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In the hill region additional ground has been recaptured from the invaders, while along the Piave River, where Intensive fighting is in progress, at some points with fluctuating results, the balance toward ultimate viectory seems to sway in favor of the Italian arms. South and east of Asiago the French and Italians, in brilliant counterâ€"ofâ€" fensives, have retaken Pennar, Bertigo and Costalungs, past which the Ausâ€" trians had hoped to push their front and gain the Astico River Valley, which leads to Vicenza on the plains below. A despatch from Paris says: The transport Santa _ Anna, proceeding from Bizeria for Malta, was torpedoed and sunk, according to the Havas Agency. There were on board 2,150 soldiers and native workmen, of whom 1,512 were saved. A despatch from London says:â€"To all outward appearances the Austrian offensive in the Italian theatre thus far has met with failure all along the front from the Venetian Alps to the Adriatic Sea. many Aus eumber the "The army cannot last more than a couple of months at the best. There are no good officers left. We have plenty of ammunition, but no one to use it properly." The Italian losses were comparaâ€" tively smaill, while to the known Ausâ€" trian losses will have to be added the many Austrian dead which still enâ€" "I have been fighting for forty months," said the prisoner. "First, on the Russian front, where I had an easy time, and now here, where the Italians are making things too hot for us. _ There is no food for the people of Austria, and next to none for the army. 1 had but a‘few pieces of bread and potatoes before the fight and since the fight began I have had none. ITALIAN TRANSPORT TORâ€" PEDOEDâ€" 640 PERISHED AUSTRIAN LINE DRIVEN NN During a tour of the battlefront the correspondent talked with an Austrian prisoner, a member of a manufacturâ€" Ing firm with offices in all the great world centres. A despatch from Italian Army Headquarters, says:â€"At the beginâ€" ning of the offensive the Austrians In the front line each received three rations of meat, one for each day. of the attack until they reached the Italian stores. _ They were so hungry, however, that they ate all of them the however first day A despatch from Paris says: The fire on the enemy‘s lines and comâ€" heavy defeat of the Germans in the munications, thereby greatly impeding Rheims salient again shows that every the advance of his shock reserve time the French have had in front of troops. them more or less equal forces and Germ&ny‘s impressions of the suâ€" have not been overpowered by numâ€" perior quality of French resistance bers the Germans have been made to are revealed by letters found on feel the superior fighting quality of prisoners made in the recent attack. the poilus. Never, in the opinion of One of these is typical of the morale French military authorities, will the of the German soldier. This letter Germans break through these lines. | says: Enthusiasm and ardor have At Rheims, as at Noyon, the enemy | disappeared. The German army now fell short of his elemental surprise. begins to realize that the time of Everything had been carefully preparâ€"| easy victories has passed, and that ed. French batteries of field and it will again see its soldiers piled up heavy guns, which had been placed in into walls of corpses. The memory position, quickly answered the Gerâ€" ‘ of Verdun is being refreshed. man bombardment. French air pl-’ French military circles regard the lots, who had previously reconnoitred | German attack at Rheims as a local the country, picked out the German action. They believe their main efâ€" reserves and bombed them, had sigâ€" ’ fort will still be either northward toâ€" nalled their presence to the French| ward the channel ports or southward guns, which poured forth a murdering | toward Paris. AUSTRIAN ARMY SHORT OF FOOD Prisoners Ate on First Day All Rations Intended to Last Unâ€" til They Reached Italian Stores. Further Gains on Piave River and Towns Recaptured by Alliesâ€" Enemy is Now Twenty Miles From Venice, TEUTON FORCES NO LONGER OUTNUMBER THE FRENCH TROOPS Rheims is Regarded as a Local Offensive and the CGerman Objecâ€" tive as Still Paris and the Channel Ports. »sses were comparaâ€" le to the known Ausâ€" have to be added the dead which still enâ€" led mountain sides. BEFORE ITALIAN ONSLAUGHT : It is not outside the range of posâ€" |sibility that a large number of the | Austrians are in a fair way to be takâ€" : en prisoner by the Italians, for a large |\ number of the pontoon bridges which | they threw across the Piave River 'over the 14%â€"mile front between the Conegiano Railway bridge and the | Zenson loop have been carried away on the bosom of the swollen stream. At | any rate the loss of these bridges will necessarily seriously impede the reinâ€" \forcement of the Austrians on the west bank of the stream and the reâ€" | plenishment of their supplies. A despatch from Rome says: Italâ€" ian military officials learned before the Austrian offensive began that the Austrians had dressed Italianâ€"speakâ€" ing soldiers in Italian uniforms in orâ€" der to throw them at a suitabke moâ€" ment into the Entente allied lines so as to provoke panic and disorder. Capâ€" tured Austrians so garbed were exeâ€" cuted after a drumhead courtâ€"marâ€" tial, in accordance with the laws of war. Still farther south, between Fosâ€" salta and San Dona di Piave, the Italians have farther pushed back the invaders, and unofficial reports assert that they have recaptured the village of Capo Sile, lying on the edge of the marsh region, some twenty miles east of historic Venice. Teutons Garbed as Italians Put to Death When Captured OF THE SEA.| A despatch from Paris says: The since the war are estimated at 4,â€" â€" â€"â€"â€" # | Germans have attempted 14 air raids | 790,000. A despatch from Ottawa says: The upon Paris since Jan. 31, but only] ifeermeneeni on i mre mss total value in first hands of sea fish twentyâ€"two of the more than three| s 3 y landed in Canada during the month of | hundred machines which took part| Keep adding little to little, and soon May was $2,238,626, as compared with | have succeeded in flying over the| there will be quite a heap.â€"Virgil. $2,161,571 for the same month last city, according to a record of the enâ€"| The sun‘s light in the Tropics is year, according to the monthly stateâ€"| emy efforts. Nine of the twenty-twol equal to 5,568 wax candles at a foot ment issued from the Department of | machines were brought down. | from the eye. the Naval Service. The statement| ~â€"~ e o _ encz under favorable conditions this year, | =~.;n.;<-‘».;»,::,;;»‘;;;,;.:...:::5555.::;;.:.;;.,-..,«;;-,:;;.;.‘;:v.;;‘; >v’v”” but in the mordé easterly parts of Nova | ww s 2 aa ce A«’*Q %;%,@* Scotia ice, which was slow in leaving | t P , o ,,%gm‘”,q TA o _,‘, ’&ff the coast, interfered with operations. | . 88 . fi’: P y 4: -’. ;A\fl'v. "The total number of men obtainâ€" ed by the machinery of the Military Service Act up to June 19 was 57,295, to which may be added for the purâ€" pose of determining the number of men available, 16,807 who have reâ€" ported voluntarily." ANOTHER BIG HARYVEST "In connection with the recent pubâ€" lished returns, covering (the operaâ€" tions of the Military Service Act, it is evident from some of the comment in the press that the form in which the statement was made out has led to misunderstanding as to the total number of men obtained in relation to the 100,000 reinforcements authorizâ€" ed by the statute. A despatch from Ottawa says: The following statement was issued on Thursday by the Department of Milâ€" itia and Defence: MILITARY SERVICE ACT HAS SUPPLIED 74,102. French military circles regard the German attack at Rheims as a local action. They believe their main efâ€" fort will still be either northward toâ€" ward the channel ports or southward toward Paris. fire on the enemy‘s lines and comâ€" munications, thereby greatly impeding the advance of his shock reserve troops. The Doings of the Duffs3. A New Use For the Gas Mask. * An American soldier in camp "somewhere" who does not intend to weep while he‘s peeling onions. The debt due Great Britain from her allies is £1,870,000,000, Mr. Bonar Law said, while the dominions owe £206,000,000. PARIS AIR DEFENCE Mr. Bonar Law said that the preâ€" sent vote, which would bring the toâ€" tal war credits to £7,342,000,000, would cover expenditures until the end of August. A despatch from London says: Great Britain‘s daily average expendiâ€" ture during the current financial quarâ€" ter was £6,848,000 (34,400,000), said Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in introducing a vote of credit for £500,000,000 ($2,500,000,â€" 000) in the House of Commons. BRITAIN SPENDS Hon. C.