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new policy of sending sick and wounded soldiers to Canada for treatâ€" ent was inaugurated last Week by uil!n’r::n party of more than men London, who will go %o Canadian hl:’nlll as soon as they Many of the men in the party : lost Hmbs, but a small proporâ€" of the party may be rendered fit }c further service, | ent was Igugunted e saili a party 5‘ monn’ron London, Canadian ho:Iltala a gl‘n. Many of the me lost Hmbs, but a tion of the party may l A despatch from Amsterdam says: Of twenty Belgians who had been sentenced to death by a German courtâ€"martial at Hasselt, eleven were shot last Saturday, says the Maasâ€" tricht Les â€" Nouvelles. _ Fortyâ€"four other persons were sentenced to variâ€" ous terms of penal servitude and sixtyâ€"four others ordered deported to Germany. The newspaper adds that another courtâ€"martial was begun to hear the cases of 192 Belgians who were charged with esplonage. UNITED STATES PRESDENT URGES CESS/ The frontier correspondent of the Amsterdam Telegraaf asserts that A despatch from Amsterdam says: ~â€"Commenting on Premier Lloyd George‘s apeech, the Taeglische Rundâ€" schau of Berlin says: _ "Reparation could be demanded by England only if Germany had declared war on Engâ€" land, if we were to blame for the war, if we had committed crimes against international law and if we had been defeated." The Lokal Anzeiger takes the view point that the remarks about reparâ€" ation are of no value, inasmuch as BELGIANS DEPORTED TO SOMME KILLED BY FRENCH GUNNERS The Tageblatt says it prefers to await the promised reply of the Enâ€" tente, adding: _ "For the present it appears that the gulf is very great beâ€" tween Lloyd George‘s standpoint and that described from the German side as the basis for peace." The Socialist nowspaper Vorwaerts says: "Lloyd George says that whoâ€" ever wantonly prolongs the war will have a crime upon his soul. _ Do not these words imply strong selfâ€"condemâ€" nation if England rejects the negotiâ€" ations offered by the Central powers?" Foolish to Try. "He threatened to blow his brains out." "And what did you say to him?" "I told him he‘d be foolish to try it, as he had nover been successful shootâ€" ing at amall targets." nuc<e tss been said thus far about D4ce eonditions. _ It continues: "If Lloyd George means to postpone satisâ€" fying Europe‘s desire for peace until the time when the Entente is successâ€" ful in conquering Germany‘s armies and those of her allies, then the whole of Europe, as well as Lloyd George, knows full well that this announceâ€" ment means eternal war, unless it is in the power of the German command to bring it to an earlier termination than Lioyd George supposes." CGerman Newspapers Find Lloyd CGeorge‘s Peace Basis Unacceptable. REPARATION IDEA SCOUTED IN BERLIN A despatch from Wuhinzton'k; the speech of Premier Llioyd George President Wilson has appealed and the announcements in Russia, the belligcrents to discuss terms of France and Italy, further action by peace . ‘neutrals would depend upon the next Without actually proposing peace or careful and delicate moves of the belâ€" offering mediation, the President has ligerents. sent formal notes to the Governments _ Nowhere on the surface appears any of all the warring nations suggesting indication of the historyâ€"making that "an early occasion be sought to events which diplomatists generally call out from the nations now at war are convinced must have transpired, such an avowal of their respective since the eGrman allies brought forth views as to the terms upon which the their proposals, to dispel the generalâ€" war might be concluded and the arâ€"!ly prevalent belief that such an acâ€" rangements which would be deemed tion on the part of President Wilson satisfactory as a guaranty against would be unacceptable to the Entente its renewal or the kindling of any | Powers. similar conflict in the future as wouldl British Embassy officials declared make it possible frankly to compare they were utterly taken by surprise, Burprise to Washington. ‘ Diplomatists co It was a most distinct surprise to all: that the Presiden official Washington, which had been; ward such a prop led to believe that with the formal) unless he had rea transmittal of the proposals of the| would receive resr Central Powers the offices of the|at the hands of United States would await further and, above all, v moves between the belligerents them-| the position of the selves, and that certainly, in view of| possible mediator. Thousands