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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7

AGAIN IN TOUCH

FRENCH LEFT WING AND GERMAN RIGHT RUSSIANS PRESSING FORWARD ENORMOUS CAPTURE OF PRISONERS PRIVATIONS OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS CHINA'S REPLY TO GERMANY PACIFIC CABLE CUT

The comparative meagreness of the cable news of the war to-day is explained by the cutting of the Pacific Cable at Fanning Island by the German cruiser Nurnberg. The hostile cruiser was coaled off the coast of the TTnited States early in the war, and the Leipzig later at San Francisco. Panning Island is 1500 miles from Samoa, and as it is known that cruisers of the Australian fleet in these seas are searching for the Nurnberg it is not likely her lease of life will be long. The news received to-day confirms previous reports of the completeness of the j Austrian rout at Lemberg and elsewhere in the vicinity. Nearly 100,000 Austrians have been taken prisoners and an enormous quantity of supplies and munitions of war. The debris of the Austrian forces which invaded Poland are trying to retreat back on Cracow across difficult and barren country, and regiments are surrendering to the Russians under the compulsion of sheer hunger* Meanwhile the Russians are advancing everywhere in GaHcia and are investing Przemysl, the sole remaining fortress, except Cracow, on the Russo-German-Austrian frontier. The passes into Austria through the Carpathians are being seized by Cossacks and held. Along the whole _ front from Galicia right across to East Prussia the Russians are steadily moving" forward on Germany. From the scene of war in France there is little news, except that the Allies have engaged the Germans — probably the First Army— on the Grand Morin River, just south of the Marne and some forty miles east of Paris. This seems an indication of the opening of another general engagement along the line. In Belgium the gallant defenders at Termonde, in the • neighbourhood of Antwerp, seem to be holding their own well. The depletion of German resources in mem is already foreshadowed in the fact that white-haired old reservists are filling the gaps in Belgium. Most satisfactory is the announcement that the British Navy has suffieieat men to spare marines and reservists in ample numbers tcr form one marine and two naval brigades for laud service, if required, in the form and under the ■ name of the Royal Navy Infantry.. *