EIGHTEEN – KNOT PIRATE AT WORK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 5

EIGHTEEN - KNOT PIRATE AT WORK

« HELPLESS SHIPS OVERTAKEN AND- SUNK OUTRAGES ON NEUTRAL SHIPPING BRILLIANT FRENCH VICTORY AFTER DAYS OF DESPERATE ■ 'FIGHTING. THE FIGHT AT NEUVE CHAPELLE ■' i SPLENDID DASH. BY THE - BRITISH The advent in British coastal waters of an eighteen-knot Geringn submarine pirate, with a 4000-mile range of surface travel, has been attended with a list of losses to qur .merchant shipping, for a pursuer of this speed is difficult to elude. The Germans are seriously perturbed over the "\Villiaxn Ffye affair, and the commander of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich is in bad odour at Berlin. The Germans have also added to the complications of their vaunted blockade by sinking, with loss of life, a Swedish steamer off Scarborough. On land the Frenoh in the Western theatre have added further lustra to their reputation by a desperate' and successful assault on the fortified village of Vauquoif, near Varennes. The accounts of the fighting, wliich continued for days against tremendous odds, yshow • the French in a "typically British "dogged-does-it" temper, and their tenacity of purpose finally prevailed. The victory in Alsace, when the enemy was driven from the Reichacherkopf Hills, was a most sanguinary affair, and in the final'clash with 'the'baj-oiiet.'nq'quarter l was 1 asked.- There were few prisoners, we are told. There 'are further and most picturesaue details of the British victory at the pattle x>f Neuve Chapolle. Away'on the iSji.sterp fropt the Russians are harrying the retreat of the German Bast Prussian Ar?ny. while in the Carpathians the enemy is reported- to . haye sustained "colossal: losses." The bombardment of thq Dardanelles is proceeding apace, and the anxiety of the -Turks at Constantinople oyer the ultimate fate of thejr-,capital is reflected in the watching crowds on the roof-tops, gaging across the Sea of Marmara. Tho German Genoral, Von der Goltz, who was reported to have goije to .gmyrp with his staff, is believed to have been murdered.