AUSTRIANS MASSING IN THE MOUNTAINS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2334, 16 December 1914, Page 5

AUSTRIANS MASSING IN THE MOUNTAINS

MRIKG EXPLOIT BY ; ' SUBMARINE ' TOREM BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED NEW • MOVE BY THE GERMANS TROOPS MASSING A! COURTRAI SERVIANS RECAPTURE BELGRADE The news to-day from the Poland theatre of. war ahows that the Russians are pushing home their following attack on the defeated Germans, who essayed a line-cutting dash behind Warsaw. Further South, in Central Poland and along the Bzura River, the Russians are de.veloping- flank operations, the Mlawa front no longer engaging their serious, attention. Down in Galicia the aspect of affairs has undergone an expected change. .The Austrians are massing troops on the Carpathian slopes, and the Russian advance armies operating against tho*passes into Hungary, realising the necessity for more elbow- : room in the event of a battle, have decided, to retreat from the mountain positions previously held and deploy in more open country. The Servians have recaptured Belgrade'. In Flanders and North France events are quietly shaping themselves to the advantage of the ' .'Allies. . Steady progress has been made along the Yser, while effective artillery work has been done along tho Aisne and in Alsace, in France. A significant mustering of German troops near Courtrai, a few miles north-east of Lille, is interpreted -'is an indication'that the enemy has abandoned his intention of making a dash on Calais, and is now concentrating upon an attempt to break the line inland. A British submarine h as 1 added to the laurels of the'service by a particularly daring raid on a Turkish battleship in the t)ardanelles. The circumstances surrounding the exploit show that the submarine dived under several rows of mines to reach the battleship, which, was last seen to be in a sinking condition.