AUSTRO-GERMAN ARMIES CRUSHED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2256, 16 September 1914, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMAN ARMIES CRUSHED.

■ AMffIER GERMAN ARMY DEFEATS) /{■•^'■WHH'-HEAVY. LOSS. ' (PURSUING THE ENEMY ; ;: V IN'FRANCE , ' ALLIES''VIGOROUS OFFENSIVE ..■■ \ THE 'BATTLE OF THE MARNE. '•'■•/'■■.', •.'■■..' ■ ■ v . . ■ .■ • , ■\.- - — : ; '■■ . t . ■ ; ; ¥IYID ACCOUNTS OP THE ■: : v ' !; ■."FIGHTING. .; Like the proverbial calm after the storm there has come a lJll in > ■ the news from the, Franco-German theatre of/the war in Europe since the result of the tremendous victory at tho' Battle of the Marne, and the subsequent retreat and rout ef the Germans. "The . greatest battle in history," says the London "Times," "has been fought and won," but, adds the military, correspondent of that journal, the Allies Bavo a long task yet before them. News of this staggering blow to German military prestige has filtered through to Ger- '" many, where stupefaction and despair have taken the place of arrogant braggadocio. , Meanwhile the enemy's retreat continues. In Belgium, \he defenders of Antwerp, having accomplished a highly succeES- \ ful sortie as far as their ruined city of Lonvain, where they compelled the enemy to concentrate in large numbers, and so prevented an im.portant reinforoing move to the south, have now retired to their for- . ' tified lines once more. There is no truth, we "aTe told officially, in - the report that Russian troops are in Belgium. The centre of attrac- ■• tion just now is the campaign in the Eastern theatre. The Russians have assumed a vigorous offensive. movement in. East Prussia, and have heavily defeated'a German Army at Mlawa, in Poland, a few miles.below the , German frontier, while the/siege of Konigsberg, ,the' great fortress on the Baltic, has begun in grin? earnest. The Germans : are. reported to be hurrying troops by eea, to Memel, their furthest northern port in tho Baltic,, with a viow'to moving a force on' Tilsit, . some miles eouth, and to the east of Konigsberg. Details of the stupendous disaster which marked the culmination of the successful operations of _the Russians against "the Austro-German armies in the •vicinity, of Tomaszow 6howthat enormous captures of prisoners and / war material were made, and the Austrian armies are reported to .-■ have capitulated. In the, south, the Servians have carried their successful operations into Austria, and have occupied the whole terri- . Tory of Slavonia; A feature of the' news to-day i 6 a thrilling account of ■ the fighting at the Battle of the Marne, where, the. long-awaited counter-stroke, of the allied'armies in France was delivered with : ' crushing effect. Here'the British troops have won tho admiration of all, and the stories of the various terrific engagements which raged all along the long battlefrpnt make thrilling reading. 'V; :■■':■ \'\— __- v/ ' •■■.