A STUBBORN RESISTANCE

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 204, 2 October 1914, Page 7

A STUBBORN RESISTANCE

A - - RUSSIANS DEFEAT GERMANS AND SURROUND FLEEING AUSTRIANS MINES IN ADRIATIC, v HALY PROTESTS TO AUSTRIA. ..■.-.•■' ■ ■ ■ • i BRITISH WARSHIPS DESTROY GERMAN WIRELESS STATION. -According to latest advices the general situation of the Allied Forces Is satisfactory. Attacks all along the line have been hurled hack, . while the French, assuming the offensive, have met with success. In Belgium hot fighting continues, and in the bombardment of several forts the Germans have been repulsed with considerable losses. Two German divisions are said to have been annihilated by the Bussians in the eastern campaign, where operations are being conducted over a hundred mile front. The fleeing Austrians have been surrounded by the rapidly-advancing Russians. Addressing a force of Territorials, Lord Kitchener indicated his opinion that the war would not last long, but that he was taking no risks. There is great activity at Aldershot and elsewhere in England in the raising of the Second Army. -: • Italy has protested to Austria in regard to the laying of mines in the Adriatic. The German, bombardment has set part of the historic town of Tournai (Belgium) afire, and in revenge for a reverse the invaders have also* completely destroyed an undefended'town in France. The s.s.'Taintti reports having had a narrow escape from sharing the fate of'the Kaipara, sunk by the Kaiser Wilhehn der Grosse. An important German wireless station in the Caroline Islands has been shelled and destroyed by British : warships, and it is reported that there is considerable activity on the part of the Dutch in Java.

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