WAR NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 5 July 1915, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

THE ALLIES IN THE DARDANELLES.

A OORKECTED IMPRESSION: J (Received Saturday, 10.30 a.m.) COPEN HAG EN, Friday. An officer of the mercantile marine, who was recently at Constantinople, states that tho Turks were at first Tinder tho Impression that the Allies had failed at the Dardanelles, but it was now manifest that they wero slowly but surely gaining ground. His impression was that the lurks could not hold out much longer, and foreigners .assisting .in the defence would have a terrible time if Constantinople (capitulates. The Turkish population at Gallipoli was on the friendliest terms with the ALhs because they pai'd in gold, whereas the Germans paid in paper. ._The Allies are' on the point of becoming masters of the Sea of Marmora.

IMPORTANT FRENCH CAPTURE. (Received Saturday, 12.2' p.m.) LONDON, Friday. Sir lan Hamilton (Commander of the British, troops at tho Dardanelles), reports that determined Turkish counter attacks at Achi Baba on June 20th wore repulsed. The General also reports that ilic French captured a strong system of entrenchments on June 30th. '.Hie enemy's losses wero very considerable. '

FIVE DARING VOLUNTEERS. (Received Saturday, 11.30 a.m.) ROME, Friday. Five Alpini volunteered to destroy the electricity works at the Tonale waterfalls, Riva, Eoveredo, and neighbouring forts. They crept down the steep rocks at the Tonalo Gorge on four consecutive nights, carrying mines and dynamite and succeeded in destroying the central conductor.

BRITAIN'S BLUNDER. (Received Saturday, 11.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Friday. German newspapers publisu extensive eulogies of the Kaiser on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the agreement with Britain, exchanging Heligoland for concessions made to Britain in East Africa. The papers emphasise the foresight of the Kaiser in obtaining the islanl, without which the present development of the 'German, fleet would have been impossible. If the Kaiser had not taken Heligoland, the present wwr would have been impossible.

BERNSTORFF THE TRICKSTER. (Received Saturday, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The "New York Journal" states that Count Berastorff was using the Sayville wireless station as an adjunct to the German ispy system. The "Journal" had been collecting the messages for months, and handed to the authorities copies of every line transmitted and received at Sayville during June, proving that Count Bentstorfi hadT persistently fooled the United States Government with a false translation of the code used. Another prolific way of sending coded messages was the ostensible requests for repeats, containing masses of figures with secret meanings. These pretended repeats were not reported to the United States Government.

TRADES UNIONS WAKING UP. (Received Saturday, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. Strong denunciations of Germany were made at the Trades Union Conference at Derby. The delegates endorsed Mr Appleton's refusal to .attend the international conference at Amsterdam liecause Germans were attending. 'Mr Appleton pointed out .that after the Gorman atrocities Britain's ory was "Vengeance-" Ma- Ben Tillett declared that Tbe German Trade Unionists-, were as much to blame as the German Government, because of t'ne longboasted intention to crush Fringe and England.

.BAVARIAN ACTIVITY. (Received Saturday, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. "Eye-witness" says that the Bavarians who had just taken over a section of ddfienco near Messines, made a small local offensive on June 23rd. Tho operations .for several days were confined to mining and aviation. The (enemy Were, active underground, and there wero many subterranean encounters. THE PIRATES OF GERMANY. (Received Saturday. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. A submarine, by jju nitre, sank the "Welbury (4000 tons) 'off Castletown (a seaport of tho Isle of Alan), with 5400 tons of sugar on board. Before the ship left Cuba >omeone painted inside the hold, "Your cargo for England will never get there." A trawler picked up the crew. BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK. (Received Saturday, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The British steamers Caucasian and Luglomoor were submarined off the Lizard on Thursday. The Norwegian wheat ship which was torpedoed was the Thistlebnnk. SEEKING A BASE IN AMERICA.

(Received .Saturday,, 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Friday. The British Admiralty's statement will diminish the tension in official circles. The authorities received, information of a strong probability of Germany seeking to establish a strong submarine base on the coast of the New England' States, viz., tTie six Eastern States of the Union. The American Ambassador to Britain, Mr W. 'H. Page, cabled to Washington, stating that tho Admiralty has notified that the Armenian was engaged on their business.

BRITISH DESTROYER DAMAGED. " (Received Saturday, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The Admiralty announces that a mine or a torpedo damaged the destroyer Lightning off the East Coast last night. She is now :n harbour. Fourteen of her crew are missing. (The Lightning is an old destroyer, built in 1895, of 252 tons, and armed with one 12-pounder and i".ve 6-pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. She has a speed of 27 knots, and her complement is 50 officers and men.)

THE 'GERMAN. PRESS. ATTACKS MR LLOYD GEORGE. BERLIN, Jnily Ist. The whole of the German press is attacking Mr Lloyd George on account of his speech in introducing the Munitions Bill. The "Cologne Gazette" accuses him of lying, and the Meutche Tages Zeitung''' publishes a most insulting article. The unanimity proves that the attacks are inspired;.