.- Fia » $1.17 1-2; No. 2 €.W.. $1.14 1-2. Montrea! Markets. Nov. 10.--Corn, A Canadian Montreal, No. =: W estern, (8) 3, 59 1-2 to 60c; No. " : British Mine Sweeper Sunk. fo} s $38 4 J A despatch from London says: The tpn mine sweeper Mary was sunk by a mine in the North Sea. Six of the erew of 14 were resened. The survivors, who were landed at Lowestoft,- reported heavy gun fir- ing off the Yorkshire coast. ent Teacher--How many there?- Little Boy--Three. Teach- jer= Three! What are they? Little Boy--The male sex, the female sex and the insects. onds, ere v patente Ghelee $6: peat mt rollers, 5.60; bags, $2. 65 to $2.75. Rolled oate, | Garret, $6 to 86.15; bage, $2.85 $2.90. bp 5 1-2; RE cest + to 'scleote ad, No. 2 car fin to 29%; SeXes are "Potatoes. per dag, lote, United States Markets. Minneapolis, Nov, -Wheat, British flospital Shin Struck. Mine No 1 A "despaten woe iS inn BSNe > Wasom, the comman- The hospital ship silts, wh om Fa the --- shilla, gave testimony Wite--Fo cently wrecked off the York- "ty » this én Sweat, at an ingu st, shire coaet with a large number of; This was the first Ini that the casualties, struck a mine, and was hospital ship had struck a min It so badly injured that her captain jhad been generally understoud that was forced to run her on to the |the vessel merely got off her course rocks in order to escape sinking at 'near Whitby and pi'ed on the 1 cles. é :