KONIGSBERG BOTTLED UP

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 5

KONIGSBERG BOTTLED UP

HOW THE EMDEN MET . : . HER FATE STORY OF RAIDER'S LAST FIGHT RUSSIANS INVADE .PRUSSIA SEVERE FIGHTING I FRANCE : - .-■■■'. •. 'I GERMANS RETREATING IN BELGIUM From both land,and sea, to-day's news of the war makes a most interesting budget. The story of the Emden's last fight iB graphically told. With fast oruisers of three nations searching nigh and low for her, she duded capture until tricked by a simple ruse. The cable »and wireless station at the Cocos Islands was purposely left unguarded; the raider made a dish to destroy the communications, and was caught in the act by the Sydney and smashed up, with the loss of 200 killed and 30 wounded. The news of the raider's end has thrilled the whole Empire—and the war insurance rates have dropped. Another raider, |the Konigsberg—which sank the old Pegasus at Zanzibar—has been bounded up by the British oruiser Chatham, bombarded, and effective|ly bottled up by sinking coal vessels at the mouth of the river in which' she had hidden, six miles up, screened by dense vegetation. The Pacifio and Indian Oceans are now clear of the enemy, and there remains now . (the South Atlantic—the Scharnhorst, Gneisehau, Karlsruhe, and Company—upon whioh a fermidable fleet is converging. On land '.the armies of the Allies are making slow but effective progress. 'Unmistakable signs of a German retirement eastward in Belgium are everywhere apparent,' but fighting is still proceeding in the vioinity of Ypres, while further south in the region containing Arras, Peronne, ' ' and other important positions the fighting appears to be particularly severe. ' Despite repeated attacks along the line, the Allies have maintained their position, and advanced a Kttle here and there. In tho ' Eastern theatre the great wave of the Russian advance has flowed over the Polish frontier into East Prussia, and is now advancing into , the interior, while to the south, in Qalicia, there is reported to be taking place'a heavy concentration of Russian troops upon Przemysl.' • The battle elan of the Russians is excellent, while .that of the enemy -■ has "been numbed by repeated disasters and continued hardships and" privations; From the Near East there has come very little news'. : A battle has taken place between the Russians and the Turks east of Erzerum, where a Turkish attempt to outflank the army of tho Caucasus was sharply repulsed. Turkish troops are reported to have orossed the Egyptian frontier. In England . a strong effort is being made to rouse the male publio to a sense of its duty in regard to reoruitdng, and the "Morning Post" has urged the supporters of'the present voluntary system to "put their shoulders to the wheel," else— British conscription must come. ■-..."■