So Aa wel ts Attack on Franco-Am Failed. \ ae Retirement T'T0 DRIVE BACK ALLIES, erican Positio tFere-en-Tardenois | _ i--More Towns in Flames, Indicating Further ms a of Enemy. -- | Items From 'Provinees Where | BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI) \ | ISH COLUMBIA. ™ # wees 2 ee Many | Ontario Boys ond Girls Are | Americans P eo See retended to With- - draw, Then Attacked, An-.-- nihilating Two Companies. }/ NEWS BY. e MAIL ABOUT JOHN -- BULL AND I$ PEOPLE) ee "4 . sf gs = Qceurrences in the Lund That Reig Supreme in the Commer- * 4 despatch with the - American Army on the Aisne-Marne front, says: General DeGoutte, commanding the army on this front, has expressed to the correspondent his satisfaction at :-- the great pocket with, its mouth run-| pi vate : ' lning cross- try 36 miles from Whether as a result of weariness "INE cToss-col ntry C. . 3 - eee epee | Soissons to Rheims, saw little activity i after two weeks of incessant fighting 'on the part of either of the contending or because of the greatly. increased foyces--except in the nature of reci- _» strength in man-power and positions procal -- bombardments. Tuesday ~ ef A despatch from London says > Eiving. 'cia! World. ie. Queen Alexandra has opened the Nurse Cavell Ward in the London hos- pital. ' Calgary women are already asking for funds to fill 3,000 overseas socks for Christmas. } _ ; A hail storm bursting over Saska- "mans. _ of the enemy forces before them, the, allied armies on the Soissons-Rheims front have noticeably decreased their efforts to clear the salient of Ger- 5 If the pause in the offensive is at- _tributable to weariness, the armies of the German Crown Prince also must be worn out by the pressure they have | been under for the fortnight, for, not-. withstanding the fact that huge re- inforcements were sent to them in' their hour of dire pertl, they have lacked the hardiness to endeavor to throw back their antagonists and re- coup their losses. The fourteen day of the great al- lied offensive which has resulted in driving -back the Germans from the_ Marne region northward across the Ourcq River and in materially bend-' ing in the eastern and western side of the region of Fere-en-Tardenois, and | Likewise whether their retreat finally, night witnessed violent attempts by the Germans to expel the Americans and French from the valuable posi- tions they hold north of the Oureq, in along the western side of the salient near Oulchy--le--Chateau, where Scot- tish troops are holding with. the French the wedge that has been driv- en eastward into the enemy line. These efforts were entirely fruitless. Whether the Germans have chosen the spot where ultimately they will face about and give battle to the allied forces has not yet become apparent. 'has ended is not known. Great fires behind thé lines possibly might indi- cate the destruction of further vil- lages which it is intended to evacuate and: press on northward to a chosen CANADIANS AGAIN | IN FRONT LINE Have Already Captured Prison- ers From Extra German Di- visions Sent to Confront Them A despatch from London says:-- The Canadian forces now are again in the front line and celebrated their return thither by continually haras- large batch of German prisoners cap-| extra No. 1 feed 84%c, in store Fort: sing the Boche opposite, raiding him almost at will and contniually annoy- GERMAN MORALE - IS BROKEN Disconsolate Batch of Prisoners Taken by Australians. A despatch from the British Front says:--The far-reaching effect: on the German morale of the great. allied blow between Scissons and the, Champagne sector is nowhere more, convincingly apparent than among the} | tured within the last few days by the | Australians. ie "<< & 4! 7154000 Lbs « | termaster at the 'toon last week competely ruined a 750-acre crop of grain, e An Ayrshire cow belonging to an Alberta farmer near Calgary has had eight calves since 1914. '3 Capt. M. J. Graham, a well known | western rancher, who went overseas with the Fifth Battalion, is now qtar- military hospital at Regina. The attendance at the Calgary Fair this year was 115,665, compared with 110,028 in 1917. The cash receipts from the gate and grandstand were FIGURES ARE FOR AVERA LE | 22 7296800 fa "ts THIS the best we can DO Markets Breadstuffs Toronto, Aug. 6.