BY DRESDEN'S WHITE FLAG.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 5

BY DRESDEN'S WHITE FLAG.

DASHING BRITISH ATTACKS

RUSSIA'S PROCRESS IN BUKOWINA

ENEMY LOSE 17,000 MEN.

The Germans are greatly humiliated at the loss of the Dresden, which with the Karlsruhe, was their last hope on the high seas The hoisting of the white flag was particularly galling to them, the Kaiser describing it as the saddest incident of the war. The Admiralty announces that the crew of the Dresden fired the ship when they realised that she was doomed. The British operations in the north-west of the firine line have been carried out with great dash, especially their advance at Neuve Chapelle and their recapture of the village of Saint £loi, which the Germans were only permitted to hold for twenty-four hours. The Russians claim another victory in Bukowina, which Bg l m d f rin S of the enemy. In the Carpathian campaign they have been advancing in single file through some of the passes, this method involving great delay and heavy losses. SrrihlP Sl T^Lr e ,OSSGS in the winter have been terrible The German concentration in the Prasnysz region «™™ , pro l uced "° f ffect - *Mc the Russians announce progress along the whole line from Mlawa to the Orjiec River The Osowiecz fortress guns have demolished some of the siege guns. Further to the south the Czar's forces have reached gunrange of Przemysl, and the bombardment of that fortress has been commenced.