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Show WAR BULLETINS For Patriotic Fund. Berlin, Oct. 6- More than $50,000 has been subscribed up to tonight in the local campaign to raise $75,000 for the Canadian patriotic fund. Thin was the second day of a three-day crusade. Tho following cablegram was sent to Lord Kitchener. "Berlin, Ont., a city of IS, 000 population, pop-ulation, of which 12.000 are German or of German desrent, proposes to raise on October 5, 6 and 7, 15,000 pounds ($75.00(1) 0r more for the national patriotic fund." LoTd Kitchener replied as follow g "My best wishes for success to your efforts." Prince Has Hopes. Rome, via Paris, Oct. 6 11:58 n. m Prince William of Wled. former ruler of Albania, according to advi-! advi-! ces received here from Berlin, in an I address to his company of Uhlans said he hoped through their bravery brave-ry to reconquer on the battlefield the crown of Albania. Prince Francis Wounded. Rome, via Paris, Oct. 6, 11:56 p. m. A dispatch received here from Munich says that Prince Francis, fourth son of the king of Bavaria, was wounded in the left thigh during a battle He was operated on in a hospital and blood poisoning was feared for a time, but he now is out of danger. To Return to Paris- London, Oct 7. 3 20 a. m. The French government will return to Pari6 Wednesday or Thursday, according accord-ing to the Paris correspondent of tho Express, who makes this announcement an-nouncement on high authority. The visit of President Poincare to army headquarters is considered a good omen Peace Efforts Fail. London, Oct. 6, 5 04 a. m. The Rotterdam Rot-terdam correspondent of the Times sends the following dispatch: "The president of the German Peace association has been at The Hague lately trying to bring a meeting of international pacificists who would concentrate their efforts to bring about. ieace. His attempts have miscarried, owing to the difficulty of securing transportation. For the same reason an attempt to convoke the Berne bureau has been abandoned, aban-doned, but steps are to be taken to make the meeting possible, as it is evident that the plan has been received re-ceived with great sympathy on all sides Work of Ambulance. London, Oct. 7, 5 10 a. m The Times today describes the American ambulance established in the Pasteur Pas-teur Lycee at Neuilly by a committee commit-tee of Americans as one of the best equipped and most remarkable war hospitals In Europe "Its splendid work Is not sufficiently sufficient-ly known in England," says the Times "It deserves all the help that Eng lishmen can give and the devotion and kindness of the self-denying American citizens in Paris should send a thrill of gratitude throughout England." Casualties Are Few. London, Oct. 7, 2:07 a m The Dally Telegraph's correspondent in France says: "For nearly three weeks the casualties casual-ties among the British troops have been insignificant. The big German shells do comparatively little dam age. The German Infantry attacks ceased long ago." How War Affects U. S. Berlin, Oct, 6. (By wireless to Say-ville, Say-ville, L I ) The Vossiche Zeitung, in an article on the commerce of the United States, quotes statistics to show that both American imports and exports, but particularly the latter, have increased since tho beginning of the war, "The outlook for American trade Is rather dangerous,' the paper says: "Producers will be seriously damaged; dam-aged; for instance, cotton growers. America needs a surplus of exports, not of imports. Germany buys from America gods worth about $160,000,-000 $160,000,-000 annually. She would take a large part of these wares even in war time if private property at sea in war time enjoyed the same protection as property on land, England is constantly con-stantly violating the establishing rules of naval warfare. "The English preBs is endeavoring to place the blame for the Injury to American commerce on the German emperor; as a matter of fact Amerl- cans may thank the British pirates for this injury. The only way for America to retain this neccssar, com-morce com-morce with Germany and to restore the balance of trade is to he fmind In the adoption of regulations against the piratical methods of England." German Cruisers Active. Berlin. Oct. 6, ( by wireless i Press matter derived from official German sources says: "Surprise generally Is expressed at the amazing activity of the German cruisers stationed abroad. Though it was generally expected that the sols would fall easy victims to British warships within a fortnight after the declaration of war, Germans now are astonished to learn from representatives rep-resentatives In the British and French press of the damage they are doing to the merchant marine of the enemy. "The Goeben, Breslau, Emden, Karlsruhe and the Leipzig are the name3 of the German vessels whose successes have caused the liveliest satisfaction in Germany. In addition the cruisers Scharnhorst and'Gneise-nau, and'Gneise-nau, stationed in the Pacific, are reported re-ported to have been busy in tho vicinity vi-cinity of Tahiti, Society Islands, where they succeeded in destroying the French gunboat Zeele. The attempts at-tempts of the powers composing tho triple enteute to enforce the opening of the Dardanelles have failed. Russian Ambassador Furious. The Russian ambassador at Constantinople Con-stantinople is described as being furious fu-rious on account of the embargo placed on the exportation of Russian grain and on the importation of arms "The Increased Turkish navy, it is expected, soon will be sailing in the Black sea. The Turkish press is publishing pub-lishing attacks on England because of the suppression of the Khedival rights in Egypt "A neutral correspondent behind the French front in the department of the Marne estimates that the fugitive fugi-tive civilian population in northern France numbers 10.000,000 and that these persons are in great distress. nn |