Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, SEPT. 20th, 1915. THE WAR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6492, 20 September 1915, Page 3

Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, SEPT. 20th, 1915. THE WAR.

As time goes ou the news vouehafed to us" by. tile censor grows more scanty until we find practically the whole of tho operations shrouded in mystery. The operations at the Dardanelles, which to New Zealand have particular interest, seem al, the moment to be the most obscure. While these operations are interesting to us by reason of the. fact that New JSealanders are there, they are also interesting to tho r.-st of the waiting world, as upon their result depends so much. Everything seems to bo in a state of suspense until the Dardanelles riddle in solved. The losses of the Allies thora have boeu stupendous, and the details of tho despatch which the British Prime Minister says ho has from General Hamilton will bo keenly awaited, as it will probably reveal whether the gains have -been oomineuyuruGi! with the losses. Wo have no indication

yet that Italian troops are operating iv the attack uu the Turks 1 stronghold, but if not already there they are doubtless on the way. Turkey and Bulgaria ifc seems have sigaed au agreement covering railway concessions to tlin latter country and iucidentally securing her neutrality' Whether that will avail i.-he Turk much iv Ins present desperate straits is questionable, although there i^ the

comfort that he.^ garia a3 an eaeiny. I **** B* «on h naturally iadu J; >l, Roumania's attitude *■»»• »»formodwrit. crinlhc A Hiavcuo tioubt'^" 1, 11? 0*11!^ ultimate participation iL, ;on tlie Eutcutc side ■ B Bln>* cotne in on the strict tJf *k create a national State k 7 * ltal^to — t2 m ™y hi a cioauite a»- e;v > «ous for limitation aro worthvofcondcJcration JH victory of the KntentcHnr^1 ll!i to be inevitable v^,, W** tcmo lose, or s ] 10ll u ~"c W Conditions of peaco based ?^ would not betray a »v ' and the meny shown by Hln ff ' V Accepnngtlusl^oe^J^ possible that Boumauia ,m* . h tliercolt of the attack cafe From the Eut the is H scrappy, while from th e m • ou Saturday tho bald statemcatT severe caunonndin. U proceed^ the whole fro*.. One 1^ conjecture what elso may b .° ing there, but we have had *Z. «ignilicant signs lately that the oJ mans may soou expect to be \ mh pressed thm they have yet K <£L America still presents a- spectacle^ indecision. She seems "to submit i»lmusfc any form of \ mhm , Germany chooses to present her w i t!; Every reply to an Aniericau uo >! concerning the submarine mur4 has simply been an evasion' of \U

real point at issue, and that \ whether the rights of all oth tr » tions are to be subordinated to \sk Germany chooses to consider k right—the right to a new form i warfare called at other times phj murder, of which she lias a world monopoly. It seems nupossibt,. thai unless Germany discontinues | 1C! present methods a rupture between 1 these iwo countries can be averted.