12th May 1916
Western Front
Battle of Verdun: French extend position south-east of Haucourt and repulse attacks on centre.
3rd Bavarian Division attack “The Kink” salient near Loos, held by the 15th Scottish Division, and successfully captures it.
Political, etc.
Premier Asquith leaves for Dublin, as sympathy in Ireland for the participants of the Easter Rising grows.
Two more Easter Rising leaders are executed. They are Seán Mac Diarmada and James Connolly.
British government gives permission for U.S. aid to pass through the blockade to feed civilians in German-occupied Poland.
German Reichstag votes down a proposed tax on tobacco, which would have funded the war effort.
Secretary MacNamara states 37 British unarmed ships and 22 neutral ship were sunk by the Germans without warning since last year.
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