DEEDS OF GLORY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 221, 22 October 1914, Page 7

DEEDS OF GLORY.

THE LION HOLDS HIS OWN

FRENCH TRIBUTES TO BRITISH ENGINEERS EXPLOITS OF BELGIAN. ARMY BRITAIN'S NAVY ASSISTING THE FORCES ALLIED TROOPS MAKING PROGRESS EVERYWHERE. Reports from the scene of operations to-day contain striking evidence that the past glories of Britain have not been forgotten by the present generation. They are being renacted to-day. The French are similarly keeping their end up with deeds of valour, " gaining ground and prizes meanwhile. The loss of a British submarine, E3, is reported from a German source, but the English Press Bureau has no information on the subject. Portugal has mobilised, and is sending troops to the front. German . and "Austrian residents of Brighton* have been ordered to quit. A German destroyer, which escaped the vigilance of the Japanese at Kiao-Chau, went aground and was sunk. .-..'• Detailed progress has been made at various points in Belgium. The French paper, "Figaro," states that Antwerp has proved another Moscow to the Germans, who are riot benefiting by the occupa- ; tion. i I •'. - ..-.,;■• General activities are being conducted in connection with the German warships at Kiel. They have been extensively provisioned. The British warships on the Belgian coast have Tendered material assistance to the Allied troops on the mainland. The enemy has been shelled along the dykes and forced to retire. . French newspapers pay tribute to the work accomplished by the British Engineers.

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ALLIES' ADVANCE.

Horse Artillery, during the retreat near Compiegne, did - not receive the order to. retire, through the cutting of the telegraphs. "When the fog cleared they were subjected to a terrifie enfilading from the point previously held by the French cavalry and which the German field guns now occupied. -The battery immediately nnlimbered with magnificent coolness and fought the Ger.putting the enemy's guns out of action one by one until only one British g'uii remained, with' only three non-commissioned officers left to work it. When the last German gun was finally silenced the French cavalry re-lieved-the British and found all the German guns abandoned.

ASSISTED PROM THE SEA. GERMANS ROUTED. *~ (Received October 22, 9 a,m.) • LONDON, October 21. The Allies have made excellent pro* jjress in Belgium, the British naval -guns finding the range marvellously. They shelled the enemy * along tjie, dykes, and the German artillery was forced to retire. The Allies have made a general advance, and many Germans have been taken prisoners. A large number of, Belgian ' and Frenen. prisoners have been released. The German officers are dejected, and confess that the .armies in France and Belgium are retreating. Seventeen trainloads of German wounded have reached Bruges. The British warships on the coast near Ostend raked the villages south of Middelkerke and dropped heavy shells in the rear of the Germans. A detachment with mac'hine guns advanced «i»d the Germans were caught between ■ two fires. They wavered and then yielded. The infantry pressed forward, the cannonading from the sea increased, ' • imd the infantry fire was redoubled, and the whole German line resting on the uea retreated. , The Germans removed their guns towards Ostend, the wounded travelling to Bruges, to Ghent, and to Brussels. ' ,

The three non-coms have been recommended for the Victoria Cross.

MAGNIFICENT BRAVERY.

BRITONS' DEEDS t)F GLORY.

SPLENDID FRENCH ACHIEVEMENTS. (Received October.22, 9.25 a.in.) LONDON, October 21. A daring feat was the storming of Lartedtee, westward of Lille. The enemy was strongly entrenched in front of the village, and all day the artillery fiiielled the German position, devastating the ranks. The French were ordered to take the village at all costs. The way lay over opeii fields without cover. The French advanced in open order, and the Germans withheld their they were within 500 yards. Then they swept the area with shrapnel and rifle fire, inflicting heavy losses. The infantry advanced steadily and carried the trenches at the point of the bayonet. From every roof and window in the village the entry was opposed. , ; Mitrailleuses on the church tower swept the main street, but the Germans w'ere finally driven out. The French similarly carried Estailes. The French marines at Ypres, taking advantage of a mist, crawled up to the German lines and leaped into the trenches and fell on the enemy with the bayonet. The trenches were piled with German dead and wounded, and over 400 prisoners were taken. The French casualties were ten killed and 100 wounded. The Germans strongly attacked the trenches outside Pixmude at midnight oh the 16th. The Allies were outnumbered, and retired on the town and held the outskirts till reinforcements arrived at dawn, when the Germans were driven back aud the trenches re-won. An artillery duel followed, after which the ;Germans withdrew,

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THE BRITISH ENGINEERS.

