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URB nverts3 AtA eDds % W I power, N OF K= 1MAD ave and TO= nu A re It th nâ€" m r€ 1 GERMANS TAKE PEREMYSL Russians Evacuated the City After Northern Forts Were Stormed A despatch from London says: Peremysl is once again in the posâ€" session of Austria. After a siege lasting not quite three weeks, hopeâ€" lessly battered by the powerful i“m' of the Austroâ€"Germans, the ussians have evacuated the city. It was not a formal surrender, as was the case March 22, when the Austrian _ garrison after _ six months‘ defence, hoisted the white flag. The greater part of the Rusâ€" sian «garrison managed to slip away over the railroad to Lemberg which is in the 20â€"mile area to the east, where the Teuton forces have not consolidated their lines. They were able to take some heavy guns, many machine guns, and considerâ€" able munitions of war. What boot have capture there is no « ly certain ing lots of men and a sible, and ammunitior Military reremy defence sincé man Gali KING‘S BIRTHDAY HONOR ROLL A despatch from London says: A list of the King‘s birthday honâ€" ors is issued in the London Gazette. It includes many naval and miliâ€" tary decorations for war services. Earl Kitchener heads the list, he receiving the knighthood of the Garter. The following Canadian names appear in the list: Lt.â€"Col. the Hon. John Strathâ€" earn Hendrie, Lieutenantâ€"Governor of Ontario. Bait From Germany Thrown Out to Jews Lieutenantâ€"Governor Wendric and 5 Other Promineat Canadians Entitled to Prefix of Sir. A despatch from London says: According to Le Matin of Paris, Germany is throwing out a bait to the Jews by promising to reâ€"estabâ€" lish the Kingdom of Palestine after the war. A scheme outlined and signed by 25 German and Austrian rabbis, and also by Herr Ballin, of the Hamburgâ€"American Line, unâ€" dertakes to reâ€"establish, by an agreement with the Sultan, a Jewâ€" ish kingdom, with guarantces of neutrality. The Distinguished Conduct Medal Bestowed on Members of Patricias and the 14th Battalion Principal William chancellor of MeG k nights Bachelor. Herbert Brown Ames, M.P., honâ€" orary secretary of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, Montreal. Henry L. Drayton, chairman of the Board of Railway Commissionâ€" ers, Ottawa. John Craig Eaton, merchant, Toâ€" Very Rev. Principal Daniel Minâ€" er â€" Gordon, _ viceâ€"chancellor of Queen‘s University, Kingston. Commander Richard M. T. Steâ€" phens, abief of staff of the Canadian Naval Service, Ottawa. C.1.8.0. Capt. Richard Burton Dean, late superintendent of the Royal Northâ€" West Mounted Police, Ottawa. Mrs. N dear, we Counen knighted CANADIAN SOLDIERS REWARDED A despatch from London says :\ The award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal to a number of members of the Canadian division has been announced in connection | with the King‘s birthday honors. Pte. R. H. Drake, of the Mhh' katkatian iz dssoruted for conâ€"| Pte. R. H. Drake, of the 14th battalion, is decorated for conâ€" spicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near the Rue du Bois on March 26, when he went out under heavy fire to the assistance . of wounded comrades. He was imâ€" mediately wounded himself, but, nevertheless, succeeded in dragâ€" w or epangpepiay. 7 900 Francis Herman Gisborne, Par liamentary counsel, Ottawa. Sir Gilbert Parker, the writer, is made a baronet. Hon. Edgar Bowâ€" ring, a member of the Legislative Council â€" of â€" Newfoundland, is Newedd : ‘"They say will go up two or three barred." ks Pte. 8. I cia‘s, recei spicuous &4 Febmag g resoue of a mast difficu cumstances. Bergt. 8. "'Il'“‘;"_ s 'â€""â€"'“ St, ronto Char intend: Blind, Ore Montr noverdaiemty uOe oo 1. ging one man in to safety and then rendered first aid to him. Pte. 8. Hacking, Princess Patriâ€" cia‘s, receives the medal for conâ€" ;Picuous gallantry at St. Elot on cbrusg 23 for assisting in the resoue of a wounded comrade under most difficult and dangerous cirâ€" ©u tsbA IEICTE Sergt. S. V. Paterson, Princess Patricia‘s, is rewarded for conâ€" b t +‘ ~~+ Ok) Wlat â€"whan ‘ &s an The tac Th es Frederick Fraser, superâ€" nt of the School for the Halifax. Newedd : "‘Thank goodness ! e get ours by the bag." f time, got away as many as much material as posâ€" | destroyed theufnns and m that remained. exports in London have he fall of Peremys! ever as apparent that the Gerâ€" Austrian thrust through as going to strike home. is not a saie salient in a ne, however strong it may solated fortress. tics of the new besiegers t} Not Worrying. _ ""They say that flour the Austroâ€"Germans 1 with the fortress timate, but it is fairâ€" it the Russians, havyâ€" iam Paterson, vice McGill University dollars a O It appears that there was no fighting after the ring of forts was penetrated, which leads to the beâ€" lief that the town was practically empty of Russian military forces when the Austrians took possesâ€" sion. SUBMARINE SINKS GERMAN SHIP A despatch from London says : A British submarine operating in the Sea of Marmora torpedoed a large (Gierman transport in Panâ€" derma â€" Bay. This announcement was given out officially in London as having been received from the viceâ€"admiral in command at the Dardanelles. It is said also that this submarine was one of several operating in these waters. > Was Operating in the Sea of Marâ€" mora at the Time. The large German transport offiâ€" cially reported sunk by a British submarine in Panderma Bay is beâ€" lieved to have been either the steamer (General, of 4,500 tons, forâ€" merly of the German East Africa Company, or the Corcovada, of 4,900 tons, which was owned by the Hamburg â€" American _ Steamship Line. The General fled to Constantiâ€" nople at the same time as did the (German cruisers Goeben and Bresâ€" lau. The Corcovada was used by the Hamburgâ€"American â€"Line to inaugurate a passenger service beâ€" tween the United States and Turâ€" key last year. She was in the Black Sea when the war started and took refuge in the Bosphorus, later being transferred to the Turkâ€" ish flag. Dernburg at Liberty To Go When He Likes A â€" despatch from â€" Washington says: The British, French and Rusâ€" sian Embassies have assured the State Department they will give safe conduct to Dr. Bernhard Dernâ€" burg, former Colonial Secretary of (Germany, when he leaves the Unitâ€" ed States. It has been known that Dr. Dernburg is about to leave the country, and it is reported he will go to Norway some time tzh?s monrt‘h. RESE, ol ease son on ien c ~ A few weeks ago, when Dr. Dernburg, as a climax to a series of speeches which aroused the _ reâ€" sentment of the Washington Govâ€" ernment, justified the sinking of the Lusitania in a public address, there woere broad intimations that through the German Embassy he might be invited to leave the counâ€" Alleged British Spy try A despatch from London says: According to a despatch to the Cenâ€" tral News from Leipzig, Saxony, George Crossman, an Englishman, has been sentenced to three years‘ imprisonment by a Saxon court on the charge of attempting to furnish the British Government with the German plans to invad* England. Pte. J. M. Robertson, Princess Patricia‘s, for conspicuous . galâ€" lantry at St. Eloi, 28th February, in assisting to rescue a wounded comrade under most difficult and dangerous circumstances. _ _ _ th» leading platoon in an attack on a German trench with grout ability and dash. Cet Princess Patricia‘s, for conspicuâ€" ous gallantry at St. Eloi, 15th March, when he carried messages on two occasions under dangerous cireumstances while exmd to very heavy fire. _ Su wently Corp. _ Wolstenholme conducted stretcherâ€"bearers in the dark to rescue wounded. _ _ _ _ _ Toronto man, Vau Pte. 8. Hacking and Pte. g M. Robertson are residents of i ton, and Sergt. Paterson enlisted at Winnipeg. ~ J. L. Wolstenholme is a Convicted in Saxony L. â€" Wolstenholme, NEWS ACROSS THE BORD