1917 WAR FAILURE. Veil Lifted in French Parliament. THE CASUALTY LISTS. (By Our Political C,orrespon4ent.) It ..
... things which ail politicians, though not the public, knew in that year of tra.gic disappointments. When 1917 dawns, the battle of the Somme, in which the British reported 420,000 casualties and the French about half that number, while the Germans suffered ...