ANOTHER AIR RAID PLANNED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2380, 9 February 1915, Page 5

ANOTHER AIR RAID PLANNED

To-day's war news brings - further 'details of .the attack by the enemy's advance, troops on the Suez Canal. The discomfited Turks are now in full retreat, and those who were taken prisoners do not represent" their late comrades-in-arms to be in a very hopeful state of mind. The desert march, apparently, was a good piece of work, but it' ended in failure, aaid the war correspondents xin Egypt have been obliged to reconstruct their alarmist theories. In the Vestevn theatre, the British have achieved further successes in the La Bassee opera-' tions, while the Franco-Belgians in Flanders, forcing a passage between the Great Dune and the sea, have occupied new positions, and ■ are bombarding the enemy's extreme right. The Russian 'operations in the Eastern theatre are developing successfully. There'has been sharp fighting in the Carpathians,, with disastrous results for the Austriana, who were forced to flee before the Russians at Mezo Laborcz (on the Hungarian side of the range). A German column advancing on Bolimow (east of Lowicz) was severely handled, and the Russian night attacks on Rypin, east of Thorn, have been successful, while progress on the East Prussian front, in the operations around Tilsit, is being maintained. The German threat of a general blockade still continues to evoke storms of protest, and official "Notes" from certain Governments to Berlin arc pending. The British Foreign Office has published a statement regarding the use of neutral flags by belligerents' merchant shipping. Another Zeppelin air raid is reported to be in train.