GERMAN TURNING MOVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 5

GERMAN TURNING MOVEMENT

INVADERS' ATTACK - WEAKENS

FRANCO-BRITISH -LINE UNBROKEN

ENEMY HARRIED DAY & NIGHT

AUSTRIAN FORCE CRUSHED V

RUSSIANS CAPTURE 30,000 PRISONERS.

PRUSSIAN FUGITIVES IN BERLIN

FLEEING FROM THE COSSACKS.

From the news which we publish today of the operations in the {Franco-German theatre of war, it will be seen that the time has not yet arrived for 'the delivery of the Allies' counter-stroke to the Gertaari advance towards Paris. Arrangements are in train for the transfer of the seat of Government from Paris to Tours, and thence, Bhould'occasion •warrant, to Bordeaux; the Allied . line, x advancing fyere, retiring there, is elowly giving ground on. the left, pressed i back by the sheer momentum of the German massed battalions, but the line is not broken, and in that most important circumstance we are told lies the fullest justification for the strategy which the v , France-British War Staff has deemed best fitted to cope with and ultimately destroy the invading host. The army whioh.,, can last a quarter of an hour longer than its opponent is the -.victor—flays a. Japanese General—and in that last quarter .of : supreme tension Armageddon will Be foughti » -Meanwhile,' it iff - femphasised,. the course of events is in accord with the policy laid down. To-day's news firom Galicia shows that the Russians have in- . flioted a tremendous and overwhelming defeat upon the Austrian army there; their right wing crumpled up, their morale shaken, and their line broken, the retreat became a rout, with appalling slaugh- 1 ler and the capture of an enormous number of prisoners and many guns. Lemberg is now tottering .to its fall. A veiled reference suggests a check'to the Russians operating'in Prussia, but, it is pointed out, the reverse was purely local, due to the sudden descent of over-, whelming reinforcements of Germans upon a smaller Russian force, and in no way -prejudicial to the main operations, or retarding the advanoe. Evidence of the latter is shown in the appearance in Berlin of thousands of panic-strioken fugitives-from Prussia. In the Balkans ■ Turkey has received a stern warning from Rumania against adopting 8 policy of adventure, while in the Far East Japan, with quiet persistence, is preparing her plans for the subjection of the Germans at. Kiao-Ohau; seven' islands in the vicinity have been occupied, and over one thousand mines have been netted by sweeping the waters of the bay. , ■ The latest news, which arrived just before we went to press, shows, ithat the policy of tiring 'out the Germans is being successfully pursued. The invaders axe harried and harassed, night and day by the British, Frenoh, and Belgians.