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" ~ ,_.. .l _ v“ ---, ,. .4w'nwr- “MW WWW~ \.-‘.r {.r M f‘f’ / ,, .... ‘M-flmâ€"fl‘WWâ€"w ’ DEFEND NEUTRAL ZONE Ill NEAR EAST British Troops Rushed to Guard Gallipoli and Halt Turkish Forces From Crossing Into Europe to Seize Constantin- ople and Straits of Danda nellesâ€"aPrompt Response from New Zealand and Australia. EMPIRE lSSUFS CALI 1000003110 ; l l l Ottawa, Sept. 17.â€"Like a bolt from , Pasha is new supreme over all of Anaâ€" l the blue another war emergency has; burst upon Canada. Without the slightest warning 9. Press despatch, and an official desspatch were received‘, more Saturday afternoon intimatingl that Great Britain was desirous of tovlia, but has yet made no direct move toward Constantinople or the Straits. and the warnings \Villl the allies have voiced throughout Europe and the Near East may have served their pur- pose. Smyrna. which last month was the having Canada. with the other men seas Dominions, take part in the Near centre of Greek ruley is a ruin, with fire raging for three “days, and con- TIURIIISII 3000000 Anti T0000 I0 3100000. 00000000 00,000 000101.033 Greek and Armenian Quarters in Ruins, as Well as Most of the European Section, Involving Millions of Dollars Lossâ€"Turkish District Remains Untouched. A despatch from Constantinople evacuated aboard warships on Wed- says:~Fire started in the Armenian, nesday evening. quarter of Smyrna on Wednesday and', A despntch from Smyrna says:â€"~ spread rapidly through the rest of the: “We don’t want to fight Great Britain, town. burning most of the European but she must give up Constantinople section and destroying the American‘,’ to Turkey. It is Turkey's capital, and Consulate and the theatre where Am-l we wish it peacefully, if possible. If crican refugees were congregated. not, we will fight.” The Armenian bazaar was pillagcdl With these words Mustapha Kemal East conflict. . London, Sept. 17.â€"Great Britain hasl invited Canada and the other British Dominions to be represented by con- tingentsl in the British force taking part in an elf-active defense of the neutral zone in the Near Earst. The British Government has also ad- dressed a note to Rumania. Jugo- Siavia and Greece, seeking their par- ticipaticm in the defense. With. British troops entrenching at strategic points on the Dardanelles, French and Italian battalions rushing to 30m them, and from far New Zea~ land word that an Anzac contingent will be despatched to the scenes of their heroic sacrifices in dealing with the Turkish Nationalists. there has been a. swift carrying into effect of the allied* pronouncements regarding a 'flrm determination to preserve the freedom or the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus-. The British troops are supported by heavy artillery, and backed by the fleet, and oflicivails here are- confident that the combined allied land and sea forces, which are declared to be al- ready prepared for any eventuality, can hold Constantinople against all odds. The Turks having bambarded the last departing Greek transports from the Chesme Peninsula. despite the Bri- tish appeal for mercy on the ground that the Greeks were helpless and no longer combatants, Mustapha Kemal tinulng, but diminished in violence. ‘Only the Moslem quarter has escaped. Up to Saturday evening the British Foreign Office had received no news of loss of life among British subjects. Smyrna, Sept. 17.â€"Smyrna, which the Turks have called the Eye of Asia. is avast sepulchre of ashes; only the shattered walls of 25,000 homes and the charred bodies of countless vic- tims remain to tell the story of death and dmtrucion, unexampled in modern history. The ruins are still smoulder- ing like a volcano which has, spent its fury; no snort has been made by the Turks to remove the dead and dying; the streets are full of the bodies of those who sought to escape, for the most part women and children. Every building in the Armenian quarter has been burned, with the dead lying about; the bay, which cov- ers an area. of fifty acres. still carries on its surface the poor remnants oi those who were massacred or sought to escape the ruthlessnes's of the foe. On the waterfront crouch thousands of survivors. who fear death in anâ€" other form at the hands of the sol-' dlery; there are no boats to take them ofl’. Out of 300.000 Christians crowding the city prior to the descent of the Turks, only 60,000 have been evacu~ ated. Kem'alist officials have inform- ed the American relief workers that the return of the Christians to the in- terior meant certain death. l " . 