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CANADIANS HAVING THEIR REYENGE.1
LESS DRENCHED WITH GAS,
Lospos, Sept. 17.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
FOUR COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED.
Losos, Sept. 17, - An Italian official cominunique
states:--
Jens has been literally drenched with us by the Canadians, and, nccording to Mr. Percival Phillips (at Bahisizze plateau.
war querespondent), the garrison is forred to-live in darkness and tur men and the men share not removej their guests for
We repulsed four counter-attacks
MR oment.
Fitty tons of gas shells were thrown Jan one sæetar i one night, filling the galleries and dug-cuts with glands of peisne. The prisoners, tuken are all suffering bully. A captured officer. describing the feelings of the gur rison, sud: “I wish we had th swine who invented gas, we would erneily ha
The Canadians are grimly satisfied they
were the first vietinis of gas at Ypres
HIN
BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Loxius, Sept. 17. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Flag
We successfully curriff out a raid to the unit of Epchy, in the neigh borhood of the Arras-Dui railway fand to the southeast of Gayyolle, We destroyed dugouts, emplacements ami.dumps..
The
tile artillery was active to the east of Ypres.
GERARD S REVELATIONS.
SCATHING INDICTMENT OF GERMANY.
Laspox, Sept. 17. The final chapter of Mr. Gerard's revelations has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, and is" a southing indiet. nent of Germany.
Mr. Gerard us that when ho (returned to America, after living in the centre of a world of calamity. he felt for the first time, the utter horror and uselessness, of all the. isery the Prussian military auto- crats had brought on the world. faul what a reckoning there would ba with Germany sothe day when the plain people realise the truth when they learn whit base motives actu- ated their rulers in coud mining the whele generation to war to the death.
Mr. Gerard,asks : Ts it torn shame that the world, shook! have been so disturbed: that pencefik men should
Losnes, Sept: 17, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Huge compeleri to lie in mud and filth refinits s
in the donth af'a row winter? Why
streets of Lemberg und prison-
An attempted enemy rail, to the must the pools of Poland die of soatli of Caribartayde, was repulsedger, not finding dogs enough in
Our artillery was acive on the Ypres sector. The enemy artillery was hess marked, except to the south of Lens and in the neighbourhemd et Nieuport.
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of wir starve in huts or working in factories and mines? Why should the horror of ten million men dend be inflicted upon the world because in the dark, cold northern plains of deceiving a great people, poisoning Germany, there exists an autoerney.
their minds, from one generation to
The enemy's aeroplaties dropped filzy boobs behind our fines, yester Jay morning. The damage was] Alight. Our aeroplanes dropped 143) bombs on nerodrames and billets and other; and preaching the virtue of the necessity of the war?. Until that Gred thousable of machine-gun Froude at vuribus targets, scatteringutemey is either wiped out or made 2,000 infantry, from a height of 100 powerless there can be no peace or earth. The golden dream of con- burst was almost accomplished. A little more advance, a few more wagon bonds of ammunition, and there would live been no battle of the Mame, no Jaffré to hammer back the invading hordes of burbarism.
-We brought, down seven enemy mielines and drove down four. Eight of cuts are missing.
GERMANS REPORT INCREASED -ARTILLERY DUEL IN FLANDERS
LONDON, Sept. 17.
A German cficial neuge states: The artillery duel in Flinders bust înervused. Several times there has been a most violent drum fire.
- The artillery activity is also in- ten on the Aiste sector, in Cham. pague and at Verdun.
The enemy lost eighteen arroplanes yesterday":"
ENEMY ATTACK AT APREMONT
FOREST
Lospos, Sept 17,
A French consouniqué states After a violent bombardment, tire Berans Atticked our positions at Apremont forest, fractions of the
THE LUXBURG AFFAIR.
THE FEELING IN SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17. There have been great meetings of Socialists and Liberals presided over by Dr. Branting, and Professor Eden (the Liberal leader) respec- tively.
A resolution was passed strongly protesting at tha Conservative Government's caniluet in the Lux bur affair and emphasising the determination of the Swedish people to maintain strict neutrality.
The Socialists have demanded change of government...
enemy, guiding a footing in our ad | SERIOUS STRIKE IN ARGENTINE.
anal elements. They were driven
Bl the line re-established
Lout
art!
ACTIVITY IN THE MEUSE
-REGION AN
LONDON, Sept. 27 While the Argentine waiting Germany explanation of the Lux 'burg affair, the Governm faced
with u serious strike of rai who have held up trains, seized the has been very considerable telegraphs and activity on both bonke of
lown up a bruge,
Loxpox, Sept. 17. French communiqué states:
especially to the worth interrupting the services. of Hill 394 and get durerea Wood
Cors, refuses Our av
tons arbitration
ruimit: