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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. I rela ii, has supplied another pic , tures.jue chanter to her own history and 1 to the annals of the great war. The nv i volt in Daidin and at three or four other I points by Sinn J-'einers and Larkirjites followed i-loseiv the capture of that ; strange knight, Sir Roger Casement, hy a British patrol boat as he was seeking to laud fiii the southwest coast of tho green isle with two natives of Ireland, twenty Germans and 20,000 rifles mnud machine guns. Sir Roger had been in Germany for many months and recently had been an invalid at Munich. There he issued a statement from his sick bed on March 17, predicting the triumph of the "Irish republic" and describing an "Irish brigade'' which he had formed. Not one of the soldiers in this brigade had accepted the kiug's shilling since the war began, he said, and this sUite-meut sUite-meut made it clear that his attempt to gaiu recruits among the Irish prisoners had failed. He further stated that all members of the brigade wore of Irish birth, that they had come from many corners of the earth and that they were not being paid by Germany, but eleven marks a month by the organization of Irishmen which was financing tbe 11 Irish republic." The illness of Sir Roger suggests that there may be some truth in the -theory of Conan Doyle that he is insane. At Munich he was taken down with an attack at-tack of African fever, a disease which ha contracted while collecting evidence of the Belgian atrocities in the Belgian Congo. His inquiry at that time furnished fur-nished the "English government with the evidence it needed to demonstrate the existence of the atrocities and to put a stop to them. As Sir Roger is an Ulster man, and was long a paid consular agent of the British government and later a pensioner on the retired list, bis sudden sud-den conversion to the cause, not of home rnlopbut of a distinct Irish nation, was a surprise and a puzzle' to his friends. They preferred to think that his mind hod become unbalanced-One unbalanced-One of the mysteries of the revolt is tbe whereabouts of the "Irish brigade." It did not accompany Sir Roger on his trip to the Irish coast, aud there is no record of its having landed previously or since that time. Whether it is still in Germany is also unknown to the general gen-eral public. That it is not fighting ' ' somewhere in France ' ' or elsewhere in Kuropo is made fairly certain by Sir Roger's positive statement that it would fight only for Ireland. The center of the revolt is Dublin. In a. few outlying districts there have been disturbances, but the rising has not been general aud the rebels do not. seem to have planned an aggressive movement to extend their sway over the south of Ireland. Perhaps the capture o'f Sir Roger Casement and the loss of the rifles and machine guns altered the original plans. At any rate, the Sinn Feiuers and Larkenites numbering perhaps 10,000 in all seized a part of Dublin and some districte in County Galway and Fnui?-corthy. Fnui?-corthy. Disturbances are also reported at Killamey, Clonmel and Gorey. By far the greater part of the rebels concentrated in Dublin, where they seized the postoffiee. Liberty hall, th.3 railway and street car lines at some points, buildings along the quays, St. Stephens green and stretches of Sack-ville Sack-ville and Abbey streets. By Monday night they were in possession of many strategic points and bad encountered only slight resj stance from the police and the troops. On Tuesday forces began be-gan to arrive from Belfast- These troops contented themselves with encircling the rebels and awaiting reinforcements. Liberty Lib-erty hail was shelled by a gunboat and ! then taken by storm. On Wednesday there was severe fighting and much snip- ing. Many civilians, including women "and children, were killed or wounded. The operations of the troops were hampered by the presence of thousands of civilians in the districts which the rebels had captured. This prevented the use of artillery for several days. Finally Final-ly an attack with hand grenades ousted the rebels from St. Stephens green and resulted in the capture of 100 of them. On Fridav the removal of the civilians j from some sections enabled the troops to I turn the heavy guns on buildings occu-j occu-j pied by the revolutionaries The fjght-j fjght-j ing appears to be still in progress, and ! doubtle-- hundredb have been killed and I s ounded. ! While the Sinn Feiners and Larkiu-: Larkiu-: ites were battliug with English and Irish j troops, among tho latter the Trish Fu-; Fu-; siliers. ttte Sixteenth division, or "Irish j brigade," of which the FNisiliers are a ! part, were raining glory for themselves ', in a battle with tho Germans at oo? land Hulluch. The Germans penetrated ; th trevichcs aft-r an attack with ns-! ns-! phyxiatmg gas and were establishing thrmsel- es iu tb captured positions ! when rh'.' En.h regiments counter-at-; tacked aud dro e th m from all the j eoncju'Te 1 terrain. : The fighting aJong the English front ! has been extremely brisk for several i weeks, and a Gvrman offensive