ATTACK ON ALLIES FAILS COMPLETELY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2299, 5 November 1914, Page 5

ATTACK ON ALLIES FAILS COMPLETELY

TERRIFIC BATTLE ; SEVERE LOSSES' ON BOTH SIDES TURKEY'S APOLOGY "TOO LATE" TURKISH CAMEL CORPS ON ' EGYPTIAN FRONTIER WARSHIP GOEBEN 1 DAMAGED NORTH SEA SURMISE \ _ > SUBMARINE SUNK ; BY A MINE ■' Abundant testimony is fbrnished in to-day's news from tho Bel- . gian theatre of war that tho (Germans. had staked practically everything on the tremendous attack which was thrown against the Allies' line from Nieuport to Ypres, and that the result from the ' German point of view has been a terrible" fiasco, involving tremendous losses, the abandonment of important positions, and the prospect of an early i retreat to Namur, via Ghent and Brussels. Mass after mass of men were hurled at Ypros, but the British line, stood like a rock, and in the supreme hour of trial the Lonikm Scottish, with magnificent bayonet charges, saved the situation. Yn Prance, along the AisM and in the Vosges, progress has' been made, and the situation is well in hand. The Russian driving; movement in Pciand still continues, and the retreating Germans, their rearguards unceasingly lwassed by the Mus- ■ covite troops,' are appealing for reinforcements, but save for old 1 men of the Landsturm and hoys, reinforcements are as badly needed elsewhere. A message from, Petrograd assetrts that the recent German . attack at Bakalarjevo, on the East Prussian frontier; was ordered for the purpose of creating a diversion, and giving tho German Crown Prince a chance to save his face. Itl Southern Poland, near Opatow, an Austrian attack has been sharply repulsed. Turkey still occupies, for the nonce, the central position in tho war arena, for her explanations and regrets, says Russia—tho chief sufferer by the Black Sea r&id have come too late; the Porte's instant ejection of the German officers from Turkey would have been accepted, at th© time, as evidence of the Porto's sincerity in the matter of her neutrality; and, also no proposal for an apology can be entertained, which does not carry with it - a guarantee that full reparation will bo made Lit respect to the damage ' \ done in tho Black Sea raid. The German-Turkish battle-cruiser Goeben has ventured too near the guns of Sevastopol, and suffered damage, which has necessitated her return to the Bcephorus. The British '' cruiser Minerva has visited the Gulf of Akabah, shelled the port at the * . head of the gulf, and dispersed tho semblance of an organised fores • ' which was mustered in that neighbourhood. The Turkish Camel Corps has concentrated on the. frontier, and by wy of suitably im- ■ pressing the native mind, the British troops have made a route march through Cairo —a remarkable and effective demonstration it is said to have been., From representative Moslem subjects of India have come splendid expressions of loyalty to the British Crown. "The British war is a just war," says one. Baluchistan, too, haß joined in'the resolutions of .loyalty. There is no ; news from South Africa, nor from the Far East. The North Sea, infested with mines, has been closed to all but belligerent ships, and would-be trespassers bare been duly warned. Since the foregoing was written, late news brought a report of a. sortie by a German squadron in the North Sea,, the coastguard ship Halcyon being fired at. The British light cruisers were unable to compel an action before dark, and submarine PS struck one of the mines which the retreating ships scattered in their wake as they disappeared. The Allies have bombarded Dardanelles and blown up one of the forts. . ■ " • ■ ■ ' '