HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16239, 24 November 1914, Page 5

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORTS.

ADDITIONAL RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

DECISIVE BATTLE AT CRACOW,

ALLIES SUCCESSFUL IN FRANCE

WELLINGTON, November 23,

The Prime Minister has received the following from the High Commissioner, dated Nondon, November 23:—

Official: Russian successes are reported over the Prussians at Cracow; the battle was decisive. German attempts to march on Warsaw were unsuccessful.

Snow is impeding operations in both theatres. There is only intermittent bombardment in the regions of Arras and Oise. Several lines of German trenches were taken by the Allies, whose artillery repulsed massed attacks at the Woevre.

BELGIAN REFUGEES.

THE COLOUR MIXTURE.

THll BRITISH NAVY.

RECENT AEROPLANE RAID.

ARRANGE M E NTS WITH BRITAIN

LONDON, November 22.

Two British' members of the House of Commons are in Holland officially arranging for the' emigration of many Belgians to England with the British Government's assistance.

There are a quarter of a million refugees in Dutch territory.

GERMAN PAPER SARCASTICALLY

INDIGNANT.

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, November 22. Received Nov. 23, at 5.20 p.m.)

The Cologne Gazette berates Mr Asquith for asserting that the Kaiser's aims have been wrecked. It proceeds: —" The immediate aim of the Kaiser is to protect his people from the Turcos. English, Belgians, Sikh, Russian, French, Tartars, and all other black, white, yellow, and brown mixtures."

GERMANS GET INFORMATION,

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.)

LONDON, November 22.

A British naval officer writes : "W© have long evenings, and are always ready to move. Ge.-man submarines are outside even now. It is funny how they get information of our movements. They knew where the fleet was when it was in Devonport, though we did not know ourselves."

SECOND AVIATOR NOT KILLED,

AMSTERDAM, November 22.

A British officer on one of the aeroplanes that raided Friedrichshafen was severely ■wounded in the head and hand.

The other aviator did not fall into the Lake Constance as he dropped a bomb later in another place.

ONE BRITISH AVIATOR CAPTURED,

FOUR ESCAPE*

BERNE, November 23. (Received Nov. 24, at 1.30 a.m.)

Swiss observers state that five aeroplanes participated in the raid on Friedrkhshafen. One bomb fell on the roof of the airship shed at Friedrichshafen. One British aviator was captured; the others escaped.

GERMAN LOSSES.

THEIR OWN MILITARY ESTIMATE,

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.)

LONDON, Notvember 22.

A Berlin message states that well-in-formed military circles there estimate the German losses at 1£ millions in killed, wounded, and missing. This is exclusive of the sick, who axe reckoned at half a million.