1. tof \ "fs RS One of the quickly constructed huts in Halifax, which ha s housing capacity for six separate families. : : Markets of the World 7 : Breadstufts Toronto, Mar. No. 1 Northern, $2,284; No. 2, do., $2.20 No. 3, do., $2.178; oa No. 4 wheat, $2.10 In store Fort Willl . Includ ' ' beri iti ; Non 2 ewe ich, Bo Transportation Facilities For 9640; in store Fort William. Manitoba oats---No, 2 C, g C.W., 964c; extra Noa, No. .1 feed, 9240; American' No. 8 yellow, ried, $2.05, track Toronto, = Ontario oats----No. 2 white, No. 3 white, 98 to 99e, freights outside, W., 9930; 1 feed, corn kil Ontario wheat--No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal. Peas---No, 2, $8.70 to $8.80, accordin to _freights outside. Barley----Malting, $1.78 to $1.75, cording to freights outside, Buckwheat--$1.78 'to $1.80, accordin to freights outside. : Rye -- No. 2 $2.35, Rye _freights according outside, \ Manitoba flour--War quality, $11.10, $10.70, Montreal Mont- per new bags, Toronto. Ontario flour---War quality, new bags, Toronto and freights, prompt shipment. Millfeed----Car lots---Delivered real freights, bags included: ton, $36; shorts, per ton, $40. Hay--No. 1, per ton, mixed, $14 to $14 track Toronto. Straw--Car lot track Toronto. Bran, Country Produce--Wholesale P Butter--Creamery, solids, <- te 47hc; prints, per Ib., 474 dairy, per Ib., 86 to 88e, Eegs--New laid, 41 to 42c.. _ Poultry--Dressed, chickens, 28c; fowl, 25 to 27; Beese, 21 to 22c; tutkeys, 30 to 85c. Wholesalers are selling trade at the following prices: ¢C) 23% to 239c; early large twin, 26 to 26ic. OE eotigatdak aairy choice, 4ic; creamery prints, 61 to 62c; '49. to boc. hopes ~ Eges--New laid. 46 to 47%c; 26 pete 4 ; resse poultry--Milk-fed $5 to 37c: fowl, 80 to 38c;. to 45 ' turkeys, y aby, 38 to 28c; hens, 30 to 88c, eans--Canadian, hand-picked, bush $8.25 to $8.50; imp. hand-picked, ma or Indian, $6.50 to $6.75; $8 to $8.25; Limas, 19 to 20c. Ri Provisions--Wholesale eee Pe hag ata medium, 84 t ; o., heavy, 28 to 30c; . to 47c; rolls, 4 ia S208 2 bacon, 40 to 42¢; boneless, 45 to 46 28 to 80c; c Cured meats-----Long clear bacon, 28 to pails, 30 t Oe hae 'e ails, 0 304e; 0S m Repne tlerces, 25% to 26c; at 29c; clear bellies, 27 to 28c. Lard--Pure lard, tierces, tubs, 29% to 304; tubs, 26§ 63c; pails, 26 to 264c. mgial che * Montreal Markets -_ Montreal, Mar, . No. 8, $1.11; local white, $1.10; $1.06; Wheat grade, $11.10 to: $11.20. Qats--Bags, 90 Ibs., $5.60. ~Bhorts, $40. Middlings, fouillie, No, Bran, $60 to $62. on, car lots, $17. 9 Hay--No. 2, pe Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Mar. 12---Cash ats---No, 2 C.W., 9930; No. )64c; extra No. 1 feed, 964c: feed, 924c; . 2 feed, 88¥c. No, 8, $1.87; No. 4, $1.82; 1.53; feed, $1.50. Flax---No. 1 he No, 2 C.W., $8,783; 3 CW N.W.C. Nod: CW. United States Markets Minneapolis, Mar. 12--Corn--No., $1.80 to $1.85. ) = Sak to "baie," Fiblecoein ert cotton sacks. Bran--$32.98. Mar. 12----Linseed----$4.11 » $4.11; May, October, $3.70 asked. Give Stock Marketa Toronto, Mar. 12.--Extra choice heavy do., good heavy Hi to $11.69; butchers' cattle, chotos, 11.25 to $11.50; do., good, $10.60 to $11; c . 9.25; butchers' bulls, pe et -- $10 to 0; $ouzs. do., medium bulls, $7.85 to aa butchers' steers, $11.75 to $12; do., medium, $10 t 10.25; ceaoh. $8 to o $10.25 0 to $10 do., do., good bulls, oO. rough bulls, $6.50 to $7; $10 to $10.60; do, stockers, $7.50 to $8.50; $10; canners and cutters, $6 to ; Ikers, good to choice, $90 to m. and med., $65 to $80; $6.50 $140; do. heavy, $6 to $7.25; es, | $16 and watered, $19.75; ff cars, $20; do., f.o.b., $18.75 my tee a 12--Canners' . to $6 per 0 ; calves, $12 to sis; auseb. | mbs, to $16; choice selec aad cars, $19.50 i $20 per 100 Sy as --9- | Is Knowledge Golden? A university president was com- of wealth $s seemed to characterize the ining about the worshi s,' said I, of course, but it} s seems as if in these times he only way for a man to convince people he has brains it to get riches,' " 12-----Manitoba wheat-- 99c to $1; according to ac- to $17 to $18; » per ton, $8.50 