CANADIANS TAKE VI LLAGES JO THE NORTH-WEST OF ROYE | Germans Give Up Towns of Beaumont-Hamel, Serre, Bucquoy a eee ee and Have Crossed Ancre River at Several Points. ; A despatch from London says:-- Canadians have taken the villages *, & =] BE ad < ) J Ro ip Fy a F) wn oe a3 distance north-west of Roye. British line south-east of Proyart, just south of the Somme, has been advanc- ed a short distance. There have been no further striking developments in the situation on the new Somme bat- tle front, or immediately north of it; 'where the Germans have been evacuat:! ing advanced posts in a manner some-} what similar to that preceding their withdrawal last year to the Hinden-) burg line. The enemy seems to be in some; force along the new front south of the s Somme, where he has been driven by} the allied armies. His principal ' force ggg to be between Chaulnes and R The Germans have given up the towns of Beaumont-Hamel, -- Serre, Bucquoy and Puisieux-au-Mont, and at several points have crossed the Ancre River, with the British ee closely on their trail. The enemy seems desirous of establishing himself on new ground eastward, with the Ancre River a barrier between him and his foes In the week of fighting on the Pi- cardy front 30,244 prisoners have fall- en into the hands of the British fourth army and French first army, accord- i ing to the official announcement. Of this number the British captured 21, | 844. Unofficial reports give the number of prisoners in allied: hands i since August & as $4,000, and say also that 670 captured guns thus far have been counted. ENEMY INSTALLED IN OLD TRENCHES Will Require tielp of Artillery , to Dislodge Them. | On 'the French Front.--The advance 'by:Gen. Humbert's army on the Mas- ALLIES 100 MILES -- BELOW ARCHANGEL Encountering --_-- Force Ready to Cut . Off Enemy's Retreat. WASTED BY* EACH PERSON In'CANADA EVERY. DAY VALU & D AT LOT PERLB. THIS EQUALS - $3, 985, 000. A despatch from Paris says:--The town of Ribecourt, on the road lead- ing to Noyon and 6% miles south- _twest of that town, has been captured 4 by the French. The capture of Ribeconrt by the French marks an important epoch in the offensive, which has for its im- 'imediate purpose the freeing of the region between the- Somme and the Oise of the enemy. As a gain from FRENCH CAPTURE RBECOURT "THE ROAD TO. NOYON Brisections for German i Coanterattack Broken Up by Allied Infantry Elements and Battalion Commanders Captured. the strategic standpoint it ranks with the taking by the Frengoh of the forest and hill positions between the Mats and the Oise, which has brought the French almost to the gates of Las- signy. Through Ribecourt lies an open route up the Otse alley to Noyon a route by rafl and the big national thoronghfare, not to mention the canal ' greater part of the way. EVE--INVENTOR. Women 'Inventors Are Proving Their ingenulty. The feminine wizard--the female Edison--bas yet to arrive, but her birth seems not far distant, says au English writer. Rapid strides have hiss made in the A FIGHTING AIRPLANE IS WORTH $15, cae i more technical fields of invention by women since 1914. The yeaf following the outbreak of hostilities saw 400 applications lodged all the applicants being women. The head of this firm then expressed the! opinion that women had failed to ' Bete to the fore as inveutors hitherto, | not because of their fack of mental | 'ability, but merely because their tech- j nical knowledge was too scanty to al- jlow them to put their Ideas into prac- with one London patent agent alone-- | FIVE BILLIONS --- FOR WAR BONDS Bonar Law Announces That British People Have Sub- scribed This Amount. A despatch from