THE KEY 10 FLANDERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2443, 23 April 1915, Page 5

THE KEY 10 FLANDERS

WHAT HILL 60 MEANS TO THE ALLIES

GRAPHIC STORY OF THE BATTLE

THE FIGHT FOR THE v DARDANELLES

PREPARING THE LAND ATTACK

MR. ASQUITH'S SPEECH

SOME POINTED CRITICISM

The main foature of interest in to-day's war news is the graphic description of the British'assault on Hill 60, which, we are told, screened the key to the enemy's position in Flanders. Thore are also indications of a pending coup in the Lille region, from where the Germans are reported to have effected a partial retreat. The military situation in the Woevre begins to grow interesting. In the St. Mihicl pocket, which is the key to the military situation in that vicinity, the tactics of the French in squeezing in the sides of the salient in whidi the Germans have so strongly entrenched themselves, begin to show results. There is no news from Alsace. From the Eastern theatre the liow's to-day is somowhat fragmentary, telling mostly of local attacks and counter-attacks, resulting to the advantage of the Russians. There are interesting indications of aotivities in progress on the East Prussian front. From the Dardanelles there is news of preparations for the land operations, and we have it from Berlin that General d'Amade's Anglo-French army has landed on the island of Lemnos. A report from Odessa hints at the co-operation of a Russian military ex- . petition from the direction of the Black Sea. Russian torpedo boats have been active, and" have accounted for a number of Turkish ships. Mr. Asquith's speech to the workers on the subject of the supply of war munitions has evoked some sharp criticism in Parliament and Press, the latter stressing a strange' divergence from the recent speeches ,of Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Kitchener on the same subject.