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■ f '' TERRIBLE BOMBARDMENT THE FRENCH PUSH PROGRESS IN SEVERAL ■ ' SECTORS ; (Rec. April 21; 0.35 a.m.) - .London, April 20. The "Times" correspondent at French Headquarters reports: ' "Despite the most abominable weather, rain, sleet, and snow, and tho churning of the shell-ploughed soil into morasses, mak* • ing air work impossible.-' and greatlj; hampering the infantry, we have considerably advanced in half: a dozen different sectors in St. Quentin and Champagne,. repelling counter-attacks so effectively tint we have either killed or taken prisoner, in several attacks, every man. Meanwhile the terrible bombardment continues incessantly on a hundred miles of front."—Tho "Times.", RUSH TO THE WEST FRONT HINDENBURG AND THE v KAISER (Rec. April 21, 0.35 a.m^) Amsterdam, April 2Q. After the capture of Vimy Ridge, Hindenburg rushed in a special train, to the West front to endeavour to reestablish the line, the Kaiser following.—The "Times." BERLIN'S BIG STRIKE MUNITIONEERS REFUSE TO, WORK (Hec. April 21, 0.35 a.m.) _ London, April 20. Be Berlin semi-official telegram announcing tho termination of the great strike or munition workers on. Monday - is now admitted to have been, premature. Tho German papers state that a 'quarter of a million workers in .five factories were still idle on Wednesday. A meeting of strikers on Thursday resolved not to resume, but to send a deputation to the Chancellor. Various strikes occurred' at, Leipzig on Monday and Tuesday, and there 1 was also a great, demonstration aii Scoetlerltz to protest 1 against the scaifr city of food.—Renter. ~
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3059, 21 April 1917, Page 9
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