London says:-- 'The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right- Honorable Bonar Law, an- } now that the subscriptions for na- tional war bonds had reached the _ indous fi of one thousand ar illion pounds sterling. Hitherto the \rorld's record was held by the great ; war loan of 1917, yielding £048,459, "000. Most remarkable is the fact , that the great result was achieved by regular, continuous, week-by-week in- i which parallels the roadways for the ie js A despatch from London says:-- aw sete : sif of Thiescourt gives the The Allied Archangel gxpeditionary ss N vigh. te vestment, consequently we avoided the French a line which makes it practical-| force has reached Pabereshskaia, 100 Mar of We 3s to 26%4c; tubs, 26% to ene: pails, | ys i yore: . hag | dislocation of the money market and ly impossible for the enemy to»at- miles south of Archangel, on the rail ar ets 0 e or 20% to 27¢; prints, 28 to 2 "tol if Py Perrers LORERr Si ag en | the upheaval of credit which after a tempt any counter-attacks with his! road toward Vologda, it is announced \- Mositrea! Mark te inating pn aly pyar Soa ta an ! great loan render it impossible for the / sence Lass. of the Divette River here, Bolshevik forces, on retiring, | Breadatuffs | Me real, Aug. 20.-- '0 ts--Cana- recwar patent Pcohack emionat ee a another heat for are declared to have committed eve , : many months t may therefore The Germans have lost the advant-; form of atrocity upon civilian abi ! _eromt, Aug. - -~Manitobs whens dian Western, 4-01; extra No. pa rig eee Gh ie same. fairly be stated that the success of tha the 0. our--- age which they held before the French: tio ' Northe 3. we /$10.95 to $11.05 cae national war bond issue is a unique began to climb up into the Massif, of | Pai irly determined resistance to the "$2.17%; as NS rae hea t, $2. Big ee tbs $6 Sb ie $5. 0. "Bran, $87.00. oe optim io ee Oe |achievemert. Undoubtedly the ex: numerous shelters for men and depots | allied advance was offeted by the Bol- Fort William, including 2%c tax. rts, $40. Mouillie, $67. - Ha Finn ROU RTS EON: CH amway 8d-) cellent. result obtained will serve as a for ammunition with which it provid-"sheviki and the progress of the ex- 'enone oats--No. 2 C.W. » Ses No, 4 per ton, car lots, $14.50 to, ~-- Beira R ahi * irit = pone to fresh endeavors. We need ed them. © Either they have already! . 865%c; saw No. 1 feed,: ety razor strops, cranes, an er y y} peditiongry forces was delayed. . Sperse, finest easterns, 2234 to 23c.'spring-forks for motor-cycles. 25,000,000 y, an , thers found themselves obliged to move the 187%4c; No. 1 feed, 84% 4c, in store aes! oleae gaol Mi bulk of their force back across the; eg ette or they will be forced to short-! . They will probably leave a acreen| = machine-guns with which to oppose! any French advance and before long a . is more than likely this, too, will withdrawn even if they are not driv. en out by the force of arms. At every step the Germans have put up a violent resistance, principal- ly with machine guns, as in all re cént operations, and with guns in posi- tion behind their lines. The French naturally have been able to make very little use of their artillery as it-takes | time to bring up guns and they have "war ans ae the tri being | i 'covered porch; when you mutter to ee ae Ptr with gas during the)" Oe On eee SCALE $10.85, in bags, Montreal and a perce ss: cisktaa: eas: gated yourself that it will not matter much wae < Bt es A despatch from London says:--; eed--Car lots mt eli "Mont SS | Sater figentous: alds*for the wounded , whether the weeds do choke the beat ee oa PANIC AMONG PEOPLE The Germans already are conscripting treal freights bey included: Bran.! {have emanated trom this clever'lady's Patch--{t may help you to finish' your ERMAN TOWNS| Russians on a small scale. "Accord: per ton; shorts, a i Toro vy| brain, and she is probably the biggest 'task if you call te mind a story told in ing to stori f pri taken by! Hay--No. 1, $17 to jeeeees, "find" among women inventors. |My War Diary by Mrs, Mary King A despatch from im Geneva says:--An' jn Czecho 'Slovaka, " gays i. ode track Toronto; seas, se re Fie po carts ag eee E13. 