VIOLENT ATTACKS REPULSED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 5

VIOLENT ATTACKS REPULSED

GERMANS DRIVEN BACK 30

MILES

FIGHTING ALONG THE

VISTULA

RUSSIANS CHECK GERMANS' CROSSING'

JAPANESE ATTACK' ON TSING-TAU

GERMAN SURRENDER IMMINENT

To-day's news from the Franco-Belgian theatre of the war indicates that the vigorous attack by the Allied Left Wing on the German Right north of Lille has been attended by marked success, the enemy having been driven from point to point back over a distance of 30 miles. The occupation of Ostend, which bulked large in yesterday's news, is desoribed by military opinion as having no strategic value whatever. Later Teports etate that the enemy has left, that place, ind is now moving towards France. From what is gradually leaking cut regarding the Germans' intentions in connection with their attack on Antwerp, it would Appear that their operations were designed to. effect the capture of the British and Belgian defenders, and since that coup was .not accomplished, the,result, in a military sense, was rather a fiasco. There is very little change along the Centre and Left of the ..Allies'. line in France beyond the bald but nevertheless oheering announcement that good progress is being made. In the/Russian campaign against the Austro-German line along the huge battle-front'which sketches from Galioia right up to Bast Prussia, the battle has developed on somewhat similar lines to ihe tactics employed along the Aisne. The Muscovite attack on the Austro-German line now resembles an assault on strongly-fortified field positions, where the enemy has dug himself into cover. A desperate attempt has been made by the Germans to cross the Vistula at 18 ' different points, and at each of these they have been decisively repulsed. In the Far East the Japanese invasion of Kiao-chau has now reached a point from -which a heavy and relentless hail of shells is being poured into the German defences at Tsing-Tau. Colour is given to a rumour of the enemy's capitulation by the receipt of a long cipher message from Berlin to the German Embassy at Pekin. The expectations are that the Japanese-will force a surrender to-day. The London "Times" has gravely warned the British Government of the extreme danger of adopting a mistaken Attitude of leniency towards alien subjects resident in Britain., Every alien, no matter how innocent, should be regarded with deep suspicion and treated accordingly.