A YEAR OF WAR
WHAT THE BRITISH NAVY HAS
DONE
ILondon Times and Sydney Sun Services!
LONDON, August 3. A Berlin wireless asserts that the Central - Powers' have occupied 70,31 ii square miles of foreign territory andthu Allies 4281. The total prisoners of war m Germany and Austria is 1,695,000, besides seven thousand cannon aud three thousand machineguus. The press devote columns to the first year ot the war. It eloquently expresses the resolution of the French, to attain victory
The American papers contain generii recognition that -Germany lias scored heavily on land, but this is offset by tho gßuerous acknowledgment of the part the JJritish Fleet has played. The New York World says: 'Except for the British Navy the Germans would be masters of ihe.wovtd."
Paper .after* paper maintains that the safety of the United States depends on the thorough defeat of the Germans.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13753, 4 August 1915, Page 3
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145A YEAR OF WAR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13753, 4 August 1915, Page 3
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