Official Report

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 2 September 1914, Page 5

Official Report

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S GABLE,

I-ondon, August 31 (14.50 p.m.).

Official. —Three hundred wounded Brit- ,■ ish have reached London, and were ae- • corded a stirring reception. The soldiers arc anxious to return to the fight, but say that the Boer War was a picnic com- ; pared with tliia. in the House of Commons, Mr Asquifh deprecated the sensational and uncooArmed article in The Times concerning the condition of the British .troops. He said that possibly it would be necessary to pass drastic legislation to pre. vent a recurrence.

The House of Lords decided that the moratorium shall continue.

Reliable.—German forces are in th» ' 1 region of La Fere, 70 miles from Paris. A French army of 150,000 repelled the Germans east df Guise. -

The Germans compelled the Allies' left wing to give ground.

Germans arc leaving Belgium, pTesumialily to strengthen the resistance to the Russian advance. ■ The Bulgarian Government has informed Servia that if Roumania aban- t dons her neutrality, Russian Bulgaria '' will do likewise, and all the Baikal States, except Turkey, will take side# * with the Triple Entente. Wellington, 'Last Night. , Tho High Commissioner reports:— London, August 31 (6.40 a.m.). The French [Embassy states that th« left wing of the Allies has taken the offensive and driven the Prussian Guards txM'k to Guise. There has been heavy fighting south and west of Mezieres, due, ■ ■; to the advance by the army under the Crown Prince. The French will take the offensive in Lorraine. The enemy Wive pushed back into the Allied Iweß from / the .Sambre to the Somme River, and . overrun the north-west of Trance of _ France with cavalry. , The Russians are approaching the 1 fortresses of Thorn and Graudent, _ , The Austrians are invading Russian j Poland, and are advancing towards LuDllin.