FRENCH EVACUATE SALIENT POSITION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2743, 11 April 1916, Page 5

FRENCH EVACUATE SALIENT POSITION

GERMAN-ASSAULTS MOWED DOWN

STIR IN THE BALKANS

-HUMOURS OF.GEEMAN-BULGAR

OFFENSIVE

GERMAN PRISON HORROR

QUE FAILURE IN THE ■

DARDANELLES

TRUTH ABOUT GALLIPOLI

To-day's communiques indicate that the German attempts to force the issue on the Verdun front are still being pressed with persistent fury and a'callous and desperate disregard for .human life. The French line, in accordance with a premeditated plan, has been straightened by the evacuation of tlje. salient position at Bethin- , court. Farther along, on the same front, the enemy gained, for one desperate instant, a'footing in the French trenches, but in the ensuing counter-attack were promptly ejected. In the midst of all this ; sound and fury, comes the voice of the "Daily Chronicle's" Paris, representative, expressing the' belief that the German blow at Verdun is finished, and that desultory attacks only might be expected, in •the future! A report from the British front'indicates that we still hold the ground we gained at the end of March. There is no material change on the Russo-German front; on- the Russo-Turkish front in the Caucasus, the Russians have repulsed three Turkish attacks. There are indications of a stir in the Balkans shortly, if. the report from Athens stating thai! the Ger man-Bulgar forces are about to initiate an offensive in Macedonia- is to be believed. The Greek Finance Minister has resigned—the State coffers aro empty. A dark Bhadow is thrown athwart to-day's-war news of the report on the dreadful experience of the British interned prisoners in the German .prison camp at Wittenberg. Neglect, filth, and the ravages of typhus, combined.to make of their prison a veritable charnel house and den of horror.. ■■■■ '" The late cablegram tells in the cold official language of Sir Charles Monro's dispatch the reasons which dictated the evacuation of which, apparently, eupply the fundamental causes of our failures on the peninsula. ■-..., .'■•'."■ v .■/ ■ .- ■••■■"■ ■ ' /