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1916 menats 24 with its Russian allies, make a stand against the Teutonic allies has not yet become apparent. On the Moldavian west frontier and farther north along the Bukowina border the Russian atâ€" tacks _ against the Austroâ€"German forees have failed to make any imâ€" pression. It is officially announced that the Rumanians evacuated Buchâ€" arest in good order, saving their army . The Rumanian rearguard was forced to fight strenuously to covâ€" er the retreat. A despatch from London says:â€" The Rumanian army at last reports was still falling back all along the line east of Bucharest from the Transâ€" ylvanian Alps to the Danube. Just where it will stop and face about, and _ 0_ 27 CCC Gonguon ~skys: David Lloyd George has overthrown the Asquith Cabinet and will become Prime Minister himself. The new Covernment will be coalition, like the old one, but probably without the same measure of harmonious support :hich attended the formation of the wak 22c ghee . P" 1200 00 C C CSPCCC on Wednesâ€" day afternoon that the personal ofâ€" fices of the King might solve the sitâ€" uation. The King called the party leaders to Buckingham Palace and conferred with them for more than an hour. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George, of the Liberals, Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Balfour of the Unionists, and Mr. Henderson of the Labor party were with the Sovereign. It is many years since a British ruler asâ€" sembled the representatives of the difâ€" ferent factions face to face when they had shown themselves unable to settle their differences. But no such serious MADE RETREAT _ _ IN GOOD ORDER Thursday‘s Petrograd War Office statement admits the evacuation of Bucharest, and adds that the Rumanâ€" ian forces to the south of the capital als>o have retired. _ In Wallachia the Rumanians are retreating towards the east under hostile pressure, and holdâ€" ing the Teuton forces by rearguard actions . The defeated Rumanians are reâ€" treating along the whole front, the Berlin War Offiee announces. The Teutonic troops have captured Camâ€" pino, on the railroad between Kronâ€" stadt and Ploechti. In Wednesday‘s fighting more than 9,000 Rumanians were captured. Tsl comlition Govemmolii,m l;e.uu-:; its birth has created additional facâ€" HinmaÂ¥ qtar.___ An officiai communication from Ber-‘ lin says Bucharest was captured withâ€" out any fighting, except by the Ruâ€" manian infantry north and west of the capital. _ This resistance was quickâ€" ly overcome, it is stated, and the inâ€" vaders entered the town from all sides. The city is absolutely undamaged, not a single shot having been fired by the big guns. _ On Tuesday an ofâ€" ficer of Mackensen‘s staff was seml into Bucharest demanding its surrendâ€" er within 24 hours or bombardment | would be opened. The officer re-l turned with the reply that Bucharest was not a fortress, but an open town,‘ and there was no intention of defendâ€" ing the place. Wednesday moming! the German cavalry pushed forward| and took possession of the west and| northern forts without resistance, and | the southern Danube army then enâ€"| tered the city without opposition. 5 Something About the Famous Rusâ€" sian General. General Brussilof, the Russian leader who has played so great a part on the Eastern Front, was one of the first to appreciate the value of techâ€" nique in this great conflict. "This in an engineers‘ war," was a comment of his. % Like many other successful men, he is a stern disciplinarian and rather brusque in manner. But, despite this, his men adore him because they know that no demands he makes upon them are quite so severe as those which he imposes on himseif. ' t L & & ses onl ce m Such a hard worker is Brussilof that he hasn‘t seen one member of his family since war broke out, except his wife, and he only saw her ‘ecause she obtained â€" permission, with several other officers‘ wives, to visit her husâ€" band. And yet the Austrians and their arrogant associates in Germany wonâ€" der why the Russian Bear has such sharp claws! Brussiloff has never asked for leave, or taken a single day off, from the army during the whole period of his command! 