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21 .S 18 [P1 FRESH DIVISIONS LEAVE TRAINS _ ONLY TO BE MOWED: Horticulturist W, : Macoun and planted in Kew Gar After the war the little trees from these seeds to transplanted in France, Efln the largeâ€"leaved maple of tish are to ‘be sent to been sent to A despatch from Ottawa says: Canadian maples are to be planted around the graves of Canadian solâ€" diers in France. Seed of the red and «ilver maple, ripened at Ottawa, has CANADIAN SOLDIERS TO SLEEP ‘NEATH MAPLES. A despatch from Vancouver says: To the second member of the Bellâ€" Irving family has come the honor of being decorated with the Military Cross, according to private advices reâ€" ceived in Vancouver. This time it is Roderick Bellâ€"Irving, acting Major in the 16th Canadian Scottish, and is in recognition of his gallantry in leading his company to the attack and the eventual capture of an entrenchment which had been taken from the Britâ€" ish by the Germans. sECOND MILITARY CROSS WwoON IN ONE FAMILY. A despatch from Petrograd says: The Russian official statement is as follows: "An enemy aeroplane bhomâ€" barded a transport containing woundâ€" ed near Dusitchi, on the Vladimirâ€" Volynskiâ€"Lutsk route, killing one and injuring twenty already wounded men, The same aeroplane also bombarded the divisional hospital in Dusitchi, killing one and injuring eight hospital orderlies. Caucasian front: Our adâ€" vance continues." GERMANS BOMBARD A despatch from Saskatoon says: A hailstorm of unusual _ severity struck the country eight miles south of this city at 1 o‘ciock Wednesday morning. Two thousand acres of crop in the vicinity of Victor schoolhouse were wiped out completely. One farmâ€" er reports a loss of $2,500, and many other farmers suffered heavy loss. The storm appears to have been pureâ€" ly local. 2,000 ACRES LEVELED sOUTH OF SASKATOON. It is unofficially reported that the Germans have already begun their reâ€" tirement from Kovel and are preparâ€" ing to fall back on Brestâ€"Litovsk, Cholm, and the general line of deâ€" fence following the Bug River, The operations against the Gerâ€" mans are also having an important effect in facilitating the advance against the Austrians defending Lemâ€" berg, since they enable the Russians to exert pressure against the Austrian left flank and increase that brought up on Lemberg from Brody and from the south, where Gen. Letchitzsky‘s troops are successfully traversing the flooded _ Dneister region and are threatening the Galician capital along the route leading through Stanislau and Halich. The German loss of the Stokhod crossings and the recentlyâ€"announced Russian crossing of the river leaves no important line of defence before Kovel except a natural barrier sonâ€" sisting of a wide swamp, which unâ€" doubtedly will retard the Russian progress. But this movement from the west along the route midway beâ€" tween the Sarnyâ€"Kovel and Rovnoâ€" Kovel railways, in conjunction with the Russian pressure brought from the south in the region of Vladimirâ€" Volynski, both of which are successâ€" fully developing, despite all German counterâ€"attacks, is considered _ as making the outcome assured. _ ‘ Russian Nutâ€"Cracker Is Slowly, but Irresistibly, Closing In. A despatch from Petrograd says: The ultimate Russian occupation of Kovel and Lemberg and the retireâ€" ment of the Austroâ€"German line of defence beyond the Bug River are now regarded here as a foregone conâ€" clusion. The armies of Generals von Boehmâ€"Ermolli and von Linsingen, which have been badly crippled in their efforts to hold back the advancâ€" ing right wing of General Brussilofft‘s forces, have been forced to retreat to a point which leaves open the npâ€"; proaches to these two important cenâ€" tres, and the Russians in both regionsi have begun an encircling movement, which is slowly, but apparently ine-l sistibly closing in upon the two cities. RETREAT ONLY WAY OF ESCAPE At night the whole sks; l's_lii:l;l-lln- ated by bursting shells, searchlights and star bombs. The towns are fillâ€" Monday and Tuesday they were pouring in fresh divisions which proâ€" ceeded from the trains to the battleâ€" fields, where they were mowed down by the Russian fire. With huge losses in all attacks which so far have been delivered, they have been beatâ€" en back. Cannonading continues night and day, at times reaching such violence that it is impossible to disâ€" tinguish individual events. It is simâ€" ply a continuous roar like thunder. A despatch from Russian Army Headquarters on the Stolkhod says: Fighting of the most desperate charâ€" acter is in progress on all positions of our front. The Germans, driven to desperation by their losses in guns and