HEAVY TOE ON MERCHANT SIPPING.
NEUTRALS CHARY TO ACT
SENATE ENDORSES PRESIDENT'S . POLICY
BRITISH COUP IN TIE ' WEST
The super-frightful warfare qb sea. is. claiming a heavy toll on merchant shipping, and tho Londbn "Times" warns its readers to expect, sorious losses. Tlio latest victims includo tho. big Anchor liner California, in addition to several other vessels of substantial tonnage.'■ Tho attitude of the European neutrals to President Wilson's line of action, on tho dispatches to-day, does not promise to be helpful to the cause pf humanity. Geographical .considerations constitute a factor, and meanwhile fiom Holland and! Spain come reports of serious destitution and shortage of food. The economic situation in Spa)n is said to be j?.ra'"e. The. United States Senate has overwhelmingly voted in support of the President's policy. A signal score, is reported from, tho British front in France. Tho enemy has found the continued and resistless pressure of the British so great that ho has been obliged to evacuate the village of Gvandecourt, with all its defensive works, after sustaining heavy losses. The opening of tho British Parliament has been marked by a striking Ini- ' perial iioto in' the Royal ceremonial attached to this imposing occasion. , , 1
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2999, 9 February 1917, Page 5
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200HEAVY TOE ON MERCHANT SIPPING. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2999, 9 February 1917, Page 5
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