°R. Mitchell, Provincial Treasurer of Alberta, is more than aâ€"politician; he is also somewhat a cattleâ€" man. Here he is seen aiding in affixing a brand to a calf at Medicine Hat,. He is the central figure bending down. The others are from left to right: James Fleming, President of the Medicine Hat Agricultural Bociety; Mr. Conrad, manager of the Assiniboine Hotel (bending over); Walter G. Lynch, manager of the Medicine Hat branch of the Bank of Commerce; Lorne M. Laidlow (holding the Rocking Chair brand); Walter Huckvalle, Preâ€" sident of the Western Canada Stock Dealers; J. L. Pearce, owner of the 600 calves branded. VASTLY IMPROVED. $34,400,000 DAILY. The population of France, our ally in this war, was about 39,000,000 when the war broke out. About 7,â€" 000,000 ableâ€"bodied men were conâ€" scripted, 1,000,000 have since been killed, and over 1,000,000 more were put out of action. Agricultural proâ€" duction has dropped to nearly oneâ€" third. Women, children, old men and crippled soldiers are struggling to till the fields of France. Horses were also conscripted for military service, and French women hitched themselves to the plows and harrows in place of draft animals. Frenchmen are fightâ€" ing Germans, French women are fighting starvation. â€" Deaths from starvation among the allies in Europe since the war are estimated at 4,â€" 790,000. A despatch from Ottawa says: A bulletin issued by the Canada Food Board reads as follows: FOOD BOARD‘S REMINDER OF _ , BRITISH DAILY DEMOLISH STARVYATION IN FRANCE| ZEEBRUGGE REPAIRS. Western Statesman Brands Cattle. TORONTO Thereupon the Whole Party j Went Over to the Italian Lines The cherry branches touch the ground, The robins come so near Almost their little feet I hear. The world is round. And sixteen ounces make a pound. Drowsed poppies wish that day were done. The great bees curve and pull The clovers down. How beautiful The changing sun! And nine times nine is eightyâ€"one. The pheasants rise from out the tanâ€" ned Tall grass. A bird song beats. Winds bring their spoils, the garâ€" den sweets. Ten sixtyâ€"six was Hastings, and The Normans conquered Engleâ€"land. Beneath the sundial to the‘right, I hear, beside the row Of rose trees, where gay branches throw Down red and white, My daughter‘s lessons every night. A despatch from London says Twentyâ€"one German destroyers, a large number of submarines and nuâ€" merous auxiliary craft are penned up in the Bruges Canal docks as the reâ€" sult of the recent British naval operâ€" ations at Zeebrugge, the German subâ€" marine base on the Belgian coast. Thomas J. Macnamara, Financial Secâ€" retary of the Admiralty, made this announcement in the House of Comâ€" mons, and said that the operations were more successful than at first had been supposed. He added that the German craft were now the subâ€" ject of constant bombing. A despatch with the Italian Armies, says:â€"The Italian soldiers tell humâ€" orous stories of captures effected by persuading the Austrians that they will be well fed. _ One Italian officer who had been wounded and picked up by a group of Austrians who intended to make him prisoner explained how foolish they were. He said: "Come with me, and you will get meat, wine and real bread." Thereupon the whole party went over to the Italian lines. 21 Destroyers, Many Uâ€"Boats Penned Up In Bruges Canal. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The entrance to the harbor at Zeeâ€" brugge is blocked, according _ to Lieuts. George Coward and John Read, of the British Royal Air Force, who landed in the Province of Zeeland, Monday, and are to be interned â€" at The Hague. In an interview publishâ€" ed in the Telegraaf, they say the Gerâ€" mans are working day and night to clear the passage, but each ° night British aviators demolish®" the Gerâ€" man‘s progress. The cement ships sunk in the harbor are still there, and the Germans are afraid to blow them up for fear they will also destroy the sluices. The lieutenants assert that no submarines can enter or leave Zeeâ€" brugge. The blockade of Ostend is not so complete, but the Germans are having great trouble there. Garden Dusk. UV ©L0.UT, CIUICC DUVCNELS COWS dIU,.00 to $12.50; poorer qunlit&; $7,.00 to $9.50; butchers‘*bulls, $8.00 to $12.00; milkâ€"fed calves, $9.50 to"$15.00; select hogs $19.00 to $19.50. Sow beans, peas, lettuce, radishes and carrots for succession. Live Stock Markets Toronto, June 25â€"Extra choice heavy steers, $15.50 to $16.00; choice heavy steers, $14.50 to $14.75; butâ€" chers‘ cattle, choice, $14.50 to $15.00; do., good, $18.75 to $14.00; do, med: ium, $12.00 to $12.50; do, common, $11.00 to $11.25; butchers‘ bulls, choice, $12.00 to $12.50; do., good bulls, $11.00 to $11.50; do., rough bulls, $7.50 to $8.50; butchers‘ cows, choice, $12.00 to $12.50; do. good, $11.50 to $11.75; do., medium, $10.00 to $10.50; stockers, $9.25 to $11.00; feeders, $10.00 to $11.50; canners and cutters, $5.50 to $7.50; milkers, good to choice, $90.00 to $140.00; do., com. and med. $85.00 to $80.00; springers, $90.00 to $140.00; light ewes, $16.25 to $17.00; yearlings, $18.50 to $20.00; spring lambs, 23 to 25¢; calves, $10.00 to $17.25; hogs fed and watered, $18.00; do., wei¢hed off cars, $18.25; do., f.0.b., $17.00. Montreal, June 25â€"Choice steers, $18.50 to $15.50; good steers, $11.00 to $13.00; choice ‘)utchegs' cows $10.00 Montreal Markets _ Montreal, June 25.â€"Oatsâ€"Canaâ€" dian Wester1i, No.2, 97%¢; extra No. 1 feed, 94%c¢. Flourâ€"New andard grade $10.95 to $11.05. _ Rolled oats â€"Bags, 90 lbs, $5.10 to $5.15. Bran, $35.00. Shorts, $40.00. Mouillie, $70.00. _ Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15.50, Lardâ€"Pure, tierces, 30% to 81%¢; tubs, 81 to 31%¢; pails, 81% to 81%e; prints, 82%e¢; to 83%c. _ Com ounti tierces, 26 to 26%c; tubs, 26g4_ to 26%¢; pails, 26% to 27¢; prints, 28 to 284c. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, medium, 36 to 38¢; do., heavy, 80 to 82¢; cooked, 50 to b1c; rolls, 82 to 33¢; breakfast bacon, 41 to 44¢c; backs, plain 44 to 45¢; boneless 48 to 49c. _ _ * Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 30 to 81¢; clear bellies, 29 to 30c. _ _ Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 65¢c; roosters, 28¢; fowl, 88 to 40¢; turkeys, 40 to 45c. . i# 4 § Live poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 55¢; ;czosters, 26¢; turkeys, 30¢c; hens, 83 to c. Beans â€" Canadian, handâ€"picked, bushel, $8.75; imp.. handâ€"picked, Burma or Indian, $6.75; Japan, $8.50 to $8.75; Limas, 18 to 20c. it Maple syrupâ€"8%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 25¢. Butterâ€"Creamery, solids, per lb., 42% to 43¢; prints, per lb., 43 to 43%¢; dair?, per 1b., 35 to 36c. Eggsâ€"New laid, 36 to 37c. Poultryâ€"Roosters, 23 to 25¢; fowl, 28 to 30c; ducks, 25 to 30¢c; turkeys, 27 to 30c. f Cheeseâ€"New, large, 238% to 24¢; twins, 23% to 24%4¢; old, large, 25% to 26¢; twin 26 to 26Â¥%e. _ _ . _ _ Butterâ€"Fresh, dairy, choice, 40 to 42¢; creamery prints, fresh made, 45 to 47¢; solids, 44 to 45c. Margarineâ€"28 to 38¢ lb. Eggsâ€"New laid, 40 to 41¢c; new laid, in cartons, 44 to 45¢c. _ t n Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices:â€" _ _ Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $8.00 to $8.50, track Toronto. Millfeedâ€"Car lotsâ€"Delivered Montâ€" real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $35.00; shorts, per ton, $40.00. fllyâ€"No. 1, per ton, $13.50 to $14.50; mixed, $12.00 to $13.00. track Toronto. Ryeâ€"No. 22, $1.90, according to freights outside. Manitoba â€" flourâ€"War _ quality, $10.95; new bags, Toronto and Montâ€" real freights, prown shipment. Ontario flourâ€"War quality, $10.65, in bags, Toronto and Montreal; prompt shipment. _ __ _ €4 _ American cornâ€"No. 8 yellow, kiln dried nominal; No. 4 yellow, kiln rred, momingL * â€"â€":>"NCesole td Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal. Peasâ€"Nominal. Barleyâ€"Malting, $1.18 to $1.20, acâ€" cording to freights outside. _ _ _ Buckwheatâ€"$1.80, â€" according _ to freights outside. _ __ seit® Markets of the World _ Ontario oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 79 to 80c; No. 3 white, 78 to 79c¢, according to freights outside. _ _ __ _ *# Toronto, June 25â€"â€"Manitoba wheat â€"No. 1 Northern, $2.238%; No. 2 do., $2.20%; No. 3 do., $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.10%; in store Fort William, inclyding 2%¢ tax, : â€" _ _._} _‘ Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 86%¢; No. 3 C.W., 88%c¢; extra No. 1 Fed, 83%¢; No. 1 feed, 80 %¢, in store Fort William. s s o Country Produceâ€"Wholesale Provisionsâ€"Wholesale Breadstuffs \Who bares her breast to naked steel \To free her children from the heel |Of tyrants who would pierce her heart |And break and rend her, part by l part? Who holds the way for greater truth, Perceives therein immortal youth? Who bleeds and in her mourning sore Has strength to fend the broken door? Who with her wounds, her blood and Has strength of soul to conquer ‘ fears? Still valor shines within her eyes And sacred gleam and scorn of lies! A bugle blows at gates of" dawnâ€" Who fiings a challenge loud and strong ? 