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r RETREAT FROM < WARSAW. I OFFICIAL STORY. I i í CEBMAH BOYS OF THIRTEEH AMGST I THE DEAB. THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. I London, Wednesday, rbp Press Bureau this morning issued A eomruunication dated October 30th, Which has been received irouj Pj ofessor j Faros, the authorised correspondent at Jin-' Russian headquarters. The Professor My visits to the scenes of the lighting My visits to th<- scenes of the fighting in the Warsaw area have been of interest. The iaaiu, secno of the most critical fight- ing, I'ruszkon, we did w,t visit. The Germans tried to force their way up here from the south, close to the Vistula., and to within some !) mil es of Warsaw. j If they had captured the town and occupied the. Vistula bridges, they wouJd lun established an enormous political advantage, which could not hnve been; reversed without, the greatest difficulty, rj hough Warsaw was beyond their line of defence, where the Russians held good under havy losses, their rifle pit;? were close up to the copse and the gardens, and they had to secure a looting even closer From thence their line rain in a convex curve to Rakitna. Here their artillery! had battered in the sides of the lofty and impressive church. The Germans tired from this cliurch. They had (t n- lined several inhabitants in the vaults. j The buildings near the church w",r ro- ouced to nÙI:s. Hero and Sufferer. Close up against the village Jay the j graves of the attacking Siberian Iiegt., | marked by the orthodox crosses, the <n- pcriptions reading: Sleep in peace, hero and sufferer" ID a small garden close by, h2 Cer- m&n had buried their dead 80 rapidly that some of them were still uncovered. In the neighbouring township af Plane, the town hail had been set on fire, and at t?.clMK?cv the high bridge over the flYEr Wa5 broken off clean at both ends, and U)e central snpports entirely dessiwcd. At LmVlcz Utc bridge had I?en destr?ed &nd &t Sochaczev and Skiernewiee bad been rapidly repaired by thft pursuing ihissians. At some noints on our roa.d there were, MK.ri't?r?u:rd tig}'.+n'?,h'?t?'saw ?o. 11.1, '1. Jo ')'41.1 kartlly any prisoners, except a body cf I-undwehr men, and no trophies. Meeting Place of Three Emperors. At Skier new ice the coal stores at the on had been fired and were still1 burning- Skienewice will be remembered as one of the last stopping places in the1 Empire on the road ircm Moscow to Berlin ,and as the former meeting II jilaco of the three emperors. From Skiernewiee we travelled a con-1 pi durable distance soiuh-westvard.s, pass- ing over a line military position care- fully propared by the Germans', but! abandoned without any sign of resistance. At about a half mile from a low1 lying village lay a copse OIl a hill at first held hy the Germans, and behind it a long. wooded ridge, near wh ih were German rift." pits. The German artillery put up a cross fire from both sides. Their shells had done very little damage. The Russian infantry charged up the slope. and drove the Germans with the bayonet throngli the eop«p. Tliere thprc were more than 300 German oead, among them boys of 13 and It years 01 age, whose soldier's pay books gave their ages. In the night the Germans had rapid^ ly ]j withdrawn, and were now several miles away". Oil the bare slope to the right of the battery stood an infantry regiment, which in eighteen days' fighting had been reduced to about half its strength. The regiment received a congratulatory mes- sage from the Commander-in-Chief on the brilliant bayonet attack of Casimeerq, and some 20 to 30 men received the Cross ot St. George for personal bravery. The Russian Advance. Professor Pares, con'-hidi ng his com- munication, says:—"We followed the ??s?ian advance some TO miles from War-! ll,iist;l ?-xri a(tvan(!