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REDUCE RATIONS OF HOME ARMY Except British Youtits Under 19 Training For Abroad. A despatch from London 3ays: â€" _ The Earl of Derby, Secretary for War, has notifiad Field Marshal Viscount French, Commander of the Home Forces, of his decision to reduce the rations of meat, sugar and tea for all the home forces, except youths under 19 years, training for abroad. '"When the whole nation is beijig asked to reduce food consumption in the interests of our armies, abroad," •ays the War Secretary, "I think you will agree with me that the army at home will expect equally to be asked to make certain sacrifices. The bur- den cannot be allowed to faU wholly On women and children and civilian workers . " He explains that the reduced ration compares favorably with the field ra- tion of most other armies, and says that the reasons for making the re- duction imperative are known to all, adding. "The fate of the war may well depend upon the spirit in which such reductions are accepted. The grit of every individual soldier and civilian is now being tested and may be still further tf !;ted during the com- ing months. It is the duty of the army at homo to set the whole na- tion an example of determination and cheerfulness, and I have no doubt of their response." SUCCESSFUL RAIDS ! Markets of the WorU'FROM OLD SCOTLAND! U.S. TRANSPORT SUNK BY ENEMY Was Carrying 2,179 Soldiers, of Whom 1,912 Were Rescued. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says: â€" The Cunard liner Tuscania, carrying 2,179 American soldiers, has been torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast, and at a late hour on Wednes- day night 1,912 officers and men had been accounted for in a despatch to the State Department from London. News of the first great disaster in the war to America's armed forces came in a brief despatch to the War Department . It did not mention the possibility of further survivors, but hope was built here upon the fact that all of those rescued were landed at two widely- separated Irish ports and indications are that relief vessels were at hand quickly. The troops, composed chiefly of detachments qf Michigan and Wis- consin National Guardsmen, were trav ling on t\ifi Tuscania, a British vessel, und?!" convoy of British war- ships. BY CANADIANS Dominion Troops Enter Enemy , Line in Two Places. A despatch from Canadian Army Headquarters, says: â€" Raiding the enemy lines north of Lens, the Canadian troops on Tuesday night, supported by our artillery, succeeded in penetrating the hostile front line in two places. One party got within 20 yards of tl»e enemy wire when it was discovered and heavily bombed. The enemy also opened a barrage on our lines, but despite the vigorous op- position and the strong wire one of- ficer and two men succeeded in rush- ing the position. j The other party got within ten yards of the enemy's line before be- ing discovered. It then bombarded its way into the trench. The Germans withdrew before the raiders, but maintained a stiff opposition. j Two hours later, after receiving support from an artillery bombard- ment, German i^^iders came across No Man's Land in strength in the Meri- court- Avion sectors. They met with such a vigorous reception from our rifle and machine gtma that they were forced to retire with heavy casualties. They left five piisoners in our hands. .J HUNDREDS OF CANADIANS BEING RETURNED A despatch from London says: â€" The comb continues working among Canadians in England, three hunderd men last month were sent to reserve units. Some of these had been casualties in France but had become again fit; 129 men were raised from category B to A, nearly two thous- and A men had completed training