YSER CANAL LINE CLEAR OF THE ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 5

YSER CANAL LINE CLEAR OF THE ENEMY

\ ELITE CORPS CUT UP ; RUSSIAN WAVE FLOWS ONWARD TURKISH FORT SHELLED WORKS DESTROYED TO. INDIAN TROOPS '

!A's dey follows day the situation of the , German [Armies operating in the Franco-Belgian theatre of thenar grows Steadily worse. Baulked of'their desperate attempt to reach Calais, they turned their attentipi towards Ypres, upon which the whole of their elite corpa was hurled. To-day's news tells of their unavailing attempt to gain a footing along the Yser Canal; they Lave been driven off the right, bank, and have evacuated the' left. There is no news from the Argonne 'districtj the Aiflhe, or Alsace;; In the Eastern theatre the Russian Armies, operating along a huge front extending iiop a northern' point in East Prussia right along to Cracow, in Galicia, have slowly iand steadily advanced their line. The withdrawal of Russian troop 3 from Finland is an important item, indicating confidence in the improbability of a Swedish invasion'upon the unprotected territory. In Austria there is a grdwing fear of the Russian advance; Vienna is being put:in a state of defence, supplies are scarce, and there is talk of discarding Germany and making peace with the Allies. Of the military and naval operations in the Near Eastern, theatre there is little.to report beyond the bombardment of the Turkish forts at Cape. Bab-el-Mandeb, and their subsequent destruction by a landing force of Indian troops, and the Russian operations in Asia Minor, where the advance is being met by obstinate resistance from the Turks, who have been reinforced. News from the sea is scanty. A German submarine is reported to have bkeen Tammed and sunk by a French tor-pedo-boat. From -the Paoifio Ocean there is a breif reference to the ■movement* of the German Bguadron, indicating their Tecent whereaboute, ;■'■,. ■ : /