St. John's Daily Star, 1916-05-10

              the st john's daily star newfoundland volume 11 3.00 per annum wednesday may 10,1916 price one cent no.«ft o9 irish parties gettogether redmond and carson said to have reached an agreement on ihc terms of a joint proclamation to be made to the irish people on local government affairs and military measures a squith expected to make pronouncement tomorrow iondov may 10.—irish politics are l he foreground as the re su !; 0 | lecent rising and conse quell ' co;i\ergence of sentiment be tween john redmond and sir edward q rso n ■ ulster leader the con j fre!u e . ihese leaders yesterday en the disarmament 1 question and to jay significant debaie in the house e fcommons on the possibility of bringi mc ireland within the purview of the conscription bill have given this mat ter mill jv iter importance and it looks as iho ■.-'.; ireland's unfortunate ex perience might become the indirect meaijv oi adjusting in a manner satis factory to all parlies on difficult home ruk problem which'has been hung up during tjre war * it b understood a manifesto to the irish people bas been agreed upon but the contents of this manifesto have beer withheld until thursday so as to enable a simultaneous proclamation it'i.'ough'jut ireland various rumors were current in ihe lobbies oi the parliament to-night con cerning the negotiations between the government and the irish parties but nothing likely to be decided upon by the latter until after mr asquith's proneuiki'rricnt on the irish situation which is expected to-morrow irish office for churchill his name now persistently mentioned in connection with position gives redmond praise london may 10—winston spencer churchill speaking in the house of commons said he considered that john redmond had rendered an im mense service to the empire and that britain owed a deep debt to the nation alist pary for their exertions in the prer ent struggle the first struggle said mr churchill in which ireland had been a valiant friend on our side he would feel the same reluctance he declared in pressing the irish ques tion against redmond's opinion as he would feel against pressing the south african question against botha the whole future of ireland he con tinued depends upon two men red mond and carson there is no diffi culty they cannot surmount if they act together it is understood that mr churchil has decided to resume a place in poli tics col winston spencer churchill if the latest prominent person mentioned s a possible successor to agustine birrell chief secy for ireland . mr churchill's speech in the house of commons said the daily graphic sounded like nothing so much as a fee , cr for the office of the irish secretary ship mr churchill is an exceptiona man who wouid possibly be in his ele ment at the irish office during the com ing era of new reconstruction french generals at paris paris may 10.—general joffre and general castellnau came in from the front today to attend a meeting of the superior council for national defence at which president poincare presided deadlock at verdun the president reading his message before the joint session of senators and representatives gathered f o getjher in the house seated on the speaker's platform rue vice-president marshall and speaker champ clark i he galleries of the house wete crowded long before the president made his entrance this phonograph was taken shortly after the president started reeding his message germans find it impossible to make advances and the french fail to dis lodge tile enemy from positions oc cupied—french curtain of fire checks hun attempt at assault russ successes continue in the asia minor theatre london may 10.—the french and german forces fighting northwest of verdun for the moment at least are deadlocked the germans being unable to further and the french attempts to expel the invaders from tlje captured positions being un availing to the east and northeast of verdun where respectively violent infantry at tacks and bombardments characterize the recent fighting only an intermittent cannonading is now going on the only infantry engagement re ported anywhere along the french front was launched by the germans a gainst a french trench to the west of hill 304 northwest of verdun the french brought into play their curtain of fire and the germans were unable to debouch z shelling by the germans of the rus ians at the ikskill bridgehead on th eastern battleline which has been ii progress for many days still contin ues there has been artillery activity a various other sectors of the russiai front but no infantry manoeuvres o importance are reported the russians in armenia have pu down with heavy casualties a stubbon turk attack from the southwards anc have driven the ottoman forces from their defences on the mountain chain in addition the russians operating westward from the persian frontier to wards bagdad have dislodged the turks from fortified positions anc have driven them further westward the gorizia bridgehead , region a round san martino austro-italiar theatre has been heavily bombarded at san martino vienna asserts the italians suffered heavy losses through the explosion of a mine bombardments are featured in the fighting on other sectors of this front m belgian progress in africa paris may 10.—the belgian forces have penetrated 70 miles into german east africa according to an official statement issued today by the belgian war department at havre treats british well london may 10.