wWHAT IS GOIXG OX OVER IN THE STATES. A mongrel dog, which bit three people in New York was kicked to death by a mob. Latest Happenings in Big Republic Condensed for Busy Readers. A postal deficit of $6,500,000 in the U. S. postal revenues is attriâ€" buted to the war. The Penna. Retail Jewellers‘ Asâ€" sociation declares jewellery a neâ€" cessity rather than a luxury. The Detroit College of Medicine was told that punishment of chilâ€" dren by blows caused epilepsy. United States blacksmiths are slated to go into the auto repair business to save their trade. For throwing a stone and breakâ€" ing a chicken‘s leg, David Jennings of Bangor, Pa., was fined $16.15. Pinned under an auto wagon in a foot of water at Egg Harbor, N. J., George Gibson, driver, was drowned. The falling away of clams in the rivers is likely to cause a scarcity of pearl buttons in the garment trade. ; Reir io n To boost soâ€" called war stocks, New York brokers exhibited shrapâ€" nel shell on the floor of the Stock Exchange. & The amount spent by Detroiters last year on recreation was 99 cents per head ; for charity 38 cents. Fire insurance losses in the U.8. last year totalled $200,720,000, an increase of $28,000,000 over the year before. s The military men of New York are opposing the singing of "I Didn‘t Raise My Boy to Be a Solâ€" dier‘‘ in public schools. _ _ i Police had to attend the funeral of Richard Hyde at Detroit, to reâ€" strain two women who each claimed to be his widow. _ Mrs. Jennie Was draped her bed with U.S. flags and crepe prior to attempting suicide by gas in New York. John D. Rockefeller is buying more land around Pocantico Hills to make the finest private park in America. The bridge across the Yser in the neighborhood of Dixmude shown in the above photograph, was conâ€" structed there recently during the course of one night by the British, who took advantage of a temâ€" porary slackening in the incessant fighting that is ever continuing in that quarter, The emptyâ€"cask floats utilized to serve as supporting pontoons were prepared on the bank, guided into position in the water, and finally moored securely in position ; then the roadway planking across thein was laid down of sufficient width to allow of infantry in formation traversing the bridgeâ€"all under cover of and in epite of theâ€"darkness. The operation, it would appear, was not detected by the enemy in the neighâ€" borhood, who, to prevent such work being carried out, continually sent up star shells. The only son of Harry Keser, of Norristown, Pa., lost with his wife on the Lusitania, imherits $70,000 by the deaths. C Fifteen per cent. of the mining population of Pittsburg have gone home since the war started, with Italians to follow. ( Policeman Robert O‘Brien seized a bomb from before Yamada‘s Jap restaurant, at New York, and pulled off the burning fuse. _ David Bracht would not kiss his baby in court at Flint, Mich., when sued by his wife as a deserver, and promptly went to jail. _ Lyde Brasher, St. Louis teacher, asks $2,500 damages for a cup of coffee spilled down her back in a Kansas City restawrant. (Ghouls opened the grave of Chief Quanah Parker, of the Comanches, at Lawton, O., and stole the valuâ€" ables buried with him. Operating on Anna Curry, for tuberculosis of the spine, Baltimore doctors took bone from her legs to replace the diseased bones. _ A young Clevelander, W. C. Stegâ€" kemper, seeks his 8100 back from a barber who promised to produce hair on his bald head and failed. A live wire fell into a pool at Batâ€" tle Creek, Mich., and killed two horses. which stepped into it, and shocked two drivers on the wagon. Was Not a Deserter,. Is In French Hospital Mrs. Herman Becker walked inâ€" nocently into a jeweller‘s store at Detroit at night and was trapped by burglar alarms until the police released her; she was a customer of the firm. A despatch from Ottawa says : There is a certain Montreal soldier, a member of the first Canadian division, who has