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T:*t*â€" "'-V'*"' TREBiZOND GARRISON ABANDONED GUNS AND OTHER BOOTY Troops From Warships Were Landed West of the City. Ottoman Shore Batteries Destroyed. THE WEEK'S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WAH A despatch from Petrojfrad says: panied by a steady bombardment from â€" Details of the surprisinglv swift the sea. Ruesian descent upon Trebizond and'„ ^l^""" »« ^^e Turks witnessed the - .^ . ^ ,. , J , „, , 1 Russians preparations to land beyond of the strategy that forced the Turk- Xrebizond they gave up all resistance ish defenders precipitately to abon- j and scattered pell mell in the two di- don the city, which, wi»h German â-  rections open to themâ€" one, the assistance, they had made every effort ^°^*-'^ "'°"B the coast, and the other, ♦n /.»».,<>,.» :„*- » u 1 1 •_ the road south-west toward Erzingan. to convert into a stronghold impregn- n, i â-  j ; • j â-  e . "^ ' "^ Trebizond contained a garrison of able agajnst Russian attack from the between 50,000 and 60,000. A consid- rea or land, are coming in from dif- erable amoun,t of war booty, including ferent sources. According to the a largo number of the latest type Ger- latest despatches, a decisive part in man heavy guns, was left behind, for the Russian operations was played since the fall of Erzerum, Trebizond the B lafl< Sea fleet, which, after a has been the chief base and provision- lardment of the city and ing centre for the Turks operating ' in of the great Turkish in this theatre. I es, landed a considerable . With the fall of Trebizond the| Poops and further threat- Turks lost) the second of their two prounded city. principal fortified points in .\sia I the same tactics as they Minor, and will in the future have to ''dly used with success in ilepend solely upon improvised de- ess along the littoral, the fences and the natural difficulties of | rsliips moved forward for the coun':ry to prevent the westward fanoe beyond their objective sweep of the Russian Caucasian 1 troops ashore conpidernbly armies. I festwnrd of Trebizond, threat- Trebizond never before surrendered ' entrap the Turkish garii.-^oii. to Russians arms, although it was^ [ove was carried out in con- threatened from Baiburt in 1829, and the advance of the Russian the moral effect of the victory, it is ' 's, which, since the capture considered here, will be enormous.' Ii.iki h positions a» Knra Dere, For centuries Trebizond has been the ' '' penetr.nt d to within striking dis- chief trading centre for Asia Minor! t;ii;<o (if Trebizond withnut meeting with the important caravan routes serious rcsi.'Jtnnce, ami was accom- into the interior of Turkey and Persia. The protect- o'clock. Ambassador (Jerard then a number t)f rolled the document in a magazine' i to protect it from a light rain which to was falling, and walked across the /(luare to the Foreign Office. The Ambassadoi- was received immedi- ately. The Foreign Minister read the iioie, and a short, general conver- ."ation followed. MORE RUSSIANS WILSON'S NOTE TO A!D JOFFRE NOW DELIVERED »!i;;r(,.r of a Million to be Rushed to Ambassador Gerard Hands Message (he Western Theaire of oil .Submarine Issue to Ber- War. I lin Minister. . ji 'ivi'Ji.cii from Paris ays :â€" The! A despatch from Berlin says: â€" , ai! .a!' of the tran.spoits which The American note in regard to sub- j bit ,'ht the Ru.'^sian troops sent to join marine warfare is now in the hands th iCMtEnte forces on the western of the (lerman Government. It was , fr.,',! h:»vc been expected since Tues- delivered on Thursday evening to' dsy. Lu' a heavy storm in the Medi- Foreign Minister von Jagow in the' tcii.n.an delayed their reaching Mar- u ual manner, with no attendant cir-j seille.