A Difficult Operation.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1915, Page 3

A Difficult Operation.

« (FROM THE TIMES COiRiIESPOiNDJSNT,) Petrograd, March 30. Writers in touch iwith the Admiralty warn the public against over-confidence in the rapid success of the operations at the Bosporus, reminding them ot the difficulties encountered by the Allies at the Dardanelles. Russian warehips enjoy one single advantage in the fact that the current of the Bosporus flows away from them, assuring immunity from drifting mines, but in every other respect their task is, is anything, more difficult. • Sooner or later they are likely to encounter not only the enemy's batteries, but also the Turco-German fk?6T; moreover, they are cut off from reiriTorceniente. Tho less of a single unit might seriously compromise the operations; hence the necessity for the greatest caution.

Thie warning, however, does not damp the intense satisfaction caused by the activity of the Fleet, especially as it brings Russia nearer to her traditional aim of securing an open door from the Euxine, but it will furnish a not superfluous corrective to the heady literature provided for the readers of the Russian Press.