THE ONWARD MARCH

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 94, 21 December 1914, Page 5

THE ONWARD MARCH

f GERMANS DEPRESSED THE AUSTRIAN DEBACLE SERVIANS GREATEST TRIUMPH HUNGARIAN PUBLIC HORRIFIED - AFRICAN REBELLION ENDED GAPTAiS FOURIE SHOT

THE ALLIES MAKE GOOO PROGRESS

GERMANS IN FEAR.

dian contingent

FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

ANOTHER LAAGER TAKEN

REBEL LEADER CAPTURED

(Rccd. 2.35 p.m.) LONDON Dec. 19

Official —Colcnel Preforms reports that he followed the spoor and found Fcuries' laager in a strong position in the river bed at Nooitgedacgt. Major Trewes' police completed a surrounding movement to the North which closed the path of escape.

The fight lxsfed till dark, when the rebei position was gallantly stormed. Our less was 10 hilled and 25 wounded. The rebels was two killed, four wounded, and forty-five taken prisoners, including Fourie himself.

LAST CONVOY CAPTURED. A REBEL'S AUDACITY. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Dec. 20. Wculmaran's convoy, the last of the rebel leaders ]\?.a biien captured. At the courtmartial of Fcurie and Spothers, both f formerly officers {> the Defence Force, the elder bitterly reproached the British for their conduct cf the Boer war. He declared they injured Boer traditions on every opportunity. It was greater honour to stand as a prisoner than as an officer in the British army. He added there were enough people on the Veldt to rescue South Africa. CAPTAIN FOURIE SHOT. SOUTH AFEICAN COURT-MARTIAi, (Rec. 9.45 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, Dec 20. Captain Fourie has been shot and his brother committed to prison for five years. A LIGHT SENTENCE. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Dec. 20. Van Den Linden was sentenced to two year 3 for attempting to organise a rebellion. DISASTROUS RAIDS. CAPETOWN., Dec. 20. It is estimated that the losses by looting in Northern Orangia amount to £200,000. Many storekeepers have been ruined as a result of the rebels' depredations. ! NEW SULTAN OF EGYPT. PROCLAIMED WiTH GREAT CEREMONY. (Reed. 9.15 a.m.) CAIRO. Dec;. 20. Sultan Hiiasein was proclaimed amid elaborate ceremony. : There was an' imposing parade of Australian and native troops. .'.lhan ai rived in time to assist in i lie accession ceremony. ; • UINCESS PATRICIA'S REGIMENT. NOW IN FIRING LINE. j (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) OTTAWA, Dec. 20.

dncess Patricia's regiment is now the firing line, with the first Cana-

HOLLAND FEARS CONSEQUENCES

OF ALLIES' ADVANCE

Press Association —Copyright. AMSTERDAM.. Dec. 19. The Germans fear that Britain intends to land troops at Zeebrugge. •Twenty thousand Germans are manning trenches in the dunes between Ostend and the Dutch frontier. The French are supported by a number cf batteries. Many Belgian refu-

gees escaped. ; " Holland is fearing the consequences of the Allied advance.

BPvITISE PROTECTORATE IN

EGYPT.

THE KING'S CONGRATULATIONS

The Pi'ime Minister received the followirs' from the High Commissioner, under date London, 19th: His Majesty the King has telegraph. ed to the Sultan of Egypt, expressing his conviction that the corporation and Ministers under the Protectorate 6f Britain would successfully overcome the influences that were seeking to destroy the independence of Egyptian liberty, and the happiness of its people.

J COMMISSIONER'S REPQET. ■ The Prime Minister has received the following from the High Commissioner dated London, 19th December:ALLIES PROGRESS REPORTi. A SATISFACTORY ACCOUNT. PARIS, Dec. 10 It is officially announced that the Allies have pushed forward south of Korteke, in Belgium. The advance is continued in the marshy land in the Ypre s district. We have advanced over a kilometre in two days ■south of La Basse; we have also progressed in the dirco'srn cf St. .Laurent and Blanzy. Despite all heavy counter attacks the positions gained on the 17th have been maintained. We advanced under heavy •fire through wire entanglements to the second line cf the enemy's trenchins in the Albert district. At North Monicourt one trench was the previous day abandoned, the enemy tiring it with hand grenades. Several German trenches were taken at Mamettf. Three violent attacks were repulsed at Lehocn, and several German trenches were exploded at La Gourie. The enemy progressed slightly at St.. Hubert. Two heavy German batteries were demolished and a third was damaged by aviators directing the fire on the heights of the Meusc, A GERMAN CRUISER SUNK. ENORMOUS AUSTRIAN LOSSES. The High Commisisoner reports: — LONDON Dec. 20. The allies ore steadily pressing the offensive-and have cleared the Germans between Ypres and Dixraude. The allies captured several trend. - at Aucliy and St. Laurent, and also th first lines of trenches at Blangy. The Russians towards Mlawa are vigorously pursuing defeat oil Germans. No engagement of importance has taken place on the left bsuk of the Vistula ov in Galicia.

