ITALIAN BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2519, 21 July 1915, Page 7

ITALIAN BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED

♦ _ r • "" MOST OF THE GREW SAVED I BATTLE RAGING ON " THE VISTULA .... .5 • . / MACKENSEN'S ADVANCE CHECKED • H welsh; coal strike MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE , MINERS Beyond th'e information contained in an Austrian official communique' that a fierce battle is raging between the Vistula and the Bug, the 1 news from the. Eastern theatre to-day .discloses no import- ' ant developments in the general situation. The Russians, it is stat- ' ed, are confident that they will be able to hold the Germans on the Narew, Vistula, and Lublin-Cholm fronts, while General von Mackensen's offensive, owing to the heavy losses of the Austrians, has been arrested. There are no important developments on the Western front • a Swiss telegram hints that, tho closing of the German-Swiss frontier conceals large movements of German troops to what, front is not clear. •An Italian battleship' has been sunk •by a submarine in the 'Adriatic while retiring from a bombardment in the vicinity of Cattaro. On land, the Italians have achieved marked success on the Isonzo front, making a substantial haul of prisoners and booty. Fightirig is: proceeding on Gallipoli, from wliich theatre there comes another gtapliic story from the pen of Mr. Ashmead Bartlett. The Balkan puzzle remains more or less of a puzzle; Bulgaria, it is suggested, desires Macedonia as the price of armed intervention ; Ru- ' mania, if the Kaiser has his ; way, is to be pacified at the expense of 'Austria. . The nest Note from the United States to Germany, it is ' expected, will be,sharp and to the point. Tho Welsh coal crisis is still unsettled, hut Mr. Lloyd George's appearance at the seat of ; the strike has. brightened the outlook.