AUSTRIAN ATTACKS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2776, 20 May 1916, Page 5

AUSTRIAN ATTACKS

VIOLENT ASSAULTS HURLED BACK ACTIVITY IN THE WEST _ FRENCH SUCCESSES AT '' * VERDUN ANZACS. IN A DESERT ,: ACTION ENEMY PUT TO FLIGHT The Italians have been called on to meet a fresh and most violent assault- on their front—five furious attacks, each of them hurled back with heavy losses. Tho activity on the Western front increases in area, and the .Allies' airmen have had another day out in excursions over tho enemy's stations. The French have scored fresh successes on the Verdun front. Theiro is an interesting dispatch from tho New Zealand war correspondent * (Mr. lioss) on the doings of the Anzacs on the Western front during the last fortnight.. Their mounted comrades, who were left behind, have been in action in the desert," where a successful attack was made on the enemy's camp at Bayoud. At the time of writing there has been no confirmation of the New York message which announced a great Russian victory yesterday. The operations on tho Russian European front nre veiled-at present..-Mr. Robert Lansing, United States Secretary of State, has declined to pass on Germany's warning to neutrals about the danger of. approaching submarines, and in a statement apropos of the question '■ expresses an opinion which, for & diplomat, is unusually frank. The Royal Commission on the Sinn Fein rebellion in Ireland has opened with a long statement by Sir Matthew Nathan, who has hia post' as UnderSecretary to the Lord Lieutenant. Tho Commission, which promised sensational evidence of-official temporising, has made a good beginning with . some remarkable statements from the ex-Chder-Secretary.