NO DEFINITE NEWS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1914, Page 7

NO DEFINITE NEWS

REGARDING THE GREAT BATTLE VIOLENT FIGHTING CONTINUES ENEMY'S FIERCE ATTACKS ALLIES MAKE SUGHT PROGRESS RUSSIANS CLAIM SUCCESSES "Absolutely incorrect" is how Sir George Keid, High Commissioner for Australia, characterises the statement attributed to Lord Kitchener that the war was not likely to last long. To-day we are told that the military correspondent of The Times warns the country of the prospect of a long war, and urges that 'Britain must take corresponding measures. No definite news regarding the great battle that has been in progress for days between the Allied forces and the Germans is yet to hand, although a war correspondent, in addition to others in a position to form some opinion worth consideration, declares that "there is no longer room for misgivings as to the ultimate outcome of the battle. " Meanwhile violent fighting continues on the left, where the Germans, largely reinforced, have made several severe attacks, which the Allies are said to have shattered. A message from Copenhagen credits the influential German journal Berliner Tageblatfc with the admission that "the Germans, far from having won, ard'in a dim' cult position." An attempt by the enemy to slip through the Anglo-French lines in the Argonne resulted in failure ; on the other hand, the Allies have made slight progress between the Argonne and the River Meuse'. In a speech at Cardiff , Wales, the British Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) stated that in 1912 his Cabinet laid down terms of Britain's relations with Germany; ' Britain declared that she would neither make nor join in any unprovoked attack upon Germany. Yet Germany had asked for a pledge of neutrality when 'she herself was enormously increasing her aggressive resources ! When Germany attempted to dominate Europe, only one answer was possible — and Britain gave it. The Generalissimo of the Eussian forces reports that the fighting in East Prussia continues, and that his armies have achieved several successes. From Galicia the Germans are advancing in great force towards Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland, with the object of cutting the Russian lines. In Hungary the Cossack outposts are far afield.