WAR IN THE EAST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11189, 3 March 1915, Page 5

WAR IN THE EAST.

RUSSIANS AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. One of the best pieces of news we have to-day is the ramming of a •German submarine by a British merchant vessel. The matter is not so important as it is significant. It shows enterprising captains of vessels what to do in order to turn the German menace of a into a discredited and ridiculous farce. We have to-day the concluding passages of Mr Lloyd George's speech at Bangor, in which he pictures for ns some of the terrors df German domination if we fail to beat them in this war. The noisy tramp of the German goose step will be heard in our cities, and all Europe and, subsequently, America, will have to bow to the Teuton Yoke. If Lloyd George cannot wake up the peeple of Britain to the seriousness of the position they must need the Archangel’s trump to wake them as from the dead. Mr Asquith’s oratory, of which we have an example to-day, is more suave and conciliatory, except when he switches on to the Germans. The figure of speech in which he compares the talk of a peace to the twittering of a sparrow amid the noise of a tempest which shakes the foundations of the of the world is very good. The Russians in Poland have driven the Germans back to their frontier, and some evidence, of the confusion in the ranks of the latter when the Russians delivered their sledge-hamm°r blow is afforded, in the statement that the German prisoners taken include members of fifteen different regiments. The Allies are still busy sweeping the Dardanelles of mines and the land of batteries. This is no mere feint. It is a strictly business proposition. There is an acconut of a most heroic stand by a small British force at Ghulvelt, which, though belated in the telling is destined to be one of the imperishable gams of British military history.