TRIBUTE FROM FRENCH. GENERAL, HAIG PRAISES TROOPS. (Received October 22, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. French newspapers pay a tribute to the work of the British engineers in repairing . important railway bridges which the enemy had destroyed during a retreat, i Trains were able to cross within three> weeks.A marble slab has been placed on the bridge, inscribed "English Engineers, 1914." General Sir D. Haig, in a letter to a friend in England, says:—"We have had the hardest time, but nothing in our history has surpassed the soldierly

quality of the troops."

GERMANS DEPRESSED.

CANNOT INVADE ENGLAND. HEALTH OF TROOPS BAD. v • (Received October 22, 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 21. A Berlin correspondent says that the Germans are depressed by the influence of the Aisne struggle, which the capture of Antwerp failed to neutralise. They are unable to disguise the fact that an opportunity for a Zeppelin raid on England has passed owing to the approach of winter and storms. The battle on the Aisne has crippled the idea of an invasion of England; also the. health of the German troops in France is increasingly bad. Mines have been washed up, at Blankenberghe. Three exploded and two children were, killed.-' 1 The German losses at-Nicuport were about 5000. Ostend is full of Avounded.

Reinforcements, totalling 60,000, with many batteries, have arrived at Ghent. The Germans, when retreating, had a battery annihilated.

WARSHIPS PROVISIONED.

ACTIVITIES AT KIEL. GERMANS ENTRENCHED AT , NIEUPOBT. .■■■■« . (Received 'October' 22, 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 21. The German marines who were at Antwerp have rejoined tlie.fleet. The warships at Kiel are extensively provisioned. After the Germans' first drunken, oxgie at Ghent, the general commanding, stopped the sale <*f liquor.

A soldier insulted a woman, who complained. An officer immediately killed the soldier *with his revolver.

The "Telegraaf" states that 30,000 Germans are entrenched between MiddJekerke and Nieuport.

REPORTED BRITISH LOSS.

SUBMARINE E3. GERMAN STORY UNCONFIRMED. (Received October 22, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. A German official wireless message says that the British submarine E3 was sunk in German Bay, in the North Sea. The Press Bureau has no information.

It is reported that while the British ships were bombarding the Germans off the Belgian coast they were attacked by German submarines. Destroyers went to their assistance and drove off the submarines Avith the loss reported. The Germans are fortifying Ostendon the sea and south sides.

TO AID THE ALLIES.

FURTHER ASSISTANCE.

FRENCH BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED PARIS, October 21: The battleship Flandre, a 25,000 ton ship, has been launched at Brest.

CONFIDENCE RENEWED.

REFUGEES RETURN. MAKING FOR ANTWERP. AMSTERDAM, October 20. Many refugees have decided to return to Antwerp.

ANNIHILATING THE ARMY.

GERMAN PLANS. SPY ARRESTED IN ENGLAND. , LONDON, October 20. Karl Fiirek, a German, was remanded tinder the Official Secrets Act. A detective said he had hea I defendant discussing plans of a land mine, described as capable of annihilating the British Army. "■

A BELGIAN SUCCESS.

GERMANY'S YOUTHFUL ARMY. AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET. (Received October 22, 9.45 a.m/) PARIS, October 21. A letter, found on a German prisoner, from a friend at Dusseldorf, states:— "If you saw the volunteers and landwehr that are now leaving you would turn your head for ' .they are taking everybody. The last hope of Germany is that all the old men are becoming soldiers." . / '_, The Allies expelled five thousand Germans from Bruges. A great Belgian success is reported at Roulers. The Germans were driven with considerable losses to Pitthem.

