DESPERATE BATTLE GALUPOLI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 7

DESPERATE BATTLE GALUPOLI

I ' * ; ■ ADVANCE AGAINST HEAVY ° , - ODDS V I . DECISIVE POM NOT YET : REACHED '• '; BULGARIA MENACED L■ ' ' > • I REPORTED AUSTMO - GERMAN : OFFENSIVE;,' THE LIE DIRECT ' SIR . EDWARD. GREY'S REPLY . TO (JERMAN CHANCELLOR' The centre of interest in the vast field of the European war to-' Say is tha Gallipoli Peninsula, where a< battle of the most sanguinary descriptionj part of a plan of offensive, the decisive point of which has not yet been reached, has been waged. The losses have been sovere, particularly to the Turks, and there are .yet.,great tasks to be accomplished before- the - Allies put the issue to the supreme test of a ■ 'decisive stroke. Meanwhile, the Navy is actively co-operating, and two cruisers lave successfully penetrated the Straits to a point from which ono of the enemy's defensive works lias been effectively shelled. A special message from the Commissioner conveys the news of a projected Aust-ro-G-erman bffensive on Serbia, having for its ultimate objective an attempt to reach Turkey by way of Bulgaria, whose neutrality will be violated with attendant Tesults similar to those which were the fate of Belgium. The Aust-ro-German offensive in the Eastern theatre is still being pushed forward, but the Russians have imposed defeats in the Vilna region and west of Brest-Litovsk. Sir Edward Grey has published a crushing reply to Heir von BethmannHolweg's recent tirade in the Reichstag, and .given the German , Chancellor the lie direct to his misiepresentations of' Britain's attitude before the war.... •