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Self -- Government for Ireland Draft of Measure Making Vital to Great Britain in OUTLOOK Rapid Progress and Forecast Repeated Attacks Great Crisis. for Ireland Favorable. AMERICAN ATTITUDE STRONG EFFORTS MADE United States Entitled to Ex- I House Will Put Bill Through, pect Great Britain to Smooth SERIOUS But Lords May Bring On British Line Out Difficulties. Objections.

17. -' Si LONDON. Tuesday, April Dis- f manpower in the house of LONDON April 17 While Nation- leul .vhicb to the nor'.N f.S( they are cussing the alist Ireland is making plans for re- - reported to be close to Mont Kemmel. commons, Premier Lloyd-Georg- e Germans Advancing and sistance to the enforcement of con- Battle West of Bailleul I British Make Successful Counter Attacks and the toweriug height which dominates asked whether conscription in Ireland scription in country, the rest of, now seem their tlis sector. The British an- tho is more interest-e- d Bail-lei- was to be the government's only able to riccl with tin to along the il Positions in thf home rulo bill which Georce Continuous and San-- -- to report of the most remark- Important Inflict Terrible Punishment Infantry Caught Wytschaete lino, however, and re- swer the member of the j convention ever hold in Ireland. Niekoll Barnes Labor pulses oi repealed attacks with terri- able war cabinet without portfolio an- fic losses to the enemy in the Bailleul Such an answer would bo regarded as yes only in Ireland, but Are Imperilled. nounced in the house of commons guinary. Under Withering Fire British at sector aic reported. unsatisfactory, not terday would I in England, said. If was trou- the government intro The present attack in Flanders does he there duco pass or fall in tlte attempt. ble In Ireland arising from refusal to and not seem to have diverted material A committee consisting ot such for- New Line. bat- legislate after the Irish convention Withdrawn to British reserves from the Somme mer anti-hom- e rulers as Walter Hume - was offered, any tlefield and such operations as arc oc- and only conscription A. DUEL I in would moot w ith MORE HUNS ARRIVING Long, J. Austen Chamberlain and ARTILLERY lining south from Airas reveal the resistance Ireland solicitor-genera- sympathy hero which would paralyze W. Samuels, l for Ire British in strength on this front where land, Mr 1". r. v.iihli has ber n the effort to enforce conscription in with LONDON, April I 7. The greater part of Wytschaetc the main German effort, must inevita- engaged In drafting tne bill, hold a bly be e::erted. The British last night Irelanu. second meeting yesterday and report- Major-Gener- al counter-attacke- d The premier reforred especially to and probably all of it, is in the hands of the British, opposite Boyelles Be- ed It had made rapid progress. Thousands of Guns of 1 en- attitude of Litfjor pay. add- Fresh Divisions Are F. B. Maurice, chief director of the military operations and drove out Germans who Jad .the the The home rule b'll. it is understood, tered H e British trenches yesterday. ing: of a measure amend Is put on the will take the form at the war office announced today. Reports come from Loth the British "It useless to this bill ing the government of Ireland act 1 in-- en-- I Brought From All i statute books unless we intend to ing Calibers Counter-attackin- and Prencb WSJ oFics of marked passed just before the outbreak g successfully at Meteren and south of it la to try to en- which crease in i'Ullery fire south of .r.e force and it useless of the war General opinion favors a It unless behind the government that place, the British have driven back the Germans half way Somme force ! which could bo appli- j federal measure Roaring. there Is a feeling that Ireland nas been Russia. Wales and England. to Bailleul. They have advanced and improved their lines in justly is not cable to Scotland. LONDON'. April 17. The Brilish treated. Moreover Ireland motions suggesting the intro- the only country is to be considered. Several the direction of Neuve Eglise. I Meteren on the north-ler- of a federal system already have recaptured American Opinion of Bill. duction battlo front by a battle attack, it LONDON, April 17. There is no have appeared in the house of com- WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN "As to America, the opinion reach majority of is announced officially. ling Inclination to minimize the serious- mons while a large those FRANCE. April 17 At any rate the 17. is YprtrS the government is that sentiment who become converts LONDON, April The battle in Flanders raging The British positions before bill provided Unionists have desperate efforts by great forces of have beep withdrawn to a new lino. in America supports the ness of the loss of Bailleul and the to home rule also favor that system. today with incredible intensity, telegraphs the correspondent self government