iciamaeatetsi tie ACCT Advance of Ten at Certain Certain Polnte Made by French--Sedan Proper. Sus Held by -- tates Troops. ~ A despatch from Paris says: With tress of Metz and northern France and j, ever-increasing speed the French aaa Rais either cut or un- XK: available for the-enemy's use. troops are forcing the Germans back The matter of peace negotiations north of the Aisne and on the rest Of | raiteg to slow down. in the. slightest the front which the French are fight-| degree the operations along the front _ ing over. An advance of ten miles hasjon Thursday. The nows that Ger- been made at certain points since Wed- many has taken definite steps to secure nesday. lan armistice reached advanced head- The persistent rain and deepening | quarters, but was not accompanied by mud, although making communications |any orders affecting the big drive now most difficult, do not appear to have'in progress, end it is expected that checked the pursuit of the-Germans |the American line will be carried for-} - retreating toward the Belgian frontier. jward without pause. The udvance continued on Thursday | With that part of Sedan resting on morning over the greater part of the 'the western bank of the river occu- French front, with sich rapidity that! pied, the American army is consolida- | _it was impossible to follow it with any, tirs its positions and preparing for a. "precision. Latest reports are that the further advance. Yj French cavalry iis moving toward the } Vilosnes, Sivry and Haraumont, to | wesealll Meuse, while the infantry is advancing the soutl: end gast of Dun-sur-Meuse, | fries toward Mezieres. / Were among the places taken on Thurs- American trocps to-day entered that day morning. The American troops part of Sedan that lies on the west are in close touch with the line be- bank of the Meuse. The bridge over tween Inor and Martincourt, where the | which the retreatiing enemy fied has roadbed has been destroyed, the ma- | flooded. of communication between the for- this Remilly was -- | on th eee clear of mines. i od War Ma The Dardanelles--This map 5 ish y 5 been destroyed and the river valley terial having been carried away to} tween Europe and Asia, which have been the shows a of many wars, but strengthen the German positions on} which are now by treason of the ca itulation of ' The principal German lateral lines : lie heights beyond. To the south of | for the first time i in history. Up dase strait PRE sen Piel Seon eir way to the Black Sea. It required some days to get the straits i RE CAA ENVOYS WT WHITE was he 5 an ea AC MET <6) ES . ; ei a FOCE AROMA Firing Ceased to Allow the Ree acer ta to Pass Through French Lines on Their Way to Allied Grand Headquarters. A-dewpatch from Paris says: Ger-) him for an armistice, they are to ad- man Grand Headquarters requested | vance to the French outposts by the Allied Grand Headquarters by wire- Chimay, Fourmies, La Capelle and € Guise roads. i Orders have been given less to permit the passage of the Ger-) that they are to be received and con- man delegation for armistice nego-| ducted to the place fixed for ths tiations through the lines. The order | interview." was given to cease firing on this} The German wireless message an- front at 8 o'clock on Thursday after-| nounced that the German plenipoten- noon until further orders. The Ger-|tiaries would arrive at the Frenck man wireless message asking for an | outposts on the Chimay-Guise road or ere ennaee to" meet Marshal Foch Regen! evening between eight and : t "clock. "The German-Government would It was officially announced late on congratulate-itself in the interests of Thursday night that the German humanity if the arrival of the German armistice delegates should pass the delegation on the allies' front might; French outposts between 8 and 10 bring about a provisional apres o'clock. ef hostilities." The mission is headed by Mathias Marshal Foch, the allied --s Erzberser, Secretary of State and ot sent the folloWing des- | sary