RESULTS REVIEWED.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2842, 5 August 1916, Page 9

RESULTS REVIEWED.

NAVAL POSITION SUMMARISED. JUTLAND BATTLE TURNED THE SCALES. ' ii ; FLEURY RECAPTURED. BRITISH GAIN SOME GROUND. ; SUBMARINE PIRACY. ITALIAN MAIL STEAMER SUNK. Revival of the worst features of the Gorman submarine warfare on - merchantmen is the fate of the Italian mail steamer Letimbro.' Though a passenger ship, carrying women and children, she was shelled' and sunt by an enemy submarine, and five of her boats were .. smashed by. shells'as they' were being lowered/ Many of the' crew and ' passengers Svere killed by shell-fire, and others' were drowned. The French are actively developing their attacks" at Verdun, and have occu- • ' pied the village of Floury and neighbouring positions. Since Tuesday they have captured 1750 unwounded Germans on the right bank of the Mouse. • Some further progress has been made by British troops on tho Somme front," and a'number of enemy counter-attacks have been broken... Desperr ate fighting'continues on the Stochod line, in Southern- Russia. On the ■ Armenian front the Russians are advancing in the direction of Diarbekir, on the Upper Tigris, and have taken many Turkish prisoners. Brief particulars are given of an' Allied naval attack and landing on the Asia Minor coast. The naval situation is interestingly reviewed by the British First Lord of the. Admiralty. ✓ REVIEW OF THE RESULTS OF TWO YEARS' WAR . THE INITIATIVE IN THE HANDS OF THE' ALLIES ON ALL FRONTS .". (By Telegraph—Pmss Association—Copyright). . • ' Australian-New Zealand Cable. Association. . . ... • —London, August 3. ; A high authority, reviewing the results of two years' war, states that the Allies occupy 1,071,000 square miles against 167,000 squaro-miles occupied by the Central Powers. The initiative is in our hands on all fronts since the Verdun failure. .Even in Mesopotamia, we control the Shatt-el-Arab and Irak province. German influence in South Persia lias been eliminated. General Smuts, is progressing!in East Africa and the Serbians are presenting a-for-midable front to the Bulgarians. We have ample munitions for ourselves ■ and our Allies. Britons to tho number of 5,041,000 have' voluntarily enlisted, nnd our whole manhood is now nt the service of the nation* in addition to that of the Dominions and India. ... . \ THE NAVAL SITUATION REVIEWED BY MR. BALFOUR THE MORAL AND MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE JUTLAND BATTLE. (Rec. August 4, 0 p.m.) / . London, August 3. Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of-the Admiralty, has issued a review of the naval situation on the second anniversary of the war.' ".'The moral and material consequences of the Jutland Battle cannot easily be overruled. It was the moment when the tide began to flow strongly in our favour, and every week .since has seen new Allied success on one field or tho .other. "Before the Jutland fight, the German fleet was imprisoned, and after Jutland it sank again into impotence. This was not merely the British view, German utterances have given precisely the same impression, and both parties are agreed that the object of the naval battle was to obtain the sea command. We liave not lost' it; our blockade has been tightened since the Jutland ■ Battle. The Germans admit this by the greater violence of their invective against Britain and the unwearied repetition of the cry that Britain is the arch-enemy and must at ill costs bs humbled to the dust. "If the .Germans had felt that they were reaching ' .maritime. equality! would they spend so much breath in advertising the ' performance of their submarine flying the , mercantile Hug, which carried 280 tons of German, produce, to shy nothing of the Kaiser's autograph letter, from Bremen to ; Baltimore? The whole interest lay in..the'fact that by using a submarine they coiild elude, the barrier the British have placed between Germany and. the outer, world, which they knew the German fleet could neither break nor weaken.. . "The German uowspapers upon tho anniversary exhorted the people to take comfort liy studying the maps. The amount of comfort derivable depends upon ' the maps chosen. Even the map of Europe shows .an ever-shrinking, battleline.' The map of Germany's colonial Empire.showed 1 that the most .had gone, and the remainder was slipping from h or. grasp. ... "The' Germans were aware that their victorious fleet was useless, and 'Tore .submarine warfare makes a double appear to .Gorman militarism—an ap'peal to prudence and brutality, because it.cannot, be carried, out on.a. large scalo consistent with the laws of war and the requirement* of. humanity. . ' "The skill and energy wherewith the merchantmen defend theiiiselres • had driven the German Admiralty to tho latest and most stupid, act of calculated ferocity, the'judicial murder of Captain Fryatt.. .He did not propose to arguo the'case; it was not worth arguing. JHiy should wo do .the German military an- 1 ■ thorities-the-injustice of supposing that they .are animated By; any. solicitude for international law, and blundered into an illegality bj Fome unhappy acci■dent. • They-sank- twenty-two British ships without . ..warning. .. They knew Fryatt, in refusing bravely to submit, was doiiig his duty as a man of. .courage t,nd honour, and the Germans resolved at all costs, to discourage sncjt men by intimidation." . ' . • ' ■ ■ ....... ORDERS FOR BIG SHELLS PLACED ■IN THE UNITED STATES "• Australian-New Zealand Cable-Association.- ■ . - - -New -York,-August 3. -' Munition .makers state that Great Britain is how making all the small shells needed- but is-placing orders in the ..United States.for .6, 8. .9, and 12-inch-shells The new orders include a provision for deliveries to Hie middle of 1017.