WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1297, 15 September 1914, Page 2

WAR NEWS.

The Germans have been defeated in France, the retreat has become a rout, and the rout is deepening into disaster as a result of the stupendous battle which has raged for five days between the Allies and the Germans. Everything points to imminent disaster to the German plans and confusion is everywhere apparent along the enemy’s line of retreat. Their lines of supply and ammunition transport are reported in some places to have been cut. The communique from the Commander-in Chief of the Allied armies, General Joffre, is cheerful and buoyant. The heaviest battle was at Marne, where no fewer than fortysix army corps were engaged. The Allied right has pushed forward almost upto the frontier, the centre is well advanced, and the left sweeping all before it, Amiens, in the north-west, has been evacuated, and the steady pressure of the Allies is converging the retreating masses upon the centre. In Belgium the offensive of the Belgians is being attended with marked success, and the latest news indicates that British troops are co-operating. The High Commissioner's official cablegram states that British troops, presumably supported by the Belgians, have reoccupied Brussels, and other reports indicate that a successful driving movement to the south-east is in progress.

A crushing victory over the Austrians has marked the culmination of the operations which have been energetically carried out by the Russian armies in Poland ; the way to Vienna is open, while in Eastern Prussia, and in Posen, to the south, the Russian armies are manoeuvring for position. In the Far East the Japanese expeditionary troops operating against Kiao-chau are about to deliver their attack. From East Africa comes a report of a reverse to a force of Anglo - Indian troops operating against a superior force of Germans. There is no naval news.