of Citizens of Ghent Compelled to Build Fortifications on the German Front. The New Policy of Allowing Them to Convalesce Amid Home Environment Inaugurated. This latest development in the rapidlyâ€"moving world events toward a discussion of peace was not permitted to become known until Wednesday night when the notes were well on their way to the American Ambasâ€" sadors in the belligerent capitals, and probably already in the hands of some of them. * Wholly without notice and entirely contrary to what Administration offiâ€" cials have described as his course, the President on Tuesday night despatchâ€" ed the notes to all the belligerents, and to all the neutrals for their informaâ€" FIRST PARTY OF 200 WOUNDED NOW EN ROUTE TO CANADA A despatch from London says: The T3¢ * Peace Parleysâ€"Says Neutrals‘ Position is Intolerable. §¥ tween three and four thousand men are ready to follow. thought of returning to Canada, Beâ€" |Bold Plan to Utilize Al Her l Human Resources. A despatch from London says: The Daily Chronicle gives prominence on ‘Thursday morning to an article which | purports to outline the Government‘s Isc‘heme for utilizing all the man power resources of the country with lt; view to the more vigorous prosecuâ€" tion of the war. It says that the plan is of a very bold and farâ€"reaching | character. More men are needed for ithe army, for the manufacture of munitions, and for productive emâ€" |ployments like agriculture. The Govâ€" \ernment will therefore appeal to the | whole manhood of the country that is | not in the army or already engaged in [work of national importance to enroll \ voluntarily for service as war workâ€" | ers. Men between the ages of sevenâ€" teen and fiftyâ€"six are wanted. They ‘must place themselves at the disâ€" | posal of the State for the duration of the war and consent to be transferred \to occupations or localities where their services are mostâ€"required in the |interest of the country. | Diplomatists consider it incredible that the President would bring forâ€" ‘ ward such a proposal at such a time unless he had reason to believe it | would receive respectful consideration | at the hands of all the belligerents, ‘and, above all, would not prejudice ; the position of the United States as a s ouuseh e socatie _ congestion in the hospitals in the United Kingdom, at the same time making the men happy by allowing them to convalesce amid home envirâ€" onment. The men who sailed in the first party were radiant at the ihe new policy, which was recomâ€" mended by Dr. Bruce, will relieve the Les Nouvelles says a large number of young people from villages in the Belgian prevince of Luxembourg have been deported from the cummune of Virton, among them children between the ages of 12 and 15. many citizens of (Ghent who were deâ€" ported to the Somme front were killâ€" ed or seriously wounded during a fight by French machine guns. The correspondent adds that a thousand men from Ghent are compelied to work on that front, and that 4,000 more are about to be sent there. A despatch from London says:â€" With a view to curtailing travel and thus enabling British railways to use more rolling stock for the war and food purposes, it has been decided to decrease after the first of the year the number of passenger trains and to inâ€" crease fares 50 per cent. _ This will not apply to workman‘s tickets or to season tickets for distance not exceedâ€" ing 40 miles. _ This was announced by the Government in the House of Commons on Wednesday. "That horse of ydurs interferes." "Wal, he ain‘t interferin‘ with you, is he?" BRITAIN TO CURTAIL BRITAIN CALLS WHOLE MANHOOD The attitude of the Entente allies as expressed by the statesmen, and certainly until recently in official adâ€" vices to the American Government has been that a peace offer by the United States would be considered almost the next thing to unfriendly. Nowhere on the surface appears any indication of the _ historyâ€"making events which diplomatists generally are convinced must have transpired, since the eGrman allies brought forth their proposals, to dispel the generalâ€" ly prevalent belief that such an acâ€" tion on the part of President Wilson would be unacceptable to the Entente Powers. British Embassy officials declared they were utterly taken by surprise, were wholly unable to explain it, and were emphatic in their statement that no exchanges whatever had passed through the Embassy here as a preliâ€" minary . The wish and hope of the German powers that President Wilson would intercede in some way has long been well known, and has been conveyed in different ways to the White House. CESSATION OF WAR The new j Rural Retort TRAVEL BY TRAIN ground of the increased cost of living. A despatch from London says:â€" The complaint of the railway men in Ireland was amicably settled at the Board of Trade on Wednesday. The men have been granted an increase of seven shillings weekly in their wages; they had asked for ten shillings on the A despatch from London says:â€" The tax on excess profits has producâ€" ed £73,699,000 up to Dec 16, Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exâ€" chequer, told the House of Commons on.