--Manitoba wheat | --No. 1 Northern, $2.28%; No. 2 Northern, $2.20%; No. 8 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.10%, in store} Fort William, including 2%c. tax. |feed, 97c. Flour, ne i --No. : Thoc.1 $10.95 to $11.05. Manitoba oats--No. 2 C.W., 86%c; 30 ibs, $5.20 to $5.30. Shorts, $40. Mouillie, $67. 2, per ton, car lots, $14. 'tubs, 30% to 81c; pails, 30% to Si %ecs | prints, 88 to 383%ee. tierces, 26 to 26%c; tubs, 26% 26%c; pails, 26% to 27c; prints, to 28%c. to 28 ---- Montreal Markets western, No. 2, $1.00; extra No. 1 w standard grade, Rolled oats, bags, Bran, $35. Hay, No. William. : : American corn--No. 3 yeilow, kiln; 'Compound eons Montreal, Aug. 6.--Oats--Canadian ing him on his communicatons on the} rear lines. "A gad lot of rabbits,' was the de- dried, nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln dried, nominal. Live Stock Markets $33,590.25, as compared with $35,449. 35 last year. = The Regina Médical Association will 'erect a tablet in the local General | Hospital to the memory of the late i Dr. EB. E. Meek, of Regina, who was , killed in France while operating in a 'Red Cross hospital on a wounded sol- ' dier. the progress already made ~ and the hope that the advance would continue until the Germans were forced beyond their new positions. ' - The allied forces now occupy the hills beyond Seringes and Sergy. One of the fiercest encounters in the pres- ent offensive was brought about by the Americans, who occupied Seringes. During the night the Americans pre- tended to withdraw from the village. Some of them did withdraw, but others remained in the houses and other points of vantage. The Germans began pouring into the place, and the Americans opened fire. Two enemy companies were virtually annihilated. ~ The Americans used machine guns, rifles, pistols and employed both the bayonet and the rifle-butt with great effectiveness. The fighting in the streets was savage, but of compara- tively brief duration. Then the Ameri- cans awaited the coming of other Ger- The Military authorities presented year-old boy of Wold, who captured two escaped German prisoners. ; Numerous marriages are reported from Switzerland, between British prisoners in the internment camps and ~ Swiss girls. -- : As a result of Welsh Flag Day in 'London, the Lord Mayor has sent to ~ 'Mrs. Lloyd George the sum of £8,362. | In order to facilitate the promotion 'of younger officers, RearAdmiral S. | Rawling has asked to be placed on the 'retired list. see : The agricultural workers in West 'Gloucestershire are threatening to strike unless they are paid forty-five 'shillings a week. The death took place recently at /Sunninghill of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. H. Drummond, for fifty=years a, Berk- {shire magistrate. The school children of West .Sur- | The Edmonton Public School Board |mans, but they came not. So, French 'rey have raised £1,250 for prisoners ' voted to loan, its technical machine land Americans together moved beyond of war of the Queen's Royal West 'shop and machinery to the Western' , Shells and Box Co., Ltd., which has 'a contract to manufacture $83,000 'anti-aircraft shels for the United States Government. The first convictions of the fishing season under the. Fisheries Act was j made - in the Calgary Poice Court | when seven disciples of Isaac Walton | were arraigned before the magistrate and charged with catching fish under nine inches long and failing to throw | the back into the river. ' Winnipeg tax rate is being cut down to under 21 mills. $50,000 was cut at first session of council. Two boys exploring an old mine at Blairmore with a lamp caused a \the village. The Germans are now using high | explosive shells. simultaneously with gas shells. The high explosives are designed to drown the "pop" of the learned to distinguish from the others, The percentage of gas casualties is low as a result of the discovery of the German trick, because. the allies generally anticipate attecks with gas. ---- £ FISHERS' SUPERSTITIONS. Omens