The Germans, on Sunday, ordered a strong force, mostly youths under twenty, to cross the Yser at all costs. They failed in the task, and their losses are estimated at nearly ten per cent.

The British warships were of great service in bombarding the Germans advancing on Nieuport.

The Germans who,.were strongly posted at Lebfeaty near Armentieres, desperately attempted to break through the Allies' lines. The combat lasted from" dawn to mid-day, the Germans then weakening under heavy artillery fire. - Eventually the German's positiou was stormed at the point, of the bayonet. Three hundred and seventy-five, Germans were captured in* the fight between ,Ypers and., Lille.

DEFENDER OF LIEGE.

MEMORIES OF A GREAT SIEGE.

GENERAL LEIMAN'S DIARY. , ROME, October 20. General Leiman, Avho is in captivity in Magdeburg, has 'written his memoirs of the siege of Liege, of which extracts have, been published in Berlin. He states that the Germans occupied the city on August 7, and were then able to bombard the forts on the inner side. They commenced to bombard Fort Lovein on the 11th with seven and eleven-centimetre guns; and on the 15th commeuced using -.16-Jin weapons, which hurled grenades weighing a thousand kilogrammes, which had an explosive' 'force that surpassed anything known. Their approach was heralded by an acute buzzing, and they burst with a thunderous roar!, raising clouds of stones. .•..'...,, The bombardment on the 15th commenced at five in the.morning, and was unbroken until two in the afternoon. A. grenade wrecked the arcade under which the General Staff was sheltering, and the officers were" almost asphyxiated by horrible gases. General Leiman, on inspecting the exterior of the fort, found that it had been reduced to a rubbish-heap. The slopes aud counterslopes were a chaos of rubbish, and huge tongues- of flame were shooting from the cupola. His only thought then was to save the remnant of the garrison, but on re-travcrsing the gallery he was violently flung to the earth, and when consciousness returned he found Germans bending over hhn.

HOPE AND CONFIDENCE.

THE LITTLE WO ED "HOME." FULL AND TRUE. "Times'' and "Sydney Sun" Services. (.Received October 22, 8 a.m.) LONDON", October.2l. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent in France says: —"The Kaiser's Channel expeditionary force has received the last man and rifle it can hope for. It must go forward now to destruction. "Not since the Lille and Arras fights have we gone to bed with greater hope and confidence for the morrow." "The Times," in a leader, says:— "At whatever spot Imperial contingents touch the British shores, all are thrilled by the thought that they have come home. That little word bears such a world of meaning that all men and women of our blood will fight for it and all it • represents. It is the deep conviction with which they realise this truth that gives such incalculable value to-their-.support.- All parts of the Empire are safe, andthe note struck rings full and true." 0 :':/..', "The Times" military correspondent says General French's dispatches should inspire confidence in the'result of the war. He cannbt v discover that a German shot has accomplished anything in the last two months except the destruction of a few forts by heavy guns". The Germans have not sustained their reputation, and the Allies haye now no difficulty in repulsing them. The hopelessness of the struggle is beginning to dawn on German soldiers in the field. While they are still making half-hearted attacks, the old spirit seems to be knocked out of them. The loss of officers and the appearance of secondrate troops is exercising a disintegrating effect upon the Germans. A journalist at Rotterdam says the quantity of German ammunition would surprise Europe. The arsenal is working-'con-tinuously under great pressure, making big guns. Two goods waggons arrived at Munich full of German soldiers who were demented owing to the intolerable noise of the battlefield. Forty German spies were found at Dover disguised as Belgian refugees.

RUSSIANS HOLD ON.

GHASTLY DETAILS. AUSTRIAN EFFORTS FOILED. . % . (Received October 22, 9 a.m.) 1; PETROGEAD, October 21. The battle has rolled back from Warsaw and cannonading is now inaudible. A constant stream of v mnded and-pri-soners is pouring into the city. The battle progressed' in ceaseless rain. .-'- Ghastly details of the fighting have reached Warsaw, where crowds manned bridges to watch the corpses of the enemies floating down the river. The Austrians made strenuous efforts to cross the 1 river between Faroslav and Przemysl, but were repulsed. They then'endeavoured to outflank the Russians, south-of Przemysl, but several day's obstinate fighting favoured the Russians.

