GERMANS NEARING PARIS

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 178, 2 September 1914, Page 7

GERMANS NEARING PARIS

HUGE AND DECISIVE BATTLE EXPECTED ' , • .SLAUGHTER OF AUSTRIANS. \ TROUBLE THREATENED IN THE BA'feKANS. HEW ZEALANDERS HOIST THE* UNION JACK AT SAMOA. According to a message from the High Commissioner the Germans / are within seventy miles of Paris. Conflicting accounts of the fighting are to hand, but it is indicated that a-general action is in progress, although the issue is doubtful. The consensu* of expert- opinion is that a decisive action is Im- , pending. c a German brawler -caught. in the act of laying mines has been * rammed and'snnK by a British cruiser. / : There is*.in indicAtWthat Turkey may declare war on the Allies, anftwmplicationa Balkans ensue.. is said to have sent a -' * grave- consequences of such action. Further details are available of the progress of the Bussian advance, arid it is said that many German Poles, impressed by Bussian overtures, are in a state of mutiny. .The timely arrival of 4he Anglo-French Fleet in the Adriatic when the Austrians were bombarding on the Montenegrin coast, saved the situation, and the. enemy were repulsed. Interesting details are also to hand of- the occupation of Samoa by the advance miard of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force,

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