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A Berlin despatch stats that the Russian written confirmation 0! the A despatch from London says: The German troops have entered Minsk in their advance eastward in Russia, acâ€" cording to the report from German eadquarters on Thursday evening. The Russian town of Rovno has been cleared of the Russians, the Ber- lin War Office reports. Trains with pbout 1,000 cars. many laden with food, have been captured. as well as girplanes and an incalculable amount of war material. Between Dvinsk and Pinsk the German: are pressing eastward. General von Linslngen's movement pontinues. Important railway and highway junvtiovw have been occu« pied. “'1nnipeg. Feb. 26â€"Cash , prices:â€" Oatsâ€"â€"No. 2 C.\V.. 9350: No. 3 CW. 91k; extra No. 1 feed. 8930; No. 1 feed GERMANS CONTINUE ADVANCE EAST- WARD IN RUSSIA, CAPTURING MINSII Flourâ€"New standard grade 11.20; Spring wheat. $11.1 olled outsâ€"Bags. 90 lbs.. 5 836. Shorts. 5&0. Middllngs Mouillie. $58 to $60. Hayâ€" ton. car lots. $17. Montreal. western. No. 1 feed. $1.10 “.09; No. 3‘ Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, 34 to 85¢; (10., heavy, 225 to 30c; cooked. 45 to 470; rolls 28 to 30c; breakfast bacon. 40 to 42c; backs. plain. 43 to 44¢; bone- les; 45 to 46c. . 290; clear bellies. 27 to 28¢. Lardâ€"Pure lard. tlex-ces. 29 to 2950; tubs, 2” to 2936; pails. 29} to 300; compound. Heroes. 25; to 26¢; tubs. 26! to Zbkc; pails. 26 to 26in. Cured meatSâ€"â€"Long clear bacon. 28 to! ‘ ! Immense Booty Taken, Including 8,700 Men. 4 1,300 Guns and Nearly 5,000 Motor ducks. Sprlng, 250: geese. 15 to 17c. Honey~Strained, tins. 23’s and 5’5. 20 to 220 per lb: 10's. 22c; 60's, 20c. Beansâ€"Canadian. hand-picked. bush, $8 to $8.25; im worted, hand-picked. Bur- ma or Indian. 6.75 to $7; Japan. $8 to $8.25; Limas. 185 to 190. Botatoesâ€"Delawares. bag. $2.40; On- tanos. bag, $2.30 to $2.35. Live poultryâ€"Turkeys. 30c: Spring chickens. 1b.. 22 to 260; hens, 22 to 280; du'c'k; Spang, A250; geese: 15 to 17c. Eggsâ€"Fresh gathered eggs, 50 to 52¢; new lald, 55c. Poultryâ€"Dressed. chickens. 26 to 28¢: fowl. 23 to 250; ducks, 23 to 24c; geese. 21 to 220: turkeys. 28 x0 30c. Wholesalers are selllng to the retail tussle at thfz follpwing gricesrzAâ€"f _ Butterâ€"Creamery, soiids. per 1b.. 4’ to 47gc; prints. per 110.. 48 to 483C dairy. pegglb., 36 to 38c. No. 3. (‘10.. $2,171: No. 4 wheat. $2.10!: in store Fort \Vliliam. including 210 tagx. Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.\V.. 9380: I\o. 3 C.\V., 91h; extra No. 1 feed. 89Rc: No. 1 feed. 86k: in store Fort \Viiliqm. American cornâ€"No. 3 yellow. kiln dried. $1.95. track Toronto. Ontario oatsâ€"No. 2 white. 96 t_o 97c: No. 3 white. 95 to 96c. according to heights outside. Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 Winter. per car lot, $2.22; basis in store Montreal. _ Peasâ€"~No. 2, $3.70 to $3.80. accordmg to heights outside. Barley-whimting,g $1.65 to $1.67. ac- cording to freight. outside. . Buckwheatâ€"$1.70 to $1.72. according to freighis outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, $2.03 to $2.05. according to heights outside. Manitoba. fiourâ€"VVar quality. $11.10. new bags. Toronto. Ontario flourâ€"“Var quality, $10.60. new bags. Toront: and Montreal freights. prompt shipment. Millfeedâ€"Car lotsâ€"Deliverea Mont- real freights. bags included: Bran. per ton, $35; shorts. per ton. S40; middlings white. per to $45 to $46; good feed flour. per bag, 3.40. Hayâ€"No. 1. per ton. $17 to $18: mixed. $14 to $16. track Toronio. Strawâ€"~Car lots. per ton. $8.50 to 89. track Toronto. Toronto. Feb‘ 26â€"Manltoba. wheatâ€"â€" No. 1 Northern. $2.23}: No. 2. do.. $220M _No. 3. dg. 32.17;: No. 4 wheat. $2.10!: The Florizel sailed from here at 8 o'clock last night, with a large num- ber of passengers and a cargo which included 10,500 barrels of‘dry codfish and herring for 139w York and 1,200 barrels for Halifax. her only port of call between St. John’s and New York. The cargo was valued at $800,000 and the ship at $1,000,000. A blizzard was brewing when she left and it grew worse toward midnight, but abated in the early morning hours, when the Florizel would have to proceed south- ward along the coast toward Cape St. John’s, Nfld., Feb. 24.