TWO SUCCESSES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2762, 4 May 1916, Page 5

TWO SUCCESSES

COMPULSION' BILL PEML AND IMMEDIATE MEASURE U- ■ ANNOUNCED \ " ' / '• - i•! . : ; , | MR. ASQUITH'S STATEMENT CiRtJSHINGTHE SINN FEIN .REVOLT V- • V , ■' ■ . f'REBELS' MOVE BROKEN i. ;■ . ~,v ; .— — — ■ Kbe news from the Western front to-day tells of successful attacks by tit.© French on the Verdun front, trenches being captured and prisoners taken. Attacks on the British front east of Ypres have been Repulsed. An analysis of the results of the air encounters dur- ■ ing'tht> month of April discloses very high German, losses as compared • with tiiose of the Allies, pointing to a definite re-assumption by our airmen oi their former ascendancy. There is very little war news at the |ime of'writing from any of the other , great'theatres. Feeling in-Britain and throughout the Empire on the Surrender of General Townsheiid at Kut-el-Amara is sympathetic,, tinged with a profound 'admiration, for the gallantry and fortitude of both the besieged and the 'relieving iorce in the face of insurmountable difficulties. The para- • !mount "topic of the news is the announcement by. the British Prime Minister ctf the introduction of a general and immediate Compulsion Bill, which he says, will remove the question of recruiting from the ' : 'area of controversy once and for all. Mr. Asquith challenges the Commons to say whether or not his Government has the. confidence of the HousW, and, in the latter case, to find a better. The Irish revolt, beyoitd a few spasmodic disturbances, is practically at an end, ,i crushed in itj? final flurry by a stern and uncompromising order by . General Sir. John Maxwell, who was sent over to Ireland armed 'with plenary powers to' deal with the Sinn Feiners. Dublin is now a city of death and -desolation, and a. commercial wreck. The "Daily "Chronicle" i s canvassing the' question of fitting the punishment of the rebels . to their crimes, and'draws attention to Botha's method .of dealing with Maritz,Dlsv Wot, and other recalcitrants who were implicated in - 'the! recent rebellion in South Africa.". ' ' .