CONVERGING SOUTH-EAST OF PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 5

CONVERGING SOUTH-EAST OF PARIS.

ALLIES'HE MAINTAINED

ENEMY TRAPPED IN ■BELGIUM. ,"

CAUGHT I FLOODED AREA

TTMTWE? lIWAITV WOT?'

' FIERCE FIGHTING IN V GALICIA.

' AUSTRIAN ATTACK FAILS

RUSSIANS COMMAND THE ' ;\ SITUATION.

To-day's, news from the Franco-German theatre of war reveals . practically no change in. the military situation. A big movement of the German armies is at present in operation, not towards Paris, but 'deflecting past the great fortress of Paris, in a south-easterly, direction, towards C_~JZ- ■■ The opposing armies are in contact, and the position of the allied line is reported to be well 5 maintained. From the Austrian theatre qf the war there are further particulars of the ■ fighting at the battle ; of JDemberg, the. capture of which position appears to have-been a' victory of the highest'strategical importance to j the Russian armies, for this great railway centre not only commands .: the road, .to Budapest/ but its occupation, coupled with the moral effect of the victory, lias enabled the Russians to release no fewer, thaa 20 army corps for service in German territory, leaving-10 corps to hold the Austrians. There ia a dearth. o£ news from Prussia. In Belgium active operations are taking place in ,- the vicinity of Antwerp, where a German movement is in force to cut 1 the communications of the present Belgian capital. By cutting the dykes, however, the Belgians seem to have caught the Germans in a trap, and at the time of telegraphing the enemy, waist-high in'water, were endeavouring to extricate their guns, under a heavy fire from the outermost forts of the Antwerp ring.. On the sea, events have been taking place, and the arrival at Kiel of a squadron of battered German destroyers' is made the ground of some speculation. It Js presumed that others have been sunk, but the agents of destruction, are supposed to have been the enemy's own mines. Tne loss of the British scout-cruiser Pathfinder, with, it is feared, much loss of life, is reported in a epecial message to Mr. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, but no news has been received from any other source. The warship struck a mine. The sinking of a British fleet - of fishing boats by a marauding squadron of German - destroyers and cruisers ib idso reported. At the Guildhall, in London, there has been held one of the most memorable patriotio meetings in the history of the city, and stirring, speeohes were delivered by the nation's foremost political leaders. ' . ■ . •