SNUB FOR VON TIRPITZ

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2554, 31 August 1915, Page 5

SNUB FOR VON TIRPITZ

SUBMARINE BUCCANEERS , _CHECKED :'PIATE CHIEF ELBOWED ASIBE AIR WAR IN THE WEST j y ■ ——- 1 BLOW AT SERVIA ■ .' • . - ; c~: ■ - AUSTEO-GERMAN INVASION ' : IMMINENT : THE PUZZLE IN THE BALKANS The most interesting news of the war to-day concerns the Balkans 'and the back-down of-Germany over her submarine warfare on defenceless shipping. . The Balkans puzzle still remains in the hands of tho diplomats, and the general situation is interestingly canvassed by journalists of established authority on Near Eastern affairs. Competent opinion in the Rumanian capital expects that the Austro-German blow :at Scrvia will be delivered in a few days. The German back-3own ever tlio pirate' war-is inferentially held to have resulted from the triumph of the German Chancellor (.Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg) over his political rival, Grand Admiral voh Tirpitz, and the latt-er's sup-' porters, and is a -distinct slap in' the face for the Pirate Chief. The London "Daily. News" regards the' result as a diplomatic coup' for ; the United States, but the "New York Times" is more sceptical, and is • inclined to think that Germany is merely "lying low." ' Tho 'war in the West seems to have been transferred-from the earth to tho ■ iair, for the'news to-day- mentions nothing else. . The great Russian . 'retirement- still; proceeds, but there is hope in the reported admission : . ef - the Russian t Staff . that the limit of the retreat has been fixed upon. ! .lliero is .no. : imiwrtant development in Gallipoli, whilo the news from the Italian theatre is of a routine character.. A calmer feeling pre-' '.vails iii the' South Wales'coal;crisis. ' ' ' .