of the War Press "> and includes Gen. H. K. A. von Win- domerania terfeld, former Military Attache at pate ine the German high from Marshal Foch: "If the German plenipotentiaries | former Minister at Sofia; wish to meet Marshal Foch to ask! -Groanell and Naval Capt. von Salow. eee WHEN EYES RESEMBLE DOTS FOOD SITU ATION Rale Which Will "Guide You in Meas- HEN F If you see a figure in the distance, W W ENDS ean you form any idea of how far | straits be- Provisions Wholesale Markets of | the World _Soted meats--Hams ems? WAR COSTS CANADA Breadstuffs --No. 1 Northern © ai Northern $2.2142;° No. 3 "Northern, ' $2.1742; No. wheat, 2.1144, in store' (51 to 52e; rolls, 32 to 38c; breakfast | bacon, 41 to 45c; neces plain, 46 to. Toronto, Nov. 12. Manitoba wheat | 47¢3 boneless, 51 to-5 Cured meats --Long 'clear amen 30; to 31s; clear bellies, 29 t Lard----Pure tierces, $1 = OVER A BILLION 'aise; Last Month's Expenditure Over Fort William, not lud j tubs, 31% to 32c; pails, 31% to 32e; Manitoba bate--No. 2 C.W., 83c; Prints, 98° to "S8%e. Compou nd Sixty-Six and a Half No. 3 C.W., 80c; extra No. feed, nee oe to 25%c; ee Millions. 1 82c; No, 1 feed, 79c, in store Fort 'te William. American corn--No. 2 zis 67; No. 3 yalow, $1.60; . $1. 50; , Tereate. No, 4 ye! nturio oats, new crop--No, 2 white 74 to TTe, fe. 75 to 78c; No. 3 white, cording to freizhts outside. _ yellow, | sample corn, 'teed, $1. 30: Montreal] a1 Markets Montreol, Nov. i|No. 1 feed, 98c to $1.0 ! New standard grade, $11. i to $11.00. Rolled cate Eee 90 Ibs. $4.85 to! ran, $37.25. Shorts, $42.25. -90. Ontario wheat--No. 1 Winter, per Moule, $68.00 to $70.00. Hay-- car lot, $2.14 $2.11 to ; $2.15; No. 1 Spring, $2.09 to $2.17; * No. 3 Spring, $2.06 to $2.14; No, 8 Spring, $2.02 to $2.10, f.o.b., -- ping points, according to freights No. 2, nominal. to $2.22; No. Cheese--Finest 25% to 26c. creamery, 50c. - | No. 1 stock, 49c. | killed, $23. 50 to $26.00, Lard-- ens-- i . Barley--Malting, new crop, $1.00 'Pure, wood pails, 20 Ibs, 'net, 31 to} to ie 05, according to freights out-j Bi | 33¢. 2, per ton, car lots, $25.00 tol 0 easterns,| Since August, 1914, has been for utter--Choicest; different fiscal years, approximately | rome Sic; as follows: toes--Per bag, 1915-16, $166,197,000; lear lots, $1.60. ressed hogs--Abattoir | 486,000; rete 18, els ataie i * A despatch from Ottawa says: Th 8 war has cost Canada well over a bil- lion dollars up to date. This com- a prises accounts which have actually} Flour--' passed through the Finance Depart- | ment. It does not include recent. | overseas expenditures, for which ac nts Have not yet been presented. "tcompose in the middle of the narrow } Wee expenditure by the Dominion 1914-15, $60,750,000; | mo onths' to Oct. 31, 1918, $169,574 | total, $1, 046,344,000. The expenditures for war p' Bickwheat--< 1.65 rdi t Live Stock Markets last month was $66,510,000, as treigbte eutide eT OTTME «°) Toronto, Nov. 12.--Choice heavy| pared with $44,481,000 | in. Rp Rre_No. 2, nominal, steers, $13.50 to $14.00; butchers') 1917. It is however, , sola $9. $10.00;>do., oy common, $7 'been delayed in the fail. crop, $10.75, and to: 2 Ua a oice, Bro Revenue on consolidated fund "se-| * Toronto, prompt shipmen ies $1 do., medium bulls, $9.00 to .ount continues to increase. Last illfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- M real freights, >the included; Bran,! $37.35 per ton; ¥0 eo 25 per ton per ton; track, Toron Shaw Car 'lots, $10.00 to $10. 50, track Toronto, to fs $21. to per ton, $9.25; do., rough bulls, $7.25 to $8.25; ' | butchers' eye ray $9.50 to $9.75;: sy good, $9.00 to $9.25; do. medium, to $11.00; canners land cutiers, $5.50 to $5.75; milkers, ' good to choice, $90. 0 to $1 50. ad Lo oa and me 00 to $75 'month it was $23,431,284, in " compar- ison with $18,241,155 for October, 1917..During the seven months end- to ;\ ing Oct. 31, 1918, revenue was $164,- 414,136, This compares with $145,- 719,060, the revenue for the equiva- 'lent period last year. Expenditure 'on consolidated fund account was, Springers, $90.00 em $150.00; tek' Country Produce--Wholesale lewes, $18.00 to $14.00: yearlings, | grrr] $19,685,497; in Oct., eg . Tt es gee ae rolls, 338 art St cies ae ie ice.