WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1321, 7 November 1914, Page 2

WAR NEWS.

An Amsterdam report states that the German's are concentrating a large force near Ypres. They are also entrenching at the junction of the Brues Leopold canal. Their guns are in position and the canal is patrolled by motor-boats. The battle continues in the Dixmude-Ypres-Rotilers district. Tuesday’s battle is stated to have been extraordinarily sanguinary, while the slaughter of the Germans throughout the whole encounter on the Ypres-Lille line has been appalling.

Lord Charles Beresford is of opinion that Great Britain will need another million men.

On the East Prussian frontier, it is officially reported that Russia is making marked progress. General Joffre has congratulated the Czar on Russia’s success.

The Russians expelled the Turks from a village they had occupied in Khorassan and crushed a force of Turks and Kurds near Dyadine. They also occupied Bayazid, a Turkish town in Armenia. The Caucasian Army is marching on Erzeroum. All the races in Caucasia have pledged themselves to support Russia.

Great Britain has annexed Cyprus.

The Turkish Ambassadors iu London and Paris have received their passports. It is reported that the German warship Konigsberg has been put out of action in the Indian Ocean.

The King and Lord Kitchener inspected the Canadian troops on Salisbury Plain. Canada’s second contingent of 15,000 men is in training, and is expected to leave Canada in January. Great activity has been discovered in the United States among a German organisation with the object of invading Canada. The Canadian Government has made full preparations to defeat any attempt in that direction.

The report of a naval encounter between German and British cruisers off Valparaiso has not been confirmed.

In Cape Colony, one hundred and six rebels are reported to have been captured by the South African Union foices.