been the object lately of much undeserved approâ€" bium. Having been in the Langeâ€" marck fighting, in which the Canaâ€" dians distinguished themselves, he fh:iled to turn up sftbrword:i.” As was not a prisoner and was not Zeen to be rounded l mrule wohn> enmmutred for tim were ty A British Caskâ€"Pontoon Bridge Over the YÂ¥ser, Constructed in One Night. REMARKABLY STRONXG POSIâ€" TION OF THE MERCHANTS BANK OCF CANADA sSHOWN BY ANNUAL REPORT It is significant that after more than eight months of the severest financial strain Canada has ever experienced, the Merchants Bank of Canada comes forward with a report showing not only the greatâ€" est strength in its history comparâ€" ing favorably with the strongest commercial ‘bank throughout the world. Perhaps the outstanding feature of the annual statement as at April 30th last, is the assets which are or can immediately be convertâ€" ed into cash. These amount to $32,086,571.51 exclusive of $1,000,â€" 000 deposited in the Central Gold Reserve, and $335,000 deposited with the Government for the purâ€" poses of the Circulation Fund. Alâ€" together the immediately realisable assets amount to $33,421,571, or over 46% of the Bank‘s liability to the public. What this means will be appreciated when it is rememâ€" bered that last year these items totalled over $8,000,000 less, or less than 37% of the liabilities to the publicâ€"and this was a very good showing for normal t»imef;. The total assets of the Bank are $86,190,464.51, an increase of over three millions from last year. It is worthy of note that there are no mortgages, while overdue debts and real estate, other than Bank premâ€" ises together amount to only $263,â€" 538.40, or less than oneâ€"third of one per cent. of the tbotal assets. The actual cash, coin and notes, on hand â€" wereâ€" over $21,000,000, or twice what they were a year ago. Thus the Merchants Bank of Canâ€" ada is in a position of great strength, which enables it to face any possible development of the war situation with perfect confiâ€" dence. To During the year the Bank‘s deâ€" posit business expanded very conâ€" siderably. Its deposits bearing inâ€" terest increased over four millions, to $50,037,101.80, and its total pubâ€" lic lfabilities grew three millions to $71,769,613.81.. The capital paid up and the reserve fund stand at $7,000,000 each. a 2 * Profits were necessarily affected by the efforts to maintain so high a ratio of liquid reserve or assets that could be converted into cash immediately. Current commercial loans in Canada, the main source of a Canadian bank‘s profits, were reduced by $6,200,000, and the net profits for the year were $995,431, against $1,218,694 for 1914. These were still further reduced by apâ€" propriations for patriotic purposes, by the war taxes and by $250,000 written off for depreciation in the market value of securities. There is every probability that the latter amount will be in considerable part recovered in the future, when seâ€" curities resume their normal value. The appropriation for patriotic purposes indicate the sacrifices that the Bank is making for the general good in these exacting times, and the shareholders are amply compensated in the fact that the Bank‘s immense strength and constantly â€" widening â€" connections enable it to look forward to greatly enhanced prosperity as soon as business in Canada resumes its usual activity. Meanwhile a balâ€" ance sheet such as this, after nearâ€" ly nine months of war, is the best evidence of solidity and sound management that a bank could posâ€" sibly have. > A Colossal Sin. ‘ The Lusitania tragedy was the subject of many burning sermons in New York churches on the Sund.ay‘ following the tragedy. ‘"The sink-‘ ing of the Lusitania is a colossal sin against God. It is premediâ€" tated murder. It is a relapse into dark and savage barbarism,‘"‘ deâ€". clared the Rev. Dr. Jowett, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, addressing a congregation