AMERICAN ACCOUNT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5

AMERICAN ACCOUNT

ROWED .lIP AND SIM THE DOVER SUBMARINE SGARE AN OFFICIAL MYSTERY t FIERCE FIGHTING I BUM ' AMAZING DISCLOSURES Interest Btill centres in the operations of the British warships in the South Atlantic, and the fate of the German raiders still presumed to . be at large. There is no further !news of the Dresden, except a reported belief that she has been interned. The Nurnberg. as is already known, has followed her ill-starred consorts—Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Leipzig-r-and' an American story gives a. picturesque account of • her last fight. There is a vague mention of the Prinz Eitel Frcdrich (the armed liner), of the Karlsruhe and Bremen not a word, but the sinking of the enemy's supply ships and colliers may force them into' the arena any day now. With the Allied armies matters centime to progress to their.advantage. In the Easterni theatre, the Russians have Bharply dealt with a'German'. offensive from Mlawa, on the northwestern borderland of . Poland, and have pursued a vigorous offensive along the Cracow. line. The Russianr have apparently no- difficulty in ■. maintaining their '.' line, and the evaouation of Lodz, it-is stated, has not in the least the inherent-value of the Russian- strategy. From further south, the reports of the Servians' smashing blow at the Austrian invader is sustained, by a reluctant admission from the Austrians. In tho Western theatre, events are moving slowly but surely. A series of violent attacks havo been mado by the Gormans, but in no single, instance- h ! ave the Allies failed to sustain the shock, and in several oases new positions.have been gained. Sir Lucas Malet, late British Minister at the Porte, has furnished a dispatch which tells an' amazing story of Gorman' intrigue and Turkish duplicity, involving no less a person than the Khedive of Egypt himself in a deep-laid conspiracy for the overthrow of the British mana amongst the followers of Islam. The submarine sensation at Dover still remains a profound official mystery,