That Daunt the Gallant Traw- lers of the Old Land. "Haul the trawl, my lads; we'll gas projectiles, which the allies have | Surrey Regiment. | What is believed to be a record was 'made by James Stone, of Ramsgate, | "when he planted ten acres of potar ~ 'toes in sixty-four hours. Miss M. M. MacDougal and Miss |;Laughton have been appointed prin- | cipal and vice-principal of the Wo» /men's Royal Naval Service. : | The Goodwood Cup, which was won 'by Shannon in 1871, has been given to 'the gold and silver collection of the | British Red Cross Society. It is proposed to erect a memorial 'cloister in the Tonbridge School | chapel in honor of old boys and mas- ters who have fallen in the war. The District Council of Hanwell has £2 to. Thomas Gibson, a seventeen- !gerious explosion, and were severely burned. scription of them by a British officer heavy who interrogated some of them. : : rounds. He's swept , ' An extra German division ~which | Ontario oats--No. 1 white, 85 to Toronto, Aug. 6--Choice have to try new gr 'contributed £100 towards the Lord the enemy can ill spare for the pur- pose, has been placed in front of the Canadians, from which prisoners have already been captured. Germans hold advanced posts now so thinly that their front line ts prac- tically no man's land. A young Toronto officer a few nights back penetrated, with a ser- geant, a mile of the enemy's trench system, without encountering a single Boche, and discovered on returning a dugout whence issued many gutttral voices. The officer kept guard while the sergeant returned for bombs, and after half an hour the necessary tackle arrived and the dugout was blown up. Two more Canddians had now ar- rived. The explosion of the dugout roused the whole German line for a short dils- tance. With bombs and one of his men with a bayonet, he kept a score of Boches down, then making a lucky 'dash, reached his own posts safely. The Canadians made several gas projections recently, the wind being favorable, and subsequent investiga- tion showed this enterprise» accounted for a few members of Hun working parties. iets Mei moog JEWS TRAINED IN CANADA NOW FIGHTING NEAR JAFFA A despatch from New York says:-- Safe arrival in Palestine of the first two contingents of the American Jewish Legion was announced by the Zionist Organization of America. Recruited last Spring, the men have been trained in Canada and England, and will join the Jewish regiment en- rolled in London and already on the firing line with the British forces near Jaffa, - ~--->------_------- Liege Must Pay Heavy Fine For Celebrating Marne Victory A despatch from London' says:-- The Maastricht newspaper Les Nou- velles says the inhabitants of Liege, Belgium, held an enthusiastic public demonstration over the success of the "J'yve never run across a more dis- consolate lot of Boches," he © said. , "What seemed to be the outstanding 'thought in the minds of both officers, and men was the fact that, despite ; what the German high command had long been preaching about the exhaus- , tion of all the French reserves, there is no sign of a let-up in the fighting." Other German prisoners asserted | their losses had been heavy in the big | Soissons battle. They had believed | their big offensive would be a suc- | cess, but suddenly it turned into a re- | treat. Their hopes in the U-boats ihad waned, for Americans seemed to | be everywhere in the fighting. Added |to their discouragement was the fact {that they had been warned that Bri-; tish raiding would certainly continue | on a wide scale. German dead alone | ,in front of one Australian battalion ; | which attacked near Morlancourt two| |days ago were fully 200. 0 Ag nnn GIGANTIC PANORAMA | \ 1 'Heroes Of Britain At The Canadian National Exhibition. Memories of the great fighters of long ago, the heroes of a thousand 'battles by land and sea, will be re- | awakened by the Grand Stand Epec-! 