ON ALLIED LEFT WING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15728, 1 October 1914, Page 7

ON ALLIED LEFT WING.

BELGIANS RESIST ADVANCE FORTS SILENCE GERMAN GUNS ATTACK ON ANTWERP CHECKED FIERCE FIGHT AT KIAU-GHAU. BRITISH AIDING JAPANESE. An official communique, showing a new disposition of the allied forces, has been published in Paris. This, it is stated, unmistakably demonstrates that the French have surrounded the Germans in the Somme department. Earlier messages stated that there had been heavy fighting on the allies' left, and that all attacks on this part of the line had been repulsed. Eastward of Rheims the Germans suffered heavy loss. Two battalions of the Prussian Guards were wiped out. some regiments losing all their officers. In other parts of the field the Allies are progressing steadily, at some points against strongly prepared positions. The German attack on Antwerp, which yesterday's cable= grams stated to be imminent, has been checked at an early stage. Malines was occupied, but the bombardment of the forts between Malines and Antwerp brought an answering fire, which caused heavy loss to the Germans, and ended the bom= bardment. It is officially admitted in Buda Pesth, the capital of Hun= garv, that the Russians have crossed the Hungarian frontier at several points, despite reinforcements sent to oppose them. A British force is now fighting with the Japanese at Kiau= Chau. The allied force bad to face fierce fire by sea and land, but they have driven the Germans from their position, and now occupy high ground overlooking the enemy's main line of defence.