%Vednuday. The original estimâ€" ate for the full year ending March 81 was £86,000,000, an amount which he considered likely to be greatly exceedâ€" IRISH RAILWAYFMEN ARE GIVEN INCREASE crop. Markets of the World Huge Increases Are Reported From Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: Huge increases in Canadian trade are indicated for the month of November and the eight months of the fiscal year. Domestic exports for November toâ€" talled $109,558,950, an increase of $17,000,000. For the eight months these exports increased by over $300,â€" 000,000 to $731,592,639. Torento, Dec. 26. â€"Mantoba _ wheatâ€"â€" New No. 1 Northern, $1.854. track, Bay ports. Old crop trading 4c above new _ American cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, no seliâ€" ers owing to embargo. . , _ __ . _._ Montreal, _ Dec. _ 26.â€"Choice â€" steers, $8.50 to $9.25; good, $8 to $8.50; choice butchers‘ bulls, $6.50 to $7.50; good, $6 to $6.50; canners‘ bulls, $5.40 to $5.75; do., cows, $4.25 to $4.60; choice butchers‘ cows, $6.75 to $7.50; good. $6 to $6.50. Calves, milk fed, $10.50 to $11.%; do., {ra»l fed, $5.50 to $68.2%5. Sheep, $8.50 0 $9.50; lambs, $12 to $13. Hogs, choice selects, $12.50 to $13; do., lights, sows, $10.50 to $11. 6 November trade was $186,006,351, as against $154,225,481 in the correâ€" sponding month last year. For the eight months total trade was $1,499,â€" 255,042, against $8638,670,349. nominal; No. 3, do.. 58 to 60c., nominal, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat â€" New No. 2 Winter, r car lot, $1.62 to $1.64; No. 3. do., f?éco to $1.62, according to freights outâ€" side. Peasâ€"No. 2, $2.40, according to freights outside. Barleyâ€"Malting, $1.16 to $1.18, acâ€" cording to freights outside. e « Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Dec. 26.â€"Steers, choice, $9.25 to $10; do., good, $8.75 to $9; do., cows, cholce, $7.80 to $8.25; butchers‘ cattle, choice, $3 to $8.25; do., good, $7.65 to $7.90; do., medium, $7 to $7.25; do., comâ€" mon, $6 to $6.50; butchers‘ bulls, choice, $7 to $7.50; do., good bulls, $6.16 to $7; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to $5; butchers‘ cows, cholce, $7 to $7.60; do., good, $6.25 to $6.50, do., medium, $5.75 to $6; stockâ€" ers, $5.25 to $7; choice feeders, $6.50 to $7.25; canners and cutters, $4.25 to $5.25; milkers, choice, each, $70 to $125; do., common and medium, each, $40 to $60; springers, $50 to $100; lisht ewes, $8.50 to $9.50; sheep, heavy, $5.75 to $7.2%5; calves, good to cholce, $10.25 to $13; lambs, choice, $12.%5 to $13.2%5; do.. meâ€" dium, gn,so to $9.90; hogs, fed and waâ€" tered, $12; do., weighed off cars, $12.25; do., f.0.b., $11.25. R November imports increased $27,â€" 000,000 to $72,690,790. In the cight months imports increased by nearly $250,000,000 to $577,235,197. EXCESS PROFITS TAX WILL BE BIG AMOUNT _ Manitoba catsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 64%c track Bay ports: ol %s wl u2 td _ Buckwheat. â€" $1.25, according _ to freights outside. _ _ yENo Siu _ Manitoba flourâ€"First patents, in jute bags, $9.20; 2nd do., $$.30; strong bakâ€" ers‘, do., $8.50, Toronto.. % a _ Ontario flour â€" Winter, according to sample, $6.70 to $6.80, in bags, track Toâ€" ronto, prompt shipment. _ es vam xd Dressed poultryâ€"Chickens, 21 to 2%¢; fowl, 17 to 19¢; ducks, 18 to 20¢; squabs, ger dozen, $4 to $4.50; turkeys, 30 to 5¢; geese, Spring, 20 to 3%c. }ioneyâ€"-W'hua clover, tt-lb. tins, 13 to l?cc; §â€"lb. tins, 12 to 13%c; 10â€"ib., 124 to 13c; 60â€"lb., 12 to 1%%¢c; buckwheat, €0â€"1b. tins, 9 to 9%c. Comb honeyâ€"exâ€" tra fine and heavy weight, per doz., $3; select, $2.50 to 32.75; No. 2, $2.2%5 to 4 special, $1.434; No. 5, do., $1.21i; No. 6, do., $7.061. Oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., §1c; No. 3, do., 48@¢; extra No. 1 feed, 48ic; No. 1 feed, 464¢c; No. 2, do., 454¢c. _ Barleyâ€"No. 