BRITISH SUBMARINE'S EXPLOIT
TWO DESTROYERS TORPEDOED
; : ADVANCE OF ALLIES ■ BRIGHTER OUTLOOK IN FRANCE SIEGE: OF ANTWERP REPULSE OF THE GERMANS The news all round to-day is most encouraging and inspiring. In France the situation along the huge battle front is very little changed, but there is': evidence that the Germans are in desperate case. The flanking operations of the Allies'- Left has compelled the enemy to detach heavy reinforcements from along the line to stiffen the defences : on his Right which is still being' steadily pressed by the Allies. In Belgium the Germans have been sharply checked around Antwerp, and the Belgian artillery has done particularly effective work. The shadow of great events -lies across the eastern where the Germans are preparing to'offer a desperate resistance to the steady and hitherto irresistible march of the Russians. The presence of the Tsar at the front is taken as an. indication th at a tremendous development in the / situation is about to.take placed From the sea there has come good news. The British Submarine E9—the hero of the 'sinking of the ■ German cruiser Helar-has gained fresh laurels by a successful raid in the River Ems, where two of the enemy's destroyers were torpedoed, one being sunk and the. other badly damaged. The enemy'has lost in all ten warships—three in Siao-chau Bay, six in the Adriatic, and one in the River Emß. '■-,'.-■. •'
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2276, 9 October 1914, Page 5
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229BRITISH SUBMARINE'S EXPLOIT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2276, 9 October 1914, Page 5
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