THE ACTUAL POSITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 24 August 1914, Page 5

THE ACTUAL POSITION.

British Reassuring Report. NO SK'RIOUS BEVSiiiSES EVENTS OF .MINOR IMPORTANCE, SITUATION SATISFACTORY TO THJS ALLIES. Received 34, 12.20 a.m. Loudon, August 23. . The I'n ss Bureau report says that almost all the information reaching Britain, whether official or unofficial, conns from allied sources. Very little news of German or Austrian origin is filtering through, but sufficient to show that the cnemv claims . suc&RSM both in t-lie western and eastern theatres of war. The campaign is proceeding on sueli an enormous scale that the encounteis which luive already occurred can only be classed as incidents of minor importance. The exaggeration of minor episodes, into important triumphs is misleading. However, it may be. pftiil that in the western theatre, where <}reat Britain is most interested, one really noteworthy success —or, perhaps, it ought to be called a German failure rather than -to Allied siweßS—is that at the end. tf three mvk* the enemy lias not attemptid lo'de ,; --vr the attficV which, if it had occurred even partially cuccessfully a week atmight have interfered, with the- coi>'i'Titration of tv French arm)? and .pro- ed prejudicial to subsequent Frerjph operations. ■fL situation at the tnowept is In ft