OUTRAGES BY GERMAN SUBMARINES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2423, 31 March 1915, Page 5

OUTRAGES BY GERMAN SUBMARINES

SHOOTING AND KILLING ON THE HIGH SEAS BOSPHORUS FORTS SHELLED RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET IN ACTION STRICT CENSORSHIP IN THE DARDANELLES To-day's war news onco more directs attention to the methods of the German submarino commanders in their piratical attempts to harass British shipping. From simple commerce destruction the Germans have proceeded to rank piracv and murder. Three ships have been sunk under circumstanccs which reveal a spirit of vindictive brutality and callous disregard for tlio rules of the game. Sailors and passengers have been wantonly shot, and the ships torpedoed before those on board had a fair opportunity of getting clear away. A Dutch vessel has been mined and sunk off Flamborough Head. Over the operations in the Dardanelles the veil of a strict censorship has been drawn, at- tlio special request of the British Admiralty. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has now.engaged tho Turks from the opposite end, opening with a successful bombardment of the outer forts of the Bosphorus. News from the great war theatres in the "West and in tho Bast is scrappy to-day, consisting mainly of the formal progress reports in the official communiques. There is apparent considerable activity on tho Allies' battle-front in Flanders and North France, while in the East the Russians are making progress. Tlio Germans are reported to be retreating in disorder from tlio Pilica front, in Poland, reduced to retreat by privations and starvation in their trenches.