2% E€eEO CCC NCOE E o c h i man submarines visited the Island of Madeira on Sunday and â€" bombarded Funchal, the capital of the island. Fifty shells were fired, 34 persons beâ€" Ing killed. The remainder of the popâ€" ulation fled, and only returned when the submarine departed under an inâ€" tense fire from the fortress. The subâ€" CERMAN Uâ€"BOATS AT MADERA SINK GUNBOAT AND SHELL CITY The Steamers Kangaroo and Dacia Were Also Torpedoed and a Number of Sailors Drowned. BRUSSILOFF THE BRUSQUE. A despatch from London says: & us siee o 2 N. . Bonar Law, of the Rumanian Armies Escaped the Teuton "nar Law, Who Declined to Undertake Formation of a New Ministry, Will Act in Coâ€"operation With Lloyd George. prospect on Wednesâ€" ootnaictn sn on omracscnnre atarenmians m n ioi NeHHNK Ti raitaths i2000 000 i adin tm en rrei e | _The secret session of the Chamber of Deputies, at which the demands of the French "knockout" group are beâ€" [ing urged, has now almost reached its end. It probably would have lasted | several days longer, and there is little reason to doubt that the result would \have been the same, but after the British action further discussion has become practically impossible. The resolution presented by the "knockâ€" louts" for the consideration of the Chamber reads as follows: crisis has arisen before to require such action by the King. Whatever passed in council is hgld secret, but the inference that the King tried to arrange a reconciliation apâ€" pears a most natural one. The five statesmen departed separately, four in their motor cars, and the workingâ€" men‘s spokesman afoot. new Ministry, and then to Mr. Lloyd George, who accepted the responsiâ€" bility, as everyone anticipated he would if the opportunity came to him. tion. Any party Government would be impossible because neither the Unionists nor the Liberals have a majority in the House of Commons; either one must attach the Irish Naâ€" tionalists or the Laborites to itself to command a majority. The official announcement that Mr. Lloyd George had undertaken the task, with the coâ€"operation of Mr. Bonar Law, was a notificatioon that the new Government would be coaliâ€" A despatch from Paris says: Folâ€" lowing the example of Great Britain changes of moment can be foreseen also in France. In fact, the coming to Momentous Changes in Policy Expected in Franceâ€" ** Knockouts " Busy. a head of the British situation has only hastened in France developments which were before practically certain. There is no doubt as to what this means, and there is no doubt as to what will be the result. A comiplete change of policy, probable shift in the personnel of the high command, and a few minor changes in the Govâ€" ernment are almost certain. _ The Ministry, however, is likely to remain as it is constituted. " SPEED UP" WAR "In the interests of national deâ€" fence it is urgent that the secret sesâ€" sion of the Chamber of Deputies end as soon as possible, and that in a preâ€" cise memorandum the people‘s repreâ€" sentatives point eut to the Governâ€" ment the demand of the country." A gespatch from London says :â€" As "the first Welshman to occupy the distinguished post of Prime Minister," a meeting of the British Empire Unâ€" ion to condemn false peace agitators has sent the following telegram to Mr. Lloyd George: _ "The world has alâ€" ready recognized your value in the great strain we have gone through. With cenfidence we look to you to carry on the great fight for the success of British arms, and we are with you. On bekhalf of the citizens of Merthyr." C. B. Stanton, Labor member of Parâ€" liament for Merthyr Tydvil, who proâ€" posed the telegram, made a speech denouncing those who are urging peace negotiations and declaring that the enemines of the allies can only be defeated by force. British Empire Union â€" Denounces Those Urging Peace Negotiaâ€" tions . LLOYD GEORGE HAILED BY HIS COUNTRYMEN A despatch from Amsterdam says: The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger quotes M. Siegerwald, one of the Directors of the War Feeding Board, as saying in a speech at Recklinghausen that from January 1st no more potatoes must be used for bread. They will be placed by a more thorough grinding of the grain, namely, ninetyâ€"three instead of eightyâ€"one per cent. The director said that the situation of the food market was such that available supâ€" plies would be sufficient