ENEMY SUBMARINES ACTIVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5

ENEMY SUBMARINES ACTIVE

TORPEDO FIRED AT BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP ATTACK ON BRITISH TRANSPORTS THREATENED GERMAN GUNBOAT SUNK ' " BATTLE FOR THE TRENCHES AT LA BASSEE SERIOUS RIOTING IN AUSTRIA GENDARMES JOIN RIOTERS To-day's war news from the Eastern and 'Western theatres conveys very little that is new. Thera are further particulars of the fighting in recent engagements in the vicinity of La Bussee and in Central Poland. Relations between Austria and Germany appear to rest upon a very ricketty foundation at present, and added to that are reports of grave internal disorders in the Dual Monarchy. The German Staff in Palestine has advised unfavourably on the prospects of an advance on Egypt, but the German Commission is unlikely to accept that advice at once, because the prospective invasion is hailed with joy in Germany. A German submarine is reported to have deliberately fired at, and missed, the British hospital ship Asturias, lying at Havre, despite the fact that the Red Cross emblem was painted in a giant sign on prominent parts of the vessel. The GermanAmerican weekly, "The Fatherland," has published an appeal to British colonials to "yield to the inevitable," and separate from the Mother Country. The "Fatherland", admits, by the way, that this appeal may be regarded as premature, even imprudent, but that the advice, all the same, constitutes a "counsel of perfection."