NAVAL ACTION IN THE BLACK SEA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2296, 2 November 1914, Page 5

NAVAL ACTION IN THE BLACK SEA

WARNED OFF THE , EGYPTIAN FRONTIER

GERMAN STROKE FAILS

ATTACK ON CALAIS A FIASCO

ALLIES NEAR OSTEND

.RUSSIAN PURSUIT: OF THE

GERMANS

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TIE EMDEN AGAIN

BRITISH CRUISER SUNK BY ; -/SUBMARINE ; :

..-.■;,' : ; . For the .moment, despite the great importance of tie swiftly-mov-ing events in Belgium' and Poland,' public attention is arrested by the new. situation in the Near East. Turkey lias attacked Russia, opening with active hostilities—and successes —in tho'Black Sea, in which, . . ■ ■ needless to state, the ex-German l battleship Goeben and;.the cruiser : . :. Breslau, carrying,' no doubt, highly Germanised crews, have-noticeably' figured. Greece is reported to have moved troops to a commanding . .'.position at Corfu, whiletie British Government has plainly warned .■■;.'' Turkey that any demonstration in the direction of the Egyptian fron-- '.-■ tier will be at once responded toby, effective reprisals on the part of the Entente Powers* Meanwhile, , Turkey is being given an'oppbrtunity . '.' of stating that .thisi latest ebullition—neither unexpected nor unprovided for by the Allies—is really due to tho irresponsible action of the German officers; without the offi aial cognisance of the Porte. In. : Belgium the fury of the German attack the Allies' front from.. ■'■'•' Nieuport •on the Belgian coast, down to -Arras, in France, has spent itself in determined but ineffectual attempts to break the lino, the finale witnessing the hopeless demoralisation of the enemy's .. cavalry by the magnificent dash of the British cavalry. The Allies, ' by a brilliant, bayonet charge, have carried a position three miles . from Ostend. In the Eastern -theatre, the Russians, throwing a great mass of men at the retreating Germans, are increasingly harassing their rearguards, and producing by the energy of their pursuit a condition amounting to demoralisation in the ranks of the enemy. The South * 'African rebels have been 'completely defeated, and the solidly-minded i section of the" Union people have settled 'down to the stern business of resolutely stamping ou^the last embers of what has been proved to ha.ve been a.long-kindled and sullenly-smouldering fire. Once again the notorious German,raider Emden has attraoted notice by her successful exploits under somewhat doubtful disguises—this time an attack on a '•• > Russian cruiser, delivered, it is alleged, under the v Japanese flag.