AMERICA'S ULTIMATUM IN BERLIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2753, 24 April 1916, Page 5

AMERICA'S ULTIMATUM IN BERLIN

KAISER AND CHANCELLOR, -, CONFER

/ • THE SECRET SESSION 9 ■ . KEEN DISAPPOINTMENT IN - GERMANY OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA " iBRITISH OCCUPY TWO VILLAGES : GERMAN ATROCITIES REVELATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST : AFRICA ' M. VENIZELOS . - POLITICS ' AT THE REQUEST OF THE KING'

■ Heavy fighting' is reported in the Western theatre, hut no seiica-N tional development is reported. At Verdun the struggle has been coil-" tinued with no material change of ground. The British have won back some of the trenches lately lost a 6 a result of German attacks on the Ypres salient. In an order of the day General Joffre welcomes the Russian troops landed at Marseilles. . He hails this reinforcement as .a. further pledge of Russia's devotion.. There are conflicting reports about an alleged commercial agreement be'tween Rumania and Germany. Fuller, reports of the recent battle in Mesopotamia, in which the Turks attacked the British linos south of the Tigris, show, that it was upon a considerable scale. It is estimated that'three thousand Turks .wore killed, while the British total casualties were short of > that number. Important progress has been made by the British troops operating in German East Africa. Rumours' are astir in Hoiland that Austria is seriously thinking of abandoning the'war. Marshal von der Goltz, the aged German officer, who was Governor of Belgium for a brief period, and subsequently became Chief of the German military , mission in Turkey, is reported'to have died of spotted fever at his headquarters at Bagdad. , • • -