CITY BESIEGED BY THE RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 5

CITY BESIEGED BY THE RUSSIANS

FUGITIVES POURING INTO BERLI BATTLE IN BELGIUM ENEMTS DESPERATE EFFORT TO REACH THE COAST 1 CHILIAN' SEA FIGHT CRUISER GLASGOW'S NARRATIVE OF \ • THE' BATTLE ' BRITISH WAR BUDGET

■Two great; battles are raging: ono in Belgium; where a tremendous effort is being made by the Germans to gain a position on the coast, and the other-in Poland, where the Russian Left Wing has been called on to hold in <jheck a vigorous offensive movement by the Germans., Further south, Cracow has been invested by the Russians, part of the city is on fire, and thousands of fugitives are streaming a into. Berlin and the smaller towns along thiit line. The Germans who >- were previously said to have >been retreating from Poland, destroying bridges. 'and ', ; other communications as they went, have succeeded, apparently, iu delaying the Russian advance for sufficient iiine to enable their scattered units -to concentrate, bjv. means of the German railway transport, upon fresh points of attack along the Russian Left. The area between the ■ iVistula and the Warta is the scene of severe fighting. The silence laid upon the Austrian operations in Servia by the censor has been . drawn aside to'permit of a glimpsa of the cbnditioii of affairs there. . From the sea we, learn of the visit of' the cruiser Glasgow to the ; Chilean port of Valparaiso. This cruiser was in the recent sea fightj and' the ehort-account of the action, written by her , oommander, 'will be read with"," interest. From the Near East we hear of the de..vfeat of the Turkish and Kurdish troops in Asia Minor, and of Bri- '•'■'■ HA. operations in the Persian. Gulf.; ' : ' ■ ' ;