The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-21
Fall Of important Port Accom-
pIished BY Black Sea Fleet Of
Gar and Likely To Force Sep
arate Peace On ConstantinopIe
THIS WOULD TURN LOOSE
TROOPS AGAINST ,TEUToNs
Germans Move Against verdun
Lines Again While In South
Italians Open Spring Cam
paign BY Smashing Austrians
tAssOeiased Pres. BY Federal wIrsIsssl

NhsboSiAOou Etebb Eeuofhl WToleb4sI.
r ONDON, April 20.-The far.reacht
ing effect of the great Russian vie.
tory over the Turkish armies de.
Tending Trebizond is becoming more
and more apparent as. details of the
battle and its after results begin to
come in from the front.
British, French and Russian military
Observers unite in declaring the cap
cure of the city, the most important of
all the Turkish Black Seq, ports, is a
fatal blow to the hopes Of the Ottoman
empire, and most of them say thar II
is likely to mean the speedy surrender
1f Turkey, and the request from Con-
tantinople for a separate peace with
The Entente Allies. Eg@.gfJ Il
Russian Fleet Reduces City sl
Dispatches from. Petrograd report
that the Russian Black SEQ neet was
he factor responsible for the fan of
the city. While the Grand Duke Nell
Jlas was slowly hemming in the port 4
the landward side, and had reached !,
point less than sixteen miles from q,
outer Qualifications, the feet strqIo'
without warning, landing troops a.
opening a terrific, bombardment. u"
Believing themselves hemmed in
surrounded the Turkish army defenSS,iniu
Trebizond broke under the chargesS
the Russian marines and blueiac, "a
and abandoned the city. The otfss'
Petrograd report adds that in mill .'
circles in the Car capital, the d.
iof the Ottomans there means the 'aotal
defeat of the Sultan, with the immcd
late result that the Russian and British
forces in Turkey win be released for
action against the Austrians and Ger
mans. -
5lavs Drive Turks In Rout
Following up their victory at Ire
bizond, and in their effort TO straighten
out their lines, by connecting with the
forces operating in the eastern end Of
the province of ErZerum, the Russians
have beaten the Turks in a series of
hot encounters among the hills in the
north of the province. Several strong
ly organized hills have been taken in
a night attack upon the Turks entrench.
ii near the little town of Aschakla. In
their flight the Turks left hundreds of
dead, and the Russians say that they
took large numbers of prisoners and
considerable booty.
On the western front, in the vicinity
Of Yerdun, the Germans have resumed
the fighting interrupted for few days
| by the weather. Yesterday they again
| battered with their heavy guns against
| the French lines at Hill 304 and Cote
de 'HOmme Mort. The positions
around Cumieres came in for their
share of the pounding, but there were
no marked results.
Three Desperate Attacks
At Les Eparges, the Germans, fol
| lowing a series of three desperate at
tacks, succeeded in gaining a slight
! foothoid in about two hundred yards Of
| French trenches, but they were immed-
lately evicted by an equally fierce coun
ter attack with the loss of hundreds Of
men.
The Russians attacked the Austrian
lines in Galicia,. and although they
made repeated Attempts to win were
repulsed each time by the heavy fire
from the Austrian guns. They are re-
ported to have suffered severely.
| The Italians are beginning their
spring campaign in the Alps, according
TO dispatches from various sources.
Yesterday they battered down the Aus
TRAN positions at Monte Fume pass,
captured them and cleared the pass of
| Austrians, later consolidating the posi-,
tions they had won. They also defeat
ed the Austrians in heavy fighting, on
the western peak Of Monte AnacOra,
shattermg the trenches of the enemy
and in1icting heavy casualties upon the
defenders.