in Ireland Is vital to possibility that it may lead to the ne- Good Chance, tho enemj yesterday afternoon and Soutl oi Arras the Germans were is Ireland Has of us at the moment that America cessity of exacuating Ypres and on surface at any rate, last night to exploit his successes of Reuter's limited at British army headquarters in France. driven out British trenches into our through the most Never, the Which they had forced their way. Ear- iioming to aid has Ireland had such a good chance of about Bailleul and Wytschaete met As far as the latest reports enable the correspondent to judge, 'remarkable decision ever taken by any Under the heading -- They Still Ad government. with a costly failure. The battle west ly this morning the German artillery Wilson's decision getting a form of .elf is more south of the executive President vance," the Daily Mail says that up to At a meeting of the Unionist war of Bailleul has been continuous and the battle going in favor of the British. became active w it was Somme. was not ithout difficulty, but this time in their advance the Ger- committee, which was called to con- sanguinary Time after time the ene- Notwithstanding the desperate attacks of the Germans the only way America could render The Lrtisb made a successful oouu- - mans have been on marshy ground. sider the matter but which adjourned my forces flung themselves against practical in this battle. e ter-attac- In neighborhood of assistance Yesterday they captured the first of1 today reaching a decis- the defenders in inten-- assaults but they have gained no further ground since Tuesday morning the America is until without Wytschaete. Repeated Gorman attacks "in these circumstances the important, ridges by storming ion, several speakers urged that every on each occasion the British troops 5 and apparently they have lost some. entitled to expect from the British Wytschaete. being aided by the fall should be made to se- held their own and threw the onrush north of Bailleul were repulsed, the government though they couid not possible effort 3P" Among the enemy attacks Tuesday after- - 'Germans suffering heavy losses. of Bailleul, and that thus "the secur-- 1 cure a home rule settlement even at ing Germans back with huge losses. numerous ask any government to carry out do- the! duel is rag- Official War Ity of the Ypres , so long the cost of cherished principles. A tremendous arlillerv ial noon and evening on the northern front in Flanders, one in Statement, mestic legislation that they would bulwark of our left and touched with Liberals, Laborites, Na- ing alonK tho northern front. Through The statement follow: and, at any With all the Ger-if- smooth these difficulties BUCb immortal memories to us, is and a part of the out the night thousands of guns of all great force in the Zillebeke sector was disastrous for the f "Yesterday evening we delivered a 1 tionalists lrge rate, not increase them. am certain supporting the bill, it should calibers made the war zone hideous counter-attac- in neigh pres-len- t Unionists mans whose massed waves were shot down at close range. successful the nothing would help more at the Graphic n of mighty detonations. There of Wytschaete. At The Pally thinks would have an easy passage in the house with their borhood Meteren Juncture to secure the full measure j 8- - be wise to withdraw the British troops commons What the house of lords, was no cessation of this protracted They apparently were ordered to retire and then the British also our counter-attac- k restored the than the de- of American assisnce from Ypres and Passchendaele "to those old enemies of home rule, will fencing between the heavy batteries Q(j situation and the village remains in of the British parliament gunners got on their flank, the correspondent says, and the termination avoid the risk of their being cut off do is uncertain but with two former and this morning the contest was still hands Throughout the afternoon own parlia ' jlcl jour tender to Ireland her anti-hom- o , shaking win- (to' compelled to surre nder ruler-- and continuing the vibration slaughter Was appalling. and evening yesterdaj repented hostile and Earl Curzou ment It continues: Viscount Mllner, as members of tbe dows forty and fifty miles away. attacks north of Bailleul were repulsed Carson's I; px- - Replying to Sir Edward "That the situation is made more supporting it the opposi- oo I With loss to the enemy. Bodies of il government criticisms, the premier said that it serious by the loss of Bailleul Is ob- is likely to be less strenuous than LONDON, April 7. According to an Exchange Tele- German infantry advancing In close of a year or tion had been merely a matter vious and it would be dishonest to pre- on occasions when the com- formation were caught under the fire two grave consequences former graph dispatch from Paris, the Germans have advanced from possibly no tend otherwise." mons