men, have been launching counterâ€" attacks almost without cessation. German Losses in Men and Guns in Desperate Fighting on Rusâ€" sian Front Are Colossal for the same purpose as soon RUSSIAN HOSPITAL. War Disease Not Frost Bite, But Form of Mildew. | A Paris correspondent of the Jourâ€" |\nal of the American Medical Associaâ€" tion says that an interesting study of the "trench foot" has been communiâ€" cated to the Academie des Sciences by Dr. V. Raymond of the Military Hosâ€" !pital of Valâ€"deâ€"Grace, and Dr. J. Pariâ€" | sot of the Medical Faculty of Nancy. } "They conclude," the writer says, ‘"that the condition called trench foot | or frost bite of the foot is a myceâ€" toma comparable to Madura foot. It | is not really a frost bite, but a mildew : of the foot. The fungus found is orâ€" | dinarily in the infected soil, in straw, {&c., and it is brought into contact |\with the feet by the mud of the | trenches. No horse is allowed in the ju«xl{inc ring at the Canadian National Exhibiâ€" tion until it has been examined and pronounced sound by the Association‘s veterinary surgeons. _ of the foot has never yet been necessitated." The writer says that excellent reâ€" sults have been obtained by cleaning and disinfecting the feet by means of soap and camphorated alkaline, or better, borated solutions. "Edema," he adds, "disappears in three days, and the neuritic pains in from fifteen to twenty days. The eschars, charâ€" acteristic of the graver forms, are cured more slowly, but the treatment prevents the extension of the lesions, so much so that though the number of cases has been large, amputation "Ten sticks of tobacco," replied the Chief promptly, and held out his hand, The tobacco was promptly produced, and from that day to this the fragâ€" ment of seaâ€"girt coralâ€"rock thus curiâ€" ously acquired has been known as "Ten â€" Stick Island."â€"London Anâ€" swers. The original island was selected by the commander of one of our warships in those waters as a handy object for target practice. As a result it was practically blown to pieces. The Chief of Malekula to whom it belongâ€" ed, not unnaturally objected, and the captain of the monâ€"ofâ€"war was ordered to make good the damage occasioned by his guns. This was done. But the Chief was still not satisfied. The reâ€" constructed island, he complained, was neither so big nor so solid as the origâ€" inal one. "Oh, hang it all!" ejaculated the badgered commander. "What‘s yourâ€"beastly little island worth? I‘ll buy it from you!" In Southâ€"West Bay, Malekula, one of the New Hebrides Group, is situâ€" ated a tiny sugarloafâ€"shaped island, which was entirely rebuilt some years ago by order of our Admiralty at the request of a native chief. l Shipwrecked British sailors once built for themselves an island of reâ€" fuge after this fashion. In 1880 the Queensland laborâ€"recruiting schooner was cast away and battered to piecs on the Indispensable Reef, which is completely submerged, and â€" situated more than three hundred miles from the nearest inhabited land. The plight of her crew seemed hopeâ€" less. But instead of giving way to despair, they set to work to manufacâ€" ture an island on the lines indicated above, and lived on it for several months, subsisting on clams and seaâ€" fish dried in the sun, until they were finally found and rescued by a relief ship sent in search of them. The usual plan is to choose a coral reef, which must not be submerged more than three or four feet. A raft is first constructed, and anchored near the centre of the reef, where the waâ€" ter is shallowest. To this coral, torn from the outer fringe of the reef, is brought, and piled up pyramidâ€"fashion to form the nucleus of the island. Lastly, carth is carried in canoes from the nearest land and spread over the coral, cocoanutâ€"trees are planted, and homes erected. The Solomon Islanders, for instance, are adepts at the art. When the popâ€" ulation of any‘island of the group becomes too big for comfort, they just set to work and build another one, and the surplus families emigrate to it and settle down there. All of the German and Austrian armies on the eastern front have been placed under the supreme command of \Field Marshal von Hindenburg, acâ€" cording to a despatch quoting a Berâ€" ‘lin official announcement. This deâ€" cision was reached during the Emâ€" ;peror's recent visit to the eastern front. A similar announcement, the despatch says, has been made in | Vienna. This, however, is not quite so diffiâ€" cult as it sounds. One must have a foundation, of courseâ€"a coral reef for preference. Given this, and also an unlimited supply of native labor, and island building in these comparaâ€" tively calm and tideless waters