GRY OF "WOLF" ONCE MORE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2747, 15 April 1916, Page 5

GRY OF "WOLF" ONCE MORE

TENSIONBETWEEN AMERICA ' AND GERMANY DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WILL BE SEVERED ; DECLINE IN SECURITIES RUMANIA'S AGREEMENT WITH THE AUSTRO-GERMANS SPY ARRESTED AT DOVER MORE VESSELS TORPEDOED • i Extreme tension reigns in America over the submarine issue, and action is believed to be pending in the direction of breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany. The recruiting question is much to the fore in Great Britain, and there is talk of pending debates on the subject of general compulsion both in the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Further German attackshave been defeated at' ■ .Verdun. Intense activity is reported on the Italian front. In Armenia the'Bussians are meeting, heavy Turkish attacks. Sir Percy Lake denies a Turkish report that the lost 3000 dead in their last offensive stroke on the Tigris, and states that the total British' losses in killed and wounded were much below that figure. Bad wea- ! ther wid floods are still hampering the British operations. Various rumours are astir concerning the Balkans. There is a Ministerial crisis in Greece, and it is considered possible that the Skouloudis Government may resign.