(, -c)me ,,I iiiil(?s froni W?il,- i tv?ji the two w, litaj-- (-)f defence, had been a kind of "No Man's Land, ami as the main operations were to the A'ortlt or to the South, the Germans had mad- Iters' a iiumoer of raids, and had secured partial and transitory sue- cesses. They now, as at Grodno, tasted the actual Russian line of defence Th- i{u«sian forces in the centre were much j stronger than anticipated, and making! a great effort, they not only repulsed tlie Hi tuck, but made any real success on the German sid-e impossible. The Germans withdrew with speed and regularity, leaving few prisoners al spoils oi war. The country was not devastated. There had been after the repulse some disgrac* IncIdents. They had made a Polish laii<iowr.pr and his servants and in the Russian no of ifre, and clocks and ornaments were taken away, but X have no evidence of any atrocities, such as those in Belgium. The Retreat Definite. I The German troops seem to have been I partly reservists, with whom excesses &re ie&s Uk?y. The ?M are that the I retreat is de?iute, and S\C h is, the infer- 1 ence from the reported mct-naiaiism at Lodz, which is full of German factories. WENT DGWii WiTH iiis SHIP. The crew of the German 6ubmarine C 18. "which was sunk off the north of Scotland on Monday were landed at Leilh yesterday from a torpedo-boat. A military guard met them at the docks, and the ordinary seamen were taken by train to a detention camp- The j officers were taken in taxicabs to Fdin-j burgh Castle. The men had a most wretched appear-1 ance. Most of their clothes were badly! torn, some had mi jerseys, and a few wore rather dilapidated overalls. One oiffcer, in describing the of j the submarine, paid a tribute to thej heroism of tho only member of the crew| who lost his life. To prevent the s-Lib-I marine being captured, he opened a valve*] and went down with the craft. [

POSITION IN POLAND. ¡ t KAISER EXHORTS HIS TROOPS TO CStATEB EXEfiliuKS. I CAVALRY CAPTURE GUNS. I I Petrograd, Tuesday. I Gratifying and important news from tho headquarters in Poland reached the War Office last night. The stubborn battle continues, but it is drifting' away from the Vistula westward. Indications are that the storm will sweep again upon, the Western frontier of Poland. The Germans have assembled another, army in the region of Wielun, near thej frontier, midway between Kalish and Czenstochov. They intended to strike, against thf, Russian lett wing. but were forestalled. The Germans syffered ter- rible Josses daring the repotted attacks' upon the Russian pcsition north of Lodz, j These Germans a" were driven wesi- ward. Kaiser's Exhortation. ¡ r L have reason to know that the German Headquarters is profoundly depresed I over the development of tho present in- vasion. The RHpsiaas have seized tho initiative, and have thrown the German columns away from their tinea of com- munication and from their base at Thorn.! Tlie Kaiser has issued an exhortation, II still promising liis troops an ultimate vi c- tory. BATTLE OF LODZ. I Russian Cavalry Capture Heavy Guns. I Petrograd, Wednesday.—The Russjan I Headqitarters' Staff reports that the battle of Lodz continues. At one point our cavalry charged the retreating Germans, inflicting severe losses and capturing heavy guns. On the Cracow front the action is developing in! our favour. During Sunday we took 6,090 prisoners. Berlin's Account. I In wireless reports the Germans allege that "the situation has not yet been decided." They state:— j In East Prussia our troops are holding I their own, and north-east of the Plain of I f-be Lakes, in Northern Poland, the tierce fighting which has been taking place is still without result. In Southrn Pltland the battle has come to a standstill in tlie region of Czento- cbowa. North-east of Cracow the attack is progressing. ¡ 1 SWANSEA BATTALION. I 5EVES RESms YFSTESDAY BROUGHT! TOTAL ?s? I  Tor the third successive day only seven men were passed and attested at ilond Buildings for the .Swansea Hab- itation. and there being only throe men accepted for other units, Tuesday was on the whole the/worst day for recruiting in Swansea for a considerable period. | Tvro more men came from A4eraron for the battalion, the total of which was raised to 9-8. Recruiting has bren opened for the Birkenhead liantanw, Battalion for men from 5ft. to 5ft 3in. The required chest measurements, are, however, high, inas- much as the 5ft. 2in.-5ft. 3ia. man must j have an expanded measurement of 3(;\ inches. Colonel Benson's Recovery. LicuL-Colond II. W. Benson is now, I Swansea will be glad o tlearn, completely I recovered from his indisposition, and is expected to be back in town on battalion work this Yel1il)g. Battalion Route March. I !