ENEMY'S SUBMARINES SHELLED.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 5

ENEMY'S SUBMARINES SHELLED.

■SHARP FIGHTING'ON THE ■ AISNE ■

ALUS FALL BACK SLIGHTLY

TURKISH FIENDS IN ' . ARMENIA

WHOLESALE'MASSACRES

RUSSIAN. ADVANCE IN EAST . PRUSSIA ■' .

A fresh submarine sensation is provided in the war news to-day in the report of a night attack on Dover Harbour by two German Bubmersibles. The intruders were detected by searchlights and promptly shelled, but the accounts of their fate are conflicting. The attack was accompanied by an overhead visitation at the same time. Apropos of German submarine successes Lord Charles Beresford strongly condemns the policy of stationing valuable fighting ships in submarineinfested waters without the protection of destroyers, and instances the immunity from attack which was seoured to the British, warships operating off the Belgian coast by the activities of the destroyer patrols. In tie Western theatre the Allies have been heavily engaged in the region north and north-east of Soissons, and in one instance were compelled to fall, back slightly. There is- little to report from Flanders or Alsace, the lull on the rest of the front being attributed to prevailing bad weather. From the Eastern theatre there is reported a forward movement of Russian troops advancing from south-east of Mlawa, while a Russian detachjnent, operating in Bast Russia, has achieved successes to the southward of the Masurian Lakes region. The fog of war has apparently descended upon the operations in Central Poland, but two statements via Amsterdam are of come • significance, namely, that the German railways have been practically reserved for th© transport of troops till January 18, and that foreign • attaches with the German armies iuthe Western theatre have gone to the Eastern theatre, apparently in anticipation of momentous events. In Asia Minor the Russian troops have had some severe fighting with \the Turks, and have captured certain points in Ottoman territory. Turks and Kurds are reported to be committing fiendish atrocities in Armenia, and an advance guard of Turkish troops has occupied Tabriz, the capital of the frontier province of Azebijan, in Persia, the object being, it is suggested, the establishment of a. base for- operations against the Russian frontier, which, marches with Persian territory. The Russian occupation of Khopa,' the Turkish frontier port on the • Black Sea,, is said to have been am usingly facilitated by the cruiser Breslau mistakenly bombarding the Turkish troops. From Constantinople comes a reported denial of the abandonment of the Turkish expedition to Egypt.. The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs ha 6 resigned—for personal reasons, it has bean necessary to add—and he has been succeeded by a member of the Hungarian Cabinet.