for the needs of the country. marine shelled the shore for two hours, especially the English cable station and other public buildings, but only small damage was done to the city. The French gunboat Surprise, however, was sunk and 34 of the crew perished. A few Portuguese were also killed aboard the steamers Kangaroo and Dacia, which were torpedoed. POTATOLESS BREAD FOR f GERMAN PEOPLE SOO0N.! A desptach from London says:â€" The release for military service of all possible semiâ€"skilled and skilled men who are now engaged in the manuâ€" facture of munitions, has been agreed upon by the Admiralty, the Ministry of Munitions and the Army Council. FROM THE FACTORIES TO THE FIRING LINE PARIS DEMAND Markets of the World ‘CHRISTMAS MESSAGE ns o Pmsmes | . _ The Hospitabfor Sick Children Toronto, Dec. 12.â€"Manitoba wheatâ€" New No. 1 Northern, $1.96%; No. 3, do.. !1.“%; No. 3, do., $1.874; No. 4 wheat, 1.154; track, Bay ports. Old crop tradâ€" ing 4c above new crop. _ __ _ _. . _ Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W.. 68¢; No. 3 do., 65ic; extra No. 1 feed, 654c; No. 1 feed, 64%c, track, Bay ports. _ _ _ _ American corn â€" No. 3 yellow, new, $1.08, track Toronto. December shipâ€" ments subject to embargo. _ __ _ __. _ Ontario oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 63 to 65¢, nominal; No. 2 do.. 62 to 64c; nominal, according to freights outside. _ _ _ __ ; Buckwheat, $1.30, nominal to freights outside. C3 Ryeâ€"No. 2, $1.40 to $1.42, according to freights outside. Manitoba flourâ€"First lp.nntl. in jJute bags, $9.60; 2nd, do., $9.10; strong, bakâ€" era‘, $8.90, Toronto. Ontario flour â€"â€" Winter, according to, sample, $7.50 to $7.60, in bags, track Toâ€" ronto, prompt shipment. â€" w s s Millfeedâ€"Car lotsâ€"Delivered Montâ€" real freights, bags included, bran,. per ton, $32; shorts, do., $27; middlings. xhtto. per ton, $$8 to $40; good feed our, per,bag, $2.70 to $2.80. Hayâ€"No. 1, per ton, $12.50 to $13.50; No. 2, do., $10 to $11.50, track, Toronto. 2400 &, UWs, @RV VC FPLILUT, NPWOR ACTUIIT Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $9 to $9.50 track, Toronto. Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 41 to 43¢; :fiamery prints, 45 to 48c¢; solids, 44 to ®. Fggsâ€"No. 1 storage, 41 to 42%¢; storâ€" age selects, 44 to 45¢; new laid, in carâ€" tons, 58 to 60¢; out of cartons, 55 to b7c. Cheese â€"Large, 25¢; twine, 25% to 25%¢; triplets, 258 to 26¢: 34 +4 Live poultry â€" Chickens, 15 to 16¢; fowl, 14 to 15¢; ducks, 13 to 15¢; turkâ€" eys, 25 to 28¢; geese, Spring, 14 to 16¢. Dressed poultryâ€"Chickens, 21 to 28¢; fowl, 17 to 19¢; ducks, 18 to 20¢; squabs, per dozen, $4 to $4.50; turkeys, 30 to 35¢; geese, Spring, 17 to 19c, ____ _ _ Pm Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, medium, 24 to 25¢; do., heavy, 22 to 23¢; cooked, 32 to 35¢; rolle, 19 to 20¢; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27¢; backs, plain, 26 to 27¢; boneless, 28 to 2%c. % Pickled or dry cured meats, one cent less than cured. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 18 to 18kc per lb.; clear bellies, 18 to 184c. Lardâ€"Pure lard, tierces, 192 to 20¢; tubs, 20 to 20%c; pails, 20% to 203¢; comâ€" pound, 154 to 16c. _ Cooking oils â€" White, tierces, 16%c; 100â€"1b. tins, 16%c; yellow, ic below white. Montreal, Dec. 12. â€"Corn â€" American No. 2 yellow, $1.15 to $1.18. Oatsâ€"Canâ€" adian Western, No. 2, 681¢; No. 8, 67¢; extra No. 1 feed, 67¢c. EBarleyâ€"Maniâ€" toba feed, $1.02; mailting, $1.30. _ Flour â€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $9.70; seconds, $9.20; strong bakers‘, $9; Winter patents, choice, ©9.50; straight rollers, $8.90 to $9.10; do., bags, $4.25 to $4.35. Rolled oats â€" Bbis.. $7.05; do., bags, 90 lbs.. $3.40. RBran, $32. Shorts, 335. Middiings, $38 to $40. _ Mouillie, 13 to $48. Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, car lots $13. Cheeseâ€"Finest westerns, 25 to 25k%¢, finest easterns, 24 to 24k¢. Butâ€" terâ€"Choicest creamery, 44c; â€" seconds, 48¢. Egxgsâ€"Presh, 60¢; selected, 44c; No. 1 stock, 40¢. Potatoesâ€"Per bag, car lots, $1.175 to $2.10. Winnipeg. Dec. 12. â€"â€" Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, 'fisu; No. 2 Northern, $1.838; No. $ Northern, $1.768; No. 4, $1.648; No. 5, $1.33%; feed, 91c. Oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 59%c; No. 2 C.W., 57¢; extra No. 1 feed, b7¢c; No. 1 feed, 564¢c; No. 2 feed, 54Â¥c. Barleyâ€"No. 3, $1.11; No. 4, 95¢; rejected, 82¢c; feed, #1c. Flaxâ€"No. 1 N.W.GC., $2.63%; No. 2 CW., $2.604. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Dec. 12. â€" Wheat â€" Deâ€" cember, ?L“l: May, _ $1.88k _ to $1.88 cash; No. 1 hard, $1.85§ to $1.90%; No. 1 Northern, $1.84 to $1.87; No. 2 Northern, $1.79% to $1.884. Cornâ€"No. 8 yellow, 874 to 89%¢. Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 514 to 613«:. Flourâ€"Unchanged. Bran, $26.560 to $27. i Duluth, Dec. 12.â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard $1.874; No. 1 Northern, $1.864; No. $ Northern, $1.73% to $1.834; December, f)l.s?i bid. Linseed, to arrive, $2.927; ecember, $2.90%; May, $2.964. Toronto, _ Dec. 12. â€"â€" Heavy _ steers, cholce, $8.85 to $9; cholce butcher, $7.75 to $8.35; do., good, $7.10 to $7.50; do., medium, $6 to $6.25; do., common, $6.25 to $5.75; heifers, good to choice, $7 to $7.25; do., medium, $6.25 to $6.75; butcher cows, choice, $6.25 to $7; do., medium, $4.25 to $6.25; butcher bulls. cholce, $6.85 to $7.50; do., good, $6.50 to $6.60; do., medium, $5 to $5.50; feedâ€" ers, 900 to 1,000 lbs., $6.50 to $7; do., bulls, $5.25 to $5.75; stockers, 700 to $00 lbs., $6.25 to $6.40; do., medium, 650 to 150 lbs., $5.50 to $6; do., light, 600 to 650 lbs., $5 to $5.75; canners, $4.10 to $4.140; cutters, $4.50 to $5.25; sheep. light, $8.50 to $9.50; Spring lambs, $10.75 to $12.50; calves, $3 to $12; hogs, fed and watered, $11.75; do., weighed off cars, $12; do., f.o.b., $10.75 to $11. . a title at New â€" Year‘s. Kipling has told us that a band is the first aid to the recruiting officer. Harry Lauder mado $100,090 of good money go to work to keep an orchestra of pipers in motion, attracting volunteers, as well as to pay for hospital supplies and trained hands in the ministry of relief. Moreover, the profit of many concerts has recently heen given by the minstrel to the warâ€"chest. He still has money enough left, it is true. But though tge King‘s jester went out of business centuries ago and "hobbyâ€"horse is forgot," the popular humorist is welcome to toast his toes, figuratively at least, by any fireside. With so much that is depressing, near and far, good fun never soared so high above par value. Those men who fight, to whom Lauder has ministered in person and by proxy, set all the rest of us an example of heroic good cheer. With the best reason to repine they are the last to complain. The extremâ€" ity of suffering has hid a splendid courage of the hospital ward not to be less extolled than bravery under fire in the field. ¢ Montreal, _ Dec. _ 12.â€"Choice â€" heavy steers at $8.50 to $8.75 per one hundred ounds. Good to choice steers $7.50 to ;8‘25. medium at $6.50 to $7, and comâ€" mon at $5.50 to $6, while butchers‘ cows sold at $5 to $5.50 and bulls at $5.25 to $6.75 per one hundred pounds. Ontario lambs, $11.75 to $12, and Quebec stock at $11.25 to $11.50; sheep $7 to $7.75 per one hundred pounds. Grassâ€"fed calves from 4 to 64c per pound, live weight. Selected lots of hogs $12.35 to $12.50 off Famous Comedian on New Year‘s Honeor List. The way the world rewards those who make it laugh is seen in the anâ€" nouncoment that Harry Lauder for his irrestible waggery and its proâ€" ceeds, largely contributed to war reâ€" licf. is set down on the King‘s list for Montreal, _ Dec steers at $8.50 to »ounds. Good to ;8‘25. medium at Country Produceâ€"Wholesale. SIR HARRY LAUDER. Provisionsâ€"Wholesals. Live Stock Markets. Montreal Markets Winnipeg Grain. bi according | ~Last year 271 inâ€"patients were treatâ€" : ed for deformities, such as club feet, | bowâ€"legs, knockâ€"knees, Pott‘s disease of | the spine, lateral curvature of the ; spine, dislocations, infantile paralysis, | tubercular disease of knee, hip, ankle. | Is the Hospital for Sick Children to | take dollars out of your pocket, or is ‘death to take babies out of their cradles? â€" That is the question. Dear Mr. Editor:â€" Thanks for the privilege of appealâ€" ing through your columns on tehalt of the Hospital for Sick Children, the great Provincial Charity. Our need of money is measured by the children‘s need of help, and you can gnduo how great that need must be