11th May 1916
Western Front
Battle of Verdun: German attack west of Vaux Pond repulsed.
Germans take British trenches north-east of Vermelles (La Bassee).
Political, etc.
Debate in Parliament on Irish administration.
Ireland: Easter Rising casualties: 794 civilians, 521 police and troops killed and wounded.
German Reichstag votes 229 to 111, refusing to free Liebknecht, a Socialist leader, who participated in an antiwar demonstration.
German physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild dies due to pemphigus he developed on the Eastern Front.
Ship Losses:
Tategami Maru (Japan) The cargo ship collided with
Omi Maru ( Japan) in the Inland Sea of Japan and was consequently beached.
"To Wait And See" (Western Mail cartoon)
