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luau aeroplanes were brought down In this area. Since the 5th the total loss to the enemy is five aeroplanes. Advanced Three Miles. A despatoh to the Morning Post Bays that the territory recovered in the latest success of the British army south of Ypres is the biggest advance it has made since Autumn, for it has advanced five kilometres (over three miles) and obtained a, heavy gums which were formerly around Constantinople and the 'A despatch from Athens says: The Turks are daily massing troops in the GallipqLi Peninsulla, espe- cially at Kilid Baht, and all the British Advance. The British, forces captured an important position known as Hill 60, which lies to the east of Ypr-es. The successful explosion of a mine, "which resulted in heavy loss to the enemy, commenced the operations which finally resulted in the com- plete occupation of the point. At daybreak on Sunday the enemy de- livered a heavy counter-attack against this hill, but were repulsed with a heavy loss. They advanced in close formation and the British machine gun battery got well into them. Desperate efforts were made all day Sunday by the Germans to recover the hill, but they were everywhere repulsed with great loss. In front of the captured posi- tion upon which the British are now consolidated in strength hundreds ‘of dead are lying. Tyo more Ger- MAJOR GAULT WINS THE D.S.0. Officers of Princess Patricias Decorated for Recent Conspicuous Gallantry at St. Eloi According to the official record, Major Gault is honored "for con- Spicuous gallantry at St. Eloi on February 27 in reconnoitring quite close to the enemy's position and obtaining information of great value for the attack carried out the LI, despatch from London _,"tie,jl he Official Gazette announces that Major A. H. Gault, of Princess Pa-l trioia's Canadian Light Infantry, has been decorated with the Distin- guished Service Order, and that- Lieut. W. G. Colquhoun and Lieut. Papineau, of the same infantry, have been decorated with the Mili- tary Cross. The decorations arel fog conspicugus bravery. l Lieut. Papineau was in charge of the first party of the detachment Jed by Lieut. Crabbe at St. Eloi, which exploit was mentioned in Sir John Freneh's despatch published recently‘ The two other parties were led by Sergeant Patterson and Company Sergeatre-Major Lloyd. BRITISH TAKE BELGIUM HILL On the south bank of the Fecht, progress has been made toward 3fetzeral, a town 911 the high road to Column In this neighborhood a series of elevations have been cap- tured whence the counse of the Feeht in front of Burgkorpfeld is commanded. British Forces Dominate the Coun- try to the North-west of Tpres. A despatch from London says: The French armies in Alsace have made further gains in their drive toward Colmar and the Rhine, ac- cording to an official communique. On both banks of the Fecht River the advance is being pressed for- ward and possession of the summit of Burgkorpfeld has been gained. This height is south-west of Schil- 1ockerwassen, which directly com- mands an important valley. “Yesterday a German submarine torpedoed and sank the trawler Vanilla. The trawler Fermo en- deavored to rescue the crew, but was fired at and driven off. All the crew of the Vanilla. were lost. The killing of fisherfolk for no mili, tary purpose should not escape at- .tenmion. It is the second murder of this character within a, week. A careful _reoord is kept of these r~events. , , A despatch from London says: The sinking of the British trawler Vanilla, by a German submarine in the North Sea, with a loss of all hands, is described as "murder" in ty statement issued by the Admiral- by on Monday. This is the first time the word has been used in an official British communication. The Admiralty intimates that a re- cord is being kept of this and simi- Ur incidents, evidently for use asl evidence in bhe trial of captured crews of German submarines after the conclusion of peace. The state- ment is as follows: TRAWLER VANILLA SUNK Turks Massing Troops at Gallipoli Admiralty Announces That Record is Being Kept of Germans' Acts ot Submarine Piracy Lieut. Colquhoun is decorated "for cohspicuous gallantry and tNV source on numerous occasions, spe- cially at St. Eloi on January 26, when he rescued with the assistance of one man a. mortally wounded officer after three others had failed in the attempt, being under very heavy close range fire the whole time. 