| The total net debt of the Dominion Lak on Oct. 31 last was $1,287,035,509, an Eggs--New nid. 57 - 59c; store, 62 to 54e. Dressed poultry --Spri ng chickens, 30 to 32c; roosters, 25¢; fowl, 27 to 20; ducklings, 27 to 30c; turkeys, 31 to 84c; squabs, doz. $4. 50; geese, 2dc. sive poultry--Roosters, 18 to 20c; fow!, 20 to 24c; ducklings, lb., 22¢; turkeys, 27 to 20c; Spring chickens, | 26 to 28c; geese, 20c, Wholesalers are selling to the re- tai] trade at the following prices Cheese--New, 26% to OTe: twins, 26% to 27%c; old, large, 28 to 28t4c; twin 284 to 20c. Butter--Fresh duiry, choice, 45 to 48c; creamery, prints, 58 to 55c¢; creamery solids, 52 to Morgarine--34 to 37¢ Eggs--No. 1 storage, 51 to 52e; selected storage, 53 to 4c; new laid, in cartons, 70 to 75c Dressed poult ry --_Spring chickens, 38 to 40c; roosters, 25c¢; fowl, 33 to 36c; turkeys, «0c; ducklings, b., 35e; -- doz., $5.50; geese, 30¢ Beans-- Canadian, hand- picked, bus, $6.50 to $7.00; imported, hand- Pot, ed, Burma oe Indian, $5.50 to $6. Limas, 1715 to 18c. pied: 00 to he 75; hogs, fed ond wa- ered, $18.2 sis 30. Montreal, Nov. ; do., weighed off cars, 12.--Choice steers, oS. to aaa gt, steera, ad 5d, $6. 50; | butchers' cows, a: choice, $7. M0 to $9. cH $6.00 to $7.00; canners, $4 gore lf $11.00; 5.50; sheep, $8.00 to abs, $14. 00 to 3s, off cars, $17.00 $17.60. Couies, milkfed, $11.00 te $14.00; grass, $5.50 to $6.40. -_----_--_- > GERMAN ARMY IN RUMANIA LAY DOWN ARMS/ TO HUNGARY A despatch from Berne says: --The German Field Marshal. Mackensen, on i for his army to pass vi li Hungary from the Bal- kang to Germany, was informed by the Yungarian Government that the re- quest would be granted on the condl- tion that the troops lay down arms on entering Hungarian sofl, The arms are to be forwarded to Germany later. CERMAN FLEET IN WIDESPREAD | ~ MUTINY HOLD MANY NAVAL BASES Submarine Crews Have Joined Rev "Joined Revolutionists--Labor Unions Proclaim General Strike--Revolt Breaking Out at Kiel , Spreads Rapidly- --Uprising in Hamburg. A despatch from toning ai says: Virtually all the German fleet has revolted, according to a despatch re- ceived from The Hague. The men are complete masters of Kiel, Wilhelms- | veale ig Heligoland, Borkum and Cux- hav At Kiel the workers have joined the navy men, and declared a gen- eral strike, says the despatch. The greater part of the submarine, crews in all the German "naval har- | bors have joined the revolution, ac- cording to an i ll minal despatch from Copenhag A despatch from The. Hague says: "Scant food, bad treatement by | their officers and exagperation caused by the collapse of Austria, culminated | ima movement of revolt in the Ger- man navy. The revolt broke out at Kiel, Nov. 3. Sailors ashore, aided | by workmen, seized the fort and} | arsenal. The movement spread rap- {idly to the crews of warships in the : | roadstead. | "On the 4th theNabor unions pro- claimed a general strike. On the 5th 'the revolt reached Wiihelmshaven, | Heligoland, Borkum, and Cuxhaven. Almost the entiré flect is now in re- volt. The mutineers have seized the wireless.and are communicating with each other. Their officers are power- less. A few units, remain loyal." | A strike of dock-workers at Ham- i burg, involving 10,000 men, is re- | ported by the Exchange Telegraph , correspondent at Amsterdam. Altona, across the river from Ham- , burg, and Flensburg, to the north- east, are reported within the power of | revolutionary soldiers: The airdrome at Apenrade in North Schleswig, has been occupied, and the airmen there {| placed under arrest, 15.00; ~~ select. ' of | phorus, says the Evening News, i increase during the month of $62,- | 807,616. DARDANELLES TO BE OCCUPIED AT ONCE A despatch