ARMIES ENTRENCHING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2232, 19 August 1914, Page 5

ARMIES ENTRENCHING

CONFUSION AT THE MONT RUSSIANS SEIZE RAILWAY ' ' CENTRE. AUSTRIAN DKASTER NEAR BELGIiADE. , REPORTED LOSS OF 15,000. 'i , ... J/ ■ '■ THE FRENCH OCCUPY COLMAR ■ ■ The most significant item in today's news from the seat of war is an official statemont indicating that tie Germans have adopted defensive tactics, and are entrenching themselves everywhere. ~ This news, j read in conjunction with tho rapid advance of the Frenoh troops on the one side and tho seizure of important p'oiiits by the Russians in German territory, givea some ground for the assumption that the German Commander, .while desperately unwilling to lose the ground he >haß, . already -covered, is probably rearranging his front and sfcrengtheting , his lines at certain' danger points.' A Brussels telegram asserts that Germany's plans.are hopelessly upset. The Dutch people now. appear to bo definitely prepared against aiiy trespass of ithoir neutral ground by combatant troops. Italy's military activity, is interpreted to mean that she mistrusts Austria, and apprehends an attack. Austria is still :•{ shelling Belgrade, and the habitants of . the Servian capital are living in cellars. At Stabatz, 40 miles west of Belgrade, however, a sen- . ■ ons Austrian reverse is reported. Details of the Japanese ultimatum to Germany show that the "notice to quit" which has been served on the . Teuton tenant of Kaio Chau, was issued in accordance with a preconceived line of aotion by Britain and Japan acting in concert. With • the concurrence of her Ally, Japan, has undertaken to hand Kaio-Chau back to its Chinese landlord when the time comes, and to restriot her .activity to tho'China Seas, except in circumstances involving "some ' danger .to Japanese commercial shipping. The United Stateß Government is apparently contentjto let the mattec rest at: that, despite vigorous protests by certain individuals and newspapers,- : 'From the • North Sea comes a message that the weather was fine and the sky' is clear, a message that Inspires the belief that whatever' has happened all is well with the watchful squadrons of the British Fleet in that ~ ■ mysterious arena. .■ - ' '