7 $4.50 t 5.25; d , f -, 3 t 4.50; me lmilkers? $60 to $30; splinters? SE70 to I Toronto. . Ont. barleyâ€"No. 3 extra test, 47 lbs. or better, 55 to 58¢, outside. Ont. buckwheat‘No. 2, $1. Ont. eats-No. 2 white, 33 to 35c. Ont. ryeâ€"No. 3, 62 to 67¢, outside. Ont. wheatâ€"No. 2 winter, new crop, unofficially quoted at 92 to 97c, toab. shipping points. Western barleyâ€"â€"C.I.F., bay ports,‘ No. 3 CW., nominal. Western wheatâ€"C.I.F., bay ports, No. 1 Northern, $10694; No. 3 North- em, 31.0204. Cornâ€"American, track, Toronto, No. 2 yellow, 80c; No. 3 yellow, 79c. Millfeedâ€"Car lots, del. Montreal, freight, bags included; bran, per ton, $21.25; shorts. $23.25. Hayâ€"Baled hay, track, Toronto, extra No. 1, $16 per ton. Loose hay, No. 1, per ton, $16 to $18. Flourâ€"Ontario pats, bulk, sea- board, $4.20 to $4.25; in jute bags.‘ Toronto, prompt shipment, $4.35 to $4.45; in jute bags, Montreal, prompt shipment, $4.50 to $4 60; Manitoba first pats, $6.80 per bbl., Montreal- Toronto freights. Cheese~New, large, 19 to 19%,c; twins. 20 to 21¢; triplets, 21 to 2150c; Stiltons, 21c. Old, large, 23 to 24c; twins, 24 to 24%c; Stiltons, 25c. l Butterâ€"Finest creamery prints, 39 00 40c; ordinary creamery prints, 35 g; 37c. Dairy, 29 to 310. Cooking, c. $90- calves, choice, $10 to $11.50; do, me ., $8 to $9; do, com., $3 to $7; spring lambs, $10 to $11; sheep, choice, $5 to $5.50; do, good, $3.50 to $4.50; do, com., $1 to $3; yearlings, ChoiCe, $6 ’00 $7; do, com., $4 to $5; hogs, fed and watered, $12; do, f.o.b., $11.25; do, country points, $11. Montreal. Oats-Can. West, No. 2, 50c. Flour ‘â€"-Mari. spring Wheat pats... firsts, l$6.80. Rolled oatsâ€"Bags, 90 105., $2.90 to $3. Bran, $21. Shorts, $23. Middlings, $28. Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, car lots, $18 to $19. CheeSe, finest eastern, 16% to 165/20. Butter, choicest creamery, 350. Eggs, selected, 366. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 60 to 65c. Com. bulls and cows, $2 to $3; com. western steers, $5; good veal calves, $9; med., $7 up; grassers, $3 to $3.75 for the bulk; lambs, picked, $10.25; do, med, $9; do, com., $7; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; hogs, best, $12.50; lights and fair quality butchers, $12 to $12.25. M’sâ€"w- Alarm Clock Uses the Human Voice A despatch from Paris says:-â€"One of the most remarkable novelties shown this year at the Concours Le~l pine is an alarm clock fitted with a diaphragm. On going to bed, the Iowuer shouts into the clock the hour; gmwn here-n |at which he desires to be roused next Urges Allies tc Action. Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice. noted war critic. who takes a gloomy view of the situation in the near East. He urges the Allies to take immediate action to strengthen their hold on Constantinople and to keep the Straits ' 0],) en . 2,000 Greek soldiers Massacred by Kemalists. A despatch from London says: â€"-â€"A Reuter despatch from Athens, dated Wednesâ€" lday, says the French steamer lLamar’tine arrived there with :l50 refugees from Smyrna, including a Greek journalist. The journalist asserted that Most Rev. Chrysostom, Met- , ropolitan of the Creek Church in Smyrna, and the Armenian Metropolitan both were murâ€" dered, and that the Kemalists massacred about 2,000 Greek isoldiers, whose bodies were‘ 'thrown into the sea. W ENGLAND DELIGHTED WITH CANADIAN FRUIT; lPlums Sold in Covent Garden Ten Days After Picking at St. Catharines. St. Catharines, Sept. 17:â€"VVelling- ,ton Weekly News, England, published lthe following recently: “A most interesting window exhibit ,can be seen at the Ontario Govern- ment and Canadian railway offices, twhere divisions of the first shipment of Canadian dessert plums are on lvieVI'. These plums are Wrapped in paper and packed in crates, and took exactly 10 days to reach London from the orchards at St. Catharines. Ont. Forrty~seven crates were delivered to Covent Garden and sold the same day at an average of 89 6d per crate of 17 pounds. “These shipments are the advance guard of many others. including vari- ous shipments of peaches, whdch are idue to arrive early in September from' iIlie same district. They will come: ;over in refrigerator storage on the, boats, and will be parked in an enâ€"‘ Itirely new form of packing case, and [great hopes are held of this fruit com- ipetiltg favorably with that which is ‘ finest Cheese, eastern, 151/2c; Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens, morning and the diaphragm repeats. selected. 35 to 360. Potatoes, per bag, 88 to 38¢; roosters, 23c; fowl, ‘24 to the words in due course. To be 27c; duckvling‘s, 30c; turkeys, 35 to 400. Wakened by 0119’s 0W” "Oice mu“ bel Live poultryâ€"Spring chickens, 25c; a quaint experience until one becomes roosters, 17 to 20¢; fowl, 20 to 25C;1 used to it. ducklings, 30c; turkeys, 30 to 350. ~â€" Margarineâ€"ZO to 22c. Eggsâ€"No. 1 candied, 33 to 34c; se- lects, 37 to 88¢; cartons, 41 to 43c. Beansâ€"Canadian hand-picked, bus., $4.25; primes, $3.73 00 $3.90. Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per imp, 3:11., $2.20; per 5 imp. gals, $2.10;' maple sugar, 1b., 20c. Honey-GO-lb. tins, 13c per 1b.; 5â€"; ZK-l‘b. tins, 14 to 15c per lb.; Ontario comb honey, per dozen, $3.75 to $4.50.‘ Potatoesâ€"New Ontarios, $1 to $1.15 I Smoked meatsaâ€"Hanis, med, 28 to‘: 30c; cooked ham, 44 to 47c; smokedj‘ rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 35 to} 88¢; breakfast bacon, 33 to 35¢; spe-i cial brand breakfast bacon, 38 to 40c; backs, boneless, 39 to 43c. ‘ Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon: $17; lightweight rolls, in bids, $0185 heavyweight rolls, $40. Lardâ€"Pure, tierces. 16c: iu‘os. 16150; pails. 17c; prints. 190. Short- ening, tierces, 121;; to 12310; tubs, 12% to 13c; pails, 1314 to 1334c; prints, 15% to 16940. Choice heavy steers. $7 to 38; but! cher steers, choics, S7 to $7.50; do, good. $6.25 to $6.75: do, med, $5.50 to $6.50; do, com., $4.50 to $5.50; butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 to .723; do, med. $5.50 to $6.25; do. com., $4.50 to $5; butcher cows, choice. $4.50 to $5.50; do, med. $3.50 to $4; manners and cutters $1 to $2; butcher hulls good. 34.50 to 35: do, com., S: :30 to ' $3.50; feeders, gomi. $5.50 to $53.25;, do. fair, $5 to $5.50; stockcz's. good,‘ (I I‘E'OU'I‘YII‘g order 1.: the ciI)‘ and of I car lots, 60 to 65c. W On an average the blood flows 168 miles through the body in a day. can‘t: I LAMS ARE 4102‘: lléil‘fâ€" l:-z‘-4'-. 31' ' .~\.â€"fzi lilo r Ii‘fdll 71:2: Ii‘J'Cr-T‘ :zv‘ X'L‘l' L .I.‘ ~ pix/renting .those killed in Smyrna. before the flames reached it. and com- pleted the destruction. The Greek quarter was also destroyed. All the, foreign women and children are being evacuated to Athens. Allied soldiers formed a fire brigader but the conflagratiou is beyond their control. The property damage, it is, estimated, will reach into the millions. The steamships Winona and Edsalli have left for S‘alonica with between} 400 and 800 refugees each. Several stories Were told concern-' ing the origin of the fire. The most reliable is that of Minnie B. Mills, head of the American Col», lege Institute, who declared she saw‘ a Turkish regular army sergeant, or' officer, enter a building Where the; first flames were seen. He was carry-‘I ing small tins, evidently containing; oil. Shortly after it broke into flames.’ Owing to this it will be impossiblel to estimate the number of Armenian and Greek dead bodies. many being”, in the burned houses. Dr. Post and other American workers who had made a bhorough investigation before, the flames drove them to safety, esti-l mated the dead at nearly 1,000. How many were killed during the night, and how many were trapped in the‘ burning area, is unknown. Foreign destroyers in the harbor? kept searchlights playing on the: crowds along the quays all night to give the refugees every possible proâ€"I tection. A cordon of Turkish regular troops was also thrown around them.’ The Turkish quarter was not touched. It was the first day since the occupation that there was a southâ€" east wind, which would blow the flames westward instead of into the Moslem area of the city. American financial losses are probâ€" ably heavy. The British inhabitants of Smyrna, with a few exceptions, were safely 120,000 VICTIMS or M TURKISH VENGEANCE Greek Metropolitan Was Tor; tured Before He Was Shot. A desp-atch from London slayszflA despatch to The Times from Constam, timople states, it is reported there, that M. Lasoaris, leading Greek journalist in Smyrna, has been murdered. The British battleship, Iron Duke, which arrived at Dardanelles Friday, reports .that the Octogenarian Irish. physician. Mr. Murphy, was among It is also reported that the Greek: Metropolitan Chryso-svtom was coui't-‘ martialed and shot. ' A despatch from Athens no The, Daily Express asserts that Arch-l bishop Chrysostom was tortured be-, fore he was killed. ,1 The town of Charak in the Dar: dan-elles is being put in a state of, defence in case of a Kemalist attack,l Pasha announced the next aim of the Turkish Nationalist army. Already many units which had part in the crushing defeat of Greece are en route to the Ismid front, while Kemal pre- pares his demands Mustapha Kemal is a man of inde- terminate age. He might be 30 or he might be 40 years old He has blonde hair, blue eyes, is of medium height, and tough, wiry frame. So- cially, he is courteous; personally, he is kindly~not the tall type one as- sociates with great military leaders. He is no swashbuckling General,4\but a man of simple tastes and habits. A later despatch from London says:â€"If Mustapha Kernel Pasha should attempt to move his vicborious forces against Constantinople he will be opposed by the British fleet. The British Cabinet, after a meet- ing on Friday announced that instruc- tions had been issued to the British armada to allow no Turkish troops to make the crossing from Asia Minor to the European shore. Complete agreement was reached at the Cabinet meeting with the French for the protection of the neutral zones on both sides of the Straits of the Dardanelles and also of Constanti- nople. A note is to besent to Mus- tapha Kemal Pasha by Italy, France and Great Britain asserting that pend- ing a permanent arrangement of the situation the neutral zones must be respected. Preparations are being made by the British to send reinforcements into the neutral zone. J ugo~Sliavia and Roumaniia both are reported to be viewing with the greatest concern the possibility of the Turks returning to Thrace. It was announced that the British Government considers the whole Turk- ish question should be the subject of a general conference of the powers, including the minor powers, such as Roumania and Junglavia. -â€"â€"-_~______.____ troops has been landed. The French detachment will land Saturday. The. victims at Smyrna numbered at least 120,000 up to Thursday morn- ing, says a despatch to The Times from Athens, quoting John Manolo, of the American Relief, as its authority. â€"oâ€"â€".._â€" CASUALTIES 1N SEVERAL IRISH CITIES S n i p e r 5 Active, Bombs Thrown and a Bank Raided. Belfast, Sept. 1’.‘.~Several casual- ties occurred over the week-end in consequence of sniping and collisions between Free State troops and rebels. Yesterday in Belfast. 21 youth stand- ling near York Street, was shot dead by a sniper. Today a man was killed and a youth wannded in the same lo- cality. Raiders attacked the Ulster Bank at Carrigallen, County Lelti’im. on Saturday. They used grenadex, which wrecked the building. The manager says another despatch to The Times.l0f the bank “'38 Wounded. 11308? the A British squadron is lying in thejamaCng force “'35 l'eDUIsed- A CIVIL harbor, and a detachment of Italian; ian was killed and a youth wounded « 'during street fighting in Cork on Fri- lday evening. Two volunteers were lwounded in repulsiug the attack 0! jthe lrregulars. A bomb was thrown ‘ at a military lorry in Dublin on Satur- lday evening. Two soldiers and eight civilians were wounded. civilians dangerously. We...“ Many Railway Shopmen Return to Work one of the A despatch from Chicago ‘says:â€"â€"\Vhile more than fifty }railwaysâ€"â€"counting subsidiar- lieshâ€"had, to all intents and purposes, made their peace ,‘ with the striking railroad shop ,men on Thursday, a much llarger group was still holding ialoof, and reports were that imany would reject the Baltiâ€" j more separate agreement plan. lAnnouncement was made by E. German. President of ithe Rock Island, that his road will not agree to the proposals. ~-â€"â€"«â€"4 There are more women than men voters in Sweden. '2 Turk celebrations of the vic- l 0 A-L’gsged in the double task ' ; by the Nationalist forces. l