'tacle at the Canadian National Exhi- bition. "Britannia Militant" will be more than a mere pageant; it will be the spirit of our Empire past and pre-' sent, translated into flesh and blood, a! romantic historic survey in which the spectators will be made to feel their. kinship with the men of old. There' 'will be a suggestion of the Arthurian legends, of mediaeval knights, ancient | j castles, venerable cathedral ruins, and all the colorful paraphernalia of his- tory and of romance. The spirit of | the Empire's yesterday will be caught 'and contrasted with the martial deeds | of to-day and the men of the present, 'now fighting the greatest battle of ' ,ali times, will not suffer by compari- 'son, particularly in the dramatic '¢limax when Currie's gallant Cana- |dians arrive on the scene. The set-' | 1 $10.95, Toronto. _tons, 52 to 54c. (tin, $2.25; iraperial 86c, nominal; No. 3 white, 84 to 85c, nominal, according to freights outside Ontario wheat--No. 2, Winter, per' car lot, $2.2%, basis in store Montreal. | Peas--No. 2; nominal, according to; freights outside. | Barley--Malting, new crop, $1.20, to $1.22. : j Buckwheat--Nominal. Rye--No. 2, nominal. Manitoba flour -- War quality,| Ontario flour -- War quality, | $10.65, in bags, Montreal and Tor-| onto, prompt shipment. | Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont-; real freights, bags included: Bran,' $35 per ton; shorts, $40 per ton. Hay--No. 1, $16 to $17 per ton, track Toronto; mixed, $14 to $15 per ton, track, Straw--Car lots, $8 to $8.50 per ton, track Toronto. Country Produce--Wholesale. Butter--Creamery, solids, per lb., 42 to 42%c; prints, per lb., 42% to 48ec; dairy, per lb., 36 to 37c. Eggs--New laid, 43 to 45c. Dressed poultry--spring chickens, 88 to 40c; roosters, 22c; fowl, 23 to 28c; ducklings, 33c; turkeys, 32 to} 85c. Live poultry--Roosters, 16c; fowl, 21 to 26c; ducklings, lb., 25c; turkeys, 27 to 30c. Spring chickens, 30 to 32c. Honey--New crop, strained, 19 to 20c per lb; in comb, $2.25 to $2.40. Wholesalers are selling to the re- tail trade at the following prices:-- Cheese--New, large 23% to 24c; twins, 23% to 24%4c; old, large, 25% to 26c; twin 26 to 26%%c. Butter--Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 to 42c; creamery prints, fresh made, 45 to 47c; solids, 44 to 45e. Margarine--28 to 32c. Eggs--No. 1's, 48 to 49c; in car- Itry---Spring chickens, | 25c; fowl, 38 to 34c; Dressed pou 50c; roosters, turkeys, 40c. Beans--Canadian, hand-picked, bus. $7.50; imp., hand-picked, Burma or Indian, $6.50; Japan, $8.00 to $8.75; Lamas, 18 to 19c. Maple syrup--3%%-lb. tins, 10 to a case, $14.50 imperiai gallon tins, per five-gallon cans. per can, $10.50; 15-gallon kegs, per gal, $2.00; maple sugar, 1-lb. box, gal, $2.00; maple sugar, 1-lb. box,' Entente offensive on the Marne sali-| ting will be a gigantic reproduction , pure, per Ib., 24 to 25c. ent, during which the Marseillaise was sung. Because of this, the news-| paper adds, the German governor has ordered the curfew rung at 7 o'clock in the evening for several' weeks and the city Hlso has been fined. ee BRITISH CASUALTIES - MUCH LOWER IN JULY Despatch from British casualties July totaled 67,291. London says:-- reported during This compares with total casualties reported in June} | of Windsor Castle, the scenic arrange- | ment and general ensemble being the} most elaborate ever produced at the! Canadian National. There will be over 1,200 participants, all brilliantly attired in the styles of the period they represent, and the whole inspiring ef- fect will be enchanced by super musical treatment. { Provisions-- Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 36 to 38c; do., heavy, 80 to 82c; cooked, 50 to 5le; rolls, 32 to 33c; breakfast! bacon, 41 to 44c; backs, plain, 44 to 45c; boneless 48 to 9c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 30 to 31c; clear bellies, 29 to 30c. | se CAHADAS RANK AS DENMARK, HOLLAND, of 141,147. The losses for July ate! flivided as follows: | Killed or died of wounds: Officers, | 621; men, 6,474. | Wounded or missing: Officers, 521; } men, 8,474. | | | Of Norway's 124,500 square miles | of land, about 26,340 square miles are. covered with forests. | "Thore is no charity equal to the charity that i&scharitable to the un-| charitable." } soe GERMANY, UNITED STATES, IRELAND POY AY GEN PY OG BCAA FRANCE, \nemmamm 6 REAT BRITAIN, WOM 5 ITALY CANADA, mmm 4 nm 3 