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President Wilson, in a communication to the new government of Russia, has made plain the war aims of the Unit- ed States and its position on “no an- nexations, no indemnities.” A Petrograd despatch on Friday said: The council of the workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates has addressed to the Russian army the following ap- peal: “The commander-in-chief of the German armies on the Eastern front has sent to our troops a wireless mes- sage proposing to indicate to them a way towards an honorable peace and a means for ceasing to wage war without a rupture with the allies. The German general talks this way be- cause he knows that the Russian revo- lutionary troops would object with in- dignation any overt preposal for a separate peace. Russia Not Deceived ! “That is why the enemy comman-‘ der-in-chief invites our armies to a? separate armistice and proposes thatl we should enter into secret pourpar-% lers with the German leaders. In his‘ wireless message the German general says that a separate armistice does not offer Germany any advantage. But this is untrue, because he forgets what i Russians cannot forget, namely, the! Russian defeat on the Stokhod. He‘, has forgotten that the Russian army‘ knows whither the men and batteries are being taken from our front. He’i has forgotten that Russia knows that: the overthrow of her allies would mean the overthrow of Russia and the end of her political liberty." Wilson 0n Peace Terms Salient passages from Mr. Wilson’s communication were given out in Washington on Sunday as follows: “No territory must change hands ex~ cept for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty. No indemnities must be insisted on except those that consti- tute payment for manifest wrong done. No. readjustments of power must be made, except such as will tend to se- cure the future peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its people.” -‘ o ‘I A v -'â€"v In unmistakable terms, President. Wilson declared against Germany’s proposal to restore the “status quo" before the war. “It was the status quo ante out of which this iniquitous war issued forth.” he says. “the power of the Imperial German Government within the empire and its widespread domination and influence outside of that empire. That status must be al- tered in such fashion as to prevent pening again.” General and Staff Appreciate Welcome â€"Already at Work Headed by Major-General John J. Pershing. its Commander, the first rep- resentatives of the American army that is to enter the European war dis-l embarked last Friday morning at ai British port after an uneventful voy- age of ten days on board the White Star liner Baltic. The party was re- ceived with full military honors, and immediately entrained for London, where it was welcomed by the Earll of Derby, Viscount French, and Cana-l dian ofiicers and American officials. General Pershing’s personal staff and the members of the general staff who will perform the preliminary work for the first fighting force number fifty- seven officers. and are accompanied by fifty privates and a large civilian! force. The entire contingent devoted! itself to the hardest kind of work of; an organizing nature throughout the journey, which was protected by Amer- ican destroyers. Gen. Pershing said: "We are glad to be the standard bear- ers of America in this great war for civilization. The opportunity of land- ing at a British port and the welcome we received are very significant and are deeply appreciated. We expect in the course of a very short time to be ' ' --_.- “:11 Retiring Commander Expresses High Praise for His Corps ' Canadian Headquarters in France‘. announced on Sunday: The Canad dians in France are no longer “thei Byng boys." Sir Julian Byng bade! good-bye to his associates at head quarters yesterday. Before his de-.i parture the corps commander issued“~ the feelings of pride and affectioâ€"nf which dominate all other sentiments; During the year of my command, the‘ unvarying success in battle, the pro-i gress in training and in discipline andi the unswerving devotion and loyaltyl PERSHING AT LONDON V39 1.]; vw;uv..v_d ' ___ ‘ ‘ forever corps. That history Will last . , and my association with you m the making of it is a. joy that can never be impaired.” Stockholm Congress Off “Owing to various circumstances.” the general meeting of the Interna» tional Socialist Committee set for to- day in Stockholm could not be held. said a Renter despatch last Friday from the Swedish capital. It is rum. such hideous thing from ev er hap- â€".vâ€" “â€" cred, sa§s~thé