3, 92¢; No. 4, 87¢; rejected, 70¢; feed, 70¢. Flaxâ€"No. 1 N.W.C., $2.56; No. # C.W., $2.53; No. 3, do., $2.35. United States Markets. _ Ryeâ€"No. %, $1.34 to $1.35, according to freights outside.. _‘ . _ â€" . _ _.. .. Millfeedâ€"Car lotsâ€"Delivered â€" Montâ€" real freights, bags included, bran, per ton, $32; shorts, do., $37; good feed flour, per DAK. FLTO to $2.80. _ o0 ‘\â€"â€"* c0 _ HMayâ€"No. 1, per ton, $12.50 to $13.50; No. 3, do., $9.50 to $10.50, track Toronto. _ Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $9.50 to $10 track Toronto. _ Eggsâ€"No. 1 storage, 40 to 41c; storâ€" age selects, 42 to 43¢c; newâ€"lald, in carâ€" tons, 60 to 65¢; out of cartons, 60c. _ $2.40. Mincemeatâ€"Pails, 28 lb., 10 to 12¢; tubs, 65 1b., 94 to 11¢c. Potatoesâ€"Ontario, per bag. $2.10; British Columbia Rose, i)er bag, $2 to $2.15; New Brunswick Delawares, per bag. $2.15 to $2.25. ‘abbageâ€"Quebec, per ton, $55. leans â€"Imported, handâ€"plcked, . per bush., $6;_ Canadian, handâ€"picked, per bush.. $6.50; Canadian primes, $5.50 to $6; Limas, per lb., #§ to 10¢c. Smoked meatsâ€"Ham#, med!um, 2 26¢; do., heavy, 22 to 23¢; cooked, 34 88c2;9rolls, 19 to 20¢; breakfast bacon, to 2%c. Minneapolis, Dec. 26. â€"â€" Wheat â€" May, $1.608 to $1.70%; July, $1.64%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.69@ to $1.79§%; No. 1 Northern, $1.064 to $1.609%; No. 2 Northern, $1.67i to $1.678. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 851 to 80jc. Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 464 to 46%c. Flour unchanged. _ Bran, $24 to $24.50. Country Produceâ€"Wholesale. Butter â€" Fresh dalr{, choice, 41 to 43¢c; creamery prints, 45 to 48¢; solids, 44 to 444c. _ bae Hok . & * _ Live poultry â€" Chickens, 15 to 16c; fowl, 14 to 16c; ducks, 13 to 15¢; turâ€" keys, 25 to 28¢; gease, Spring, 14 to 15¢. keés. 20 to 2%¢; geese, Spring, 14 to 15¢. heeseâ€"Large, 25% to 26¢, tw#ns, 26 to 26ic; triplets, 264 to 26%c. __ _ _ Montreal, Dec. 26.â€"Oatsâ€"Can. Westâ€" ern, No. 2, 64c; do., No. 3, 62¢; extra No. 1 feed, 62%¢. Barle,vâ€"â€".\lanhobn. feed, 96¢; malting, $1.30. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat gatents. firsts, . $9.30; do., seoâ€" onds, $8.80; strong bakers‘ $8.60; Winâ€" ter patents, choice, $9.25; straight rollâ€" ers, $8.60 to $8.90; do., in bags, 84.10 to $4.25. Rolled oatsâ€"Barrels, $7.05; bag of 80 lbs., $3.40. Millfeedâ€"Bran, $32; shorts, $35; middlings, $38 to $40; moulllie, $43 to $48. Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13. Cheeseâ€"Finest westâ€" erns, 25¢; do., easterns, 24¢. Butterâ€" Choicest creamery, 43 to 43%¢; seconds, 404 to 41c. Eggsâ€"Fresh, 60¢c; selected, 42 to 44c; No. 1 stock, 38 to 40c; No. 2, do.. 34 to 3$¢. Potatoesâ€"Per bag, car lots, $1.75 to $1.90. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Dec. 26.â€"Cash prices:â€" Wheat No. 1 Northern, $1.64; No. 2, do. $1.601; No. 3, do., $1.554; No. 4, $1.431 No. 5, $1.184; No. 6, 884c; feed, §5e; No Duluth, Dec. 26. â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.684; No. 1 Northern, $1.67%; No. 2 Northern, $1.50% to $1.64%; December, tl.s':”, nominal. Linseedâ€"To _ arrive, 2.85%; December, $2.83; May, $2.884. _ Pickled or dry cured meats, 1 cent less than cured. i o _ Lardâ€"Pure lard, tlerces, 214 to tubs, 212 to 22¢; pails, 22 to 23ic; pound, 16§ to 17¢. % C _Cooking oilsâ€"White, tlerces, 1681c 100â€"lb. tins, 16{¢; yellow, &¢ below white _ Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 18%¢c per lb; clear bellies, 18 to 18kc 6 Owing 10 EMDATRU Ontarto oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 69 to T1¢ CANADIAN TRADE CLIMBING. Provisionsâ€"Wholesale. Montreal Markets. 18 to 214¢ com to 28 to camp was treated to some exciteâ€" ment with rifle shots and flare rockets. One of the Arabs was killed, but the | Living Birth Rate. > ! The living birth rate and next to it the infant death rate are full of sigâ€" nificance from the point of view of the war economist. Hence the figures \given by Dr. Mamloch in the last ’number of the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift have a special interâ€" est, for they disclose the two things about which so much has been writâ€" ten, the actual birth rate throughout Germany, and not in some large city like Berlin, and the effect of the war "on the death rate of infants. In the second quarter of 1915 the number of living* births in a total of twentyâ€"six German cities of over 200,000 inhabitâ€" ants fell from 66,032, the 1914 figâ€" ure, to 42,723. For the