bree tena. cer ean SAY HELEN ITS GETTING LATE - ARE You NEARLY READY ? PY ABE BY EY PRASAD GIG AR AIM YR HY Aemay 22 AY EY ED I AO PES AI) AR IT TD IH ER AY OP UY OY Ry oy AR ED WINE NAY GF ay a am AG, Ama mmm SINAN WAN A ITI hse Doinss Lard--Pure, tierces, 30 to 30%c; A HOS PRODUCER } 19 | COMPARED WITH OTHER NATIONS ON. THE BASIS OF THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS TO THE HUNDRED ACRES OF 'LAND IN FARMS. | 8 | | ' _ the plan of burying torpedoes of steers, $14.00 to' $15.00; butchers' cattle, choice, good, $12.00 $10.75 to $1 to $12.50; do. medium, 1.00; do. common, $9.00 to $10.00; butchers' bulls, choice, $11.00 to $11.25; do. medium bulls, $10.25. to $10.60; do, rough bulls, $7.50 to $8.50; butchers' cows, choice, $10.75 to $11.00; do, good, $10.25 to $10.50; do. medium, $8.25 to $8.75; do. common, $7.00 to $8.25; stockers, $8.00 to $10.50; feeders, $10.50 to caners and cutters, $5.50 to good to choice, $90.00 to $125.00; do. com. and med., $65.00 to $75.00; springers, $90.00 $125.00; light ewes, $13.00 to $16.00; yearlings, $15.50 to $17.00; spring lambs, 20 to 21%c; calves, good, $18.50 to $16.25; hogs, fed and wa- tered, $19.75 to $19.90; do. weighed off cars, $19.75 to $20.15. : Montreal, Aug. 6.--Calves, milk- fed, $7.00 to $14.50; choice steers, $11.50 to $12.00; butchers' bulls, $7.00 to $8.50; butchers' cows, $8.00 to $10.00; canners, $5.50. Select hogs, $19.50 to $19.75. dad Ae. Camas BURY TORPEDOES IN PATH OF TANKS But New Foe Device Meets With Poor Suecess on the Battlefield. A despatch from Paris says:--That $11.00; $6.50; milkers, | the allies are ingenious in coping with awkward conditions as they arise is exemplified in their method of deal- ing with machine-gun nests which are hidden in cornfields at every avail- able point of vantage. ~ Big tanks-- those modern land cruisers--and small tanks--land torpedoes--have _made short work of those deadly wea- pons with which the enemy defends himself. To meet it, the Germans hit upon a new kind at a slight depth in front of reported on the 30th instant the sta- Critical time the tanks. This measure met with only poor sucess, as the invention is not hindering the allies. o a Before Action. By all the glories of the day And the cool evening's benison, By that last sunset touch that lay Upon the hills when day was done, By beauty lavishly outpoured And blesings carelessly received, By~all the days that I have lived, © Make me a soldier, Lord. By all of all man's hopes and fears, And all the wonders poets sing, |The laughter of unclouded years, And every sad and lovely thing; | By the romantic ages stored With high endeavor that was his, | By all his mad catastrophes Make me a man O Lord. I, that on my familiar hill Saw with uncomprehending eyes A hundred of Thy sunsets spill Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice, | Bre' the sun swings his noonday sword i Must say good-bye to all of this-- | By all delights that T shall miss, | Help me to die, O Lord. --Lieut: William Noel Hodgson. SEIS A ne | 3 H t READN e of PNR NTE A NAT bs! to L.2> $18.00 to $13.50; do.| to} One hundred. and fifty births were end of July 13th. on July 15th. Calgary firemen are engaged in watering the city gardens. Over 50 water tickets were sold at the begin- ning of the venture. W. C. Riddell was appointed adver- tising agent for the Grand Trunk Pa- cific with headquarters at Winnipeg, where he will act as western assist- ant to H. S. Charlton, general adver- itising agent for the Grand Trunk sys- | tem. | The Army and Navy Veterans of Winnipeg are arranging for a series 'of automobile races on Saturday, Aug. 10, with Miss Stinton and her flying |machine as an added attraction. | The first woman to make applica- | tion as a professional undertaker and embalmer is Mrs. John Bird, of Quill Lake, whose papers were filed by the' Saskatchewan Funeral Directors' and Embalmers' Association, now in ses- sion. Winnipeg is planning the merging of the various civic departments un- der one head. Funds spent annually by. the departments likely to be in- yolved in the scheme aggregate ap- proximately $1,500,000 a year. One estimate places