DEMORALISATION IN DARDANELLES
Tremendous Effect of 15-inch Gun Shells
Wait-and-See Reply Regarding Blockade
Austro Hungary's Internal Troubles
Allies Move Forward on Both Sides
American Press Pleases Germany.
Submarine U8 Sunk by our Destroyers
That, "war is hull" according k> the rules under .which it is played I).V Hie Huji.s is indicated in the cablegrams which came through last night. Attila. Willielm plays the hypocrite and quotes "my friend Luther," the Grand.Admiral offers golden inducements. to underwater nits to sink ships, and Count lleventlow complains against kidglove warfare with the submarines. Meanwhile the war of attrition goes on eastward and westward, the, Dardanelles are being gradually forced, Ttaly is completing arrangements for the spring, starvation threatens Hungary and republicanism Austria, and Britain has purchased the whole, of Argentina's 1916 crop of wheat.
To-day's news shows how closely Britain is drawing the cordon round Germany by the Board of Trade's decision regarding goods from or for Sweden, Denmark. Holland, and Switzerland. Tho American press arc protesting against Britain following Germany's bad example' in making necessity the only law. The German papers are delighted with U.S.A.'s- reply to the German Note. Thus Americans arc still rail-sitters! There is a further reference to the feat of the RussTan aviator in capturing and flying off with an Austrian prisoner.. The big guns of the British ships are-working tremendous havoc in the Dardanelles, where the bombardment has been renewed with greater intensity. No wonder the Turks are being decimated and demobilised. Yet another enemy submarine, US, has been sunk, this time by British destroyers.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2
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