'Again on February 27 at St. Eloi rendered valuable assistance on reconnoitring duty under very difficult and dangerous circum- stances.” next day. On February 28 Major Gault assisted in the rescue of. wounded under most difficult cir- cumstances while exposed to heavy fire." Lieut. Papineau is rewarded "for conspicuous gald-antry at St. Eloi on February 28, when in a charge of bomb throwers during our attack on the enemy's trenches he shot two of the enemy himself and then ran along a German sap, throwing bombs therein." Anxious to Join in the Fray. A despatch from Athens says: Prince George of Greece will re- turn to Paris Saturday. His depar- ture is thought to have a bearing on the political situation. The Journal Hestia indicates that the Government is making overtures to relinquish neutrality, and these overtures are understood to be well advanced . principal Marmara Sea ports are being removed to the Dardamy1les. A great number of German aero- planes have arrived. A German aeroplane hurled three bombs at an allied transport. The. damage caused is unknown. Trieste, Austria, ls Without Bread The barracks at Trieste were prepared for 20,000 Germans who were expected to arrive on Friday. They have not yet. appeared. A despatch erm Rome says: An uncensored despatch from Trieste says the supply of flour has been exhausted. There will be no work for the bakers and the city will be Without bread.-- The price for rice paste is prohibitive. Seven cars consigned by an Ital- ian firm to Frankfort were seized at Como, when it was found they contained sulphur, copper and oontrabrand. This m-erchanides was. confiscated. A darpatch from Paris says: De- puty Leon Pasqual, who is a cap- tain of the Chasseurs, has arrived in Paris after seven months' cap- tivity in the German fortress of Torgau, where he was taken after the fall of Maub-euge. The German authorities have charged him to dis- buss with the French Government the exchange of army doctors and F rench and Belgian civil prisoners, Maxim Guns Shipped As Car of "Vegetables" Ard‘espa-t-ch from Geneva says : As a result of a railroad a,ocident, Swiss Customs offioers discovered that a sealed car marked 'Wege- tables," shipped from Genoa to Germany, was load-ed with Mixim guns. The artillery was sequester- ed. To Arrange Exchange Of Army Doctors position of the greatest technical value. The Dutch steamer Claude, was sunk in the North Sea on Sunday while on her way from Seaharn, England, to Rotterdam, with a cargo of coal. Herr crew was, land- ed at Grimsby by the trawler On- ward. It is believed the Olmnldo struck a. mine. The Ounda, was a steamer of 2,138 tons, hailing from Rotterdam. Capt Hill says that he was ohas- ed by the submarine from 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon umtil 7.30 o’clock in the evening. Pursuit was then abandoned by the under- wauber boat owing to the darkness. Capt. Hill says he only escaped be- ing sunk by putting on a, full heiid of steam, and steering a zig-zag course and keeping the submarine; always on his stern. _ - l Capt. Bill, of the Fermo, said that he was within 300 yards of the Vanilla, when she was struck. He made an attempt to pick up the crew, but the submarine attacked him, firing a torpedo at the Fermo and forcing her to seek safety in flight. 1mm 1 A despatch to the Indian Office said that the enemy had evacuated Nakhailah and is retreating in dis, order in the, direction of Helus. The British have captured nearly 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition. A second Turkish threat from the re- gion of Ahwaz, 80 miles north-west of Busra, was easily repulsed by British artillery five. Spurred on by German influences at Constantinople, the Turks as- sembled a force estimated at from 10,000 to 20,000 to drive out the British. They marched southward over a caravan road leading to Zo- beir. Their object was to drive the British southward from Busra, 60 miles north-west of, the Gulf, cut- ting off the British at Kurna, 40 miles to the north, and forcing their surrender. $9,500,000 Insurance Friendly natives at Zobeir brought word of the Turkish ad- vance. Instead of waiting to be at- tacked, the British, by forced marches, made their way ina south- westerly direction and threw them- selves on the Turkish outposts near Shaiba Fort, in a surprise night, attack. The battle continued all the next day in the date groves of the Zobeir