DISASTER TO GERMAN DIVISIONS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 1 September 1914, Page 5

DISASTER TO GERMAN DIVISIONS

t / ■ : .' ALLIES ARMED AT ALL POINTS ENEMY'S NEW MOVE GItEAT BATTLE RAGING. 3 . y BASING CUTTING OUT BY DESTROYERS STIRRING SEA FIGHT. . FIRE AND SWORD IN. PRUSSIA : ' \ .. .. .u . ■ • . . I . - RUSSIANS SWEEP TEOUGH GERMANY SAMOA SURRENDERS . /NEW ZEALANDERS LAND AT" APIA Today's flews from the Franco-German theatre of war indicates • that the operations of the Gerinans oa the one Bide, and the allied; forces of Britain and France on the other, have now reached an im- : portant and extremely oritioal phase. . After jt protracted series of desperate battles fraught, with frightful carnage in the ranks of the Germans, the main army of invaders has been manoeuvred into what appears to be |a most difficult position. The allied troops, following Spoil BUoCeSslve retirements from ona defensive position to the other —always after inflicting heavy losses upon the Germans l —are now : , \ standing fast, their offensive points of contact being- everywhere BUp« ■ ported by/Btwng flank positions, and the'whole constituting a formation extremely diffloult to approach, and most effcotive in attack, The Germans, bommitGed to .the offensive, must attack, and the issue of this'latest battle, foiight'from all fippeapßces'under'tHe'bfestauspices"'' 1 ' that the allied armies have' as yet encountered, will be awaited witlr / . interest. The Russians in the eastern'theatre are carrying fire and • sword an front of many niiles, and the appearance of fugitive inhabitants in the vicinity of the German capital is oreating Uneasiness. The steady and apparently irresistible march of the Russians through Germany is being emulated by the Russian aimies in the Austrian theatre, .where the. indications point to the complete humiliation of Austria' if the Russian advance is maintained at its present rate, for not only is the Austrian resistance■ apparently inef- . feotive, but that nation is racked with increasing dissension within its borders, trom the North Sea corned a stirring story of the gallant dash by he British destroyers off the German coast, and of the complete success of Admiral Jellicoe's strategy in manoeuvring his big oruisers into the action at the psychological moment for the final coup. In New Zealand 'all curiosity concerning the doings of the advance party of the Dominion's Expeditionary Force has at last been grati- , fied. German Samoa has surrendered to the British Navy, and the New Zaalandera, after a circuitous voyage, have landed at Apia safe •and sound. _ -