TWO MORE SHIPS TORPEDOED

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5

TWO MORE SHIPS TORPEDOED

BRITISH LINES BOMBARDED

ALLIES TIGHTENING GRIP.

RUSSIA'S PROGRESS IN POLAND

The Germans are furiously bombarding Nieuport with •sixteen-inch howitzers, and their artillery is also paying special attention to the British line in the La Bassee area. Despite these activities, the Allies continue trench by trench to carve their way into the German line, and both in Flanders and in the Aisne valuable progress has been made. The Corsair fleet is again active, and submarines have appeared off three of the British coasts. One torpedoed a coaster off the Irish coast, two others chased a liner off the Mull of Galloway, and a fourth sank a steamer off the Northumberland coast, with the loss of six lives. n. • nnet^ ct scandal is reported from Germany, where it is i stated that the sum of a hundred million marks is involved an the misdealings of one contractor. The Allies' blockade of Germany is resented by America, and President Wilson intends to enter a strong protest In other quarters retaliation is threatened. wJPf^ 606 w q a . s^ t T ic 1 c , given an opportunity by the Allies to enter the conflict to help the Serbs and to assist in the reduction of the Dardanelles, the vilayet of Smyrna being offered as a return in the second instance, but the Crown Council feared that the nation could not defend the province, and therefore adhered to its policy of neutrality. The German Ambassador to America claims that the Dresden was sunk irf international waters, and asks the United States help m the matter. The brazen effrontery of the Teuton m appealing to international agreements is only matched by the thoroughness with which he tore those same agreements to shreds when they stood in his path.