MILITARY CRITICS AT VARIANCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2773, 17 May 1916, Page 5

MILITARY CRITICS AT VARIANCE

COMPULSION BILL THROUGH . THE COMMONS TRAITOR IN THE DOCK CASEMENT'S TMAL BEGUN THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND Another score has been registered by the Russians in their great drive across Asia Minor. The southern flank is swinging in from the Persian frontier across the level plain which stretches along io Bagdad and beyond, while the centre and the northern flank are consolidating their westward advance. The Turks are stated to have been reinforced by 20,000 AustroGerraans. A section of the London Pr ess is exerting: itself to involve somo political person or persons not statsd in the responsibility for Townshend'a unfortunate march on Bagdad, with' its subsequent retreat, siege, and "***' oapitulation at Kut-el-Amara. There is no news, at the time of writing, from the Russian European front. A brief line, from the Austro-Italian front, states that the Austrians have ordered the civilian populace to . evacuate Trent, where' they hav9 con centrated 300,000 troops, fearing a sudden advance by the Italians. Tto news from the. Western front discloses no material developments. In the meantime the military expert writers are at a loss to explain Venlun.or give, any hint of the German plans. Thero are two schools of opin ion—diametrically opposed—on the ,Yerdun offensive and its relation to the major strategy of the war. The Compulsion Bill has been passed by the House of Commons. The trial of the notorious traitor Sir Roger Case meat has opened at Bow Stroet Police Court, and is the'sensation of the moment in London. The new system of government for Ireland is being canvassed both in and out of Parliament, and thero is a report that Home Rule will not be long deferred. ■ ;&. late cablegram timed 1.15 a.m. states: "War news is scarce; there is no further confirmation of the.report of the passing' of the Compulsion Bill."