At Vienna it is. officially admitted that the Austrian killed arid wounded in Servia totalled one hundred thousand.

The Eussian Government reports

GERMANS ON DUTCH FRONTIER.

FIERCE ACTION ON THE COAST.

(Reed. 9.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM. Dec. 20

Refugees report that the Germans posted S fifteen centimetre guns and several machine guns on the Sand Dunes, between Duinsergen and Megst. German troops were concentrating along the Dutch frontier between Costham and Meerhout.

The Telegraph states that fierce gunfire took place along the coast on Saturday, and was taken part in by the warships. Trainloads of wounded have arrived at Bruges, but most are sent further eastward.

The Frankfurter Zeitung publishes a letter from a German American, which says that impartial people ?n America ar epowerless to influence the public opinion. America will have nothing to do with you. The writer contrasts America's occupation of Vera Cruz, where they had less business than Germany lias in Belgium. PEACE IN .1915. ADDED GLORY FOR ITALY. (Reed. 9.45 a.m.) HOME, Dec. 20. While addressing the Senate Signor Slandra said he honed 1915 would see peace established whereby Italy would acquire more glory and greatness. PRIESTS BRUTALLY SHOT (Reed. 9.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 20. One hundred and ninety-three priest? were shot, or taken prisoners for giving evidence at the commission of enquiry into German outrages in Belgium. FRENCH DELIVER A SHATTERING BLOW. GERMANS ABANDON THEIR TRENCHES. (Reed. 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 20.

French artillery with five hundred guns dealt & shattering blow at the German front line at the north eastern side of Arras on Thursday. The Germans abandoned their trenches before a devastating fire and retired upon Blansy and Saint Lauren, where snl;.srs had taken up a position at windows and on house tops. The Allies are strongly entrenched at the outskirts.

GERMAN VESSELS CAPTURED

TURKISH SHIPS SUNK

(Reed. 9.45 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Dec. 20

Official. —The cruiser Askold has arrived at Port Said. It captured a German vessel off the Syrian coast, ulse blew up a Turkish steamer and sank another at Beirut.

WAR ON GERMAN AFRICA. BOMBS FROM TAUBE MACHINE. (Reed. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. A Renter message from Capetown says a Taube flew over the cam]) at Chaukail, German Southwest Afrcia, and dropped two bombs. The second fell on a group of artillerymen, killing one and wounding eight.

GERMAN NAVAL GUNS ASHORE.

MINE SWEEPERS BLOWN UP

(Reed. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 20

Some .seamen who participated in •he bombardment at Nieuyort and Midcllekerke, states that Germans at one point replied with a naval twelveincher mounted ashore. Two mine sweepers between Scarborough and Filey were blown up, and a third was seriously damaged. The bulk of the crews were saved.

THE SCARBOROUGH FUNERALS.

RUTHLESS SLAUGHTER OF INNO

CENTS

(Heed. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20

Pathetic scenes took place at the funerals of those killed at Scarborough.

The Archbishop of York, in his address at the memorial service, said the death of these innocents should be a reminder of the -uthless ferocity of a war spirit which ths Alliei were striving to destroy.

EOULERS RE-CAPTURED.

HELD.. BY FRANCO-BRITISH

OUTPOSTS

Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 20.

The Franco-British advance to Roulers lias boon confirmed. Xfrench find British outposts hold Roulers.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. PARIS, Dec. 19. A Berlin official report says that the enemy made a number of attacks on Nieuport and Bixchoote and north of La Basse. Fightino- continues to the west of Lena and Noon, and east of Albert, where attacks were repulsed. Pursuit continues in Poland.

RUSSIA RIDICULES GERMAN REPORT.

PETROGRAD, Dec. 20

A semi-official report ridicules the Germans' claim of victoiy in Poland. Though they do not give a single name, the number of prisoners makes such a fanfare that it may deceive the Germans and Austrians, but not neutrals. Really, the Germans have been driven from Bekhanoff, the Russians are at their heels, and already are tripping over them.

GERMANY'S HEAVY LOSSES

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 20

The four lust German lists show 22,(501 caaualtes, including 1600 in a single. Wurtemburg"regiment. A .Saxon regiment lost 2000 at Beckslaere, in Belgium, in August. Recent, lists Include 30 000 in the Yser fightino-.

