THREE ARMY CORPS ROUTED WITH HEAVY LOSS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 5

THREE ARMY CORPS ROUTED WITH HEAVY LOSS

RESOMITE ; MAMi THROUGH ENEMY'S • AUSTEIANS ALSO BEATEN : FLOATING INES IN THE NORTH SEA ■ NEUTRAL SHIPS BLOWN UP : JAPAN . DEGLAIIES WAR . TO ;;QU& : EASTERN ASIA ' AUSTRIAN ;i EMPEROR ILL' . The hews which we publish to-day fron! 1 the theatres of the great European war' diverts'attention , for the moment from the Belgian. • campaign to Germany's eastern frontier, where, we are told, the Russians have encountered and 'defeated three German army corps after a serfes. of decisive, engagements, which seem to have demoralised the'enemy. The German troops on this frontier are believed to represent for the most part the tail of the German army, ' the elite ■ corps having'.been concentrated in Belgium. The Russians'are stated ~ / to have gained-an important strategic position, and may now be considered to have securely' Established' their footing in the enemy's ooun- • , try. Meanwhile they are. steadily! advancing, and are within some fifty miles of the important port of Konigsberg, on the Gulf oT DantBig. In the Austrian theatre of war the Russians have also Ecored , important suc<Wes,.and,,are marcbiug steadily /upon important strat- ■ egic points.: ' Details,'of»the fighting on the Serbo : Austrian frontier ; indicate that the, Servian troops distinguished themselves, by their ; • <lasli and. sound military ■ methods, and that., tho. defeat. /. •' of the Austrians'; was A complete and decisive. - In' Bel- - . gium. ; great . movements of -the armies' are' reported ,t° be in progress. A large force of 75,000 has gono in the direction of ■ ■ ■ AritwOrp, the .inhabitants of which city are energetically preparing ' for an attack, while 200,000. Germans have passed through Brussels, , -■'•- moving towards Flanders. The enemy is marching on Lille, cutting •i en route. Tile occupation of Brussels is not treated seriously by .the. "Times" military correspondent, wh6 sees no tactical success ; in, ho. seizure of an unresisting citj'. The "Daily Telegraph's"- ' correspondent professes to have marked the dispositions of. the allied armies from Namur to Mons and Charleroi,'but 'in the face of the ' rigiil censorship which is being exeroised, it inconceivable .thai such • precise information could have been secured, mudh less sent.' In the North Sea the. unfair tactics of the! Germans sowing the open waters with drifting mines; has brought tragic disaster to neutral ' shipping,. - and the' British Admiralty has cautioned mariners to keep, to the waterways that have been swept clear. Japan has declared war upon Germany, and the,process of eliminating the latter from Eastern Asia • and the adjacent waters ius.nov, .commenced. The attitudeiof Italy is being studied with the keenest int.orflst, and M. Delcasse's remarks on the. influence of Italian neutrality in the/ war, read .between the V , lines, are. of. deep significance. In the midst of the international tur- ' moil comes the announcement that the aged Emperor Francis Joseph •of Austria—the supreme, factor in the precarious cohesion of that nation's diversified races—is seriously ill.