ARTILLERY ACTIONS NEAR VERDUN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 5

ARTILLERY ACTIONS NEAR VERDUN.

AIS RAID ON CONSTANTINOPLE.

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES IN CAUCASIA.

MANIFESTO FROM LEADING AMERICANS.

In the Verdiin region activity has bee» confined for the most part to the artillery. The Russians report further repulses of the Turks in the sea.ward portion of Caucasia. A remarkable feat is chronicled in % raid by British aviators on military positions in Constantinople,

evidently made from file Dardanelles. Australian troops carried out a successful reconnaissance east of the Suez Canal. Gradual progress has been made by the British on the Tigris. Many prominent citizens of the "United States have addressed to the people of Great Britain a manifesto conveying their sympathy and good wishes. Italy has concluded an 'important treaty with Great Britain, The British Cabinet was to consider the military service question again yesterday.

[Press Association—Cop*bighi.)

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