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Bombs were
dropped on the heavy batteries
at Ostend, on the gun positions
at Middlekerke, on the locks of
the Zeebrugge Canal and an at-
tack was made on the barges and
trawlers at Zeebrugge. Forty
aeroplanes took part in the at-
tack. Eight French aeroplanes
assisted by attacking. Ghistelle
Aerodrome, thereby preventing
German aircraft frum coming to
the defence.

Paris, Feb. 17, official commun-
ication:—French troops in Cham-

northwest of Perthes. Several
hundred prisonérs were taken,
including five officers,

Havre:—The- British collier
Dulwich was torpedoed by asub-
marine, near Havre, 29 out of
the crew of 31 were rescued, the
fate of the other two being un-
known. The attack was made
in a heavy sea and without warn-
ing. The Dulwich was a 8,000-
ton boat.

Paris, Feb. 18, Official’ com-
munieation:—From the sea_ to
the Oise our artillery has carried
onan efficacious shelling which
has dispersed a number of gath-
erings, blown up some caissons
and destroyed several trains,

To the north of Arras we have
taken two lines of trenches and
beaten back violent counter™ at-
tacks, We have made some
prisoners and have inflicted heavy
losses on Lhe enemy. A nuinber
of German officers have been
killed. _

In the neighborhood of Rheims
near Loivre, the advances made
on Feb. 16, of several hundred
metres, have been maintained and
consolidated, In the Champagne
district, we have followed up our
gains to the northwest of Perthes
and have captured many positions
of the enemy on @ front of. 800
metres, All German counter-
attacks to the north of Mesnil-
les-Hurlus and Beausejour have
been repuised. .

We captured a.large bomb
thrower and several small cries,
and made 200 prisoners. In Ar-
gonne, we have made prupress
in the: forest’ of La Grurie and
maintained our gain, notwith-
standing two very violent coun-
ter-attacks and several-very hot
actions at close quarters, which
resulted in heavy losses to the
enemy,

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the Meuse we have made prog-.
ess at several points. In Alsace
we have taken control of the
ridges which dominate Sudel
farm and have retained all ground
conquered. Our airships have
bombarded the railway station of
Freiburg,

Copenhagen:—A — correspond-
ent of the Politiken reports that
a Zeppelin exploded today over
the Danish Island of Faroe, off
the west coast of Jutland,

| Paris, Feb. 19, official com-
munication:—The day of Feb, 18
has been quite as favorable for
us as the two preceding days.
From the sea to the Aisne it was
marked by artillery combats,

though near Roelincourt, the
Germans delivered five eounter- |
attacks, with the object of re-
taking trenches, which had been

other naval’ stations to direct ar-

taken by us on Feb, 17. These
were all repulsed and several
hundred dead were left on the
ground, among them several offi-
cers.

In Champagne, in the region
of Souain, Perthes and Beause-
jour, the enemy delivered, first
on the night of Feb, 17-18, then
on the morning of the 18th, two
very violent attacks along the
whole front for the Purpose of
recapturing the trenches lost on
the 16-17. These two attacks

troops driving back their agsail-
ants at the point of bayonets,

In maintaining these gains, we
have taken three machine gung
and several hundred prisoners,
According to the declaration of
these prisoners, the German
regiments suffered very heavy
losses, reaching in some cases
one in four, and in others half
their effectiveness, On the
Heights of Meuse, in the vicinity
of Eparges, where we gained
some ground on Feb. 17, our
Rains have been retained, not-
withstanding counter-attacks. _

In Lorraine, we delivered: an
attack which enabled us to eap
ture the village of Morroy and
occupy the whole of the enemy's
position, It is untrue thet the
Germans have, as announced in
their enmmunication, evacuated
Morroy—-they have been driven
out of it. ,

In Alsace, supplementary de-

of the Sodel farm, conquered by
us on Wednesday, constituted a
formidably -. organized redoubt,
There we took a bomb-thrower,
five machine gins, some hund-
reds of rifles, shields, bombs,
utensils, barbed wire entangle-
ments, telephone apparatus and
thousands of cartridgesand savkg
for holding earth. i

London, Feb; 19:—A despatch
to the Daily Maii from’ Copen:
hagen saya: Eniperor William,
with his brother---Prince Henry
of Prussia---and- Admiral von
Tirpitz—minister of the German

ive staffs; left Berlin; today. for
Wilkielmshaven, Heligoland and

rangements -for blockading Eng-|
mans have built 120 big mine-|
carrying capacity of over a hund-

red-mines, 9-6 .
London, Feb, 19:---The -only

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~ -terday tells Of the French ateam-|

report of-submarine ‘activity yea.|«

er Dinorah being torpedoed
sixteen miles from Dieppe. The
port plates below the water line
were stove in, but the vessel,
which was kent. afloat by hard
pumping, entered Dieppe to un-
load. No lives were lost. Ger-

mans are patrolling the North
Sea with the entire Zeppelin

fleet, two of which have found-
ered under weight of heavy snow
encountered. a _

A report on the land fighting
says it is still a case of give and
take, The aerial branch is doing
valuable work, — One British av-
iator attacked two Germans,
driving one off and the other
towards our artillery, which
brought it down.”

Washington :—The state de-
partment has advised that all
traffic to England and the contin-.
ent be suspended by the admir-
alty until further notice,

Copenhagen !--'The (lerman
press admits a greater fear than
military defeat. It says they
are now called on to fight two
more allies, starvation and the
United States,

‘The assay business which the
late Mr. J. O*Sullivan established
in Vancouver over eighteen years
ago, will be carried on by the
éstate, with Mr J. G. Powell in
eharge. Myr, Powell will main-
tain the high standard set by the
the late Mr. O'Sullivan. .

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the ‘league season at home Sat-
urday night and celebrated the
occasion by handing out another
defeat to the Néw Hazelton puck-
chasers. New Hazelton’ were
without the services of Al. Har-
ris and McKenzie, and the locat
team made several changes in
the lineup during the game on

account of injuries to ‘players;

After seven minutes play, E. Har-
ris scored the visitors’ only goal,
MeKay, who had replaced
O'Shea, evening -up in three
minutes. Kinghorn then scored
on 2 brilliant rush, making the
score 2-1, ;

‘In the second period Kinghorn
repeated in four minutes; : Al.
notching another
Shortly after, making. it 4-1,
Kinghorn, who was injured, te-

tired in favor of O’Shea and Ful-|¢.
ler replaced Al. McDougall, Des- 5

pite some brilliant hockey,

neither side was able to score in ’
the last period, the game: enditig |:

4-1, Following are the teams:

Hazelton --- Taylor. . O'Shea, |:
A. MeDougail, |)
Hume, Kinghorn, MeKay, Faller, |!

P. MeDougall,

‘New Hazelton -- McDonald,
Wilson, E, Harris, Lavery, Me-
Donell, Warner,

Referee---McKenzie.

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