-i until Thursday. Every pre- cumstances to mark the unusual im- ' caution f„r their protection had been portance of the occasion. Owing to' tak< n owing to report? that hostile the length of the note and the ap- BulmHrine.« were operating in the pendix and to the delayed arrival of Med_jterrancan, but the voyage was one section of the note, il was not , i^fici'VJcd vtiliumt '.he devL-iopment of ready for presentation until 7.30 ' u.iy untowed incident ing flotilla included Japanese v/arships. The coming of Russian troops the western front has l)een talked of tjy military people for two or three â- months. The reason, as now ex- - plained, is that it is ea iei- for Russia :o aim and supply lighting nut'erial to Ftussian troops on the western front than on the eastern. Russia s'ill has many hundred thousand more men under training than she can use on her fighting lines becau:c the Rus- 1 A despatch from Ottawa says: A >ian problem continues to be not how statement of Canadian trade, prepar- to get mm, but munitions. The al- ed by the Department of Customs, lies can obviously provide complete shows a total of 1882,872,502 in ex- equipment for Russians more easily ports for the liseal year just closed, - In France than by shipping to Russia, and $5til,.18(),998 in imiiorts. The re- Possilily a (|uarter of a million men turns by countries have not yet been will be sent into France tlii -. Spring, j eompiled. The statement' follows: . . ,, j Imports into Canada during the I fiscal year ended .'list March, litltl: Dutiable $310,l(!8,2ir. Free 254,312,782 The most Important piece of news durliiB the week was the announee- fiient on ThurBday ot the arrival at Marseilles ot a stroiiB force of Itus- Pliin toldlers. The news cnine as Trebizond Is 185 miles from Erzer- , more men are belns massed on Sudaj um. and the illfflrultlea to be sur- Bay. and last Tuesday a force ot mounted were Kreat, but the Grand ; Serbians joined tho other Allies Duke pressed on and with the help : there. of the nusslaii Black Sea (leot cap- i Tho ftphtlng around Verdun has a I tured the town in the early part of ' lost all appearance of a general as- draniutlc surprise, and the first In- Hits week. j sault on the defences of the town tlnintii)n that there had been such a i The Iniporlnnce of this capture by Scattered attaek.s here and there by nioveiiient c.ime in the orders of ; the Uusaiiins cannot be ovorcBtlnial- j the Germans show that the warfare General .loft're to tho French troops jed. It practically means tho loss of | there has now partaken ot the na- whereln lie expressed hla apprecla- Mesopotamia to tho Turks, but the , tore of trench warfare. Both to the tloii ot ItusslH'3 iK'tlon In thu.s show- imniedlate result will prob.ibly be cast and the west of the Meuse there lOK her dolernilinitlon to keep up the | that the pressure on General Town- has been a series of artillery duels ti(!lil along with tho Allies for the'shend's force, shut In In Ktit-el-.Xni- with but few Infantry attack.'). Thef common cause. There wim no aii-jara, will bo lessened. Sir Ter^'y British forces In the nelphbcirhood nouncement a.^ to what the strength i IaiKc's relieving force is having a ' ot St. Elol were attacked at the end of the Russian turco was. I hard time In Us advance along the I of last week by the Germans, but Tlie liiis.slan cnptMre of the Turk- Tigris, not only on account of. the (they regained what little they lost, Uh seaport of Trebizond on the ! 