GRIM BATTLE FOR DEAD MAN'S HILL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 5

GRIM BATTLE FOR DEAD MAN'S HILL

GERMAN ONSETS HURLED * BACK

FEARFUL CARNAGE

RUSSIANS REPEL TURKISH ATTACKS

BRITISH CHECK ON THE • TIGRIS

GALLANT ADVANCE OVER FLOOD AND SWAMP

BIG "PUSH" EXPECTED IN FLANDERS

To-day's news from the Western theatre discloses something of the nature of the fight for possession of Dead Man's Hill, on the ,Verdun front, on Saturday. The Crown Prince ordered the capture of ..the hill at all costs, and the German onsets were launched accordingly. They paid a fearful price, and lost, and the story of the attack reveals something of tho terribld character of tho fighting in that region. The Germans' activity oil the Ypres front is interpreted as being due to some apprehension oh tho enemy's side of a big "push" by the British in the immediate future. In Asia Minor the Rusians have successfully countered a heavy attack by the Turks. Further south, in Mesopotamia, the British, after a gallant attempt to force the enemy's lines at Sunnaiyat, on the Tigris, were compelled to abandon the attack in view of the difficulty of maintaining their gains amidst floods and swamps. The Gorman political and war chiefs are at present stated to be solemnly discussing' the threatened breach with America at a great War Council. The German Press—tho majority of the newspapers, at any rate—are shrieking defiance at anything which will involve the cessation of their present murderous and piratical submarine war on merchantmen—fresh victims of the Hun TJ boats are reported to-day.