it at $2,000,000, BRITISH BOMB MORE HUN TOWNS Airmen Attack Stuttgart, Cob- lenz, Saarbrucken and Other Cities, Returning in Safety. A despatch from Lonodon says:-- The Air Ministry's communication on aerial activities issued on Wednesday night follows: "In addition to the attacks already Seventy were born 'tion at Lahr (Baden) was bombed. "On the night of July 30-31 our air planes again proceeded to Stuttgart and dropped nearly two tons of bombs on the Bosch Magneto works, the Daimier works and the railway sta- tion. A fire broke out ip the station. "Several bombs were dropped on the Hagnau station and barracks causing a heavy explosion. tion and two airdromes were attacked with bombs and machine-gun fire. "On the morning of July 31, at 7.30° _, o'clock, one of our squadrons attacked 'the Coblenz station. Owing to clouds _observation" was impossible. The sta- \tion and factories at Saarbrucken were | subjected to two attacks. } "The first formation encountered {large numbers of hostile scouts before 'reaching their objective. Ritter fight- | jing ensued, in the course of which four of our machines were shot down. |The. remainder bombed their objec- itive and on their return journey again | were heavily attacked, losing three ;more machines. One hostile machine jwas disabled. "The second attack, delivered later, | was completely successful. Bursts ; were observed in the factory. In spite of attacks by hostile scouts all our machines returned safely." Malate a The Remilly june: | all the fish out of these waters." So cries the skipper, and the nets registered in Winnipeg over the week |... hauled aboard, and away we steam | ito try our luck elsewhere, simply be cause one of the deckhands has used a hrush to clear the deck of refuse, in- stead of shoyelling it overboard. No matter how good the catches have been, no skipper will waste time long- er in a locality which has had its 'luck swept away" in this fashion. "All sailors are superstitious, but none is so completely under this in- fluence as the old deep-sea fisherman. He puts the deepest faith in "signs" and omens of all kinds, Nothing would induce a skipper of the old school to sail on a Friday, One intre pid unbeliever who dared to leave the docks at Grimsby on a Good Friday was hooted through the lock-gates by the scandalized populace. thus challenging the fates, however, he returned safely with ship and crew. leaving port, many skippers would turn back and delay sailing until the next day. the crew would be lost over the side during the trip. This sign, however, became discredited, hands, desirous of another day ashore with their wives and families, con- assisting the wind to foretell disaster. To speak of pigs aboard a fishing trawler is fatal to success for that trip. Poor cétches and split and torn trawls will be the inevitable conse quences. Similar misfortunes will re- sult from taking off a hatch cover and laying it on the deck upside down. A new moon on Sunday .which reaches the full on a Saturday always brings bad weather. To kill a "kitty," as the fishermen fall the smaller kind of seagulls that follow in the wake of 'the trawlers, is a most dangerous act, liable to imperil the safety of the ship itself. | If a man is ill at sea, his most is when land is first sighted. If he survive an hour after 'the sighting of land, he will recover. On some trawlers whistling is forbid- den--it scares away the fish. Other skippers believe that to wash your 'face in the middle of a trip will break ,a spell of calm weather. / yf ZO ness Must Stop Candy Manufacture. | The Canada Food Board, on July 28, ordered the Union Confectionery, 238A '8th Avenue Hast, Calgary, to discon- , tinwe the manufacture of candy forth- 'with, and not to purchase any sugar 'to manufacture candy until permission 'has been granted by the Board. The ,Company must return the sugar which 'it has on hand, to the dealer from | whom it was purchased, and must ;cancel all orders for sugar. The | Union Confectionery was using sugar in the manufacture of candy, despite the fact that it had not been in busi- 'ness last year, and consequently was {not entitled to an allotment of