3 "Awake! Awake!®~O faithless earth, My pains are but the pangs of birth!" France! ""Tis too short entirely. Pull it up and throw me down the other end." Who, valiant, stood at bloodâ€"red dawn Surveyed the fields o‘cr which the wrong Of centuries had ebbed and fowed Until her soul, indignant, glowed ? France! it?" Military Crosses have been awarded to Rev. William Carroll, temporary chaplain to the forces, and Rev. E. F. Paget, chaplain to the South African Forces. Sir F. E. Smith, the Attorneyâ€"Genâ€" eral for England, has placed his house in Grosvenor Gardens at the disposal of the American Red Cross. A Lewis soldier, writing from a Gerâ€" man prison camp, says: "As I can 40 nothing for my country now, please put my savings in the War Loan." The street lamps will not be lightâ€" ed during the summer at Ealing and Hanwell except in main roads and a few other places. Fifty thousand young eels have been purchased by the Thames Angling Preservation Society, for the waters under their control. The Strood Council, Kent, employs two women roadâ€"sweepers in the vilâ€" lage of Luddesdown. The timber on six acres of land atâ€" tached to the Cape Hill Lunatic Asylum has been sold so that the land may be cultivated. Rowland Brierly, a farmer of Oadâ€" by, Leicestershire, was fined £10 for failing to plough up nine acres of land as requested. In Green Park, Lord Crewe presentâ€" ed medals of the Order of the British Empire, to 54 workers, men and woâ€" men. Two escaped German _ prisoners were arrested in a Portsmouth suburb while trying to make their escape in a ship bound for a neutral port. The Shoreditch tribunal has a scheme to run oneman businesses by a committee, and so release more young men. Asher Harris, an Abertillery tradesâ€" man, was fined £10 for being in posâ€" session of twentyâ€"seven pounds of sugar. The Port of London authority has granted the use of the steamer His Majesty to give river trips to woundâ€" ed and convalescent men. Colonel Charles Pinkham has been elected for the fifth time chairman of Willesden District Council. Exemption from school has been granted to five hundred boys, to assist to weed the Government flax crops. No white gloves could be given the magistrate at Birkenhead Police Court when there were no cases for trial, as no white gloves were obtainable. Henry Partridge, a J.P., of Pontyâ€" seal, was fined £40 for not putting unâ€" der cultivation twenty acres of his land. Lieut. Exley and Sergt. Beadle, Royal Air Service, were drowned when their machine fell into the sea off the southwest coast. The death in action is reported of Major Malcolm Wingate, D.S.0., M.C., missioner for Egypt. A Southend woman was fined £1 for continuing to use her dead lodger‘s sugar card. Fiftyâ€"five thousand Belgians have found employment through the labor exchanges since January, 1915. Six German prisoners who escaped from Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, have been recaptured, nearly dead from hunger. Miss Emma Liverton has been apâ€" pointed collector of rates at Cadeleigh, Devon. The London Times Red Cross Fund now amounts to £9,876,871. Two Jewish bakers were fined £50 each at Plymouth, for making white NEWS FROM ENGLAND Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Commerâ€" Solving the Dificulty. "Throw me down a rope, Pat." In one month, the British Saloniki rce subscribed £191,478 in War 8 BY MAIL ABOUT Jjoun BULL AND HIS PEOPLE For France. France! France! France! The pillag has resulted ber being s returned lat western fro 400,000 tons shipment f0o in Germany "All of t 7e Belgiar ge fr oFFICIAL STATI ACTION OF 1} wA y discus Poull« Th #A V ing to A stage of ous impt dut y gent Ministry of m gaum uj the eco1 wrought describe en out the con: and offic gian Go prepare by M. F o‘ the «pondi me studie the v« prope th m S 14 t The Be n | de ANA wh ral damage fomed: circwiars aro disposal of all the d not subject to Germa enable them to n‘kefl as to the extent of : #nayv have suffered i with all the advan vpervishon. ‘“1 Al W ay mplis alling n logs m t Ther to Coâ€"Ordinat« ses ma ing I t 1€ 1 pM OF B t A ff r & n vm|} Pillage of Fo M« Most Pressin W PJ H ti0n& ancial Re Restor pl m B Th A ff n conom og It th pe Â¥rik CV 1