MORE VILLAGES CAPTURED IN THE WEST
ENCIRCLING MOVE 'FRIGHTENS /THE GERMANS /'/VILE SEA GRIME,;.
HOSPITAL SHIP ASTURIAS . .X / .TORPEDOED Auothcr series of successes is reported from, tho Allied front in the West to-day. Tho Germans admit that they had to fall back to escape an encircling movo by the French. Several villages havo been, added to the slowly extending aroa of reconquered territory. As yet there is no hint of tho tremendous events which tho French critics confidently anticipated, but tho weather is not.quite settled enough yot for free operations. Tho Germans have committed their most deliberate breach of the rules of war by sinking, without warning, tho British, hospital sloip Asturias. The latest nows from' Russia discloses treachery on tho part of the Tsarina and one of the ■ ox-Ministers, M. Protopopoff. General Ivanoff, who commanded the Russian southern armios at tho timo of the, groat retreat in Galicia' ..in 1915, Las been arrested. Tho situation between America and Germany has.not changed perceptibly, oxcept that" the Foreign Affairs Committee has eubmitted a resolution to Congress expressing '
the opinion that tho timo has como when America must vindicate her honour and rights by declaring a stnto of war. ■ •
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3040, 29 March 1917, Page 5
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