has been 'predicted, but it has nor. yet dcvMoiMid . j At Verdun tliTe have hen terrific , bombardments aud some infant rv nt-tacss. nt-tacss. A pe-uliar feature o'f the ( m-i-rran and Freuch report is their dia-recmeni dia-recmeni a? to which side is on the of- Ifensive. Tn the Berlin reports w? read practically every day that some French offensive has been checked, w hile in the Paris reports dealing with the same positions we ato told that German attacks at-tacks were stopped. At all events, neither nei-ther side has guitied or lost much ground 1 and the great battle appears to have readied the deadlock stage. Persistent ill hick pursues the British i 11 Mesopotamia. General Townshend has at last been forced to surrender to the Moslems after beiug surrounded in 1 he stronghold of K ut-e! A inara since j last December. No statement has boon I made as to the number of men taken, I but originally General Townshend had I about i i).0'K) men and several hundred i gnus and machine guns. The , final attempt lo reprovision hira was made a. ) lew days ago, when the English sent a steamer laden with supplies toward Kut. Later it was observed aground in the Tig ids four miles from its dt-sti nation. It probably bad been shelled aud sunk by the Turks. The other English forces in the region, of Kut are still in 6troug positions, but uow that their immediate objective at Kut has been taken from them they may retire down the Tigris and content themselves with holding territory where they will be less exposed to flank attacks at-tacks and where they can more easily obtain supplies. Ultimately, if the Russians Rus-sians continue their progress, the British Brit-ish will be able to advance beyond Kut toward Bagdad. In the last week the Russians and Turks have been engaged near Bitiis. Both sides claim the victory. vic-tory. Down Egypt way the Turks and the English fought a battle in and near Quatia, east of tbe canal, on April 23. The English were driven out of Quatia with heavy. loss, although at some other points they held their own. The Turks captured a colonel, several majors, twenty twen-ty captains, 257 unwounded and twenty-four twenty-four wounded prisoners. They destroyed a large part of the British defensive works and declare they annihilated three squadrons of cavalry. Ou April 25 British Brit-ish airmen dropped bombs on Quatia. Early in the week a British air squadron squad-ron attacked tho Gorman naval station at Zeebrugge, Belgium, while British and Belgian airmen dropped bombs on the German aerodrome at Mariakcrke, Belgium. Simultaneously British warships war-ships drove three German destroyers into the port of Zeebrugge and then began a fierce bombardment. The destroyers are believed by the English, to have been seriously damaged, aud reports from Holland indicate that widespread havoc was caused in and around Zeebrugge. Zee-brugge. On the following day, at about 4:30 in the morning, a German squadron of battle cruisers aud submarines, preceded by four or five Zeppelins which dropped bombs on Lowestoft, shelled that naval base. Light cruisers and aeroplanes attacked at-tacked the invaders. English airmen threw down bombs at submarines aud turned machine guns on the Zeppelins. For twenty minutes the fight. continued and then the German warships drew off and made their way back to Germain-. The T.et results of the fight are not definitely known. One English airman who is missing probably lost his lif s while engaged in a duel with a Zeppelin. Two English cruisers and a destroyer were hit, but not a single warship, according ac-cording to - the British official report, was sunk. The German report says that an English destroyer was sunk and a cruiser hit by a torpedo. Ou the way i back to Germany or on the outgoiug trip the German squadron rau across the merchant, vessel King Stephen aud took tbe captain and crew prisoners. This capture was a great delight to the Germans, Ger-mans, because, as will be recalled, it was the captain and crew of the King Stephen Ste-phen who refused to res-cue the crew of the German Zeppelin L-17 when it was a wreck and sinking in the North sea. There has been much fighting in tbe air during the week. On the French and English fronts there have been 1 dozens of combats with varying success. Many German, English and French airmen have go?ir to thnr death or been captured- French airmen have been particularly par-ticularly active iu throwing bombs on factories, munitions depots and railway depots aud junctions. A German air squadron hurled many bombs at the Russian Rus-sian battleship Slava aud report that they observed several hits and a big con-flagraticn. con-flagraticn. .The destruction of the, battleship Russell, Rus-sell, 14,000 tons, is the heaviest, naval loss suffered by tbe British in several months. The warship struck a mine somewhere in the Mediterranean. About two-thirds of the crew were saved. Russian contingents continue to land in France. They are welcomed by the government and populace at Marseilles and then entrain for a prepared camp at a point thirty or forty miles east of Paris. Their appearance on 1 hp. firing .line is expected about June 1. |