such a measure to the up-- I SABOTAGE BILL of our troops at short range and stif- - Ireland but what sent would have arisen for The paper adds, however, that as per Tho Irish Nationalist mem-- ! Wytschaete as far as St. Eloi and also have a grip on the fered heavy casualties. We secured a happened would show house. would have had huiK ;is the allied armies remain bcrs of parliament, having fought con- of few prisoners. if the war was prolonged a continua-- i 's purpose not at- in ol southern slopes Mount Kemmel. enemy to is scription to the laai the house "The also attempted devel- lion of the state of suspense was a tained, while she is daily exhausting commons, leaving for Dublin to Y op an yesterday afternoon east to are attack matter vital interest, not mereh herself in order to force a decision. formulate plans for resisting it. GOES I TOWN LONDON, April 17. The British at dusk on Tuesday, of Rohooq, following the bombard Ireland but to the empire. ment already reported, but his ad In introducing the man power bill, More Divisions Arriving. says a Reuter's dispatch from the British headquarters in Ivance was broken up by our artillery he said, the government had consider- Correspondents on the front sav the France, advancing in the neighborhood of Wytschaete, fire. ed nothing but the best means for Germam have used up 120 oi their 200 NEW SILVER BILL Measure Carries Penalty of ,et were "In consequence of the progress prosecuting the war. They were con- divisions in the west and have been Lb south of Ypres, and were reported again to be holding the made by the enemy on tho Lys front. fronted with a need for more men be-- I able to bring another two divisions Thirty Years Imprisonment ground lour troops holding our forward posi cause tho Germans had just summoned from Russia. and $10,000 Fines. which they had lost there I Hons east of Ypres have been with- to the colors anothei ',50,000 men for "Those unpleasant reverses must be : ian During his three years' experience in the war zone, the drawn to a new line. The withdrawal training. Great Britain must make faced steadily," says the Times. "Their BEFORE SENATE - W 17 Approved . mini- ASHINGTON. April was carried out deliberately without i ady tor them and. thereto e, the significance must neither be correspondent he had heard such un-l- el sabotage bill favored an says, never terrific and Interference by the enemy Yesterday had to introduce a mized nor exaggerated Far more se- bv oonuress the government, has prevent y intermittent gunfire as has gone on since Tuesday afternoon afternoon partlei of bis troops advanc measure of the most drastic charac- rious than the loss of ground is the bj the administration to over our old positions w n caught revelation of the growing weight of to war material and interference nS and which ing ter. Measure Designed to Stabilize to Presi- - continued as he filed his dispatch this morning. Of our outposts lead-er-, pressure. with war industrj sent by the fire and do Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster iho German signature. stroyed. would continue to support "We far too much of the ene-m- y Prices and Stimulate Pro- dent Wilson today for his said ho hear of 30 years' the battlo from south of AlTSS, manpower bill, adding s losses, mistakes, difficulties and The bill carries penalty WITH IN 17, "on the duction of Silver. of $10,000. THE BRITISH ARMY FRANCE, April parties of German infantry who had Even if you put Ulster in a subordi- of their failure to reach appointed ob- imprisonment and fines 1 0 a. m., It entered our irenchos opposite Boycd position to the rest ol Ireland jectives on particular days and not by the Associated Press. was reported this morn- nate ad- les were driven ou. yesterday after-- i with whicb she is now threatened and hall snougb about the serious facl WASHINGTON. April 17. The ing that the British fighting magnificently had regained the di-- , bill, designed to noon with the loss of several prison if ypu put me under a government of that they are still bringing fresh ministration silver GERMANS LAND much contested of ors. Our line in this locality has been Nationalists or Sinn Peiners support visions from Russia." stabilize prices and to stimulate pro- town Wytschaete although this was not up $350 ompletel) restored ii because no more detestable domina- 'l ho Times says the enemy will con- duction of silver bv melting confirmed at the time of filing dispatch. in treas- the present j "The Loslile artillery activity in- tion could be put over the world than tinue drawing on their reserves in 000.000 of silver dollars the lM 4. $1 considerably eaily this morn-'- ' thai of the Germans." Russia "until allied statesmen stop ury and purchase ot new silver at creased reported to the senate - Ing on the British from south erf dreaming vain dreams about Russia an ounce, was - Ypres Salient Menaced. of Ilollebokc and about