75; do.|- then there is Miss Elinor Hale, also ' Waddington. : | ton et track, Tor | $ to $ do. me iam, a sculptor, who has a special London! I # village near ours, says the auth- offitial despatch received here from: Allied', forces have been landed | Wiliam along the shore of Onega Bay, 100; miles south-west of Archangel, for) the purpose of intercepting Bolshevik} forces retiring from Archangel, it is learned here Another allied detachment is push-, tari ne toward Kotlass, 260 miles south: car Jot, $2. of Archangel, on the Divina River. { | dried, nominal; dvied, nominal. Ontario oats--No. 1 white, 85 to 86c, $2.10 to $ 'nominal; No. 3 white, 84 to 85c, nom- | ie 20 T inal, according to freights outside. ; Pa eat--No. Winter, p 29, basis in oe Montreal. | South of the Vologda River Gener-, freights out als Alexieff and Denikine apparently | are endeavoring to amalgamate their, anti-Bolsheviki forces with the army | of the Czecho-Slovaks. | -- --- ~~» GERMANS ARE CONSCRIPTING spatch, "German fiying columns are a | $10" 96, Teronte. Ontario flour Buckwheat--Nominal. flour -- Wer quality, Mmerican corn--No. 3 yellow, kiln! a3%e. as--No. 2. nominal, according to! Barley ouNaiting, new crop, $1.20 to § aw--Car Tote, $8 to $8.50 per{ i, r, choicest creamery, ise 2.16. 7529. 50. , 20 ibs net, es oe per bag, United States Markets Minneapolis, Minn., Eggs, selected, 45 to 46c; No. ed a capital beer-cooler. No. 4 yellow, kiln! stock, 47 to 48c; No.2 stock, 45 to Dressed hogs, abat- er pure, wood Aug "), Northern, $10.76 to $11.00; do. common, $9.00 43% to | One ingenious ludy rocently ~ hee another, room ventilator; but the greatest snc- cess up to now has been achieved by those women who have specialized in surgical aids and appliances. In view of the numberless women who work under the Red Cross, it is not astonishing. perhaps, that {ideas should centre round this theme. Here a Miss Gasette, American artist and sculptor in Paris, stands supreme. Her inventions include a wonderful ined leg hammock--a system of suspen- em- sion which arranges the splint ubove the leg and soft rubber underneath ; car lots, ald, fore, on the patriotism and sense of | duty of our people. We know now * | that the financial efforts of the coun- try wil] not only be sustained, but is rpassed, and that we shall be able to finance the war iy Sesame to victory. A MAID MAID OF FRANCE. One of the Heroines of the War of i Whom There Are Many. When the work in your war garden seems tedious and you atraighten your 'aching back and look longingly toward the inviting shade of the trees or to- ward the armchair on the awning- 'or, a girl of thirteen is running the Frankfort, Germany, says that that. impressing males from 18 to 45 years $10.00; butchers' bulls, choice, centye now at work where women car- , city was attacked by twelve enemy | of age and are bringing those who ton, t track, Toronto. gis-90 to oe 25; do, medium bulls,' penters copy her designs and models. farm.