Britain’s might

The attack on the Narrows

Long range shelling

Fight for Warsaw

GREECE’S greatest statesman, M Venizalos has announced the resignation of his cabinet, the King favouring a continuance of aloofness from the war and the premier believing that the time for interference has come.

Greece is with the premier and now that the allied fleets are in the Dardanelles, neutrality is not likely to be maintained much longer.

Italy yesterday called up the reserve non commissioned officers of four classes and, revoking a previous decision, a resumption is to made in the building of the four super Dreadnoughts one of which should be approaching completion.

There is considerable activity in other neutral states but the mere mention of this fact is all that is necessary at this junction.

A significant paragraph completed the Admiralty statement issued on Saturday evening, on the progress of the Dardanelles operations and at the moment the published facts are enough to fill us with the utmost confidence.

The great super Dreadnought, Queen Elizabeth, already supplied with nicknames such as Black Bess and Lizzie opened the bombardment by indirect fire from the Gulf of Saros, firing over the peninsula, and was supported by the Inflexible Prince George, further down the coast a battery of field guns was silenced by the Sapphire and the following day the same vessel destroyed a military station.

What will perhaps more than anything strike our own people as well as the rest of the world is the re-evaluation with these events of Britain’s naval might.

We probably do not know as yet the full number of warships engaged but from the published names we find our Fleet exceeds a tonnage and gun power of the whole of Germany’s fleet.

If the people of Germany knew this they would shiver with apprehension.

The most interesting land operations are still on the eastern front, on Saturday after commenting upon the great successes that had attended Russian arms it was pointed out that it was nevertheless too soon to say that Warsaw, Germany’s main objective, was safe.

And that a big battle for the mastery had still to be fought.

Reading between the lines of the Petrograd report, this has been quick to come and on the left of the Vistula fighting is now assuming the character of a great battle.

Obviously the Germans are trying to achieve from the south west what they have failed from the west, the Grand Duke Nicholas however has not been caught napping.

On the western front fighting on a fairly heavy scale appears to have developed North of Arras where the bulletins tell us the enemy have brought in large forces which suffered a serious reverse.

Several trenches were taken by the allies and considerable losses inflicted on the Germans.