Sunday, May 27, 1917

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KILL 76, MAIM 174, IN AIRPLANE RAID ON BRITISH COAST; Germans Break Records of Slaughter in Bombardment of Southeastern Towns. SCORES SLAIN AT MARKET Women and Children Stricken While Waiting in Line to Buy Potatoes. THREE RAIDERS SHOT DOWN British Airmen Destroy Them at Sea ;-Berlin Says Dover and Folkestone Were Attacked. About Fifty Bombs Dropped. Killed While Buying Potatoes. Four Successive Attacks. Ten Dead in One Building. SAYS DOVER WAS BOMBED. Berlin Also Names Folkestone as the Scene of a Successful Raid. LATEST RAID DEADLIEST YET. Zeppelins Had Hitherto Held the Record, with 67 Killed. KILL BESSARABIA CIVILIANS. German Air Raid on Ismail Is Destructive of Life.

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• Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.

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