whole year ’ 1915 the total was 49,749 less than in the previous year, a reduction of 19.3 }per cent. The loss was greatest in icertain cities, 27.2 per cent. in Chemâ€" nitz, 27 per cent. in Nurnberg and ;23.0 per cent. in Hamburg, while in Mannheim the loss was slight, or 14.2 Fper cent. In Berlin the reduction of )the birth rate was proportionately greater than in the yar years 1870â€" 71. Some of the loss was made good by a reduction of the infant death rate, though the figures here are very unequal. Thus, on a basis of 100 livâ€" ing births, the death rate in 1915 was 14 per cent., as compared with 15.3 in 1914. Such a low infant morâ€" tality rate as that of the war year 1915 had never previously been .obâ€" served in Germany. The camp faces the river, writes Dr. Ewing, and is defended by barbedi wire, besides being patrolled by a strong guard at night. This suggests to the Arab thief a fascinating probâ€" lem, to evade the sentries, cmwl| through the barbed wire, and makef his way into the tents where the men are sleeping to steal what may be carried off easily. He knows the perâ€" ils, the sentries will shoot on sight, and if caught the thief will be shot at dawn as a spy. Knowing that there is no mercy for him, he will show none, and if anyone stirs in the tent where he is working he will use his long knife with murderous intent. One soldier was stabbed recently, and his life at the time the clergyman wrote, was hanging by a thread. Arabs in Mesopotamia Who Rob and Kill Sleeping Soldiers. t I Rev. Dr. Ewing, of Granger United | Free Church, Edinburgh, Scotland,| who is with the Indian Expeditionary | Force in Mesopotamia, in a letter to| his congregation says that the Arabs: are daring thieves, and dangerous} ones as well, for they will not hesitate to kill rather than be caught when raiding the tents of sleeping soldiers. One night eight marauders were detected crawling on hands and knees near the wire like so many snakes, and for a few minutes the On the other hand many cities showed a much higher death rate for infants. In Konigsberg, £0®# example, it was 19.6, in Madgeburg 19.5 and in Danzig 19.2 per cent., and the cause is perhaps an unfavorable influence of the war. But other cities again compensate for the loss. In seven the figure was less than 14, namely, Dresâ€" den, _ Hanover, _ Frankfortâ€"onâ€"Main, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Bremen. The figures as a whole seem to be encouraging. of Verdun. DECLINE OF THE BRTH RATE General Mangin, generally known as the hero of the Marne, who took personal charge of the latest great French drive north Birth and Death Rate Significant From War Economist Point of View. A decline of the birth rate is in a special manner the work of war; it has not the feature of accident but the inevitable character of life and death. And to the belligerent nations living branches, the source of new strength, have become a subject of intense soâ€" licitude. An _ Amsterdam despatch tells us that infant mortality is inâ€" creasing on account of lack of sugar, which is a fair specimen of the nonâ€" scientific reports. In England and France the true state of the Teutons has been a theme of much inquiry, and the minds of physicians and pubâ€" lic authorities have been listless in following out the interior intricacies of the living birth ratesin Germany and its no less \important problem of inferior vitality. INFANT MORTALITY IN GERâ€" MANY IS INCREASING. DANGEROUS THIEVES ht o Anethaiant o .. . mone: 'FROM OU) smmm NiBHieNantt Stcout on e 53 005 B0 o) ..'..i'f Higher Death Rate. TORONTO | _ In answer to the statement which ‘is frequently made that a higher rate | of interest may be obtained upon | nonâ€"Canadian securities of a speculaâ€" live character, «and that therefore |there is national gain from such purâ€" ‘ chases, the Minister replies that while \ the individual mgy make a higher |rate, the rfroney he has invested abroad is not available, as it should ibe, in war time for the purposes of the Government. Manifestly if all Canadian investors invested their funds in outside loans at speculation interest rates, the Dominion Governâ€" lment would not be able to float its | domestic loans. | Offerings of Nonâ€"Canadian Stocks, | Concerns Minister of Finance. ; The frequent offering in Canada of nonâ€"Canadian _ stocks _ and â€" bonds | causes concern to the Minister of Finâ€" | ance. Sir Thos. White earnestly hopes | that, instead of making such purâ€" ‘chases, Canadian investors will purâ€" ‘chase Dominion debenture