GERMAN TIDE STEMMED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 2 September 1914, Page 5

GERMAN TIDE STEMMED

FRENCH JUNE' ASSUMES THE OFFENSIVE

CRITICAL PHASE OF THE: CAMPAIGN .

ANNIVERSARY OF SEDAN

DESPERATE ATTACK BY THE AUSTRIANS

RUSSIANS INFLICT TERRIBLE LOSSES

GATHERING STORM IN THE ■:■'-"' 'BALKANS .

TURKEY'S DESIGNS ON GREECE,

STERN: HINT FROM. BRITAIN

GERMAN MINE-LAYER CAUGHT RED-HANDED

. ~ ..{Ehara hasbeen, we are told, a remarkable of war news Wednesday, indicating an apparent lull in the fighting. Taking fc line through' the various statements in the reports from the theatre of the "Franco-German operations to-day, and balancing the probabilities in the light of recent events, the impression forces itself upon the flaind that the aspect of the campaign in that region has undergone & distinct change in favour of the Allies. A diplomat of a neutral nation has suggested that the Germans have abandoned the. Belgian line of attack, and that much depends upon the determination of cer■tain issues at present being desperately . contended—issues fraught with deep significance to the capital cities of France', Germany, and Austria, TheFrenoh are reported to have again assumed the .offensive, their ranks being now reinforced at all points, while the German 'Army, incontestably stricken by-the huge losses of the past week, is laid to.be Tetreating. As a set-off to this latter report comes a statement that the German* are waiting to celebrate the anniversary of Sedan in fitting stylo, and that on advance in force is at present in progress near Rocroy, north of Charleville, and almost on the frontier. The Kaiser has hysterically ordered Ms Germans to get to Paris or <Kel In the Russo-Austrian theatre of war a desperate attempt has been made to turn the Russian flank at Lublin, in Russian Poland, but tho Austrians have been thrown back with' appalling loss. Lemberg, a stronghold ,of great Btrategio importance in Austrian Poland, is heavily invested by the Russians. Reports of Turkish double-shuffling over the neutrality question, and rumours of a probable: declaration' of war against Greece, indicate a new storm centre, with the shadow of a third Balkan war being waged between the Turk on the one side and the 'Allied Balkan States, fighting for the Entente, on the other. Turkey has received a plain warning : that if she attempts to make trouble of this kind, the Ottoman Empire,, in effect, will be wiped off the map of Europe once ajid for all. There is no news from the sea, save the welcome intelligence that a British cruiser has caught a German mine-laying trawler red-handed, and at three minutes' notice sent the skulking death-dealer to the bottom, There, is also a report, which lacks pffioial confirmation, that the German cruiser Leipzig, in Pacifio waters, has been captured. .