beâ€" comes almost as easily possible as does houseâ€"building elsewhere. In the Bismarck Archipelago, now occupied by us, are two small islands that the Germans, with characteristic resourcefulness, built up for themâ€" selves in a sea where formerly no land was. Allied victories both in the east and west have not sufficiently reduced the morale of the Germans to give ground for supposition of a sudden collapse of their military strength. The bitâ€" terness here is extremely great on account of the persistence with which enemy flyers are bombing hospitals and dressing stations, which occurs on an average of twice daily. ed with German and Austrian woundâ€" ed. The Stokhod position is extr?ne- ly strong. . CURE FOR TRENCH FOOT. ISLANDS BUILT TO ORDER. Feat Is Not So Very Difficult As It Sounds. If one man in ten: thousand pays any attention to what you say yzu are in luck. The prize list for the Canadian Naâ€" tional gxhlb!tloy_‘upppntg this year to The casual refa'ence to Belgium‘s supposed agreement with France and England is quite irrelevant, seeing that, to say nothing of the schemes of the elder Moltke, Schlieffen left ofâ€" fice 10 years ago, and not even the German Foreign Office will venture to say that Belgiumâ€"g0 aptly describâ€" ed by the Berlin Lokalanzeiger as "the only base" for the German plan â€"was then in league with her preâ€" sent allies. ’ "In the splendid successes of the ‘first part of the campaign in Belâ€" gium and France we can recognize gratefully fruits which were probably in no small measure due to the joint labors of Schlieffen and Moltkeâ€"the tremendous march of victory into the heart of France, and the equally tremendous war of resistance against superior enemy force in the enemy‘s country and not on the Rhine. ‘The roots of the great scheme whichâ€" because of the French girdle of fortâ€" resses which has still not been overâ€" comeâ€"saw salvation in carrying forâ€" ward our own offensive in the west, may be sought in the mind of the old Moltke; but Schlieffen and the nephew of the strategic genius ripenâ€" ed the seed in wonderful fashion. Belâ€" gium aloneâ€"the same Belgium which long before the war had concluded an agreement with those who attacked usâ€"supplied the base for this offenâ€" sive to cover our country in the west." . Proof That It Was Planned Many Years Ago. Some of the German press comâ€" ment on the death of General Von Moltke is of considerable interest. The Berlin Lokalanzeiger has entirely forâ€" gotten the elaborate German fictions about the sudden and imperative need for the invasion of Belgium and about the supposed intentions of France and calmly writes: Montreal, Aug. 8.â€"Butchers‘_ steers, choice. $8.25 to $8.50 ; good. $7.74 to $8; fair, $7.2%5 to $7.50 ; medium, $6.15 to $7; comon, $6 to $6.50 ; butcher cows, good, $5 to $7.50 ; fair, $5.50 to $5.75 ; common, $5 to $5.25 ; butcher bulls, best, $5.35 to $7.50 ; good, $6 to $6.50 ; fair, $5.50 to $6 ; canners, $4.50 to $5.2%5; sheep, 6c to Tic ; lambs,. 10%c to 12e ; calves, milk fed, 8e to 10c ; grass fed, 5e to 6c ; hogs, select, $12.50 ; rough and mixed lots, $11 to $11.75 ; sows. $10 to $10.50 ; all weighed off cars. medium, $6.00 to $6.25 ; Stockers, 700 to 800 lbs., $6.25 to $6.75 ; cholce feedâ€" ers, dehorned, $6.40 to $7.2%5 ; Canners and cutters, $3.50 to $4.50 ; _ Milkers, cholce, each, $70.00 to $80.00 ; do., com. and _ med., each, $40.00 to _ $60.00 ; Springers, $50.00 to $90.00 ; Light Ewes, $7.65 to $8.65 ; Sheep, heavy, $4.50 to $5.35 ; Spring lambs, per lb., 11%¢ to 12¢ ; Calves, good to choice, $10.50 to $11.75 ; _ do., medium, $9.00 to $10.00 ; Hogs, fed and watered, $12.25 ; do, weighed off cars, $12.50 ; do., f.0.b., $1L.00 to $11.15. | â€" Toronto, Aug. 8. â€"Choice heavy steers, $8.15 to $8.40 ; Good heavy steers, $7.75 to $8.00 ; Butchers‘ cattle, good, $7.90 to $8.16 ; do., medium, $7.35 to $7.60 ; do., common, $6.40 to $6.75 ; Butchers‘ bulls, chotce, $7.25 to $7.50 ; do., good bulls, $6.65 to $6.75 ; do., rough bulls, $4.50 to $5.00 ; Butchers‘ cows, choice. $7.10 to $7.40 ; _ do., (food. $6.75 to $7.00 ; do., medium, $6.00 to $6.2%5 ; Stockers, 700 |__ Montreal, _ Aug. _ 8.â€"Cornâ€"American 'No. 2 yellow, 924 to 94%c. Oatsâ€"Canaâ€" dian western, No, 2, 544c ; do., No. 3, | 54c ; extra No. 1 feed, 534c. Flourâ€" ‘Man‘ spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.20 ; seconds, $6.70 ; strong bakers‘, $6.50 ; | Winter patents, choice, $6.25 ; straight | rollers, $5.70 to $5.75 ; do., bags, $2.50 to $2.60. Rolled oats, barrels, $5.05 to \25‘45; do., 90 lbs., $2.40 to $2.60. Bran, | $22. Shorts, _ $24. Middlings, _ $26. | Mouillie, $30 to $32. Hay, No. 2, per | ton, car lots, $17.50 to $19. (heese, finest | westerns, 161 to to 17ic ; do., easterns, | 164 to 161c. Butter, choicest creamery, | 814 to 32¢ ; seconds, 301 to 30%c. Eggs |â€"Fresh, 35¢; selected, 33¢ ; No. 1 | stock, 30¢ ; No. 2 stock, 26 to 27c. clears, $3.20. Branâ€"$19.50. Duluth, Aug. 8.