HOW THE BLUCHER WAS BATTERED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5

HOW THE BLUCHER WAS BATTERED

DEADLY ACCURACY OF BRITISH GUNS r 1 GERMAN'CRUISERS IN FLAMES fflffllO AT GIVENCHY FIERCE BAYONET COMBAT GERMAN FORCES SHATTERED RUSSIANS WRECK A ZEPPELIN

To-day's news from the theatres of the great European conflict contain, several features of absorbing interest. Further details of the North Sea fight are to hand, furnishing a picturesque impression of the engagement. The magnitude of tie battle grows with the advent of fuller details, and the facts now to hand show that the fight must have been a terrific one, and added to the horrors of the devastating gun fire of the British battle-cruisers was the German menace overhead —a Zeppelin and other air craft dropping bombs on . tho destroyers, while avoiding the bigger ships. The Germans have received a terrific drubbing in North France, a heavy attack by . Hanoverian troops, almost overwhelming by weight of numbers, .being repulsed after "tlireo hours of hell" (to quote an officer's description of the fight). The Kaiser is reported to have ordered the recapture of Thann, in Alsace, at all costs. Russian submarines have appeared in the Baltic, and their presence is interpreted as a' determined attempt to put a atop to contraband trade between Sweden and Germany. Tho German thirdclass cruiser Gazelle is reported to have been sunk by a Russian submarine.' 'A German Zeppelin appeared above the Russian Baltic port of Libau, and dropped nine bombs, but, according to a report from Petrograd, has itself been destroyed by gun fire from the forts and naval small oraft.