PORTUGAL'S QUOTA.

MEN FOR THE FRONT. A HANDSOME REINFORCEMENT. (Received October 22, 10.10 a.m.) LISBON, October 21. "Seculo" and -"Roirablieay state that Portugal is sending eight thousand artillery to France under General Jaims de Castro, also four thousand marines and artillerymen".' "Seeulo" states th,it when preparations are -"complete Portugal will send 90.000 men to the front. , ' (

DESPERATE FIGHTING.

ALLIES' SLOWNESS EXPLAINED. FORMIDABLE' .OPERATIONS. (Received October 22, 10.30 a.m.) , PARIS, October 21. Between Roye and Arras the Germans utilised a cutting for a new canal, sixty miles long, lying between Arleux and Noyon; which afforded facilities for formidable military operations, largely explaining the Allies' slow progress, and. resulting in desperate fighting in the Lassigny, Roye, Hezlo, and Rosset districts.

/TRAIN SMASH.

REFUGEES KILLED! MANY OF THEM CHILDREN. ' (Received October 22, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. The Boulogne collision, which was reported on Tuesday, is confirmed. A goods train telescoped a Belgian refugees' train. Many" of the victims were children. .

A PRINCE KILLED.

Powder magazine explodes, germans injured. (Received October 22, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. Prince Wolrad, half brother of the Duchess of Albany, was killed on patrol duty on the western front, owing to negligence. A powder magazine near Brasschaet, iiorth-east of Antwerp, exploded on Sunday and some German soldiers were seriously injured.

FOOD FOR GERMANY.

PURCHASED IN AMERICA. DUTCH MIDDLEMEN. NEW YORK, October 20. Business circles insist that Germany is purchasing increasingly large quantities of commodities in America through Dutch middlemen.

PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS.

AMENDED PROCLAMATION. BREAD, BRAN, AND POLLARD. (Received October 22, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 22. The Government has further varied the prices of foodstuffs, proclaiming the folloAving maximums:—Bran and pollard, Northumberland and Cumberland, £6 o/- per ton; outside these districts a 5/-'. advance on the prices .'prevailing in each locality; on September 10.." Bread', outside Northumberland and Cumberland, the : priceprevailing -on'.August 1.

AUSTRIAN OUTRAGE.

OTTAWA HOUSE BOMBED. -< RUSSIANS THE OBJECT. OTTAWA, October 21. :. Nine houses in Montreal, containing Russians, were blown--np by a bomb.: There were many miraculous escapes. Several of the inhabitants were seri : ously injured. The body of an Austrian, one of the perpetrators, was discovered.

IN THE PACIFFC.

GEEMAN ISLAND TAKEN. OPERATIONS OF THE .ALLIES. (Received Oetober 2-2, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, October ,22. ' Reports of the recent operations in the Pacific stat% that one of the-Allies' warships visited Anguar Island and landed armed crews.. They arrested the German officials and destroyed the wireless station. The Norwegian barque Remonstrant arrived from Jaluit. : She was previously chartered by the Germans to take a cargo.of Westport coal to Matupi, New Britain, afterwards proceeding to the Marshall Group /to load copra. Being a neutral she suffered no inconvenience. Whilst at Jaluit a fleet of German colliers arrived after coaling the German fleet.

CODE CAJSLES.

EESTRIOTIONS BEMOVED. THE UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, October 20.The Board of Trade announces a marked contraction in the percentage of unemployed in the insured and uninsured trades. ' The Government will shortly permit the transmission of a lihnted number of business messages in code between, Britain and" extra-European countries. [The secretary. of the Post 'Offices notifies that on and after Monday next, 26th inst., registered code indicators will be allowed as. addresses in telegrams exchanged:—(l) Between, any two places in British territory, including Egypt; (2) between British territory, including Egypt and territory, of allied countries arid the United States of America. The name and address of addressee must be Avritten at the foot of the telegram by the sender, but not telegraphed. No telegram for an address registered since June 30 last is to be accepted. The censor'-at the office of destination may require the delivery office to furnish the address at which a telegram is to be delivered. Code indicator must not be accepted as the signature of a telegram. Cables and inland telegrams under these conditions from Monday next will be accepted.]