â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.38 ; No. 1 Northern, $1.36 to $1.37 ; No. 2, do., $1.31 to $1.38 ; _ September, $1.35 asked ; _ December, tl.MB asked. Linseedâ€"On track, $2.15 to $2.18% ; to arrive, $2.15 ; September, $2.15 asked ; October, $2.15 ; November, $2.15 ; Decâ€" ember, $2.13 bid. Minneapolis, Aug. 8. â€"Wheatâ€"Septemâ€" ber, $1.344 ; December, $1.344 ; No. 1 hard, $1.39% ; No. 1 Northern, $1.34§ to $1.364 ; No. 2, do., $1.314 to $1.244. Corn â€"No. 3 yellow, 81k to 82%c. Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 391 to 40c. Flourâ€"Fancy paâ€" tents, $7; first clears, $5.70 ; second clears, $3.20. Branâ€"$19.50. Winnipeg, Aug. 8.1â€"Cash quotationsâ€" Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, $1.33% ; No. 2 Northern, _ $1.31% ; _ No. _3 Northern, $1.261 ; No. 4, $1.23% ; No. 5, $1.17% ; No. 6, 31.10%{: feed, $1.04.â€" Oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 450 ; No. 3 C.W., 44ic; extra No. 1 feed, 44c ; No. 1 feed, 44c ; No. 2 feed, 434c. Barleyâ€"No. 3, T3%c ; No. 4, 69¢ ; rejected, 62c ; feed, 62c. Flax, No. 1 N.W.C., $1.90% ; No. 2 C.W., $1.864. boneless backs, 29 to 300. ___ _ _ _ . Lardâ€"Pure lard, tierces, 16% to 17¢, R]i:l:l pails, 174 to 17ic ; compound, 14 to C. Bacon, long clear, 18 to 18%%c per lb. Hamsâ€"Medium, 24 to 25¢ ; do., heavy, 20%c to 21c ; rolls, 19 to 191¢ ; breakfost bacon, 25 to 27¢ ; backs, plain, 26 to 27¢; boneless backs, 29 to 30c. picked. Cheeseâ€"New, large, 17%¢c; twins, 17%¢; triplets, 18c. j Maple syrupâ€"$1.50 per Imperial galâ€" on. Dressed poultryâ€"Chickens, 25 to 27¢ ; fowl, 23 to 25¢. Potatbesâ€"New Brunswicks quoted at $2 per bag ; Western, $1.85. goes to the agricultural classes. Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 26 to 27¢; Inferior, 24 to 25¢ ; creamery prints, 31 _to 32c ; solids, 80 to 81c. Eggsâ€"Newâ€"laid, 29 to 30c ; do., in carton, 33 to 35¢. _Beansâ€"$4.50 to $5, the later for handâ€" Milifeedâ€"Car lots, delivered, Montreal freights, bags includedâ€"Bran, per ton, $22 ; shorts, per ten, $24 to $25 ; midâ€" dlings, per ton, $25 to $26 ; good feed flour, per bag, $1.75. Manitoba flourâ€"First patents, in iuto bags, $6.90 ; second patents, in jute bags, $6.40 ; strong bakers‘, in jute bags, $6.20, Toronto. Ontario flourâ€"New Winter, according to sample, $4.50 to $4.60, in bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment ; $4.60 _ to $4.70, bulk seaboard, prompt shipment. . Buckwheatâ€"Nominal, 70 to 7i¢, cording to freights outside. Ryeâ€"No. 1 commercial, 96 to 97¢ cording to freights outside. _Barleyâ€"Malting barley, nominal, 66 to 68¢ ; feed barley, nominal, 62 to 614c, acâ€" cording to freights outside. Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W.. 53c ; No. 3 C.W., 52ic; extra No. 1 feed, 513:: No. 1 feed, bl¢ ; No. 2 feed, bic. y ports. American cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 93ic, on track, Toronto. Ontario _ wheatâ€"No. 1 commercial, $1.05 to $1.07 ; No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04 ; No. 3, 96 to 98¢ ; feed wheat, 91 to 92, according to freights outside. Ontario oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 48 to 49¢, outside. Peasâ€"No. 2 nominal, $1.175 to $1.85 ; according to sample, $1.2%5 to $1.50, acâ€" cording to freights outside. Torento, Aug. lfi.:ili.;lvtoba Wheatâ€" No. i Northorn.Nu.ui ; No. 2 Northern, $1.39%% ; No. 3 Northern, $1.35, on track. Markets of the World INVASION OF BELGIUM United States Markets. Live Stock Markets. Montreal Markets Country Produce. Winnipeg Grain Provisions. acâ€" once able to deploy his big forces a most unheard of recognition by the munication roads, railways, or larg general staff that there is a populace tOwns. But less than twoenty mile ,| to be considered. Wheras in the vast from Peronne, which the French now Siextent of the Russian campaign gains | have in sight, is St. Quentin. If th ”! of ten or twelve or thirty miles are an | French get that big industrial city th ‘| ordinary occurrence in the open fightâ€" | Germans would have to evacuate al ;\ ing in progress, in the western theaâ€"| Of Francse to the south.and east a: > | tre three or four miles is fraught with far as the Argonne, including L4 j\ immense possibilities. The five or six Fere, Laon and Champagne. The â€"\miles gained in the last month by the | occupation of Cambrai by the Britis} ‘‘British and French on the Somme WOU!d itself compel German with flhave been sufficient, in