GOOD NEWS IN WESTERN THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16238, 23 November 1914, Page 5

GOOD NEWS IN WESTERN THEATRE

ALLIES' POSITION SOUND

SUPERIORITY OF TRENCH ARTILLERY

FIGHTING IN POLAND

RUSSIA REPELS TERRIFIC ATTACKS

FURTHER SUCCESSES RECORDED

AEROPLANE RAID ON ZEPPELIN

SHEDS

OPERATIONS IN THE EAST

FIGHT NEAR ERZEROUM

TALES OF BRAVERY, HORROR, AND DEATH

TRIBUTE TO THE BRITISH SAILOR

SIR JOHN JELLICOE'S PRIDE

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, November 21. Official: It is mainly an artillery duel in the north. We repulsed two infantry attacks at Hollebeke. The superiority of our artillery at the Aisne has been accentuated by its preventing the Germans from completing their new trenches. Our artillery has also destroyed the German trenches in the Argonne. We have progressed near Verdun and also in the Vosges. LONDON, November 21. The Times correspondent in northern France states that the position of the Allies was never more secure than to-day. It has been found possible to grant holiday leave to many officers and men after many weeks of arduous service. The Prussian Guards have suffered so severely in their attacks on the British that they have been withdrawn from the fighting line and sent to recuperate In the rear.

MINE DEFENCES. i COMPULSORY PILOTAGE. LONDON, November 20. The Admiralty announces that owing to an extension of the mine defences pilotage is compulsory at several ports, including the Humber, Tyne, Firth of Forth, Moray Firth, and Scapa Flow. EXPORT OF "TEA. RESTRICTIONS TO THE CONTINENT. LONDON, November 20. The British Government has prohibited the export of tea to the Continent, except to the Allies and to Spain and Portugal. THE NEW WAR LOAN. OVERSEAS REQUIREMENTS. LONDON, November 20. A Treasury minute shows that Canada requires £12,000,000 of the new war loan; Australia £18,000,000; New Zealand £5,250,000; and South Africa £7,000,000. The object of these advances is to provide funds to meet naval and military expenditure and other. charges directly due to the crisis, and not for financing or developing ordinary services. COMMISSIONS BILL. THIRD READING CARRIED. LONDON, November 20. Th 6 House of Commons read the Commissions Bill a third time. [The measure regularises the action of members of the Government in taking " Government offices of profit" when they j accept commissions in the army or navy.] MONEY AND MEN. SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE. LONDON, November 20. The House of Commons agreed to a sup- ' plementary vote of £275,000,000, and also to an additional 1,000,000 men. THE NUMBERS NECESSARY. OFFICIAL VIEW. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, November 20. Mr Tennant, in the House of Commons, being questioned, stated that the official view was that the million men now being raised were sufficient to ensure success. All demands for reinforcements for the front were fully and promptly met. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. AMENDMENT TO THE ACT. LONDON, November 20. The Attorney-general is amending the Trading With the Enemy Act. The measure appoints the Public Trustee as receiver of all property of alien enemies, including dividends and interest. IDENTIFICATION OF SAILORS. PROVISION OF DISCS LONDON, November 20. The Admiralty is supplying officers and men with identification discs, as these j should be especially useful for identifying the bodies of those who may be drowned. '