GERMANS FORCED TO RUN THE GAUNTLET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2324, 4 December 1914, Page 5

GERMANS FORCED TO RUN THE GAUNTLET

TERRIBLE MAULING IN POLAND ■"" - ~. —' .„ ■ ..-/ FATE OF ENEMY'S THIRD ARMY iipiAN TROOPS OCCUPY BELGRADE ' sanguinary'fighting' ' I BATTLE MISTEpiN • I ~/:■■ fLAI^JJ&j&b \:& "CAPTURE OF BE WET ".

Today's' war items indicates ttjat the fiial result of the tremendous . battle which has' been' raging along the Lodz-Lomebi front in Poland is •stall undecided,- but the German armies—especially General Von Macken-' •en's—hare been terribly manled by the Eussian Bear. One army, caught .'- betweeff two fires, was compelled to run the gauntlet of a frightful tail of shrapnel and the bayonet, only to be driven back by the Eussian ■ batferieA' cavalry, and infants? bayonets' which had been posted to cut off thoir escape, to'the south. .It is agreed in. Press circles in Paris thai a decisivei Eussian victory will compel the Germans to definitely retire to a . defensiVo line on their own frontier. Very little further light is thrown on . the tattle' mystery in Flandersi and Northern Prance; the military situation is rapo'rted' to be still obscure. There has been considerable activity along the whole battle-front, and a number of minor engagements, resulting to the'advantage of the Allies, are detailed in a French communique. The "Daily Mail" reports that the German High Sea Fleet has been transferred from Kiel to the North Sea, aiid.a member of the Associated Press, privileged to inspect the naval base at Kiel, gives some interesting impressions 1 of the' activities which he witnessed—activities, one may feel. sure, {hat were judiciously selected for his observation, with a view to published descriptions' calculated to impress. In South Africa the notorious Boer guerilla leader, General do ]Wet, theslipperiest cdmrnanffo-leader in the South African War, and.who.has been hunted from pillar to post ever since' he and Beyers,- with a few other irrecorioilables, started the present .. rebellion—at a time when Britain's biok was turned—has been riiti to earth ■'■!• and captured. Two words',' "De Wet captured,", was that the bffioial , news department vouchsafed to the pdblio yesterday, in its "Press Extraordinary," and subsequent accounts will be awaited with interest, for Da Wet's exploits have invested him with,ah atmosphere. of dare-.devilmeni of •; -the kind that has endeared Paul Jones, Kiddj Ifbrgaii Mi other adventuroul Spirits of ah earlier day, to juvenile readers.