six mile- d- the j Somme," and do something practical to compel today by Chairman Owen of the senate 40.000JR00PS u" - irectly south of Yprea im- Willi Ibo Ypres salient in southwes- HOHENLOHE tho enemy to cease depleting the Rus-- I banking committee. He aked Its on PRINCE emergency IX lorn menaced by the cotuinu St. Eloi is the old battlo line as it HEAVY ARTILLERY FIGHTING. sian front." mediate co isideratlon as Gallingor, mi- ed advance of the Germans on the existed before the British began their April Heavy legislation but Senator of Huna PARIS, it artillery nority leader, objected and the bill Helsingfors in Hands Lya battle iron'. Immediately to the offensive last v ar fighting occurred last night on the HAS BEEN OUSTED Warships The line as a appears TURKS CAPTURE A went o er until tomorrow, Twelve Enemy houtri. the British have begun to with- - whole likely principal battle front between the oo to hold as long as the railway com- and the Olse, the war office i Somme in the Harbor. draw from his advanced line. munication- supporting it .ire mtaet reports LONDON, April 17. Prince on Today's British official report an- Apparently the security of these com- statement follows: of court to Emperor BLACK SEA PORT EXPRESS COMPANIES The Hobenlohe. chief LONDON. April 17. The Germans nounces what at least Is a partial munications bas been provided for by "on the lront between the Somme Charles of Austria - Hungary, has been troops at Helsing-- . the Ypres sector. The massing or large land (here was greaT to have landed 40.000 withdrawal from the forces in the Olse activity of discharged, according an Exchange according to an Exchange Tele- positions of Ypres have northwesterly on side-Frenc- h April 17. The capture by TO BE CONSOLIDATED fors, forward east sector ol the Ls battle the artillery both Telegraph dispatch from Copenb LONDON. dispatch from Copenhagen. A up a new to - city of Batum is an- graph been given and line the front. Carry Out Raids. Counl Alexander Estcrhazy brother- the Turks of the squadron anchored in the Haze-brouck- , German west occupied. The German objective hen " Pbe French carried out w been In an official statement is several of Count Revertata, has nounced of Helsingfora consists of Apparently the retrograde move- the important railway junc- raids especially southwest ot Butte appointed successor. sued at Constantinople on Monday. WASHINGTON. April 17. Heads of barbor his today twelve ships, including the battleship ment is pivoting on the Wytschaete tion about lour milns beyopd the point tin Mesnil in the region of Tauure and express companies discussed 18,600 pro- and Westfalen. each of borior where London today reports a of the farthest advance westward and north of Fliery. We took a number Revertata, while of Batum is a Black sea port In the with the railroad administration a Posen Count counsellor express tons. successful counterattack carried out near Nieppo wood, bix miles southwest Cf prisoners. On the right ban-- of the Austrian legation in Switzerland, trans - aucasian territory taken from posal for consolidating the upon the Germans "'bo eslerday cap-lure- d of Bailleul. A British counterattack the Mouse a German attack o:.st of sounded a French envoy early in 1917 Russia under the terms of the peace companies into one corporation which by General NEW GERMAN TAX. the town of Wytschaete near the last mht indicated the strength of the Samogneux was repulse Otherwise on tho probable chances for opening troatv. This region bus been evacuat- would be authorized Director Ger- occupation McAdoo to conduct all the express AMSTERDAM, April 17. Tbe b. ghost, point of the easterly Messine British line in this vital sector. It the night passed in quiet." peace negotiations. The Austrian gov- ed by tho Russians, but its on Tues- - ridge ;.nd pushed out m thi driving of the Turks is being resisted by the business iu the country. The corpora- man relchstag who presumably Germans ernment has claimed that Franco took by the the new taxation bills P somewhat beyond tbe town. They are rom the u wn ol Metered a mile and Review of War Situation. but former Premiers Ribot Armenians! tion would bavp capital stock of about day when tbe inlotive com- proved by tbe bundesrat wore inti having of Having - it oo- - $40,000 000 divided among the unofficially reported, indeed, as a half west Bail'ul which they had driven the British from Ball- and Palnlevi declare 'hat was Re The proposals include a spirits S- - hani-- (Wash.i panies in proportion to tho physical duced. H advanced to Eloi, a mile and a half entered. The Germans arc still vertata who sought and arranged the Seattle electrical workers w ta.v - properties, I monopoly and beer and inc north of Wytschaete, two miles west oi in" the British line north of Bail ( Continued on Page ) nicotines. kask $7 a day. valuation of their

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