GERMANS IN NAMUR.

BRIDGES OVER MEUSE. MORE ZEPPELIN gHEDS. ROTTERDAM, October 21. The Germans are ! re-fortifying Namur, and have erected bridges over the Mouse between Liege and Vise. They are building four Zeppelin sheds at, Antwerp and three at Brussels.

ENEMY 1 MAKES EFFORT.

BELGIANS HOLD GROUND. VIOLENT ATTACK. PARIS, October 21. A communique states that the Germans made an effort over the whole front/ The Belgians held their ground remarkably well at La Bassee, where there was a violent attack. The other main efforts were , made 1 at Mametz, between Albert and Peronne, and at Vanguois, in the east of the Argonne, and finally; on the heights of the Meuse, ami in the region o"f Champton. All were repulsed.

DETAILED PROGRESS.

MAIN POSITION ATTACKED. ADVANCES TO LILLE. PARIS, October 20. The following official statement is made: —"We have made detailed progress at various points in Belgium, despite violent attacks on the main position on the line of the Yser. There has been further fighting in the Ypres region. The Germans continue to strongly hold tjie-advances fo Lille in

the direction of Armentieres, Formes, and La Bassee.

"On the Meusc the enemy vainly tried to repulse'the Allies when they debouehed on the right bank at Fort Camp des Romaines." PARTS, October 21.

It is officially stated that the Germans attacked the whole front, from La Bassee to Meuse, the attack being particularly violent at La Bassee, and were everywhere repulsed.

GERMAN GUNS DESTROYED.

ALLIED CAVALRY. ENGAGEMENTS IN DETAIL. PARIS,' October 20. A battery of 7.5 centimetre gunsdestroyed fifteen German mitrailleuses at Vermelles. A wounded officer says that the public has not realised the value of the Allied cavalry's work" in the north:west of France. <. There is no longer massed; charges in which thousands meet in shock, but engagements, in detail, in which ruse and initiative .play a "prominent -part; Cavalry which penetrates the enemy's lines and gains ground without rousing attention does much to ensure victory. The Allies, in hand-to-hand fighting, always have the advantage, despite the unconcern ■ With which German generals -sacrifice life..

A RETREAT.

ALLIES' HEAVY GUNS. ANTWERP ANOTHER MOSCOW. PARIS, October 21. . The "Figaro" says that the ; movement of Germans toward.; northern France has all appearances of a retreat. It is primarily due to the splendid heavy guns of the French and- the British armies, which have made the German lines untenable. The Germans are finding Antwerp another Moscow. The German army is not benefiting by the occupation. Citizens are required to feed. 150,000 Germans daily.

A LOST ART,

DRESSING IN PARIS. EXTRAVAGANT DESIGNS AVOIDED. LONDON, October 20. Dress has become'a lost art in Paris. "Women are avoiding extravagant and outrageous dressing. Skirts are quite short, and wider round the feet. A little black velvet hat is popular. It has been inspired by the cap of the London Scottish Regiment. Paris, ■ socially r is dead. Possibly Americans will endeavour to establish their own school of fashions for America.

THE ITALIAN BAYONET.

GARIBALDI DISAPPOINTED. AN INFAMOUS WAR. ROME, October 20. Riecioti Garibaldi, writing to the "Giornale d'ltalia," says:—"lt is a pity that, instead of a few thousand Italian bayonets participating in ,*he war, we have not sent a million and a half. That would have saved several hundred thousands of lives and millions of francs' worth of property. Humanity reproaches us for letting the opportunity pass 1 of ending an unnecessary, atrocious, and infamous war."

GREECE PREPARING.

ROME, October 20. Messages received at Naples from Greece state that warlike preparations are energetically proceeding. Four hundred and "fifty thousand of the first line are ready, "and 200,000 more will be ready in a fortnight.

CANADA'S EFFORT.

