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Show CANADIANS LOSE HEAVILY. Two Battalions of Highlanders Reported Re-ported Missing. Ottawa, Can. Casualties among the Canadian contingent in the fighting at Ypres are nqw reported to have been nearly 6,000. Of these, 2,000 are reported re-ported missing, the missing being chiefly the thirteenth and fourteenth battalions of Montreal Highlanders, each 1,000 strong. It is stated that 700 officers and men were killed and 300 wounded. The totals thus given would indicate that more than one-fourth of the 21,-000 21,-000 men in the division were put out of action. The Canadian official eyewitness eye-witness reported that two battalions of Highlanders were left behind in the fighting at St. Julien. |