stock or ‘conserve their savings for Dominion | war loans. What is Going On in the Highlands Assurance Of DoRA ard Lowlands of Auld mmestranmmamnts Scotia. A despatch from Ottawa says: The A movement is on foot in Glasgow Governorâ€"General, for Sir Robert Borâ€" ts‘::;,t‘l“‘l’:lt a ‘"“s:;“"y memonnl' ** den, on Wednesday night sent the folâ€" Glasgow Trades House members lowing reply to the stirring message have decided to contribute $10,000 received by him from Mr. Lioyd further to war relief funds. iGeorge, British Prime Minister: uFSE Eie oo eC Mn c ae t e ecCiAtan smmnitt The Minister says that all availâ€" able Canadian funds and more will be required for war expenditure and the purchase by the Imperial Governâ€" ment of munitions in.Canada. _ Scarlet fever has made its appearâ€" ance in Kelso, and several cases have been admitted to the fgver_hospital. He points out that the huge exâ€" penditure now made in Canada for the purpose of the war and for the purâ€" chase of shells and other munitions should find its way back into Dominâ€" ion securities for the purpose ofâ€"finâ€" ancing further orders. Says Sir Horace Plunkett. A despatch from New York says:â€" Ireland and England will soon be brought into closer harmony through a provisional adjustment of the Irish problem, Sir Horace Plunket, prominâ€" ent Irish politician, declared on Wedâ€" nesday. _ Plunkett arrived in New York on Tuesday on the Adriatic. The understanding and sympathy with the purpose of the war will soon spread so rapidly throughout Ireland that she will give between 130,000 and 150,000 more men for the defence of the United Kingdom Plunket predicted. NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER § BANKS AND BRAES. Owing to an epidemic of measles in the Thorrhill district Morton Pubâ€" lic school has been closed for three weeks. _The late Lady Steuart of Grandâ€" tully has bequeathed a legacy of $1,â€" 250 to the Cottage Hospital, Aberâ€" feldy. In consequence of the damage caused by squirrels to timber in plantâ€" ations in the Lothians, a large numâ€" ber of these animals have lately been destroyed. A prominent figure has been reâ€" moved from Aberdeen city and county public life by the death of Mr. Wilâ€" liam Bothwell, farmer, Berryhill, near Aberdeen. A new rest hut at Edinburgh Miliâ€" tary Hospital at Bangern has been opened by the Marchioness of Linâ€" lithgow. Prof. Job Ferguson, who had occuâ€" pied the chair of chemistry in Glasâ€" gow University for 41 years, has died in Glasgow after a few days‘ illness. As a result, it is thought, of the darkened condition of the strects, the operations of "The Red Skins," and other bands of hooligans in Glasgow, is causing something like a reign of terror. The governors of the North of Scotland College of Agriculture at Aberdeen approved of a scheme for the training in agriculture and hortiâ€" culture of discharged soldiers and sailors. At the annual meeting of the Guildry of Edinburgh it was stated that the value of the various works authorized during the year was $720,â€" A Scottish painter, Mr.. Duncan Cameron, who had been for the past halfâ€"century well known in Edinburgh art circles, has just passed away in his 79th year. During a gale recently an English trawling vessel was driven on the rocks near the North Carr Beacon, Firth of Forth, and three of the crew of thirteen were lost. The Tramways Committe of Glasâ€" gow Corporation have adopted a moâ€" tion that all women in the Tramways Department should be paid the same scale of wages as men. 000, or $60,000 less than the previous year. a ks Lord Beresford, presiding at a meetâ€" ing in Edinburgh, said he deplored the Admiralty method of giving deâ€" spatches to the public, and more should be known of what the navy is doing. There has just been erected in the Parish Church of Monzic, near Crieff, a handsome bronze tablet to the memory of the late Major Makgill Crichton of Monzie, who fell at the battle of Loos. Mr. John Grant, restaurateur, Govâ€" an, has made a generous offer through the Milngavie Town Council to preâ€" sent 10 ewt. of coal to about 80 wives and widowed mothers of soldiers and sailors. € A‘ military cererfiony took place at Stirling when Colonel Oliver presentâ€" ed g:toino Rouse, a Belgian, with the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire with palm awarded by the King of the Belgians. Close Harmony Will Soon Prevail IRISH SETTLEMENTâ€"COOMING. KEEP MONEY IN CANADA. hob G 24. 