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FRENCH AIRMAN

BOMBARDS ENEMY SHIP.

PARIS, April 17. (Received April 18, at 9.20 a.m.) On the night'of April 15 one of our aeroplanes, at a height of only 100 metres fired 16 shells at an enemy ship in the North Sea, and the majoritv of them hit their mark.

The High Commissioner cabled, London April 17:—The French official report states: "On Saturday night one of o ur gun aeroplanes, at a height of 500 ft, attacked in the North Sea an enemy ship upon which it fired 16 shells, of winch the larger number took effect."

MISLEADING THE ?G^ORAHT.

FEEDING FAITH IX ZEPPELINS.

London 'Times' and Sydney 'Sun' Services.

. r , LONDON, April 17. A German wu-ekss message publishes grossly exaggerated accounts of the last Zeppdin raids, which, they allege were supplied by Dutch sailors." The report* assert that Leitli, Hull, and Sunderland suffered terribly; and that Grimsby barracks were devastated and hundreds of toldiers were buried in the ruins.

CANADIAN RECRUITING,

SINGLE MEN HANG BACK

OTTAWA, April 17. (Received April 18, at 8.20 a.m.) A deputation representing 42 recruiting leagues in the various provinces waited on Cabinet urging national registration. They declared, that men were not coming forward in sufficient numbers, while there was a high proportion of married men among the recruits, each of whom was costing £8 more per month than the single men, which was not a desirable stato of affairs.

Sir Robert Borden, while promising Cabinet's consideration, declined to ccm°mit himself to the abandonment of th« voluntary system. Ho admitted there were loopholes in the voluntary system for economic waste; still, they were procuring the recruits at the required rate of a thousand a, dav.

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Evening Star, Issue 16092, 18 April 1916, Page 6

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FRENCH AIRMAN Evening Star, Issue 16092, 18 April 1916, Page 6

FRENCH AIRMAN Evening Star, Issue 16092, 18 April 1916, Page 6

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