The Daily News. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914. "A GLORIOUS WEEK."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 129, 24 October 1914, Page 4

The Daily News. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914. "A GLORIOUS WEEK."

"This has 'been a glorious week • i heroic deeds against big odds," so writes a correspondent from the field of battle. A few days ago, he adds, Belgium was wholly German; now even the most pessimistic axe counting the days till tho enemy's crumbled forces are hurled hack into their own country. That the fighting has been severe, is I shown by the increasing numbers oi German wounded arriving at Ostcnd, and which is creating a "nervy" feeling among the Kaiser's forces. The Germans have shot their bolt. For weeks they have been hammered hard by the [Allies. Tho cable says that, though tho fighting is fierce, the Germans give tho impression of lassitude and exhaustion in a marked degree. It is not surprising. They advanced irresistibly upon 'Paris, and all but succeeded in their movement to drive a wedge into the Allies' lines. Then the tide turned. The Allies struck at tho enemy's Hanks, and the wedge had to be withdrawn preeipitatively, the centre making a stand on tho Marne, and then on tho Aisne line, where tho fighting has been con-

tinuous ever since. General JofTfCj unable to make material impression on tha front, where the defences were of a permanent nature, has boon seeking to envelop the enemy's right flank, with varying success. The Germans have delivered counter-attack after counterattack, but each has been repulsed. How fierce these have teen we can gather from General French's recent despatch. The British loss alone was orer 13,000 men. The Allies now hold the Germans right up to Courtrai, in Belgium, and are making progress on the other flank. The Germans aro being gradually squeezed on both flanks, and the timo cannot bo far distant when they will bo pushed back into their own country. In the eastern theatre, the Germans have totally failed in their offensive movement on Warsaw, find the Russians aro pressing them severely. The Germans have cleared the Russians from East Prussia, but the main attack is being made from the centre, and' through Austria-Hungary. The latter forces have been rc-oflicored by Germans, and strengthened by German regiments, but seemingly they aro unable to withstand the progress of the • Russians, who are still hammering Przemysl, the rallying point of the Austrian forces. It has been an eventful week, and the results have been entirely in favour of the Allies. We may with confidence look forward to the offensive movements on both the western and eastern sides being continued, with the actual invasion of Germany not far away.