SIGN OF THE END ON GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2567, 15 September 1915, Page 5

SIGN OF THE END ON GALLIPOLI

REPORTED GERMAN ADMISSIONS ; HELP- OR COLLAPSE M. LLOYD GEORGE'S APPEAL HMED POLITICAL CPJSfS -, 1 / THE PIRATE WAR

Mr. Lloyd George's now famous "preface" to his collected war speeches is described 1 as the political sensation of the day, and is regarded by some newspaper critics as an indication of grave differences in tlie Cabinet over the compulsory service question. The news from the Russian theatre does not cover any important development or • material change in the Eastern situation. Von Hindenburg is attacking furiously in the northern wing, while the' Russians are correspondingly active in the south. The Austriaus are feverishly fortifying . their .Rumanian-frontier. From the Dardanelles comes the news that the Turks cannot hold out beyond September-25 Unless 'help,comes' from the Huns; their morale is broken, and their condition is desper-German-American diplomacy on .the subject of the pirate war is , again at tension, and Count BernstorfE's unexpected appearance at the State Department at/Washington is regarded as a portent of serious events. Germany, it is reported, has impudently requested America to ask Britain to disavow tV right of attacked steamers to attempt reprisals. : x VIGOROUS GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN THE , ' EAST; ■' RUSSIANS FALL BACK ' ENEMY HARD PRESSED IN THE SOUTH By Telegraph—Press ABsooiatlen-GopyrlffM ■ September a.m.) r»t ■ A Petrograd, September 14. A communique_states: The enemy, by a. vigorous offensive westward and south-westward of Dvmsk out the railway in the vicinity of Novo Svlentaanf' Owmg to the pressure, region between" the Novo Svlentziany lmd the Vllna districts, we retired to the'neighbourhood of Poddrod<re The enemy has been considerably' reinforced in the Skid°el' reeion "• «■* ** "The, Russians m the Tarnopol district, under a hurricane of artillery 1 SW7BSA' , f *" ™ l " ,ltd "» : . ."Generally speaking, tfie Austro-QeTraane' efforts are directed at main " tat GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. ■ '»*•« •' < . ~ . Amsterdam, September 13 A German communique states :-"Field-Marshal von Hindenburg has ejected the Russians from several positions along the Dvina between FriedrichSt Jacobstadt.. Tie Russians further south aye avoiding an engagement We are pursuing the Russians thirty kilometres sluth-west of Jacobstadt Our advance as vigorously proceeding on the Vilia below Vilna 'We ha™ reached the Yilna-Dvinsk-Petrograd railway at several nninto ii. •? oonWs East of Grodno w«f repulsed Loral* ™ ttft. PUrnUt ' On the Lower Zelwianka, we captured on Sundav <wnn ' T pold captured.looo retreating Russians: 7 Pnnce Leo " "General von Mackensen has broken the enemv'q .i ' ~ front, and is continuing the pursuit in the direction of Pin 4 advancing/' 11,111 attacks westward of Tamoppi;' where we are • AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.. (Rcc. September 14, 9.50 p.m.) An Austrian official communique states: "The^^q^mfTH^ 6^lll^ Galioian "front continues. Strong hostile forces in : the Spv«fli Vt ■°?' pulsed. The fighting * several joints igZiS? "The Austro-Germans near Tarnopol took un at niVbt +{*,«. „ position, eastward of Kohnow and Wezierna, which joins oii? fmt+ pr6pa lu of the Middle Strypa. The movement "as Tt bf {fe "We have reached the railway eastward of Dubno, and , n. sand prisoners in Szuraty and Lithuania."- aptured a thouHUNGARIANS FORTIFYING RUMANIAN FRONTIER ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) / ' ' (Rec. September 14, 5 p.m.) The Italian newspaper "II Seccolo" states that 13 ', mg day and night fortifying their Rumanian frontier. Trenches am lS? - structed at.Predeal (just south of Kronstadt), only three hundred tlie Rumanian frontier. jaras Irom CAN THE TUKKS LAST THE MONTH? GERMAN HELP, OR COLLAPSE MORALE BROKEN BY TERRIBLE LOSSES By Telegraph—Press Association—Cojjrisht The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Athens^a^tha^Turlcfsli^o'ffi ' cial source states that the higher German command has notified Berlin tu tho Turkish army cannot continue beyond September 25. ■ ' Reports_ from private sources agree with this, and depict the position of Turkey as deplorable. Collapse is sure unless German help is soon realised. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) 1 , London, September 13 1 ■ A French' official states tliat news from Constantinople shows that in con ' sequence of the terrible losses at Gallipoli, tho morale of the Turkish troons ' has been much impaired, and, m order to improve it, the authorities have dp ! cided to distribute copies of the Korau a b gifts of the Sultan during the feast 1 TURKISH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. i (Rec. September 14, 10 p.m.) . 1 , , . Constantinople, September 14. t A Turkish official communique states: "Our Anafarta artillery on the i right wiug destroyed some of tbo enemy's caissons on the left wing, and are i actively firing on tho enemy's trenchon, i t . j,' ,2 cruieoro and tonjedo-boats ineffectively, fired on eur noiitioac 1 isedd-ul-Bahr. 1 . ' k,