and were raised to category Al. Equally important towards general efficiency is that unfic men who can- not usefully be employed in England shall return to Canada. Two thous- and were sent back last month and eleven hundred more were returned for further medical treatmeat in Canada. Over three thousand from- er casualties were made available for reserve units, these including men discharged from hospitals here. Two thousand more were placed in lower categories than A. Many of these had been made available for further service through a system of curative physical training now so largely adopt- ed by the Canadian Medical Service. Over thirteen thousand Canadians in England were examined again by the Medical Board last month. CANADA EXPORTS $40,000,000 IN PULP AND PAPER 'A despatch from Montreal says: â€" R. A. Pringle, K.C., Canada's paper controller, said in a recent speech that during the year ending March 31. 1917, the exports of pulp and paper from this country totalled ?40,000,- 000. He called attention to the fact that Canada was supplying one-third of the newsprint used in the United States, partly in the finished product and partly in the raw material, and the requirements of the United States in pulpwood were 600,000 tons a day. Pulpwood has increased in value, he said, and brought from $'J to $7 a cord on the stump. Canada stood third among the countries of the world with regard to forest possessions, he asserted, Russia and the United States having greater forest resources. 15 BRITISH VESSELS SUNK BY U-BOATS A despatcii from London says:â€" 15 British Vessels Sunk The Admiralty reports 15 British merchantmen sunk by mine or sub- marine in the past week. Of these, 10 were 1,600 tons or over, and five under 1,600 tons. Four fishing ves- sels also were sunk. The British losses by mine or sub- marine during the past week are ap- proximately the same as the previous week, when nine British merchant- men of more than 1,600 tons, and six of lesser tonnage, were destrpyed. -^- Soap and tepid water will remove chocolate stains. FIVE HOSTILE MACHINES SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH A despatch from London says: â€" British aerial operations are report- ed in an official statement as follows: 'Nearly five tons of bombs were dropped Tuesd.iy on hostile targets. Five German aeroplanes were brought down in air fighting, and four wei-e driven down out of control. A hos- tile observation balloon was brought down. Four of our aeroplanes are missing. "One and u half tons of bombs were dropped at night on an air- drome south-east oC Cambrai and on enemy billets." DESP ABATE BATTLE BFrWEEN WHITE AND RED GUARDS . A despatch from Stockholm says: â€" General Mannerheim, commander of the Government forces in Finland that w*re organi:«d to enforce the authority of the Finnish Diet, has de- feated the Finnish Red Guard and the Russians at Uleaborg. and taken pos- session of the city. This is the iiiost important victory as ye* scored by the Wliite Guard, as Uleaborg was the chief military depot of the Rus- sians in Northern Finland, and con- tained considerable stores of ammuni tion and artillery. Military observers now confidently predict that the whole of Northern Finland soon will be in the hands oC the Government foixes. The battle of THoaborg lasted two days, and there were several hundred dead on both sides. Bread af-n^ Toronto Fnb. 12â€" Manitoba wheat â€" Xo. I .Vorthein. J2.234: -N'o. 2. do.. »2.2'>lf No. 3. do.. $2.l7i. Xo. 4 wheat. IZIOJ, In store Ron William. In.-ludlnif 2Jc ta* M.inltobo oHts- .N'o. 2 C.W.. S9|c; No. 3 C.W.. 84|c; No. 1 extra feed. S3|o; No. 1 feed. SOJ.-; In store Fort WlUlum. American corn â€" No. J yellow, kiln dried, nominal. $1.90. Ontario oata â€" No. 2 white. 