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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 203, 16 May 1918, Page 5

Portable electric light plants aro to bo provided in the Canadian battle areas by tho Canadian Red Cross for use in advanced dressing stations, wherti tho candles and oil lamps now in use will be replaced by electric lights. As an outcome of the report of the Canadian Commission which line investigated tho profits of Canadian packing houses, tho Government has decided that in future all profite above 15 per cent, shall bo confiscated. At Bigglcswndo William Henry Scott, a chemist, of Sandy (Beds.), pleaded guilty on four counts charging him with Tofus'ing to billot soldiers, and was lined iC2O. He had soldiers billeted on him last jear, but in conseq-nonc« of ' tho men's oomplainta ffieywero withdrawn. American shipyards, it is said, will bo topfc in full operation for the next 10 years in order to provide the immense fleet needed for tho increased ■ international trade aftei the war. For the first time in 60 years American shipyards are said to be equalling British shipyards in pulpnL