to $9, per Ib. 47 to 480; to ducks, 28 to 24c; to the retall heese--New, large, 23 to 284c; twins, cheese, 254 to 260; 40 to solids, new laid, In cartons, 48 to 50c; No. 1 storage, 46 chickens, ¢. Live. poultry--Turkeys, 30c; chickens, Bur- Japan, breakfast backs, plain, 42 to 48¢; 12--Oats---Canadian extra No. 1 feed No. 4 local white, standard Spring ae Ti $48 to $50. prices-- No. 1 Barley----- rejected, : Flour--In_ carload lots. standard, $9.70 a barrel in 98-pound to $4.11 bid; do., medium, $8 to $e: | feeders, $9 to | Spri ; light ewes, $13.50 to $1450; yearlings, lambs, $18 to $19.05: to $17; hogs, do., 'weighed | fitted milk- Sheep, $11 to 313: U.S. TRANSPORTS MOVING ON TIME . Gen. Pershing's Army Are Satisfactory. A despatch from Washington says: Troops and supplies for Genera Pershing's forces now are moving to France on schedule time, it was learn- n & While figures may not be published, it was stated positively that transport- ation requirements of the army are being met by the Shipping Board, and the immediate situation as to was described as satisfactory. ~ In view of this assurance that the United States will be able to main- & the battle front, reports from the Western front are being scanned more eagerly than ever by officers here for the first signs of the 1918 campaign. It is felt strongly that the opening of major operations in what President Wilson has predicted will prove the decisive year of the great war will not be much longer de- layed. ° ne FINLAND REPUBLIC SIGNS PEACE TREATY WITH GERMANY. A despatch from Amsterdam says: Official announcement was made in Berlin on Thursday of the signing of a peace treaty between Germany and Finland, and also of trade and ship- ping agreements and a supplementary protocol. Finland, by the conditions of the treaty, agrees to cede no territory nor grant territorial rights to any foreign power without the previous consent of Germany, who undertakes to exert \herself to secure the recognition of | Finland's independence by all the pow- ers. The fortifications of the Aland Islands will be removed. One of the surest methods of reliev- ing pain is to use hot moist applica- tions. The articles needed for this 4 treatment are: Hot water, pieces of soft flannel twice the size of the area to be covered, a protector which may be made of folds of flannel, or better, of cotton batting quilted between lay- ers of cheese-cloth, and some kind of awringer. 'The flannel is wrung out by placing it in the centre of a towel and twisting the ends of the latter in opposite difections. This device can be improved upon by making a hem in either end of the towel and running sticks through the hems. By twist- ing the sticks in opposite directions \ the flannel can be wrung very dry. To apply, cover the painful part with the protector, iken remove flannel from the wringer, test it with the back of the hand, and, if it is not too hot, place it under the protector and put it down slowly to avoid burning the patient. Change these applica- tions every few minutes; do not al- low them to become cool. 0 0) 5 o r 3 3 |GERMAN TREATY 1|A preliminary peace treaty between ed on Thursday on high authority. 'Danube to the Central powers. ships | tain its place as a fighting unit on) WITH RUMANIA Province of Dobrudja as Far as Danube is Ceded to Central Powers. A despatch from Amsterdam says: Rumania and the Central powers has been signed, says a despatch from Bucharest. Under the terms of the preliminary peace agreement Rumania cedes the province of Dobrudja as far as the Ru- mania also undertakes to further the transport of Teutonic troops through Moldavia and Bessarabia to Odesso. An official German statement! said Rumania had accepted the conditions of the Germans for an armistice. Ap- parently the signing of a preliminary treaty followed almost immediately. A despatch from London says: The drastic terms imposed: by Germany upon Rumania, it is contended here, not only definitely takes her out of the war, but places -- her geographically at the economic mercy of the en- emy. All pretence of "no annexa- tions, no