- At the beginning of the war aviators, who dropped twenty-six' disobey the mobilization oredr hafora:' -- Fe 25 to $10.60; do. rough Pulls She concentrates mainly on splints it Was & thriving farm with a man and vase 4 Country Produce--Wholesale 50 to $8.50; ' butchers' cows, choice,}and sipilar apparatus for broken and h!s wife, six sons and one daughter. bombs, killing twelve persons and in-} Germanized revolutionary tribunals,' : > 2 " juring five others. which conden them te death, Thess Butt mee: solids, per Ib., 3 fo 0.50; do, 1.00; do, good, ee wounded mba. Then the blow fell, and 'all the men in Reports from Basel, however, as-; conscripted units have German com- 'Be, das Ch pants, pe pe 87 te '*t common, $7 7.00 to ' 25; li Rig tae fob Siig sabe cat oat sert that the casualties were far) pany and platoon commanders and are! Eggs--} Now laid, aL y nal #8,09, .00 to $10.50; feeders, $10.50 to Hard to-Explain. jprenit ie ba ~ apt ry 1 tps a more numerous. 'These say that a) stiffened by 20 Germans or Magyars' Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, $2!-00; canners and cutters, $5.50 to ; Field Marshal Lord Methuen, the joyqiz Pt? ae ai at she: ey fell in the crowded Kaiser-| to every 60 Russians.' 38 to 40c; roosters, 22c; fowl, 25 to *. oe pmaixers, good to choice, $90.00 Governor pf Malta, told an amusing iene ton _ strasse, killing many persons and > - vi neigh ®, 38c; turkeys, $2' to 5c to 56. "00; pi Ming 590. 00 t [story recently of a wounded Austra: wr ta Oradea, bak don tet ie F f ¢ ive --Ri 0 : : -- . stopping the street cars; that anoth- ITALIANS CAPTUR i Dee yi ss oa eae act "tow, $125.00; Trent ewes, $13.00 to $15. 00; | {lian in a hospital there who fell in love 4, the hands St hia: wits andthe: two ex fell in the middle of th large sta- . g 25c; turkeys, ri 15. / with his Maltese nurse, and eventuully a idle ; MOUNTAIN SPURS = 30c: 8 ea nee ; 00 to $16. 00; spring' big boys, aged fifteen d sixtee tt 4 cewecel ta hil A ring chickens, 32 to 85. if | ied } P 1 B Dboys, ag and sixteen. The on and several in its vicinity, while! Peer dh large, 23% to 2de; ambs, 18 to 18%c; calves, good to, ™arried her. Presently letters of con- jy and his two eldest sons are no two more fell in the barracks"and still | A despatch from Rome says: as 23% wo faery old, large 251% choice, pis.60 to $16. 50; (hogs, fed | eratulstion begun to pour in upon the gaia the two next are | th pants another. near Goethe's house, which) Italian forces have occupied Monte to 26¢; twin 36 to 26%e. 7 and watered, eS to$20.25; d o. | bride from hér husband's friends and 21.4 tha dor ga ee . iniae * sels was undamaged. | Mantello, Punta di Matteo and the ,.5" tter----Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 be he hted € 6s 25 to $20.50; relatives, und most of them used the ly and. inentally: cries: all tee bi whe 'She Basel despatch says the aerial)... th f 42c; creamery prints, fresh made, M. ESOeDes same adjective in referring to him, --~,, ea stg pur southeast of Cima Zigolon, north Mon : 0.--Choice steers, | girl and the two little boys do the attack has increased the panic reign- of the Adamello region, according to bo Ses solids, ae to 11.00, to '$12 "-- $9.00 tc ealling him a model man. Curious to whole work of the farm. The your = UU, ' . : arm, young ing in the Rhine towns. an official statement issued by * 7! arene 1's, » a6. ~ eaten 10.50; cows, $8.00 to $10.00; can-! jlearn the exact meaning of the Word, 6.1 who is only ten years old, cannot ee. War Office. They 25 In ¢ ' ners, $5.50; bulls, $8.00 to $9.00; {she consulted an Knglish dictionary, 2. sa es : ----_6 . e. y have taken 100 52 to B4c » $ accomplish much, but he does man- AMERICANS AT VLADIVOSTOK ; os. lambs, $16.00 to ae ah milk fed | and discovered that model was a prisoners. { rested poultry --Spring aneet calves, $12.00 to $14 "small initation of the real articte." age to watch the cows and to carry 1 Will ------ Join ees "---@ _ ibene ae" 2c; fowl, 33 to S4e; " enna of mUk or baskets of butter. y 'orce to Aid Czec The Human Touch. 