ALLIES FORCE ENEMY BACK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 215, 9 September 1914, Page 6

ALLIES FORCE ENEMY BACK.

SINKING OF THE PATHFINDER. 246 LIVES LOST. SLAUGHTER OF AUSTRIANS. (By Telegraph.—rresa Asaoclatton.) WELLINGTON, this day. The High Commissioners' cable, under date London Bth -Sept., 7.40 p.m., says: "It is officially announced that Genera-1 Joffre's plan? are. being steadily carried out. The Allied forces, acting on the offensive, have succeeded in checking and forcing the enemy in a north-easterly direction. "The further casualty last of the Pathfinder, which struck a mine. shows that '312 men are missing, fotiT arc dead, and thirteen wounded. •'Another British trawler has been sunk by a mine. The crew were saved." Under dale London Sept. 7. 10.35 p.m.. the High ■Convrrasriian-cr states.:—" It is officially reported from Paris that the Franco-P.ritis:h forreis were fighting to the ca,st of Paris against the. right wing of the enemy, near the Grand iMorin River. The AMies' forces are in good order. Nearer Paris the encounters indicate that the Allies are attempting a flanking movement. The Belgians successfully opened the dykes near Antwerp, flooding ground occupied by the Genuanf. Thousaards of casualties were reported. "The Russians are surrounding the fortified town of Przemysl. fifty-five (miles west of Lembe.rg. Tlic Russian cavulry is also in the C-arrcithians. '• British trade return* s-how a derrea.se of £13.000,000 in (lie imports-, and £10.000.000 in the exports for August. " It is stated, upon reliable information from Pa.ris. thai in a. general act-ion on a line, from iNurrbeuil-le-Tlaudouin to Verdun, the French, ■who .were 'powerfully assisted 'by the British, compellied the enemy to rctreiit. "The Russians. When in conflict, with the. Awstrrans near Lemherg, praictiea;lHdestroyed twelve division*. Austria's second army is a-liso suffering (severely in the region of Lubhn. and is now retreating."'