indemnities," is openly aban- doned in the clause requiring "recti- fication of the Austro-Hungarian fron- tier," which involves the loss of the valuable oil fields. The cession of Dubrudja, not to Bulgaria, but to the Central Powers, suggests that there is a conflict in the Quadruple Alliance over the division of the booty from the spoliation of Rumania. NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cia! World. The King's doe sent to Mayor of Kingston, was cooked for the wounded soldiers. © : A new Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation has been opened at Southamp- ton by the Americans. William Chambers a Badingham farmer, was fined £20 at Framlington for not thatching a wheat stack. The Science Museum at South Ken- sington has been reopened after being closed for nearly two years. Mrs. W. L. Wainwright has' been presented with a portrait of her sister Nurse Cavell, by the Princess Victoria. Twenty-five Eastbourne school cad- ets worked three thousand hours in Kent harvest fields and earned £45. To clear the debt on the Blackburn Royal Infirmary, Mrs. R. A. Yerburgh, Woodford Park, Blackburn, has given £3,000. ator Amelio Allegreti, an ice cream man- ufacturer"of Newcastle, was fined £10 for an infraction of the Sugar Restric- tion Oder. Major W. O. Ritchie, formerly of the South Wales Borderers, has been appointed secretary to the Comrades of the Great War. Captain John Lathe, of a Norwegian steamer, has been awarded a piece of silver plate by the Board of Trade for rescuing the crew of a British steamer. The Mayor of Ramsgate has issued a proclamation asking for volunteers to make air raid dugouts for the pro- tection of women and children. The premises in Richmond terrace, Whitehall, formerly occupied by the Coal Controller, have been taken over by the Ministry of Munitions. A coroner of Manchester says that the increase in burning fatalities is due to mothers leaving their children in order to wait in food queues, The sum of nearly £84 was raised for the funds of St. Dunstan's Hospi- tal for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors by carol singers of Ashtead, Surrey. About 800 Russians who have failed to return to Russia are being sought for by the British military authori- ties. Herbert Sweet, a Gravesend butcher, was fined £10 for charging a poor woman sixpence too much for a scrag of mutton. Ca PREPARED TO CRUSH CERMANS WATCH CREW DROWN Norwegian Ship Sunk--Six Sur- vivors Rescued. A despatch from London says: The Norwegian steamer Havna, of 1,150 tons gross, has been torpedoed without warning. She sank in less than one minute. The crew of 18 had no time to launch a boat and jumped into the sea. The captain and five survivors were landed Monday night. With five companions, Capt. Her- mansen spent a terrible night on a raft, exposed to intense cold. They U-BOAT MENACE Feeling of Optimism Prevails in Official Circles. A despatch from Washington says: More submarines were destroyed by the allied and American naval forces in December than Germany was able to. build during that month, according to information reaching Washington. This fact developed on Thursday in discussions of the statement made to Parliament on Thursday by Sir Eric HAIR-BREADTH GERMANY HAS LOST 30% OF HER | Story of a Hun Undersea Boat Which ~ ESCAPE OF U-BOAT SUBS IN 10 MONTHS. -- sai! Narrowly Escaped Allies' U-Boat Trap. A Swiss engineer who has been em- ployed at the electrical works at Kiel for ten months declares that in that time Germany has lost at least 30 per cent. of her submarines, and that she is making every effort to conceal the seriousness of her losses because of the difficulty of obtaining crews for her undersea boats. This statement lends interest to the following transla- tion of the story of a German sub- It is particularly significant, too, because it is told in Die Illustrfte Zeitung, and especially prepared from the German view-point. The very natural thought it suggests is that if this boat had such a series of hair-breadth escapes, a lot of other submarines must be less lucky. Here is