PIRATE ATTACKS ON NEUTRAL SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2729, 25 March 1916, Page 5

PIRATE ATTACKS ON NEUTRAL SHIPPING

The arrival of regular bulletins from the Russian front betokens the progress of an. offensive movement. According to the dispatch of one war correspondent, Von Hindetiburg put out a feeler and stirred up a big offensive on the part of the Russians, and tho fighting has now developed into a iierco contest for the control of tho railways in the lake regions. Tho fighting around yerdun has not* died down yet, but in Bulgaria the, result has apparently been accepted as a German fiasoo, for internal troubles are harassing the Bulgar administration. Tho French are now confident that the fortress is well sheltered, but one military critic points to the possibility of danger in the Avocourt Wood. The French troops have made n sally from tho lines at Salonika, and driven some of the Germans from certain hill positions. German sea piracy is. apparently being considered in the Prussian Councils, ami the German Socialists are insisting on the righto of neutrals; meanwhile neutral vessels continue to be sunk. Tho Pari? Economic Conference is developing into a big thing, to judge from the increasing amount of attention and controversy it lias invoked. The Australian Prime Minister (Mr, W. M. Hughes) lias attended a War Council.