Arizona republican., 1916-05-03
Five Airships Fly Over the Northeast Coast of Eng land and Visit Some of the, Eastern counties of Scot land.
BOMBS DROPPED
 IN YORKSHIRE
Two Ships Under Charter By American Commission for Relief in Belgium Have Met with Mishaps at Sea, Says Report
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 The recruiting problem in England is to be Gealt with by the British parlamanetin a bill to be introduced by the government calling for general and immediate compulsory enlistment.
 A thought since the beginning of the war the naval and military en- iIstment have exceeded five millions men, Premir Asquith told the house of commons that the existing machin- cry for recruiting was not sufficient to get more men to the colors and that it was the purpose of the gov ernment to ask for legislation which would compel so-called 'slackers" to answer their country's call.
 With the situation in Ireland vir- tually normal. the military authori- ties now are busily engaged in running down the few of the remaining Sim Feiners who have failed to surrender
 All the main bodies of the rebels throughout Ireland have laid down their arms ard given themselves up. according te the chief secretary for Ireland. but until the situation has been entirely brought under control there will be lessening of the activ- itirs of the military.
 A German attack in Belgium to the north of Dixmude is the only infantry engagement reported at any point along the western front. Artillery bombardments especially severe to the northeast of Verdun. have been the sole method of warfare on the other | sectors. North of Dixmude the Ger | mans. after a violent preparatory l bombardnent charged and occupied ! portions of three Belgian advance | posts. but the battalions in a counter attack immediately drove out the in- vaders
 l German attempt to assume the offensive against the Russians near 1 Riga was put down but the Teutons l continue their heavy artillery fire | against the Ikskull bridgehead and in | the Lake Narocz and Lake Visch- nevskoye regions.
 German aircraft have bombarded several Russian positions in the Gulf of Riga and a Russian air squadron has delivered an attack against the l German naval base at Windau.
 Vienna reports that the heavy fight ing between the Austrians and Italians in the Admello sector of the Austro- Italian line. is still going on and tha' Italian attacks against Austrian posi-. tions have been put down with heav, casualties.
 | The Russians are continuing theil pursuits of the Turks in Diareb il
 Asia Minor. Numbers of Turkish in fantry have been killed or captured by Cossacks. Constantinople report
 the driving aground in the Black Sc;
 by a Turkish submarine of three Rus
 sians steamers and the sinking of thre,
 food iaden sailing vessels.
 Three steamers. one of them a neu
 tral have been sunk, but whether b,
 mines or torpedoes has not been stated
 Another neutral steamer has beel damaged and is being lowed int port. The neutral sunk was the Bra
 gillian Rio Bronco and the one dam
 aged was the Swedish Steamer Frid
 land. The Fridland and the Britis steamer Hendonhall, which was sunl
 were bound for Portland, Maine, fo
 Rotterdam, with supplies for tn
 American commission for relief i . | Eeigium.