BLOCKADE OR BLUFF ?

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2388, 18 February 1915, Page 5

BLOCKADE OR BLUFF ?

GERMAN PIRACY MEAT STORY OF BRITISH VALOUR

British airmen again! 'A fleet of 40 aeroplanes on Tuesday afternoon repeated the dash made on Sunday last-upon Belgian coast towns at present used by the enemy as military bases, and raided the Ostend, Middelkerke, and Blankenberghe districts with destructive effect, literally raining bombs on the enemy's war stores and buildings. To-day is the day for the great German blockade threat to begin to develop a definite state, and from all aides are fioiving in to the Huns Notes from ,the neutral nations whose merchant shipping is being menaced. In the Western theatre, the Allies have had a "favourable day." We publish to-day the first of Sir John French's bi-weekly reports on the military situation and past events, and the public will learn for the first time of a gallant action by the Gordons and the Royal Scots against the Germans. 1 The dispatch* throws interesting lighten past events on the Allies' front, details of which at the time were so scrappy as to give the imagination no play at all. In the Eastern theatre the Germans, overwhelmingly reinforced in the East Prussian front, are pressing the Russians, and some stubborn fighting has taken place. The Austrians have also scored some success in their advance on 'Bukowina..