, 1915-03-03

advancing daily. The German prisoners
complain that their units are inextricably
confused, rendering it impossible for them
to maintain any selnblance of order, and
their ammunition supply has ceased since
February tWenty-second. We have driven
the enemy back eleven miles in several Sec
tors, and in others where his counter attacks
are frequent we have advanced from two to
three miles.
The Allied feet has reached Chanak, if
teen miles from the Mediterranean entrance
to the Straits. The British Press warns the
public not to expect the immediate fall of
Coustantinople, nevertheless the operations
OF the British and French warships against
the sea defences of that city are creating
a tremendous stir in The Near East .Broussa,
in Asiatic Turkey, has been selected by the
Turks as their new capital, in case it becomes
necessary to eyacute Constantinople. The
Germans wanted the Turks to move to
Adrianople, in European Turkey, but they
did not consent and have started shipping
their archives to Broussa.
London, March 2nd-A British official
bulletin states: '"lhe operations in the
DardaneIles have again been delayed by
unfavourable weather, q strong northeast
erly gale with rain and mist rendering long
range fire and aeIoplane observation difficult.
Que marine was killed and three wounded
Oh the "Vengeance" IN the attack on the
forts on Friday.
The "Daily Chronicles" correspondent at
Weymouth states that Captain Bell of the
small coastal steamer Chords, from Blyth
to Plymouth, has arrived at Portland and
reported that during the voyage he observed
the periscope of a submarine on the star
board bow. All hands we're ordered on deck
and the captain noticed the submarine cross
his bow to port, whore it took up a position
40 yards ahead, and soon afterwards he
noticed the wake of a torpedo fired from
the port side ahead of him on the starboard
bow. He put his helm hard over and ran
over the periscope, when there was a crash
aud the submarine disappeared and oil was
observed floating on the water.
The Executive Committee of the Amalga-
mated Society of Engineers, after a meeting
ut Glasgow, issued q statement saying that
six meetings were held in the atft cted area
on the Clyde and TINT there are strong
indications of an early resumption OF work.
The Committee urged the men to return
to their employment.
According to the Central News Agency,
the meetings were failures and all broke up
after disorderly scenes, the men being left
to decide for themselves what their nc
tons should be. The Executive Committee
strongly appealed to the men to resume,
but although the direct issue was placed
before the strikers, there were clamorous
appeals for a vote to DO taken. Only a
small fraction of the ten thousand strikers
returned 10 work to-day.
A Petrograd official despatch states: 1--WE
COZ cluded yesterday The operations around
Plzasnysz, where we defeoted and have
thrown back to the frontier q minimum Of
49, A... (tono, TL,o on,u0Y, oftau baDiup
compelled the retreat Of our Tenth Army, set
themselves the further task OF joining battle
with our troops operating successfully in
the Mlawa region. Their plan was first to
drive back by a demonstration Ill force our
left wing in this region, and then, apparent
" by a headlong dash against our right in
the KhorjDle district, to overthrow our troops
in the direction of the Vistula. On Friday
evening our troops entered Przasnysz, but
our possession of this place was not consoli-
dated until Saturday evening, when the
Germans commenced a disorderly retreat IN
the direction of Mlaw0 and KhOrjele. Des-
pite the futigue of four days fighting and
marching our troops pressed the pursuit
vigorously, inficting on Sunday heavy
losses on the German rearguards, these
operations giving us valuable booty and a
minimum of 10000 prisoners. Thus, thanks
to our maneuvres, the German operations
against our forces in the Mlawa district
resulted in a complete defeat for them
The same day we came into contact with
the Germans in other sections, but no col
lisions are reported. We have captured
1900 prisoners, Is machine guns and many
other guns in the Grodno region. In the
C%arpathians the Austrians attacked IN close
formation on the Lupkow Vorilne front,
4Io;r 1nccaC in thoCn attacks and AS the
result of our COUNTER attacks being enor-
nous. In Eastern Galicia the enemy has
assumed the defensive. In the region OF
trnin- 90 1linl out