KEEPING FACTORIES BUSY 'Value to Mifls of Canada in War Orders Approxi- mate Sixteen Million Dollars - kept the mills busy, wh ' lines, to the value oi $1,250,009, formerly imported' from Germany and Austria, will hereafter be man- ufactured in Canada. A despatch from Ottawa says: Sixteen million dollars is the ap- _ proximate monetary value of. . the present war to the textile and wool- fen industries of Canada. so far. " : boar. ile certain ow much more will come in the fu- ture is a matter for conjecture, but it is stated that the Canadian-made articles have generally met with the approval of Canada's customers, and there is every indication of continued orders, From a position approaching idleness Canadian mills have come to be now running at capacity. To date it is estimated that there have been placed, on account of the British Government alone through its Canadian buying agents, orders for khaki clothing to the extent of 81,250/000, with an- other order in contemplation val- ued at four millions, a million-dol- lar order placed by the War Office direct, and clothing ordered by the Canadian Militia Department ap- proximating $250,000. These orders for khaki goods alone total $6,500,- Canadian blanket manufacturers have benefited to the tune of some- thing like $1,500,000 from the war. Recently an order was offered Can- adian mills for $1,650,000 worth of blankets for the French Govern- ment, able to take only $1,250,000, and the remainder had to be placed in the United States. Twenty-eight mills have been engaged on the big order. . Shirt-makers have been busily en- gaged on good-sized contracts for ments, while orders 'Nor the British service cap to the value of $60,000 have been placed with other firms. Orders for kit-bags, haversacks, tents, etc., have kept other factories busy, while the tremendous export of bread and foodstuffs has created a heavy demand for cotton and jute Of that amount they were! ,; the British and Canadian Govern-} ar bags, there being an increased out- put of these amounting to 25 per cent. in the past three months. 00 War orders for knitted goods to the value of about six millions have Youths Make Escape; ASTURIAS REACIIES PORT. Mothers Arrested Captain's Prompt Action Averted Destruction of Vessel, A despatch from Southampton says: The British hospital ship As- turias, which narrowly escaped be- ing torpedoed by a German sub- marine of Havre, arrived here this afternoon. It had some wounded soldiers aboard. Members of the crew say that a catastrophe was prevented by the promptitude of the captain, who, observing the white track made by the torpedo, altered the course of nis vessel, bringi it sharply A despatch from Rotterdam says: From the frontier it is learned that the Germans, in order to stop the coniinuous passage of young Bel- gians over the Dutch frontier to join the army in France, have been searching for and arresting the fathers of absent youths. In some eases they were successful in getting the father; but, hearing what was proceeding. the others slipp across the frontier. In many cases, purely out of revenge for having missed the fathers, the Germans : ngmg Ww : romptiy arrest | .jaround in a half-cirecle. The pro- prompts arrested tne mothers, tell jectile passed harmlessly astern. ing them that they had better bring plenty of clothes with them, as they were to be sent toh i camp in Germany ever, has now cyte from General Bissing that this transportation of women has to be delayed. The light was good at the time. BRITAIN'S RETALIATION. May Take More Stringent Measures Against German Trade. _A despatch from London says: Great Britain has decided that if the American steamer Wilhelmin now on her way with a car, { foodstuffs for Germany, is intercept- ed, her cargo will be submitted to & prize court, so that the new situ- ation arising out of the action of Germany in ordering that all grain and flour shall be placed under con- trol of the Government may be regularized. in French Army, A ----__.p____... German Auxiliary Cruiser is Sunk oF A' despatch from Buenos Ayres says: The Buenos Ayres newspapers announce that a German auxiliary erniser, formerly of thes Woermann Line. was sunk on January 7 off the Patagonian coast by the British erui-er Australia The crew were taken te the Falkland Islands. 