The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-28
BRITISH CONFIDENT
MINISTER'S INDICATE IMMINENCE OF
GREAT MOVEMENT
Have Sent 10000 Men
Allies Appear to HaVe Large Armies
Concentrated on Continent and
Seem to be on Verge OF Making
Determined Drive at Turkey.
Naval Activity Expected.

Naval ACTIVITY E4ptCIeOs
London reportsc Glowing accounts
Of the strength and conditions Of the
British army and Of the great in
crease in the output OF munitions, Of
which. it is expected next month will:
amount to twenty-five times what it
was last September, given by David
Lloyd George, chancellor Of the ex-
chequer, and Harold J. Tennant, par
liamentary secretary of the war of
fee, in the House Of Commons have
increased enthusiasm and confidence
of the people Of England.
Supplementing the chancellor's
statement that Great Britain has
more than thirty-six divisions Of.
troops on the continent, and that the
output of munitions has increased
enormously, Mr.. Tenant Thursday,
speaking on behalf Of the secretary of
war, Lord Kitchener, declared that
recruiting had been most satisfactory
and gratifying; that the health Of the
troops was splendid and that the
wounded were in the London hospi-
tails twenty-four hours after they
were stricken in France. He wished
to impress on the country the neces-
sity Of increasing the supplies of ar
tillery ammunition, addingS 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 have. convinced the people
that at last the big effort against Ger
many and Turkey is about to COM
mence. Both in the Aegean and
North seas there are signs of increas-
ing activity. From Thursday Eli
steamboat comm unication with Hol-
land is stopped by order Of the Brit
ish government. y
Taken in connection with the news
from Berlin that British submarines
have been in the Blight Of Heligoland,
where the German admiralty lays
claim to having sunk one and per-
haps more, this is believed to fore
shadow some movement in the North
sea; while there is no longer any en-
deavor to hide the fact that a big
Anglo-French forco is prepared to go,
as Gen. d'Amade, the French COM
mander, has said, "to any point where
it is required"
A German report says that part OF
this force, which is under command
Of Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, has been
landed a Enos, a Turkish town near
the Turko-BuIgarian border, on the
orthern side of the Gulf of Saros,
under the support of the allied fleet.
At the same time there is news OF
transports loaded with troops passing
TIE TIE Island Of Lemnes, not far from
the entrance Of the Dardanelles, and
of others being sighted OF Smyrna.
on the coast Of Asia Minor.
This make it uncertain where the
blow is to be struck. There are An-a
g1o-French troops in the Aegean sea,
including Senegalese, who were trans
ferred from France, and British
"Tommies" from the outposts of tho
empire, which, with the disappear
,ance Of the last German raiders, are
considered safe from attack.
Farther east, in Mesopotamia, the
Turkish army sent to bar tho British
advance from the head Of the Persian
gulf, after having suffered six thou
sand casualties, is in full retreat,
harassed not only by the British, but
by Arab tribesmen, whom they had
enlisted on their side and who, now
that the Turks have been defeated,
have turned against them.
Nearer home the British are hold
ing tenaciously to Hill go, near Ypres,
which they captured from the Ger.
mans Saturday and which the Ger
mans since have been trying to re-
take. The French are pressing hard
on the two sides of the German trian-z
gle il the Woevre. -
The Russians, according to their
accounts, are repulsing repeated Aus
trian attacks southeast of Lupkow
pass in the Carpathians and are hold
ing their own againSt the Rustro-Ger-.
main efforts on their flanks near Cor:
lice, in western Galicia, and Stry, in
the eastern part of the same prov
ince. These attacks apparently are
being made with the object Of holding
the Russians where they are while
the Germans are preparing to strike
at the Russian lines at some other
point, possibly from the direction Of
Cracow.
Although rumors are many and
divergent, no definite news has been
received Of Italy's intentions. While
dispatches indicate that the tension
between Rome and Vienna has slack
ened, the belief is general that before
many weeks both italy and sume Of
the Balkan states will assume a more
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