DESTROYER'S PLUCKY DASH

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2436, 15 April 1915, Page 5

DESTROYER'S PLUCKY DASH

TERRIFIC BATTLE AUSTRIAN!? DESPERATE STAND AGAINST THE RUSSIANS ON THE BRINK OF WAR AUSTRO - ITALIAN TENSION . INCREASING' NEW ZEALANDERS IN EGYPT The fog of war has suddenly lifted from the Dardanelles, and disclosed active operations. A destroyer, steaming at full speed, has dashed up the Straits for a record distance, drawing the enemy's heavy gunfire, but escaping unscathed. The battleship London followed in her wake, and bombarded the enemy's forts. The North Sea mystery has not yet been explained, but rumour is still busy. "Wreckage, it is said, has came ashore 'on the Norwegian coa3t. The xumours have apparently been bo .persistent, and circumstantial, that London opinion has v to examine the probabilities. A movement of the German fleet is not unexpected< and the tactics to be adopted by the enemy are expected to take the form of a dash by German cruisers for the British fleet barrier in the north, with a view to breaking through to the open ocean and resuming the raids on high sea. shipping. A terrific battle is still raging in the Carpathians, where the Austrians are offering a desperate resistance to the Russian onset. A crisis is approaching, for the advance into Hungary is threatening the enemy's . troops, who are still contesting the positions on the heights above the passes. The conditions of the campaign are interestingly described in one of to-day's messages. There is little of : importance from the Western theatre, but in the Mediterranean the tension between Italy and Austria is increasing, and both nations are trembling on the very brink of war. A dangerous tension has also been created .between ' Germany and the United States by Count. Bernstorff's latest diplomatic faux pas. There is a brief but interesting reference to the New Zealanders' brush with the Turks in February last.