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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1914, Page 7

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News from Russian sources confabs the report of an important victory at Lodz, in Russian Poland. German reports claim , success in this battle, but accordjpg to the accounts from this source, the final result is still i pending. t- The artillery duel on the north |L wing of the allied army has E slackened. British aviators report that the Germans between Nieuport and Dixmunde are only in sufficient numbers to make an attack by the allies over the frozen floods inadvisable. The bulk of the German troops have been transferred to Lille. "^The BpiPSti navy has suffered A:: - : : a regrettable loss through an | explosion in the magazine of the "!' : pre-Dreadnought battleship BulX- X wark, of 15,000 tons. The >■<. Bulwark, which was. lying in ■- Sheerness Harbour, sank in three and of the 780 men on .^ board only 12 were saved. Mr stated in the House of that the loss had not sensibly affected the militaj^ Thirty thousand recruits being enrolled weekly in Ga^M Britain, besides regiments forra^B Wl locally, but Earl Kitchener sesH i ll^R- *^c time *s coming when ra^H L ;4B recruits will be required. '^M