region. At dawn on Friday the Turks retreated isn the direction of Nalchaiihih, 20 miles north-west of Zobeir. A despati‘h from London says: Life insurance claims paid in re, spect to British officers killed in the war amount to nine and one-half million dollars. Opposed to Secrecy. A despatch from London says: J. Austen Chamberlain, member of Parliament for West Birmingham, has appealed to the Government to bake the people more into its com fidence, and let them know a, little more of what is happening. He says the secrecy“ of the Government is being carried to an extent that is detrimental to the country's best interests. The British apparently are now in undisputed possession of the south- ern part of the ancient kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar. The Kaiser's plans for a. new route to the East over a Bagdaxl-to-the-Gulf Railway have been shattered. . The Indian offiee officially an- nounced that a Turkish force that attempted to drive the British from the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in Mesopotamia has been disastrou-sly routed. The Turks are in full flight and have, abandoned their campaign to drive the British from the Persian gulf region. In their haisty retreat through the desert they left behind a large part of their munitions of war. Handful of British Utterly Defeat the Turks in M‘kso- potamia. A despatch from London says: Germany's dream of conquest in the Far East has been completely crushed. In one of the remotest corners of the earth a handful of British Indian troops has won the most important victory for British arms since the war began, __ IN FULL FLIGHT THHEBUGH DESERT German Socialist Who is Demand- ing Peace. Reports emanating from Ger- many to the effect that all of Ger- many 18 not war-mad is strength- ened by the stand of the German Socialists. In the German Reioh- stag, where the Socialists are a. large factor, they have, it is pe- ported, risen in all] their eloquence to demand an immediate and last- ing peace. One of the most active of these pea/co seeking Socialists is said to be Philip Sdheidemann, the subject rof this photograph. With the aid ofoiebkneoht, the recog- nized leader, Jleidernaarn and a score of other aggressive members recently caused a storm in the chamber of the Lower House by demanding that the Government take steps to end the war. Seheide< Ina-m1 protested bitterly against the Government's action in placing the ban on Socialist writings and speeches. Immediately after this Liebknecht arose, and in scathing terms, despite the hisses of the Conservatives, arraigned the policy of the Government in Poland. It it reported that the military au- thorities, angered by Liebkneoht's criticism, have sent him to the front, On Offieers Killed A despatoh from Paris says: In one of the most brilliant bayonet charges of the entire war, French chaseeurs on Saturday carried the summit of S-chnepfenreith Kept in Alsace, overlooking the Rhine val- ley. The victory was won after a week oi desperate fighting. In a series oi shore dashes the French carried one after another of rows of German trenches on the moun- tain side. They fought their way through wire entanglements and over heavily mined areas in the face eta gelling fire from the enemy's machine guns. Before a solid line of cold steel, the Germans on the crest finally broke and fled down the eastern slopes, The capture of Selurepfonreith Kopf, according to French military experts, is one of the most important victories won by the Vosges armies in their ad- vance toward the Rhine. Early in the week the French fought their way to the summit of the moun- tain, gaining nearly a mile in a 24- hour battle. The summit of the hill Iles above the Rhine valley, and from their position French artil- lerymen can command the roads leading to Colmar, the capital of Upper Alsace, fifteen miles away. The Rhine itself now lies but 22 miles away from the French armies advancing over the mountains, On the northern bank of the River Fecht, a few miles north of Schnep- fenreith, the French hare made fur- ther progress; according to the off} cial communique. At the same time the attacks against the G'er, man positions near' Hartmanns- Weiler, IS miles to the south, are carrying the French closer to the Rhine. FRENCH VICTORY IN THE VUSGES to be dehied. Next to sheets the most pressing needs are pajamas, of which nearly two thousand suits are required, and surgical