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Show 4 BRITISH BURY THOUSANDS ! London, Nov, 1. "As showing the ... puge German losses In the Ypres r fcion, n is stated that the British sol-' sol-' cJif-rs hae buried more than io,0 Germans." says a message to the p'eekly Dispatch from one of Its correspondents cor-respondents in Belgium. The telegram tele-gram continues: ! "There are many great piles of German Ger-man dead around Dixmude which it has been Impossible to bury on account ac-count of the continuous fighting Dl nude is a heap of ruins. The only nhabitant remaining is an aged peas-int peas-int woman who refuses to quit her ulned home. 1 "German aeroplanes have been very Ictive. The aviators aim with bombs s improving. On Thursday they land-Id land-Id five bombs in the town square at fpres, wounding t hr-' people." False Reports Circulated. I Ixmdon, Nov. 1. in 53 p. m. A dls latch to the- Exchnnge Telegraph il'rom Paris says: g "It is officially announced that, con-trary con-trary to thr- German statement that town of Verdun had been destroy-d. destroy-d. the fact is It never has been truck by a single shell. Fort Dou- aumont only was bombarded for twenty-lour hours at long range and without with-out any appreciable damage having bepn done it. The French army still bars the road to Verdun, "Reports of a German victory in the forest of Argentic are also absolutely abso-lutely false." Eritlsli Casualties. London, Nov. 1. 8 31 p. m. A casualty cas-ualty list received from headquarters today, under date of October 21, contains con-tains the names of seventeen officers I i lied . including Sir Frank Stanley Roso, captain of the Tenth Hussars Among the twenty-four officers wound ed. mentioned in the list, are Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Colonel Gordon of the Fifteenth Ludhlana Sikhs and several other of fleers of Sikh regiments, 200 Prisoners Taken. London, Nov, 1, 8 p. m. It. Is officially offi-cially reported, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Paris, that When t he French captured Queenoy BUT-DOttle, hIx miles northwest of Lille, Yesterday, they took 200 pri;-, oners, two guns and a large number of quick flrers New Ruesian Loan. London, Nov 1 The Pelrograd correspondent cor-respondent of Router's says that a ukase Issued In tho Russian capita! orders tho flotation of an internal loan of 1250,000,000 at 5 per cent, redeemable re-deemable in fifty years. |