which crowded the building. ‘"Here is a happening,‘"‘ said Dr. Jowett, "rushing beyond all racial boundâ€" aries. It is a matter of common humanity, It would be treachery to a just and ho‘liLGod to be silent. The sinking of Lua;ganis withâ€" out warl or effort save woâ€" men nn;‘:zlm is a dm:dou crime against the human and a colossal sin against God. K li- a PRIGES OF FARM PRORUCTS American cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 77 346, on track Lake ports. Canadian cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, Tc, on track Toronto. Ontario oat:â€"No. 2 white, 5%¢; No. 3 do., 58¢, outeide. _ _ _ _ _ Breadstuffs. Toronto, June 8. â€"Mafitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, $1.43; No. 2, $141; No. 3 $1.38, on track Lake porte. _ _. +. . _ Manitoba Oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 64¢; No. 3 C.W., 62 1%¢; extra No. 1 feed, 62 1%¢, on track Lake ports; No. 1 feed, none offerâ€" REPORTs FROM THE LEADINC TRADS CENTRES OF AMERICA. _ Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 winter, per car lot, $1.35, outside. _ _ l amad Peasâ€"No. 2 nominal, par car lots, $1.60, outside. Barleyâ€"Good malting barley, 70¢; feed barley, 65¢, outside. Buckwheatâ€"Nominal, car lots, 77 to 78¢, outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2 nominal, $1.15, outeide. Manitoba flourâ€"First patents, in jute bags, $7.60; second patents, in jute bage, $7.10; strong bakers‘, $6.60, Toronto; in cotton bags, 10c more. '"M‘l'fifgédflBun. per ton, $2%6; ghorts, $28; middlines, $29; good feed flour, per bag, $1.80, delivered Montreal freights. Butterâ€"The receipts are large and inâ€" creasing, with a 5ood deal of grasebutter offering. Choice dairy, 22 to 24¢; inferior, 20 to 2%c; creamery, prints, 2%¢; do., solâ€" ide, 27 to 2c. _ 4 e Satiet _ Ontario flourâ€"Winter, 90 per cent. paâ€" tente, $5.60; seaboard or Toronto freights in bage. _ _ d ie o d PP s t d â€" Eggeâ€"Tho market is well eupplied, with prices firm, and eales at 2%¢ per dozen, in case lots. e Ey k es (on _ Beansâ€"The market is quiet at $310 to $3.15 for prime. and $3.20 to $3.2% for handâ€"picked. _ * x: 10‘ twing. Potatoesâ€"Ontario, 55 to 60c per bag, out of store, and 45 to 50¢ in car lots. New Brunswicks, car lots, 55 to 60c per bag. *oultryâ€"Chickene, yearlings, dressed,"18 to 20¢c; Spring chickens, 45 to 50c; fowl, 13 to 15¢. Cheeseâ€"The market is firm, being quotâ€" ed at 200 for large, and at 20 140 for Straw is quoted at $7 to $8 a ton in car lots delivered on track here. _ _ __ _ Hayâ€"No. 1 hay is ugoted at $16 to $17; 211;.502 at $14 to $15, and No. 3 at $12 to Corn, American, No. 2 yellow, 80 to 8lc. Oate, Canadian Western, No. 3, 65¢; extra No. 1 feed, 65¢; No. 2 local white, 64 1%¢; No. 3 local white, 63 1%¢; No. 4 local white, 62 1%c. Barley, Man,. feed, 73 12 to 74¢. Flour, Man. Spring wheat paâ€" tents, firsts, $7.70; eeconds, $7.20; etrong bakers‘, $7; Winter patents, choice, $7.50; etraight rollere, $7 to $7.10; do., bags, 81.30 to $3.40. Rolled oats, barrele, $7 to 715; do., bage, 90 lbe, $3.50 to $3.60. Bran, $%. Bhorts, $28. Middlings, $33 to $34. Mouiliie, $35 to $38. Hag, No. %, per ton, car lots, $19 to $20.50. Cheese, finest weetâ€" este, 19 to 19 14¢; finest easterns, iâ€"8 1â€"2 to 18 340. Butter, choicest creamery, 27 1â€"2 to 2M6; seconds, 26 14 to 2 1%°. Egge, freeh, 21 to 2%¢; selected, 23 to 2M¢; No. 2 stock, 19 to 20c. Potatoms, per bag, car lots, 42 14 to 45¢. Dressed hoge, abattoir killed, $13.75 to $14. ork, heavy Canada short mess, bbis, 35 to 45 pieces, $29; Canada short cut back, bhble, 45 to 55 pieces, £28.50 Lard, compound, tierces, 375 lbe, 10c; wood paile, 20 lbs net, 10 1â€"%¢; pure, tierces, 375 lbe, 1%¢; pure, wood pails, 20 lbe net, 12 12¢. Minneapolis, Minn., June 8. â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.41 34; No. 1 Northern, $1.44 34 to $141 1.4: No. 2 Northern, $1.31 14 to §1.38 14; July, $1.34 14. Cornâ€"No. 3 yelâ€" low, 69 14 to 69 340. Oateâ€"No. 3 white, 41 14 to 47 346. Flourâ€"Fancy patents, $7.10; first cleare, $6.30; second clears, $4.30. Bran unchanged. Duluth, Minn., June 8. â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.38 7â€"8; No. 1 Northern, $1.37 748; No. 2 Northern, $1.31 7â€"8 to $1.34 7â€"8; July, #1.35 748. Lingeed, $1.78; July, $1.79 .