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‘ GERMANS MAKE DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO REACH THE MARNE Captain George E. Chafley,‘MC, late of the 48th, and previously of the TZ2nd (Seaforth Highlanders of Canâ€" J. B. Tyrrell, the wellâ€"known Canâ€" adian mineralogist and geologist, has completed arrangements to visit the Cariboo district this coming summer. Robert A. Bryce, M.E., of Porcupine and Cobalt, and Gordon Taylor, of Toâ€" ronto, will accompany him. Operation of the curfew byâ€"law; abolition of billiards; openâ€"air swimâ€" ming pools for the children; Sunday glosing of fruit stands operating unâ€" der the guise of restaurants are some of the things the Local Council of Women want at New Westminster. At the concluding session of the Great War Veterans at New Westâ€" minster a resolution asked for the conscription of all Canadian wheat by the Government, which is requested to fix a price allowing a fair profit to the grower. Word has been received at Victoria by post from relatives of Flight Subâ€" Lieut. Wilfrid Richards, in England, that he was killed while fAying near Salisbury, England. His Honor the Lieutenantâ€"Governor presented to Major F. D. Edwards the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus, and to Lieut. Charles S. Griffin the Miliâ€" tary Cross at Victoria. Shipyard workers do not like the stipulation for a fortyâ€"eight hour week by the Murphy Commission at Vancouver, to accompany their ten per cent. increase. The British Columbia Government meeting at Victoria, altered the 1917 Taxation Act to relieve miners who paid a double tax, two per cent. on output and ten per cent. on income. A detachment of twentyâ€"six Northâ€" west Mounted Police, drawn from all parts of the Yukon, arrived at Prince Rupert en route to France. Vancouver â€" civic emproyees who struck for an increase of twentyâ€"five cents per day have returned to duty On their return from Alaska the members of the International Fisherâ€" les Commission were met at the dock and tendered another cordial welcome to Canadian soil at Prince Rupert. t Forest fire troubles are again in evidence in British Columbia owing to the recent dry weather. k Progress of the Great Wost Tol# in a Few Pointed Paragraphs. FROM SUNSET comi‘ wWHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLB ARE DOING. A despatch from London says: Onl the fourth day of the fighting the German Crown Prince‘s army failed' to gain any considerable ground. On both flanks of the 30â€"mile fightingi front, the allied troops refused to give | up further territory, despite persist-‘ ent enemy attacks, while in the cenâ€" Allied reserves are now taking up positions in the battleâ€"line. They are being thrown in to strengthen the defending forces where they are weakest in preparation for the placâ€" ing of a barrier to a further German advance. A despatch from the French Armies in France says: The Germans in the Champagne pushed farther towards the River Marne on Thursday. The intention of the Teutons probably is to secure a position enabling them to turn to the westward with the bulk of their attacking armies. The efâ€" forts of the Germans since their first rapid advance appear to take a fanâ€" like movement. The principal colâ€" umn® of the Teuton divisions seems to be thrusting in the direction of Freeâ€" enâ€"Tardenois, which now is under a heavy fire. On both flanks also strong forces are engaged. The first of these capâ€" tured Soissons. On the eastern flank, however, they are meeting with the sternest defence from the Francoâ€" British forces, which, nevertheless, have been obliged to realign in order to keep the front straight. Great Battle Still Rages With Undiminished Furyâ€"Crown Prince‘s Armies Being Slowly Halted. OC A despatch from London says: Telegrams from Amsterdam indicate that the enemy is preparing the Gerâ€" man public in advance for the slowing down which seems to have occurred on Thursday. Military writers, genâ€" erally supposed to be in direct touch with the German high command, suggest that