HEAVY FIGHTING ON LEFT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16665, 25 September 1914, Page 7

HEAVY FIGHTING ON LEFT.

ENEMY'S RANK APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TURNED. i. ii in THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE. A STRIKING NARRATIVE. BELGIAN FORCES ADVANCING ON BRUSSELS. ALLIES FLANKING MOVEMENT. LONDON, September 23.—Reports from France state that there has been terrific fighting between Peronne and St Quentln, and It Is suggested that the Allies have turned the right flank of the German position. BATTLE. OF THE AISNE. WELLINGTON, September 24.—The High Commissioner has supplied the Government with a comprehensive description of the fighting in the battle of the Alsne from September 14 to September IS, and the part taken by the British In It. THE NAVAL DISASTER. LONDON, September 23.—Survivors from the sunk cruisers have given some details of the disaster. Many survivors were taken to ports on the Dutch coast. They state that the German attack was made by several submarines, but none were seen prior to the sinking of the Abouklr. POSITION IN CALICIA. NOME, September 23.—Reports received here state that Przemysl and Cracow aro now the only Important points In Callola not yet In Russian hands. Przemysl has been invested. EAST PRUSSIAN FRONTIER. LONDON, September 23.—Messages from Petrograd Indicate that the Germans from East Prussia have Invaded Russia at throe points, but It Is stated that their advance has been checked. THE GERMAN LOBSEB. a LONDON, September 23.— Aocording to Router's correspondent, wounded from the battlefield state that the Germans have lost so enormously that they cannot resist much longer. SIGNIFICANT PREPARATIONS. LONDON, September 23.—The dates on whloh steamers were chartered to act as tenders to Cerman cruisers show that Germany had determined on war before the delivery of the Austrian ultimatum to Servla. SOUTH AFRICAN OPERATIONS. CAPE TOWN, September 23.—Ceneral Botha.will take supremo command of the operations against German South-west Africa.