2 Bean Canadian hand-picked, bus. ii verte ean vacar puneiiing sick im - . } : ' i a sept trom Washes ar] 4 gntman 'vintod a tovtrs [ily UG gd ob. SAVE THE BREAD: paver asks for ANE except 06 --, ¢ e sem-istore to inspect certain prectous y, 18 casionally for a warm petticoat, or V eatak : . amas * p i Se fe teed th ari Ramee pee henner stones. Among other gems he was 0 = ro p--Strained, 60- Ib, | ONE cain" hood to keep her head and neck warm 4 nee A a gy shown an opal. As it lay there, it ap- tins, 22e; 10-Ib. tins, 22% : 5-ib. tins, and dry when she is working in the e CzechoSiovak army in its cam-( peared dull and lustreless. The jfewel- 23c Combs--Doz. 6 to $3.60 fields. There are hundreds of girls paign in Siberia. The Americans/ jer took it in his hand, and held it for. Map le syrup_8i 1 tins, 10 to a doing that work all over Franca. , pas, vag ne ti ieee infantry an some moments: then he showed it se, $14.50 } mone eallon tins, per : : ., giment from Manila, and will be fol-| again to his visitor. it gleamed and . perial five-gallon cans.' ve Jowed by another regiment from the| | flashed with al! the colors of the rain- gal., mae can, kien 50; 15-gallon kegs, per $2.00; maple Jone 1-lb.' box Saving Daylight. \t present standard thne in New ) Philippines and additional troops from pow. It only needed the touch and pure, per 'h.. 24 t { A the United States. warmth of a,human hand to bring out ; ' | Zealand differs from Greenwich time a Drea hy 1143 ns. BULGARIAN MONARCH IS Ieee overeu hore oe ae ant nl Provisidns--Wholesale ie isan, isto thé Sreseut: SaAaeite IN CRITICAL STATE Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 36; jaystem of zone time was tntroduced. darkly stained with sin. Yet they only to 38c; do., heavy, 30 40 32c; cooked, jneed the touch of the hand of Jesus 61 to 53c; rolls, 32 to 33c; breakfr™ . A despatch feck Geneva says:--!| The health of King Ferdinand of Bul-! garia, who is at Nauheim, suddenly, has become worse, according to a de-! spatch received here from Munich to bring out the radiance of the di- yine image hidden within. to be the hand of Jesus to these mar. | red and lustreless lives: "As My | bacon, 41 ured to dhe; meats---Long clear bacon, 30° to Stes clear bellies, 29 to 30c. ard---Pure, tierces, 30 30%4c:. backs, plain, 44 > We have , 45c; boneless, 48 to 49c. JIBS WASTE ADDS THREE OF THE MOST MODERN Father hath sent Me, even so send 2 'His condition now is considered criti- yoy." ond t sone 01m to Ble; pails, 30% 0 81%c;: SUBMARINES TO THE GERMAN NAVY vear, the advatitages of a half-hour of cal. ! 7 tpenes, 5 t5 a3 ¥ee Compound tierees, . "daylight saving." Th e Doings of the Duffs, ---- e WHN HOW Do You Do, ; OH | MUST TE --_-- Bo -- a orl ee ee YES INDEED, THIS TOM. We MDST BE WAAL LHEARD Apeoy | (HELEN wat. Wr THAT DAME Is ToM | WANT You To ~MISS PIPPIN-MR DUPP, GOING -- Look AT THE BROWNS ~-You KNow BELATE |", , ABouT AS- QUIT TALKING THAT ------ THE TIME! HE DRINKS So Ano -- n INTERESTING WAY. THE IDEA OF ' fav 9 = AS A CODPISH STANDING OFF TO " a! v THE SIDE ACTING P teu Le BORED-- IT WAS. | DO MR DUFF __DISGRACEFUL! r = s ee a . 2 pe : ge ~ k re! = z C . cd * bad f. = : - « - E Paes 'The Wellington Philosophical Soctety is now agitating the question of mak- ijiagNew Zealand time exactly 12 hours jin advance of Greenwich time, thus 'conforming to the regular hour zones, and also securing, throughout the