April 28--About 200 Canadian officers were put out of action in the
fighting near Ypres, out of a total of 600.
April 29--Four prominent German residents of Vancouver are arrested on a
charge of celebrating German successes over the Canadians near Ypres,
indignation being aroused among Vancouver citizens.
EGYPT.
April 8--An attempt is made at Cairo to assassinate the Sultan of Egypt,
Hussien Kamel, a native firing at him, but missing.
FRANCE.
April 1--A delegation of foreign newspaper men who have visited the
prison camps say they found the German prisoners well treated and
contented.
April 3--General Joffre is quoted as predicting a speedy end of the war
in favor of the Allies.
April 4--The second report of the French commission appointed to
investigate the treatment of French citizens by the Germans charges many
acts of cruelty; 300 former captives of the Germans tell, under oath,
stories contained in the report of brutality, starvation, and death in
the German concentration camps.
April 5--There are insistent reports that the French have a new shell
which kills by concussion; it is officially stated in an army bulletin
that a new explosive recently put into use doubles the explosive force
of shells of three-inch guns.
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