when last year 3,046 sick little ones were treated as inâ€"patients, and as will be seen from the 1916 figures, 592 patients were admitted from 242 places outside Toronto. _ One | ‘-ltt more in the Hospital‘s treaâ€" sury means one coffin less in the LITTLE WHITE HEARSE. _ The Hospital must be digging up help for little children from the soll of human kindness, or sextons will be digging graves for little children in the soil of many a cemetery.. the soil of many & oemet.o&l The Hospital far Sick Children can only volunteer its mercy in so far as you friends of little children volunteer your money for service in the Hosâ€" pital‘s neverâ€"ending battle for the lives of the little ones. . > & Let your money fight in the trenches of some mother‘s trouble and rescue some little child from the dugout of pain, disease and death. 3 Can the Hospital leave children to die because the fathers of those chilâ€" dren bave left home to fight for libâ€" erty on the British battle line, and can the Hospital help the children of Canâ€" ada‘s soldiers with i(s care unless you help the Hospital with your cash?L You have money enough to help every other war fund without keeping back a dollar fromy the Hospital‘s war fundâ€"the fund that Relps the Hospital save the lives of little children, includâ€" ing the soldiers‘ little children. Do not let the little children pay, in the loss of the Hospital‘s care, the conâ€" tribution that should be given and must be given to the war funds. '"-Yro'u;v n?i)h;s-y vc'uivjend} message of cheer to some father in the trenchesâ€" yes, sond that message from the cot where the Hospital nurses some little child back to life, the chilld of the fathor who is fighting your battle in the trenches. Every dokHar kept from the Hosâ€" pital‘s power to serve the little chilâ€" dren is a weight added to the burdens and a grief added to the sorrows of this war. You can bear to have your pocket emptied of a little money easier than some mother can bear to have her home emptied of a little child. Will you send a dollar, or more i you cin, to Douglas Davidson, Secre taryâ€"Treasurer, or y Most Striking Thing Under Gun Fire In An Aeroplane. "The most striking thing to me about being under gunfire in an aeroâ€" plane is the unreality of it," said a British aviator who has been flying in Flanders since the outbreak of the war, to a writer for Popular Mechanâ€" ics Magazine. "The roar of the guns on the earth, and even the detonations of the shells which do not burst very close at hand are rarely heard. Shrapâ€" nel bullets fly in a broad cone straight aheadâ€"that is, in the same direction as that in which the shell itself is movingâ€"so that practically the only shell that ever does any harm to you is the one which bursts directly beâ€" neath your machine, and which, therefore, you do not see explode. The little puffâ€"balls of smoke which blossom out around you are perfectly harmless. At the worst a few of their spent bullets may shower back upon you, sometimes so gently that you can see, and even reach a hand and catch them. A shell bursting even immediately over you is not dangerâ€" ous in itself, but rather ominous, as indicating the fact that the ‘Archies‘ have you well ranged. The back kick from the shell casing might stun you if it hit you on the head, but the chance of that is almost negligible. "Ordinary heavy artillery is rarely ; used against air craft, but occasionâ€"| ally one‘s work takes him into an air | zone in which some of the big shells | are traveling. This is one of the most | remarkable experiences that can fall | to the lot of an airman; in fact, the weirdest sensations of my whole flyâ€"| ing experience are connected with the | occasion on which I blundered into the ; road of a passing ‘42.‘ > | "A few faint stirrings of air began to rock my machine even before the shell went by, but the full force of the ‘air wash‘ was not felt for a fracâ€" tion of a second later, Then an alâ€" most solid wall of air nearly threw me on my ‘beam ends,‘ and I was really hard put to get the reeling maâ€" chine back on an ‘even keel.