Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-04-07
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review Vol. XIV, No. 43»15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, April 7th, 1917 5c. a copy $2.00 a year The War SO far this week there has been no sensational event to chronicle. The British and French troops are continuing a forward movement, capturing many villages and gradually enveloping St. Quentin. The Germans are venting their spite on the unfortunate town of Rheims. On Tuesday last they threw over 2,000 shells into the place, killing many civilians. The British cavalry is taking a large part in the operations under Generals Rawlinson and Gough. In two days they took 250 prisoners. In the capture of the village of Equancourt the cavalry made a splendid charge across 1,000 yards of open country in face of machine gun fire. No news has been received for some time from the Italian front. In Persia the Russians continue to drive the flying Turks hack into their own country. Increased activity is reported on the Roumanian front. A force of Bulgarians which attempted to cross the St. George estuary of the Danube was repulsed. A German report announces that on the Stokhod River the bridgehead of Toboly, which was held by the Russians, has been captured by the Germans. At the end of last week a bulletin was posted in the windows of the daily papers announcing that the Canadians had made four attacks and had been repulsed with heavy loss. A good many people did not notice that this piece of news emanated from Germany, and it caused some little alarm. No further news of it has been received so it may be claased with other German information as quite unfounded; in plain English, it was a lie. The blockade of Germany has hitherto been hampered by *Great Britain's responsibilities to the United States, to Sweden and to Holland, and there is no doubt that owing to this large supplies of food have found their way into Germany through the last two of these countries. The United States is now definitely with us and through her decision to j…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374027
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text