DESPEMTE FIGHTING NEAR ANTWERP

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2249, 8 September 1914, Page 5

DESPEMTE FIGHTING NEAR ANTWERP

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THE CiPTUIIE OF SAMOA

ffIEY W A PERILOUS ■ VOYAGE

Thar fog of war, apparently, has once more descended. upon the . , operations of the opposing armies- in the.vicinity of Paris. Continuous fighting is reported along the line; but the meaning of the German movement beyond Paris in a south-easterly direction is at present a ' matter of conjecture, it being designed,, according 'to one interpretation; .'.to out off theadvance of French' troops fronl the'eastward. 'A ■ brief, almost casual, reference to the capture or Reims appears in.the dffioial. news, to the Prime Minister of New Zealand. It remains to be the reduction of the fbftS outside thS city was also involved. The position of the Allies' lino is reported to'be satisfactory. have sustained a staggerihg reverse at Tefinbhde, 25 ; miles south of, Antwerp,', where bffehave operations of .considerable magnitude were frustrated by the strategy of.the Belgians- ih/ciitting the- dykes' and- flooding the country. The enemy' 6 lbssSH were very heavy; : and this the abandonment of the attack in" that . 'direction. From theKussdrAusfcrian theatre of the'.wa^'oome.furtlier.de- i<: .tails ■ of the crushing disaster which befell the Au6triaM In Galicia, of fresh'success- of this-Bußsiaiiartnies, advance-'troops"of winch; probably..contact squadrons'; have,' appeared, ill..thel passps of'.the Carpathians. TH6 Russians are now making a ,cohcerted advance into : Germany, the frontier towns of which, ai© being evacuated. In the 1 North Sea, a steamer' bound from Hull, with 300 souls oil Ward, has been struck by a ihiiie. and sunk, with ioss of life. The public of New •Zealand will read with interest the stirring narrative which we publish to-day of. the Dominion's expedition to Samoa, aii undertaking fraught with great danger by sea, with the.expectation of soihe sharp fighting at the end of the voyage. As wiii be seen; 'the attendant ■ perils' of tlie; expedition were very real; arid that, these did not take definite shape was due to the. extreme caution exercised eh route by the escorting warships, and the absence, from their immeaiatb'.vicinity ' of the eiieiny's cruisers.; ' ■ •• .