items-’9, that the meet- ;ng has been postponed until Seva Eighty Socialists, includln man Austrians, were arrested in gTorontcya on Sunday, at an anti-conscription meeting. Sir William C. Mandonald, Chancel-- 101’ of. M00111 University, died in u trmlonSnndaJinhisBSthrm ' June 14th, 1917. A despatch from British Headquar- |' ters in France on Sunday said: While still further German counter-attacks may be expected from time to time, the battle of Messines Ridge may be said to be ended. It stood out as a definite Operation designed for certain 1 purposes. and it remains to be seen t whether other offensive battles have t , been planned in this particular section I i of the Western front. The taking of ‘ Messines Ridge has robbed the Ger- mans ot‘ the last natural commanding i 3 position they occupied for so long op. ' i posite the British line. Bapaume, and ? Vim-y and Messines Ridges. as well as 1 Monte Plateau. have all been captured by the British during the last three months. and this has materially chang- ed the military situation on this front. Last Thursday’s battle may be taken as typical of the new theory of war fare. It was complete in itselfâ€"com- plete in action, complete in success. Gen. Plunier‘s army, which planned '3 and conducted it, has been congratu- ; lated by Field Marshal Haig, and takes ia particular pride in a tribute from ;a very highly placed French officer. i who. after studying - he plans and g witnessing the action, said: “This is l, a model of what a modern attack 3 should be." ' Monday afternoon's British state- S nient says: “We made a successful ‘, raid last night southwest of La Bas- :1 see. Much damage was done to the E enemy‘s trenches and mine galleries. ‘ i and eighteen prisoners were captured. i ()ur troops also raided German posi- 1 ) I i i I A.-- “â€"â€"-â€"â€"'--~O‘â€"-- tions east of \‘ermelles and south of . Armentieres. They inflicted a num- . er of casualties on the enemy. Our i own and the enemy’s artillery show- _ 5 ed great activity last night south of 5} Ypres. Our line has again been ad- \a vanced slightly south of Messmes.” Novel Features and Complete cesses Near Souchez A trench raid upon a scale much larger than any hitherto undertaken by Canadian corps was most success- fully carried out during Friday night in the neighborhood of the Souchez river. After occUpying the enemy’s first line and support trenches for two hours, in which time they were systematically wrecked, our men re- turned before dawn Saturday morning to their old positions. A new meth- od of warfare, used by the Canadians for the first time, was the projection, before the assault. of two hundred drums of burning oil into part of the enemy front. On these operations Sir Douglas Haig reports from British Headquar- ters in France: “Operations were carried out by us with complete suc- cess last night further south, on a wide front from the south of Lens to La Bassee. South of the Souchez River our troops entered the German positions on a front of over two miles and penetrated to a depth of more than half a mile. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy and more than seventy prisoners and a number k of machine guns were captured by us. ’ Our own casualties were light. The enemy’s trenches were also entered ‘ successfully north of the Souchez Riv- I l l l I er, southâ€"east of Loos and south-west of La Bassee. Large numbers of Ger- ; mans were killed, and great damage was done the enemy‘s defences. A further 44 prisoners, including three officers and several machine guns. were taken by us.” BiGGEST CANADIAN RAID Secretary of Hate Opposed Conscrip tionâ€"chigny Stays in Cabinet Following the announcement last week of the failure of negotiations between Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier interest in Canadian politics centred around the then un- published details of the conscription measure and the chances for the crea- tion of a fusion cabinet of Liberals and Conservatives under Sir Robert’s presidency. On Saturday night a mass meeting of Liberals in Toronto was ad- ? :LA-A1 ulCULLug, u; “mu...â€" .._.. __ dressed by the Provincial Liberal leader, N. \V. Rowell, and by Dr. Mi- chael Clark, M.P., and conscription was strongly endorsed. -1 3.. n4. V mm“...