sugar. | The Chief of Police at Calgary has been asked to see that these instrue- tions are observed. a Money and time spent to beautify ithe home is the best investment one 'ecan possibly make. ' Du fF ss. renee J PLL BE WH You IN. Just A MINUTE NOW VM AND | GU 1 Look J AS FUNNY As You bo READY ESS ea usT "-- In spite of | If a man's hat blew overboard while | It was an omen that one of | as wily deck- | tracted the habit of geing aloft and | |Lieutenant's Fund for Middlesex Pris- _oners of War in Germany. The London County Council has re _moved fom the war charities register 'the Great Britain to Poland Fund and ,the Russian Flag Day. | The Admiralty has loaned Rev. |Harry D, L. Viener to the Air Minis- |try, to organize the chaplain's depart- / ment. ; A number of wounded soldiers were , confirmed in bed at the Chatham Mili- \tary Hospital by the Bishop of Roche lester. | Two wounded soldiers were rescued 'from drowning at Weybridge, by Ken- | meth Puttock, a young munition | worker. | During the recent battles in France inearly one hundred Church Army | Huts were destroyed. Southport Council has voted the 'sum of £200 towards a fund for Pri- ; vate R. G. Masters, V.C. ,. Sir William Napier Shaw has been ,appointed Scientific Adviser to the |Government in Meteorology. A visit has been paid to the Uni- | versity College, London, by a number of leading Italian professors. Two people were buried in a land- ,Slide at Langland Bay, Mumbles, but escaped without serious injury. James Wooten, who has seven {brothers in the army, was refused ex- }emption at the Enfield Tribunal. | Lord Shrewsbury has decided to |sell in the autumn, Ingestre Hall, Staffs, with 8,000 acres attached Allotment holders will be allowed to dispose of their surplus stock at special stalls in Kingston market, ----_--_--qo--. FOOD SITUATION AROAD. } 'Britain Has Increased Acreage and French Outlook is Better. The grain and food problems to be met the coming year are altogther dif- ferent from those of the past year, as- | serts a well known expert in grain. In | England the acreage devoted to food crops is about two million acres in ex- |cess of last year. The caring for this ;greatly increased acreage has been possible owing to the importation of a large number of American tractors, reported as high as 5,000, with several thousand more expected to be deliver- ed in time for the late harvest or the fall ploughing. The crops in England are expected to be sufficient to ma- terially reduce the demand upon foreign crops for the past year. In France the outlook is so much better that is is expected, according to commercial advices, that importations of foreign wheat will be less than half of the estimated 'requirements last year. In'Italy the situation has also steadily improved as to the supplies of food, and the crop prospects are better than last year. Harvesting be- gan in Italy the latter part of June, and has progressed quite steadily. By arrangements of the Minister of War peasants were released for harvest work. The stocks abroad have been im- proving for at least two months. The situation was expected to be quite ; serious early in the year, but owing to | the availability of tonnage the low | point in the supply"was passed earlier \than anticipated and stocks have been |steadily increasing since that low point was passed, saepeeatinaninenmeenennflipearecenitesteennseaac, Re Large Supplies of Haddock. A bountifal harvest of haddock is being reaped by the Maritime Pro- vincoes fishermen these days and the shore fishing fleet 14s landing heavy catches Pally, according to advices. just Yecelved by the Canada Food Board, These boats go out to sea at sunrise and set their lines from five to ten miles offshore, Returning with - dock, in Ty ceriven VW LAMA badly GLO ka, Ta ed and packed for shipment as mere as landed, and the Sea Food Special of the Canadian Government Railways tratisports cars to Toronto three times per week, Haddock is being sold in Toronto stores at ten cents per pound and the Food Board is urging that it be used freely as a summer diet puetti i diet while their fish in the afternoon, the had-, atanenet ed Aa Adama Mma