FURIOUS ATTACKS ON CUMIRES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2785, 1 June 1916, Page 5

FURIOUS ATTACKS ON CUMIRES

GERMANS CLAIM A SUCCESS i . - THE AUSTRIAN BLOW ITALIANS EVACUATE ASIAGO BULGARS ADVANCING IN . MACEDONIA ■. i : , TURKISH DEFEAT ON THE TIGRIS' The grim struggle at Verdun has been resumed with' redoubled fury in , the Cumieres-Mort Homme sectors. The Germans are savagely attacking, 'and the French advance line on the BethincourtCumieres Road has fallen back slightly. This the enemy claims .as a hig score, with 1300 prisoners. The Bulgars are advancing in Macedonia, an operation which the Allies are understood to hold is purely the concern of Greece. General Sarrail says, in effect, that he will striko when he is ready, and not before. The Austrian pressure in the Trontino is^ severe, and the Italians have evacuated Asiago and taken up a defensive position to thd cast. An Italian warship has sunk a largo Austrian transport. In Mesopotamia, the Russian column operating from the direction'of Kennanshah, in Persia, has pushed as far as the Tigris, in the Mosul region, where Turkish at (tacks, at Nineveh, were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. Nineveh is said to be a vital point on the supply and communication line to Bagd ad. Coming nearer home, Mr. Lloyd. George has take-over the Irish negotiations, aud the outlook is very promising.' , ' >