TUESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1914, Page 5

TUESDAY

The Germans in Belgium have been thrown back to the Yser Canal, which runs from Dixmunde to Nieuport. They have evacuated all the positions on the left bank of the canal, the allies jio\v folding the whole corner of Belgium west of Nieuport and Ypres, In East Prussia the German armies are making an effort to jgesist the Russian invasion, ' The Russians are successfully attacking the Germans in East Prussia, and are continuing their advance from Poland. The Russian advance on Cracow continues. Russia has withdrawn all her troops from East and West Finland to join the main army. The Turkish forts at the Bab-el-Mandeb entrance to the Red Sea have been captured. The British cruiser Duke of JlHin^urgh b.omljarded tlie. forfs, artd^hreie battalions of Jndian troops landed under cover of her guns, occupied the forts, and captured ammunition and field guns. The loyalist party in South Africa has had further successes against the rebels.