THE AUSTRIAN DEBACLE,

HUNGARIAN PUBLIC HORRIFIED

TREMENDOUS LOSSES

BUDAPESTH, Dec, 20

•A. correspondent writes: The public are horrified at the details of the rout, of the Austro-Hungarians in Servia. The losses during tin: fight and the rcarb".i?iril s:\ivm totalled eo.COO killed adn w •ni.led, .isul ' ; 11 0 prisoners.

More guns, provisions and ammuni tion were lost than Servia ever possessed. The remnants of General Potiovekn 's army, reduced to 100,000, are now in Bosnia endeavouring to reform. The Austro-Hungarians are worn ous by the exhaustion of incessant marches and hunger.

AUSTRIAN COMMANDER IN DISGRACE.

ROME, Dee. 20

Advices from Budapesth state that the Emperor Francis Josef has ordered General Potiovekn to be court-m<*y-tialled.

GERMANS DEPRESSED.

BELATED ARRIVAL OF TRUTH.

VICTORY PROVES DISASTER,

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 20

Germany's frenzied joy over alleged victory has been partly solved by the arrival of newspapers. People pause to ask why there are no names of battlefields in the list of captures. It is evident the people fixed on the communiue's vague reference to certain decisive operations without troubling about future details. Groundless ecstacy had its reaction in profound depression over the Falkland Islands naval battle and the Servian victory at Belgrade.

PRUSSIAN GUARDS AGAIN

SMASHED

3000 PRUSSIAN HUSSARS

AMBUSCADED

ONLY FIFTY ESCAPE

PETROGRAD. Dec 19

During the recent fighting 3000 Hus sars of the Prussian Guards were am bushed. Only fifty escaped.

AN INTERCEPTED MESSAGE

WHAT GERMANY INTENDED

PARIS, Dec. 20. Reed. 8.45 a.m.)

A Turkish agent intercepted a report, dated September 8, intended for von der Goltz, wherein he was authoratived that when the whole of Belgium, with Northern France, belongs to us, the Flemings should not be harshly treated. Their linguistic affinities with Germany should be taken into account, so that they might be prepared for union with the German peoples. While later the Belgian army, like the Bavarians, should be given a special position in the German army. .

The German Government having stated that German civil prisoners at Hongkong were compelled to work like coolier-. the American Consul Gen-

eral at Mr ITaveourt's instance, investigated and found it to be untrue.

THE ALLIES. ADVANCE.

GERMAN CONCENTRATIONS DISPERSED. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 20. A communique states: We gained a little ground before Nieuport and Saint George. We progressed slightly east and south of Ypres, where the enemy's reinforcing defence is. We captured a portion of the enemy's first line of trenchos at Richebourg and La Bassee, and re-captured the trench north of Maricourt. We repulsed very violent efforts to re-capture trenches at Lipons. We maintain :d ;.a a-il'ery superiority in the Argonne, where vre silenced guns and destroyed machine gun; we shelled observation posts and dispersed the enemy's concentration.

The British lost some trenches toward Niuvechapelle, which were captured on Friday.

The Indians advanced some hundreds of metres towards Richebourg.

GERMANS FARE BADLY

DETAILS OF RECENT OPERA TIONS.

PARIS, Dec. 19. The allies- advanced troops passed Middlekirk during the evening, and were driven out of a number oi trenches on the right bank of the Yser, our forces haying pierced the German line just at the end of the inundation of Dixnrude.

The. Belgians were acquainted with the exact positions or the dykes and ditches, which were hidden by the murky waters and were previously death-traps for every advancing German force. They led their comrades through selected parts of the knee-deep water and the allies then crossed and charged with the bayonet. The Germans made a poor defence, many prisoners being taken. Their losses in.th« vicinity of Lombaertzke were vary heavy.

(Official). —We organised the ground gained on Thursday south of" Dixmude and pushed our front to south of Campleart and Korteker. The advance south of Ypres continues over diffieslt marshy ground. The allies progressed over a kilometre in two days south of La Bassee during the night of the 17th, and the following, day advanced on Albert under a violent fire. We reached the wire entanglements of the enemy's second line of trenches. German hand grenades forced us to abandon a trench captured on Thursday north of Malieourt. Several German trenches were carried in the Lihors district, where three violent coun-ter-attacks were repulsed. Our fire, directed by airmen, demolished two heavy batteries on the heights of the Meuse, and damaged a third.

FIGHTING IN

GERMANS DRIVEN BACK.

