BRITISH-FLEET BOMBARDS BELGIAN COAST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2549, 25 August 1915, Page 7

BRITISH-FLEET BOMBARDS BELGIAN COAST

ZEEBRUGGE HEAVILY SHELLED

THE RIGA BATTLE

BRITISH SUBMARINE SAM THE

MOLTKE

RUSSIANS EVACUATE OSSOWIEC.

TURKS IN, DESPERATE STRAITS

CUT OFF FROM BASE AD ALMOST • : ' SIMROUNBED '

GERMAN - AMERICAN CRISIS

Interest in naval events is transferred by to-day's war news from the Baltio to the Belgian coast, where a powerful British squadron has done some effective, work in a heavy bombardment of Zeebrugge, Knocks, Heyst, and other places, resulting in considerable damage! Further details of the Russian naval victory in the Gulf of Riga show that the German battle-cruiser Moltke fell a victim to a British submarine, a fact which has evoked a great popular demonstration before the British Embassy in Petrograd. According to a German communique, the Russians have evacuated the fortress at Ossowiec, and various reports indicate that a most severe struggle, developing probably into a great battle, is proceeding on the Bobr-Brest Litovsk front, which the Russians are disputing step by step. The news from Gallipoli indicates no marked development in the general situation, but the reports indicate that the British landing at Suvla, coupled with the energetic work of the British submarines in tho Sea of Marmora, has virtually isolated the Turkish army on Gallipoli, and the enemy, now stated to be almo st surrounded, is said to bo within meaisurable distance of facing the question of surrendering or starv.ing. There has been sharp fighting on the Western front in the iVosges, to tho advantage of tho French. From the Italian theatre there is very little news of importance.