Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-23
FRESH ENTHUSIASM
INSPIRES ENGLAND
Frankness of Cabinet Ministers
Increases Confidence of
People.
RECRUITING is SATISFACTORY
Believed That Big Effort Against
Germany and Turkey Is
About to Begin.


LONDON. April 22.-Glowing ac-
counts OF the strength and condition
OF the British army and OF the great
increase in the output of munitions,
which it is expected next month, will
amount TO twenty five times what il
was last September. given by David
Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and Harold ]. Tenant. par-
iiamentary secretary OF the War Of
Increased enthusiasm and confidence OF
The people of England in the war.
Supp!"menting the chanccllors state
than thirty-six divisions Of troops on
the Continent. and that the output of
munitions has increased enormously,
MIR. Tenant to-day, speaking on be-
half of the Secretary for War, Lord
Kitchener. declared that recruiting
had been most satisfactory and graft
Tying; that the health of the troops
was splendid, and that the wounded
were in the London hospitals twenty
four hours after they were stricken in
France. He wished to impress on the
country the necessity of increasing
the supplies of artillery ammunition.
adding: There is no limit to the
amount required"
The frankness OF the Cabinet min
listers in making known the number of
men at the front. and the reports that
reach London from various sources
nave convinced the people that at
last the big effort against Germany
and Turkey is about to commence.
Both in the Aegean and North Seas
there are signs of increasing activity.
FROM to-day all steamboat co.nmuni-
cation with Holland Is stopped by or
der OF the British government
MAY FORESIIADOw
MOVEMENT IN NORTH SEA
Taken In connection with the news
from Berlin that British submarines
have been in the Blight of HeIgoland.
where the German admiralty lays claim
TO having sunk one. and perhaps more.
this is believed TO foreshadow some
movement In the North Sea- while
there is no longer any endeavor to
hide the fact that a big Anglo French
force Is prepared to go, as General
DAmande. the French commander. has
said, to any point where it is re-
quircd.''
a German report says that part of
inns force. which is under command of
General Sir Ian Hamilton. has been
landed at Enos. Turkish town near
the Iurco- bulgarian boundary, on the
northern side of the Gulf of Saros. un
der the support of the allied fleet. At
the Same time there is news of trans
In1
Island of Lemnos, not far from the
entrance of the Dardanclles. and of
others being sighted oc Smyrna, on
the coast of Asia Minor.
This makes IL uncertain where tho
blow Is TO be struck There are
Anglo-French troops in the Aegean
sea. including Senegalesc. who are
transferred from France, and British
Tommies from the outposts of the en-
pire, which, with the disappearance of
the last German raiders. are consid
cred safe from attack.
Farther east. in Mesopotamia, the
Turkish army sent to bar the British
advance from the head of the Persian
Gulf. after having suffered 5000 cas-
ualties, is in full retreat. harassed not
only by the British. but by Arab tribes
.'S"' WYNN '''tS idN eHHSleu OH tncir
side. and who. now that the Turks
have been defeated. have turned
against them.
Nearer home. the British are hold
ing tenaciously 10 hill\6O, near Ypres
which they captured from the Ger
mans on Saturday. and which the Ger
mans since have been trying TO retakc
The French are pressing hard on the
two sides of the German triangle in
the Woevre
RUSSIANS REFUSING
AUSTRIAN ATTACKS
The Russians, according to their ac-
counts, are repulsing repeated Aus
trian attacks southeast of Lupkow
Pass. in the Carpathians. and are hold
ing their own against the Austro-Ger-
man efforts on their fanks near Ger
lice. in Western Galicia, and Stry, in
the eastern part of the same province
These attacks apparently are being
made with the object of holding the
Russians where they are while the
Germans are preparing to strike n,
the Russian lines at some other point
possibly in the direction of Cracow.
Although rumors are many and
divergent. no definite news has been
received of Italys Intentions
While dispatches indicate that the
tension between Rome and Vienna has
slackened, the belief is general tina,
before many weeks both Italy and