counterâ€"measures which Foch will undertake will, in the next few days, slow down, if not bring to a standstill, the German advance. They suggest that a new offensive must be looked for on another part of the front. Keep the hoe and cultivator going to keep down the weeds that will be very troublesome if allowed to get the start of the gardener. Loosening the soil aerates it and conserves the moisâ€" Using as a standard a threeâ€"ton truck with a capacity load and a speed of 12 miles per hour on an unsurfaced concrete road, the truck, it is said, will make 7.2 miles per hour on surfaced concrete, 4.8 miles on gravel roads, and 3.6 miles on dirt roads. It is estimated that if all the highways travelled by the 400,000 motor trucks in America were conâ€" crete, the annual saving in their operâ€" ation would be over $237,000,000 per year, as compared with the cost of operating them on dirt roads. Germans Preparing Public For Slowing Down in Drive. A. M. Bacon, of 52 Thirteenth aveâ€" nue west, Vancouver, has received word that his son, Pte. A. A. Bacon, of the Seventh Battalion, will shortly receive the Military Medal for excepâ€" tional gallantry under fire. Soissons is regarded as more vital to the allies because of its importance to the Montdidierâ€"Amiens line than the other end of the front. The French are holding the high ground on the fortified plateau of Bellu and Menâ€" tagne, commanding the southern and ’south-western exit from the city, | from whence the main roads run to | Villers Cotterets. The possession of | Chateau Thierry and absolute comâ€" ‘ mand of Soissons and its arteries would not only hold out a distinet | threat to Paris, but would enable the [ enemy to link up his battle fronts on | the Aisne and Somme, widening out his original salient so that for the purposes of a counterâ€"attack it would | cease to be a salient at all. Some of the big fishing interests at Ketchikan made a vigorous fight beâ€" fore the International Fisheries Comâ€" mission to prevent fishermen going to Prince Rupert with their catches of fish. ada) battalion, who has been twice wounded at the front, has been apâ€" pointed O.C., Details Company, No. 11 District Depot, with headquarters at the Central Building, Victoria. The danger is by no means past, and hot fighting continues alox! the whole front, especially to th southward, the German official stateâ€" ment claiming that they are fighting their way toward the Marne from Fereâ€"enâ€"Tardenois. According to the statement the enemy claim«" to have taken 35,000 prisoners and a treâ€" mendous amount of booty in cannon and material. tre, between Fereâ€"enâ€"Tardenois and Vesily, about seven miles north of the Marne, the French reserves have checked the German thrust in the diâ€" rection of Chateau Thierry. It would appear that the allied reserves have come into action as planned and have made their power felt. * * The Doings of the Duffs. % | _ Butterâ€"Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 to (42¢; creamery prints, fresh made, 45 | to 47¢c; solids, 44 to 45¢c. . \_ Margarineâ€"82 to 34c. lb. _ Eggsâ€"New laid, 40 to 41¢c; new . laid, in cartons, 48 to 45¢c. _ _ Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 70c; roosters, 28¢; fowl, 38 to 40¢; turkeys, 40 to 45c. Live poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 60¢; roosters, 26¢; turkeys, 30¢; hens, 33 to 3Te. bushel, $8.75; imp., _ handâ€"picked, Burma or InJian, $6.175 to $7.25; Cheeseâ€"New, large, 23% to 24¢; twins, 23% to 24%4c; old, large, 25%4 to 26¢; twin 26 to 26%e. _ _ Butterâ€"Creamery, solids, per 1b., 42 to 42%c; prints, per lb., 43 to 43%¢; dairy, per lb., 86 to 37¢. Eggsâ€"Newâ€"laid, 38 to 34c. Poultryâ€"Roosters, 23 to 25¢; fowl, 28 to 30c; ducks, 25 to 30¢c; turkeys, 27 to 30c. Wholesalers are selling to the reâ€" tail trade at the following prices:â€" Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to $8.50, track Toronto. Toronto . Millfeedâ€"Car lotsâ€"Delivered Montâ€" real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $35; shorts, per ton, $40. Hayâ€"No. 1, Fer ton, $15.50 to $16.50; mixed, $13.00 to $14.00, track American cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln dried, nominal. Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2, Winter, per carl lot, $2.22; basis in store Montâ€" real. Peasâ€"Nominal. e Barleyâ€"Malting, $1.40 to $1.42, according to freights outside. _ _ _ Ontario flourâ€"War quality, $10.65 new bags, Toronto and Montreaf freights, prompt shipment. _ _ _ Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 81%4¢; No. 3 C.W., 78%4e¢; extra No. 1 feed, T78%4¢; No. 1 feed, 75%4e¢., in store Fort William. Ontario oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 80 to 81c; No. 3 white, 79 to 80c¢, according to jreights outside .. ts Ryeâ€"No. 2,$2.10, according to freights outside. Manitoba _ flourâ€"War _ quality, $10.95; new bags, Toronto. _ _ _ _ Toronto, June 4.â€"Manitoba wheat â€"No. 1 Northern, $2.23%; No. 2 do., $2.20%; No. 3 do., $2.17%; No. 1 wheat, $2.10%; in store Fort Wilâ€" liam, including 2%c. tax. _ Wooden dreadnaughts, exact duplicates of British battleships, lay at anchor in the North Sea while the real warships were convoying troopships across the Atlantic. These dummies finally decoyed severg German ‘ships into the harbor at Kethalo, where British destroyers were lying in wait. In the fight which followed, the German fiotilla suffered severely. One of the wooden ships was beached. N uap, Markets of the World Beans â€" Canadian, _ handâ€"picked, Country Produceâ€"Wholesale Breadstuffs One of the big guns which helped the Canadians to che@ the German advance in Flanders. \Japan, $8.25 to $8.50;. Limas 19 to WRMERTON O CCCR AIRVWITWR : OCOUTEY WOOCCTC to $11.50; poorer grades, $9.50 to $12.00. _ Butchers‘ bulls were, $9.00 to $13.00; sheep, $13.00 to éw.og; Spring lambs, $8.00 to $12.00 each. To bake patties successfully the oven should have a strong under heat. _ Toronto, June 4.â€"Extra choice heavy steers, $15.00 to $16.00; choice heavy steers, $14.00 to $14.25; butâ€" chers‘ cattle, choice, $14.00 to $14.25; do., good, $13.25 to $13.50; do., medium, $12.00 to $12.50; do. comâ€" mon, $11.00 to $11.25; butchers‘ bulls choice, $12.00 to $13.00; do., e(food bulls, $11.00 to $11.50; cfo., medium bulls, $10.25 to $10.50; do., rough bulls, $7.50 to $8.50; butchers‘ cows, choice, $12.00 to $13.00; do., good, $11.00 to $11.50; do., medium, $10.25 to $10.50; stockers, $9.50 to $11.25; feeders, §11.25 to $12.00; canners and cutters, $6.00 to $7.25; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to ?140.00; light ewes, $15.00 to $18.50; lambs, $20.00 to $21.00; calves, good to choice, $14.00 to $15.50; hogs, fed and waâ€" tered, $20.00; do., weighed off cars, $20.25; do., f.0.b., $19.00. | 11 _ Montreal, June 4.â€"Choice steers, $14.75 to $15.25; good steers, $12.00 $14.50 Choice butcher cows, $11.00 Choice hogs, $20.50; sows, $18.00 to $19.00. Aagee Montreal, June 4.â€"Oats Canadian Western, No. 2, 98¢; do., No. 3, 89%¢; extra No. 1 feed, 86%c. Flour, w standard Spring wheat grade, 50.95 to $11.05. _ Rolled oats, bags, 90 lbs., $4.85 to $5.00. Bran, 855. §Shorts, $40. Mouillie, $72. Hay, No. 2. per ton, car lots, $15.50. BV URC CICEL NUIMICS, EV UV OUC, Lard-â€"Pure, tierces, 31%4 to 82¢; tubs, 81% to 82%4¢; pails, 32 to 82%¢; prints, 33 to 38%ec. _ Compound tierces, 26 to 26%c¢c; tubs, 26% to f6§ésc; pails, 26% to 27¢; prints, 27% o 28c. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, medium, 36 to 38¢; do., heavy, 80 to 32¢; cooked, 49 to 50¢c; rolls, 32 to 33¢; breakfast bacon, 41 to 44¢c; backs, plain, 44 to 45¢c; boneless 48 to 49c. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 30 to 31¢; clear bellies, 29 to 30c. 20¢ Maple syrupâ€"3%â€"1b, tins, 10 to a case, $14.50; imperial gallon tins, per tin, $2.25; imperial fiveâ€"gallon cans, per. can, $10.50; 15â€"gallon kegs, per gal., $2.00; maple sugar, 1â€"lb, box, pure, per lb., 24 to 25c. Odo The High Art of Camouflage. Provisionsâ€"Wholesale Live Stock Markets Montreal Markets TORONTO A despatch from Paris says: Some airplanes crossed the line in the diâ€" rection of Parig on Thursday night. The alarm was sounded at 11 o‘clock, and the "all clear" signal was given at midnight. The enemy machines were under a heavy fire from the deâ€" fences of Paris, and some bombs were dropped on the region about the city. There were no casualties. A despatch from Ottawa says: It is officially announced through the chief press censor‘s office that the folâ€" lowing troops have arrived safely in England: Infantry from Central Onâ€" tario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and British Columbia. Composite battalion from Halifax. Railway construction battalion. Siege artillery. Details. ANOTHER AIR RAID A despatch from Amsterdam says: The official German agricultural reâ€" port for Western and Northâ€"western Germany states that the crops in this district are from three to four weeks earlier than in 1917. The growth of rye is described as luxuriant and the condition of Summer grain as satisâ€" factory. Grass in general is of good growth, but clover is not uniformly so, the report states. ONTARIO SOLDIERS ARE SAFE IN ENGLAND. A despatch from Boston says: "As much deadweight ship tonnage has been launched from the shipyards of the United States in the last three weeks as was sunk by German subâ€" marines during the entire month of April," said Dr. Charles A. Eaton, chairman of the National Service Secâ€" tion of the United ,States Shipping Board, addressing the American Soâ€" ciety of Mechanical Engineers here. Last week alone, Dr. Eaton said, 18 ships, representing 106,000 tons deadâ€" weight, went down the ways. CROPS IN GERMANY AMERICA ALONE IS REPLACING TONNAGE SUNK BY Uâ€"BOATS. UNIFORMLY GOOD. ON PARIS FAILED. do hi) uo ald w ol tl A despatch from Paris says: Aviaâ€" tors De Vienne and Lorgnat flew from Paris to London and back in a hydroâ€" airplane in three hours and ten minâ€" utes, carrying mail. It was the first trip in connection with an aerial postâ€" al service between England and France which is being organized. A despatch from Toronto says: It was announced unofficially that since the Military Service Act was put into operation last October it has proâ€" duced 67,800 of the 100,000 required under its provisions. This takes in all men who have reported from all points in the Dominion under all drafts. * AERIAL POSTAL SERVICE BETWEEN PARIS AND LONDON. A despatch from London says: As an instance of the great effectiveness of the continuous air raids which the British are making day and night at different points behind the German lines where there are dense concenâ€" tration of troops, a German prisoner stated that in the recent air raid of the British Flying Squadron on Douai, there were 300 soldiers killed and wounded in addition to great damage done. ‘ RAISED 67,800 MEN RECRUIT ARMY N CONQUERED LANDS Germany Calls On Men of Baltic Provinces to Join Her Colors. PEsaiiiy is Ees t sns 1 more than ever the need of soldiers; it is natural that the children of the provinces delivered from Maximalist tyranny should give themselves up to enable Germany to intensify her efâ€" fectives and perform their duty like all children of the Empire." A despatch from Paris says: Gerâ€" many has begun her campaign to utilize the vast resources of human material in the Baitic provinces to augment decimated ranks in the army, according to a despatch from Switzerland, which declares that the Dorpater Zeitung, the German proâ€" paganda organ for the Baltic, pubâ€" lishes an appeal to young men in Courland and Livonia, inviting them to join, under the German flag. "Gerâ€" many," says the appeal, "has now P 20@ __MAf.mes Would Trust to the River To Protect Their Right Flank. A despatch from Paris says: Examâ€" ination of the shells discharged by the Germans in the longâ€"range bomâ€" bardment of Paris, which began again on Monday, indicates that new guns are being used,. Larger shells are being employed than formerly, the calibre of the guns being 24â€"centiâ€" metre (9% inches) irisbend‘ of 21. The powder charge is greater, and the detonation louder, but the force of the