MARITZ DEFEATED IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2292, 28 October 1914, Page 5

MARITZ DEFEATED IN SOUTH AFRICA

'According to the news from Bel gium to-clay the greatest violence of the fighting along the NieuporUKxmude-Lille line has been concentrated around Roulers, which has been recccupied by the Germans, who appear to have vented their exasperation on the unfortunate citi- . Zens in a vory callous and brutal way. The enemy effected a crossing over the Yser, and thence developed a heavy attack towards the eouth. The Allies gained ground at Nieuport, and westward and southward of Lille the enemy's attacks have been repulsed. Progress has been made in the Soissons and Craonri© districts, while in the Woeuvre district the Allies' heavy artillery dominates the ThiancourtBainville Road, one of the enemy's principal lines of communication towards St. Mihiel. Another meesage—from a. German source this time—paints the situation of the German armies in Belgium in a brighter colour, and amongst the assertions put forward is one that the British warships were forced to. proceed eight miles from the coast by the enemy's return fire to the bombardment. In the Eastern theatre the Russians are reported to have completely turned the Austrian right wing, and, it is stated, "the Germans are demoralised." Lodz, an important centre south-west of Warsaw, has been evacuated by the Germane.' In South Africa Maritz and his renegade followers have been met and defeated, the traitor escaping into German territory. The Press Bureau has sharply • challenged the London correspondent of a Now- York paper to substantiate or withdraw an assertion made by him that the British censorship was deliberately concealing news of German successes, in order to influence opinion in the United States.