THE BATTLE FOR SARI BAIR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 5

THE BATTLE FOR SARI BAIR

-——■■■■■' '■ A VIVID ACCOUNT COLONIALS FOUGHT LIE UONS GREATEST SOLDIERS' BATTLE' SINCE INKERMAN : ' ROVERETO EVAGUATOV AUSTRIANS DESTROY HISTORIC .MONUMENTS ■. WELSH COAL CRISIS • ' ALL HERS RESUME WORK

H: ;Very; ; full and informative- accounts'are! given in a dispatch from IMr. 'Ashmead-Bartlett, of..'the recent - great .battle in the, Gallipoli I. ,• -Peninsula'in : whicih'-.the:New?.;Zealanders-''tooK• so,prominent a part. .- .. official report-.dealing-,with later events afi'tlie'Dardanelles tells of ■ the:desthictio)i .of five" Turkish transports—four of them sunk- by, v -' ' ;Bubmarines' -aiid- one:.by: air. attack.' ..There'-.'are some further;inter- ; K ;estii)g'references'to the anticipated-offensive 1-by, the Allies in the ; : .Western'theatre, and it is -stated that' the- Germans aro linking up . 1 • their defences -oil a new Imo m readiness for a retreat. One of the! . jmost important events reported to-day is the Austrian evacu- 1 '. ation of Roveredo, a railway town on th<* lino of approach to the t^V:|qibire&fof.;T^eiit;f. : .An'.;Uidieaiaou .that the Austrians are alarmed at . . , .'the ,continued success of the Italian offensive is supplied in a Swiss . roport which states that 200,000. reservists (mostly elderly, men) and . -80 new battbries,' are. being sent as reinforcements to- the Tyrol and '* Trentino; . A Berlin communique states that-the Russians have evacu- ' ;ate<i,.the', western Grodno, fortb and the. enemy also claim some gains • . ■ of.'ground in;. Eastern ;Galiciaand -the region immediately to the north, . ; , - is attributed to an-officer of-the steamer Adriatic, ' 'at ; NeNy.'York, that the British ha.ve already -, captured or. sunk fifty d&i&ltt'.OTbijterinw^^^• harmoiiy with' other' recent reports) that : the''submarine- which/sank' the liner-Arabic toas bi>en captured,, and that the crew are. now prisoners in England; ■ ,