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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15505, 16 November 1914, Page 6

The war news this morning' is good, and very g-ood. Tlie Allies have recaptured Dixmuide, after strenuous fighting, and German attacks on Ypres and Nieuport have been repulsed. The enemy's attacks between the River Lys and the sea have shown less vigour, and the Allies have gained ground at several points. In violent fighting about Ypres the Allies' losses, though heavy, have been much smaller than the Germans'. "We have had a good day," affirms the latest official report from Paris. "We learn that Rear-Admiral Cradock, a very gallant officer, as his past record has proved, was lost in the Valparaiso naval fight. There is an unconfirmed report that two German submarines have been sunk in the British Channel. _ Russian successes still continue. Two Austrian divisions have been annihilated in Galicia, and the Germans are reported to have been badly defeated, with loss of twelve big guns, south of Kalisz, near the Posen boundary. Tarnow, which has been occupied by the Russians, is an important place half way between Jaroslav ajid Cracow. Wall Street, New York, believes that Austria has asked the United States to approach the. Allies, unofficially, asking what terms will be allowed her if she abandons Germany and sues for peace. Russia would take care, no doubt, that the terms included loss of Galicia. The Germans are making great preparations for the defence of Thorn, their fortress on the Vistula _ nearest to Poland. The Russians have won their first action against the Turks, but a more important battle is to be expected in the neighbourhood of Erzeroum. There is increasing evidence of the unpopularity of the war in Turkey, and the Germans are practically holding.Constantinople now by force. .Mohammedans in oilier countries understand perfectly how Turkey lias been tricked into the war, and their loaders have ursred the Egyptians not to show disloyalty io Great Urihun. De "Wet's force has sustained a first reverse iu South Al' riea.