STORY OF RUSSIAN TENACITY
VERDUN' BATTLES ■: THE FIGHT AT MADMOMONT; PIRATE WAR" TO GO ON / WILL AMERICA MAK WITH ;; , GERMANY ? ' CABINET" I CRISIS \ ' UNIONIST GOYERNMENT ■ FORESHADOWED
Tenacity of purpose, daring tactics, and supreme gallantry on th& part of the Russian Caucaisian army, supported by the Black Sea, fleet, has accomplished the fall of Tf ebizond, the most important Turkish fortified position on the Anatolian coast. The British have suffered a slight set-back oti the Tigris, the overwhelming pressure of heavy Tttrkish counter-attacks com polling the British line to fall back some few. hundred yards. Further details of the latest German attack on the Verdun front show that five of the - enemy's divisions were represented, if not fully en gaged. There have been' successful cutting-out raids on the German't? eifelios from the British front., The German reply, to America dii the subject of tho submarine piracies is to the effect that the Huns do not intend to abandon tlieirf present seft tactics, and President .Wilson bas now decided that the'whole question is now one for Congress to review. A rupture is stated to be imminent. Austria is understood tb be averse to complications between t!io Teiitoiiic Empires and the United States,, aiid in. any event is said to be determine'd to keep clear of the impending trouble. The, British.Cabinet crisis is tliu paramount 6ensatidn. of the. hour, and alariirtis and exoursions, and wild rutaours, flood the columns of tbe London Press. A Unionist' Cabinet, to include Mr, Lloyd George, is foreshadowed, with a general el ection in May. ~ the Empire awaits Mr. Asquitb's momentous statement/in tho House of Commons. ' \ * ■ ;
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2751, 20 April 1916, Page 5
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268STORY OF RUSSIAN TENACITY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2751, 20 April 1916, Page 5
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