LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4945, 19 September 1914, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

THE LINE OF BATTLE. AT,ONO OISE AND MEUSE. GERMANS FORT I EYING. ALLIES’ PROGRESS SLOW. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) Paris, This Day. Official. The battle continues along lb whole length of the Oise and the Meuse. The Germans occupy a prepared position and are armed with heavy artillery, consequently the Allies’ progress is slow, hut the vigor and enthusiasm are unabated.

The Allies successfully repulsed a : German counter-attack. The situation generally is unchanged. The enemy continues to fortify positions. DEVELOPMENTS IMMINENT. IN NORTH-WEST BELGIUM. PREPARATIONS AT LIEGE. Antwerp, This Day. The Germans are preparing a strong reinforcement outside Liege to prevent attacks from the north and north-west. There are veiled hints in Antwerp that interesting development* in the military operations in the north-east of Belgium are imminent. FOUR ARMIES BEING RAISED. FOR THE LONG STRUGGLE. KITCHENER’S ARRANGEMENTS. London, This Day. Lord Kitchener, in the House of Lords, paid a tribute to Sir John French’s consummate skill and calm courage in withdrawing his force in the face of vastly superior numbers. He added that the struggle was bound to he a long one. Britain now had in the field six divisions and two cavalry divisions, which were maintained at full strength by steady reinforcements, also by drawing on over-seas garrisons and replacing by Territorials, whereof a division has already been sent to Egypt and a brigade to Malta. Four armies are now being raised, two collected at the training centres; tho third is being formed, and the fourth, consisting of reserves, will be utilised to feed the Expeditionary Force. He was confident that our new armies will be ready and welltrained to take the field in the spring and will prove themselves formidable opponents.

THE STAGGERING COST. GERMANY £3,000.000 DAILY. Copenhagen, This Day. The Berliner Tageblatt says the cost of the German military administration is £3.000,000 daily. The Germans’ total expenditure of the war to date is £132.000,000. ‘ GERMAN DESIGN FRUSTRATED. TO CROSS SWISS TERRITORY. 1 RAPID MOBILISATION. London, This Day. The Standard’s Geneva correspondent shows that Germany intended 1 to cross Swiss territory in order to | turn the fortress of Belfort. The project was defeated by the extraor- J dmary rapidity of the Swiss mobilisation, which was completed in forty- * eight hours.