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Show WARJVIEW London. April 30 12 noon. The east coast of England again has been subjected to an aerial attack, accompanied accom-panied by the usual infliction of material ma-terial damage, but without casualties j of any sort. Like former raids, this one of last nicht is marked bv differ- I ences of opinions as to the type of , air machine used by the Germans. I but most people agree that a Zeppelin carried the raiders, who arrived In the small hours of the morning and I spent a brief time over Ipswich ant ! Bury Saint Edmunds The presence of a German fleet oif the coast of Belgium, and the shelling shell-ing of Dunkirk with the loss of twenty lhes, reported officially from Paris, stirred up great interest in England But the chief subject at present before be-fore the British mind Is the question of liquor regulation in Great Britain and the fact that the government for the first time since the beginning of the war ba& had to meet a division in the house of commons. The attitude atti-tude of the house probably reflects the opinion of the country which is sharply sharp-ly divided on the question of regulating regulat-ing the consumption of alcoholic beverages. bev-erages. Church Against Prohibition. Even the Church of England has resolved re-solved to view with uneasiness any action suggesting total prohibition But the strongest opposition comes from Ireland. Some Idea of the strength of this opposition op-position to the proposal of the government govern-ment is indicated by the London correspondent cor-respondent of the Manchester Guardian, Guardi-an, a leading government organ, who declares that the measure proposed by the Chancellor of Exchequer, Lloyd-George, will not pass the house. Operations on Dardanelles. Official quarters still remain reticent reti-cent concerning the military' operations opera-tions on the Dardanelles, but the Lon-don Lon-don papers this morning contain a number of special dispatches from that region in which the claims are made that the allies are steadily advancing ad-vancing under cover of the fire of the fleet, but not without meeting an opposition which is causing them heavy losses. British troops are reported re-ported in occupation of the narrow t tu nanlnanla t,- the north wuguv wi uir l'"- " of the town of Gallipoli Athens predicts pre-dicts that this campaign will last a long time, as the Turks occupy exceptionally ex-ceptionally well prepared defensive positions. po-sitions. The fighting in the western arena of hostilities still centers about Steen-straete. Steen-straete. This position, occupied by the Germans, forms an irritating wedge in the allied line. The presence of the German high sea fleet In the North Sea has been reported several times recently and an official statement issued in Berlin a tew dars ago spoke of several expeditions expedi-tions of this kind which were made without encountering the British fleet. The captain of a Swedish 'steamer reported that on crossing the North sea a few days ago ho encountered encoun-tered a large number of German warships. war-ships. Allies Are Progressing. Marked progress apparently has been made by the allies in their efforts ef-forts to win the Dardanelles by land operations Reports of this fighting are fragmentary and often conflicting but thev indicate that the British have succeeded in establishing, two lines across the Gallipoli peninsula, on the European side of the Dardanelles: one near the tip. the second at the other end near the entrance to the Sea of Marmora. Significant in this connection connec-tion is an official report from Berlin based on advices received thero from Dardanelles In this statement It is said severe fighting has occurred at the town of Gallipoli. Tbhs town lies on the straits at the entrance to the Sea of Marmora. This statement tendR to confirm the report of last night that the British had pushed their way across the peninsula at this point I Such a line if held would cut off the 1 Turkish defenders of the peninsula from assistance in the way of supplies and reinforcements from Constantinople. Constantino-ple. Gorman Misstate Facta Paris. April 30. 10:46 a. m An official of-ficial note issued by the war office , I gives details designed to show thaf the Germans continually are misstating misstat-ing facts in their communications in regard to recent battles. Assertions in regard to occupied territories madij in French official statements are said to have been absolutely exact. At several places, notably between Hena menil and Ancerviller, an advance of approximately three or four kilometers kilome-ters ibptween 2 and 2 2-3 miles) is reported It is contended in the note that the French are making continual progress iu this region and even now are not far distant from the Lorraine boundary. oo |