GREAT BATTLE RAGING IN FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 5

GREAT BATTLE RAGING IN FRANCE

BRITISH ATTACK ON LA BASSEE ■ AIRSHIP RAID FIREBOMBS DROPPED ON ENGLISH ' COAST TOWNS ' BRITISH PRISONERS' ' MURDERED DREADFUL STORIES BY GERMAN DESERTERS INQUEST ON LUSITANIA VICTIMS, ■ There is no lack of interest in the war news to-day. There has been an airship raid on the English coast districts, the incendiary bombs of the raiders doing considerable damage, while,one woman was killed in bed. The Coroner's inquest on the*victims of the Lusi- . tania ha& returned a verdict of wilful murder against the Kaiser, the German Government, and the'officers of the submarine. America is not expected to go to war with Germany over the matter, but a pledge for the cessation of pirate methods .of warfare and indemnity , for every American citizen is to be asked for, so it is reported. From the British Minister at The Hague comes a ' dreadful recital—by Bavarian deserters—of German brutalities in with the treatment of British prisoners, the sum and substance of the matter being that our men have been deliberately murdered in cold blood-*- ■ one statement is that some were burned alive. The military situation in the Western theatre has assumed' an aspect of tremendous activity, and a great British attack on .the enemy's strongly-fortified position at La. Bassee is in progress. From the Eastern theatre fchore con- ' . tinue to arrive more or less conflicting reports of victories and disasters—according to the point of view—in Western Galicia,' but from ' a late message received last night it seems clear that the Grand • Duke's main line is not affected, nor his strategy menaced. The warships of the Allies have penetrated close, to the Narrows, and are shelling the forts at close range. Meanwhile hot fighting continues on the Gallipoli Peninsula, with advantage to the Allies. \ "