The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-03-10
ALLIES OPENING
BERLIN HIGHWAY
Progress of Fleet Towards Con
StantinOple Creates Conf
denCe In England.
GERMAN RUSH A FAILURE
Russians Declare Ven Hinden-
berg Made Great Mistake In
Russian Advance.

PARIS, March Operations Of
the allied fleet IN the Durdanellcs
stopped Tuesday morning by uufnyOr
bile weather conditions were resumed
vigorously In the afternoon, says an
Athens dispatch 10 the Mutin The
Warships are reported 10 have made
additional progress In the narr0ws, 81
lrncing Turkish batteries on the
heights Of Kenkui, the fire from
which had proved troublesome to the
fleet In It's muneuyers
LONDON, March TO- The German
submarine L ~ has been sent to the
bottom, according 70 n statement Is
sued today by the British admiralty
The submarine, according tU the NJ
fetal announcement, was rammcd 10
day by the British torpedo boat de-
srUycr Ariel II went to the bottom.
TIE members NJ the suhmershle's
crew surrendered and were saved
The location Of the sinking subma
rine ls not disclosed in the admiralty
announcement
The captured crew will be- deprived
Of all special privileges ns was done
I'm the case of the men on huard the
Us ana they will be held for trial In
connection with the sinking NJ the
merchant vessels.
The u-20 probably is the submarine
which yesterday sank the British
steamer BlnCkwOOd
The submarine I2O was built In
1919. She had Il displacement Of $40
tons and a speed Of II knots on the
surface and T. knots submerged She
was equipped with three torpedo
tubes.
GENEVA. via Paris, March 10
The Tribune says It has learned from
Vienna that several Italian warships
have put to sea, probably bound for
the Dardanelles.
LONDON, March l0--As England
sees II not since the war began has
the situation both ON land and sea
been more favorable to the allies than
II II today. Confident opinions OF
this nature are finding constant ex-
preston In London.
Slowly but surely II Is argued. the
allied fleet is creeping toward Con
stantinOple aud thus opening another
road 10 Berlin, the retirement NJ
Field Marshal Won HIndenhcrg =
army from North Poland Is said to
be Imminent by many British Observ
ers OF affairs. In the west the allies
claim the ascendenCy along the line
although no decisive engagements are
being fought In the Balkans aud
Italy, acordhg to British interpreta-
tlOn Of the POLITICAL news from these
countries, the majOritles is clnmOrng
for intervention ON the side Of Great
Britain, France and Russia This IL
sale to be notably true In Greece
and Rumanla, In spite Of the fact that
the government Of these countries still
cling Outwardly to the policy Of neu
trnlity.
The crisis I'm Greece seems temper.
nrily IN have been bridged with for
nation Of the new cabinet Whether
the premier can control the chamber
OF deputies Is causing much speCula.
tlOn here.
Though officially denied reports
insist that a ministerial crisis has
arisen In Bulgaria where the premier
fai Orihg intervention was opposed by
King Ferdinand. II II said that the
HI lgarian prime minister stepped from
Office at the time that Greece's leading
statesmen retired.
Paris officially confirmed today
What London heard nnOfficially last
night, namely that the superdread
nought Queen Elizabeth slipped into
the Dardenelles proper on Monday
aud bombarded the Turkish forts, an
other one OF which, on the European
side has been partly demolished
correspondents at PetrOgrad Of
English newspaper say the German
failure 10 reduce the Russian fortress
Of Ossowetx, together with the re
ported German defeat at Grodno and
przasnysz, means the definite aban
dOnment OF the German offensive IN
North Poland, thus making, In tn,
opinion of these correspondents, Field
Marshal Won Hindenberg's rush oyeI
tho frontier another costly failure.
The Germans though unable 10 da
vance In Russia are reported 10 b,
holding a line 10 miles behind the OF
trtme limit Of their forward dash OF
q month ago.
In Central Poland both the Rus
sisns and the Germans are attackinl
alternately with no appreciable chang,
In the situation being made,
The same is true In the Cerpathlan,
and generally along the western from
In France and Belgium.
PETROGRAD. March l0.-ro rem
edy the stragetical weakness OF theil
position at 0ssowatZ which was lefr
open to Russian outflanklng move
ment by the retirement Of the righ
wing Of their northern army toward
the Augustowo forest, the Germans
have attempted an advance In forc'
along the road from Kolnb to LomEa
The Russian general staff reports thu
attacks failed.
Notwithstanding their exposed posi-
tion at Ossowetx, the Germans con
tinue to concentrate their heaviest a
tacks at this point, Meanwhile the,
are conducting desultory operations
along the whole front from Augustow,
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