LAND AND SEA ATTACKS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14697, 31 August 1915, Page 5

LAND AND SEA ATTACKS.

TURKS CLAIM TO REPULSE ALLIES. ' ‘ Press Association.—Telegraph-Copy rin: lit. Received August 31, 8.15 a.m. ■ ‘ AMSTERDAM, August 30. A Turkish communique states: The enemy bn Friday, after artillery preparation. made land and sea attacks at Anafarta against our rigtu wing near Kirisch-mepe, and three attacks on our centre southwards of Asokdre. All were entirely unsuccessful, and were repulsed with severe losses. Our artillery repeatedly flit a cruiser, and damaged a transport an l a tug. There was repeated bomb-throwing on our, right wing at Ariburnu on Friday night, and artillery and infantry fusillades at Seddul-Bahr. THE BERBO-ROUMANIAN FRONTIER. AUSTRIANS MASSING TROOPS. Received August 31, 8. oa.m - LONDON, August 30. The .Daily Telegraph’s Bucharest correspondent learns that the Austrians are massing troops on the SerboRoumaniari frontier. . FORCING THE DARDANELLES GERMANS SAY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. TAKE DIFFERENT . VIEW. LONDON, August 30. A neutral correspondent recalls a conversation with a German in Berlin, who asked:—Do-the British realise that wo regard the Dardanelles as one of the most vital parts of the war, that our pioneers surveyed the whole peninsula nearly a year ago; and fortified it oven before the first foolish bombardment ? Questioned; “How do you know all tins?” lie said: “Everybody in Germany knows it. Wo contend that a million men would nob reach Constantinople by the route intended.” The neutral correspondent continues; “Since I have ben in England the conflicting information ■is to tlie Dardanelles expedition lias puzzled me. There is a curious aloofness about that theatre of war. None of the military authorities, who do so much in Germany to educate the public mind, seek to explain the enterprise to the jeople here. It .would appear they retard it as something akin to the Boor war. The Germans take the view that die expedition was a mad project from the outset, and that success is impossible to achieve. Englishmen say, ‘ln a month we shall he in. Constantinople,’ hut no one can tell how Britishers do not attach , the gigantic importance to the enterprise , which Germans do.— (Times and Sydney Sun Services.)

ZEPPELIN AIR RA DS. THEIR FUTILITY. MR. COMMENT. Received ..Ayigusti'.sr, 8 n.m. , : KONPON) August 30. Continuing.' his 'on Gcr man air faidsj MYRalfohr said: ‘‘lt may still be asked’ • wbethel o i! tliS* ret i.terifcd-' ! is not • merely used to einharass' Germany, also :o unduly reassus&-the 'British? What have Zeppelins done? ..jlow nought wo to rate them as a weapon of attack? What can they 'do? 1 cannot prophesy the future, as this method of warfare is still in its infancy, but can. say something. of the past results,.. It is unhappily certain they have caused much suffering among many innocents.- Even-this result with all its, tragedy has been magnified out of all jroportiqu by ill-informed rumour. The Home Office states that during the past year 71 civilian adults and 18 children were killed, and 189 civilian idults and .31 children injured. “Judged by numbers, the cumulative,, •esult of many, successive crinies is not equal to the single effort which resulted ; u the sinking of the Lustania, to theunconcealed pride of Germany and the, 'ioiTor of the. rest of the world, and sent; 1198 unoffending civilians to the bottom. Yet the result ha's been bad enough, and ■ we may well ask what military advantage, was gained at a cost of so much innocent blood. No.soldier or sailor has. been killed, though seven were wounded, and billy once was damage inflicted which, bya any stretch of language could be described as of the smallest military importance. The Zeppelin raids-have been brutal so tar, but they have not been effective, and have-served no hostile purpose, moral or material.” SEDITIOUS UTTERANCE Received August 31, 10.15 a.m.v , , SYDNEY, August 31. Lalor, a mine manager, and grandson, rf Peter Lalor, dr Eureka Stockade fame, has been fined £IOO for making statements likely to prejudice recruitiug. ~ (It was cabled on the 16th just, that Lalor used the words: “This"is" a capitalist war. Tlie King should be shot, and the Queen liavj; her throat cut.’’) SOUTH AFRICAN RECRUITS “A NOBLE AND HOLY CAUSE.” • . ' PRETORIA, August 30. General Smuts, addressing Transvaa 1 recruits for the' overseas contingent'' at Pobohefstrooni, said;, “You are going to fight for a noble .and holy, cause. - It is ho campaign of revenge, but for the cause if freedom and liberty—a cause which is always reckoned the greatest in the world’s history.” He hoped that many more South Africans would come forward and . help to secure, victory.