'ipposUion of the Turka, but because i and in addition went some distance Hlaek Sea was iinother piece of news i "t tho flooded state of the river. The j thruuijh the German lines, wlileh came quite unexpectedly, ' Turks are putting up a strong fight The Italians have begun a now .Since the capture of Erzerum on [ and in an attBck on April 17-18 | offensive aglnst the Austrlans. and February IB by the armies of the , they forced the retirement of tho | have been suecnssfu! In capturing Grand Puke Nloholna but llttlo hid ^ British division on the south bank ] Monte Fume Pass and Moiiie An- been heaid of any further move- to a distance of 600-SOO yurde. j Cora, a commanding height on tho inent of thia force. It was known | A new offensive bv tho Allies In front. Several other positions have that the Granit Duke wu.-< giving the , the Balkans Is looked for as soon as i been taken, the Italian artillery Turks little time to recover from j the armies there are got properly j lending great assistance In breakinj tlioJi'Ss uf their Caucasian tiiwn. I together. l)e«plte tlreece's protest. I down the Austrian defences. 600,000 GERMANS ON VERDUN FRONT Enemy Has Thus Far Made Use ot Thirty Divisions of Troops. A despatch from Paris says: In t>heir attempts to take Verdun the Germans up to Saturday had made use of 30 divisions of troops, amount- ing roughly to r)00,000 men. accord- ing to an official statement issued by the French War Office on Sunday. The statement indicates thab more than this total have been used, since some of the divisions have been re- organized, their depleted ranks filled out, and they have returned bo the front several times. "It is worthy of note," the official statement says, "that the German command seeks bo conduct the opera- tions with the smallest number of troops possible, but to maintain them and keep them on this front, until they are completely used up. As losses are suffered, ib re-forms the units with reinforcements and sends them back to the attack barely reconstitut- ed. It is thus that certain divisions have reappeared on the front as many as three and even four times." French surprise attacks were car- ried out successfully on Saturday night against German listening posti in the Bois d'Avocourt wesb of th« Meuse. This is the only infantry act- ' ivity reported in the Verdun region on Sunday. The Germans have not re- newed their attiacks on the Bethin- ; court brook, Le Mort Homme front, ] where they were twice repulsed with considerable losses on Saturday. The German artillery was active on Sun- : day against Hill 304, the important position on the west bank of the ; Bethincourt brook, and there also was fitful bombardment of the French positions on the east bank of bha Meuse and in the Woevre. An attempt by the Germans on Sat- i urday night to capture a mitrailleuse I which was causii.g them brouble west of Vauquois, in the Argonne, failed. Markets of the World $20. Middlings, $^8 to $30. Mouillie, $30. to $35. Hsy â€" No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20.50 to $21. Cheeseâ€" Finest westerns, 18'i to 18'/sc; finest east- erns, 17% to 18c. Butter â€" Choicest Toronto, April 25.â€" Manitoba wheat creamery, 33 to 33f.ic; seconds, 30 to Breadsluffs. BRITISH SUCCESS IN NORTHERN FRANCE TRADK OF ( ANADA FOR FISCAL YKAIl. LAIKJE WAR ORDKRS COM i: TO CANADA. C'ontrac(H for Munilinns and .Supplies Reach $80,000,000. A despatch from ()tt;iwa lays: Tlie announcement whs made on Wednes- <la:' that since bhe establishtnent of the CTtdit of $7.^>,0()0,(M)0 for the Brit- ish (ioveiiiment in Canada by the chnvdTed banks, jil the instance of the Government, $80,000,0(10 worth of ordeps for muiiit'ions and supplies have been placed in the Dominion by the Imperial authorities. .Sir Thomas Wh.te announied on March I."i last that the credit for the Britiyh Gov- ernment had been provided as a re- sult of an offer made liy the Canadian Bankers' .issoeiation, on belialf of the i banks, af.ei conferences between him- self and that body which had extnid- : ed over several weeks. â€"No. 1 Northern, $!.13T>,; No. 2 Northern, $1.12%; No. 3 Northern, $1.08%, in store Fort William. Manitoba oats.