THE FRENCH BLOW
HEAVY FIGHTING IN CHAMPAGNE 11,000 PRISONERS TO DATE • .5 :•,-■ - . .1 1 GENERAL STRIKE IN GERMANY SUBMARINE ATTACK IN American : waters. . ■•.••• ' * TJpe news from the Aisne to-day discloses a consolidation. ; and organisation' of the : . positions wljich were captured in 'tho first blow of-the great JYsncli. offensive.. The activity of the advance has extended ; along; in the. Champagne Region till the ' fighting .Front of the-new offensive now stretches for, 60 miles. To date, since April 16, the French have captured 11,000 unwounded prisoners. On the British front steady- progress is maintained. The general strike in Berlin waa a. carefully organised affair, of ian': orderly emphatic character. A l ,curious, suggestion comes. by way .of ;,Bejne—through which-centre quite a "lot of, interesting matter has lately filtered— namely, that the Germans, are. organising a sham revolution with the,idea, of enlisting, pityvfrom ; tliq Entente Powers so. that a chance, for bargaining..fbr a poaco settlement may be offered them. In.. America,, the present topic of iexcited .controversy is an en-.' counter,between a German submarine and a United States destroyer. The former .espajfed.iby diving."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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180THE FRENCH BLOW Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 5
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