TWO MILES FORWARD ON ELEVEN-MILE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 5

TWO MILES FORWARD ON ELEVEN-MILE FRONT

AMERICA CLEARING FOR ACTION PRESIDENT ASKS FOR WAR POWERS KUT RECAPTURED SEA FIGHT IN THE CHANNEL The war news-to-day is a cheerful and inspiring budget of good things. Haig's advance on the Ancro has developed to a gain of two miles on eleven miles of front, with the occupation of several villages. The British in Mesopotamia havo recaptured Kut-el-Amara, and the Turks are in full flight, pursued by our cavalry. Their losses are heavy. President Wilson, clearing his decks for action, has asked Congress for powers to act in defence of American lives and commerce. No overt act, ho says, has yet occurred, but if diplomacy fails, America's metier is to be ono pf armed neutrality. What looks like an undoubted "overt aot" is the torpedoing and sinking of the Cunard liner Laconia, with American citizens on board. Two 'American ladies, says the Queenstown correspondent of the "NewYork Times," have perished. Not the least interesting item is the statement by Mr. Bonar Law in the House of Commons of the result .of the great British Victory War Loan, which resulted in tho splendid sum of over one thousand millions. Thero has been a sea' fight by tho destroyers in the Channel,.and a ten-minute cut-and-run bombardment of two Kentish coast towns.