CENSOR IN THE WHEAT EXCHANGE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3066, 30 April 1917, Page 5

CENSOR IN THE WHEAT EXCHANGE

TRADE IN "FUTURES" BARRED,

(Rec. April''29, 11.5 p.m.) Winnipeg, April 28.

When wheat soared to 282 to-day, the Censor appeared on- the floor of the Exchange and announced that no further trade in "futures ,1 would be permitted. Prices then dropped 20 points. He further announced thafa the Allied Governments had sufficient wheat for present requirements, and , had made no purchases during the last forty cents jump.—Reuter.

Marshal Mishitch, the commander of the Ist Serbian Army, whoso energy, an initiative contributed so. much t« the taking of Slonastir, has received from General Milne, the British com'-) mander in Macedonia, the Insignia ofi the Grand Cross of the Order of St., siicuael and St. George, which has been conferred on him by the King. Mr. A. Hartwell, director of the Lou-* don and Manchester Assurance Company, told the members of the London Assuranco Superintendents' Fraternal Association that the industrial assurance offices had pal 3 over £7,000,00& in war claims. The same offices had inn vested in the'AVar Loan over £60,000,-" 000 in new money and conversions. An ancestor of Count BernstorfS fought against the Americans before they had gained their freedom. This fact is brought out by a passage in the "Souvenirs du Chevalier de Cussy." , Among the acquaintances made by the Chevalier in 1820, when he joined the staff of the French Embassy in Berlin, was the Court Chamberlain, Count Bernstorff, grandfather of the ex : Ambassador. "Countess Bernstorff," notes De Cussy, "bears a singular forename, 'America.' This was bestowed on her because she was born in that country, during tho War of Independence. Her father was at the time of her birth in command of one of tho regiments hired out to the English by. the Elector of Hesse."

Chilswell House, Boar's Hill, near. Oxford, the residence of Dr. Bridg-M, the Poet Laureate, was. destroyed by fire on February 6. The outbreak was due to a spark from a bedriom fire and the flames spread so rapidly that the roof "fell in before the ATitngdon. Brigade aTrived. A large portion of fch6 iiirmturo, library, etc., on the ground floor 4 was «alvod<