IRISH CONSCRIPTION CLAUSE CARRIED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 180, 19 April 1918, Page 5

IRISH CONSCRIPTION CLAUSE CARRIED

The news this morning is Ims cheerful than the earlier dispatches suggested would bo the case. The British, attacking on the Meteren and Wytschaete fronts, recaptured the villages, hut later on were forced by the avalanche of numbers to evacuato them again. Terrific fighting is in progress, and the correspondents' pen pictures of the battle present the idea of giant infernos in eruption. A heavy attack on the .Belgian front was smartly checked, and in the counter-attack that followed the enemy received a sharp lesson. The "High Military Authority," in his review of the operations, is peculiarly vaguo in. regaid to his remarks concerning tho French Army. Like Blucher at Waterloo, the French Army is on tho way to assist the British, and provided it is marching (he 6ays), there is li<:po— not despair. Thero has been some heavy fighting in Palestine, where the Turks, initiating a series of attacks, were severely dealt with. From the Balkans is reported a recrtt-hssence of activity with the Greeks co-operat-ing. The Germans in the Baltic have cut the Viborg-Potrograd railway.