NERVOUS ANXIETY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 7

NERVOUS ANXIETY

ON IKE PART OF GERMANS TRYING TO KEEP THE ALLIES AT ARM'S LENGTH TREMENDOUS LOSSES EASTERN WAR THEATRE L i i i i , RUSSIANS AND ENEMY ACTIVE Nervous anxiety to keep the Allies at arms' length is being displayed by the Germans, says the military correspondent of The Times. Mean wh wile the entrenched lines of the. French and British are gradually approaching the enemy's position. Eastwood of Reims the German attack has been renewed with unavailing violence and tremendous losses — to the enemy. Good judges estimate that since the war began the Germans have lost four hundred thousand men in France alone. An official communique from Paris states thai; there is a comparative calm along the front except between the Aisne and the Argonne, where fierce German attacks have come to naught. The general | situation is unchanged. > With a view to possibilities the Germans are actively [preparing defences in Belgian territory, where fighting is almost continuous. , At Alost, 26' miles south-west of Antwerp, the German guns did considerable damage. Malines was also bombarded, the effect not being stated; but an attack on Grimbergen — a few miles north of the Belgian capital — was repulsed. In the Rumanian capital there has been a demonstration in favour of the Entente, whose colours were displayed, while the German flag was burned. Petrograd reports that the Russians are not by any means idle. On the Silesian front the enemy, which has been considerably reinforced, is displaying great activity. In much confusion the retreat of the Austrians continues, and the Russians have captured more prisoners and more guns. British-French operations in -the Cameroons have been very successful, a considerable portion of territory having already been secured.