night- shirts. Also let us not forget the need for socks. Each letter from the front emphasizes the urgency of the demand for them. (Mrs. A.) JEAN McPHEDRAN, Convenor of the Ontario Red Cross Sock Fund. . . Treasurer. Un.iersiey Hospital Supply Asso- In spite of efforts, however, the number of articles required is still great. In the first place, ten thousand sheets are still needed, and, this is, an urgent necessity not The writer will be glad of contri- butions to the wool fund, of offers from women who are willing to knit; if wool is sent to them, as well as of contributions of socks. Clmssqurs Heroes of One of the Most Brilliant Charges ot _ the. War. A Sheet shower was held on Wed- nesday last in the Physics Building, which resulted in an addition to our store, amounting to about seven- teen hundred sheets. In addition to this, the necessary quota of the following articles has been reach- ed-Surgeons' gowns and masks, nurses' caps, covers for hot water boyles and pneumonia jackets. The various committees in charge of supplies report satisfactory pro- mess? "Three hostile air machines, Learning of the fate of the submor- ine, flew over the stmaits and threw bombs at the pe risoope and conning tower in an attempt to keep the submarine from failing into Turkish hands. About the same time Turk- ish troops set out a'n boats to save the craft and crew. The wounded English sailors were taken to a hospital, where they were given attention . , , Kept on Firing at Men Who Had Fled From stranded Submarine. A despatch from London says: The captain and three men were killed and seven men were wound- ed by Turkish artillery fire when the British submarine E-15 ran aground in the Dardaneilos, ac- cording to a, Turkish official state- ment issued in Berlin and tor- warded by way of Amsterdam. Af- ter the submarine had been aban- doned, aviators of the allies threw bombs at the craft in an effort to destroy her, but whether this pur- pose was accomplished or not the Constantinople report does not state The report says: A _ "The submarine started from Tenedos at midnight, entered the Dardanelles at 2.30 o'clock in the morning and dived at 2.20 in, order to avoid the sear-chlights. Carried forward by th'e strong current, it ground-ed four hours later with conning tower showing out of the water. The Turkish batteries open- ed fire. The' hrst shell struck the bridge and killed the captain; the second shell hit the chamber con- taining the electrical machines and the crew were obliged to leave the boat. The Turkish batteries, how- ever, continued to fire. Three of the crew were killed and seven wounded. TURKS SHELLED HELPLESS CHEW UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SUP. PLIES. ciation. MRS. F. N. G. STARR, The airship dropped 12 bombs on Malden, in Essex County, 30 miles north-east of London, but only one building, a, workshop in London Road, was damaged. Bombs were also dropped in the Heybridge Ba- ssin, 2 miles across the river, These set fire to some buildings. The air- ships came up the Blackwater River and over the Marshes and circled around. ZEPPELINS MAKE ANMHER RAE} A despatch from London says: Two Zeppelin" airships visited the east coast of England shortly after midnight Thursday, dropping bombs on several towns, doing con- siderable damage to property. As far as has been ascertained, only one person, a woman, was injured It is said she was only slightly hurt. A daspaul from London says: Great pride is taken in the record during the eleven weeks since the German submarine terrorist carn- paign started. The Admiralty transported more than one million men by water. Five men represent the total losses in transport work of the Admiralty since the begin- ning of the war. Another record has been established in the trans- port of horses from India, with the loss of only two. In the [merchant Dropped Many Bombs in Norfolk Counties, Slightly injuring-One Over 1,000,000 Men Transported by Water--, It,000 Ships Have Arrived or Sailed, With Loss of 43 . A despatch from Paris says: Allied aviators have been very tbo- tive on the western front. A squadron flew over the Rhine and dropped bombs on workshops in the suburbs of Baden which were being utilized for the manufacture of shells. Ten bombs were also drop- ped on the powder factory at Rott- well in Wuerttemburg, six striking the mark, and as a huge red flame shot up surrounded by dense smoke it is believed that the