BOOTY PROM THE SCAEPE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3069, 3 May 1917, Page 5

BOOTY PROM THE SCAEPE

OYER 19,000 PRISONERS AND GREAT HAUL OF GUNS LULL IN THE FIGHTING FRANCE CALLS FOR MEN 20,000 WANTED EVER! MONTH * MAY DAY IN THE WAR ZONE |. ' J The lull in tlie grand operations oil tho battle fronts iu the West; continues. Artillery activity, of course, never cfeases, and there appears, to be some stiV.on tlio Belgian front. The most interesting dispatch from the West to-day is Sir Douglas Haig's report on the number of prisoners captur&l anil the inventory of tlio booty. Over nineteen thousand prisoners have been taken by tho British, and when one remembers the deadly nature of the conflict, somej. thing may bo imaginod as to the extent of the enemy's losses in killed and wounded. Oil the other battle fronts matters aro still more or less as they wore. The Allies have rcnulsed a heavy attack by the.Bulgars on the Macedonian front. May Day, tho annual summer feto day of tho Etmjoo.m countries, and in recent years tho occasion for, serious rioting by Syndicalists, Socialists, and others of similar persuasions, has been tranquilly observed by the people of tho Entente countries, but in Germany and Austria the aspect was different. The Germans with tho whip held over their heads did riot observe the day at all, though spme women munitioners struck work, defying tho machine-gun terrorists at the 6treet corners. Austria observed high lioliday, and the dominant note was a speedy termination to tho war by peaco negotiations. Tho greatest help /America can at present givo to Prance is men, at tho rate of 20,000 per month —that is the message Jofl'ro has • for President Wilson.