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Show I British Government Facing Acute Crisis Over (General Conscription i ' , . CABINET UNABLE TO AGREE AND ij HIGH OFFICIAL!! MAY RESIGN Premier Asquith Avoids Immediate Rupture; Advances of 1 British Troops in Mesopotamia Checked Turks Drive Enemy Back From South Bank of Tigris Germans Abandon Violent Bombardment North of Verdun Ver-dun Claim Many French Prisoners Taken. J . Petrograd, April 1 8, via London, 8:33 p. m. Trebizond, j the most important Turkish city on the Black sea, has been captured by the Russians. ! London, April 18, 2:06 p. m. A Reuter dispatch from Copenhagen says: "A dispatch to the Kieler Zeitung from Wilhelmshaven says there was a great explosion last Friday in " the new torpedo works there, a number of persons being killed and others wounded. The works were recently finished and were inspected by Emperor William on February 25." Review of War Situation. After their attack of yesterday with hejw forces on the French linps be-, be-, tween Douaumont and the Meuse north of Verdun, which netted the Germans some ground near the Chauf , feur vood. they have abandoned nc-' nc-' tnifv in this sector for the time be Inc. 1 he recent advance of the British alog the Tigris below Kut-el-Amara nn Mesopotamia has been checked by , the Turks who, according to London's admission, have forced back the Brlt- t isb lines on the south bank of the ' Tigm in places by from 500 to S00 ( jards j J The British cabinet crisis over the aal roc rultlng problem Is still acute. An U apparent indication that the cabinet ja members had bean unable to agree on A ' the conscription Question was furnish-lge furnish-lge J ed bv an announcement that Premier E) ' Asquith would not make his expected 23 i announcement In the house of corn-alt corn-alt . mons today on the subject. f iS Bprlm announces that In yesterday s t20 ,! fjehttng east of the Meuse 1.GS8 pns dS ? oners were taken by the Germans, all qtf 1 unbounded The total of French pris-M pris-M oners captured by German forces in M 'i the Verdun operations to date is giv-13 giv-13 ' en as 711 officers and 3S.155 men. ? Germans Again Aggressive. at,1 Paris, April 18, 5 45 a. m After eyj six davs rest, while effectives were 5? made up and stocks of ammunition tfi ! replenished, the Germans again have M ' begun a concentrated attack upon dlf- ferent points of the French defenses NJ at Verdun. The first point selected itS was the one mile section between the eft v Meuse and Douaumont which form a 30? salient that seriously Impedes the en-alt en-alt emy. It includes the famous Pepper w ' Hill. . 198' , Approaches to this position are fur-kjj fur-kjj ther enfiladed by the French batter 3 les on the -west bank of the Meuse m and It was with the view to facll Jtat- tf! ing operations against the salient that IM the Germans made their recent offen- e bIvo against Cumiores and Dead eeE i Man's Hill. That having failed tho ifl now arc trying the effect of direct .U.' wearing tactics, employing dense SO I ' masses of infantry in small spaces '& but so far with little success. The as? ; net result of their efforts has been J2 the gain of a small salient west of 3j Douaumont which, the French claim, rM is unimportant. $ French first line trenches In the 13 j Verdun region west of the Meuse. ST from Dead Man's hill to Cumleres vol were bombarded yesterday by tho m' Germans. East of the river, relate m calm prevailed during the nleut- Yesterday the attack between Don-5 Don-5 aumont and. the Meuse was very Mo- Jent. The German forces Included troops from five different d visions. East of the Chauffeur sa Jt th " mans penetrated a front line trench but wore partly ejected. I This information was contained in " thn French official report given, out this afternoon, the text of wmen wi- l0''0n the loft hank of the Meuse there has been a bombardment of our first line positions between Le Mort Homme and Cumleres. On the right bank of tho river, the night passed In relative quiet. ' Violent German Attack. "It has been confirmed that the German attack delivered yesterday between the Meuse and the Douau-mont Douau-mont region took on character of ' extreme violence. Furthor Information Informa-tion S that this offensive acUon was conducted by troops belonging to five different divisions. n,,f. "In the cast salient of the Chauffeur Chauf-feur wood the enemy penetrated our flret llSo tronchw. but from this position po-sition he urne in part driven out by a counter attack. "In the Woovro there has been an artillery duel In the sector of Mou- lanville A German reconnaissance which was endeavoring to approach tho trenches in tho direction of Hcr-manpere, Hcr-manpere, northeast of St. Die was repulsed re-pulsed with hand grenadeB. "During the night of April 17 aoro- X planes of the enemy threw down sov- If eral bombs, one of them i being an In-I In-I cendiary missile, on Bolfort It has heon reported that two