LOSSES 12,000

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2279, 13 October 1914, Page 5

LOSSES 12,000

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f. To-day's news from the seat of-war is significant of big events in the near future. The evacuation of Antwerp,' with the attendant horrors of the fierce and devastating bombardment by'the German siege artillery, is the subject of vivid descriptions by correspondents who witnessed the horrors of the terrible ordeal,'and for the moment has arrested the^atten^iph'of. the public. 'What has been a ghastly . calahiity for the already sorely-stricken Eelgian nation is,'however, .-. ' iiut Sn incident in'the vast theatre of the gre'at European conflict. The ''Daily Mail's"..correspbndent supplies details; of a signal success by the Allies at Arras, in France, where the Germans were, 'heavily, defeated* with the loss 12*000; and driven! back ' thirteen iniles. The' lull.' in the fighting elsewhere along the line is interpreted as -a- : prelude to a general, advance, possibly timedl. to coincide with a big move by the Russian' armies ih,the eastern theatre. The'official'account of the Allies' operations, along the long - battlefront in France t . .■' recites the progress made, during last week,- and makes interesting t heading. A Warsaw, newspaper, has published the Kaiser's most recant proclamation to the Eastern Army, a proclamation whioh is hdthih'g more nor less than a blasphemous association of 'the Almighty with his. own Imperial mana. . ■.- ;.•' . .''