Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-06
BOTH SIDES !.
MAKE GAINS
ABOUT VERDUN
Inclement Weather Is Hampering
Infantry Operations on
West Front.
FIERCE FIGHTING ON
AUSTRIAN FRONT
Two Zeppehns Destroyed by Gun
Fire From Enemy Battle
ships.

London, May lj.--Gains of the
northwest of Verdun are chronicled
in both French and German commune
cations. North Of Hill 304, the Ger.
mans gained a footing in a French
advance trench and also occupied
French positions west Of Avecourt
and several treucl.qs southeast OF
Houcourt. Repeated attacks against
German positions west of Lemort
Hcmme broke down under the Ger
man fire.
Inclement weather is hampering
the infantry operations, according to
the latest official communication from
Paris, and bOmbardments alone now
are taking place. Hill 304, northwest
of Verdun, is receiving Il lombard
ment of. increased intensity. In the
region of the Adamello ridge, on the
AustrO-Italian line, the fierce fighting
which has been in progress for nearly
a week continues nnabated.
Riots in Germany.
A mob gathered in Charloitenburg.
Germany, during last night and swept
through the streets, plundering two
butter shops and smashing signs and
windows of a number of other butter
shops and meat shops, including the
municipal meat shops. The rioting
which was soon ended, was due TO in
dignatiOn aroused in the last few days
by the discovery that a number or
butchers were Withholding from sale
meat delivered to them by the city
for sale to the poorer people, or had
sold it at prices exceeding the official
maximum.
Irish Prove Loyal.
Immediately after the outbreak or
the Irish revolution, German soldiers
in trenches opposite the Irish division
on the western front, put up signs in
viting the Irish to join the Germans.
One notice read:
'Irishmen in ireland are in revolu-
tion English guns are firing on your
wives and children. Sir Roger Case
ment prosecuted. Throw your arms
away. We give you hearty welcome"
Another sign read:
eve are SaXons, and if you don't
fire, we won't" The lrishmen replied
bv nlaving an Irish air, and played
"Rule Britannia" on mouth organs.
Minister'S Meeting.
According to a disDatch from Ber-
lin, forwarded by Reuters Amsterdam
correspondent, Dr. Won Bethmann Hol-
wegg, the German imperial chancellor,
together with Vice Chancellor Ebel-
rueck, Foreign Minister Won Jagow,
DR.. Karl Helfferich, Secretary of the
Imperial Treasury Admiral Sappelle,
other minister's members of the Bun
desrath and about 100 members of the
reichstagg attended the sitting of the
budget committee of tie reichstagg.
The chancellor read the German
reply to the American note, says the
dispatch, and explained German-Amer-
lean relations. A short discussion
followed. The proceedings were
strictly confidential.
Russians Hold Ground.
German attempts to dislodge Rus
slams from captured positions south of
Olyka station have met with failure,
according to Petrograd, as also have
German attacks on Russian trenches
near the Tarnopol-P railway.
Near Baiburt, Asia Minor, the Turks
have again assayed an attack against
the Russians, but have been repulsed.
Night attacks by the Turks near Bit
lis also were put down. Near ERIN
gan the Russians captured Turkish
trenches and killed or took prisoners
their occupant.
Two additional Zeppelins have been
destroyed, one in the North Sea off
the coast of Schleswig and the other
at Saloniki. British cruisers destroy
ed the first. which apparently was out
scouting while the guns of the Allied
fleet at Saloniki brought down the sec
ond. The Zeppelin wrecked on the
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