CROWN PRINCE RESUMES THE OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 5

CROWN PRINCE RESUMES THE OFFENSIVE

HEAVY ATTACK ON THE v FRENCH/LINE ' EFFECTIVE COUNTER - ATTACK THE TURKISH DEFEAT ENVER PASHA: BLUNDERS AGAI MORE PEACE RUMOURS WELSH COAL CRISIS

■ /./.The enemy's activity on the Western .front is assuming important dimonsious. In tho Argoime; the •German Crown Prince, with large forces,'launched aai. attack on the French; lino with sufficient weight to force it back, but an energetic counter-attack restored the situation. Severe fighting;is also reported from other points on the Western line. There is no-news of any radical change iri the Eastern situation, while from the Austi;o-Italian. theatre the Teports deal 'with no fresh develop-' , ments. The Turkish defeat on Gallipoli is now attributed to Eriver Pasha's disregard of the' advice of the Germans, and there are hints Of strained relations between the Crescent and tho Iron Cross, and ru- : mours' of negotiations ; far a separate peace. The ' German military attache is said to have left Constantinople, and the archives have been , removed from the German Embassy at tho Porte.- A serious .'■ has been reached in regard to the South Wales miners' trouble, and a proclamation has been issued applying the Munition, Act to South : ■ Wales. The Chancellor of Exchequer, Mr. R. M'Kenria, has announced that the'public has subscribed nearly sis hundred millions , to t-ha groat war loan*