â€"The crack Red Cross liner Florizel, from St) John’s for New York by way of Hali- fax, with 140 persons aboard, includ- ing 78 passengers, piled up )m the ledges near Cape Race during a bliz- zard to-day and it is Wieved that all on board were lost. RED CROSS LINER, FWRIZEL, LOST WETH AH. 01"! WARD Struck Rocks North of Cape Race in Blinding Blizzard en Route From Newfoundland to New York Via Halifax. LEADINE MARKEW :gsâ€"x ' Country Produce‘Wholesale Provisionsâ€"Wholesale 111s. '26" 65632“ Montreal Winnipeg Grain 3. $1.10 :6 $1.11; 2? 31‘11: N& 2: 0-. ~Q§; 0. standard grade. 1g wheat. $11.10 Bags. 90 lbs.. $5 Feb‘ 26â€"â€"Oatsâ€"-Cunadian to $1.11; extra. No. : No. 2 local white. it, No. 4. (10.. $1.07. d grade. $11.10 to xt. $11.10 to $11.20. 0 lbs.. $6.50. Bran. iddllngs. $48 to $50. . Hayâ€"No. 2. per Marketa A despatch from London says: Sir {George Cave, Home Secretary, an- nounced in the House of Commons that the Summer period would begin March 24 and end September 29. luv uerman war umce announces that 1,353 guns and between 4,000 and 5,000 motor cars have been cap- tured from the Russians thus far in the new campaign. The Germans have made prisoner a General commanding an army, 425 officers and 8,700 men. Rovno is the most easterly of the triangle of Russian fortresses in V0]â€" hynia. Lutsk, the western citadel in the triangle. capitulated to the Ger- mans on February 18 without fighting. The third fortress in Volhynia, Dubno, lies about midway between Rovno and the town of Brody on the Galician agceptance of peace terms has pass- ed the German lines. This disposes of rumors of the fall of the Lenine- Trotsky Government. Foreign trade since war started has grown from $916,888,000 to $2,000,- 584,000. Exports to Britain have grown from $121,000,000 in 1914 to $796,000,000 in 1917. 350,000,000 tons of steel and wooden ships built or under way at cost of $64,000,000. DAYLIGHT SAVING More than twentyâ€"five per cent. of men in Royal Flying Corps are Canadians. Large quantities of munitions sup- plied to United States. 300 airplanes a month produced. $10,000,000 spent on airplane plants and aerodromes. British forces kept supplied with explosives. 53,000,000 shells, 40,000,0 brassl cartridge cases of 31/2 ~lbs. ea h, and 58,000,000 copper bands produced. Fuses turned out at rate of 2,750,- 000 per month. Over 250,000 workers employed in 500 Canadian munitions plants. of munitions when present orders are filled. $875,000,090 already expended for munitions in plants all over Canada. SYNOPSIS OF The Ger United States Markets \«Minneapolis. Fat). ZGâ€"Cornâ€"No. 1 yellow. $130 to $1.85, Oatsâ€"N0. 5 white. 92; to Babe. Flourâ€"Unchanged Branâ€"$32.50. 8630‘. No. 2 C.\’\’.. $1.66? jeeted. $1.57 N.\V.C.. $3.“ 3 C.V\'.. 33,24 The ship struck in Broad Cove about five am. She sent one wireless mess- age of distress, which was received at the Cape Race radio station, say- ing that she was ashore and in immin- ent danger of destruction. Her wire- less apparatus worked haltingly and soon was silent. Nothing further was heard from her and as the cove is in I a remote and sparsely settled district it was not until late in the forenoon that a rescue party reached the scene. They discovered the Florizel lying well inshore, and subjected to a merciâ€"' less pounding by the heavy seas. Race, about sixty miles distant. Marin- ers here think she probably put her head seaward to ride out the storm and that when the wind moderated somewhat toward morning, her com- mander, thinking he had passed Eouth of Cape Race, turned westward. tier Manufactured $1,100,000,000 worth German War Office 1,353 guns and betv ,000 motor cars have from the Russians ‘ w campaign. The Ge] IN BRITAIN MARCH 24 CANADA’S WAR WORK. feed. 83%. Barleyâ€"No. 3 No. 4 C.