THE WAR

Evening Star, Issue 16090, 15 April 1916, Page 5

THE WAR

BRITISH LINE.

GERMANS TESTING STRENGTH,

:ssa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, April 14,

Sir Douglas ITaig reports that the enemy on Tuisday night, after a heavy bombardment with a largo proportion of lachrymatory .shells, rushed our trenches near Haiioiselle. Wo drove them out on Wednesday night.

The enemy threo times attacked our trenches noTth-east of Carney (?Carency. north-east of Arras). The attacks reached our trenches, but the enemy were driven bade.

THE ROAD TO CALASB.

AMSTERDAM, April 14. German troops and guns continue to arrive on tho Yser i'roufc.

AROUND VERDUN.

FRENCH FORESTALL ATTACK.

ENEMY BLAME WEATHER

PARIS, April 13. A wireless message from Berlin states ihat the weather conditions aro adverse to observation, and they generally hindered fighting for the gi eater part of yesterday. A French eas attack north-oast of Compiegno was without result. A communique states :

West of the Alcuse a German attack was prepared at dusk yesterday against Hill 004, but they were unable even to leave their trenches owing to our curtain fire.

An enfilading firo on eome German columns assembled at tho Alalancourt Wood Tendered their operations abortive.

April 14,

A communique Etates : Tho bombardment of Hill 304 along the Morthomme-Cumieres front continues". Our long-rango gunfire started a fire at ihe Noveant-sur-Moselle station.

EXAGGERATED CLAIMS,

LONDON, April 13. The Germans claim to have captured 55,876 nnwounded prisoners at Verdun between February 21 and April 10. Experts point out that this exceeds the total of the French dead, wounded, and prisoners. Tho prisoners do net exceed 17.000 in number.

FRENCH MUNITIONS,

LONDON, April 14. The output of French munitions shows a thirty-fold increase over the pre-war normal output.

ITALIAN FRONT.

AUSTRIAN'S ATTEMPT .SURPRISE,

ROME, April 14. A communique states : The enemy, by a surprise attack, rushed >ur positions in the Ledro Valley, and »Ibo took Monte Sperono. By a counterattack wo recovered the positions, and after a deadly hand-to-hand strucglo extended our occupation to tho slopes of Monte Sperono. On the Isonzo front wo wrecked the enemy's trenches at Monte St, Michele (south-cast of Gradisca) and San Martiiio with hand bombs.

There have been artillery duels the whole Carso front.

RUSSIAN LINE.

PROJECTED ATTACK QUELLED,

PETROGRAT>, April 14. A com muni quo states : After a violent bombardment the enemy debouched at Mokriba in strong columns. Out artillery dispersed these, and the Germans fell back to their trenches.

TURKS USE PQSSOI* SPRAY.

PETROGRAD, April 14. The Turks on tho Caucasus front failed in their attempts to recapture the important sectors from which they were recently expelled. The enemy sprayed our troops with a poisonous- liquid.

TIGRIS FLOODS INCREASE.

LONDON, April 15. A War Office report states : The weather is very bad. There was a hurricane on April 12, accompanied by torrential rains and floods on both "banks of the river, which are increasing.

UNREST W TURKEY.

LONDON, April 14. lb is reported from Geneva that advices from Constantinople stato that two heavyAustrian batteries have arrived there, replacing German batteries. Tho Turks are clamoring for oeace, and have made a petition to tho Sultan! There is also a similar petition from Anatolia.

Tho Germans, fearing a Tevolt, have ordered their naval officers to rcn-nia on board ship in readiness for emergencies.

RUMANIA'S ATTITUDE.

COPENHAGEN, April 13. Tho ' Berliner _ Tageblatt' declares that an agreement exists between Germany and Rumania of a most important nature. Rumania will not attack Austro-Germany unless the Allies progress either eastward or westward of Salonika, or unless other Balkan countries join the Allies. The newspaper adds that Rumania does not intend to join Germany, and that only necessitous circumstances have forced Rumania to enter into a commercial agreement with. Austro-Gcrmanv.

SUBMARINES' WORK.

ATTRITION OF SnnTJXG

London 'Times' *nd Sydney 'Sun' Services,

LONDON, April 13. A statement lias been made that G British, 10 allied, and 13 neutral vesJels have been lost since March 1.

A total tonnage of 2,201,823 has been jnnk to date, leaving 36,000,000 tons afloat, excluding enemy and American shins.

Half the British total of 20,000,000 tons has been requisitioned by the Government.

FRESH VICTIMS.

LONDON, April 14. The Danish steamer Dorthea (153 tons) jtruck a mine and sank in the North Sea. A Russian barquentine was torpedoed, and has been towed to Plymouth.

Tho British steamer Angus (3.619 tons) was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. Part of her crew have landed.

The British steamer Robert A damson (2,978 tons) was torpedoed. The crew were saved.

The British barque Invorlyon (1,827 tons) was torpedoed. One boat's crew has been picked up.

For children's hacking cough—'i>?oc4»' Great Peppermint Cure.—LAdvt.]

Tho French steamer Vega (about 3,000 tons) was torpedoed off Barcelona. The crew were rescued. Tho submarine commander declared, that had the vessel been British he would have sunk her without warning.

THE SUSSEX.

