LIGHT CRUISERS IN ACTION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 5

LIGHT CRUISERS IN ACTION

NAVAL FIGHT IN THE BALTIC GERMAN VESSELS DAMAGED r . MINE-LAYER DRIVEN ASHORE r- " - RUSSIANS STILL RETREATING < rrr. 1 / v BIG ENVELOPING. .■" " MOVEMENT TURKISH COMMUNICATIONS THREATENED - ' ■ • ' ' ' ■ ■ " Tho war. news of the week-end contains many items of interest. In the Western theatre the- Germans claim a victory, by the Crown Prince's Army, in the Argonne Forest, but Allied official messages . state that all German attacks in this region have been repelled. A Dutch message states that the Germans are massing hundreds of guns in, Flanders, in readiness for another assault Upon the Allied line in the neighbourhood of Ypres. A report from Petrograd declares that 40(/,000 German troops have been concentrated in the Libau district, north of East Prussia. The Russians are still slowly retiring in Eastern Galieia, but strong German forces have now advanced north from that province into Southern' Poland. East of tho iVistula General von Mackensen's'army has penetratefl twenty miles or more into Russian, territory. Tho Italians are pursuing their attack upon tie Austrian frontier defences and appear nowhere to havo been checked. An Austrian submarine, in tho Adriatic, > attacked by a. French aviator, is believed to have been sunk. At the Dardanelles . heavyJTurkish. attacks have been repelled and the French havo gained more ground on tha right of the southern line. Several sensational ' incidents are reported in tho United States. One wing of the Capitol ' at Washington lias been wrecked by an explosion. J. P. Morgan, head of a firm interested in the export of war material, has been shot by a 1 German named Holt-,' an instructor in Cornell University. Count Bernstorff is accused -of having fooled the United States Government and censors by using t-h® Sayville .wireless station as an ad> junct to 'his spy system.