SEVERAL FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2393, 24 February 1915, Page 5

SEVERAL FATALITIES

BUCCANEER BLOCKADE V; ; WAR. ~~ r ~ ITALIAN SHIPS FIEO ON SINKING OF THE BELRIDGE • PUBLIC ANGER SN NORWAY RUSSIAN COUNTER ■ STROKE IN : EAST PRUSSIA

To-day's news from the theatres of war reveal general signs at increased activities. on all fronts in the near future. A Zeppelin airship has visited Calais and dropped some bombs, killing several civilians. The buccaneer blockade is rapidly piling up complications for Germany and Austria.' Norway is incensed over the sinking of the Belridge by a German submarine, while the action of Austrian torpedo boats in firing on two Italian schooners in Antivari Harbour (Montenegro) has 1 led to a special session of the Italian Cabinet, and provoked a further demonstration by the pro-war enthusiasts in Italy. The Austrian flag has been burned in Venice. In the "Western theatre the* Allies are making' steady progress, maintaining and consolidating their positions at this and that, part •of the line, and gaining fresh ' ground elsewhere. Most of the fighting—the reported fighting, that is—is 'in the Argonne forest, and east of ;that region, where the French are making, on the whole, good progress." In the Eastern theatre the Russians have been engaged\in heavy fighting on all fronts. They have been strongly reinforced for the counter-attack in East Prussia, while in Galicia and 1 in the Carpathians the Austro-German attacks have' everywhere been countered, with loss to the enemy. In the Near East, the Turks are retreating from the Oanal back into the heart of Syria, and there is a rumour that big events'are about to take place in tha Black Sea, Constantinople, and the Dardanelles, as a preliminary to the opening up of a clear way t® Odessa and- the East wheat granaries ef Russia. . .