=1;.] New York, June 8.â€"Flour easioer, Srrln. natents, £7.05 to $7.30; Kaneas straights, 8640 to $7. Rve flour eaey, fair to good, $6.20 to $6.40; choice fancy, $6.45 to 86.60. Hay steady; No. 1. $1.20; No. 2, $1.15; No. 3, $1.05. Hops quiet. Hides dull. Leather firm Live Stock Markets. Toronto, June 8.â€"The quotations were: Butchere‘ cattle, choice, $8.10 to $8.40; do., «nod, $7.60 to $7.90; do.. medium. $7.25 to $7.50; do., common, $6.75 to $7.2. Butâ€" chere‘ bulls. choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do., good bulle, $6.25 to $6.50; do., rough bulls, $5.25 to %6. Butchers‘ cows, choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do., good, $6.2% to $6.50; do., me dium, $5.2% to $6; do., common, §5 to €5.15.‘ Feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.25. Btockâ€" ers, 700 to 1,000 lbe.. $6.2% to $7.70. Canâ€" ners and cutters, $4 to $5.25. Milkers, choice, each, $60 to $95; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $45. Springere, $50 to $95. Light ewes, $6.80 to $7; do., heavy, #5 to $7; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50. Year: ling lambs $7 to $9.50. Spring lambe, $5 to $9.50. Calves. $4.50 to $10. Hoge, fed and watered, $9.50 to $9.60; do., off care, $9.80 to $9.85.. im . l To in ©Z200 NC ETICC Montreal, June 8.â€"Salee of choice steere were made at $8.50, good at $8 to $8.25, and the dower grade at from po.v i0 $7.50. Butchers‘ cows sold at $4.50 to $7; and bulls at from $5 to $7 per ewt. Gales of eheep were made at $4 to $6.50 per owt., and Sprine lambs at from _ $4 to 88 each as to eize and quality. The trade in calves wae active at prices ranging from $2 to $9 each. '{he hog situation wase unchanged and sales of selected lots were made at $9.90 to $10.2%5; etraight cars with sows, mixed, at $9.50 to $9.75, and heavry weights a# low as $9 per owt., weighed off care. Verdict at Inquest A coroner‘s jury, .imaain the case of two victims of the Zeppelin raid death by suffocation and burns, ‘‘the same having been ordered by some agents of hostile forces.‘"‘ The on . t d w5b nie. Baled Hay and Straw Business in Montreal. Country Produce U. $. Markets QOn Zeppelin Victims uestion were Henry say B FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAN) NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. cers and men from taking cameras to the front. It is stated that the L. N. W. Railway are engaging girls in the locomotive office at Crewe. Occurrences in the Land T Reigns Supreme in the Comâ€" mercial World. The Earl of Crawford has gone to the front as a stretcherâ€"bearer with ithe R.A.M.C. as a private. _ The death is announced at Glouâ€" cester of Pete McNally, who in 1897 attempted to swim the English Channel. Two captured German guns and limberâ€"wagon have been lflaced in Fitzalan Square, Sheffield. The Court Circular announces that the Prince of Wales has gone to resume his duties with the Exâ€" peditionary Force. * The King received Commander Ritchie, R.N., at Buckingham Palâ€" ace and decorated him personally with the Victoria Cross. According to the latest Whiteâ€" book, the Post Office will cost $144,â€" 181,900 this year, am increase of $6,604,020 over last year. The funeral of Baron and Baronâ€" ess de Reuter took place at Kingsâ€" wood, Surrey, husband and wife being laid to rest in the same grave. While on duty at Clapton, P. C., Edwin Giles fell down dead. Many years ago Giles was a warrant offiâ€" cer at North London Police Court. ‘At a meeting in honor of the Esâ€" sex County Territorial Association a resolution in favor of some sort of compulsory service was passed. The appointment