LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4946, 21 September 1914, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

ALLIES’ POSITION FAVOURABLE. THE FIGHTING CONTINUES. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m) Paris, This Day. The latest communique reports the capture of numerous German prisoners. Fighting continues and the general position of the Allies is favourable. The German killed include General Yon Schanck. HASTILY STRENGTHENING. GERMAN FORTRESS TOWNS. KAISER SUPERVISING. Geneva. This Day. The fortress towns from Isten to Cologne are being hastily strengthened. Similar activity is lie'ing dist played in Lorraine. The Kaiser is still in Luxemburg supervising everything. PEACE DISCUSSION. GERMANY AND AMERICA. IX)ES THE KAISER KNOW? Washington, This Day. It is reported that Herr Bethuiann HoUweg is verbally discussing the possibility of terms of peace with the American Ambassador without indicating whether the Kaiser is aware of the discussion. President Wilson declines to accept the discussion other than as incidental to America’s enquiry concerning Germany’s attitude towards mediation. GERMAN FORCES REDUCED. MANY OFFICERS KILLED. Bordeaux, This Day. Captured German officers state that nearly all the companies of the Prussian Guard and the Tenth Army Corps have been reduced from 250 to seventy. The First Battalion Guards aiA commanded by volunteers because all the officers have been lost. The Guards during the retreat abandoned the general, colonel, eight officers and eight hundred men. In another Guards regiment, only five officers out of sixty remain. The first battalion lost all its officers. GERMAN CORPS DEFEATED. ONLY REMNANT REMAINS. London, This Day. The German Army Corps, under General Von Treetza, was again completely defeated near Landrooies and only remnants remain. Tho wounded were taken to Maubeuge. ALLIES WORKING ROUND. ENTRENCHED POSITIONS. London, This Day. The Times’ Bordeaux correspondent states that the Allies’ left is slowly working round difficult country, where Napoleon flung hack Bluchor. The Germans are strongly entrenched and have received ro-inforeeinoikfs from Belgium. They nro not, howover, likely to make another advance owing to the demands in East Prussia. GERMANS RETREAT. BATTERED BY RUSSIANS. Petrograd, This Day. Official. General Ronnankompf ''oinpelh'd th(> Germans to retreat at several points in East Prussia. Hie Russians en.ph*»."©d tlrrt.v -ix hnwtzers and sent them .to attack Ivangorod in Galicia. EAST PRUSSIAN OPERATIONS. ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY. Petrograd, This Day. Operations along the East Pra.<iian front are now cemnlrt >v on Russian territory, where the Germans are unable to utilise D e railways owing to the different gauge.