—according to a despatch from eye witness with the british army.in mesopotamia khala pasha the turkish general to whom the british under general tqwnshend surrendered showed the utmost con sideration for his prisoners president wilson addressing joint session of congrress with regard to german-am erican submarine controversy hunsanxious makepeace the daily telegraph asserts that the kaiser has written a private letter to wilson vappealing to hhn to initiate a movement to bring about the cessation of hostilities hun agewts are active in all neutral capitals i ondon may 10—"there is no doubt whatever says the daily telegraph that during the lasl few days a definite attempt has been made by the german government to im press neutrals with its strong desire for peace with a view of inducing them to come forward as mediators and break up the alliance of its enemies by get ting one of them to conclude a seper ate peace for the present it would not servf any useful purpose to disclose the facts in their entirety but it can be liaid that the kaiser has personally cent a letter to president wilson ir which appealing to him as the great est neutral authority he expatiates or the necessity of urging the westerr powers not to prolong indefinitely wha seems to him their quite useless effort f revenge moreover at the capitals of sev ral neutral countries the german rep esentatives have been particularly in istent in their assurances that if gi n a fair chance germany would d ier best to conciliate her present op onents russians at marseilles travelled 17,500 miles to read french port—about 25,000 russ ians now in france fijarseilles may 10.—the sec ond instalment of a russian con tingent for france landed here toda after a land and sea journey of ap proximately 17)500 miles from mos cow to port dauy manchuria over land and then by water and trans port the tbtal number of russian troop now landed and supplied with frenc rifles and being prepared for servic on the french front is estimated a something under 10,000 since the foregoing was written three additional contingents of russ ian troops have landed at marseilles something like 25,000 russians are now in camp or in the field on the west front tgfc m vk vk calls out militia washington may 9.—the presi dent has called out the militia of texas arizona and new mexico to deal with the border situation debate irish executions nationalist charge that much unncces sary hardness has been used and that there have been many irregu iarities in treatment of sinn feiner — many questions asked premier promises the house temper justice with mercy i ondon may 9—executions and ar rests in ireland were again dis cussed in the house cf commons thie afternoon in the form of a question tc premier asquith william o'brien nationalist asked whether the premier was aware that hundreds of men from cork and tipperary had been arrested aithout any charge being staged and vere confined in cork jaii where they aerc treated with the utmost harsh ness he also asked whether steps would se taken to ally universal public in jignation at the reign of terror which iad been established and whether the police and military had just raided he offices of the cork free press vhich had advocated recruiting since ie outbreak of the war premier asquith said he would make iligent inquiries inlo the matter allud d to in o'brien's questions a veritable volley of questions wa irected at the premier from all side f the house some of the members sked whether he was aware of the rave concern over executions others hether he knew of the grave concern lt over the ; losses which loyalists iad been suffering morrell liberal enquired whether \ sheehy skiffington editor of the ris'i citizen had been shot in the bar acks square dublin before martial iw was proclaimed timothy h.ealy sked whether the premier knew hether the editors of newspapers op posed to the revolt had been shot ithout time having been given them o say their prayers the premier promised to make care ul inquiry into all the incidents men ioned no one was more anxious than he government he said that there hould be no undue severity in the xecution of the law ieat supply of berlin now nearly exhausted olice can discover only enough to last a few days longer london may 10 a copenhagen ' despatch to the exchange telegraph coy says the police of berlin search 1 ed the shops and dwellings of butchers : to day for hidden stores of meats the result showed a supply of meat for berlin sufficient for only a few days all butcher shops including werth - eim's large meat market have been [ closed the best quality of meat now ) costs 14 marks 3.50 per kilo of 2.20 pounds consider it a back down london newspapers comment disap pointedly on tame way wilson dealt with germans london may 9.—a1l the london evening papers to-day publish prominently the american reply to germany's note on submarine war fare but only the westminster gaxet e comments on the documents the gazette remarks that german concessions agreeing to adopt methods of submarine warfare in the inter ests of neutrals is not in conformity with president wilson's demand which t says required abandonment of sub marine warfare against passenger and freight carriers presumably of all an tionahties it also points out that president wil son refers to the submarine policy of germany having been happily aband oned the cymric has been sunk and attacks have been reported on the clan lindsay and the french passen ger steamer doukkals so far as england is concerned however the newspaper says we can rust in nothing but our own power of dealing with submarines the s.s krik capt taylor has ar rived at tilt cove for ore ballast en route to new york make ready for raiders mr a j baifour first lord of ihc admiralty foreshadows new dis positions of the british nava forces designed to meet am checkmate further german raids considerations of strategy have delayed this changl may 10.