SEMI A TOO STRONG FOR AUSTRIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15506, 17 November 1914, Page 7

SEMI A TOO STRONG FOR AUSTRIA.

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Received 10.40 p.m, 3 Nov. 16th, PARIS, Nov. 15 (midnight), Official.—The most noteworthy incident of to-day- was the throwing back of the enemy on the right bank of the Yser canal. The enemy has evacuated the remaining portion of the left' bank, and unsuccessfully attempted an offensive southward of Ypres. GERMAN LOSSES. One hundred and twenty-one Germans captured on Saturday were the residue of a battalion which assaulted the Allied 'trenches chat morning. Several companies, notably the Prussian Guards and Bavarian Second Corps, which were of full war strength at the beginning of November are depleted by half. GERMAN WOUNDED. TRAINLOADS OF THEM. SURGEONS WORN OUT. Received 12.40 a.m.* Nov. 17th. LONDON, Nov. 16 (a.m.). Rotterdam newspapers announce that many trainloads of wounded are passing Germanywarda from the western front. It is reported that the German medical corps have broken down, under the strain, and appeal is made to Dutch doctors to attend seven. hundred patients at a frontier town' where there is only one doctor and a student, i;.. _ BAD WEATHER EXCUSE. An official Berlin message says that insignificant progress made by the right wing is due to unfavourable weather, and .that the fighting on the East Prussian frontier of Russian Poland is indecisive. , A GOOD STORY. VON KLUCK HARD PRESSED. GAINS TWO DAYS. Received 10.40 p.m., Nov- 16th. PARIS, Nov. 15. A story is told in Paris that when President M. : Poincare recently wont to the front he did so in the hope of securing General Yon Kluck's surrender. that Von Kluck was hard pressed and asked for terms of surrender, pretending that he would accept, particularly unconditional terms. He managed to spend a whole day in parleying, and finally said he must have Berlin's authority to conclude terms, and he was given another day to secure the authority. The two daysi however were utilised in pushing up reinforcements | and resting exhausted troops. The negotiations were then suddenly broken ! off. The story adds that next time Von Kluck seeks terms he will be given an hour to come in. GERMAN SITUATION. BECOMING DESPERATE. I "Times" and SycJnsy "Sun" So'wces. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 15. 'The Times" military correspondent says:—"The situation is beooming terrible for Germany. She has gambled for a great success on the west and lost. She scarce (lazes to go back

because the bankruptcy of Prussian strategy has been , laid bare to the whole world. It will not avail her to hold a part of Belgium when Silesk and East Prussia are overrun, and the German Empire is stricken -at its heart." GOOD BUSINESS, STATEMENT MAY BE TRUE. German prisoners state that while the artillery are holding the Allies, thousands of Landsturmeors are working in the field threshing corn with French fanners' machinery, and using ammunition waggons to cart immense quantities of beef and cereals to the railways for transport to Germany. COLLECTING HORSES. • Maestricht reports that the Germans have commandeened or purchased all the horses in Flanders, and are assembling them at Ostend. Thence they will be sent to Ghent and Brussels. INVASION OF ENGLAND. PpSTPONED SINE DIE. German officers declare that the Kaiser is determined to instal eight 24-inch guns in Calais preliminary to an invasion of England. GERMAN PRECAUTIONS. AGAINST BRHTSH AIRCRAFT. Churches in Flanders are not to peal bells at night, for fear of secret signals or to prevent hearing the approach of hostile aircraft.