FIGHT FOR WARSAW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 7

FIGHT FOR WARSAW

DESPERATE BATTLES STILL RAGING GERMAN TRANSPORT SUNK I THE pm ■ ; ITALIAN STRATEGY a AUSTRIAN DISASTER LOOMING 'submarine exploits terror in sea of marmora ; ■ The evacuation of Warsaw, 'daily expected, has not yet been announced. Instead, there are reports tif desperate fighting on the Narew, and on other seotions west, south, and south-east of Poland's menaced capital A British submarine in the Baltic has sunk a German transport, while other British submarines, operating in the Sea of Marmora, are establishing a condition of terrorism, extending their operations' from attacks ou.. shipping to the bombardment - of troop trains on the shore, to the shipping piers in the Golden " ; Horn, and the blowing up of a bridge at Stamboul.. At the eastern gate, in. the Black Sea, the Russian, destroyers have also had a busy time in disposing-of coal depots and a largo number of coal vessels . —steamers and isailers. Lively actions are reported on the French front in the Western theatre, the advantage on the whole being with our Allies. 'A' German destroyer has been sunk off the enemy's coast by a British submarine. .The operations in the Austro-Italian theatre have assumed a most interesting aspect. The rapid development of the Italian offensive has.reached a point where, if, one or other of two events happen, the Austrian defences will completely collapse, resulting in a situation embodying all the elements of a disaster .to their armies, '