‘ For the next mile or two the air was like the water in the wake of a big sideâ€" wheelerâ€"all chopped to piecesâ€"and the machine rocked like a springless motor lorry going over cobbles. The air was disturbed for some seconds after a big roar astern told me the ‘42‘ had come to earth." "As you doubtless know, the Gerâ€"; mans have used their 17â€"inch guns| for the intermittent bombardmeent of Dunkirk, and other points 15 or 20 miles behind the lines, right down to the present time. Well, I was at an altitude of about 6,000 feet one day,‘ and climbing higher at an easy angle| when one of these big fellows, almost at the end of its long flight, came? plowing along in the opposite direcâ€"| tion. First a dark little blur appeared ; in the air ahead, and at an angle of | about 35 degreesâ€"a â€" little steeper than the one at which I was climhbing | â€"above me. At first it seemed to be ; coming right at me, and I swerved to the left in an instinctive effort to dodge the threatened blow. Then a sort of droning hum became audible,| even above the roar of my engine,| and this sound increased during the‘ two or three seconds that elapsed be-i fore the big missile came even with | and swept by me. It was probably several hundred yards away, at its. nearest, but the distance seemed less. | Ejâ€"ARCADMI®N, CR 7 J. ROSS ROBERTSON, Chairman of the Board of Trustee®& AN AIRMAN‘S SENSATIONS. ONTARIO ARC TORONTO WHAT IS8 BEING SPENT ON THE GREAT WAR. at war are spending an average of $105,000,000 a day, and that if the struggle goes on to Aug. 1 next, it will have cost by that time a grand total of $75,000,000,000, is made in a study of war financing issued by the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, of New York. The total military expenditures in the first year were approximately $17,500,000,000. In the second year, ended July 31 last, they â€" were $28,â€" 600,000,000. For the current year it is estimated that they will exeeed $30,â€" 000,000,000. A summary of the proâ€" bable approximate expenditures each day of all the nations actively enâ€" gaged follows: Great Britain ......... ... $25,000,000 France . ................ 18,000,000 Russia . ................ 16,000,000 Tealy . ‘;...:..%......«...« â€"1,000/000 Roumania . .............. 2,000,000 Belginm and Serbia ...... 2,000,000 France Is Spending the Largest Sum Entente allies .... GermBBYy » :.«s+++>. Austriaâ€"Hungary . .. Turkey and Bulgaria All belligerents .. .. .. .$105,000,000 Cost to Individuals. It is figured that if the war is still going on at the end of the third year it will have entailed a per capita cost of $351 for the population of Great Britain, $350 for France, $67 for Rusâ€" sia, $242 for Germany, and $174 for Austria. Or on a per diem basis it will have cost British and French subjects 32 cents each, German 22, Austrian 16, and Russian 6 cents for the entire period. \ _ One felt the truth of Sir Douglas Haig‘s saying that a kind of work | which "does not directly contribute tc ‘the successful termination of the war" may still "have an extraordinâ€" ary moral value to the troops in the field, as well as to the relatives and \friends of the dead at home." \ A despatch from Ottawa says: Earl W. Farrow, an Ottawa boy who has been with the Royal Flying Corps | on the Somme front, and who has | been granted leave of absence after , having one leg injured, arrived in the capital on Thursday. He said that lwhile it is true that the allies have |control of the air, "there are rumors Iof a new German machine which will outdo us." If the war goes through the third year there will be an average debt per person of $202 incurred by the belligerents. The growth of indebtâ€" edness per capita is shown below: Aug. 1. Aug. 1. Aug. 1. 1917. 1916. 1914. Great Britain ..$422.60 $306.40 $74.50 France . ...... 475.00 371.25 162.50 Russia . ...... 76.85 60.00 25.25 Italy . ....... 140.30 119.50 77.75 Entente nat‘ns $192.45 $147.45 $58.40 Germany . .... 277.95« 211.00 76.45 Austriaâ€"Hung. . 175.50 140.60 70.75 Turkey . ...... 4420 _ 40.00 30.00 Grand total .$204.55 $158.40 $67.40 All of the above figures centrast with a present per capita inaebtedâ€" ness for the people of the United States of $10.82. \ _ "What‘s the matter? _ Ain‘t he satâ€" isfled with the one his father gave | him ?" * Central allies .