SEVENTY-NINE LIVES LOST.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14395, 24 April 1917, Page 5

SEVENTY-NINE LIVES LOST.

DESPIOAOLE COWARDICE OF KMM WOUNDED.

FRENCH AND BRITISH PROGRESS.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLT-II GERMAKY.

GRAVE SITUATION IH GREEK.

Violent artillery activity continues on the Prench front. Counter-attacks in Champagne were repulsed with sanguinary losses. The British have made further progress on the Scarpe and north-east of Loos. The list of German crimes has been extended by the sinking of two hospital ships in the Channel. One was conveying a large number of German wounded, who displayed despicable cowardice. Seventy-nine are missiug from both ships, The industrial chaos in Germany is spreading, The Greek situation is again serious.

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