is gazetted of Mr. Ion Hamilton Burn, M.P., to a commission as a commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Thinking that the motor car he was in was on fire, Samuel Nuttall, Derx;t:iy‘shime, jumped out and fracâ€" tlil his head and died shortly alter. The Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk has provided a convalescent home for wounded officers, giving a furâ€" nished house on his estate at Holkâ€" ham, near the sea. A Bluejacket named Stanford was killed when he fell from a height of 700 feet, after being caught by a rifle in an airship at the Naval Aerodrome near Rochester. F2 As an electric tramway car was descending the hill at Willesden Green station, the trolley wheel flew off and crashed through the window of a store scattering broâ€" ken glass everywhere. An unfortunate accident occurâ€" red at Harwich, John Jeffrey ,a private in the Fourth Battalion, Bedford Regiment, being acodenâ€" tally shot by a comrade, another private, killing him instantly. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO Great excitement was occasioned by an outbreak of fire at the Alpha Spinning Mill, Denton, near Manâ€" chaster, and it was only by the bravery of the male operatives that all the girls escaped. _ y The Board of Trade has appointâ€" ed a committee to consider cases of hardship on behalf of masters, ofi cers and seamen of British merâ€" chant ships who have lost personal effects through the war. The War Office has sent to Brigh ton Guardians $25,000 on account of the expense to which the board was put by reason of the appropriaâ€" tion of the workhouse as a hoâ€"pital for wounded Indian soldiers. s Kitchener, Jellicoe and Fronch are the names given to triplets born to a soldier‘s wife near Sunderland . The children were born prematureâ€" ly and are now thriving in baby it:lcuba.wm at the Children‘s Hospiâ€" During the past fortnight the Manchester life assurance offices havre paid $181,940 in respect of 1,949 soldiers and sailors killed in the war. More than 1,700 referred to soldiers killed in action. The Earl of Meath, the founder and active organizer of the Duty and Discipline Movement, has just put into practice his belief in its virile precepts by joining the Chasâ€" ley Volunteer Traiming Corps as a private, side by side with his coachâ€" Ilhe Board of Trade having called upon the Newcastle Corporation Tramways Committee to release as many men as possible for the manuâ€" facture of munitions, the employes have decided to raise no objection, provided the men be guaranteed reâ€"instatement at the end of the man. 1,000,000 POUNDS OF GUNCOTITON Canada Has Commenced Manufacture of Highest Explosive Known to Science A War Office order prohibits off war Alice: When I told you of my enâ€" gagement I said it was a secret, and you told Kitty about it. & _ Ella: Why, no I didn‘t. I merely asked her if she knew about it. A aw from Ottawa says: A plant for the manufacture of radit ductundiltih mtb P nc ie o in VE large quantities of trinitololuo!, one of 3)0 highest explosives known to modern science, has been erected in Canada and is now in operation. Its %nbi.tw m inont at present, Gen. ughes, Minister of &ih&:hlmd the works and mn.d se â€" as highly gratified with fin‘frocull which has been made. Work Privileged Communication. Don‘t nurse a grudge, Oh, foolish guy; "Tis wisdor‘s mark To let it die. and it had not Wisdom. T3 SURPRISE VISIT TO CROWN PRINCE Twentyâ€"nine French Airmen Drop Bombs on His Headâ€" An eyeâ€"witness, describing the operations north of Arras, says this fight ranks in the minds of the ,French military authorities as the ‘greatest battle of the war in the western theatre of operations since the Battle of the Marne. € new over the (German lines and raided the headquarters of the German Crown Prince. The dropped 178 bombs in all mn which reached their mark. Thousâ€" ands of arrows were also scattered through the air. The raiders were under a furious fire during