■ or tlie E;wansca Battalion route march following (he display at tJw Cr'ckpt Fi(?!d) on Thu?day at: 2.30, the foUo?ing route! has been arrangedCricket Field (3.36 { 1 t0 3.45 p.m.). King Edward's-road, FinsH bury-terrace, Walter-road, Mansel-street. Alexandra-road, High-street, Wind- street (wheel round at the Guildhall), i back through Temple-street, Oxford-1 street, and dismiss in Nelson-terrace, The! Police and Telegraph Messengers' band I will attend. J OOtPu FOR KRüPP. I autbor:. l Pome, Tu^day.—Tho Customs authcr- ) itiet* at Udine, near the Austm-Italian frontier, stopped five freight cars Joadcd with copper bound for Essen, and ad- J dressed to » German arms factory there.. The copper vat, r,-centiy di«< harged at Genoa, whence it was sent overland to Germany. WAg LOAN SJCGESS I Application for the great War Loan of A'S.r.S.OOtf.Wfl closed yesterday. No announceuient has yet been made of the aujoui't oiTcred, and it is under-; stood that a sia tern oaf rhe .subject will j be made in the House oi Commons by thej Chancellor of the I'iichequer—possibly j TO-day. lr j" believed in the City that The aniou.nt— £ 330 <w0,000—is the largest, ever oiicr- ;): '¡" bv any Gr- -v.a-d • .-MIS AN addi- tion of a!)•'•i-i'i tv/u. to the total National DebL. ————— ..r;t WElSH CAPTAIN'S WEOmrm. I Captain Kees. of the Welch Regiment, II who obtained lcasre of absence from the front for his marriage to Miss Eatherine Loring, daughter of Mr. John Loring, of Dodington Park, Nantwich, has returned to France tn rejoin his regiment. Captain Kees's wife is a niece of the late Colonel Loring, of the Warwickshire. f who was killed in action recently, and; whose gallant leadership was mentioned in dispatches. TERRITORIALS IN TRENCHES. The latest Territorial linit known to1 have been in action is the North Somer-j set Yeomanry. Lieut.-Colonel Gibbs. M?P., in command -A [' P ill (.klrauiaD,'l at the regimental headquarters at Bath. announced yesterday tliat the regiment i way in the trenches near Ypres for forty- eight hours, and had sixty-five casualties, j Captain Liebert and Lieutenant J. S. Dnvoy were killed, and Captain and Adjutant Bates and Secci d Lieut&pantt 13ailward were woundw I

FRENOH M POSSESSION I GERMANS TRAPPED AND DESTROYED II THE ABSDNBE. — 1 CROWN PRINCE FORCED BACK I ("Times" War Telegrr.m, per Press Association). BEHIND THE CENTRE, Tuesday. Here the opposing forces aro a com- ¡ parativsly small fraction of the hosts which faced one another in the early days of September, but fighting has been and still ¡'J particularly severe in proportion to the actual numbers engaged, and all my inForjiiafioii goes to show that the German losses, have been appreciably ithose inflicted by tftitm upon the Allies. When the Crown Prince received news of the dti.eat upon the he was compelled to remove his headquarters to Montfaueon and take up a position much further north .enabling him to retire across the Meuse. Several vigorous at- tacks were made in immediately succeed- ing weeks by both sides. Gained and Lost. The French at tirst managed to capture both v ai-eanes and Vienne. but not long, afterwards tjiey lost Yareuiies and part of the connecting road. Towards the end of October the Germans made several desperate attempts to seize the little town of Le Four de Paris. All these attacks were beaten off by the French, who, on October 21ih, annihilated an entire Ger- man infantry regiment. The Germans were enticed into assaulting a French position which had been mined, and 1,200 men were killed. A Trap. Not long ago tho French troops oc- cupying Hubert were ordered to re- treat. T*.vo hours later they heard tre- mendous explosions. At nightfall they came back, but the village no longer ex- isted. The main quarters of the place wen" heaped with dead bodies, wounded men, vehicles without drivers ,horses without riders, Two brigades of Bavarian and Saxon troops had been annihilated The net result has been to leave the French virtually masters of all Southern; and Central Argomie up to a line drawn, through St. Hubert. TURKS DEFEATED. | PRECIPITATE RETREAT BEFOIE CAUCASUS i I ABlY Petrograd, Tuesdq.-A dispatch from the Headquarters Staff of the Army of the Caucasus -ays:- In the direction of »Rerum the enemy was overthrown along the wkoie front and driven b; in precipritate retreat. He is "being vigorously pursued by our troolks.Press Association War Special. I ———— BflClAI SAUWAVS CLOSED. Amst^rdara, Nov. 24th.—The HandeW! blaiJ learus from The Hague that the: is now no railway collim till; cat; on with Antwerp, and that no will he i admitted to Belgium duriug the next few i days.