SLOW FIGHTING IN FLOODED COWRY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2310, 18 November 1914, Page 5

SLOW FIGHTING IN FLOODED COWRY

BRITISH BAYONET CHARGE ' "FOR HONOUR'AND ENGLAND!" ROUT 'OF THE PRUSSIAN GUARDS GUERRILLA WARFARE I EAST • Prussia ; , GERMAN PROCLAMATION

The severity of the weather in Europe is hampering the military operations in the Franco-Belgian theatre of the war. One message to? day 6tates that the Allies have resumed the offensive, while a later dispatch states that "the situation is unchanged." Still another reports that a big German force has been' cut off from its supports by the flood waters. There 6eems to have been a spell of terrific weather, for an important railway bridge in the German line of communications from Ghent to Brussels has been destroyed by the floods. From the battle frorit along the Aisne and in Alsace there is no news at all. In East Prussia, the Russians are tenaciously fighting what appears to be a determined attempt by the Germans to stem the invading tide; a German official account states that the Russian have been hurled back, with the loss of many men and guns. H the southern districts - the Russians busily destroying the fortified' works at Przemysl, while the German colony at Cracow is fleeing to Breslau and Berlin. ' A startling item is the report that the Germans have issued a proclamation inviting tho civil population of East Prussia to take up their arms and wage a guerilla war upon the Russians. Important operations are apparently being carried out by the Servians. A message from Nish (the present capital of Servia) advises that during the progress of certain strategical movements no news of the operations will be given for a few days. There is a graphic account of the great* stand made by the British line at Ypres, in the face of desperate odds, of a gallant and dashing bayonet charge, and of the subsequent rout of the Kaiser's elite troops— the Prussian Guard—with heavy losses. In South Africa there is a rumour—nothing more—that General Hertzog has been made a prisoner by the rebel leader De Wet. Tsing-tao, in the Far East, is now being governed by the Japanese, under a military administration. From the sea there is little to report. The British" battleship Canopus, sent by the Admiralty to reinforce Admiral Oradock's fleet in the South Atlantic, ami at first thought to have been concerned in the recent sea fight, off Valparaiso, is now believed to be safe. A British armed merchantman is reported overdue, and surmise points to an engagement with a German armed liner, which has not been heard of for some time.