A GERMAN ROUT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 5

A GERMAN ROUT

GERMAN SUBMARINE RAMMED . V : JM SUM \ h—— . SMART WORK BY PATROL . . ' vessel : ; . ENEMY MOVING TROOPS IN ' BELGIUM ... <;; : ; ■ -v- . • - . v : HEAVY EiIiMCffIENTS i. . C— j:—_ • RUMOURS . OF; NAVAL SORTIE > ' To-day's war news conveys the report—stated in private messages to Petrograd—that the German offensive move on Warsaw has ; been converted by the Russians into a root. The fan of the great Russian sweep is spreading outward south of Galicia, and onward tpwardß the . .Warta River, yln the Franco-Belgian theatre the advent of the winter snow has restricted trench-digging, and made, the deployments ■of troops against the background of the white mantle' difficult and perilous, iso much bo that the commanders hesitate to unnecessarily sacrifice their, men. According to the reports, the German Transport Department is working overtime conveying large bodies of troops up to the front eastward of Brussels, indicating some new move. Naval activity at Port Emden is reported from' the north of Holland, the in- . dications suggesting preparations for a definite stroke by the naval staS, aotjng in conjunction with a fresh offensive by the land troops.. There is soanty news from the near East': the Turks have incontinently fled from the Persian Gulf; a plot has been discovered against - the life of the Sultan; and the pulse and temperature of the neutral : Balkan States seems to point to a definite rapprochement with the Triple Entente Powers-in the near futare, Italy, has just decided on ' cv big addition to her expenditure in the army and navy, and has also voted £250,000 towards the oost of a strategio railway near the . Austrian border. In South Africa de Wet has been hotly pursued by , •motor-car, but he is still at large. From the sea comes news of dis- ; 'fleet;'"'"'A submarine has been rammed and sunk by. a British patrol vessel off the north Qf Scotland,' and a torpedoboat destroyer, bearing along at full speed, .without lights has been ■jp 6 steamer.