VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15770, 19 November 1914, Page 7

VIOLENT GERMAN ATTACKS

EFFORT TO REACH COAST NEWS OF CHILIAN ENGAGEMENT JAPAN'S ACTION IN PACIFIC READY TO VACATE ISLANDS. AUSTRALIA ACCEPTS CONTROL The battle in West Flanders has been resumed with great violence, the Hermans making enormous efforts to reach the coast. Ihe allies have made more or less marked progress at nery point attacked from the Yser to the Meuse. The London Daily Mail reports that the Germans lost nearly 1011,000 men in four days at Yores. The captain of the British cruiser Glasgow has reported on the na\al engagement off the coast of Chili. Early in the light a fire started on the Monmouth, and there was an immense explosion on the Good Hope, the flames rising 200 ft high. Three German cruisers were engaged - the Scltarn= horst, (ineisenau, and a smaller vessel. The Glasgow is at Valparaiso. The Russians have partially invested the fortified town of Cracow, in Galicia. A considerable area of the town is on fire, and the inhabitants are fleeing. The Austrians have lost heavily in a sortie irom Przemysl, which is completely in\ested. The Germans on the Polish frontier have checked the Russian advance, and battles are now in progress midway between Warsaw and the German frontier. In East Prussia the Russians have broken down the German resistance. The Germans are again in retreat. The Turks have sustained heavy losses in engagements with the Russians in Armenia and at ports in the Black Sea. The Goeben and the Breslau, which were damaged in the bombardment of the Dardanelles by the allied warships, have reentered the Black Sea. British forces have occupied Fao, ■it the head of the Persian Gulf, and have fought two successfill actions in the vicinity. The British cruiser Minerva has bombarded the town of Antakia, on the coast of Syria. Japan has intimated to the British Government that it is ready to hand over the Caroline and Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, recently seized from Germany, to an Australian force. Australia has accepted the responsibility for the military occupation and government of the islands till the end of the war, when the matter of their ultimate disposal will be decided by the allied Powers. An Australian force is to be sent to occupy the islands. Another contingent of troops from India has reached 1 ranee.