WAR NEWS REVIEWED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2236, 24 August 1914, Page 5

WAR NEWS REVIEWED

■ . ■ .. - * .-...' ..,-...... ,_.„,! PRESS BUREAU'S STATEMENT. .. , ~ ' 5 ..... ..... AIUES , POSITION SAHSFACTORY \■' (Bee. August 24, 0.20 a.m.)' .•"..■■•■: i ;•;: , London, August' 23. • ■ The Press Bureau report says that almost all information reaching Britain, whether official or unofficial, comes from allied .sources. There is very little.news , of German-Austrian origin filtering through, but sufficient to show that the enemy claims successes tooth on the western, and eastern'theatres. The war . campaign is proceeding on such an enormous scale that encounters-which have' already occurred; can only be classed as ; incidents of minor importance.; • Thes exaggeration of minor "episodes iirto im-. portant triumphs is 'misleading.;* How- , ever, it may bb said of the 'western theatre wlierc Britain is most interested ' that one really noteworthy success, perhaps it ought to 1)© called a German failuro rather than an Allied success, is that at the end of. three weeks the enomy has not attempted to deliver an attack which, if it had occurred even f 'initially successfully a week agoj might lave interfered with the concentration of the French Army and proved prejudi- ■ cial-tq subsequent French'''-operations.-' The- situation at the moment is, in ft military sense, satisfactory.. ■•._•