explosion does not seem to have increased. A shell exploded only a dozen yards from a man seated on a bench, and did not injure him. 300 SOLDIERS KILLED A despatch from French Headquarâ€" ters says: Held on the flanks at Soissons and Rheims, the Germans are throwing their entire strength southwards, obviously with the Marne for their goal. _ It is probable that the Germans hope to establish themâ€" selves on the Marne, with a view to turning the direction of their main effort westward, trusting to the river to ptotect their right flank. The hotâ€" test fighting is proceeding along the whole southern front of the advance. . This is the first action taken under a plan for removing Paris children from the possibility of harm from a longâ€"range gun shell striking a school filled with pupils, as a church where worship was in progress was struck on Good Friday last. GERMANS ARE USING NEW LONGâ€"RANGE GUN. A despatch from Paris says: The removal of children from Paris was begun on Thursday morning when 1,000 children from the Montmartre district of the city were placed on board a special train, bound for a vacation colony in the Department of Allier, in Central France. 1,000 PARIS CHILDREN REMOVED TO COUNTRY. UNDER SERVICE ACT. BY BRITISH AIRMAN. mssc The great offence of the Armenians is that they are Christians, and the German Kaiser uttered not one word of protest when his Moslem ally sought to destroy this Christian race Fresh opportunity for _ Armenian slaughter in the Caucasus region has come to the Turks through the Rusâ€" sian peace. Germany insisted that all Russian troops be withdrawn from this region. The Russian Governâ€" ment, which yielded to Germany‘s deâ€" mand, and the Armenian National Council are now protesting against the wholesale slaughter of Armenians in the Caucasus by Turkish troops. Armenia furnished 160,000 soldiers to Russia in this war, and it is still ready to offer an army of 150,000 to fight the Turks, says an American writer. The United States could not spend $10,000,000 more. wisely than in helping Armenia to get back into the war. Armenia looks to America not only to save her people from Gerâ€" man and Turkish slavery, but also to save them from starving. "Let me draw the attention of the farmers of Canada to the grave need of :hnflnc every acre in wheat that is in shape to grow it. There should :c: b‘:u idle man in Canada toâ€"day. 0 y fit to work."â€"Honâ€" orable #z.mm, Minister of Agriâ€" culture for Canada. A Christian Race Being Exterminâ€" ated by the Moslems. The cradle of Christianity is Arâ€" menia. Her story is the most tragic in human history. For sixteen cenâ€" turies, in the face of the cruelest perâ€" secutions her people have been faithâ€" ful unto death. Not Serbia, nor Poâ€" land, nor Belgium, but Armenia furâ€" nishes the war‘s most horrible chapâ€" ter. The Moslem world in general refused to answer the call for a holy war, but the atttmpt to exterminate the Armenians has been to the Turks a holy crusade. ‘FROM OLD SCOTLAND Lieut. Thomas Steel, of the Canâ€" adians, who has won the Military Cross, is the eldest son of Thomas Steele, Wishaw. ARMENIA BLEEDING To DEATH Captain Harcus Strachan, who was recently awarded the Military Cross, was a pupil of the Edinburgh Royal High School. At a free gift sale held at Berwick in aid of the British Farmers‘ Red Cross Fund, the sum of £2,000 was realized. Private William Murray, Liverpool Scottish, son of James Murray, Mayâ€" bole, has been awarded the Mons Star medal. Capt. Malcolm Smith, Royal Scots, and son of exâ€"Provost Smith, Edinâ€" burgh, has been awarded the Military Cross. The death has been reported by the German Government of Lieut, A. M T. Glover, Maxwelltown, Royal Flying Corps. Major James Tait, of Penicuik, Royal Scots, has been awarded the P.8.0. The typefounders of England and Scotland have made a further increase in prices, owing to the increased cost of production. â€" Corporal George Mutch, Gordon Highlanders, who escaped from a Gerâ€" man prison camp, has returned to his home in Mintlaw. _ James Elder, of Boddinglaw, a well known Midlothian agriculturist, died recently at the age of 78 years. . The Military Medal has been awardâ€" ed to Lanceâ€"Corporal William Mackie, Machine Gun Corps, Larkhall, A soldier from Canada, returned to the Penicuik Parish Council £161, adâ€" vances made by them to his wife and family. 