the story, as we find it translated in a London paper: Attacked Tank Steamer. At midday the watch reported a tank-steamer sailing directly toward the submarine from an E.N.E. direc- tion. Her masts, bridge, and funnel could be seen above the horizon. Tank- steamers are very tough, because they have strong bulkheads to protect their -|two of the diving-tanks aft in order to |was impossible to come right to the ! whole manoeuvre had to be repeated. marine that was lured into a trap and - |narrowly escaped destruction. precious cargo; a torpedo must hit the engines, placed at the stern, and ther the vessel is done for. The submarine dare only show a small part of the periscope above the water, and then only for a short space of time. The torpedo was fired at a distance ing at a greater pace than had been allowed for, and there was no explo- sion. A miss was recorded. Then she turned right round, and started setting her course in the opposite direction. When she had gone some little dis- tance, the U-boat emerged and fired a shot from her quick-firing gun as a signal to halt. The steamer under- stood; she let down two boats, into which the crew descended. A _ tall white column of steam was blown off. The captain seemed to be a reason- able sort of man, and not anxious to fight desperately and hopelessly | against shell-fire. The submarine came | alongside, submerged, and viewed the vessel; she was a black tank-steamer of 700 yards, but the steamer was g0-| with gray superstructure, unarmed, with the usual patent log trailing from | her stern, "Submarine Trap!" Then the U-boat turned her atten- | tion to the small boats, who, when they saw the periscope approaching, rowed quickly away. At last the sub- | marine was able to emerge safely in| a favorable position beyond the boats, | but keeping them well within range | of her guns. Blowing out her midship | ballast, she emerged, and the conning tower was opened. The boats had already been rowed a little forther, when suddenly, just as they were be-| ing hailed, there was a flash from the | steamer. "Submarine trap!" sounded | the alarm. "Submerge quickly." C. Geddes, First Lord of the British Admiralty, that the submarines were being checked. : Whether succeeding months have | shown a net loss in German submar- | found an upturned lifeboat at dawn | and managed to right her. They hadj| drifted about for 50 hours when res- | cued by an American destroyer. One, man died in delirium; the others had their feet frozen. The Germans watched the men, struggling in the icy water, said Capt. ! Hermansen, but did not offer any, help. nN renee eS A pair of scissors will be found an. endless convenience in the kitchen, Do not use more than a mere dust- ing of flour when kneading the bread. Paeific Ocean- Strategic points at which Japan may strike. at Russia in the Far Kast to safeguard war supplies in store at Vladivostok and Harbin. ines is not known here. It is believed, | however, that the anti-submarine cam- paign has proved so effective that in- creased efforts this Spring will see a steady decrease in the number of U-| boats available to prey on allied and American shipping. American naval officials appear | to be satisfied that the 'weapons with which they expect to crush final- ly the submarine menace are forth- coming. Increased numbers of patrol vessels of various types, appliances, and devices to make them more ef- fective against underwater craft, and the increased skill of navy personnel | are among the things upon which they | count. It has taken time to devise and | build the weapons, but they are be- | ginning to become available now. YS ee How to Restore Frozen Plants. The proper way to treat frozen | plants is to place them at once in utter | darkness where there is little or no artificial heat, as in a closet or cellar, and allow them to remain without light until the weather moderates suf- ficiently to thaw them. When the | plants have thus thawed naturally | they will be found green and fresh, and | then may be taken again into the sunlight. If they are put into a cellar they should be covered with boxes, pa- pers or carpets to prevent the light reaching them. It is the sudden change from extreme cold to heat that breaks the tissues and causes the plant to die from loss of sap. The question of common sense is al- ways, what is it good for?