ALLIES COMMAND THE WOEVRE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2433, 12 April 1915, Page 5

ALLIES COMMAND THE WOEVRE

■ " ■ . jr • . BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF THE • OPERATIONS MINE-SWEEPERS ■IN THE ~ /NARROWS FRENCH EXPEDITIONARY ARMY AT ALEXANDRIA : SCANDAL OF GERMAN ; PRISON CAMPS HOW THE BRITISH ARE : : : TREATED \ To-day's war news records the brilliant finale to the operations of the 'Allies in the vicinity of Les Sparges, a position of great taotioal ' ralue from the fact that it commands the Plain of the Woevre. The contest for possession culminated, in two fierce bayonet charges, leaving the Allies masters of the situation and the Germans with a loss estimated at 30,000, spread over the whole of the recent operations ' in that quarter. Some activity is also reported from Beausejo'ur, east of the Argonne, while in Flanders the Germans have recfossed the Yser and captured a Belgian trench in the vicinity of their previous reverse. The Allies' airmen have accomplished ano'ther raid, the.results being as yet unknown. In the Eastern theatre the Russians are virtually masters of the situation in the Carpathians,, and the immediate p'clioy of Austria, to cope with her present peril by means of a patchwork peace is being discussed. Russian delegates have arrived in' Bulgaria on a mission relating to railway transport- facilities—a • straw which shows the direction of the wind. M. Venizelo's, exPremier of Greece, has decided to ■ quit the- political arena rather than embarass the domestic situation, while, the grave danger threatens his country from without. The iriirie-sweepers ' 'in. ' ' the narrows of the Dardanelles are clearing the entrance to the . L. ; Chanak Inlet, and the French expeditionary army which is to cooperate with the British troops iu the land operations has now arriv.ed at Alexandria, an-event" which preludes the great attack by the combined.naval and military forces. A White Paper which has been published discloses shocking ' treatment of British prisoners of war in '-' •' German camps, and will bereadwith angry eyes,, especially when /!' compared with the report of the elegant comfort in which the GerA man'officers, luxuriate in Britain! The German submarine pirates have added another blot to their already bespattered- escutcheon* by their callous treatment of a French. sailing ship.