from London says: Preparations are being made for the 'transfer of British and French troops to' occupy the Dardanelles and Bos- PASS BILL TO PER WOMEN ie PARLIAMENT A despatch from London says--The flouse of Commons on Thursday" @' passed, on third reading, the bill per- mitting women to sit In Praliament. ---- Stockholm is built upon islands, and for several months of the year the! ful way of leaving Orientalism -un- By the time seven hundred yards sep- | 'the remotest mews and the deeply hidden cesspools cease to! he has fallen into the wage ot his: a friend. : "masters, Bagdad is GERMANY'S WA WAR DE "has mortgaged therefore more than' only fiftcen and 2 half are cultivated, | uring Distances. BAGDAD HAS CHANGED | away it is? Probably you can only North America s the Great Chan | make a random guess, yet there is a | Great City on the Tigris is No ' fairly accurate rule which, once a nel of ~~. a ,ed, will form a useful guide. Longer a Pest Hole. Fifty yards away from Jones his'- "a despatch from -Otta says Paved streets, 'electric street lights, features will be discernible. Walk a L wi P cart municipal sprinkling carts, a modern hundred yards away from him and | t fo add one a Pi = certain fire department--these are all in oid his eyes will be like two small dots. i i 4. On the 6 gee: Bagdad now, or rather, they are in; When two hundred yards. separa ate {4 a as eee tia A new Bagdad, for the slumberous city | you, you will still be able to detect on the Tigris kas assumed a new as-' his silver badge. Look for his feat- pect since the British drove out the 'ures at three hundred yards, and you Turks a few months ago. will not find them, his face wi'l be Nothing now remains of the filth, indistinct and blurred. and squalor of the Turkish regime. At four hundred yards you-can see The place is still Oriental, but the | his knees bend as he 'walks. At five Oriental atmosphere is less odorifer- | hundred yards you will know whether ous. Dend cats are not left to de- | he is wearing a top-hat or a straw. His head will have sprung to a small spot when he is six hundred yards off. ; 'is certain to-increase the claims on 'this continent to share what it has with others. The Supreme War Council, in ses- sion at Versailles, desires to co-oper- ate with Austria, Turkey and Bul- garia in making available, 2s far as possible, of food and other sup- plies necessary for the lives of the ~<a populations of those coun- streets. Great Britain has a wonder-, The resolution was passed unani- jmously by the Supreme War Coun- cil. It shows the food situation is second only to that of the military | front, says the Chairman of the Can- These rules apply to normal vision | sin Bast. ae) in the order of their | that bens masiee Shes diacores =" light. If A sight is particu- | withdrawal from the war: Bulgaria cleanliness is not a horror. rly good or you can. easily | The Arab is not naturally vile, but oder them. by "experimenting with: | 2088 &; total of 4,000,000 'people . soiled while making it reasonably arate you Jones head and body will clean. The British soldier cannot abide ; have merged into a. speck without any ; filth. His sanitary squads penctrate | visible evidence of the presence of his most' nec those who must be fed; Turke as in- , roughly, 15,000,000, and Acnstrin an: .| gary, 50,000,000. people. Besides visit the ancient Abba-| sain TN GREAT BRITAIN | 5» probably anc side eaiital where ruled the mighty * oi "have been facing s¢ caliphs,-and will note with interest! Only a Little More re Than One Quarter. pt Se ag for at Nase" two faasone: the British benefits bestowed on on % of Island is Cultivated, These stricken people, when they- city that Wilhelm and Gott one can be fully relieved, added to the picked as the far goalpost of Mittel- The land under cultivation in Eng- hol ulation of France, Italy Sed land and i: sg oe oe mane cal Grast Britain, not to speak of the nd a ha sai eS aah yin take Scotland's cuiti- peoples of the neutral