FORCED BACK AFTER HEAVY LOSSES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 5

FORCED BACK AFTER HEAVY LOSSES

INVASION .OF ENGLAND "POSTPONED" TURKEY'S ATTACK ON RUSSIA BLACK SEA RAID BEDOUINS INVADE EGYPTIAN ' ENEMY'S RETREAT FROM ,; ; ■ Poland ,

HARASSED BY PURSUING - . RUSSIANS '

German intrigue behind Turkish' double-shuffling in the Balkans hafi complicated .the. straight-out ■ issues' of the big European. War, 1 ; and the.shadow of the sword of Malonet now darkens the situation. Tho intriguing mischief-makers havo been at work en attempts to undermine the loyalty of those followers of Islam who have hitherto rendered amicable allegiance to the British Flag. The Viceroy of India has felt it incumbent upon him to publish- throughout the Indian Em- > pire a Communique dealing with the situation,.and- already meetings . ■ of Mohammedans have'resolved to support the British. From Egypt there is a oonfirmed report of a Bedouin invasion of the Egyptian desert. Turkey's attack.on Russia, we are told, was not delivered , axxx)rding : .-td ;the;irulesJof i'lnternat ional Law. The- Black .Sea raid was made under a Russian disguise, and under the Russian flag; tak-

ing • the, reports by and lar go, it ' seems that the Turks. ~ did considerable damage.' The Allies'. Ambassadors at the Porte have' J received their passports, and already, it is stated, the British Minister has left A message from Washington reports, a statement .that the Porte, officially, was "not aware of the raid. In Belgium the Germans • have been ceaselessly hammered baok- from the Nieuport-Dixmude-Ypres line, and now they are said to be in retreat; they are evacuating points in the vicinity of Brussels. The submarines and other significant impedimenta for an invasion of England are now lying packed in their ' transport trains at Bruges, awaiting orders, as the attack on' England has been."postponed." , In Poland the Germans, harassed by the pursuing Russians, are carrying out under immense difficulties a "deliber- '' ate and well-executed retreat," while in East Prussia the enemy , is being as steadily forced baok. Tsing-Tao,. in the Far East, has been reduced to a heap of ruins by the Allied warshipa.