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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch af yesterday from London says: The crown prince has delivered tin- greatest smash against the allies we-tern front Rinee the English lines were brokeaj at Ypres last May. In a mighty offensive a-ain-t the French outer positions defend ing the great fortress ol Verdun the Germans hare captured neaily nil nilev and a half of French t rem lies, according to an official statement tr on Berlin ibis afternoon. The German srar oOee also reports the raptare »! :;.u»hi French prisoners and great quantities of b oty. The French war ataVe admits in an oatClal statement that the crown prince Is hurling a great army against the French lines north of Veidnu. on a front ten miles wide. No similar attack ha- I. ecu made by either i,|e in the west in many months, excepting the French offensive in Champagne msi September. The battle is raging less than ten miles from the city of Verdun itself, on the ea;t bank of the Meuse river. Berlin reported the Germans have hurled hack the French on a wide front between the village at Consenvoye. on the Meuse. and the vilage of Azan-Bea, eight miles east of the river. A glial aeroplane raid against the new Herman railway between Ai lo-thiippello and Vise is re ported to have taken place Tuesday. Advices re eived at Amsterdam yesterday stated that 114 loud explosions were heard on the Belgian frontier. Since the war began the allies have captured 780,000 sipiare miles of German territory in Africa. Colonial secretary A. Boaar Law announced in parliament yesterday afteruoou. Foreign Minister Sasoaoff, addressing the Duma at Petrograd jreaterday, made a ntatement that U expected to go far toward calming the anti-Russian feeling that has Keen growing i ■ 1 Sweden for many months. He declared that Rnsxia bad no deigns on Sweden, adding: "We must obtain an outlet to I tree af 1 in quite another direction." The Dutch tank steamer La llandre. 2.01S tons bound from Neu York tn Rotterdam, has i.ei-ii sunk, presumably by a mine. Only two members of the crew were reported save,; in the tirst advices received. La llandre sailed from New York • 11 February 2.