-^-No. 2 C.W., 'ItiMsc; No. ;i C.W., 44 Vic; extra No. 1 feed 44«,&c; No. 1 feed, 43V4c. in store Fort William. ! American corn -No. 3 yellow, 85c. track Toronto. Ontario oats No. 3 white, 44 to 4.')c; commercial, -13 to 44c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat No. 1 commercial, $1.00 to $1.02; .No. 2 commercial, 98c. to $1.(10; .\<). 3 commercial, 9.') to 97c; feed wheat, 8(i to 88c, according to, freights outside. | Peas -No. 2, $1.00; pea-, accord-' ing to sample, $l.'20 to $1.50, accord- ing to freights outside. I Barleyâ€" Malting, (!2 to f.3c; feed, 59 31 '2C. tatoes- $1.80 . Eggs â€" Fresh, 25 to 2()C -Per bag Po- car lots, $.\.75 to ' Considerable Losses Are inflicted on Enemy. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, April 25. â€" Cash prices â€" Wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern. $1.16^; No. 2, do., $1.1P4; No. 3, do., $1.07Tii; No. 4. $1.05%; No. 5, 9«%c; No. 6, 88%c; feed, 83*ic. Oatsâ€" No. 2 C. W., 4t)>.i; No. .3, do., 44>4c; extra No. 1 feed, 44 Uc; No. 1 feed, 42%c; No. 2, do., 42c. Barleyâ€" No. 3, G3c; No. 4. 58e; rejected, Ooc; feed, 55c. Flax â€" No. 1 N.-W.C, $1.87%; No. 2, C.W., $184</i. United States Markets. Minneapolis, April 25. â€" Wheat â€" , ,.., ,. . , . . . ... May. $11TV4; July, $1.17^; No. 1 to <.2c according to freights outside, ^urd, $1.'22%; No. 1 northern, $1.16'^ Buckwheat- (.9 to .Oc. according to t„ n.jy^. Corn-No freights outside. Ryeâ€" No. 1 commercial, 90 to 91c; i rejected, according to sample, 80 to ' 88c, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour â€" First patents, in 'Jute bagi, $0.50; second patents, in ToUil $.542,043,503 ' J"^^' ''"tf"- $''-00; strong bakers', in Exports' i J"^'' ''"K"' $5.80, Toronto. 3 yellow, 77 Total $504,480,998 Kntered for consumption: butiable $289,332,729 Free 252,710,834 to 78c. Oats- 43V«c. Flour $18.75 to $19. Duluth, April 25.â€" Wheatâ€" No, northern, $1.16% to $1.17%; No northern, $1.12% to $1.14%. No. 3 white, 43c. to -Unchanged. Bran â€" Domestic $741,610,953 Foreign 141,201,549 Ontario flour â€" Winter, according to sample, $4.15 to $4.25, track Toronto;' Live Stock Markets. Toronto, April 25. â€" Choice heavy A despatch from London says: 'the following official communication was issued on Sunday nighb: "Last night we made a successful raid against the enemy's trenches southwest of Thiepval. Thirteen pris- oners were captured and a number of casualties were inflicted on the enemy by our men bombing their dugoubs. Our casualties were very slight. VMining activity continues in the Hohenzollern sector. To-day there were artillery actions about Hebu- terne, Neuville-St. Vast, Souchez and Carency and aboub the Ypres-Comines Canal. "Our artillery dispersed an enemy working party in front of St Eoi this afternoon. "Friday night the King's Shropshire Light Infantry recaptured a trench on the Ypres-Langemarck road which was lost the nighb of April 19. Ouv line there ed." BRITISH TAKE AFRICAN TOWNS General Smuts .Vdvanres Into the 1 Interior. .