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dearer, coal has risen ten per cent and meats
are fifteen per cent higher, while the price
of fish has trebled. Flour in July was twenty
FIVE shillings, but is now forty-fve shillings.
The middle classes feel the pinch, because
OF the limitation of their incomes owing to
the war, The working classes are generally
employed, except certain trades.
The "Daily Telegraph" says the war should
teach us that comfort depends largely on the
prevention of waste, and we should reform
the economy of our homes wherever possible.
The war will increase the cost of living
throughout the world, in the neutral as we'll
as the belligerent countries.
The "Daily Chronicle" says: "Despite
the increases, bread and many other articles
are cheaper in England than in any other
country i'll the world, therefore we cannot
expect any amelioration. The increases are
due largely to the shipping rates which have
quadruplel in 6ve months,
Tue "Morning Post, which recently re-
ferred to the possible limitation of the ship
ping rates by the Government, now says that
Intervention by the Government is impossi-
bic without the gravest results,
The almost unprecedented rise in the price
of wheat in the United States suggests
smaller orders for loaves, hence there is an
as U6 OUSA RSAiA@ob NliS6ON
and a demand for the restriction of exports,
Washington advices state that Mr.. Farr
has introduced a resolution in the House of
Representatives for an inquiry into the ex-
cessive exports of wheat, which, he said,
were responsible for the high prices, and he
urged that Congress should restrict the eX-
portation of wheat, and possibly the export
of other food products should be halted, IN
order TO reduce the cost OF living n the
United States. If the figures submitted by
the Department of Agriculture should show
that the United States was sending too much
wheat abroad, he would offer another resolu-
tion to restrict the shipments.
In Chicago the mere threat of an embargo
on breadstuffs was largely instrumental IN
breaking the price of wheat by almost four
cents per bushel. Mr.. Candy, President Of
the Chicago Board of Trade, said "There
is but one cause for the present prices, name
ly, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, aud
France, England and Italy have been COM
p~etitive buyers in the United States for the
last few months, the closing OF the Darda-
nelles and the elimination of the export from
Russia having concentrated the demand from
al the importing countries on the United
States. Manipulation has nothing TO do
with the creating of this situation, the worlds
position regarding foodstuffs being based
on the operation of the laws of supply aud
demand. Que reason for the selling stampede
to-day was the fact that an ultimatum by
Italy to Turkey might open the Dardanelles
and release Russian grain shipments to the
whole of Western Europe"
A letter from Admiral Sir John ~Jelllcoe,
read at an entertainment for soldiers
and sailors wives, said; Our men are
an example of CHEEKY patience that
is splendid. If they lad the excite
meut of action, the trial of patience
would not be go severe, but they are content
lust to wait and watch and it is good to see
how we'll they stick to their monotonous
work. We don't get much comfort out of
the weather either, the nights are very long.
the sky is very gray and the decks are very
wet, but none of these things affect the
spirits of the men, any more than the cold
and wet in the trenches and the constant
shell FIRE affect the spirits of those splendid
soldiers of ours in Belgium. 1t is good to
be a Briton nowadays"
Great Britain has lost since the war began
a total of LIZA officers killed and 1880
wounded.
- The 4th Royal Fusiliers is credited with
having been in more actions than any other
British regiment, and has lost III killed and
wounded three quarters of those with whom
it started, Many of the original members OF
the regiment are still in hospitals.
The trawler FCygnns" has been blown up
by a mine and her crew of nine have pre-
sumably been drowned. She is the thirty
second Grimsby trawler sunk since the war
began.
The Berlin "Kreuz Zeitung" reports the
losses of the French Army to be about one
million, including twenty thousand officers.
The Paris "Matin" estimates the Russian
losses in killed and wounded at about 1850,
600 and as the Germans have captured over
300. 900 Russians and the Austrians 200, 900
their casualties should exceed 1000, GOO.
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