7 Sous ll Killed A despatch from Gearva says:/ing alarmed. he applied for assis- Seven sof an clderly blind] tance to the bureau here for the ex- Frenchman named Chopard, of the change of information regarding village of Chauffout, near the Swiss prisoners of war. One by one let. fronticr, were called to the colors; ters from the French headquarters last \agust and marched away to{arrived in Geneva. The seven sons Wal hor a long while the father| had been killed, leaving fourteen heard nothmg from them. Becom-I| children and four widows. Germans Enforcing Alsatian Loyalty) A despatch from Paris says: Heavy snowfal's are again reported on the heights of Hartmanns-Wei- lerko) i and Molkenrain, in the Vos- es. Tiere has been painstaking trench fighting with saps and jiand set ufire by German shells and burned to the ground. The Ger- mans are said to have prohibited the people in the district their control from going outside their towns. : grenades pear Altkirch. Barbed wire fences have been A large Jarmhunse called the | built around the villages, this step Larghef, which was only a short dis-| being considered necessary owing to tance' from the Swiss frontier, was the prevalence of numerous spies, =-- = = = oo ------ - ~ NEWEST DREAD under |} concerning the introduction of standard war bread for all Ger- many. NOUGHT. PRICES GF FARM PRODUC Toronto, Feb. -9.--Flour--Manit first patents, $7.80 to N Country Produce. Butter--Choice dairy, 24 to ferior, 20 to 21¢ 2c; do., solids, itor, 26 to 27e. Eggs--New-laid, In cartons, selects, 28 to 3 a, 250; 'ine 29 to 30c; farmers' sep- 35; 27c. Honey--12 to 13¢ per No. 1 honeycomb, $2.75 2, $2.25 ats Poultry--Chickens, dressed, 13 to 158} ducks, dressed, 14 to 16c; fowl, 10 llc; geese, 14 t Ib. for strained; per dozen; No, o lbc; turkeys, dressed, 19 to 20c. ' ' Cheese--172 to 18¢ for large and 'at 18 to 18c for twins. , eke Beans--Prime, bushel, $2.75 to $2.85; hand-picked, $2.90 to $3. By Potatcees--Ontaros, 65 to Tic per out Of store, 56 to 60c in car lots. Brunswicks, car lots, 60 to 65c per Provisions. Bacdén--Long clear, 134 to in case lots. do., heavy breakfast bacon, 18¢; bac to 21le; ess backs, 22 to 28, Lard--Market quiet; pure, tub, 11 2c; compound, $%.to 10c in tubs and to 103c/in pails. 3 i. io Baled Hay and Straw. Dealers are paying as follows for lot deliveries on track here:-- Straw, $8 to $5.50 a ton, in car lo w hay, $17.60 to $18; to $16, and No. 3 at car on track here. ay--No. 1 ne No, 2 at $16.50 $12.60 to $13.50. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Feb. 9.--Cash:--Wheat-- No. 1 Northern, $1.603; No. 2 Northern, $1.49¥; No. 3 Northern, $1.45%. ax-- No. 1 N.W.C., $1.62; No. 2 C.W., $1.59. No cats or barley quoted. Montreal Markets. Montreal. n--American. No. 2 yellow, nieetS i tob@ Iniportant German Defence in East vo. "1° No . , i $1.63; No. 2 at $1.60, and No. 3 at A despatch from London says: Sutaide neat, No. 2, $1.65 to $1.60. 86 Nhe Russian army invading ast, _ ate --Ontatlo, 62 to B3c, cutside and Prussia from the west has for Ae a o 67¢ on track, Toronto. West way across the River Angerapp an Gpuada, No. /2, at Teke. and No Ramm Rae driven "die Gareagne fren the gonntleyGoou malting 'grades, 75 town of Gross Medunishken, on the R $1.17 to $1.20, outside. : west bank. The announcement by wig ttt --No. 2 at $1.85 to $1.90, o the general staff of the passage of . yj the Angerapp and the occupation of Co . 2 American, 854¢, all rafl,| 2 ABgerapp, h peuon Toronto freight. . | Gross Medunishken is the most im- Buckwheat--No, 2 at 85 to 88, 6 rtant news that has been received Bran and shorts--Bran, $26 to $27 ja) from East Prussia since the revela- ton, and shorts at $28 to $29. ; | tion that Tilsit was menaced by the lbs, $3.45 to $3.60. 0 Pe D8® OF AO) Second army of invasion. le; creamery prints, 31%%¢! tolithe west bank a rapid advance by } Mazurian g.| Simultaneous! jvance toward West Prussia has -| gained momentum, with the capture of Skempe, a town near the border, tiand about 32 miles south-east of Thorn. The Russian line runs from _ |The main fighting is on the front of #} weakeni '|tish forces with Lieut.-Col. Kemp. y a RUSSIANS GROSS" RIVER ANGERAPP Prussia Broken Down hy Invader, | The Angerapp was a strong na- tural defence of which the Germans made effective use in blocking the Russiane march toward Insterburg. For many weeks German batteries posted on the west bank of the river defeated every effort by the Russians to force a crossing. Now that it-is officially announced that the Germans have been driven from 34° to Oe; storage, 26° 1% the Russian forces may be expected. They have occupied forty miles of East Prussian territory and have conquered the region north of the 8, vy the Russian ad- the north bank of the Vistula to the region of Mlawa and is within 20 miles of the West Prussian frontier. et L nd the official in- this region is rapidly pno and Biezun, an resistance ing ee Se Another Boer Rebel Gives Up the Fight A despatch from Pretoria says: me rebel leader Bezuidenhout and e so-called "Prophet" Vankens- burg have surrendered to the Bri- The commando which gave up its f C3 3 pigs ; Cad arley, Manitoba feed," . 