NEW ROAD TO BERLIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 285, 11 May 1915, Page 6

NEW ROAD TO BERLIN.

WIIKX AIiUKS VOUCH TilK 'Mr. A. 11. 'Pollen, who was introduced in his audience by Lord Selborne (First |,ord of the Admiralty in a Conservative Administration) as "one of the greatest living authorities on some of the most important aspects of naval gunnery," lectured on "The Xavy and the. War'' in St. -lames' Theatre, London, on -March 11. ,Mr. Pollen described the operations in the Dardanelles as the first active attempt made bv the Allies to give a n,t;v direction to the war, and the most important single thing that had taken place since the invasion of Calicia bv Russia.

If the attack on the Straits succeeded, as it was tolerably certain to do, it means that we have opened up a new road to llerlin, for tile great advance of the Russians could be strengthened I'.v the French and ourselves attacking the Germans on the (Inn!;, a thin# that could never lmve lieen done from the west. Tt seems incredible that Germany could look on and see the passive to the TOack Sea forced without making a. desperate attempt to prevent it, even to the length of sending every ship she had to the '.Mediterranean. No risk she ran in the North Sea was 091 ml to the disaster that was imminent if the Allies got through the Dardanelles.