SUCCESSFUL DASH BY BRITISH AIRMEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 5

SUCCESSFUL DASH BY BRITISH AIRMEN

ALLIED TROOPS LAND I THE DARDANELLES GIGANTIC CONTRABAND PLOT SCHEME TO RUN THE BRITISH BLOCKADE GERMAN BLOOD MONEY FOR THE SINGAPORE RIOTERS . The reply to the Zeppelin air raid on Paris lias been delivered in the shape of a successful and damaging visit to Hoboken (near Antwerp) by British airmen. The enemy's submarine yards were bombarded, and from what was seen afterwards the inference is that considerable- damage has been done. The Allies have landed expeditionary ' troops on the Peninsula of Gallipoli, and the next phase of the attack on the Dardanelles will no doubt witness a heavy assault on the Turkish defences by the troops on land and the warships in the Straits. Italy's future attitude in the war is the subject of interesting comment, and one writer states that the German attempts to secure the co-operation of Italy—even by a simple continuation of her attitude of neutralityhave failed, and that there is a growing certainty of Italy moving definitely orer to the Allies. Meanwhile large Austro-German forces are concentrated for a descent upon Venice, and the lake districts near the Austro-Italian frontier. Bulgaria's hours of neutrality, it is said, are numbered, and the feeling in favour of the Allies is growing. The Greek Press is of opinion that Greece cannot afford to assist the Allies unless Bulgaria also comes in. Along the Western battle-front there has been no outstanding event—trench warfare, with advantage to tho Allies, is proceeding. In the Eastern theatre the Russians are doggedly wearing down the desperate resistance of the Germans on the East Prussian front, while in the Carpathians, where severe fighting goes on intermittently in the passes, the enemy has had the worst of various oncounters... A detailed story giving the. history and events of tho recent military riots at Singapore, reveals the sinister fact that German blood-money played its treacherous part in fomenting the outbieak.