â€" It is officially “announced" through the chief press censor’s office that the in England: Battalions: 122nd,Ga1t; 207th, Ottawa; 217th and 243rd, Sask- atchewan; 246th, Nova Scotla High- ders; 248th. Central Ontarlofl 82nd and 254th, Eastern Ontario;'; 1 5th, Toronto. Drafts: Balance 01!, I 282ml, Saskatchewan battalion; B.C.' 3 Horse, field artillery from Vancouver; 3 and. Guelph, siege artillery from Hall; '. fax, infantry from Calgary, Prince Ed-g ward Island, British Columbia; draft , for P.P.C.L.I. 1mm Saskatoon Univers~z i 1ty; engineers, foresters, ,medical;‘ ‘ Bermuda artillery; Newfoundlanders-fl; i naval ttings and details. On Sunday it was announced in Ut~ tawa that Hon. E. L. Patenaude, Sec~ retary of State and acting Postmaster~ General, had resigned his portfolio, and the same had been accepted. All that could be learned was that Mr. Patenaude was opposed to the con- scription bill of the government, on the ground that it would tend to im- pair national unity. The resignation did not come as a surprise, as Mr. Pat- enaude, a former Nationalist, has been opposed to conscription from the first. He entered the cabinet as minister of inland revenue in 1915. On Sunday last Hon. Albert Sevigny, Minister of Inland Revenue, declared in Quebec City that he intended to remain in the Borden Government. , fireside: PATENAUDE RESIGNS Sailors Arrest Pacifists announced in Ot~ Suc- HAIG SCORES RECORD SUCCESS AT MESSINES Assault on Ridge Destroys Salient and Nets Over 6,000 Prisoners-â€" Canadians Destroy Hill 60 UGLLLC- V! v uvvv vvvvvvvvv _ man machines brought down and eight others driven down out of control,» Fourteen of our machines are miss- mg. - ‘ A__ A‘- ‘INA Lua- All the special correspondents at the 1 front. in their descriptions of the Mes- sines battle, featured the tremendous explosion of mines which preceded the British advance. “The earth opened and the German line disappeared,” is one terse description. Every writer likens the effect on the surrounding terrain to an earthquake. One saysl that the hill on which he stood shook' like jelly. The fact that Irish regi- ments, from both North and South, did well together is also touched. Other successful units were English and- New Zealand. Canadians Made Earthquake- “Hill 60 wen : up in fine dust,” says one of the special correspondents, des- cribing the terrific effects of the mine explosions that preceded Thursday morning’s offensive in Belgium. And well it might, for 250 tons of aminol, .611 1‘! mlbllb’ LVL “UV vv-nw wâ€" an explosive four times as violent as‘ dynamite, had been stored away beâ€" neath this hill, notable in the strug- gles which have been waged in the Ypres salient. The engineering oper- ations were performed by No. 3 Tun-l nelling Company, Canadian Engineers. There were three tunnelling compan- ies with the Canadian forces who held this front until last summer, when they were moved to the Somme front. So well did they do tlreir work that, when the Canadian army moved south, the tunnelling companies were made Imperial army troops, and remained. The charges that yesterday blew up Hill 60 well placed as long ago as last October. ..23 UUUVUV‘I a Friday morning’s statement said the battle became a. gauge of the abil- ity of the Germans to stop the Brit- ish advance under conditions as fav- orable to them as an army can ever hope for, with every advantage of ground and preparation and with the knowledge that an attack was impend- ing. On that day Philip Gibbs wrote from War Correspondents’ Headquart- ers: I have never seen the spirit of victory so real and so visible among great bodies of British‘troops since this war began. It shines in the eyes of our officers and men to-day up in the fighting zone and the fields and woods below VVytschaete and Mes- sines, where they are resting and sleeping after the battle, regardless of the great noise of gunfire which is still about them. The text of Thursday morning’s offi- cial statement follows: “We attacked at 3.10 this morning German positions on the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge, on a front of over nine 'miles. We have everywhere captured our first object-é ives, and further progress is reported‘ to be satisfactory along the whole front of attack.” The offensive was against a sharp German salient threel miles south of Ypres. .For seven days1 the British had maintained a tremen~ dous bombardment for almost thirty miles on this portion of their front. The British troops made a second drive and carried the village of 00st- taverne and the German positions east of the village over an extent of five miles, it was officially announced Thursday night. The _tremendous ex- 1!_1 A‘. --â€"U__ -_ plosions which opened the initial at- tack were heard by David Lloyd George, the British Premier, who was staying for the night at his residence, W'alton Heath, 130 miles away. ML_J.A '1 “LUVAA --vw-__ Owing to exaggerated German state ments in regard to the number of Brit- ish casualties in the battle of Mes- sines Ridge, Reuter’s correspondent at British headquarters in France says that up to Friday evening the number of. men of all ranks who failed to res~ pond to roll call on the British side . 