RUSH TO..;JOIN COLOURS. ■ \ i '-SOOO ENROLLED. OTTAWA, October 20. There is a great rush to join the second contingent. Eight thousand men have already enrolled.

THE UNWONTED SILENCE.

"THE TIMES'S" COMMENT. "MILLIONS WHO WATCH AND WAIT." V LONDON, October 20. "Tlje Times," in a leader, =says: — "After weeks of weary waiting, the nation has had the satisfaction of reading two immensely interesting dispatches from General Trench. We see no reason why the first, dated September 37, should hot have been published earlier. The Government must remember more constantly that the millions who ..watch and wait, while puzzled at the unwonted silence,; are apt to misunderstand it. The people will bear any strain with calmness and fortitude so long as they know that in due season they will always be told the truth. The whole country will be inspirited and nerved afresh by these dispatches."

A CONTRADICTION.

ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. ; „^ BRITISH PROFESSORS' REPLY. .*>: LONDON, October 21. Over a hundred distinguished Brit' ish scientists have issued a reply to the ; German processors' manifesto. The v reply advises the German r)rofessors to obtain the full text of the diplomatic , L documents, from which they will learn that Germany was the one Power that 4 did not strive for peace. Germany's - : 3 one grievance is that we have not al- , lowed her to subdue other European Powers and thus enable her to deal : . with Britain. The reply strongly con- '-"C demns the destruction of Louvain, -- Rheims, and pralines. -*•£

ENEMY ORDERED TO QUIT. 4

MORE CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS, \1 ' FACTORY TAKEN OVER. '* -/| LONDON, October 21. - '■£ Every German and Austrian resident -j in "Brighton has been ordered to quit within a few days. . i The "Evening News" reports the discovery of heavy concrete founda- r \ tions in a German factory dominating "\- Torbay, on the Devonshire, coast. ' , : . . The Board of Trade Jias taken over. ,•' during the war a German dye factory 2 at Ellesmere, Cheshire, to supply in- \J digd to Government contractors. j; >s . 5

AGROUND AND DESTROYED.

A GERMAN WARSHIP. ' 4 * ' ~j FOREIGN LINER CRIPPLED. TOKlO,,October 21. ' { The Geraian destroyer S9O, which.es- '*'% caped from -Tsing-tao in the darkness, was found aground and destroyed, ''*/'& sixty miles south of Kiao-ehau. ~ ,$ LONDON, October 20. - - The Holland-Amerika liner Potsdam ■--, i struck a mine in the North Sea on ■ » ;' Monday night, and made port in a crippled condition. LONDON, October 21. . V ,The Holand;Amerika liner Potsdanl. ~/ has arrived, but the story, that she was. ;i----struck by a mine in the North Sea is; '- : ; contradicted. "''',"' - J

HIGH TREASON.

A WIDESPREAD PLOT. ,-i SMUGGLING RESERVISTS FROM CANADA. ■ ' -'i OTTAWA, October 21. ,/v The military authorities in Montreal " ? t 'have -discovered a -widespread plot, -- ! backed by ample funds "from the Aus- -'"'; trian Government, to smuggle reservists •- ? from the country, of whom there are v a hundred thousand in Canada. Israel Stanhoefer, a naturalised Britisher, who -_., has been arrested, supplied the reserv- - " ists with tickets and money, and in- ' st rue ted -them to pass the border as ',-' Rumanians. This, is the first treason■ case since the Kiel trial in 1855.' ' Twenty thousand Austrians in Mon- vtreal are destitute, and soup kitchens , - are being opened. "/^

AUSTRALIA'S SUPPORT. J- ■ 'l

TWO THOUSAND MEN A MONTH. FRENCH AND JAPANESE EULOGIES ;".'- Sydney; October '2l.' "; ' The Postmaster-General, Mr -Spenee; • _ \ presided at the opening of the Country" . Press -Conference. The . Consuls of" - "-, France and Japan were present, and in their speeches eulogised England's action and Australia's ready support in ". .1 the war. ". *'"

Mr Spence said Australia was prepared to send two thousand men a month so long as the war lasted:- One and all , ' sincerely hoped that the end of the war 'would mean everlasting peace.