91 to 92o, nominal: No. 3. do., 90 to 91e. nominal, aiTordlnw to freights ouLslde. Onliirlo wheatâ€" New. No. 2 Winter, $2.22: basis, In store Montreal. Peas â€" No. 2, $3.70 to $3. SO, according to frelRlit.M outside. Barleyâ€" Maltlnit. $1 6S to $1.60. ac- cording: to fielKhts outside. DutUwhentâ€" $1.63 to $1.66, according to frelgrht.s out.slde. Hye â€" .No. 2. $1.96 to $1.9S, according to rrelKht.'i out.slde. Munltoba (lourâ€" War (luallty. $1110. n«?w baK.s. Toronto freights. Ontario flour â€" War quality, $10.60. new bafts. Toronto and Montreal freijfhts. prompt shipment. Mlllfeedâ€" Car lots, delivered Montreal frelKhts. baKS included â€" ^Bran, per ton, $35: sliort.s. do.. $40; middlings, do.. $45 to iiS: Kood feed flour, per bag, $3.40. Havâ€" No. 1. per ton $16 to $17; mixed. $13 to $16. tr-ick Toronto. Straw â€" Car lots, per ton. $8.50 to $9. Country Produce â€" Wboleaal* Butter â€" Creamery, solids, per lb.. 45 to 4Gi:; prints, per lb.. 46 to 46ic; dairy, per lb.. 35 to 37c. Eggs â€" Fresh gathered eggs, 50 to 62c; new laid. 55c. Dressed poultryâ€" Chickens. 26 to 28e; fowl. 23 to 25c: ducks, 23 to 24c: geese, 21 to 22c: turkeys. 28 to 30c. Potatoes â€" Wholesalers are paying e-rowers and country shippers, for flrst- class stock, f.o.b. outside points. $2.25 to $2.35 for Delawares, and $2 to $2.10 for t)ntarlos. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices: â€" Cheese â€" New. large, 23J to 24c: twins, 33S to 24ic: early cheese, 25i to â- â- 26c; large twin. 26 to 26ic. Butter â€" Fresh dairy, choice, 38 to 39c: creamery prints, 43 to 49c; solids, 47 to 48(?. Margarine â€" 29 to 32c. Bgg.s â€" -New laid. In cartons, 65 to 7ne; No. 1 storage, 49 to 50c: select storage, 52 to 53o. Dress.?d poultry â€" Spring chickens, 30 to 33t; mllk-fd chickens, 32 to 36o; fowl, 26 to 30c: turkeys, 35 to 40c; ducks. Spring. 27 to 30c; geese, 27 to 28c. I. he poultry â€" Turkeys, 30c; Spring chickens, lb., 22 to 26c; hens, 22 to 2Sc; ducks, Spring, 25c: geese. 15 to 17c. Honey â€" .Strained, tins. 2J's and 5'3, 20 to 22c: per lb: lO's, 22c: 60's. 20c. Beans â€" Canadian, hand-picked, bush, $S tn $x.25: imported, hand-picked, Iiurmn or Indian, $6.75 to $7; Japan. $3 to $8.25; Linias. ITJ to 181c. Potatoe.s â€" Delawares. bag-, $2.25 to $-J.3s; Onturlos. bag. $2.10 to $2.25. Frovlsloni â€" 'Wholesale .Siiiiiiied meats â€" liams^ medium. 32 to 34i.': do., lieavy, 26 to 2ic; cooked. 44 to |46o; rolls, 2S to 30c; breaJtfast bacon, ! 40 to 42o: hacks, plain, 43 to 44c: bone- 1 less, 45 to 46c. â€" ; Cured meats â€" Long clear bacon. 2S to !2i»c; clear bellieis. 27 to 28c. t-ard â€" Pure lard, tierces. 2S3 to 291c: tubs. 29 to 29Jc; palls. 291 to 293c: 'compound, tierces. 251 to 26c: tubs. 253 , to 2C}i:: palls. 26 to 26ie. I Montreal Markets i Moiilical. Feb. 12 â€" Onts â€" Canadian I Western. No. 3. $1.02; extra No. 1 feed. j$1.02; No. 2 local white. $100i; No. 3 :io. 99ic; No. 4. do.. 98Jc. Flour â€" M.ini- i toba Spring wheat patents, firsts. $11.60. i do., seconds $11.10; strung bakers'. i $10.90; straight rollers, bags. $6.25 to '$5.40. Rolled oatsâ€" Bug of 90 lbs.. $5.30. Mlllfeedâ€" Bran. $35; shorts. $40: mid- dlings. $48 to $50: mouillle. $56 n $53. JHay-NO. 2, pi-r ton. car lots, $14. on to j $15.50. Cheese â€" Finest westerns, 21Sc: :do.. easterns, :M ic. Butter â€" Choicest creamery. 47i to 4Sc: seconds, 46i to 47o. Egrgs â€" Fresh. oSc; selected. 52c: No. 1 stock. 4,sc: No. 2. do.. 45.\ Pota- toesâ€" Per bag. car lots, Jl.HO lo $2.25. 'Winnipeg Grain Wliinipeg. L''eb. 12 â€" Cu!<li inues; â-  t>ats -No. 2 l\W.. .sgjc: .No. 3. do., S4ic: extra No. 1 feed. 83Jc; No. 1 feed. SOfc: No. 2. do.. 77ac. Bafley- No. 3. $1.59: No. 4. $1.54; rejected and feed. $1.30. : Elax .Vo. 1 N.