SEVEN TRENCHES CAPTURED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 5

SEVEN TRENCHES CAPTURED

"BABY KILLERS OF. SCARBOROUGH' BRAND ON GERMAN NAVY WHILE SAILORS SAIL THE SEAS BIG BATHE DEVELOPING I GAIiCIA N.Z. TROOPS IN EGYPT THE ADMIRATION OF MILITARY ■ EXPERTS •i . ' Some further progress in North. France, West Flander,!. and elsewhere is reported to-day, but more interest resides in the detailed messages which throw light upon the exceedingly arduous nature of .. the fighting by which the Allies have gained their recent successes. 'Along a great part of the German front progress has to be made by sapping and mining, comparable to siege operations, and hand-to-hand fighting in flooded trencheß is a thing of daily occurrence. Further proofs hare been given of the superiority of the Allied artillery, some notable successes being scored by the French guns. Little change is reported .in northern and central Poland, but in. Galicia a great battle is said to be developing in the Lupkaw Pass, twenty-four miles south-east of the Dukla Pass, by which the Austro-German forces iscently poured through the Carpathians into the northern plainß.- Tho Servians and Montenegrins are following up the crushing defeat lately - inflicted on the Austrians in Servia by invading Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some harrowing details are given of the terrible plight to which this section of tho Austrian forces has been reduced, and it seema • clear that-its remaining powers of resistance must be small. Dealing with the recent German cruiser raid upon the East Coast of England, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, points out that tho 'Germdhs 'risked 'practically' the whole of their cruiser force, which is vital to their fleet, for the sake of killing a few hundred English people without distinction of age or sex. The hate of the Germans, .he says, measures their fear. Meantime the Germans are reported to be feverishly active in their dockyards, and it is stated that they place great reliance in their new super-Dreadnoughts and submarines. Messages from Cairo describing the accession of the new ruler of Egypt give much praise to tho New Zealand troops, tho physique and bearing of the men and the fine condition of their horses being Equally admired. A report from Warsaw states that a German Zeppelin recently, dropped eighteen bombs on that city and killed ninety civilians.