magazine was _ destroyed. Another airship squadron dropped twenty bombs, the majority of which struck their mark, on the electric station ten miles north of Metz which supplies the town and forts of Metz with power and light. The aviators re- port that much smoke arose from the central station. On the return journey the allied airships encoun- tered three hostile aviators, to whom they gave chase, forcing them to land. RECORD OF PIRATES' CAMPAIGN AIBMEN RAID Bombs Wore Dropped on a Shell Factory in the Suburbs of Baden. A despatch from London says: The report of Field Marshal Sir John French, reviewing the Neuve Chapelle battle, has been eagerly awaited. For some days rumors aseribing the heavy British losses (12,811) to some extent to British artillery and to a mistake of a 2ri- tish {commander have found their way Into print. In his introductory remarks the British commander specifically states that "considerable delay oc- curred after the capture of Neuve Chapelle. The infantry was dis- organized by the violent nature of the attacks.” Further in the despatch he says: "I am of the opinion that this de- lay would not have occurred had the clearly expressed order of the commander of the first army been more carefully observed." Heavy Losses at Neuve Chapelle Accoupted for in Sir John French's Report WEEKS WERE NM GENE!) 'igliat'iiiitiigJF, Field Marsiia0 French fails to re- ' Mrumrh'ko a! l Hm ihritrt i"L",'h'oy2l,i,i_i,5,t',)5d RHINE CITIES 'r,?i't1'll'll'l'oll'il',t,'ii may MAG]irpAKiNG POWDER E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES, THE LABEL. A SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON rue 'Arte. on THE PROTECTION or THE 555p THE LABEL CONTAINS NO Auusi At Lowestoft, on the North Sea, in Suffolk County, three bombs were dropped, considerable damage to house property in the centre of the town resulting. A lumbér yard also was set on fire. The win- dow panes in many houses were shattered. Three horses belonging to the railway company were killed. After leaving Lowestoft the air. craft passed over Harwich in the direction of Felixsbowe. Previously the aircraft had visit- ed Southwold, 12 miles south of Lowestoft, and having missed strik- ing that town with its missiles, went on to Halesworth, 8 miles in- land. It then returned again to Southwold and dropped six bombs. marine more than 11,000 British merchant ships have arrived at or sailed from British ports in the last eleven weeks, while less than forty British merchant ships have been victims of German submarines, and in the same time the number of new ships laun shed for the British merchant marine makes the total number of ships and the total ton- nage of British merchant murine greater' than before the "reign of terror ,, The enemy continues to launch counter-attacks at Les Eparges, but without success, while at Bois de Montmartre three German bat- teries were silenced and an ammu- nition depot blown up. A despatch from Seattle, Wash., says: American steamship come panies operating between Seattle and Alaska ports and Seattle and San Francisco were notified by the British Admiralty that all German, Austrian or Turkish passengers or members of the crews would be re- moved from [any vessel calling at a. Canadian port and held as prison- To be Made Prisoners On Entering Canada era of wa-r Field Marshal French's report continues: "The enemy left several thousand dead on the field, and we have positive information that up- wards of 12,000 wounded were re- moved by train. Thirty officers and 1111657 of other ranks were captur- e ." Although subjected to a, heavy cannonade from the Metz forts, the allied squadron suffered no mis- haps. The aeroplanes which visit- ed Baden were struck by shell splinters, but returned safely to the lines. Tried to Wreck Cathedral. Several bombs have been drop- ped by a German Taube aeroplane in the vicinity of the cathedral at Amiens. Ten persons were killed or wounded. The material damage done was slight. There are a num- ber of Canadians in the Amiens Hospital. Fad Marshal French reports the British losses in the three days' fighting at Neuve Chapelle as fol- lows: Wo u nded M issi n g . Killed veal the name of the officer whom he so sharply blames for the delay which robbed the British of the fulL fruits of their victory at Neuve Chapelle. Total Other Officers, Ranks 190 359 23 and Suffoiii Woman 12,239 ,12,811 2,337 8,174 1,728 Total 2,527 8,543 1,751