IMPORTANT MOVE ON LEFT WING.
FURIOUS BATTLE MAY CON TINUE FOR SOME DAYS. FRENCH GUNS NOW SEARCHING ENEMY'S TRENCHES. Reported Naval Disaster: Three Armored Cruisers Stated to have been Torpedoed m North Sea. CAPTURE OF BOSNIA'S CAPITAL. OVERWHELMING DEFEAT OF AUSTRIA. KINC OF BELGIUM HAS A NARROW ESCAPE. RUSSIANS DRIVE AUSTRIANS FROM GALICIA. THE CRIME AGAINST CIVILISATION AT RHEIMS. . (Press Assn.— By Telegraph—Copyrignt.)
LONDON, Sept. 21. The King has ordered extensive planting work at Sandrihgham m order to diminish unemployment. Dr. Jowett, preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, said he hoped that now Germany would be emancipated from the servitude of militarism, and that now Britain - would be purified from moral and spiritual indifference arid friyolties. Germany claims that her war bonds -*5f fifty millions have been over subscribed, and subscriptions to an unlimited loan reached sixty-three .millions. An Englishman who has returned from Germany says Berlin persists that Germany is waiTuifg puirel_/ m, selfdefence against the wicked ' ambitions of the 'Entente, which is anxious to crush its strongest rival. Educated Germans confidently expect a land victory, but are prepared for naval defeat. They assert the impossibility of famine m Germany, as the crops ar© extraordinary. Reuter .reports that the manager of the Ottoman Telegraph Company at Constantinople, who is well known to have friendly feelings towards Britain and France, has been arrested as +.he •result of German pressure, because he published authentic war news.' This is a teetotal war as far as the Allies are concerned, while the trail of the Germans is marked by myriads of empty bottles. German newspapers announce that a Russian general, General Martos, was taken at Chain. "Halle, and court-mar-tialled for burning' German villages and shooting the inhabitants. ANTWERP, Sept. 21. The Germans expelled from. Wolverthem all males a^bove ten. years of age. A detachment of German cyclists burned the villages of Tremlvo and Rotselear. ' PARIS, Sept. 21. Every evening trains crammed . with wounded crawl back from the .front, thirty coaches composing a train, all packed fuller than excursion trains. The worst cases are lucky if they can lie at full length. I CAPETOWN, .Sept. 21. Official: A revised list of the Pegasus casualties gives 25 killed and 52 wounded and 10 missing. J WASHINGTON., Sept. ,'22. There is little doubt that President ' Wilson realises as clearly as any European statesman that talk of stopping the war at this juncture is mere mischievous nonsense, the product of inept diplomatic intrigues developed by pur- I blind and spineless pacificists and rervous financiers, who bet heavily on a speedy German victory. . "
ENORMOUS SUSGEi . GUNS. The German 17-inch siege gups discharge a projectile weighing 21,000 pounds, which describes a parabola covering twelves miles, and rising hi height to 1200 yards. The- gun is discharged electrically from a considerable distance, the operator not daring to remain m. 'the vicinity. The shell explodes with deadly gases.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3
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