HUGE BATTLE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2282, 16 October 1914, Page 5

HUGE BATTLE FRONT

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■'■'■■ ' ■ :: .'' ' i". ■ ■'» ' ' ■'.'.■■ .' '■ 'i' ■ ■~" ~ "~" ■■: • . '■ • ■'•■" ■'.:' '.■:''■ ■■:'.' ■ ■ . . • • ■TREASON IN-SOUTH AFRICA' BOMBARDMENT. OF PAPEETE\ The news from the various theatres of the great war to-day is of ' absorbing interest. The Germans are massing a great army in Belgium, and indications point,to a tremendoue conflict between tho allied • British, French, and Belgian troops in that battle-scarred region. No developments of importance, beyond tho usual formal statement of the progress of tho Allies, are.reported from the battle-front in France. In the Eastern theatre, along a tremendous battle-front, the Russian .'■ Armies are now face to face with the Austrians and- the Germans, and in, the initial encounters of what appears to be the opening of a terrific battle, the honours- have gone to the Russians. Austria .'is roported to be massing .a large and powerful army on' the Servian border. The sound of heavy cannonading ' in the 1 Black. Sea , has given currency tea, report that the German battle-cruiser Goeben and tho cruiser Breslau • —which'were'chased into the neutral port of Constantinople early in the war—hare engaged the Russian Black Sea fleet. ' Thie news, if true, provides a starting-point for interesting speculations'with regard to Turkey's professed neutrality in the war. From Portugal ■comes the news that mobilisation has been ordered, and that the Ger- : '.' A' man Embassy has gone.to Madrid, but as. to the reason thereis not a word. In. South , Africa the sensational unmasking of Colonel Maritz's treachery has been followed by an impressive demon6tration;of loyalty throughout the Union, and Hertzog's party have 1 mado it: quite dear that they "draw the line at treason." The discovery of Mantz's , treachery haa incidentally revealed an extensive and : deep-seated plan of espionage and corruption by the German authorities to undermine British influence in South .Africa, and several prominent men • are said to be implicated. The accounts of the bombard- ■ mont of Papeetej) in Tahiti, obtained .on the arrival of the Union liner Matai, in Wellington, will be read with interest. . ■