-iV.C. $3.27: No. 2 C.W., , $3.23J: No. a. do.. j:i.is. { United States Markets I Minnoapolis. Feb. 12---Corn â€" No. 3 I yellow, $1.75 to $1.80. Oats â€" No. 3 ' white, .S3* to S4io. flour â€" Vnchaiieed. , Bran -$32.60. I Duluth. Feb. 12 â€" T.inseedâ€" On track, ! $.'L55i to $3.67i: to arrive and Mav. i$:t.55J; July, $3.50 bid: October. $3.15i ibid. j Live Stock Markets ' Toronto, Feb. 12 â€" Extra choii-c heavy steers. $1 1.25 t<i $11.90; do., good heavy, $10,511 to $11: butchers' cattle, choice, 1 $10.7.1 to $11: do., good, $10.25 to $10.50; ] do., hiediuui $9.50 to $9.75: do., com- mon. $8 to $.<:oO; butchers' bulls, choice, $9.50 ii» $10; do., good bulls. $S.75 to $9; do., niedluin bulls. $7.60 to $S : do., j rough bull.-i. $6.35 to $6.85: butchers'' I cows, choice. $9.50 to $10: do., good,' ; iS.50 to $9: do., medium. $7.75 to $8.00; ! ' stocUcrs. $7..'iO to $8.50; feeders, $9 to I $10; cicpiier.s iind outters. $5.75 to $6.26; ; milkers, goiui to choice* $90 to $125: do., 'com. und nii>d.. $65 to $89: .springers. ; $90 to $140; light ewes, $12.60 to $14; 1 sheep, heavy. $6 to $7.25; vearlings. $11.75 lo $12.75: lambs, $1S to $18.75: I caUe.'f. good to choice. $15 to $16.50: I hogs, fed and watered. $18. 7.';: do., I AVfi.Lclifl olT cars. $19; do., f.o.b.. fl7.75. NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND UR.\ES. What is Going On in the Highland* and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Private G. Brebner, son of Geo. Brebner, .Aberdeen, has been men- tioned for distinguished conduct in the field. Rev. A. E. Laurie, rector old St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, has been awarded a bar to his Mili- tary Cross. The late John Morton Drennan, Edinburgh, left £6,800 to various Edinburgh hospitals and the Royal Blind -A.sylum. The Military Cross has been award- ed to Captain Adam Turner, Portsoy, for gallant conduct in the field east of Ypers. The Both'B-ell Parish School Board have granted to all the teachers in their employment a flat increase of £18 per annum. The Military Cross has been awarded Major Wolfe Murray, Gordon Highlanders, son of Commander Wolfe Murray, Tain. After thirty years' service, Inspec- tor James Butler has retired from the Glasgow police force. Sir Andrew McDonald has been for fifty years a member of the Edin- burgh Merchant Company. • The Manufacturers' .\gents Associ- ation of Great Britain have estab- lished a branch in Glasgow. It is stated that the Secretary for Scotland is considering the purchase of the Island of Lewis. William Urquhart, of .A.utchterarder, has been appointed inspector under the Food Control Orders. Colonel R. Balfour Graham has been appointed to take charge of the Craiglockhart War Hospital. Rev. Jacob Sykes, Seaforths, and son of Jack Sykes, Fochaber. has been awarded the Military Medal. W. D. Esslemont, advocate, .Aber- deen, has been appointed , secretary of the Aberdeen Granite Association. Sergeant James Main, son of .Alex. Main, Lossiemouth, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry. Robert Brown, secretary of the Scot- tish Miners, and twenty-one years a councillor, has been re-elected provost of Dalkeith. The Women's Emergency Corps Hospital Supply has raiseti over i'200 by a sale and entertainment given in Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. .All the school boards of Caithness have adopted a minimum salary for assistant teachers, commencing at £80., The late Dr. Archibald Campbell, of Perth. ha,« bequeathed £rj,000 to -Aberdeen University for the advance of medical work. Mi.ss K. M. Robertson and Miss F. M. Robertson, Nairn, arc gazetted as- sistant administrators in the Women's Au.xiliary Corps. The Church Army flag day held in Glasgow recently realized the sum of i'878. The .sum of £63" was realized on. a children's flag day held in Edinburgh and Leith. Over £70 v>;i.