BETWEEN THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 5

BETWEEN THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL

GERMAN ARMY TIED UP BY THE ALLIES PERIL OF THE EASTERN PROVINCES London, November 30. Field-Marshal Sir John French's dispatch further states that the bearing of the Territorials, of whom there were six battalions and five cavalry regiments from England, realised the highest expectations. He again pays tribute to the resource and initiative of the Indians in repulsing superior forces. Their behaviour in their new surroundings was highly satisfactory. . Sir John French adda: "The value and significance of the Allies' role in the West lies in the fact that at the moment when Germany's eastern provinces are in imminent danger of invasion, nearly the whole of her aotive army is tied up in 260 miles of trenches, from Verdun to Nieuport, where they are now held, much reduced in numbers and morale by the success of our troops."-

BRITISH STRATECY REVIEWED, ENORMOUS RISKS OF THE MOVE • TO FLANDERS.' London, November 80. The newspapers point out that Sir John French took an enormous risk in ordering the First Army Corps to Thourout, via Ypres, but undoubtedly he saved Calais arid tho Channel ports. They emphasise the fact that General Ifaig's original instructions to capture Bruges and, if possible, Ghent, showed that Germany's enormous reinforcements were imperfectly realised at that stage. General Haig never reached those cities; nevertheless he held the line .before Ypres against terrific odds until General Joffre was able to reinforce him strongly. *

ENEMY'S HUGE LOSSES. Copenhagen, November 30. Exclusive of the Saxons, Wurtemburgers, and Bavarians, the official lists give the Prussian losses at 627,073. Rome, November 30. The "Giornale d'ltalia" publishes a dispatch showing that the German losses in Poland were tremendous. They are estimated &t one-fourth of the effective forces. London, November 30. The "Morning Post's" Petrograd correspondent says that German prisoners declare that companies on the .Vistula and the Warta were reduced by 60 per centum. The frequent bayonet charges indicated that the Germans were short\ of ammunition. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) Hundreds of German dead, completely stripped and piled in wagons passed St. Quentin, on route to Belgium. DISTRIBUTION OF THE GERMAN ARMY CORPS. - Potrograd, November 30.' • Colonel Shumsky estimates that between twenty-two and twenty-five German army corps are concentrated on the Eastern frontier, and from thirty to ■thirty-four west of. tho Rhine.