“'.. $1.613; re- feed. $1.36. Flaxâ€"No. 1 ; No. 2 C.W.. $3.413; No. 5 Officers, Over Cars. Britain have ficer, were captured in an unsuccess- at cost of London, Feb. 24.â€"â€"The report frpm Field Marshal Haig’s Headquarters in started has France to-night says: steers, $8.50 to $9.50 to : choice : good “The hostile artillery was active during the day at a number of points along our front, particularly in the neighborhood of the Souchez River and southeast of Armentiers. “A hostile raid attempted early Saturday morning against our posi- tions on Hill 70 was repulsed with less. Another raiding party, which . attacked one of our posts Friday night north of Poelcapelle, was driven OR by rifle fire before reaching our posi- tion. A few prisoners were brought‘ in by our patrols on various parts of the front.” statement, “our column Meya, which is held h from the enemy force West of Port Amelia.” upper Lurl along and I by the Brit “In the coastal area statement, “our columr London, Feb. 24.â€"A ment on operations in says: ROUNDING UP REMNANTS OF EAST AFRICAN ENEMY. l A Russian wireless message ad- dressed to the German Government at Berlin announces that a Parliamentâ€" ary representative left Petrograd Sun- day at noon for Dvinsk for the 1m?- pose of transmitting to the German High Command at vansk Russia's of- ficial reply to Germany‘s peace con- ditions. . The Times to-day points out that the Leninites agree to abandon nearly “Early in the morning the enemy attempted a raid on two of our posts in the neighborhood of the Ypres- Comines Canal, but was repulsed each time. We had no casualties. ful irad by the enemy near Brood- seinde this morning. Several others of the raiding party were killed by our fire. ' Repulse Attacks in Ypres-Co- mines Canal Sector and Near Broodseinde. BRHTHSH CHECK GERMAN RAHDERS This announcemeht is made in a Russian official statement received by wireless. It adds that Russia will send a delegation immediately to Brest-Litovsk. ' London, Feb. 24.â€"Germany’s peace terms have been accepted by Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki Prémier, and Leon Trotsky, Foreign Minister, act- ing for the Central Executive of the Soviets. RUSSEANS ACCEPT TEU’WN PEACE TERMS; GERMAN ABVANCE CfiNTlNUES Huns Strike at Dismembered Russia. Map shows portion of battle line between Riga and newly formed Re- public of Ukraine where the Germans threaten an offensive with Petro~ grad as the objective. ' Sweeping Demands. of Huns Include Surrender of Nearly One- Quarter of European Russiaâ€"Germans Meet With Some Resistance. “Fifteen prisoners, including an ofâ€" SWEDEN 24.â€"An official state- ' continues the is approaching y detachments located south- Africa I gets In addition the village controls the road to the coast and the mountain highway from Jerusalem. The Turks are also deprived of an important road running behind their front which en- abled them to slam] troops to threaten- ed sectors, and it is even possible that the Turkish forces have been comâ€" pletely separated, { With the capture of Jericho General Allenby has\made another stride for- ‘ward in his task in clearing Palestine of the Turks. The place itself was be- fore the war only a small collection of hovels, but tracks and roads which pass over a great concrete bridge which the Germans had built across the Jordan since the war began, and convenient fords, make it an import- ant military base, the capture of which gives the British another road lead-‘ ing northward to the Turkish base at‘ Nablus. one quarter of the total area of Euro- ipean Russia, and about one-third of [its total population. ) Berlin, Feb. 24.â€"(British Admiralty per Wireless Press.)â€"At some points the Russians are offering resistance to the Germans, the War Office reports. The German advance is said to have continued successfully yesterday. They are approachiné the port of Reval, on (the Gulf of Finland, and have captur- ged several towns, taking about 2,000 I‘more prisoners, making a total of about 11,000 to date.’ GenkAllenby Secures Important Military Base By Capture of Jericho. A despatch from London says: The British have captured Jericho, in Jeru§alem. BRITISH REACH RIVER JORDAN ALLIED AIRMEN FLY OVER JULIAN ALPS, BOMB TOWN IN AUSTRIAN TYROL Attacked Munition Factories, Railway Station and Barracksâ€"- Many People Killed in the Streets. The American and Japanese Em- bassies and the Chinese, Siamese and Brazilian Legations are leaving Petro- grad to-day for Vyatka or Vologda. If necessary, they will go to Vla'divos- tok. ’ London, Feb. 24.â€"An Exchange Telegraph despatch from Petrograd, dated Saturday, says: A despatch from Buchsflwitzerland, ,ys: Five Entente airmen flying over e Julian Alps Wednesday afternoon 11nd that the town of Innsbruck. in ria ously bombed them, in- airme 30 Great credit is due to the French for the excellent condition in which they left the defences in this important region. Untold confusion, perhaps disaster; might have resulted had the defensive system been inferior, but it is such as \to draw the highest praise from the British commend. Soldiers and civilians were surpris- ed, and, being unaccustomed to an air attack, rushed into the streets and many were killed. The German Consulate was hit and trains loaded with soldiers on their way to the Trentino front were attack‘ ed by machine guns, from a low altiâ€" tude. n cluding the railway station,'barracks and two new munition factories. I A despatch from the British Army in France says: Anot er striking illus- tration of the co-or ination between the allied armies on the western front has been given in the successful trans- lfer of a considerable stretch of the front below St. Quentin from French to British hands. From the inception of thisrdelicate operation no hitch oc- curred. Thousands of French troops and scores of great batteries moved quietly and methodically out of the 'line day after day to make room for :similar British units. It was done as ‘easily as though the whole vast pro- gramme had been rehearsed. Transfer of Considerable Part of Line ’Below St. Quentin From French. BRTTISH TAKEOVER STRETCH 0F FRONT Nelson, Man. en in Great Britain has all been al: located to the various constituencies, and a staff of sixty officers com- menced to count it yesterday. Mr. O'Connor expects it will all be in by Wednesday, when the Government’s majority may be further increased. The standing of the Government and Opposition by provinces is as follows: Government. Opposition. Ottawa, Feb. 24.â€"The official sol- diers’ and naval vote taken in France, in Canada, and in the United States: announced to-day by Mr. W. F .O’Con- nor, general returning officer, has in. creased the majority of the Union Government in Parliament to 60. It was 45 when the civilian home vote was counted. The soldiers’ vote tak- Result of Counting Votes of So]- diers in Canada, France and United States. GWERNMENT HAS MAJORITY 0F 60 For four or five da»ys perfect Spring weather has prevailed. All along the front general battle activity is slowly creasing. There has been a great agricultural activity behind Prince Edward Island . . . . . . . 0 Nova Scotia . .12 New Brumwick 7 Quebec . . . . . . 3 Ontario . . . . . . 72 Manitoba . . . .13 Saskatchewan 16 Alberta . . . . . . 11 British ColumbialS Yukon . . . . . . 0 After our last successful raid the enemy subjected our front to pro- jeétor gas atta'cks as well as bom- bardment with gas shells. Early Wednesday morning he launched a raid against our lines in the Lens sec- tor. The attack was preceded by an intense barrage of pineapple trench mortars. It was broken up decisive- ly before it reached our wire. Our patrols have been active as usual. Last night in the Mericourt section a hostile party of sixteen was bombed out by our patrols. Valuable Information Received From Two Prisoners. Canadian Army Headquarters, Feb. 24râ€"Two more prisoners have wanâ€" dered into the Canadian lines since last cable, giving us additional valu- able identifications. Total . . . . . . 147 87 Government majority 60. There is one deferred e1ection~ CANADIANS RESIST ~ LENS RAID burst of our lines.