, 1916-05-06

evening u small attack in which 3 ompa-
MES took part upon our trenches between
Harnzee and -Four de-Paris. The Germans
were successful III 9"lning IA footing TOR n few
moments in our advanced ositions, but they
were not able to maintain this successfully
and had to retire. They sustained heavy
losses by our fire. III the region Of Verdui,
there has been fairly intense activity on the
part of the opposing artillery forces III the
sectors of Dead Mans Hill and DouauInont.
One of our long range guns bombarded the
railway station at Sebastopol to the east of
Vgneulles. Flames were observed at the
station, IN the Lorraine district, there has
been an encounter between patrols near Mon
eel.
London, May 3rd.-The sinking by a sub
marine of anothe' neutral steamship, the
Spanish vessel ''Vinifred"" is It ported in a
Lioyds despatch from CoIunn. spain. One
member of the crew was lost.
London, May 2ud. The British AIMED
yacht "Aegns"', the sinking of which by II
NINE was announced yesterday, WAS former
ly the Elm, Sr Thomas Lipton's private
yacht, She. was taken over by the British
A lmiralty and used as a patroI-ship. Later
she was armed, and before being sent to the
Mediterranean, where she was sunk, vas on
patrol du,y in the North Sea.
London, May 3rd.-Serlous trouble is re-
ported TO have occurred i'll Berlin and else
where IN Germany on May Day" says the
Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph Company. Vast crowds composed
for the most part of women and OF the la
bouring classes clamoured for peace. The
crowds were dispered by the police and
many persons were arrested. Two women
were wounded at Chemnitz, Saxony.
D,IItn NIov "a fpba. GhiaF pf Tho fro
Department estimates the damage to build
iugs at 81, 600, 900 and to stock at t750,O0o.
The number of buildings destroyed is ITO.
In County Galway the insurrection has been
quelled completely but the need of bread is
great. There is no yeast to be had III that
district.
Lonon, May 3td.-A treaty at last has
been ratified between Turkey and Ger
many to avert the possibility of Iur-
key making a separate pence, according
to II Rome despatch to the "Daily News.
Germany the correspondent says, agrees to
guarantee Turkeys territorial integrity,
provided, when peace conditions are discus
sed, Turkey does not initiate negotiations
with the Allies without Germnny's consent.
Germany, it is declared, acquires complete
freedom of action, aud will be able to accept
the Allies conditions of peace eveL if they
are to Turkeys detriment.
London, May 4th.- The follow
ing official communication was issued
last night "Nothing of Importance has
happened in the past "a hours. The opera
tons on both sides have been confined to
artillery actions, some of them slight, and
some heavy together with a little mining
activity. To-day we blew up three mines
east of Souchez and at the snme time bonn
barded enemy trenches in that vicinity. There
also have been fairly heavy bomburdments
10y both sides from ST. Eloi, to the south of
Of it on a front of about 1000 yards, and
also westward of Angres. Yesterday our
aircraft carried out q considerable amount
of work in spite of the thuudery weather.
Few hostile craft were seen.
Paris, May 3rd.-The official communica-
ton issued by the War Office tonight reads:
West of the Meuse, there was a violent bonn
bardment Of the sector of 'Avocourt. To-
ward the end of the afternoon our troops by
a brilliant assault captured positions north
west of Dead Mans Hill. We took about
100 prisoners and four machine-guns. On
the rest CT the front the artillery activity
was intermittent. The Belgian official COM
munication reads Artillery duels continued
all the night in the region of Dixmude, and
was resumed with violence this morning. The