\ despatch from London says: Amazing progress has been made by General Smuts in his campaign in [ German Easb Africa, and a great bat- tle is now in progress at Kondoa Irangi, over 150 miles across the frontier from British East Africa. In- stead of striking along the Tanga railway General Smuts has pushed in- land at a tremendous rate, penetrat- ing bhe Umbugwe and Kondoa Irangi districts. Umbugwe and Salanga are in British hands. It is not generally known that a considerable force of Abyssinian troops are attached to Gen. Smuts' forces. GREEKS MASSACRED IN BIG TURK CrriES Hundreds Slain in .Vdrianople, Con- stantinople and Smyrna. Tofal $882,872,502 SEEDING IN ALBERTA. Faster Spring Operations Never the Province. in GKiniANY IS ENROLLING BOYS OF SEVENTEEN YEARS A despatch from Calgary stiya; "Seeding is 20 per cent, done in South- ern Allierta, more than 10 per eenb. complete ill Northern Alberta, and go- ing aheail over all the Province with breakneck speed," was the statement I made Wednesilay morning by a high A (iL.'-patcb from Paris says : Ger-| official of the Alberta Farmers' Co-op- many has be;<un the enrollment of her i >'>">t>ve Flevator Company, who has 1919 da sâ€" boys of .seventeen. Notices' in»t' returned to Calgary from a trip ordering them to inscribe their names| through many parts of the Province, on h" Landslurm register have been 'Never did spring operations go fast- post"il »t Alx le-Chapelle. I "•." he luhled. ARMENIAN CMIN OF HILLS CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS $4.30 to $4.l0, bulk seaboard, prompt steer:\ $8.50 to $8.75; butcher steers, shipment. ; choice, $8.00 to $8.25; do., good, $7.90 Millfecd- Cur lots, delivered Mon;:- to $8.15; do., medium, $7.35 to $7.50; real freights â€" Bran, per ton, $24; do., common, $().50 to $7.00; heifers, I shorts, per ton, $2.'); middlings, per good to choice, $7.T."> to $8.25; do.,! ton, $20; good feed flour, per bag, medium, $7.25 to $7.:0; butcher cows, I $1.00 to $1.70. .choice, $0.50 to $7.25; do., good, $5,751 to $6.50; butcher bulla, choice, $0.50 Country Protluce. I to $7.25; do., good. $5.50 to $0.00; do.,' medium, $5.00 to $5.50; do., rough A despatch from London says: Wholesale massacres of Greeks at .A.drittnople, Constantinople and Smyr- is completely re-establish- „a j,re reporbed in a Salonikl despatch to the Morning Post. "In Adrianople and Demotica, Turks and Bulgarians acting together," says the despatch, "killed 400 and wounded 300 Greeks after pillaging their houses. In the Smyrna district several Greek vil- lages were raided, 200 persons being killed and many wounded. Constan- tinople was likewise the scene of serious massacres, no figures pertain- jing to which." adds the correspond- ent, "arc available. All the mas- sacres occurred on April 11.". . •â- .tv ; GEN. VON DER GOLTZ DEAD. SUSSEX PIRATE IS DECORATED L' Boat Which He Commanded Was Not Sunk, as Reported. do., in cur- to 3tlc; solids, 33 to 34c. Eggsâ€" New laid, 21r; tons, '..'5 to 2ric. Honey â€" Prices in 10 to 00-lb. tins, 13 ',2 to 14c. Combs- No. I, $'i.75 to $3; No. 2, $2.25 to $2.40. Beans $4. to $4.40, the latter for hand-picked. Cheeseâ€" Large, 19c; twins, 19\4c. Maple syrup â€" $1.40 per Imperial gallon. !c Organizer of the Dardanelles De- fences Passes Away. A despatch from .Amsterdam says.: â€" Baron Kolmar von der Goltz. com- mander-in-chief of the Turkish army Butterâ€" Fresh dairy, choice, 29 to . , ., ,,, ^ «. r« , , i « â-  .. i_ * »> • i 13c: inferior, 25c; creamery prints, 35 b'' »f »â-  ?-»-;^" to $4.50; feeders. 900 to | A despabch from Pans says: n- ' J 1 . 1,000 lbs., $7.00 to $7.40; do., bulls, formation was received from reliable $5 50 to $0.00; stockers, 700 to 800 lbs. sources on Wednesday that Emperor t $7.00 to $7.40; do. med., 050 to 750 William has decorated the commander lbs., $0.75 to $7.00; do., light, 000 to of tho submarine which torpedoed 650 lbs., $5.00 to $5.50; canners, $4.00 tho Sussex. It is understood Wash- I to $4.25; cutters, $4.50 to $4.75; milk- 1 ington has been informed of this de- ers, choice, each, $00.00 to $85.00; velopment. The award of a decora- died Wednesday of spotted fever at th» i springers, $00.00 to 85.00; calves, veal, tion would make it, perhaps, impoa- headnuarters