Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-29
GERARD ON WAY
To SEE KAISER
At WAR FROM 7
Prominent German Officials Are
Framing Answer to Sub.
marine Note.
AIR MEN ACTIVE
IN AsIATIC FIELDS
Artillery Bombardments Violent
On East and West
Fronts.

London, April 28.-The situation m
Dublin, where the Sim society un-
dertook a raid against the govern
ment last Monday, continues serious.
according to latest advices. The p0.
lice, according to belated reports,
were unable to cope with the raid.
ers, and the Sinn-Feiners not only
seized the general postoffice, but bar
ricaded themselves in Sackville street
and dug trenches in st. Stephens
green.
"The military operations for the
suppression of the rebellion in Dublin
are proceeding satisfactorily" says q
communication issued by Field Mar
shall French, commanding the home
forces. late last night.
"What may be described as the or
ganized forces of the rebels" the
communication adds, are confined to
few localities. the principal ones be-
ing the Sackville street district, in
which the rebel headquarters appear
to be the general postoffice."
Advices from Belfast are TO the ef-
feet that Liberty hall, the headquar-
ters of the Sinn-Fein society was
captured by the military forces, after
it had been shelled by gunboat
Gerard to See Kaiser.
James w. Gerard, ambassador to
Berlin, has gone to German army
headquarters to confer with Emperor
William concerning the German reply
to the American note. Prominent
German statesmen, including Vice-Ad-
miral Won Capelle, the successor of
Admiral Won Tirpitz, as minister of
the macy, already are at the EmpeR
or's headquarters.
Aerial Artillery.
Only aerial artillery activities
marked the progress of the war on
the European field, but the British
have met with reverses, both in
Egypt and Mesopotamia.
In a battle near Quatia, according
to reports from Constantinople,
British force of four cavalry squad.
rons has been annihilated by the
Turks, who captured 800 prisoners
besides many guns.
Russian dispatches say that an at.
tempt to relieve the beleaguered
force in Kut.El- -Amara failed when a
vessel grounded in the North Tigris
river. The affair the Official state.
ment says, was carried out with the
utmost gallantry.'
Airmen Active.
Airmen, also have been active in
the Asiatic field. Constantinople
claims that British aero-squadron
raided Kutara, after the British de-
feat and threw bombs on hospital.
The Turks attacked from an aero.
plane an Entente warship at Kantara.
and the docks of Port Said. They
also dropped bombs on Entente avia-
| ton guards on 1mbros island.
| There has been some infantry act
ivity along the front in France, held
| by the British forces. The artillery
commandment has been violent, both
east and west of the Meuse, in the
verdun region. East Of the Meuse.
the Germans shelled the French posi-.
tions between the Cote du Poivre and
Douaumont,
French airmen have shelled Ger.
man stations and the Germans have
retal'ated by attacks on the Verdun
section. German aeroplanes have
dropped bombs on the Russian battle.
ship Slava in the Gulf Of Riga, and
Berlin reports the action had good re-
suits.
The Teutons also have attacked
Russian warehouses at Rjezyca with
airships.