$204.55 $158.40 $67.40 Graves of British Soldiers in France Cared For. In a graveyard west of Vimy, in France, there are buried 1,320 French soldiers and more tharn 600 English, says the London Times. The earth is bare on most of the English graves; the French ones are older, but all are cared for alike by the Englishman now in charge of the place. "We leave you our trenches and our dead," a French officer said to an English one when our army took over this part of the line, and both parts of the trust are discharged with a will. What this means for the French one feels when one sees the visits of French soldiers‘ friends to their graves. The other day a French woman in deep mourning came here with a handful of flowers to place upon one of these. One of the usual little bareheaded processions came into the cemeteryâ€"an n.c.o. showing the way; then an Engiish chaplain; then, on a stretcher, the body, a big Union Jack lying over it; then half a dozen privates. The French woman rose and fell in at the rear of the proâ€" cession, with some of the flowers still in her hand. When the service was over she came close to the grave and dropped the white flowers in. RUMORS OF AIRCRAFT TO OUTDO THE ALLIES. One day a keeper was out walking with a number of harmless inmates of an insane asylum, and the party met a pedestrian not far from the railâ€" way tracks. With a nod toward the tracks the traveler asked one of the lunaties: "Where does this railway go to?" The lunatic surveyed him scornfully for a moment, and then replied: "Nowhere. We keep it here to run trains on." An estimate that the countries now Crude. "That young man is out to make a name for himself." , Central allies .. BATTLEFIELD MEMORIALS. It Stays There $21,000,000 11,000,000 3,000,000 $70,000,000 $35,000,000 Bucharest, the capital of Rumania, is in the hands of the Central Powers. Exactly one hundred days after the against them finds the Teutonic allies in control of about 50,000 square miles of Rumanian territoryâ€"virtualâ€" ly oneâ€"half of the kingdomâ€"running from the Transylvanian Alps northâ€" west of the capital to the Danube zouth of it, and a large part of Dobâ€" r~dja, and probably still on the heels of the retreating Russian and Rumanâ€" ian armies, which have been endeayâ€" oring to hold them back. Simultaneously with the announceâ€" ment of the fall of Bucharest came the noews of the capture of the imâ€" portant railroad junction of Ploechti, north of the capital, the conquest of which plaves in the hands of the inâ€" vaders the last railroad in the west and gives to them the head of the line running northward to Jassy, where the capital of Rumania is now situâ€" The fall of Ploechti, perhaps, is of the others b even greater importance than that of and Cettinje. BOMBS RAPDLY _ ITALY PREPARED REPLACING RIFLES FOR VIGOROUS WORK Only Sure Method of Clearing Has 2,100 Factories Ma Trench, Says Canadian | Munitions for Carrying Officer. | on the War. as Grand Admiral of the German ‘and Austrian fleets, has caused disâ€" ‘may among the commanders of the ‘latter, says _ Reynold‘s newspaper. \Though _ identified with the navy |from his boyhood, Prince Henry knows ‘as much about seamanship as he does about shooting. Of his skill as a ‘ marksman all that is necessary to say ‘is that he has already wounded three | of his friends in mistake for birds. A despatch from London says: Canadian officers recently returned from the front remark generally on the development of bombing operaâ€" tions. One even declares the rifie stands a fair chance of becoming obâ€" solete. Bombing is the only sure method of clearing a trench. Give me a live party with full aprans and I will go anywhere. One man will carry as many as 16 bombs, and they can accomplish much in wonderful time. Early in the war we lost many men because the German was so deep in the dugout, but he is up to our methâ€" ods of bombing him out, so he does not hide low down as formerly. One man taken in the last little bunch of prisoners declared on the way to the cage that he simply held up his hands in taking his usual morning Swedish drill, Believe me, they are not so fat as they used to be. They fairly lick our hands when we give them some of our food, which continues of the best, No Attempt Was Made to Defend Bucharest, The Actions Fought Being Only of a Delaying Nature. Prince Henry of Prussia Now Grand Admiral. The appointment of Prince Henry of Prussia, "the fool of the family," GERMANS SEIZE FISH FROM DUTCH TRAWLERS A Reuter despatch from