persons were killed and six wounded. The male-I male-I trial damage wanot important. French Positions Taken. Berlin, April IS, via London, 3:43 p. m French positions on Stelnbruch, 700 yards south of Haudremont farm, In the Verdun region were captured by the Germans in their attack of yesterday, the war office announced today The Germans took prisoner 1,646 unwounded men. Tho text of the statement follows: "Western front. Our artillery extensively ex-tensively bombarded British positions In the region of SL Elol. We easily repulsed a weak hand grenade attack directed during the night against one of tho mine craters we had occupied. On both sides of La. Bassee canal and northwest of Loos, spirited hand grenade gren-ade fighting developed. In the region of Neuville and near Beuvralgnes wo exploded several mines with good results. re-sults. Violent Artillery Duels. "On the batlefleld on both sides of the Meuse (Verdun region) there were very violent artillery duels. On the right bank of the river our troops from lower Saxony wrested from the French by storm positions on Stelnbruch Steln-bruch stone quarry, 700 yards south of Haudremont and on the right of hills to the northwest of Phloment farm. Forty two officers Including three staff officers, and 1,646 men were captured unwounded, in addition to fifty wounded men. "Attacks of the enemy in and near Caillette forest were frustrated by our fire when they were being prepared, or when the first efforts were made. French artillery was extremely active ac-tive against our positions on the Woe-vre Woe-vre plain and against those positions on the hills southeast of Verdun and as far as the neighborhood of St. MI-hiel. MI-hiel. "Eastern front Russian attacks early this morning at the Dvlnsk bridgehead on tho narrow front south of Garbumovka broke down in front of our positions with heavy losses for the enemy." Berlin Offers Proof. Berlin, April 18, via London, 3" 45 p m. in view of doubt existing In France as to the accuracy of German estimates of the number of PYench taken prisoner in the battle around Verdun, Germany will publish the names of approximately 40,000 prisoners prison-ers taken In the Mouse district, and also tho names of all Frenchmen made prisoner In this war, the official war office statement announces today. Following the announcement today of the capture of forty-two officers and more thai! 1,600 men the official statement says: "Their names will be published In the Gazettedes Ardennes, in tho same manner as tho names of all Frenchmen French-men who have been made prisoner in this war. Tho names of 711 officers and 38,155 men whom we have taken prisoner since Feb. 21 In tho battles in the Mouse district also will be published. pub-lished. The reason is the semi-official .- t- MAAAwnfr tt Anat flrtllVlf ntl Stilt reports." Turkish War Report. Constantinople, April 18, via London, Lon-don, 12:25 p. m. Tho Turkish official statement today says: "Irak front: The situation Is unchanged. un-changed. "Caucasian front: On the valley of Tchoruk and on our loft wing there waB local fighting. In tho other sectors sec-tors of this front the situation was unchanged. "On April 14 an enemy aeroplane coming from tho direction of Enos (Galllpoll) flew over Adrianople dropping two bombs without effect. "In the neighborhood of the Suez canal, one of our reconnaissance parties par-ties attacked an enemy detachment and put It to flight after killing five men." Paris, April 16, 4:40 p. m. A semiofficial semi-official note today gives an order of the da yof General Petain, commanding command-ing at Verdun, in praies of the resistance resist-ance of the French troops to the tc-cent tc-cent offensive of the Germans. The note says: "The emperor some days ago reviewed re-viewed one of tho divisions engaged in the region between Douaumont and Vaux, and It was there that he said "the war of 1870 was decided at Paris, The present war must end at Verdun." General Petaln's order is as follows: fol-lows: "The 9th of April Is a glorious day for our arms. The furious assaults of the soldiers of the crown prince have been everywhere broken. Infantrymen, Infantry-men, artillerymen, sappers and aviators avia-tors of the eleventh army were rivals In heroism. Honor to all." French Flyers Bombard Bulgars. Salonlki, April 17, via Paris, April 18, 4:50 a. m Twenty Uo French aeroplanes bombarded the headquarters headquart-ers of the Bulgarian staff at Dolran early today. The Tald was an entire success, the French officers say A German squadron which attempted to engage the bombarding French aeroplanes aero-planes was attacked by special French rapid firing machines which forced them to abandon the attack. American Hoopllal Train. Paris, April 18, 5 a, m An Amerl-ean Amerl-ean hospital train recently presented to the French army arrived In Paris yesterday on Its first trip from the front, bringing a number of soldiers wounded In the recent fighting at Verdun |