DRIVING BACK THE GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2341, 24 December 1914, Page 5

DRIVING BACK THE GERMANS

BATTLE AT NIEUPORT . LINES OF TRENCHES TAKEN THE CAPTURE OF VERMELLES CARNAGE IN POLAND .'.'.:. ' GERMAN-.ATTACK FAM BERLINERS DISPLAY ANXIETY ' Substantial progress by tie Allies at many points on tie West; erri line is reported in to-day's news from the seat of war. In addition, .much of the news interestingly fills in details of fighting, the results of which' were briefly reported: in previous messages The assault upon Nieuport from land and sea is described. at some length. Several messages tell of the sterling gallantry of the British troops in all circumstances, and of the manner in which it has been displayed, lix. Lloyd George has stated.that Britain's war expenditure now amounts to £45,000,000 a month, and that she will have two million soldiers and sailors under arms before the spring, when half a million fresh British troops will reinforce those now fighting in France and Belgium.- The French Parliament has opened with sceneß of great enthusiasm, many of the deputies coming direot from the trencheß. The Germans are reported' to have suffered heavy losses without making any progress in their/attempt to. pierce the Eus3iaa line in. Poland. \ There are now 600,000,'AustahGerman troops in Western Galicia attempting to relieve Cracow and Przemysi, . but they are apparently ' not nyaking headway. The Austrian garrison : of Przemysi hari' been repelled with heavy loss in its attempts to piesoe the Russian investing lines. Serious anti-war riots .■'- are reported to have occurred in Berlin, and it is stated that the Ger- . man censorship of war news is stricter than ever. The British Admiralty, according to the naval correspondent of "The Times," is hopeful that ine German Fleet will come out and fight, but a semi-official .agency at Amsterdam credits Admiral von Tirpitz with a statement.that ... the German ships cannot be expected to face a three-fold greater force: Some further details aro given of the engagement «ff Valparaiso, in which two British cruisers were sunk, and another naval item of interest is a circumstantial account of the bottling-up of the • German cruiser Konigsberg in a river in German East Africa. The Victoria. Cross has been awardod to Commander Norman Holbrook, who took a submarine through the mine-fields of the Dardanelles and . torpedoed a Turkish battleship.