â€"conjunction !drawal from St. Quentin, probably |with the Russian operations, to alarm iThus we see that ten‘or fifteen miles ;’the whole German Empire. It is not on tht western front is as important | so much the ground gained, however, Strategically as fifty or a hundred or |as the threat that is implied for the the eastern. |future that has set German nerves all l e in "ajangle. For if the British and French| DESTRUCTION IS TERRIBLE, |can break through the strongest front | > | defence for five or six miles at one | APPalling Loss in France as Result of | point they can, by using sufficient arâ€" | Enemy Invasion. ‘ ggiry'bol;rsi?:: & th;?ugrn Oti}rltf;:;egn(ig ;e |__A graphic report of the loss of proâ€" western front has had its day. | perty as the result of .the cannonades \ on the western front in France, was A Batteringâ€"in Stage. \forwarded to the United States Deâ€" A stage of Somme operations now | Partment of Commerce by (Iomrqercml entered upon resembles that at Verâ€"| Attache C. W. A. Veditz at Paris and dun after several months. The Gerâ€" Made public recently. It shows that man troops are ordered to die by their , ©N0FMOUS damage was done in 754 machineâ€"guns in the dugouts rather | t°W"S and villages in the m\'aded‘dls- than yield. Violent artillery pounding | trict. The report says that 16,669 and sugcessive infantry attacks gain @difices are known to h,a:'(' been â€" enâ€" bits of ‘wood, a redoubt, a single line jtnre]y destroyed and 25,504 parn'al]y | of trench. The losses are heavy, far Wrecked in the departme‘qts of _ Nord out of proportion to the gains. But P28â€"Deâ€"Calais, Somme, Cise, Seineâ€" ’the British object is not so much terâ€" | Etâ€"Marne, â€" Aisne, _ Marne, _ Mube, |ritorial gains at the present moment [Meuse, Meurtheâ€"etâ€"Moselle and Vosâ€" as it is the destruction of the better |£°>â€" iat part of the enemy forces. Most obâ€"| _Among these b‘“ld]"gfl were some servers count the gains in terms of Of the most splendid architectural territory. The Somme fighting is an monuments in France, including the effort to wear through not to crash | City Hall of Arras and the Cathedral, through; it is a wearing, not a driving Archbishop‘s Palace, the church of attack. Already Berlin is saying that St. Remy and the City Hall at the Somme offensive is checked, deâ€"| Rh#ims. Other public buildings damâ€" spite the fact that the British make A&ed or totally destroyed were 221 gains every day. They claim that the CitY halls, 379 schools, 311 churches, British troops are in a sack which |60 monumental works of art, and 306 they cannot enlarge. But the British Other structures of various public are now upon higher ground on the Iutlllty. Three hundred and thirty inâ€" Bapaume road than their German opâ€" | dustrial establishments were seriousâ€" ponents. Up to their arrival at Poâ€" |!Â¥y damaged, which in normal times zieres they had to fight uphill. _ If furnished support for 57,600 persons. artillery power can clear out enemy[ The Department of Marne was the works, the road to Bapaume will not beaviest sufferer, having 15,106 buildâ€" be neglected by the British And if ings entirely or partially destroyed. the British get Bapaume, for an adâ€"|In Pasâ€"deâ€"Calais 6,660 buildings were vance of four or five miles, the Gerâ€" completely _ demolished, and _ in mans will have to abandon their whole | Meurtheâ€"etâ€"Moselle, 4,030 structures line from the Somme to Arras, east of Were razed. hA o ‘ the Arrasâ€"Bapaumeâ€"Peronne highway.| Mr. Vedit‘s report is based on a Not less than thirty miles of line will census made by M. Malvy, Minister be surrendered. That then is the imâ€" |Of the Interior of the French Repubâ€" mediate objective. The larger objecâ€" lic. The figures are only for the inâ€" tive of the British is the important Evnded portions of France from which city of Cambrai, one of the great railâ€" ithe enemy subsequently was driven. road centres. If they can get it, then | o i CC the whole German position west of, CURE DISCOVERED the Oise will be imperilled, and prob-l FOR ERUPTIVE TYPHUS. ably an evacuation of all France from A oo ie the Argonne to Picardy would follow.| _ A desp‘atch from Paris says: A cure for eruptive typhus, the disease which Cambrai the Pivot. made such terrible ravages in Serbia, If the British can fiet Cambrai, and | has heen discovered by Doctors Nicolle rogress a dozen miles further east, and Blaisot. The fi:y-icha cescribâ€" tbey will cut all German lines of comâ€" | ed their discovery to the Aca:â€"my of munication west of the Argonne, and It fi a serum wh‘ h 5»7 the would have to retire r ustive ofi: fmcfl- to um, Lille to the Meuse. | So far t serious &2 os have wl have Jeen {ernted. 