countries, giv? S NOW $35, 000,000,000 , vated acreage as three millions, you | get a total for the Unfted Kingdum | A despatch from London says:; of fifteen and a half million acres. Germany's financial position is des- | Thus, the ge gan Ss bei perate and rapidly approaching the , cultivated is little more an one <° nit breakingepoint. After she raised her | quarter of the whole island. Keay deg cme tangs es pera ge eighth war loan her national debt, | What is the proportion that cannot se cttedl work ot food. Repatriation it is estimated, approached £6,000,-; be cultivated? If you take a map of et ans 4 which cannot be made to a 0,000.' It is assumed that since then | the three kingdoms, and blacken out sadlioed Tone extent until the last~belli- it has reached £7,000,000,000. On! Wales and Scotland, these two be- ode, cower has beensmade to throw June 28 last the Reichstag passed aj tween them represent almost exactly 2 eit A arms, will take up for two vote of credit of 16,000,000,000 marks, the area that cannot be cultivated, 'yeah pi incredible ' which it was then declared would! and the acreage thereof is twenty- .° raise Germany's war debt to 139,000,- | four millions. The result is we actu- . oi 000° marks, or neatly £7,000,000,-: ally have in our country hich, pro. - be fed. Only a part of the allied shipping ing will be free for many months to come to make the long voyage to Au stralia, S hawtaiting that the debt stands now | perly cultiv ated, will produce baying at 142,000,000,000 marks, Germany j crops. Of this thirty-six ws éle wworld. two-fifths of her national wealth,| 5, uch Jessa than half. So, after all, } estimated at £16,000,000,000. That | we have not so . VEY much to be proud "OUTPUT OF SHG AN oe oan this figure is approaching Germany's | of LAST limitation in the war is indicated by Before dw war we were pay ay. to | remarks made from time to time by| ptner "countries nearly four mi lion | authorities in Germany. ot wn weekly for imported food. We Admiralty announces that the sae --o-- ly to get half of our spare of world tonnage in the last quarter have mar cultivation and all that exceeded the losses from all causes by land under . ve 'nearly half a million gross tons. " money can be 88 | The United Kingdom built new ship- o A despaich from n London gaya:--The a Get the family accustomed to eat- ing fresh fruit, well ripened, without F it is closed by ice. be submitted to. Germany. The Palace of "Versollles, Where the Weaders of the Ai By an irony of fate, this Palace, which is now the place of the Doom of Autocracy, is the samé palace in which Withelm I, King Emperor of Germany after the defeat of France in 1371, =e "i ping to the amount of 414,395 tons: ithe other allies and rentrals 972,755 tons The tohnage of merchant vessels completed in the United Kingdem end entered into service in Octeber was 136,100 o------ TELL HARROWING TALES OF BULGARIAN CRUE LTY A despatch frori oni Athens says: Bri- lish prisoners returning from Bul- garia say that terrible tortures were practiced by. the Bulgarian soldiers upon prisoners, some of whom have been driven insane. Serbian and Roumanian prisoners were badly mis- treated, and in one instance a Greek was hung up by the feet and burned. Many harrowing reports are told by 'men who for some time have heen i behind the Bulgarian lines. BRITISH LOSSES BY U- BO ATS AGGREGATE 9,000,600 TONS A despatch from London says: Speaking in the House of Commons, Right Hon. Thomas James Macna- mara, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that 8,946, 000 tons of British merchant shipping had been lost during the war up to 80 last, by enemy actions. number 5,443,000 tons had becn re- placed by new construction and by the purchase of ships abroad and the utilization of captured enemy ships. lies Rave been drawing up the terms of Ssaranter to of Prussia, (the grandfather of the 'anal Kaiser) was proclaimed a total of 250,000,000 who will have . September > his & m8 er