RAMMED AND SUNK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 5

RAMMED AND SUNK

PIRATE SUBMARINE SENT TO THE BOTTOM BRITISH DESTROYER'S EXPLOIT THRILLING DEEDS IN FRANCE VICTORIES IN LA BASSEE AND CHAMPAGNE TURKISH FORTS AGAIN BOMBARDED EUROPE WATCHING THE DARDANELLES Relentless war on the German submarine pirates which are infesting British coastal waters continues, and to-day's war news tells of the ramming ind sinking of the submarine U8 by the British destroyer Ariel, and the surrender of the remnants of her 'crew. It is also claimed that a merchant vessel has disposed of another of the pests in the Irish Sea. The bombardment of the Dardanelles forts is 1 being continued, but the operations are being hampered by fog. -One of the French battleships has navigated the Straits as far as the edge of the enemy's mine-fields. Meanwhile all Europe is watching the : development of this great enterprise, for its achievement will ' undoubtedly' be one. of the great psychological moments of the war for diplomats and war staffs alike. Greece, apparently, is /to adopt a neutral attitude, if the new regime lasts and M. Venizelos - does not return to power. Italy, it. is significant to note, has accorded freedom of action to Italians serving with the Allies, and at the same \ time has summoned Italian reservists in France to her own colours. In Bulgaria a critical situation exists. Turning to the land operations oil 1 the Eastern and Western fronts, the news is full of events. The Russian front on the East Prussian offensive is heavily engaged, and on the right bank of the Vistula the enemy at Drobin have sustained en-' ormous losses. In the Carpathians the Auatrians have been beaten ' back along a front of 90 miles. In the Western theatre the British troops near La Bassee have brought off a successful arid important coup after some tot fighting, while in the Champagne district the recent French successes have been confirmed, although a German version of the operations in that region would have us believe the opposite.