1nd | joon treated by [plectionn. w i were tish must td ipid recovery 1 i numâ€" Lord Salisbury once advised friends who were studying war operations to use a large map. A large map is an >cssential for a consideration of the achievements and tasks of the British and French armies of the Somme. What they have already gained by a month of bitter, persistent fighting, and the use of staggering quantities of shell, looks very small on a large scale map. Compared with what the Russians have achieved, in again reaching the borders of Galicia and the Carpathian passes into Hungary, it looks like a moleâ€"hill. Yet it repreâ€" sents a smashing of what Germany fondly hoped was an unbreakable deâ€" fence, and has so alarmed the Kaiser that he frantically tells the German people that anyone who gets despondâ€" ent is guilty of treason. The German general staff appeals for confidenceâ€" The British Must Take Bapaume, and Move Forward Upon Cambrai. THE WHOLE GERMAN EMPIRE IS ALARMED. SOMME DRIVE ONLY IN INITIAL STAGES German gun crew operating machine gun from bombâ€"proof shelter of earth, grass, and timber. The gun fires 600 bullets a minute, and is rakâ€" ing the enemy‘s rifle pits, two hundred metres away. The gun is mounted on an elevation made of planks and filled with earth, and is covered with a bombâ€"proof shelter. A Photo Which Shows the Odds Our Men Are Surmounting. ?.;.,yfl Among these buildings were some of the most splendid architectural monuments in France, including the \City Hall of Arras and the Cathedral, ! Archbishop‘s P&lace, the church of St. Remy and the City Hall at \Rheims. Other public buildings damâ€" ‘aged or totally destroyed were 221 city halls, 379 schools, 311 churches, |60 monumental works of art, and 306 other structures of various public ‘utility. Three hundred and thirty inâ€" |\dustrial establishments were seriousâ€" :ly damaged, which in normal times furnished support for 57,600 persons. A despatch from Paris says: A cure for eruptive typhus, the disease which made such terrible ravages in Serbia, has heen discovered by Doctors Nicolle and Blaisot. The physicians Soscribâ€" | Appalling Loss in France as Result of | | Enemy Invasion. ‘ | _A graphic report of the loss of proâ€" ‘ | perty as the result of the cannonades \ on the western front in France, was | \forwarded to the United States Deâ€"| | partment of Commerce by Commercial l Attache C. W. A. Veditz at Paris and ‘made public recently. It shows that | ‘enormous damage was done in 754! [ towns and villages in the invaded disâ€"| 'trict. The report says that 16,669 ( |edifices are known to have been enâ€"| ‘tirely destroyed and 25,594 partially | Mr. Vedit‘s report is based on a census made by M. Malvy, Minister of the Interior of the French Repubâ€" lic. The figures are only for the inâ€" vaded portions of France from which the enemy subsequently was driven. The Department of Marne was the heaviest sufferer, having 15,106 buildâ€" ings entirely or partially destroyed. In Pasâ€"deâ€"Calais 6,660 buildings were completely demolished, _ and _ in Meurtheâ€"etâ€"Moselle, 4,030 structures were razed. w:“'m%ing twentyâ€"four hours a day building new defensive works on the road to Cambrai. But the losses they must suffer will tell on them inexorâ€" ably. Britain will be bringing into |play next Spring fresh millions of troops. So will Russia. Germany will be far down in strength. Austria will probably have been eliminated, for all practical purposes. Even if it is November before the British arrive at Cambrai the Summers campaign will |have paid most bountifully in exhaustâ€" "ing Germany in preparation for the great cleanâ€"up of 1917. The decision will have been gained definitely when once Russian troops pass Lemberg, {and when the British pass Cambrai, for both events will compel wholesale Teuton retirements, and bring the battle once again into the open. The French Have Part. The French under General Foch |also have a part to play in the advance ]on the Somme sector. Progress of 'two or three miles from Belloyâ€"enâ€" Santerre would threaten the rear of Iithe Germans at Chaulnes, and Roye |and Lassigny to the south would be very difficult. The French would gain iterritory, but get no important com-? ‘ munication roads, railways, or lurge‘ towns. But less than twenty miles: from Peronne, which the French now . have in sight, is St. Quentin. If the| |French get that big industrial city the ’ ‘Germans would have to evacuate all | of France to the south and east as far as the Argonne, including La Fere, Laon and Champagne,. The occupation of Cambrai by the British would itself compel German withâ€" drawal from St. Quentin, probably. Thus we see that ten or fifteen miles on tht western