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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 203, 1 October 1914, Page 6

Gable messages of the last few days suggest strongly that the Allies have at last conclusively dominated the position in France. Following on the removal of the. War correspondents from the front, a, .message received overnight, and unconfirmed up to , the time • of j jwriting, stated that a communique j 'unmistakably demonstrates that thei French have surrounded the Germans J in the Sonnne department." This iwouldmean, if true, that the German right luul been turned and enveloped. later- received this-nmrniiig slates,, inter alia, ,011 the word of a Paris . correspondent, that "there has (been a long wait for good news, but the rjelieif .now is extraordinary.". What this ' ' good news'' is, exactly, we art! ! jnot informed, but ■ reading this ailI no.iincement .in conjunction with the i pi-evious messages referred to, it appears not improbable .that the Allies : ihavey after long and persistent endeavour, 1 rolled up the German right and so endangered the whole, of the German operations in France. Still, rememb.ering the ill-founded story of the surrender of von Kluck, enthusiasm over the. latest advices may be restrained until definite information of success is received from the -War Oflice. There is"cause for satisfaction in the. knowledge that, though Germany has splace.d her last reserves in the field, her invading armies, both 011 the east and the weist, are '"making 116 progress; On the .contrary, they are suffering re- , verses. It is obvious that, the ''general idea" of the German General Staff lias not worked out in accordance Avith specifications/ The crushing blpv' against,.France has not been delivered, and the' Germans have -had to retire in 'some confusion towards the frontier. Battered in France, harassed in Beland threatened in Prussia, the Kaiser and his stVft" have cause for and/serious cogitation these days.