FRIDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 December 1914, Page 5

FRIDAY

■^PfeTlie Admiralty announces that W ~~ \ jritisa squadron under ViceAdmiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee round and fought the German cruisers Scharnhorst. Gneisau, JNurnberg, Dresden, and Leipsic near the Falkland Islands, in the ijo,uth n Atlantic, on Tuesday. A*l®Germanl®German Admiral's flagship, tne bcharnhorst, was sunk, and also the Gneisenau and Leipsic. J-ne Dresden and Nurnberg are ln^ u P^«ijed. The British WBK. Ts c ®&ily Chronicle's corresM^jondent at Dunkirk reports that line in Flanders has ■■pP^^pent between Roulers and - -r. Me«Jiipast of Ypres, and that the allies are threatening Roulers A furious assault was made by the enemy east of Ypres, which gained them a temporary advantage. The French for a time were hard pressed, but made a successful counter-attack, flinging them back to Menin. Fighting is now proceeding in the north of Poland and at Cracow, as well as in the Lodz region. The Germans made a rapid and secret transfer of troops to the north of Poland with the object of cutting the railways behind Warsaw, but they are being met with a stubborn resistance from the Russians in __ this region. Attempts to turn the Russian right wing at Cracow have also been frustrated.