—mr a j dai four first lord of the admiralty h a letter on the german raids tb east and south coast towns fore shadowed changes in the dispositio of britain's naval force which wil iikely prevent further german squad rons from escaping severe punishment mr baifour says the net results o uch hasty attacks on unfortifiec owns are singularly futile and h expresses the opinion that the ger mans have made their last raid be ausc having duped the irish rebel o their destruction by a promise of ; erious attack on britain they made r how of fulfilling their engagement b sombing lowestoft and yarmouth fo 30 minutes he adds . it is not an experiment as far as an judge they would be well advisee lo repeat this would be true even i distribution of our naval forces on the cr.st coast was undergoing no alterna tion in the earlier stations of the war cor siderations of strategy required mos of our battle fleet in the north sea but with the progress of the war oui maririme position improved the sub marine portion of the grand fleet now available in growing numbers for coast defence and what is even more im portant an increase in the strength of the great fleet will enable us bring im portant forces south without impair ing any naval preponderance else where turkish nation near revolution tired of war the turks are discussing peace terms london may 10.—a despatch to the morning post from salonika says messages from constantinople state a grand council was held in the sultan's palace at dolma bagtche to consider terms of peace preachers in the principal mosques are urging the people to prepare for liberation ( a secret committee is forming and grave events are anticipated canadians land safely ottawa may 9.—lt is officially announced that four troopships which sailed from canada late in april have arrived safely in england against irish compulsion redmond warns the house of com mons that any attempt to enforce miliary conscription in ireland would lead to disastrous develop ments and appeals against such a move by the authorities asquith also opposes the taking of such action ronton may 9.—during the com mittee stage on the military service bill in the house of commons to-day sir john brownlee londsdale whip of of the irish unionist party moved that ireland should be included in the opera tion of compulsion premier asquith replying said the question of compulsion was not a mat ter of agreement with ireland and that if the motion was persisted in there would be protracted discussion which would prevent the measure becoming law at the earliest possible moment the premier said that a very large number of representatives of ireland were not prepared to accept compul sion in ireland and that it was not desirable that the country should be plunged into a controversy on the sub ject at this time ireland has just undergone a terrible ordeal but the re sult of it he believed would be to es tablish the foundation among loyal irishmen of a larger measure of agree ment than there had ever been in the past undesirable possibility the premier asked what could be worse than that representatives of ireland should be forced into conflict at this moment the government he idded was reviewing with the utmost care the military agreements in ije and in the matter of bearing arms he hoped a common agreement wbuld c reached lonsdale's motion was voted down vithout division john redmond nationalist leader hallenged sir edward carson's assertion that the recent government n ireland the nationalists had power ut not responsibility certainly since he coalition government was insti uted redmand said i had no power d the government of ireland my opinions have been overborne my suggestions rejected lt*is my pro ound conviction that if we bad had ower and responsibility during the ast few years the recent occurrences vould never have arisen unfair impression redmond proceeded to declare it infair to leave the impression that ire land had not done well on recruiting she had more than 150,000.mpn now with the colours men who had dis layed bravery and covered and covered themselves with glory he said he opposed conscription for ire land because he believed compulsion the worst possible way to get men in ireland after recent events his de liberate opinion wa,s that it would be not only wrong but well nigh insane to attempt to enforce conscription and would be a fearful responsibility if in face of this deliberate opinion ulster men should persist to force conscrip tion upon ireland redmond's appeal redmond besought the house not-on ly for the sake of ireland but for the safety of the empire not to proceed with this course nobody is more anxious than i he continued to re spond to ulster's appeal for coopera tion i have hoped against hope still even,in the dark miserable circum stances of the moment that we ought to come together and before long i hope with all my heart that out of these miseries we may be . able by taking a large and generous view something like a statesmanlike and far-reaching view of this empire's highest interests that out of this tur moil and tragedy we may evolve some means of setting these difficulties so that we may have a unitect ireland where people and government have both power and responsibility bombarded greek village paris may 10—a despatch to the havas agency from athens says the vilalge of mayada was bombarded yes terday by germans and bulgarians who threw 30 shells causing much damage including the destruction of a number of houses the reason for the 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