WEDNESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 27 November 1914, Page 5

WEDNESDAY

The Russian successes against the Austro-German forces continue. The battle in Poland is ~v-*Still in progress and all the Q-erman attacks have . been repulsed. The Russians have captured 5000 Austrians on the Czentochowa-Cracaw line. It is reported that the Kaiser has again.' expressed. '.: a special \yLh and'c.orftmand " to his army " |q fflake ' another.' s'upjeme effort fa reach palais. ' | The bombardment qf Y^.s b,y the Qermans is ijeiijg Qqutiijued. The German Zeppelin factory V aiFriedriehaven has been danr j^ aged by bombs launched from T^ three British aeroplanes, which flew 250 mile?, penetrating 120 miles into Germany. A German submarine has been sunk on the Scottish coast by a ■British patrol vessel. Tho Cjei=s&s destroyer-' S]24 floundered lifter coliid'ihg with' a' Danish steamer.' ' A.' British force hp ocpn^iecj me city ' Qt; Basra, Cvix n i 4 v si!atiQ C t Turkey. The Italian Cabinet has de. dided upon the expenditure of

an additional £8,000,000 upon the navy, authorised the formation of five new artillery regiments, ane voted £250,000 for expenditure on strategic railways on the Austrian frontier. It is also suggested that on account of Turkey's entry into the war, all the Balkan States may mobilise at once.