their attack, but none of the aeroplanes were damaged. The War Office statement which announced the raid did not menâ€" tion the locality of the Crown Prince‘s headquarters. _ _ _ Fighting continues in the distriche called the ‘"labyrinth,""‘ southâ€"easb of Neuville Saint Vaast, and some gains are recorded. Since May 31 the French have made 800 prisonâ€" ers in this locality. A despatch from Paris sayst A squadron of 20 French aeroplanés | German _ aviators â€" flying over Luneville, Department of Meurtheâ€" andâ€"Moselle, dropped great quantiâ€" ties of leafliets, printed in Freng, reproducing assertions of Dr. voa Be&hmann[t%ollwegg. the German Chancellor, in the Reichstag reâ€" cently that war news from French sources was incorrect. The battle is still raging, alâ€" though its first stages have been definitely settled in favor of the French, who are continuing their progress with less and less opposiâ€" tion. So far, the battle has reâ€" ceived no name. The French ofâ€" ficial communiques laconically reâ€" fer to it as "operations in the seeâ€" tor north of Arras." His Questions Regarding Troops Aroused Suspicions. Rudyard Kipling narrowly &# caped arrest on charge of espionage recently on the Territorial training field at Sevenoalss, England, says the Youth‘s Companion. In @ letâ€" ter a sergeant in the Derritorials saVvs "Our battalion turned out is full marching order and proceeded to our usual practice grounds, Am ordinary looking man came to me and asked me a lot of particulare about the battalion. He told me he had seen a lot of soldiering in his time and said he must confess our men struck him as being about the smartest in marching he had ever seen, outside the regulars. "He asked me «o many particuâ€" lars about them and also aboutk their billets that 1 thought I should detain him as a sort of spy. 1 exâ€" cused myself and rode off to the head of the column and informed one of our majors of what had ocâ€" curred, and later I took the mam to the major. * "The officer stopped me_ later and laughingly asked me if I knew whom 1 had tried to put under arâ€" rest. I said I did not, and he told me it was no less a person tham Rudyard Kipling."‘ That the interests of the brilish Empire demand a fuller developâ€" ment of the forest resources of Canada and Newfoundland was urged by Mr. Charles Phillips in ® paper read before the colonial seoâ€" tion of the Royal Bociety of Arts in London, England, on May 4. Bir George Perley presided. The speaker urged as a matlter of extreme importance that Grea Britain should endeavor to suppleâ€" ment its foreign sources of supply of raw materials for the making of paper with those awaiting developâ€" ment within the Empire. He pointâ€" ed out that the present dependence on Norway and Sweden might inâ€" volve a serious problem if either of these countries should become @ foe. In the exhaustive survey 4 the timber resources of the Empire available for paperâ€"making, it was shown that Canada and Newfoundâ€" land led the way, both in materials and process of manufacture, but i% pointed out that the Dominion Government â€"recognized the imâ€" portance of consirvation. * He Guessed It. Sheâ€"‘Tis true that I have broken the engagement and that 1 stil have your ring; but do you know why I retain that ring_! S _He (ruefully)â€"On the principle that to the victor belongs the spoils, I suppose. Our National Anthem was first printed in 1742. Some officcholders get up and howl about the burden of holding a political office, but never think of resigning. operations were rushed with the result that the plant is now runâ€" ning. The new plant is turning out the immense quantity of 800,000 to be ready for four months, ning. lhe new plant is VUrNINGE OU® g:m'd a Eisiwespide! per mome s J mon and constitutes a noorgu both as :!‘:E erection ion. 8 W‘&m will in a position to turn t por month. "don bar tor pone lorgre i prodoces h THOUGHT KIPLING A sPY. Canada‘s Forests,. the British but & 4 [E