THE KAISER LOOKS ON DEFEAT!

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2489, 7 November 1914, Page 2

THE KAISER LOOKS ON DEFEAT!

He Cries "On to Calais!" but the Allies Block the Way.

Terrific Slaughter of German Forces.

A Made-in-Germany Naval Victory.

Britain Declares War Against Turkey.

A Feat of De Wet the Raider.

" War is Hell!" This famous summing up by General Sherman is borne out by the news which appears in to-day's STAR. The fighting between Ypres and Lille on the Allies' extreme left has been the fiercest during the campaign, and it ended in the appalling slaughter of Germans round the British trenches described in two lengthy cables to-day. The British were forced to retire from-their position, but they left carefully prepared pits near the trenches into which the German host poured like a torrent. Then the counter-attack was launched. The enemy in solid mass was decimated by artillery and rifle fire, by cavalry charge, and by infantry with the bayonet. From the terms of congratulations to the -Czar by Generalissimo Joffre we gather that the Russians really have made a triumphhal march during the past fortnight. More details just to hand show how desperate was the fighting—which the Kaiser watched and saw his arms go down. The Turks want to fight the Russians only, but England has declared war against the Sick Man of Europe. All the evidence points to the collapse to-day or to-morrow of tbe Germans in Kaiaochau Bay, where the Japanese have not spared themselves, There is hopes that the naval battle off Valparaiso is another made-in-Germany affair—invented, perhaps, to divert attention from operations elsewhere. De Wet again proves himself a master raider. The Turks have lost much fuel in the sinking of supply ships. .