TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER CHASED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 5

TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER CHASED

—« EXCITING ESCAPE FROM SUBMARINES TWO MORE VESSELS SUNK BRITISH REPLY TO AMERICAN PROTEST DEMAND FOR WAR MUNITIONS MR. LLOYD GEORGE APPEALS TO THE WORKERS The two main features of interest in to-day's news from the seat of war are the attacks of the German submarine pirates 011 defenceless merchantmen in British coastal waters, and Mr. Lloyd George's earnest appeal to the British workers for a greater output of war supplies. Two more steamers have been sunk, While tlie big trans-Atlantic liner Cameronia, of the Anchor Line, has narrowly escaped destruction by two submarines which appeared off each bow. A flight at 18 knots saved the situation. ' The momentous conference arranged by the Government to enable the representatives of the interested parties to. discuss the urgent question of increasing the output of war material has opened' under ffbe presidency of Mr. Lloyd George, who stressed the gravity of this problem with an eloquence worthy of a national occasion. In the Western theatre the Alließ are maintaining a vigorous offensive, their latest success being the capture of an important tactical position in thie Champagne district, and the defence of the new ground against the desperate counter-attacks of the enemy. Further light is thrown on thei battle of Neuvu Chapelle by a British officer, who gives a graphic description of the artillery inferno that raged on the battlefield before the' order was given for the Bri'tish advance. In the Eastern theatre, the Russian offensive on the East Prussian front is progressing steaidily. There is no news from the Carpathians. An Admiralty casualty list shows that the dash of th® light cruiser Amethyst through the. Dardanelles to Nagara was 110 pleasure trip.