--a ques- tion which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cab- bage.--Lowell. ; 'two water-bombs behind them. The moments passed like lightning. | A shell hit the after part of the con- | ning-tower superstructure, and no; sooner was the hole stopped up at there was a yellow flash, and explosive | gases poisoned the air. A shell had penetrated the conning-tower and ex-| ploded inside. Splinters were flying | iin all directions, and instruments and | : : a | smoke began to rise from his super- panes of glass were shattered. In moment another shell would follow, | and that would be an end of war for-| ever! Water was splashing through | the shell-hole, the conning tower was | cleared, the lower hatch closed, the | cocks of the speaking tubes shut off, | the submarine was conned from the} lower position, and sank into the shel- } tering deep. | "Ts any one in the conning-tower | wounded ?" One had a scratch, but their faces were black, and the uniforms a sight | to behold. In a Sad Plight. At a depth of ten fathoms the boat quivered at two sharp explosions. The "poor shipwrecked crew" had thrown Some lamps went out. Further mischief | was prevented by the rapid closing of ! the water-tight bulkheads. The conning-tower was full. Theo- retically a submarine can still pro- ceed in this plight, but as yet there is no man living who can confirm that theory from his own experience. Ow- ing to the ever-increasing pressure of the water the boat sank to a depth of twenty fathoms, the every ounce pos- sible was got out of the engines, - Water rushed through every crack that was not water-tight. One after another important parts of the ma- chinery refused to work--the compass, main steering-gear, the forward div- ing rudders (which had also stuck fast down below), and the trimming- pumps. An attempt was made to get the submarine horizontal by emptying make her lighter. She rose a little, but the load of water in her stern grew heavier and heavier, and the stern blow-off valves went wrong. It surface, for the enemy was waiting above to fire at her, Ata depth of ten fathoms all the crew available were sent forward in order to press her bows down with their weight. The boat dipped astern and sank, and the Obliged to Emerge. | In twenty minutes it was found that it was impossible to steer submerged, and the only hope appeared to be to emerge, fire, and get away. The order was given: ip "Pressure on all the tanks, man the guns, let the engines run clear, 'and full speed ahead." In the galley stood a bucket con- taining the fish that had been caught that morning. They would not be wanted now. The submarine emerged, and the hatch under the conning-tower was opened. A perfect torrent of water poured in; but that did not matter, all were prepared to swim sooner or later, Now the way was clear. The steamer was some couple of miles away, now, firing as she went, "You--you have not got us yet, by a long way," said the U-boat, quickly returning fire; but whether the shots were successful it could not tell, as the glass of the periscope lay in the water-ligged conning-tower. The en- gines were set at high speed. Far higher than they ought to have been, but when the last card is at stake.... ' Those of the crew who were not oc- cupied below busied themselves by carrying shells to the guns. The lieu- tenant suddenly felt his feet blown sideways--a yard apart; in a cloud of smoke he staggered against the gun, The crew thought the poor fellow would have had both his legs blown off, but marvelously enough he was only hit by a few splinters. The shell had passed between the legs of the gunner of the forward gun, the deton- ation shattering his ear-drum, The reserve ammunition showed a con- siderable amount of damage. Shells were dashing in among the crew. A rail was blown away. A sailor from