OPENING UP THE WAY TO KUT-EL-AMARA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2740, 7 April 1916, Page 5

OPENING UP THE WAY TO KUT-EL-AMARA

TURKISH POSITION CARRH 8Y,.. ASSAULT _■ 'RUSSIAN STROKE IN CAUCASUS "" ■" PIRATE WAR AND _ ''AMERICA -A STERN PROTEST MOMENTOUS MEETING OF .CABINET

The news from the Western front to-day discloses no material change {in the situation at Verdun, and nothing appears to be happening elsewhere along the line. Speculation regarding Holland's military preparations still continues. The statement that these are merely a measure of precaution for the safeguarding of her neutrality on the frontiers is interpreted as an anticipation of' a German concentration of troops in the vicinity; by others it is taken to mean a big Allied offensive, and a consequent retirement of the German lines. The British have scored an important success in Mesopotamia, carrying Umm-el-Hennah by assault, and so disposing of a formidable obstacle to the advance to the relief of Kut-el-Amara. Contemporaneously, a serious Turkish attack on the Russian flank in the Caucasus has been repulsed, and by way of counter-stroke the Russians have delivered a successful attack on the Turkish centre, and carried a series of prepared positions. The pirate warfare of the Germans, which to-day claims a further list of victims, has evoked an angry protest by the American Chamber" of Commerce in Paris, expressed in a cablegram to President Wilson. To-day's meeting of the British Cabinet is regarded as portentous of critical events.