SATURDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 January 1915, Page 3

SATURDAY

I New Year opened darkly •N avy with the sinking of >attleship Formidable, a thousand ton pre-Dread-t of a useful type. She I iteaming in the English lei, w.hen either a torpedo, aarine, or a mine blew her )nly 71 of the crew escaped ii it is possible that others been picked up by other | that have not yet reached jjftfr)yjpa? n n om?.df *rcxro -zictsjil-- ■ . jg, 1 tio| 4 .'iL-vtnroughout the day js?^A"practically from the sea to the f Lorraine border, but, though the ] - Germans showed great activity in this direction, they failed to • - accomplish any useful purpose, and the Allies' big guns held a ; v clear advantage. t The Germans assert that they '.' hold nearly six hundred thousand [ of the: Allies prisoners, including | over 18,000 Britishers. 1 The Russian campaign is • developing satisfactorily, and '| attempts by the Q£ffmans to force jl[ a» 'fofcttftf Vr-4l&e of advance in the q-^outh have failed. *~ | Thd Austrrans are not attempt--1 ing to advance in Galicia, and * have announced that they do not 1 * intend to prosecute the campaign i against Servia for the present.