7 C . Provost Sutherland has sent a cheque for £500 to the Bathgate Town Council as a donation to Bathgate Academy. f The death is announced of Corpor al James M. Keith, Canadians, so: of Mr. A. Keith, Netherton of Logie Crimond. Private W, Sutherland, Australian youngest son of John Sutherian Hopeman, has been awarded t} p.C.M. The death occurred in Edinbu recently, at the age of cighty /« of Lord Kinnear, the eminent S« tish judge. The deposits in the Glasgow S ings Bank during the past y amounted to £4,374,087, an increasc £577,203. Lieut. Hugh Salvin Bowlby, Roya navy, brother of Arthur Bowlby Knoydart, has been awarded th Croix de Guerre. The death is announced of 1 Robert Perry, Queen‘s Terrace, We Princes street, Edinburgh, at nin« years of age. Private David Mitchell, Seaforths, husband of Mrs. Mitchell, North street, Rothes, has been awarded the Military Medal. The death is announced in Paisley of John Hardie, M.A., mathematical master in Paisliey Grammar School. The Military Medal has been awardâ€" ed to Private H. L. Rust, Gordons, 22 Chapel street, Aberdeen. NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Larger Wheat Acreage The new fences have &ls forty rods mpart. the wire is stretched t Eventltlrom sageh steel supports, anc inches below the sur ground are used. Wi bd:vck comes against « string fencesâ€"such &s a bull charging the f. supports bend in a their point of ancl the strain to come . the principle of a 6 n‘Mfln(hflflenod Anything that hits it « produces stresses on th Are transmitted to the The old method fences by placing heas every few feet has bee wrong in principle. Th of supporting fences is but books are scarce Puchess Olga sold par ::dto buy books, er to her. During the Februa they were frequently mobs, which were espec Grand Duke Nicholas. 1 in which the dowager . was shelled three times The Grand Duchess Olga did the family Grand Duke Nicholas ێren, who, owing to became nervous wreck goldiers‘ fare was allo being unattai only amusement th was gardening and Olga Ale two children, x gons. The newspaper says gists of Nicholas Nich ager Empress Maria 1 two daughters, Xenie The humble circums the "Romanoff family ing in seclusion on a estate are described i c:)lilhed in Kiev, a « been received, say spatch from Amsterda Czar‘s Mother and OJ Suffer Privation i ROMANOFPFS LIV3 In the meanwhile American liner was s ing without lights. rrty collected, the vs auled, and found to fron ore for Stettin. the crew abandon th terrogations could nc The ship was sunk s first one. After that hours, two more we spatched. On the fol commander reported t man traffic had entire Regarding the o merchant vessels, 1 count is typical. A ed and chased the burg, laden with v was signalled, stop and the entire crew Bubsequently the opened and charges ploded, and the ship The torpedo g ships, the magaz m loud double r« of iron and wre submarine, which observed the cr ling on the poo; rescued by a la boat. Struck Cruiser Another submarir cruiser of the Ancow marine dived, mano position and fired, t the cruiser forward cruiser was apparent trol. It swung arow circle, then stoppe from the decks. T stroyer attacked th the latter evaded, a time. The entire ship w amoke, probably due in the fore magazin« later the British sut the surface, and the gone, Hoer destructi taneous. It was the Albert Beveral Brilliant « Carried Out in U Of Enemy Wa Lifting the veil « of the British subr Baltic Sea, the A some stirring doeds . marines were cont and destroying enen BRITISH ADMIRA oF sBEC Bubmarine Commi espied an enemy wa culating that there 1 behind, skilfully n eventually came u battleship escorted Half an hour later, 1 flash and explosion the water line, and 1 eussion ensued. The New Wire exandrovi with fourt P}