> realized at a military concert given ::>. Brora in aid of war charities. Solving the Mysteries of of the .Machine (Jun. Men in this branch of the service have become so elficjent that thev can assemble and dissemble their gun.-^. while blindfolded. From The Middle West NEWS FROM ENGLAND BRITISH NAVAL FOBCE.'^ BOMB OSTEM) MARINE YARDS .A despatch from .Armsterdani says: â€" British naval forces have bombard- ed Osteiid, accoriiing- to a despatch from the frontier. The marine yards wcic scvei'ely damaged. i(;ek»\n cn'Y bombed j BY FRENCH AIRCRAFT I A despatch from Paris says: â€" "On February 0, one of our ' bombing I escadrilles flew over Saarbrueke, i dropping: 3,(U0 kilograms of projec- [ tiles. Attacked by several groups of enemy aeroplanes, our crews accepted battle and brought down three German machines and then returned intact to their own lines." I Sponge cake can be made with pota- to flour. Next to dirt the greatest sin in the kitchen is disordo IMPORTATION OF CORN TO SATISFY ALL NEEDS -A despati'h from Ottawa says: â€" The Food Controller has announced that arrangements bad been made with the authorities at Washington, under which the United States War Trade Board has apportioned to Canada sufficient corn to meet the month'.y requirements of this coun- try. This corn will be moved just as quickly as the transportation situation will permit. The Bureau of Licenses of the Food Controller's oft'ico. in turn, has apportioned part of this corn among Canadian importers in accordatice with their monthly needs, so that' in future these importers will not be required to secure a separate inipoil permit for each p-drch;isei-. 12 NORWEGIAN SHIPS ! SUNK IN .lA.Nl.AKY, I A dospal.'h from Washington says.: ( â€" -A cable despatch to the Norwegian Legation from Cliristiania, says that during the month of January I'i Nor- wegian vessels, aggregating 18,805 gross tons, were "lost by the war," , and eigh*: Norwegian seamen lost. their lives. 1 â- BETWEEN ONT.ARIO .AND BRI- I TISH COLIMBI.A. I Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Bovs ond Girls .Are Living. Medicine Hat's bank clearings for 1917 were close to thirty million dol- lars, Edmonton must borrow a million and a half dollars for current ex- penditure. G. D. Venini has been elected chair- man of the Calgary Separate School Board, Controller Gray, Winnipeg, wants to have a complete building inspec- tion of the whole city. The province of Saskatchewan col- lected during December almost $100,- OOO for the Red Cross. W. J. Dyson, Calgary, has been elected president of the .Alberta Great War Veterans' .Association. Lieut. -Col. S. W'. Prowse, of Win- nipeg, is home on furlough, but ex- pects to return to France shortly. W. H. Pritchard's general store at Mitchellton, Sask., was burned re- cently, the loss being about $20,000. The dates for the annual conven- tion for rural municipalities of Sas- katchewan have now been set as March (!, 7 and 8, to be held in Moose Jaw. Sergi.-Major Adams and Sergt. Knight rounded up 18 defaulters of the Military Service .Act in Moose Jaw in one evening. Ten claimed to be .American and one claimed to be a German. Twenty-flve thousand "teen age boys will be raised by the Y.M.C..A. of Saskatchewan in the campaign or- ganized by the national council of the Y.M.C.A. to aid with the crop this year. F. .A. D. Bourke, a pioneer rancher in the Battleford district, died re- ceiitly. He was one of .the earliest members of the R.N.W.M.P., and held also the post of farm instructor to the Indians. .