4n AAA Y-_.1..:_~ 3mm ”‘1‘“ UV â€" vâ€"â€" _ was just about-710,000. Judging from past experience, about sixty per cent. of these are men wounded so slightly that they are able to walk, and of the remainder a number will be able to rejoin their regiments later. An Ottawa despatch on Monday said: The commission to control the grain production of Canada will be composed of Dr. Magill, Chairman; H. W. Woods, Alberta; S, K, Rash. well, Moose Jaw; T. A. Crerar, W. A. Bawlf, W. A. Matheson, J. ~C. Gage. C. A. Stewart, Winnipeg; Wm. A. Best. Ottawa; Controller Ainey, Montreal, and L. H. Clarke, Toronto. Britain’s Food Sufficient Captain Charles Bathurat, Parlia mentary Secretary to the Food Con- trol Department. speaking at Guild- ford last Friday, Said the immediate danger of national starvation had been removed, thanks to the prompt and generous assistance of the United Staten. Canada’s Grain Controllers On Nine-Mile Front THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. The population of India, says a Lon- don paper, is far more diverse than! is generally thought. They talk about i 150 different languages, and are divid- ed up into fortyvchree distinct nation- alities. There are 2,378 main castes, besides a large number of sub-castes. 1 There are 200,000,000 Hindus, from‘ which, fortunately, we can draw fight- ing men; 60,000,000 Mohammedans, while among the Hindus there are 50,- 000,000 or degraded people of no caste, 3 1 whose touch, or even shadow, is supâ€" ;. posed to cause pollution. The girls i are or all sorts, bright little things with pounds’ worth of gold ornaments round their necks and arms and in their ears and noses. These are Brahman children, who must be mar- ried before they are ten, and are then kept secluded in their mothers’ homes till the final marriage ceremonies are . complete, when they are passed on to the houses of their mothers-in-law. i) Native Hindu Grace _ ‘ A Brahman or Hindu girl has refined l l i 1 l l features, and in figure is what thel French call petite. Their carriage is erect, their limbs are beautifully ;moulded, and their every action is« 3graceful. With regard to families. ‘twenty people will frequently live in ‘the same house deve“dent on a soli-i I tary wage-earner. Limited in number .but mighty in influence are the Far- ; sees, who hold the wealth of Bombay . in the hollow of their hands and dwell *iin t‘ie loveliest mansions around the l coast. They conform to European 1 customs, and live as much like Euro- peans as it is possible for a coloured race. They build hospitals and col- ‘ leges after the European manner. Sun Worshippers ,‘ Parsee women are not merely well _ educated, but as free to travel and to 1 mix with men as the women are of “A“ ova- an alien race. Yet these people, the Jews of India as'they have been call- ed, still worship the sun, and in their Towers of Silence lay out their dead to be devoured by the birds of the air. The reason is that they refuse to de- file the elements of earth, fire, and water with dead bodies, and so deliv- er them up to be torn to pieces by the vultures. Japanese Eat Little Meatâ€"Large ducers of Vegetables Very little meat is produced or con- sumed in Japan, the pecple depending mainly on vegetables, such as rice, fish, certain bulbs such as tiger lily and seaweed, which are very nourish- ing and different from anything found ‘ along our seacoast. Peas and beans] are largely cultivated in Japan, which‘ resemble our bush beans and are very y prolific, including twenty or more var- ieties; radishes in all sizes, including the sakurajima, which grows to an immense size, weighing from half a pound to a pound. Eggplants, turnips and a pumpkin which in size and flav- or rivals. our best, excellent as a pie filling or cooked as we cook turnips. The udo compares favorably with as- paragus. The delicious Chinese cab- bage makes an excellent table dish and is used in many ways. In Japan vegetables in seasonable assortment are peddled in two baskets carried across the shoulders on a bamboo pole, brought fresh daily to the door for the , liouscwif‘c‘s selection. Great Worici V: i'his company, chartered by Charles; .1., exercised its authority on the con-‘ tinent of North America for 200 years. The principal trade of the company was in furs. and enormous profits were made. 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