Dyddiad: 30 Mawrth 1915

Trawsysgrif:

PROGRESS OF THE WAR

The Germans have carried out their threat to sink British passenger vessels on sight without regard to the passengers, whether men, women or children. The Elder Line steamship Falaba, bound from Liverpool to Africa with 140 passengers, was torpedoed and sunk yesterday. The British Admiralty fears that 120 of her passengers and crew were drowned, no time having been given them to take to the boats. The Germans excuse this inhuman warfare by claiming that England is trying to starve millions of German men and women. The world in general, however, will not accept this excuse and the infamy of the German naval warfare will serve to increase the bitterness felt among the allied belligerents against the Germans. Public sentiment in England sooner or later will force the government to treat captured officers and crews of German submarines as pirates.

The wounding of General Von Kluck is interesting because of the widespread notice he received as commander of the right wing of the German army which hacked its way from Belgium almost to the gates of Paris and was forced to turn back at the Marne. Fortunately the brave general's wound is not serious. The day was comparatively quiet on the western battle zone, only artillery engagements being reported. In the eastern zone the Austrians appear to have driven the Russians out of the Bukowina into Bessarabia. In the Carpathians the battle continues without either side obtaining a decisive advantage. In North and Central Poland the reports are contradictory. The Germans claim to have made advances, while the Russians are equally insistent that the German attacks have been repulsed. The Russian Black Sea fleet, augmented, it is said, by three new dreadnaughts, has begun to shell the Bosporus forts. The Russians are masters of the Black Sea, and in addition claim to have the ascendancy in the Baltic over the German fleet.

Ffynhonnell:
World War history: daily records and comments as appeared in American and foreign newspapers, -1926. (New York, NY) 29 Mar. 1915, p. 60. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2004540423/1915-03-29/ed-1/.