—Reuter. Telegrams iVam various parts of Bel-i gjuUl stake that the railways are closed; to the public for the fortnight. TSArS mil wa^oEo. Amstfrtiaro, Wediustday.—According te i advances froa Germany, a telegram from1 | Milan announces that; the I\ ussian Grand Duke Paul Aioxandi-OTitc;t has been: severely woundsd in a battle with G«r- can cavalry on the river Warta. T?e GrM?d Duke Paul Alraandrovitch] is M \mpjo of the T.?r. | j PERiSB Cf PARtlAMHIT. It k unaderstocd Parliami^pr, •will ad jonrn oa Friday, and will not ta called to-j ?eth?t agMii until the end df January Ij uxdeis unforeseen Rc<;mdou arises. Lom Crewf stated in tb? House of?, Lordi yesterday that IA),r(i KLitchener h-opeij to mako a general statement to- morrow I on certain matters connected with hiK office, and it w.? hoped that the? House might adjourn on Friday. j iUfiLC. CHAPLAIN The 3rd Welsh Meld Ambulance have a! NonctTtiif:rmiM. Ch&pLain in the person of the Rff. H. C. Mander, of Mount Pleasant: Chapel, Swansea. Mr. Mander vas -tN ia.n d t?r appointed before the war bit-ke out, b' t his appointment has not long been Gazetted." In the event of his company being sent abroad, the reverend gentleman will, we understand, go with tliem. The head- quarters of the 3rd Welsh are at Swan-, sea. ♦ PMTYPM HERO. i Commander Briggs, of the Royal Naval I Service, who was shot whon raiding the; Zeppelin skeds at Friedrichshafen. wan at; one time a surveyor at the Great Western' Colliery, Pontypridd. He joined the fly-j ing corps two wars ago. Later information from Romanshorn, confirms the report that a bomb from a British aea-oplaiie burst through the gla roof of die larg? Zeppolin factory, mak- ing a hole from two to three yards square.' Much damage vras done to material in- tender! for building airships, and the damage d(me was great.

1 SWANSEA BATTALION. j I Enrolled: l! 948.  To Enrol: i' 1 5 z

 MOTHER AND  THREE un!LunbN — THROATS CUT. I t 1 TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AT PENCLAWOO. HUSBAND'S AWFUL DISCOVERY; A terrible <ii? every was made at Pen- j dawdd at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Ellen Davies, aged 28, of Mill Villa, 1'en- J clawdd, was discovered lying dead in a I bedroom, with her throat cut. Beside I her three children were also lying dead, with their throat-s cut. Telephoning at mid-day our repre- sentative says the house where the tragedy occurred is a fairly good sized semi-detached villa, and was owned by Mr. Davies, who had lived on very happy terms with his wife and children. ) Tho house stands on the main1 road of the village. The names of the children were Gladys May, aged 4; Auni? Violet, aged 3; and! Eleanor Viruna, aged 2. All thr? children, with then mother, were foum I in the house with deep wounds in their throats, apparently caused by a razor, and the bodies are now awaiting the, in- quest. Such an awful tragedy has never be- fore occurred in me history of Pen- clawdd, .and the villagers were terribly shocked on hearing the news. They stood about in groups discussing the tragedy in the vicinity of the house. I The Discovery. I It appears that the husband, Mr. Dd. Jolir, DaN-its, who is a collier employed at the Lynch Colliery, bad been unwell for the last few weeks, having suffered Irom Maiidiiv afternoon ho left his mother, who also resales in the vil- lage. On returning about 5 o'clock he found his house loched up. Thinking his wife had gona down the village to do some shopping, lie went to buy an evening paper, but on his return the second time he found the house locked up. Observing that two of the baek win- dows were wide open, he entered through one of the windows by means of a ladder. Y A Terrible Sight. I I, On gorag into one of the bedrooms, he was overcome by the terrible sight that met his eyes. The two youngest children, were lying on the bed, and, tjt^eldest, was on the floor. Mrs. Davies was'also lying on the floor, half-way -under the bmt-. Mother and children were fully droosed.. and all had deep cuts in their throats. i A bloodstained razor and a small table i j1 knife were found near the bodies, and; thero was mucll blood on the floor. The grief-stricken husband who, natur- i ally, was terribly affected by the awful! sight, afterwards told a neighbour he hardly knew how he got out of the