NEARLY A WHOLE ARMY CORPS LOST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2395, 26 February 1915, Page 5

NEARLY A WHOLE ARMY CORPS LOST

The German, blockade pirates continue to prey on odd craft of insignificant tonnage, and to-day's news records the sinking of some, more steamers; an American cotton steamer has been mined off the German coast. The Germans have declared the Orkney and Shetland waters to be in the war zone. The United States Government/in a Note to Britain and' Germany, suggests some modification not stated—of ■ German methods of maintaining their so-called blockade on Britain, and hints that Britain, per contra, might'dense some means—how it is not precisely stated—of supplying the German civilian populationwith food necessaries. Washington is not very sanguine about Britain taking a favourable view of the suggestion, in view of Sir Edward Grey's point that the German people and the German army are the ' same thing. A British armed liner is reported to have been'lost in a gale, and the "Daily Mirror" has published what.purports to be a. photograph of the British armed Orient' liner Orama sinking the German Hamburg-Amerika armed liner Navarra. Turning to events on land, the Russian operations still arrest attention. The Grand Duke ' Nicholas franllly admits that almost an entire army corps was lost in the retreat from East Prussia.' Two regiments, which were supposed to have been lost have cut their way through the Germans' line and ' rejoined their own lines, j Fierce fighting is proceeding along the Vis- . 'tula-Naren-Bobra line, in North Poland, and the conflict has been-es-pecially severe around Przsnycz. Severe fighting is also reported from the Carpathians. In the West, the Germans have been energetically but ineffectively attacking at various points along ■ the line. ■According to a narrative by "Eye.Witness," three days' fighting along ihe Ypres-Comines Canal was of a desperate kind, and the losses on Dots sides were severe, that of the Germans especially so.