THE DANGER STAGE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 7

THE DANGER STAGE

o HOT FIGHTING PENDING IN THE DARDANELLES TURKISH TROOPS CONCENTRATING ' ZEPPELIN RAID SEVEN RAILWAY EMPLOYEES KILLED COLONIAL TROOPS IN EGYPT FIT FOE THE FRONT PITIABLE PLIGHT OF SERVIA TRIAL OF DE WET BEGUN There is no outstanding feature iii the war news this morning. The Germans have been making strenuous effort to keep Italy out of the war zone, but the negotiations for territorial concessions have not ended satisfactorily. It is perhaps .significant that the Italian fleet is concentrating at Taranto, her nearest base to the Dardanelles, and that German subjects have been requested to quit the Riverina. In the Dardanelles the most dangerous part of the work in forcing a passage is ahead of tho Fleet. The Turks have concentrated troops at Smyrna, also on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and a large army estimated at 110,000 is south of the Dardanelles. News from Egypt indicates that the Australian and New -Zealand Army Corps under General Birdwood has completed its training, and this announcement may be taken as an indication of the early movement of the troops to the fighting line. The men are reported to be itching with excitement, but the censor has very oarefully left the rest to the imagina- ' tion. There is nothing of any consequence from the Western front. ' 'Airmen on both sides have been active, and a Zeppelin has soared over ] Calais, dropping incendiary bombs. Seven railway employees were killed, but there was no material damage to property. The submarine pirates have sunk another steamer in the Channel. A report received by way of Switzerland states that the German Dreadnoughts which have been skulking in Kiel Canal, are being remanned, and. we | are assured that the Kaiser intends to have a fair fight in the North i Sea. Evidence is accumulating that the German cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk by an explosion on December 18, off the Grenadines, in. the Windward Islands. If this story is correct then all tho German cruisers in the Atlantic and Pacific have been accounted for, and C , England is mistress of the seas. A heartrending story of the terrible sufferings of the Servians is 'given this morning. It is a plain ( and unvarnished statement by a British officer, and few will be able to read it unmoved. The intrigues of the Germans in Persia make entertaining leading in the light of later events. Do Wot, the South African rebel, is on his trial, and evidently possesses many sympa- 1 thisers. -