GERMANY "HAS.GAMBLED AND LOST"

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

GERMANY "HAS.GAMBLED AND LOST"

BETWEEN TWO FIRES BANKRUPTCY OF PRUSSIAN STRATEGY ■ ■ * ' ■. «——— ■ y :■'■'■■ ■ . ByTelejrapi—Piws imoelation-O&pyrielrt ' • London, November' 16. The military correspondent of ."The Timep" saye: "The situation is becoming terrible for Germany. She has gambled for a great sueceßs in the West —and lost. She scarce dares go back, because the x bankruptcy of tie Prussians' strategy would! be laid bare to the whole world. Yet it will not avail lier to hold part of Belgium when Silesia and East Prussia are overrun and the German Empire ie strioken at her heart."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" SerW0 . _ •, ■ _ Paris, November 16. A! communique states: "The enemy's efforts during the past few days resulted in nothing hut the re-taking of ruined pixmude,u whose isolated poeition renders its defence difficult. .Yesterday things .were'"quiet, except northeast and south of Ypres, where we repulsed several attacks, with heavy German losses." . ■. '■'■:' FOUR AND A HALF MILLION GERMANS MOBILISED, , ■'.'•■■ '(Rec. November 16, 5.15 p.m.) . London, November 15. A! Berlin offioial message states that four and a half million men are now mobilised, including five thousand volunteers over forty-five years of age.-r ("Times" : and Sydney. "Sun"- Services."). THE BOTTLED-UP GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET, (••Iteice" sad Sydney "Sun." Serricw.) (Reo. November 16, 5;15 p.m.) •■■'■■(.■ London, November 15. '"The , Times" military correspondent, commenting upon the unusual activity in the Kiel Canali says: "The hour mustsurely strike when the fleet must put out to sea and carry out, if it can, some desperate enterprise, with the probable co-operation of the Army. ■; \ KAISER'S DESIGNS ON CALAIS. • i , CReo. "November 16, 5.16 p.m.) . London, November 15. German officcre deolare that tie Kaiser is determined to instal eight 24inch guns at Calais, as a preliminary to the invasion of England.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ENEMY THROWN BACK FROM THE YSER.CANAL', . . (Reo. November 16, 10.40 p.m.) • • ■ Paris, Sunday, midnight, Official.—The most noteworthy incident of the day was the throwing back" of the enemy from the right bank of the Yser Canal. ■ The enemy evacuated the remaining portion of the left bank, and unsuccessfully attempted an offensive movement southward of Ypree. HAVOC IN GERMAN ELITE CORPS. (Reo. November 16, 11.55 p.m.) Paris, November 16. One hundred and twenty Germans, who were captured on Saturday, constituted the residue of the battalion which assaulted the Allied trenches that morning. Several companies, noatbly the Prussian Guards and the B/varian Second Corps, which were at fuU war strength in the beginning of November, were depleted by half. , " ■• BREAKDOWN OF GERMAN MEDICAL CORPS. • ' (Rec. November 17, 0.30 a.m.)'London, November 16. Rotterdam newspapers announce that many train-loads of wounded are DassinE towards Germany from the Western front. It is reported that the German Medical Corps has broken down under the strain, and that an appeal has been made for Dutch doctors to attend seven hundred patients in a frontier town where there is only one doctor, with a studont. BERLIN'S OFFICIAL REVIEW OF EVENTS. . , (Rec. Novembor 17, 0.30 a.m.) , London, November 16. An official message from Berlin says that "our insignificant progress on the Right Wing is due to the unfavourable weather), the fighting en the East Prussian frostier and In Ruaman I'olaud was indecisive,"

THE GREAT BATTLE OF YPRES

INDESCRIBABLE SUFFERINGS OF THE GERMANS.

The "Daily Mail's" Calais correspondent, describing a bayonet fight in the wood near Yprcs, says;—" Every man who held,his ground was killed. The ground was strewn with forms in every attitudes-twisted iij horrible grotesqueness by the waning light._ It is almost inconceivable that men could endure what the Gentians endured in these bayonet charges. Their losses were over fifty to one. They fought with little hopo and no enthusiasm. "The battle of Ypres for us has been the battle of the war. The 'Allies gained a few miles, at great losses, but for the enemy it has been a deathblow beyond reckoning. In fog, rain, and .snow; tbo Germans have been fighting hopelessly in Flanders; those untouched by bullets or the bayonet dying of hunger and exposure. The southern march from the coast to Ypres continues in a severe snowstorm."