The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-07
Athens Hears That Constantine
pie, Weary Of War Is Pre-
pared TO Surrender To Allies
Following Russian Successes
sLAVS REPORT sToRMING
OF IMPORTANT POSITION
French and British Claim To Be
Driving Teutons Out Of Trench
es Won In Struggles Before
VeTdun and On Ypres Front

tAssooiated Press by Federal wireIsssJ
ONION, March 1.-The pendulum
LOT war is swinging back again.
On the west front where the
/ German drive against the French forti-
fcatiOns at Vordun is Pickering out;
in the Ypres region where the British
are pressing back the Teuton hosts
which drove them out of their trenches
last month, and in the Transeaueasus
and Mesopotamian regions whore the
Russians are pounding to pieccs the 4. j.
ing 'fragmcrt Is Of the Turbi. H. arr ;rt
under the command vi Field MulshaI
Won der Goltz, the few it God S-r he
Allies.
Turks Incline To Peace ,.-..a. =,
So successful have been the Russian
operations in Asia Minor that reports
of the growth Of a peace party in Con
istantinople are taking serious shape.
Dispatches from the Ottoman cap til
reaching Athens last night, declared
that the feeling there for peace is so
strong that no one would be surprised
If the Ottoman Empire opened N, gotta
tiOns for peace with the Allies on their
own terms in the near future.
| Thrusting three long columns, north
west, southwest and south from Ere.
rum the Russians have attacked and
captured by storm the important city
Of Bitlis, southwest of Lake Van, and
at the head of the yTgris valley. Slow
ly the head of this 'Slav columnlis push
ing toward the BagdHd srailroad, which
lies south and southwest of the Clint.
Threatening Prebis6nds - a.
Another column is threatening the
port of Trebizohd, on the Black sea,
and third column, marching southwest
from Hamadan, Persia, has taken the
strategic point Of Kermanshah, and is
! reported to be. about to pour their
masses through the pass in the noun
tains which gives onto the Tigris val.
| ley and commands the ancient city of
Bagdad thirty miles 70 the north of
| the British column standing Off the at
lacks Of the Turks at Kut-el Amara.
In all directions the Slavs are re-
porting successful operations, as the
0ttomen resistance is not serious. lvas
is the only point where any real re-
sIstance is expected by the sol Tiers Of
the Grand Duke.
French Recapture Ground
Around the little village of DoLau-
mont, which for several days has been
in German hands, but German hands
| tied by Gordon of French tOops, cit
| ting them off from the rest of the
TeutOn army, one of the most bitter
minor struggles of the war is being
fought. The official report in describ-
| ing this fighting speaks of it as being
OF the ''greateSt Intensity The
| French have won thor advance there
| by hand to hand fighting over the
bodies of their own and the enemies
dead, and are holding off the attacks
of the Germans and keeping the rem
! nants of BaNarian regiment close
! prisoners in the position they had cap
| tured. At Vaux tho German advance
has been checked, and they are re-
treating leaving their dead in masses
| behind them.
Elsewhere along this front the OK,
tended Germa" lines are reported to be
slowly giving ground under the pound
ing of the French guns and the re-
peated attacks Of the French infantry,
attacks the official Statement charac-
| teriZes as "Vicious. - Certain il is that
the Gallo troops have won back most
of the ground they lost in the first OF
the German thrust, and the battle is
raging with undated fury along tho
line between Melancourt west of the
river Mehsc TO the WOeVre district.
East of Verdun the bombaTdment con
Times violent.
Military observers throughout the
neutral countries Of Europe are begin
ming to examine the Great German at
tack at Verdun in the light Of devel-
"pments. The Frank furter .Zetung, Of
Amsterdam, eharacterizes the attack
az sheer nonsense, If the TeutOn COM
rnanders hoped to fight a decisive bat.
tie at Verddh. - = z 49, %
1t is difficult to imagine" the
journal goes on to say, "that the con
querers of Fort DOuaum6nt will re-
main idle, but to what extent the com
manor can make use. of his position
and attack with his weakened powers
of offensive, remains to be seem"
Upon the other end of the long line
the British, having finished extending
their front forty miles in order TO al.
low the greater Concentration OF the
French. have begun an attack In fores
upon the Germahs facing their posi-
tions at Ypres. After furious artillery
preparation they rammed home an IN
fantry attack, which il Is reported.
succeeded IN recaptnring the positions
lost TO the Teutons on the fourteenth
of February.