TURKS DRIVEN BACK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 5

TURKS DRIVEN BACK

FORTIFIED POSITIONS ■ CARRIED MESH ADVANCE IN GALLIPOU PILLIANT SCORE 81 , THE FRENCH :• 1 ■ GAINED IN ALSACE 1 ; WELSH COAL CRISIS "ALL THE WORLD' AGAINST US " dispatch' from Sir'lan Hamilton to-day 'details tlio' operations of July 12, which resulted in the Turks being driven further back and a substantial advance fay the Allies consolidated. Tho 1 French have, scored a brilliant success in Alsace, gaming thereby a mile of new front, and forcing the Germans to abandon Metzeral and Sondernach. In other "parts of the Western front the situation has undergone no radical change, and the same is to ba said of the Eastern front.'Save ■ for what- the late cablegrams may convey from the Austro-Italian • theatre there is a total blank bo far as news is concerned at the time | of writing. The Allies'-airmen have been displaying great activity in Northern France and in Flanders, and have successfully bombed thp, enemy's depots. 'A German steamer has been sunk, supposedly by a: submarine, off the Norwegian coast. Germany has apologised to America for the attack on the United States Admiralty .coal, steamer Ne- p braskan. The Welsh coal crisis is the most sinister item in the news from England, and the. latest leporta indicate that there is some hope . of the men resuming work.