FOUR BATTLES IN ONE WEEK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 5

FOUR BATTLES IN ONE WEEK

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MORE ;GRQUM) GAINED

, .RUSSIAN '..CRUISER:; SUNK

ATTACKED BY : GERMAN SUBMARINE

DARING AIR RAID

BOMBS /DROPPED ITO COLOGNE

DUTCff FORTIFY FLUSHING

The news from, the French theatre of war to-day is most encouraging.- On the Allies' extreme Left and in,the' Roye district, valuable ground has been gained. In one week.four distinct battles have' been fought, the dashing advance of the Franco-British troops culminating in a. surprise attack on Bray, the discomfited enemy being put to flight over several miles... The great Battle.of the Aisne has ended— without anyone being awaTe of it, and the pressure of the Allies upon the German battle-front now extends westward from the sea in Belgium to Lille( southward down to Compiegne, in France, and eastward to Verdun, like the letter "Z." Messages fsom London, indicate that some only of the forts around Antwerp have been reduced by the Germans. The fire of the Belgian defenders of the forte on the Scheldt is still being maintained. The situation at the moment is considerably exercising the minds of the Dutch, who are construoting... defences ," at Flushing, and in, general,,; adopt-., ing "an attitude' betokening deep distrust of ■ the Germane. _' .There is no news from the Eastern theatre. ■ A Russian cruiser has •been sunk by. a German .submarine in the Baltic..' Tho airmen'have ■ been busy. There has been a dashing raid by British aeroplanes operating from Antwerp into German territory, while the enemy's airmen are reported to have reappeared above Paris, and dropped bombs into the city. In the Far East the Japanese have silenced another of the Tsing-Tao forts. .General Botha, the South. African Premier aid Commander-in-Cnief jai the Union Army operating against the enemy, in German South-West Africa,-has accepted the services of aßho'desian field force as an earnest of hie desire to embrace all British South Africa, in common cause against tie German's. The Navua, from Samoa, has'brought an interesting budget of news from Apia, where the New.Zealand garrison had the monotony of their routine unexpectedly broken by the -sudden appearance of ■ the German cruisers Schainnorst and Gneisenaii. The Visit was of brief duration, and involved no fighting. Certain German planters were caught communicating with the enemy, and in the circumstances treated by the authorities with a degree of toleration amounting almost to. a casual indifference '■■ to the gravity of their offence—an act of espionage which in .the European theatre of war would have meant ve,ry short shrift indeed, .. . v . % :