2 8The. Plows aati: oba Spring wheat patents, firsts, ts 0 0; strong bakers', $7. Winter patents, choice, $8; straight roll ers, bags. $3.65 to $38 $7.25; do., bara, hi $2 n $26. os Mouillie.. $34 to Sar He per: , Car. + PIBe - Cheese Finest westerns, 16%) finest ensterns, 16 creamery, 30 te. Eg Th 0., e; No. 1 stock, 80c Potatoes, per bag, United States Markets. Minneapolis, Feb. 9.- heat. 1 hard, $1.534c; No. 1 Northern, $1.48% to 8: No. 2 Northern, .46 to $1.50; May, $1.50 bid. Corn, No. 8 yelk low, 72 to 724e. Oats--No. 1 white, 553 56e. Flour and bran unchanged. ~ Duluth 1eAt--No. . 1 hard, . 1 Northern, $1,613 2. Linsee cash, $1.59). to $1.62; May, $1.5 $1.8S84 to $1,903; May, Live Stock Markets. - to, Feb. 9.--Good butchersanu and afterwards in Flanders. One oronto, Feb, U.---Goocd c. et C4 from $7 to $7.40. while mediums sold passage, whie The Times repro- up to $6.75, with commons between i. duces in the German fac simile, and $6.25. Medium grade milkers so ' « 4 ' 2 round $68. The best' lambs sola eri reads: "There also came a brigade $8.50. Sheep were steady. Calves oon order that all French, whether from $4.50 to $6, and choice from - . . : : to $11. Hogs, fed and watered, $8. wounded or not, who fell into our Montreal, Feb. 9--Prime beeves 74| hands, should be shot. No prison- to Se. medium, 6 to Tic; common, 42 to| ers were to be taken."' Biles cow $ to $80 each: calves, § to 4c; sheep, 42 to Sic; lambs, Ti to 80; tL ors, S]e a ae Trawler Hits Mine % , All Germans to Eat War Bread; "A Amsterdam says: from a good source that Germany has forbidden the exportation of to- despatch from acco. The Hamburg Fremdenblatt says agreements havé been concluded by the various German Governments a jarms also included 48 officers and 4500 bur Shoot All French: 3| The Times publishes extracts from L'Echo Belge says it learns 1 ghers. lated at Upi that additional surrenders are ex- -----_--k___.. Order to Brigade A despatch from London says: the diary of a German soldier, Rein- hard Brenneissem, of the 4th com- pany of the 112th Regiment, which deseribes his experiences, first in the neighborhood of Muelhausen Goes Down With Crew A despatch from Grimsby, Eng- and, says: 1e British trawler Howard struck a mine in the North Sea, it was announced on Wednes- day, and is believed to have gone down with her crew. Twenty-seven sailing ships and twenty-six steam- ers have been lost since January 1. ea Russian Girl Fought In Nineteen Battles A despatch from Mogcow, Russia, says: Among the wounded who have arrived in Moscow from the front is Olga Krasilnikoff, a girl of 19 years. After taking part in 19 bat- tles in Poland she was wounded in the foot. The girl enlisted under a man's name and this deception has just been discovered. The cross of St. George, fourth degree, has been awarded to her. ------__kr____--_. BREAD RIOTS IN ITALY. Crowds Went About the Streets Looting the Stores, A despatch from Bassari, Italy, says: Riots growing out of the agi- tation ove ig ic @ a graver ¢ have been called out to maintain order. | ' 1,279 German Jurists Killed in War. A despatch from Berne says: According to official statements given out¢in Berlin 1,279 German Kaiser's Visit to Wilhelmshaven Revives Talk of : Invasion of England * A despatch from DLondon «says: Exchange Company its, Copenhagen correspondent !-- "Emperor William's vigit to Wil- "e : y 5 ceived the following despatch from] re the landing of troops in England. "Large contingents of troops are ported to have been mobilized at -- Wilhelmshayen at the time of. the Scarborough' raid," helmshaven is believed to in} A wireless message from Berlin, connection with the warning of the}in referring to the Emperor's visit German Admiralty to neutral ship-,to Wilhelmshaven, makes the ad- ping that great activity may be ex-' mission that the battle cruiser Seyd- 'pected off the north and west coasts | litz was 'squarely hit by one shell' as a result of German attempts to'in the North Sea battle, while the stop England's transportation- of 'light cruiser Kolberg was *"'struck troops and munitions. | by two.""