THE BIG GUNS SPEAK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 7

THE BIG GUNS SPEAK

■» ■ ■ WITH GREAT EFFECT BOMBARDMENT OF THE DARDANELLES AUSTRIANS IN BUKOWINA IN FULL RETREAT SUCCESS OF RUSSIAN ARMS THE ALLIES' OPERATIONS

Vice-Admiral Garden's further report on the operations of the Allied fleet in the Dardanelles has been issued by the British Admiralty. It makes very interesting reading. The operations would appear to have been carried out with much success so far and with a minimum of loss to the attackers. In her extremity Turkey is receiving scant sympathy from Austria, which country has in effect told the Porte to keep its heart vp } but to expect no practical aid from her navy. Germany, too, for obvious reasons, is powerless to help her Ottoman ally on the sea, but is reported to be sending officers from France to Constantinople, presumably to take command of the Turkish troops who are being concentrated at Gallipoli to resist the Allies. A message from Rome states that the Austro-Hungarian army in Bukowina is now in full retreat, and that prisoners are being taken in hundreds. A French military expert is responsible for the statement that the recent Russian success at Prasnysz has opened the. Prussian frontier in its most vulnerable spot. The German losses are said to have been very heavy. Further details of the fighting at Prasnysz are available fo-day. They show that at the outset the Germans were in an eminently favourable position, but that the Russians turned the tables on them with gretit effect. Details of the Stanislavoff battle, in which the Russians claim to .have captured nearly 20,000 of the - enemy, as well as many guns, are also given to-day. Between the Rivera JSTiemen and Vistula the spring has come, and, according to the * correspondent of The .Times at Petrograd, the Russian battle-lines are now moving irresistibly towards German soil. From Paris comes news, of more or less important successes for the Allies in Alsace, the .Vosges, the Champagne district, and other places. Nothing sensationally interesting regarding the German " blockade " has occupied attention recently. . A German paper admits, on evidence from neutral countries, that more than seven of the enemy's submarines have been accounted for since the 18th February, when the blockade commenced, while German Admirals state that the strain on the crews of the submarines is so great that it will be some weeks before further attempts at piracy are made.