LIVELY ACTIONS IN THE WEST

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2772, 16 May 1916, Page 5

LIVELY ACTIONS IN THE WEST

■■■■;■ 1 ' ' \ ' PRO IRELAND ■ ! . i\ — 1 \ The feature |jof'interest in to-day's war news is the Eussian campaign fn Asia Minor a iid Persia. Two tter« battles l.ave been ;foaght-«n« of tliem in Persia-si the Turkish attempts to stem the Russian tide, though desperate, hare failed nothing. Apropos of this theatre of the great war.there'comes iau interesting story of the siege of Kut-el-Amara the first connected n awative so for-by the British Press correspondent, Mr. Candler. It is /?,. story of British pi uck. and endurance in the fftce of hope- -.' less odds and de "Jperate privations. Tho . news from the Western front shows that the (,'iennans are still pitting their ineffective strength against the French defen ;ws along the Verdun front. The British line has been attacked north of', Armeiitieres by three parties of the enemy, after. a •heavy' and sustain led bombardment, .but the enemy's excursions availed him nothing. There ffre widespread rumours of the establishment of a Provisional Irish Executive at Dublin, representative of the Irish Nationalist and Unionist men: feers and leading Irishmen, but the two men who would be most likely to : fcnow all about it-Sir Edward Carson and Mr. John Redmond—are not :siware of any such proposal. Intense interest is being evinced in the fort, booming'.-trial of Casement, the traitor; and so great has been the demand fi'V - tickets that theauthorities have decided on the queue system, and are notlj issuing tickets.