PARIS, Dee. 19

In order to oeaupy St. Georges, the Belgians and French crossed flooded country, sometimes waist deep *n water. The engineers made pontoon bridges. .Six lines of German trenches, 500 to 1000 yards apart, were taken. On reaching St. Georges the allies discovered that their artillery had driven out the Germans. Thirty-eight we*» refuging in a celler and were made prisoners.

SURROUNDED IN SAND DUNES.

900 GERMANS CAPTURED

LONDON, Dee. 19

The Daily Mail's Dunkirk correspondent says that when advancing to the coast in the direction of Ostend, French Dragoons attempted a turning movement near Nieuport. Gorman reinforcements, with hidden machine-guns, checked them. The next night the Dragoons galloped round the Germans' rioht wins:. The Germans in the dunes, were enclosed, on three sides and surrendered, 900 prisoners being taken. PAJKIS, Dec. 20.

(Official). —We repulsed an attack at Teenstraffe and appreciably progressed in the neighbourhood of Korteker. Wc surprised and cut to pieces a column at Linens. y BOMBARDMENT BY AVIATORS (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 20.

A Berlin telegram says that two of the Allies airmen threw ten bombs oh Esarburg, Lorraine, on Thursday night, killing a Uhlan and severely wounding a girl, They also bombed other villages.

COMPULSORY MILITARY

TRAINING.

(Reed. 8.45 a.m.) HAGUE, Dec. 20.

The War Minister will shortly introduce a Bill for compulsory military service.

TWO AVIATORS INCINERATED, (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 20. Two military aviators fell near Isscles, Moulineux. The petrol took

THE RAID

HARTLEPOOL'S EXPERIENCE

MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED .

Tress Association —Copy right. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dee. 20. At Hartlepool most of the victims were women and children. A falling gable killed ten -who were refuging:. The German steamer Dinebole was the worst sufferer amongst the slapping in the harbour. A shell damaged a shop live miles inland.

Less than twelve hours after the Germans disappeared working had commenced to repair the damage.— (Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables).

SCARBOROUGH'S DAMAGE*

ESTIMATED AT £40,000

EVIDENCE OF SPIES' WORK

(Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20

German shells damaged six hotels, four large bcardinghouses, four churches, and a workhouse at Scarborough. The damage is estimated at £40,000, and it will take many months to repair the total losses. Thirty shells were found embedded in the Spa gardens. It is asserted that signalling by (lash-light was seen on the eve of the raid.

Search is being 1 made for spies.— (Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables). •"

WHEN THE DAY OF RECKONING COMES. BITTER PILL FOR THE GERMANS.

(Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20.

There is little grumbling. Residents on the coast realised that there might be a repetition of the meteoric dash on Yarmouth.

There is universal regret that the German ships escaped. The uppermost feeling is that when the day of reckoning comes, the pill which Germany will have to swallow will- not be made any more pleasant because o fthis raid. There is a burning desire to. avenge the s.cores of innocent sufferers.

NO BRITISH LOSSES

(Reed. 3.35 p.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 20

The Admiralty. denies loss of any British warships in the East Coast operations.

SOME GERMAN OFFICERS DISPLEASED.

MORE VISITS TO BE ARRANGED

LANDING OF TROOPS TO BE ATTEMPTED,

(Reed. 12.10 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, Dec. 20.

Naval circles in Hamburg are sharply discussing the raid. A number of non-Prussian navai officers declared that it was against their sense of honour to shell an unfortified town The Kaiser and the Admiralty overruled the objection. Several submarines accompanied Wednesday's raiders. Other vessels were ready to sail if the raiders got into trouble. If the weather makes it possible, similar raids will be organised at short intervals. An attempt will also be made to land a few thousand men, who expect to be made prisoners, but this may force the recall of troops from the Continent.

AUSTRIAN PRESS JUBILANT.

(Reed. 12.10 a.m.)

PETROGRAD, Dec. 20. The Vienna press is jubilant over the East Coast raid. The "Neues Wiener Journal" says sclent foes ow know what comes of threatening Germany's existence.

AMERICA SITS TIGHT.

(Reed. 4.15 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20,

President Wilson and Mr Bryan decided not to make any representations to Germany concerning the bombard* merit of the east coast of England. Cer. tain American papers point out that America was involved in such a breach of international law!, but President Wilson wishes to avoid all entanglements in the present conflict. LLOYDS' BOMBARDMENT RISKS. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 20. Lloyds' bombardment risks from Harwich northwards is 40s per cent., from Harwich to Dover 20, on the South Coast 10, and on the West Coast S.-