front is as important strategically as fifty or a hundred on{ the eastern. | across a wide stretch of ground, Genâ€" Haig would smash the German lines with twice as much vigor. No doubt the progress of the British forces through the German third line, which it has approached, will be slow and very costly. The Germans will be ONTARIO ARCHIVES _ Mabelâ€"I know that, but is he ali right otherwise 1 C lier| are by far the |fiodiut soldiers hm:. wol:zi, the Russians the slowest. The former take 140 strides to the minute, the latter 112. Bersaglieri Speediest Soldiers. "Prometheus," Vienna military pubâ€" lication, presents some interesting figâ€" ures about the marching oitho varâ€" jous armies now at war. ccording to these statistics, the Italian Bersagâ€" A despatch from Saloniki says:‘ Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia,‘ accompanied by the Minister of War, | had a long conversation this morning with the French Commanderâ€"inâ€"chief, | Gen. Sarrail. They discussed the miliâ€" | tary situation and operations. In the : evening he talked with Admiral Sir | Berkeley*‘ Milne, Commanderâ€"inâ€"chief . of the British fleet in eastern waters.| No fewer than seven dme"e“t‘vices, is Mrs. George King, daughter kinds of artillery are taken into the Iof the late Dr. Andrew McBride, of field by a modern armyâ€"mountain, | Newry, horse and field guns, light and heavy| whijjle a number of youths were howitzers, position guns and siege A"â€" | playing near Londonderry they discovâ€" tillery, says The Glasgow Herald. The | ereq three hundred rounds of revolver most famous of the European field ammunition. The bullets were in guns is the French "75." Its special crevice, loosely covered with earth excellence consists in its recoil buffer. and grass, Most modern guns are placed on clr-f A giant pike was caught by Mr. riages designed to absorb the shock of \Patrick Smyth, Culray, Granand, recoil without allowing the carriage | whilst fishing in Lough Gowan. The to move. In this way great "Pidity‘pike turned the scales at 26 lbs., and of fire is attained, as the gunners when opened contained three fullâ€" have not to lay it after each shot. The sized perches. French gun is held in position by a| The Rt. Hon. Edmond Archdale, P spade at the end of the trail, and the C,, died last week at his residence, | wheels are strongly braked. The gun | Castle Archdale, at the age of 66. He when it recoils slides along a cradle | was the first landlord in JIreland to ]and is stopped by the ingenious pPNCUâ€" | sol] his estate to his tenants under the matic buffer, which operates with pand Act of 1903. marvelous smoothness. The gunner _ ‘The exodus to England from Mayo keeps the sights, which do not move of harvesters has been very large. with the gun, on the target all th*! Thoy are mostly boys or men beyond time. M ontAdinx Hiks ~ "Pha mnmio 44 shut : tha THE SERBS PREPARE A despatch from London says: New Zealand has decided in favor of the compulsory military service bill, which is applicable "to men of any age not less than twenty and more than fortyâ€" six." The only important amendâ€" ment to the measure by the Legislaâ€" tive Council was the stringent reliâ€" gious objectors exemption clause. The Governor has given assent to the bill. NEW ZEALAND DECIDES FOR COMPULSORY SERVICE Seven Forms of Artillery Are Emâ€" ployed in War. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island report all crops as making good growth,. In Quebec the hay crop is abundant, but grains have suffered from drought. British Columbia reports cereal crops growâ€" ing well. His Known Handicap. Mabelâ€"Do you know anything about Northwest Provincesâ€"The weather conditigns of July have been generalâ€" ly favorable, although local hailâ€" storms have done some _ damage. Grain crops continue to show fine promise, especially on bearing and summer fallow. Grain on the stubâ€" ble is not so good. In southern Alberta crops are all good, and harvesting will commence sooner than was expected a month ago. Wheat cutting is exâ€" pected to begin about August 20; hay, roots and potatoes are good. Ontarioâ€"In the peninsula (Essex county) a large crop of hay has been harvested in splendid shape. Wheat and barley are harvested, but are not quite a standard yet. Oats will be below average. Corn and hoed crops are fair, though later than usual. In eastern Ontario crops are suffering from lack of moisture. Wheat is little grown, its condition is fair and it is beginning to ripen. Barley is poor, rather late and very uneven. Oats, the most important crop of the district, shows some great divergence, some crops being far advanced, othâ€" ers only a few inches high. About threeâ€"quarters of the hay is