LANDING ATTACK IN GALUPOU

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2538, 12 August 1915, Page 5

LANDING ATTACK IN GALUPOU

MOVE TO CUT THE TURKISH ' SUPPLY LINES SARI BAHR CREST CARRIED : RUSSIAN CRISIS' . LOMZA STORIED BY THE GERMANS GERMAN AIR RAID ON ■. ;■' ,'>'ENQLAI^p--ONE ZEPPELIN DESTROYED 'Attention is for the moment'diverted from the Russian crisis in . ■ the Eastern theatre to Gallipoli, where big ovents have been develop- ! . ing. Another landing attack has been successfully launched, this time at a point on the Gulf of Saros, which menaces the Turkish main Touto of supplies, and this coup, together .with, the submarine blockade of the Turkish sea supply routes, will in all probability'develop into the complete isolation of the Turks on the peninsula. Mean-' • . while, the Russians, in the Caucasus theatre, are developing a vigorous offensive. In the Eastern theatre the progress of the German offensive, ; though checked in the Baltic front, appears to be developing on certain other sections of the far-flung battle line. .The fortress of .. Lomza has been tarried by the. Germans, while the momentum of the main attack has been deflected in the direction of Vilna, which the Russians, it is stated, are preparing to evacuate. ' South of Warsaw, von Woyrsch's army has joined up with von Mackensen's. The . ; Russian official account of the German assault on Kovno on August 8 makes inspiring reading. . Here the enemy sustained enormous'.losses. ' Tliere has been another Zeppelin raid on the English East Coast, Tesuiting in the death of fourteen people and the wounding of fourteen . others. One of the Zeppelins was subsequently destroyed,