TREMENDOUS ASSAULT ON ALLIES LINE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2306, 13 November 1914, Page 5

TREMENDOUS ASSAULT ON ALLIES LINE

• GERMANS TAKE DIMUDE AUSTRIAN ARMY MUST FIGHT RUSSIANS OR CAPITULATE BRITISH TORPEDO GUNBOAT SUM I THE DOWNS BY GERMAN SUBMARINE

PATHANS , TERRIBLE' NIGHT •' ATTACK

The war news to-day marks the development of great .events, of deep significance to the military operations in Belgium, France, and in the Eastern theatre. In Belgium the German aimy, heavily reinforced to a etrength, it is estimated, of over four million men, is making a desperate assault on the Allied line from Nieuport to the Lys, and by sheer weight of numbers has taken Dixmude, although they have not been able to wrest the approaches from the Allies. Elsewhere along the battlefront the situation is little changed, the fighting being in favour of the Allies. In the eastern theatre Russian strategy- has forced the Austriani army into a position from which retreat is impossible—it is now a decisive battle, or capitulation. Another important movement by a Russian army marching towards Silesia has re-' suited in the envelopment of the Gorman Right Wing. Read in conjunction with a correspondent's description of the Russian advance after Ihe battle of Warsaw, the whole aspect of the Muscovite operations reflects a brilliantly conceived and highly successful plan of campaign. There is little to report from the Near East, save an account of the hopeless disorganisation of the Turkish Army,'and significant' enti-' German demonstrations in Constantinople. The fate of the Emden is the subject of further rejoicings and felicitations, and a pleasant note is struck in.the Admiralty's directions that the raider's captain- and his officers are to be accorded tho full honours of war, and that their swords are to be returned to them. There is much gratification that the commander of the raider Bas escaped unhurt—a characteristically British acknowledgment of the prowess of a gallant enemy. The small torpedo-gunboat Niger has been attacked in the Downs, two miles off the Kentish coast, by a German submarine, and sunk, with, it is thought, no loss of life. Amongst the thousands of spectators who witnessed the affair from the shore this impressive glimpse of the realities of war caused the greatest excitement. The cruiser hunt in the South Pacific ie growing hot, and the latest newe tells of the sight of a squadron of Japanese battleships off Honolulu, headed for the scene of the recent fight off Valparaiso.