harvested and the crop is a very good one. Corn is poor; potatoes are healthy. A despatch from Ottawa says: A special press bulletin issued by the Census and Statistics Office reports on the condition of field crops in Canâ€" zda at the end of July in part as folâ€" lows: Official Review Issued at Ottawa of End of July Conditions. ALLIES USE MANXY GUNS FOR A BIG DRIVE. Higsby is my first MAKES BRITAN CREATER Heâ€"(gallantly)â€"Yes, it they wort both like you. * His Decleion. _ * _ «atye! is A Sheâ€"Do you think a man can love two women at the same time ? r plans do not miscarry. _ Great Britain still believes in this arm of the service in spite of the trench warfare. She has approximateâ€" ly 250,000 cavalrymen in France and England, trained to the minute, and these men can take their place as inâ€" fantrymen in the trenches as well as charge the enemy on horseback. The most intelligent and physically perâ€" fect men in Great Britain have been picked for this work. They have been taught to charge over ground pit. ted with shell holes, and terrain of this sort has been prepared on British moors where the cavairy has been goâ€" ing through the hardest sort of work. It is estimated that, with the Indian cavalry, England has over 150,000 mounted men in France and these are m(uboundinlmnnd-urt-‘ fashion in the near future, if Will Be Used In a New and Startling Fashion Shortly. t The First Dragoon Guards, one of England‘s crack cavalry regiments, were used in a charge on German orâ€" ganizations in the recent offensive and for the first time since the battle of the Marne British horsemen were . in action in France. Another addition to the regular fleet of Dublin steamers engaged in crossâ€"channel business, has arrived in the Liffey, The new steamer was built to the order of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company. The exodus to England from Maye of harvesters has been very large. They are mostly boys or men beyond middle life. The cause is that the young men fear conscription in Engâ€" land and Scotland. Amongst the nurses who have been awarded the decoration of the Royal Red Cross in recognition of their serâ€" vices, is Mrs. George King, daughter of the late Dr. Andrew MceBride, of The Rt. Hon. Edmond Archdale, P. C., died last week at his residence, Castle Archdale, at the age of 66. He was the first landlord in Ireland to sell his estate to his tenants under the Land Act of 1903. A serious fire occurred at Midleton in the wool stores of Messrs. John Cogan & Sons, woollen manufacturer Ballincureig. Damage to the extent 01 !$10,000 was caused. A giant pike was caught by Mr. Patrick Smyth, Culray, Granand, whilst fishing in Lough Gowan,. The pike turned the scales at 26 lbs., and when opened contained three fullâ€" sized perches. After being icebound for seven months and twice afterwards running aground, the Holt Line stcamer Laertes, with 3,000 tons of flour from | Russia, reached Belfast last week. { Those are the plain, historical facts of one month‘s fighting in the first !pnrt of the battle in the _ Picardy, iwhich has not yet ended. Beyond and above these plain facts are others not so easy to tell. They are impossible \to tell. At the Tralee Quarter Session, Mauâ€" rice M. Cartley, sheriff‘s bailiff and civil bill officer, was suspended from acting as bailiff for having charged double poundage. The death has occurred at his resi dence, Dublin, of Mr. Harry Holt, bar risterâ€"atâ€"law, for many years secre tary to Chief Baron Palles. District Inspector Shecley prosecutâ€" ed a man at the Balling Petty Sesâ€" sions, and who was fined $380 for havâ€" ing a jar of potheen in his possession. At the Tralee Quarter Session, Mauâ€" rice M. Cartley, sheriff‘s bailiff and civil bill officer. was susvended from The farmers around Newtownhamâ€" ilton, Co. Armagh, in consequence of the high price of coal, are at present cutting large tracts of bog. Mr. William Patrick Wilsonâ€"Lynch, of Belvoir Park, Sixmilebridge, has been appointed a Deputy Licutenant for the County Clare. Pte. W. Crowley, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, of Dublin, has been awardâ€" ed the Distinguished Conduct Medal Irishâ€"grown new potatoes have now made their appearance in Belfast marâ€" ket, and are being sold at 90 cents to 96 cents per stone. A successful flag day was recently held in Dublin in aid of Irish disabled soldiers and sailors. Ten policemen have been injured trying to stop a cattle drive near Balâ€" linasloe, County Roscommon. In many parts of South Kildare first crop meadows have been sold at prices averaging $50 an acre. From Erin‘s Green Isle KEWS CY MAIL FROYZL i2°% cppenings in the Emerald Is}s of Interest to Irishâ€" BRITISH CAVALRY