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Show I gritish at Kut Surrender I LACK OF SUPPLIES FORCES : I BELEAGUERED ARMY TO QUIT I General Townshend With Ten Thousand Men Ends Siege of I 143 Days After Destroying Guns and Munitions British H Make Memorable Resistance Against Turks While H I Facing Starvation and Death. H News from the disturbed sections of Ireland is still much belated and the present situation is clouded with uncertainty in the lack of official announcements or the free movement of the news dispatches. A London newspaper reports that the rebels In Dublin have been driven driv-en out of their entrenched position In Stephens Green by a bomb attack; that they are still In control of various vari-ous parts of the city, however, seems evident. In tho Verdun region of France tho Germans have resumed a pronounced aggressive. A vigorous attack east of the Mouse near Douaumont was repulsed, re-pulsed, Paris declares, while the French artillery dispersed Germans who massed for an assault in the Avocourt sector. London, April .29, 4:45 p. m. Major-General Charles Townsend, com- umuur in me onusu lorces DesieKeu at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotanla, by Turkish forces since last December, has surrendered. This information was contained in a British official statement issuetithis afternoon. "Thef ollowing of f icial" announcement" was made: i "After a resistance protracted for 143 days and conducted with a gallantry gal-lantry and fortitude that will be forever for-ever memorable, General Townshend has been compelled by the final exhaustion ex-haustion of his supplies, to surrender. "Before doing so he destroyed his guns and munitions. "The force under him consists of 2,970 British troops of all ranks and services, and some 6,000 Indian troops and their followers." The statement adds that General Townsend destroyed all his guns and munitions before surrendering. G yieral Townshend, commanding the l ritish force beleaguered by Turks at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia since last December, has surreudered with about 10,000 men. Newspaper dispatches from Dublin report parts of the city in flames, with street fighting and looting continuing but with steady progress being made by the military against the rebels. The situation in districts outside Dublin Dub-lin is clouded in uncertainty. British Starved Out. General Townshend probably was driven to surrender to avoid starvation starva-tion of his 'forces. A recent official Turkish communication said that the position of the British at Kut-El-Amara was critical, and that they were expected to receive small supplies sup-plies of food by aeroplane. An official offi-cial statement received yesterday from London showed that a last effort ef-fort to send supplies to the garrison had failed. It was announced that a ship laden with supplies had been sent up the Tigris, that it had been grounded about four miles eaBt of the city. -v Loss than a score of miles away, on the banks of the Tigris, below the city, Is a relief army which for months had been attempting to Teach the besieged forces of General Town shend. Of late the Turks' resistance has increased and,aided by floods, they have been able to hold the British Brit-ish in check. No official figures have been given out as to tho number of troops which set forth from the Persian gulf in November of 1914 on the expedition which has now ended in surrender. Unofficially the number has been estimated es-timated as high as 50,000 but it was probably considerably smaller than tids This force has suffered heavy losses in severe battles with the Turks. Germans Capture Over 5,600 Men7 Berlin, April 29, via London,4:50 p. m, The capture of Russian positions south of Lake Narocz between SJan-aroczc SJan-aroczc and Stachowie, together with more than 5,600 prisoners, was announced an-nounced by tho war office today. German army headquartors today Issued the following statement: "Western thenter- Between La Bas-see Bas-see canal and Arras there wore lively continuous mine ongngoments which resulted successfully for us. "In the sector of GIvenchy-en-Go-helle our ndvanco Is progressing. Two British hand grenade countor attacks wero sanguinarily repulsed. "In tho Mouse sector new Fropch counter-attacks at Dead Man'B Hill and eastward failed. "Gorman nntl-alrcraft guus south of Caronvillo brought down a French blplano whoso occupants were dead. "First Lieutenant Boelke, south of Vaux, shot down his fourteenth aeroplane. aero-plane. ' "Eastern front: German troopB " mm south of Narocz lake made a thrust MM In order to Improve their observation mmt posts which had been reconquered IH by us March 26. After and previous H to March 20 German troops conquor- 'H ed the Russian positions between H Stanarocze and the farm of Stachowie. JmM Fifty-six officers, including 'four state M officers, and 5,600 men were taken H prisoner and one cannon, 28 machine H guns and ten mine throwers were cap- H tured. Wm Foe Suffers Bloody Losses; H "The Russians also suffered heavy 'm losses which were ' considerably in- H creased during the night as the re- H suit of a Russian counter-attack, which 'jMM was effected In this masses. ; WMM "The enemy was unable to recon- - H quer one foot of lost territory. r H "German airships attacked the raiP r H road near Wenden and the railroad ? MM tracks at Duenaburg and Ryecyca." H London, April 29, 12:15 p. in. H "There is every indication tonight MM that the end is approaching," says a ' H dispatr i to the Exchange Telegraph H company from Dublin under Friday's,..- H date. "Troops haxcboeii arrivingaU H day and intermittent fighting lias been going on to the disadvantage of . MMt the rebels. Ther,e was some shelling H on Thursday night in the center of L mwM the city, which Is a. stronghold of the i H Sinn Feiners. Several fires were -f MM caused and the largest of these was mmm still! burning this morning. H "Tonight (Friday) there has been WMM a fuither action and it is stated that ' WMM the building which suffered principal- , H ly was Jacobs' factory " It is around this building that some -f WMM of the fiercest fightiiig took placo , H Monday evening. The rebels com- WMM mandered large supplies of food and j ,H stocked the building, where they H hoped to hold out for some time. V 1 This evening an attack on the build- 1 lng began and just now, as the boat WMM is ready to depart from Kingstown, WMM we can see- across the bay flames i H shooting up iuto the sky." ,H S British Casualties, ' H London, April 29, 10:15 a. m. Brit- MM ish casualties, this month as compiled t MMM from published lists are slightly in iH excess of those in March. The total MMM from all fields of operation is $1,255 iH officers and 19,256 men, compared jH with 1,107 officers and 19,317 men in fH March. MMM oo i H |