THE GALLIPOLI CONFLICT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5

THE GALLIPOLI CONFLICT

c KEY TO THE BALKAN SITUATION i BULGARIA ABOUT TO DECIDE ; S d- / - I GREEK CABINET RESIGNS e 0 ■ H' • S RUSSIAN STRATEGY C B 0 I GERMANS ATTEMPTING TO FORCE 1 A BATTLE 3 ; SUBMARINES SHELL ENGLISH : COAST TOWNS t J There is very little news of major developments from any of the i great theatres of the war to-day. On the Eastern front thore .has ! ' been heavy fighting between the Narew and the Bug. Expert critics, J ' canvassing tho situation, place some importance on the value of tho • . Russians holding the fortresses of Kovno and Novo-Gcorgievsk. The ' present German plan, it is stated in another roport, is apparently dej signed to force a decisive inttle before the Russians'can deploy to ' their main line of defence; meanwhile the'business of transporting supplies to the German front across tho devastated and bridgeless wastes westwaid of the Vistula,is imposing an enormous ' task upon tho ) enemy's army, service corps. At the time of writing—before the 1 arrival of the late cablegrams—there is not a line of news from fho ) 1 Italian front save for an Austrian report of an air bombardment of > the coast forts at Venice. The principal item in the news from the ; -Western front is the detailed account of the Crown Prince's latest rei buff in the Argonne, which shows that the fierce attack which was . launched upon the French line on August 7-8 was a most disastrous and costly failure. There are no fresh developments in the-Darda-nelles, but there is a good deal of writing about the general situation [ in Turkey. In the neighbouring Balkan States matters are now approaching a most interesting phase. Tlje Greek Cabinet (headed by' ' M. Gounaris) has resigned, and the way is apparently clear for, M. , .Venizelos. and his pro-war party to return to power. Bulgaria is so 1 near, a decision about her intentions that Turkey is preparing for all 1 ' ... eventualities on that frontier.