FOURTEEN OTHER VILLAGES LIBERATED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3034, 22 March 1917, Page 5

FOURTEEN OTHER VILLAGES LIBERATED

WIDE SWEEP BY THE CAVALRY

SINISTER REPORTS

RETREATING ENEMY WORSE THAN VANDALS

Tile British report to-day rccords the liberation of fourteen other villages from tho ghastly regime of tho Hun. The Anglo-French cavalry continues its wide sweep in. advance of the main armies, and is in close touch with the enemy. Bad weather has set in, slowing down the operations, and the noxt twenty-four hours, it is considered, should deoidc the next move of the Germans. A FrcHch official message reports that the Huns, not content with tho wanton destruction of property in tho zone of their retreat, have forcibly abducted fifty girls from the town of Noyon. The crisis between Germany and America remains as it was. According to one message, the President does not regard the recent sinking of tho three American cargo steamers as coming within the range of "overt acts." It appears that passenger liners only are oovered by tho phrase. Meanwhile urgent orders are out for the construction of, submarine chasers, and tho veil of secrecy has descended upon the deoisions of Cabinet. The latest development in tho Russian situation is an outbreak of revolutionary activity in Finland, hut the general situation is quiet and reassuring. Mr. Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons, on the Dardanelles report, dofends the methods of- tho .War Council in the early stages of the war. '