WHAT THE ENEMY. CLAIMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2757, 28 April 1916, Page 5

WHAT THE ENEMY. CLAIMS

DESTROYER AD KING STEPHEN '/ TRAWLER SUNK ' SUNDAY'S FIGHT AT KATIYEH SEVERE REARGUARD ACTION GERMAN - AMERICAN ' : CRISIS ' HAISER WORKING FOR SETTLEMENT THE SINN FEIN' REVOLT SIR : ROGER CASEMENT'S TREACHERY - ' , i The mil news to-day disoloses no material change on the Western front, while the! censor has apparently closed down on news from the Italian and Russian fronts. Further details of the German naval raid on the East Coast of England indicate that the Germans, deeming discretion the better 'part of valour, kept' safely at long range, and steamed very fast. There is some speculation! as to whether Sir John Jeliicoe's ships may have succeeded! in intercepting the raiders before they regain the safety of their mined retreat. The German report of the rai<J claims that one destroyer and two patrol .boats, were/,suiik, onVof the latter being the,;King ; ; Stephen, trawler,,; which earned the Germans' hatred by refusing to rescue the 1 crew of ' a crippled Zeppelin. The trawlers' crew, says the German repprt, have been taken prisoner. Sunday's fighting on' the Suez Canal front was severe. ' The Katiyeh force, heavily attacked by picked enemy troops, was compelled to fight a severe rearguard action, and according to the wording of the.cable message one regiment, having lost its horses, was captured. The German-American crisis appears to be quietening down, an<l the Kaiser- is stated to be exerting himself to prevent a breach. The Zeppelin raid on the Kentish dis-' tricts 6eems to have been on a fair scale, but the raiderß were disconcerted and disorganised by the excellent work of our anti-air-oraft gunners. The British in Mesopotamia have gallantly withstood a heavy counter-attack by the Turks. Martial law has been proclaimed in Dublin. There are plenty of troops, and the disaffected areas have been surrounded by a wall of steel. The Btory of Sir Roger Casement's treachery is detailed, and interesting particulais of the voyage of the gun-runners show that the oargo of rifles and machine-guns, etc., was a truly formidable one.v.