^ Efl'orts are being made by th'^; Saskatchewan Department of .Agricul- ture to have grain screenings ground at Saskatoon and Moose Jaw in the Government elevators in order to pro- vide feed for live stock breeders. It is announced that the Manitoba department of public works v.'ill short- ly call for tenders f'ir the erection of & deaf and dumb institute at Tuxedo Park, Winnipeg, to cos' in the "icigh- borhood of half a million dollars. Nineteen million three hundred and eighty thousand bushels of wheat are stocked in elevators west cf Winni- peg, showing a big decrease compared to the same week in 1917, w^hen 33.- S87.000 bushels were stored. • Easy. T'he liculenant was instruc'ing the squad in visional training. '"Tell me. Number One,' he said "how many men arc there in (hat trench-digging party over there?" "Ihirty men and one officer." was the prompt; reply. ••Quite right,' observed the lieuten- ant after a pause. "But how do you know one is an officer at this dis- tance?" " 'C^os he's the only one not working', sir." NEWS BY MAIL ABOCT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE lOccnrrencps in the Li^nd That Reigns I Supreme in the Commer- j da! Woild. The -Margate Education Committee are supplying penny dinners for needy 'â-  chiltiren. It is proposed to give London lice- men an increase of fifteen shillings a j week until after the war. King George's Fund for Sailors has now reached the sum of .£250,000. The Lord Mayor of London's Hali- fax Fund has now reached the sum of £58,000. Two million cups of tea are given every week by the Y.M.C.A. in France and Flanders. There are now 5.063 prisoners of war working in agriculture, and 1,400 more are to be employed There are 3.150 British Red Cross ambulances now at tlw front and twenty tons of spare parts are sent from England every week. The .Army Council have decided to grant military funerals, where pos- sible, to discharged and disabled sol- diers. The Tyneside works suggest that peace terms should provide for an in- ternational shortened working day. Thi? additional war bonus to be given to the police of the city of Lon- don will amount to i; 12.000 a year. Captain Batten, V.C., M.C.. of Road Manor, Bath, who was reported miss- ing, is a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe. The Rev. J. Pugh Jones, curate of St. .Anne's, Brooktield, Highgate. has joined the Royal Flying C'orps as a pilot. Paddington Council has laid in seven hundred tons of coal to be sold in small quantities in case of emergency. Sergeant Cooper. V.C, was present- ed with an illuminated address and £150 i:i war bonds at Stockton-on- Tees. Private Thomas Thompson, Durham Light Infantry, was presented in the hospital at Ongar with the D.C.M. and Military Medal with bar. The British Government is consider- ing the formation of an all-British company for developing oilfields out- side the Empire. The Food Production Department has booked orders amounting to 10,000 tons of seed potatoes fW^lanting by small growers in 1918. The school children of Hurst, Berks, have collected one ton two hundred- weight of horse chestnuts for the Government. The Military Cross has been award- ed to Lieutenant .A. Walsh, son of Mr. Walsh, Labor M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. It is not proposed to order women employed at the Ministry of Munitions to wear a khaki uniform. The London post ofltce ofllcials have contributed 107.000 razors for the troops at the front. Lord Clinton sold 5.790 acres of land in North Devon from which he realiz- ed the sum of £91.000. .A Waterloo medal awarded to Ser- geant Hugh Ilines was sold at the galleries of Messrs. Gleiidining & Co., for £19. All the graves of Canadian soldiers dying in England are to be marked with a tcnipoiarv oak cross.