LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4946, 22 September 1914, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

POSITION OF THE ALLIES MEET A SUPERIOR FORCE. TEMPORARILY GIVE GROUND. Paris, This Day. Official.—The left wing below Soissons was vigorously attacked by a superior force and gave ground which was almost iinmediatelv re-conquered. On the right hank of the Oise we eon. firmed to progress northward of Rheims, repulsing all attacks. In the centre eastward of Rheims our attacks have further progressed. In

, the Argonne the situation is unehang--1 ed. In the Woevre district the rains i have rendered the movement of I troops very difficult, i RIGHT WING RETIRING. TOWARDS BELGIAN FRONTIER. Geneva, This Day. It is reported from Basle that the German right wing is slowly retiring in good order towards the Belgian frontier. SIEGE OF ANTWERP POSSIBLE. ENEMY BRINGING BIG GUNS. TOWN WELL PROVISIONED. Antwerp, This Day. The possibility of a siege still looms. The Germans are bringing siege guns with a range of seventeen miles. Antwerp has been provisioned for a year. Three thousand American cattle weekly have been arriving for six weeks. A MASS OF RUINS. CONDITION OF RHEIMS. New York, This Day. Advices from Bordeaux state that ! Rheims is a mass of ruins. Colleges and public buildings, in addition to the Cathedral, have been destroyed. ACTIVE IN AFRICA. GERMANS DESTROY WELLS. Capetown, This Day. German patrols were seen 30 miles from Kakamas. The Germans destroyed the wells within thirty miles of the frontier rendering an attach from Gordonia difficult. WHEAT SCARCE IN GERMANY. Rome, This Day. Wheat is increasingly scarce in Germany. NEWS OF REVERSES. WITHHELD FROM GERMANS. Antwerp, This Day. News of German reverses in France has filtered through Germans to Brussels, and the military Governor threatens to shoot all in possession of English or Belgian newspapers. Only German newspapers or Dutch pronouncedly pro-Gl’raan are authorised,