Leipzig sat in the stern calmly steer- ing with the hand-rudder according to the verbal instructions of the helms- man, the compasses being now out of gear. Destroyer on the Scene. By this time it was possible to raise the periscopes out of the conning- tower. "Destroyer of St. Bride's," was announced. Right! There she was, the shells from her four guns mingling with those from the tank- steamer. : This type of destroyer could do thirty knots an hour, and carried guns of 4-inch caliber. The order came: | "Change round to a westerly course." | The gunners were so deafened by the noise of their own guns that it was now only possible verbally to direct | the firing of one gun, The steamer) was so far gone that it was not neces- sary to fire at her any more, so atten- | tion was turned to the new foe. This was no ordinary destroyer, but a U- boat destroyer of the Foxglove class, about twice as big as the U-boat, but not quicker. At this moment the sec- ond mechanic announced that he could repair the damaged conning-tower; hopes rose beyond all expectation. "Firel--Range 4,000--Deflection 4 left." Soon the towering water-columns raised by the shells were close by the target, and the enemy began to try to avoid them by taking a zigzag course; by so doing he impaired the accuracy | of his own guns. Suddenly black structure. A hit! Then another! Some of the shells raised no columns of water; no | doubt they were buried in the hull | of the destroyer. Then the enemy craft | turned round and steamed out of the | fire zone, following in the wake of the submarine. The final damage was repaired, am- munition placed in order near the guns and the U-boat waited, like Welling- ton at Waterloo, for the night. er ens A Distinguished Inventor. At the international plague con- ference held a few years ago in Muk- den there were representatives of eleven countries, among the most dis- tinguished of whom, says Mrs. de Burgh Daly in An Irishwoman_ in! China, was Prof. Kitasato, who first' discovered the plague bacillus. Some American travellers were staying at the Yamato, the comfort- able railway hotel run by the Jap- anese at Mukden, and when the clerk pointed out Dr. Kitasato with par-| donable pride in such a famous doc- tor one of them asked: "Who is he, anyway? anything about him." "Not know Dr. Kitasato!'"' gasped | the astonished clerk. "Dr. Kitasato, the man who invented plague!" RGEE Hate Te ane Le Beans should not be served as a vegetable at a meal where meat is served because they contain the same body-building substances meat con- tains. : I don't know a ee aE aR A . 'Tom, How Do Yo LIKE THe RiBBON --" v,{ WELL, HELEN, 3 \F You HAD A HEADACKE ,) THINK OLIWIA, | SEE. You VE GOT ONE OF THOSE HEADACHE! HECTOR Wirt THAT PLower- BARDS Too : DONT SPEAK To ME Tom -- ---M MAD AT You -- 'To THINK THE WAN Nou HiT" pot NESTERDAY --_-- THAT WovLD BE A MODEST WAY. 'To ADVERTISE IT m 'fhe Doings of the Duffs. ca (GUESS | DID GWE HECTOR A PREYTY GooD /WALLOP YEsTER-|- a PAY IS HERE. OH - HELEN -- Come OUT-- HECTOR! You RE RIGHT IN STYLE it i \ em \air on all sides | melted fat. BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRL ISH COLUMBIA. - ' Z -- Items From Provinces 'Where Many Ontario Boys ond Girls Are , Living. eee From The Middle West sa eek Winnipeg women urge' the issuing of food tickets in the city. ' The barbers of Alberta are desirous of being placed under a license act. Winnipeg fire records show that all buildings ten years old have been rav- aged by fire. -- : Pte. C. V. Combe, former church editor of the Winnipeg Tribune, has arrived home after 16 months in a German camp. pee The Moose Jaw branch of the Great War Veterans' Association ob- ject to German being taught in Saskatchewan. ~ Winnipeg is planning to control milk sales. The citizens consume ap- proximately 12,000 gallons of milk a day, of which 6,000 is pasteurized and 6,000 raw. Three thousand three hundred mem- bers of the Saskatchewan Grain Grow- ers are in the Canadian expeditionary force. 