13 Be oA B Bm cpr n iesB Y l "On behalf of the Canadian people |I send to our kinsmen of the Motherâ€" ‘land the assurance that our hearts are as undaunted and our determinaâ€" tion as resolute as when we ranged ourselves in the Empire‘s battle line \two years ago. All our sacrifices \would be worse than useless unless the purpose for which this was underâ€" It.aken is achieved in such victory AS |assures the future peace of the world. ‘Your message reached me in the \Western Provinces of Canada while |engaged in commending and supportâ€" |in¢ proposals for better organization The village of Fleury, between, is so knocked apart that we passed it without knowing we had done s#o. When the ridge was held by the opâ€" posing forces its trenches had barbed wire entanglements, communicating trenches and all the paraphernalia of modern trench warfare. Now there is not a vestige of this; no sign where the trenches once were. Sheâ€"â€"Before you go I must show you the handsome clock my aunt sent Before the recent French attack these hills were trenched. Now they are an unbelievable mess of shell craters 20 feet deep. The town is full of arriving shells. The main batâ€" tlefield is on the ridge rising from the Meuse and dropping to the Woevre, on which are Forts Douaumont and Thiaumont, their walls now completeâ€" ly buried under the dirt thrown up by bursting shells. He (facetiously)â€"Some _ of my friends tell me that I am homely enâ€" ough to stop a clock. Sheâ€"Oh, that won‘t matter. It can be started again. VERDUN IS NOW GERMAN PROOF HUN SOLDIERS WILL NEVER GET NEAR IT AGAIN. Journalist Finds the Famous City Firmly Held By the Arno Doschâ€"Fleurot, staff correâ€" spondent of the New York World, cables from Verdun, France, that the Germans can never come back at Verâ€" dun. They have been vanquished by the new heavy French artillery and the fine supporting picked army of Verdup, and are steadily slipping off the hills to the Woevre Plain. He adds: We were under steady shell fire for| twelve hours, and I can say that: neither the Germans nor any other army can advance again toward Verâ€" dun over the wrecked country. Loosening German Hold. We passed along the front line of the French army facing north from Thiaumont and Douaumont, seeing the steadily advancing line of French rapidâ€"fire guns, backed by concentratâ€" ed artillery fire, loosening the Crown Prince‘s hold on the foothills to the | north. The temper of the French ; army at Verdun makes it evident that they never will l.: content until the| Germans are pushed out on the water . plain of the Woevre. } Verdun is simply a town> in th¢ | pow restlessness t narrow valley of the .Meuu. rUDMDE tho end drew neat north. The famous citadel is but & weakened he tried rock in the town, a rock I entered,| next room; how at however, with relief. Verdun‘s re@ pim with his hea defences are in the line of forts, P&AT~ | shoulderâ€"how the ticularly St. Michel, on the hills diâ€" ;jnyeryal of uncons viding the Meuse from the Woevre. ? It will be noted 1 Douaumont is the highest and MOSt | fgets touching the important. The Germans began char£â€" , Edward. "You wod ing the hills in February, and chargâ€"| said Queen Alexa ed for six months, capturing half the| Carpenter, and sh distance to Verdun. They captured | King‘s bedroom. all the heights except St. Michel, "An oblong roor which rises abruptly opposite Verdun.| the left as we en They dominated Verdun from Douauâ€"[Wart of the room mont. ture: at the far en "In a patrol encounter in the mornâ€" ing north of Neuve Chapelle the leadâ€" er of a hostile patrol was killed; his men were taken prisoner. The enemy I have just been over most of the ground lost by them in the past ten days. I visited the region of the outer forts, Douaumont, Thiaumont and Vaux, as one of four lucky corâ€" respondents given the extraordinary privilege by the French Government. We went at night, as by day it was impossible. A despatch from London says: The official statement on Thursday from British headquarters in France reads: "During the night the enemy lines were entered by us in the neighborâ€" hood of Gommecourt and considerable damage wud:ne. A number of prisâ€" oners were taken in the course of anâ€" other successful raid carried out by us early in the morning against the enemy‘s trenches north of Arras. FULL STRENCTH OF CANADA _ _ To BE THROWN INTO STRUGGLE Premier Borden‘s Reply to Mr. Lloyd George‘s Message Gives Assurance of Do:minion‘s Resolution. BRITISH ENTER GERMAN LINES _ AND INFLICT MUCH DAMACE Numerous Prisoners Brought Back From Arras and in Gommecourt S» Called