Amsterâ€" dam to London says that from a numâ€" ber of Dutch steam trawlers towed into Cuxhaven, the German authorâ€" ities took 35 per cent. of their fish, on the ground of contraband, as that proportion of the total Dutch catch had been assigned to England. CARDINAL MERCIER A despatch from Amsterdam says: Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, is confined to his palace by the Gerâ€" man authorities, according to the frontier correspondent of The Teleâ€" graaf, who says he hears this on good authority. The reason given is the action taken by the Cardinal against the deportation of Belgians. True to Life. Photographer (to young man)â€"It will make a better picture if you put your hand on your father‘s shoulder. â€" Fatherâ€"H‘m! It would make a more natural picture if he put his hand into my pocket. A despatch from London says: "THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY." 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Uniess the Rumanians have been able to destroy, or disable the oil wells, machinery and stores of oil the Germans will get a muchâ€"needed prize. Moreover, in the Prahova valley they are on the line of retreat of a portion of the Rumanian second army. No details have as yet come through concerning the climax to the drive of the armies of General von Falkenhayn and Field Marshal vor Mackensen, or whether the Rumanâ€" lans and Russians succeeded entirely in making their escape behind the Bucharest line. But it is believed here that King Ferdinand‘s armies are practically intact. With the fall of Bucharest the Teuâ€" tomic allies are now in possession of four capitals of Entente allied States, the others being Brussels, Belgrade A despatch from Rome says: The allies do not desire to foree Greece into war nor do they support any antiâ€" dynastic movement in Greece, assertâ€" ed Premier Boselli in his report on the war delivered before the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday,. Premier Boâ€" selli reiterated the demand of Italy to maintain the war with her allies until the restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro was accomplished. HMe termed this "the noble and essential object of the war." At the close of his speech he sent a message of greetâ€" ing to "our valorous Latin sister, Ruâ€" mania," trusting for her final success. As a proof that Italy was prepared to push her cperations vigorously the Premier announced that there were now 2,100 factories working on war material, the workers being oneâ€"fifth women, whose participation both in industries and agriculture was inâ€" creasing daily, BRITISH EXPORT TRADE I8 AGAIN EXPANDING November Shows Increase Over Octoâ€" ~~~~ ber of About $35,000,000. A despatch from London says: The British Board of Trade figures for November show increases in imports of £17,300,000 and increase in exports of £8,849,000 over the import and ex=] port figures of October. The principat increases in imports were food £7,« 000,000, and raw material tll.000,006.' The raw material iscluded cof from America £6,000,000, and cotto from Egypt £1,500,000. The principal increase in exports was in mnnuhc-’, tured articles of which cotton textiles: were represented by £2,500,000, A Berlin despatch to Amsterdam, says that the war aims of the German, Radicals have been set forth by Prof,’ Karl Doormann, leader of the R.udicull party in the Reichstag, as follows:| "We don‘t reject annexations if our rulers believe them necessary from a military or economic point of view, We cannot permit the Entente to de-} clare an economic war against us after, the present war. We must get back all our colonies. Germany must be asâ€" sured of her right to exist independâ€" ently and develop as she chooses." FOE WANTS BACK A despatch from Paris says: The National Millers‘ Association, aftem exhaustive enquiries, announces that, this year‘s French wheat crop yielded 5,700,000 tons. This amount, with the existing stock, gives a total of 6,â€" 400,000 tons. As the annual consumpâ€" tion is 9,200,000 tons, the deficit to be made up by importation amounts to nearly 3,000,000 tons. Mother Scigel‘s Byrup corrects and stimulat the digestive orgams, and bevishes the many ailments which arise from Indigestion. French Wheat Crop ALL HIS COLONIES, } FOR STOMACH AND LIVER TROVUBLE 1 $["}