470 have made the supreme sacrifice, Between 7,000 and 8,000 cords of wood have been cut this season along the Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway. About 100 men are employed, The city intends to cut 10,000 cords before the cold weather ends, The area of land prepared in the fall of 1917 in Saskatchewan shows a 50 per cent. advance of that prepared during the ptevious fall, The total amount of land prepared during 1917 for the 1918 crop is estimated to be 6,184,619 acres, A monument will be placed in Cal- gary in the City Hall grounds in memory of Colonel Boyle of the 10th Battalion, who fell at St. Julien, and the veterans of the 10th Battalion in Calgary have been given permission: to erect a tablet on the monument. BRITISH CRUISER CALGARIAN SUNK Torpedoed Off Irish Coast--48 Lost Out of 610. A despatch from London says: The British auxiliary cruiser Calgarian was torpedoed off the Irish coast on Saturday last. She was struck by four torpedoes, but of the 610 persons on board all but 48 were landed at an Irish port. The people of the same town, who a few days ago won the gratitude of the American people by their kindness to the survivors from the Tuscania, have extended their hospitality in the last few days to nearly 500 men from the Calgarian, one of the finest auxiliary cruisers in the Atlantic service. The Calgarian was torpedoed in the late afternoon not farfrom the place where the Tuscania met her doom. --_----_+* UNCERTAIN FORTUNES OF WAR." Canadian Officer Cites a Striking Ex- perience of His Own. Fatalities are freakish things. They are not always the heaviest where one would expect them to be, says Major Owen of the Canadian Forces in France. My own first experience un- der shell fire was a gruelling initia- tion. The Germans must have known in some fashion that fresh raw troops were coming in. At 5 o'clock in the morning, a few hours after we had taken our posts under cover of dark~ ness they opened up. My company of about 150 men were distributed over a front of 250 or 300 yards, and for an hour and ten min-« utes the bursting of enemy shells in our lines was so continuous that the sound was a sustained roar. Explod- ing shells blew up the trenches at short intervals, isolating the defend- ers into little groups. I lay beneath the parapet with one such handful, unable to make any kind of a tour of inspection. Every minute I expected we should be blown to pieces. I had no doubi that every other man in the company was already dead or wounded. The seemed a wavering blanket of smoke and flame and flying clods. Then as abruptly as it started the enemy fire ceased. I crawled out -- of my section of demolished . trench and started to look around. Out of 150 men we had lost only thirty. It is hard to explain a situation like that. One of the wonders of any modern battlefield, pitted with shell holes until not a square yard of soil has its normal appearance, is that anyone should have survived at all. Verdun probably had a shell per square yard every. day for weeks at a time, yet somehow the heroic French remained and lived and defeated the massed legions of the Crown Prince. On other occasions 'an enterprise that carries a reasonable assurance of suc- cess become a veritable holocuast, wip- ing out whole companies. Such occa- sions there have been when patrol en- countered a "planted" machine gun, or an "over the top" sortie met an in- superable barrier. the casualties are very heavy. ee Production of Pleasure Autos Reduced. A despatch from New York says: Production of pleasure automobiles On such occasions will be cut 30 per cent. during the pre- _ sent fiscal year as a war Measure, ac: cording to a decision reached here on Thursday by the National Automobile. ne Chamber of Commerce. The reduction applies to the entire uncompleted sche- dule for the year. ar Sacra ety Rye Muffins.--Sift together two cups of rye flour, one teaspoon of, salt and three level teaspoons of bak-, ing powder. Beat up one egg, add, one cup of milk and combine with dry} ingredients. Add one tablespoon | of molasses and one tablespoon of Bake in hot, well-greas ed muffin tins twenty-five min | add more $iGtr esa A