ALLIES' BRILLIANT RESISTANCE

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 180, 4 September 1914, Page 7

ALLIES' BRILLIANT RESISTANCE

BRITISH ARTILLERY WORKS FEARFUL HAVOC LANCERS HEROIC CHARGE. RUSSIAN HOSTS AGAIN ACHIEVE VICTORY. SEVERE BOMBARDMENT OF CATTARO BY FRENCH FLEET. The operations of the Allied Forces during a period of days are graphically described in detail, although the censorship is responsible <for the absence of the name§ of several places. The Germans are still reported to be suffering enormous losses, but "by sheer weight of numbers are causing the retirement of theAHies. The work of the British soldiers is described as being superb, faced , • as" they were with tremeß(.dQUs odds. A lieutenant in the Navy gives a thrilling account of the battle off Heligoland, where the H.M.S. Ifew Zealand was in action. The Russians continue to make headway in the eastern theatre of war, a sortie from the strongly fortified Konigsberg was unavailing against the investing Russians. The French Fleet has bombarded the Austrian town of Cattaro, on the Adriatic, inflicting great damage, The seat of the French Governm&ot has been temporarily removed from Faris to Bordeaux. Further allegations of atrocities are made against the Germans, it being stated that they have buried the Russian wounded, while it is also announced that captured British soldiers have been subjected to gross indignities.' ) ■ ■ /

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