GERMAN DISCLAIMER FALSE

TARIS. April 13. A message denying tho German communique to the United States declares that a Greek officer on board tho Sussex states that nothing can destroy tho proofs. "We can show 13 fragments of tho torpedo and can publish the name of tho submarine's commander. Wo know the full route of the submarine prior to the outrage, and the evidence can be corroborated by the crew of another submarine destroyed on April 5."

AMERICA NOT DELUDED.

NEW YORK, April 13. The New York papers derido the Ger man Note.

The 'New York World' calls it "Germany's Confession." Tho paper adds : "We mu-t, sever our relation with a Power which has obliterated tho only basis upon which diplomatic relations can be conducted."

PRESIDENT WILSON ACTS.

RLTTURE SEEMS INEVITABLE

_ WASHINGTON, April 13. In view of the gravity of the situation President Wilson has cancelled his engagements. The Government authorities consider that Germany's admissions strengthen tho American case, and are awaiting affidavits from London and Paris.

NEW YORK. April 14. It- is not expected that President Wilson will send another Note, but that he will merely instruct Air Lansing to inform Count Bernstorff verbally that the explanation from Berlin is not acceptable, and that a rupture of relations is inevitable unless the illegal submarine methods cease.

There was a. general decline in stocks in consequence of a rumor that Count Bernstorff would receive his passports within a fortnight.

BRITAIN WASTING.

London 'Times' and Sydney 'Sun' .Services,

LONDON, April 13. Mr Bonar Law, interviewer] on behalf of the American Press, said that the British Government did not desire to say what _action America should take when her citizens were barbarously murdered, but the world's hope lay in "maldng outrages against civilisation impossible.

THE BLOCKADE.

A REAL PINCH.

LONDON, April 14. An articlo in ' The Times' contrasts Germany's execration of our inhumanity and her whimpers about the infamy cf the _ blockade with _Bismarck's policy of starving Paris in 18 d. It reproduces instances of Bismarck's Prussian witticisms over the suffering babies of Paris.

London 'Times' and Sydney 'Suit' Services.

LONDON, April 13. ' The Times'B' correspondent at Copenhagen fays that German papers state that there is cocoa and coffee sufficient for six weeks.

Scandinavia had prohibited exports, and the German peoplo will get only one-third of their most necessary victuals." Not only are the German civilians hungry, bub also the soldiers in the trenches, whence there are numerous complaints.

ENEMY SECURITIES SEIZED.

LONDON, April 13. In tlio House of Commons Sir E, Grey stated that the face value of enemy securities seized in the mails from Holland to America amounts approximately to £2,000,000. They will bo dealt with bv a prise court in a similar manner to other German exports. Various neutral countries liavo protested, and a discussion with them is proceeding.

COMPULSION,

DELAY IN APPLICATION

LONDON, April 15. Mr Asqiuth stated in the House of Commons that be hoped to announce next week the result of tho examination of the recruiting figures and the numbers of men obtainable under general compulsion. Many military officers, and .Mr M'Kenna, Lord Lansdowne, and Mr Chamberlain, attended a meeting of the Cabinet Committee examining the recruiting question. The 'Tall Midi Gazette' states its belief that unless an extraordinary and unexpected change occurs in the situation, tho Cabinet must d-ecido in the meantime against extending compulsion to married men.

Lord Milner has given notice of a motion in the House of Jxuds favoring o-eneral compulsion without delay. Thus the question will bo debated Loth in the House of Lords and the House of Commons before Easter.

THE PARSS CONFERENCE.

BRITISH PREPARATIONS.

LONDON, April 15. _Mr Asqiuth has announced that the Cabinet appointed a committee to deal with after-the-war reconstruction generally, including trade, with sub-committees dealing with particular aspects. The most important sub-committee was no v.- in communication with tho Dominions,

MR HUGHES CRITICISED.

LONDON, .April 13. The ' Westminster Gazette' continues its campaign against Mr Hughes. It gives prominenco to an interview villi a leading Canadian manufacturer, who savs that Canada in any alterations in the tariff in order to handicap and boycott Germany will certainly not allow hex own position to bo prejudiced. Canada wants a world's business, and must remain untrammelled. Tho paper adds that many colonials regard the lionising of Mr Hughes as supremely ridiculous. Ho has come to England to speak with easy confidence on subjects too vast for the comprehension of ordinary mortals. These interested assertions are hailed as the highest wisdom, and healthy Press criticism is almost wholly absent. A British trade- policy of antiGermany may create friction endangering the. integrity of the Empire.

NORTHCLIFFE METHODS,

LONDON, April 13. Mr Maddleton, the 'Daily Mail's' correspondent, has been remanded in custody for a week. He was formerly in the Royal Naval Air Service, and came to Dover yesterday, <ond invited two officers to lunch, saying that ho had come to do a bit of spying on behalf of Mr PembertonBilling, whom the ' Daily Mail' was running. The police appeared in the middle of the lunch, and Mr Middleton was arrested.

THE WITTENBERG HORROR.

LONDON, April 15. Sir E. Grey, in the House of Commons, said that tho German authorities had refused to allow the United. States Embassy to visit Wittenberg during the outbreak of typhoid, alleging the danger of infection.' The Embassy officials had paid three visits since October, and their report would be published shortly.