ALLIES MAKE ADVANCES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15502, 12 November 1914, Page 7

ALLIES MAKE ADVANCES.

THE BATTLE FRONT IN FRANCE. HOW THE EMDEN WAS DESTROYED i • KONIGSBERG MADE HARMLESS. 9 TURKEY AND TRIPOLI. A NEW WORRY FOR GERMANY. BALKANS AND NEUTRALITY. e- " : ' r "'— Frew Association —By Tel. —Copyright.

1 Received 1.30 a.m., Nov. 12th. LONDON, Nov; 101 A "Daily Chronicle" despatch says that advance Belgian patrols have penetrated to Ostend, thus relieving the coast line covering Dunkirk, Nieuport and Ostend from the menace, ot the past two weeks. THE POSITION IN FRANCE. FRENCH ON DEFENSIVE. Received 7.20 p.m., Nov. 11th. PARIS, Nov. 10High, ground running from Arras to Roye forms a sort of frontier between, the armies. The French are content to repei attacks, without attempting to seriously assail the strong line of Geiman positions on the higher hilis eastward. Occasionally the French carry out victorious hand-to-hand encounters in tlie villages occupying strategical point. Arras is dominated by German big guns, thundering from heights north-east of the town, which command six highways that are strategically important to operations northward. The Germans by desperate efforts re-1 cently gained a fopthold in the suburbs j by determined house to house fighting by day and night, but the French still from- the trenches with a signalling system known only to themselves, and without a sound kill German sentries to make openings for the British troops. Twenty Pathans south of Ypres overpowered German sentries noiselessly and then the rest of the party crept for- i ward, suddenly flung fireballs into the air and da-shed into the trenches. For ten minutes the Pathans hacked and slew the half-awake and wholly b&wildered who were sleeping preparatory to a night attack on the! British trenches. \ ■ _____ SCOTS IN A TIGHT PLACE. Hand-to-hand fighting at Messines continues. The Soots Guards and Scots Greys brilliantly bore the brunt of hoid the town. The Germans hold Bapaume and Peronne, and regularly bombard Albert, but the French by a brilliant bayonet attack captured Chaulnes and expelled the enemy between Doulens and Bapaume. GERMAN FORCE. CONTINUALLY ADDED TO. , Receiwed 8-50 p.m., Nov. 11th. PARIS, Nov. 10. ' Reinforcements continue to ai-rive to support the German right, and the British in many positions are outnumbered by ten to one. < INDIAN WARFARE. The .Indians are figjiting with am enthusiasm and a dash which electrified their British companions. The Ghurkhas at night continually discard their rifles, and armed with their kurris creep several Once a devastating shell fire raked, the British line, and. a retirement was imminent when the sliejl fire ceased. German masses pushed forward, to sweep the trenches. The Scotsmen leapt out and- waited to charge. The conflict was short and -sharp. The British lost heavily but flung back the enemy. ; '

GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED. PRUSSIAN REGIMENT WIPED OUT. Received 9.0 p.m., Nov. 11th. LONDON, Nov. 10. Correspondents report that the Germans made desperate efforts to pierce the Allies' line at Warneton, north east of Armentieres. Two French battalions on November '4th ambushed the eighth regiment of Prussian infantry, which was occupying a village five miles from Warneton. One regiment hid in a wood during the night, and another crept up to a farm on the other side of the village, and cut down a German battery before it was able to fire a shot. When the fog lifted the regiment in the wood dashed int-o the village. The Germans were surprised, but rallied and then the second regiment appeared in their real'. Three hundred and fifty Germans surrendered, and the rest were killed. Not a "man escaped, and the whole battery was captured. THE KAISER. PROPOSES TO GO HOME. The "Daily Mail's" Copenhagen correspondent says he hears from Berlin that preparations are being made at Potsdam for the Kaiser's return. It is rumoured that ib is the Emperor's intention to transport his headquarters fiom northern Franco to Potsdam, ROULERS OUTRAGED. Fiench cavalry ambushed a party of Germans at Roulers. The Germans accused the inhabitants and shot fortytlneo civilians, burnt down many houses, factories and mills, and fined the town a hundred thousand francs. When this was paid the Germans doubled the fine. ALLIES' AIRMEN. DESTRUCTIVE FIGHTERS. Received 10.55 p.m., Nov. llth. PARIS, Nov. 10. Official note" books, found on Germans, prove that aviators have produced most. startling effects. A French aviator struck a bivouac of guards, killed eight men. and eight horses and wounded thirty-two men. Another wounded sixty. With a projectile an Aubry bomb killed thirty, and a second projectile wounded twenty. A bomb •which burst in the midst of a group of cavalrymen killed, thirty men and fifty horses. Near. Lille a cavalry force which had been pursued for a whole day were finally prevented from carrying out its object by an aviator's bomb. British aviators have been equally successful. , The feats of all wefle accomplished amid salvoes of grapeshot and shells. The new arm has fulfilled its promise. It does hot replace any of the ancient army. The cavalry must always reconnoitre and patrol and artillery open the way for infantry, while the .engineers must prepare the gro nd for the latter. Finally infantry itself still the. main factor in a battle, and must take positions and pursae the enemy®