GERMANS REINFORCING THEIR RIGHT-WING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANS REINFORCING THEIR RIGHT-WING

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MARSHALL ISLANDS CAPTURED REVERSE TO' SOUTH AFRICANS -TWO SQUADRONS SURRENDER The reports from: the Franco-German theatre of war to-day indicate •■' a new raovtf .by the enemy. Reinforcements are being hurried to the German Right,'which, has been manoeuvred into a desperate situation, by the energetio turning operations of tie Allies' Left Army. The iiilies' front is being rapidly extended." Very little progress is Tβ- • ported from the Aisne battlefront, where the opposing armies are desperately 'contesting the area between tie Oise and the Somme. From the' Allies' point of view, the situation is, however, satisfactory. In the eastern theatre the magnitude of the disaster -which has. overtaken the Germans in, their.battles with the Russiansj near the Poland-Prus- \ sian frontier, is attested by the futile attempts of the retreating enemy to make, a stand befoTe their pursuers, and the hurrying of reinforcements from Konigsberg, the German, stronghold on tihe Baltic. ' .From the Marshall Islands, in the Pacifio, we liave the first 'definite ■ news of the aotivity of the Japanese warships in their operations ' against the enemy in the Far Eastern waters. Jaluit, the capital of the group, has been wrested from the Germars. British ships interned there have been released, end the Japanese have destroyed the fortifications and captured the war material. Bad news , . comes from Souiih Africa, where it is apparent that very serious work lies ahead foT the troops of-ihe Union Government. .'■ Two advance 'v squadrons l of South'-Africart'/Mounted Rifles, ■ after"a fight, have surrendered to an overwhelming force of Germane. Report • ' states that the enemy in German South-West Africa is very wellor- :).,'.' ganised for a prolonged struggle; they;... have, comparatively, quite a>. .-•■" formidable equipment of ■ artillery and machine guns, and are stated to ■ be 10,000 strong. In this, the'first serious encounter in that outpost of Empire, it is Tather pleasing to note—after wha-t has happened in, : ■ Europe—that #he captured South Africans were accorded all the cour--1 tesies and honours due to a brave opponent by the victor in war.