ALLIES GAIN FRESH GROUND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2262, 23 September 1914, Page 5

ALLIES GAIN FRESH GROUND

M FIGHT ON THE AISNE NATAL- BATTLE IN. THE BALTIC RUSSIAN WARSHIPS DAMAGED GERMAN CRUISER RAIDS THE INDIAN OCEAN BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK The terrific battle between the 'Allies and the Germans along- the sUsne Valley has now raged for over.a week, and as yet the severity of the oonfliot shows no sign of abating. The odds of the battle aTe in favour of the Allies, who are slowly pressing back the invaders' line, inflicting terrible carnage in the enemy's ranks by the decimating fire of their artillery. More, rapid advance is being made on the fight and left, but the progress of the operations right along the line is much hampered by tho rain. In Belgium the concentration of German troops around Brussels has revived the expectation of a siege of Antwerp, which city is making elaborate preparations for a long resistance. In the Eastern theatre the Germans are preparing to make adesperate stand against the Russian attack on- Przemysl, the great 'Austrian fortress west of Lemberg. Three' German anny corps hare been detailed to co-operate with the Austrians in challenging the " march of the Muscovite army on this important strategic position, with orders to defend'it to the last man. The round of terrific oannonad- . ing in the Baltic, coupled with the arrival at Helsingfors, a Russian base in the Gulf of Finland, of several Russian warships in a damaged condition, points to a naval engagement of some importance having taken place. The Gorman cruiser Emden, reported some little time ago to have been sunk in the Far East, has made an unexpected ajipearance in the Indian Ooean, and raided the trading' l ' routes' to such" "'" ' purpose that seven British ships we're captured, six of- which were -.. eunk. She was last heard of in Rangoon. Off tho east coast of South 'America, the British merchantman Carmania (well remembered as the Cunard liner that rendered such valuable assistance to the burning iVolturno in mid-Atlantic last year) has engaged and sunk a German merchant cr jiser-r-whether the Berlin or the Capo Trafalgar is not yet oertauV-but'not without loss of life during what must have been a hot