THURSDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1914, Page 5

THURSDAY

The battle in West Flanders has been resumed with great violence, the Germans making an enormous effort to reach the coast. The allies have made more or less marked progress at every point attacked from the Yser to the Meuse. The London Daily Mail reports that the Germans lost nearly 100,000 men at Ypres in four days. The Turks have sustained heavy losses in engagements with the Russians in Armenia and at ports in the Black Sea. The Goeben and the Breslau, which were damaged in the bombardment of the Dardanelles by the allied warships, have reentered the Black Sea. Japan has intimated to the British Government that it is ready to hand over the Caroline and Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, recently seized from Germany, to an Australian force. Australia has accepted the responsibility for the military occupation and government of the islands till the end of the war, when the matter of their ultimate disposal will be decided by the allied ■ Powers. An Australian force is to be sent to occupy the islands. Another contingent of troops from India has reached France.