GOVERNMENT PLEADS INNOCENCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 5

GOVERNMENT PLEADS INNOCENCE

RAIDER KARLSRUHE AGAIN ; ' • ■ ■ • '■'•.'.' ,■ . * ■•. . To-day's news from the Allies' battlefront in Belgium and- ■ France indicates that renewed and extremely determined attacks , have been hurled against the line by the Germans. Messines, south of Ypres, has been lost by the Allies, but at all other points the line "', has been resolutely held, and in some cases fresh progress made. The , fighting round Ypres • has been terrific in violence,' and attended by heavy casualties to the enemy, who appear:also to be losing large numbers by wholesale surrenders of dispirited, Woodless, and worn-out men. • An Amsterdam message conveys a report from Copenhagen of a meeting of the German War Council, .with the Kaiser at the head of the board and leßser.Kingß of the Empire in attendance,' and its resolu- , ". tion—the north , coast of France to be held at all costs. Turkey's attack on Russia would fceom to have been suddenly and mysteriously arrested in its course, for no news oi further hostilities has come through. Instead, it is reported that the Turkish Grand Vizier/ ••■ ,with tears in his eyes, has protested his Government's innocence of the Black Sea raid, and here, for the present, the matter rests. The great Russian drive in Poland has pushed the Austro-German 'line ' ■back to the Warta River 1 , at the rate of 15 miles per day Bhice the Vistula battles,- and the enemy is now within sight of his own iron- . tier. From further north, in East Prussia, come details of/severe fighting ,at Bukalarjevo, on the East Prussian frontier, a few miles ;': -west' of Suwalki,where the Germans seem to have sustained ter- ..-,"( rible losses, while the rigours of the climate in those severe latitudes,'and insufficient' clothing, add to the desperateness • of the : ■ ',] enemy's.situation.-. In South Africa there is, evidence that the rebellion engineered by the Germans and fostered by,De Wet and. Bey• : ers is being successfully grappled ■ with. An armistice has been ar- , ranged, and in the interim a deputation of. influential Dutchmen are to interview'De Wot.