| The Berlin message adds: "This is interpreted here as a, '"The Empéror,.who already has Prologue to important events at sea. visited the west and east fronts, t is rumored that Germany will | will complete his inspection of the try to engage the British fleet injcmpire's arm orces by visitin southern waters, while another; the units of the newly organizec squadron goes northward at full jarmies still. garrisoned in Ger. | speed with the object of covering many." TURKS EFFORT T0 CROSS CANAL Invaders of Egypt Left Many Dead'and About 350 A despatch from London gays: The Turks made a definite attack on the Suez Canal, but after a shor fight they were driven off with heavy losses. After a fruitless attempt made to bridge the canal near Toussoum, they returned to the attack with a force estimated at 12,000 strong and six batteries of artillery and essay- ed to get across the waterway on rafts. The British force, however, was waiting and the invaders were Prisoners After Skirmishes North of Suez forced back, leaving about 300 pri- soners in the hands of the defend- ers. A considerable number of the Turks were killed and wounded. The British lost 15 killed and 453 wounded. The attack was also renewed by the turks at El Kantara, but this met with no greater success than the other attempt, the Turkish casualties in killed, wounded and exes numbering upwards of a nundred. Zeppelin Victims Cost $500,000 Per Head A despatch from Paris says: Ex- perts in aerofautics here insist that the Zeppelins hat® been a bad in- vestment for Germany. The Zeppe- lin war fleet cost $32,000,000 to build, and so far they have only killed about 60 persons in the coun- tries of Germany's enemies, a rate of about $500,000 per head. A huge new biplane capable of re- maining in the air for ten hours and carrying a ton of explosives, besides our passengers, is being used by the Germans. The engines develops 225 The new flying: ma-| lready re stinr mio rsepow chine has a eral raids. Italian Peasants Going to Germany A despatch from Venice, Italy. says: Many Italian peasants, both men and women, are going to Ger- many to engage in farm and factory work, in response to offers of un- usually high wages. For the men 6% marks ($1.62) a day is promised, and for the women three marks (75 cents). Italian newspapers are warning the peasants against ac- cepting this employment, in view of the uncertainty in regard to Italy's foreign policy, but appar- ently many unemployed persons are willing to assume the risk involved. ee Lonsdale's Sentence Commuted to 20 Years A despatch from Berlin says: The German Supreme, Military Court has commuted to imprisonment for 20 years the death sentence imposed on William Lonsdale, a British sol- dier, for an attack on a German non-commissioned officer at the military prison at Doebecritz. SINK ALL SHIPS IN CHANNEL Germany Announces Reckless War On Passenger and Freight Traffie, A despatch from Berlin says: The German Admiralty issued the fol- lowing communication : "The waters around Great Bri- tain and Ireland, including the whole English Channel, are declar- ed a war zone fom euieticr & Png 18, 1915. Every enemy merchant ship found in this war zone will be destroyed, even if it is impossible to avert dangers which threaten thé crew and her passengers. "Also, neutral ships in the war zone are in danger, as in conse- quence of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British Government on Jan. 31, and in view of the haz- ards:of naval warfare, it cannot al- ways be avoided that attacks meant for enemy ships endanger neutral ships. Shipping northward, around the Shetland Islands. in the eastern basin of the North Sea, and in a strip of at least 30 nautical miles in breadth along the Dutch coast is endangéred in the same way."' + Given the Iron Cross For Sinking Steamers A despatch from Amsterdam says: Emperor William arrived at Wil- ielmshaven on Thursday. His Ma- jesty inspected the German sub- > marine U-21, going over the vessel personally. He bestowed the de- coration of the [ron Cross upon the members of the submarine"s crew. U-21 is undergoing repairs at Wil- helmshaven following her recent ex- ploits in the Irish Sea, A despatch from London says: Although the Morning Post and other London daily newspapers re- peatedly have urged a blockade of German ports, thus cutting off all foodstuffs, the British Foreign Office repeatedly has made it clear Will BeNo Blockade of German Ports that such 9 step is not contemplat- ed, and announces that its policy is the same to-day as in the past. It is added that the British Gov- ernment hag no thought of antago- nizing neutral countries, _ whose ehipping would be stepped by the closing of the Baltic Sea. Nothing Known So Sure For: Throat Weakness, Bron- chial Trouble, &c. es the seat of catarrh. jurists have been killed in the pre-|/that only air can be sent into the sent war. This total-is made up of lungs and bronchial tubes. 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