His Bluff. Fleury Levelled. Nt # ( I 3 ___‘ , "°°", 7+ * ~nows it be one | of them there big stations he be goâ€" ling to get." ,( A despatch from London says:â€"L the Northern Dobrudja the Russians and Rumanians bhave faced about and are giving battle to the Teutonic alâ€" lied forces who have been pursuing : them. _ Just how strong the stanc they are making has not yet beer made known, the German official comâ€" munication announcing it merely sayâ€" ing that they have "again offered fighting resistance." Petrograd reâ€" ports that attacks by the invadert near Parlita, on the left bank of the Danube, were repulsed, and says also | that operations successful for the Rusâ€" sians and Rumanians are being car 2o ant hu csannfim® marties in tHht l "‘Stay if you will, she said to her ‘travelling companions; ‘l must be ‘with my husband.‘ She told how, \when she arrived, the King had stood up and walked to meet her; how, forâ€" getful of himself, ill as he was, he \had asked her about everything and ‘wanted to hear her news. She told ‘how restlessness took hold of him as the end drew near; even when sadly weakened he tried to walk into the next room; how at last she stood near him with his head resting on her | shoulderâ€"how the end came after an ]intervnl of unconsciousness. " | _ It will be noted that these are fresh of our national service ant for more effectual utilization of our zatural reâ€" "W u_ 2i / on hn sources yPous . MBC ) EXTEDUCE W Pacific. I have found everywhere the strongest determination that both the human energy and the national . 16â€" sources of this Dominion shall be utilized to such purpose as will throw the full strength of Canada into the struggle. At Regina and at Brant fon 1 read your words to two great don I read your word? *" ""** "ich gatherings, and the response which they evoked was splendid and inspirâ€" ing. We-lulltrudthpodlddcln side in full realisation that the sacriâ€" fice, however great, is for a cause transcending even the interests and destiny of our Empire, and in supremé confidence that this path alone can lead to the ultimate triumph of demoâ€" cracy, liberty and civilization. "R,. L. BORDEN." you heard from your son lately ?" uV .. C id t C EC s 4/ HEAVY FIGHTING IN DOBRUDJA ried out ”by scouting parties direction of Rimnikaâ€"Buzdu. King Edward. There are some touching new lights on the death of King Edward in Dr. Boyd Carpenter‘s "Further Pages of My Life." King Edward died on Friâ€" day, May 6, and on the following Monâ€" day Queen Alexandra sent for Dr. Boyd Carpenter to come to Buckingâ€" ham Palace. She told him how a strang impulse, as though a premoniâ€" tion of coming danger, had led her to shorten her stay abroad and to hurry home. " "" ‘ne neighborhood of Loos llli ;{l:nllueh were also bombarded by us." Heavy artiliery fighting continues on the Verdun front, the French Wat .". PPApE JA 7e __ Touching New Lights on the Death of "An oblong room with windows on the left as we entered; the greater Part of the room was free of furniâ€" ture; at the far end, on the right, was a folding screen. The Queen passed behind it, I followed; near the wall, parallel to the windows, was a small single bed covered with a white coun: terpane; and there, lying with hi hands _ just touching one another across his breast, lay the dead King ine lace was pale, the expression calm and placid; he might have been asleep." They knelt in prayer, and when they rose from their knees, tears in the Queen‘s eyes, Dr. Boyd Carpenter said, "Shall I leave you here?" and she said, "Yes," and he loft her with the dead. ing, and he‘s aâ€"knock mans down like nineâ€"pi expects to have Char "You stupid! _ Yon toria Cross," "Well, anyhow, I k of them there biw «+s _ Ehemy trenches at Go and in the neighborhood of Hulluch were also bombard, uy onl P af whose son was out at the front, and the following conversation was heard: ‘"Well, Pat, how are you? Have kvacee 1i . 2 q n e e V exploded a camoufiet south of Â¥pres. "The enemy‘s artillery_was particuâ€" larly active on the riclnfot our line northoitho&mmolndlnflunel‘h- borhood of Festubert and Ypres. Our artillery vigorously replied. Russoâ€"Rumanian Forces Halted and Engaged facts touching the passing of King Edward. "You wou!d like to see him ?" said Queen Alexandra to Dr. Boyd Carpenter, and she led him to the King‘s bedroom. DR. BOYD CARPENTER‘S BOOK. "Yes, anyhow, I knows it be One of ‘Em. & from him winw aâ€"knocking them Trenches North of incâ€"pins, and he quite Charing Cross." Irishman mean the Vicâ€"