of his Turkish army I choice, $9.00 to $11.00; do., medium, sible for Ciermany bo punish him, in according to an official announcement $0.00 to $7.50; do., common, $5.00 to case such a demand were made by received hero from Berlin. lie had j$5.r)0; lambs, yearlings, $10 to $13.50; the United States Government. .been ill ten days. (culled lambs, $7.00 to $7.25; spring j I lambs, each, $7.00 to $12.00; ewes, "' "" _^^nd bucks $(i.50 to $8.50 ;''hogs' fed "ami llULLANU MAY dIj A 1 WAK ^ watered, $11.15; do., f.o.b., $10.75; do.. Troop.s Broujjht From Qallipoli Annihilated Hiiinlrecis of Ottoman Dead Left on I leld. I Poultry â€" (^hickens, 21 to 22c; fowls, I 18 to 2o"e; ducks, 24 to '25c; turkeys, 2.">c. i Potatoesâ€" Car lots of Ontario $1.66 j to $1.70, and New Urunswieks $1.80 to $1.85 per bag, on track. Montreal Markets. A despat<'h from I'e'rogrnd says : â€" While the northern armies of the Grand Duke were completing the con- quest of Trebizond the other Rus- sian army advancing from Erzenmi gained an important victory. In Iht region of Asehkala, vve.st of Kr/.eruni, the Russian troops by .i night ass.iult carried a chain of high hills which had been ftroi.gly organized. They raptured four Turkish officers and more than 120 men. The enemy left heavy lire from the Turk batteries. hundreds of dead on the field. Some enemy elements wliieb had been re- cently brought from (lallipoli were an- nihilnte<l, while Ih • other Turkish troops which pnrtieipi'-'ed in the light sustained heavy losses through the Russian lire and bHyonet chargei--. ' In the Hlaek .Sea a Russian sub- marine, altliougb attacked by an en- emy airmiin, succeeded in sinking a steamer ami a sailing ship near the entrance of the Bosphorus under a weighed off cars, $11.50. Montreal, April 25. â€" Choice steers $9 to $9.25; good at $8.50 to $8.75, and I the lower grades from that down to^ Montreal, April 25.â€" Corn Ameri , $7.25, while buU-hers' cows brought 1 can No. 2 yellow, 80 to 87c. Oatsâ€" If,. ^n, j,; 25 to $8, and bulls from $0.50! Canadian Western, No. 2, 54':.c; No. to $8.50 per 100 lbs. Yearling and 3, 5:(e; extra No.l feed, .53e; No. 2 spnng lambs, $11.70 to $12 per 100 local white, mUfe to 51c; No. 3 local lbs. and the latter at $5 to $12 each,! as to size and quality. Sheep $7.60 WITHIN NEXT EIGHT DAYS >f Remarkable Article Published in the Rotterdam Socialist Newspaper Volk. to .50e; No. 4 local white, white, 10' cQ ':' ';'.''â- ''• ,.""'"''7r;'^"'7"''"'pr'''i '" ^SSo'per m Ibs. Calves 8c. to! Mail cables that bhe crisis in Holland 08 to 71c; mnlting, 75 to , 7e. Flour ,,,, per u,,, und the lower grades at -Manitoba Spring wheat patents,! 41;,,. j„ 5,4,. Hogs selected, $12 to first;, $0.00; seconds, $0.10; strong |] 2,0,^ pp,- 100 lbs., weighed off ears, bakers', $5.90; WliVer patents, choice. A despatch from London says: The military measures, especially the stop- Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily V^ge of Easter holidays to the troops, now writes in a different strain, say- $0.00; straight r.dlers, $5.30 to $5.40; do. bags, $2.45 to $2.50. Rolled oats -Bbls, $5.10 to $5.20; do bags, 1)0 lbs., $2.40 to $2.45. Rrniii, $24. Shorts, -<,- The man who is sure of his own ability never has to brag about it.. It ing : "After an interview between a Socialist loader and the Premier we hold that these military precautions are very necessary. The people must support tho Government and must re- continues to cause great anxiety, is understood that Germany has in- formed Holland that Great Britain in- bended to attack her and proposed to send German troons to Holland. The Socialist newspaper Volk, cogniz^ that Holland may be at war in which first protested against Dutch tight days."