house and gave information of the terrible tragedy. He ealicd in his next-door neighbour, Atrs. James Wallby, a rela- j tive, and subsequently the police were sent for, and P.C. Owen arrived, and took charge of the case. No Worry of Any Kind. I Our representative gathered that Mr. and Mrs. DayÜ\S had been on the best of l terms, and there was no ifnancial worry 0;' any kind. On Monday afternoon Mrs, levies appeared to be in her usual state I of health. Six weeks ago she lost her | youngest daughter, and it is thought that this fact preyed on her mind. She was a very sensitive woman, and neighbours say she was devoted to her children, who were! always nicely dressed, and well looked I after. It is difficult to imagine that Mrs. Davies would commit such a terrible deed as to take her own life and that of her children, and th* villagers have come to the conclusion that if she (Kd so, she must -have been demented. It appears that a Gorseyion tailor who i saw Mrs. Davies about inidday on Tues- day, was struck by her strange manner, She is spoken of most highly by the; neighbours, one of whom described her as a lovely woman, very industrious and passionately fond of her children. Only on the day of the tragedy she was crying over the loss of her little girl. [ Mrs. Davies was a member of the Con- gregational Church, and both she and her husband were natives of Periclawdd. Mr. Davies is also spoken of as a very steady man, and is much respected in the village. m t- ?l I IflTEBNcD CBUJSfB BERilM I The "rrMM?rter Zei trm?** p?bHehps I the following tekgram from ChrLstianial regarding the interment of the G.?' j auxiliary cruiser Bprlin at Trondhjem. This afternoon (November 18th) the dis- armament, of the Berlin began at Trondhjem. The commander of the ship refused to answer questions about the destination and origin of the contents of; the ship, and what purpose she pursued., After tho boilers had been damaged there was no other alternative for the captain but to run into the port of Trondhjem, j and to relinquish the lt to leave within j twenty-four hours. The damage to the ( boilers had reduced the speed of the' vessel to eight knots. The officers wiR be free. t -0 flYING MW KILLED. I Second-lieutenant H. R. Fleming, of! the Royal Flying Corps (Special Reserve) I, was killed at the Central Flying School, 4t Upavon, Salisbury Plain, yesterday, He was flying over the aerodrome at a moderate height, when tho machine, a ¡ B.E. biplane, side-slipped and crashed to the earth. The pilot was killed instantly. Lieutenant Fleming began training at the school recently, and had made good progress. Th e weather wae clear at the time of the accident. — ——^5»i OLD SWANSEA SOLDIER'S DEATH. I The tunerai rakes place on Friday of the late Sergeant J. McCorniack, of 43. Sebastopoi-etreet. St. Thomas, who died on Saturday last at the Swansea Hospital. Deceased was an Army pensioner, having served twenty-one years in the Lpjnst" Regiment. The deceased, who was well- known locally, was a member of the Swansea United Service Brigade, the members of which Brigade will attend the funeral.

 -I *? '?? H T? ? ? EdjtjQU. GERM  S ?SK'  ??U'd ?. The. 'French oflsciol communique this a i"; ern oon states:— From th° Norlh ^'a to Y [res th ero lile 13ej ilifl: III r- 31 Deiwecu. J ng\> arch and Zoff rev; -k we ?'tv? L gained ground. In "III-, oi 1.:1 Bass^a th* Indian tr-I ave rj- e:.tcnv the trenched which had bwn "ap'rnrcd for iiiu tho previoii', day. From J.a Basseo ttJ frissons t11r." has a'njost a com- pi etc calm. Wo have slightly progressed at Berry-au-Bac and iu the A^gonr.e. A\ Jtettincourt, to the v.oi: .e.-west' ot Verdun the German attack was re- pulsed. The truce asked u>r by tLe has b<yn refused. To tic.; reg'on u a mu i; ),Ll ,I,; z able to bombard ArcaTil'e. Th re uas be on p^^ioeident in the Verges. Swansea Collision Seqiial. In tiio Admiralty Court to-d/iy, Sir Samuel EV>JDS, SITTING wji'i the Trinity Masters, resumed the iM.n;-nleratiaii of t he action brought by tho owners of tho W^jft Hartlepool ^ieaiuship. Clmnnel Trader. against the ovrers of the Lon- don steamship Pe-k^-i' r. recover damages arising of collision between t hose wsse ls in Swansea, entrance channel on the early uiorning of November 13th lab:, when Ahey were botTi outward bound from the port.— Captain Alfred AN allacc i iiomas, of the Channel Trader, -ii-n evidence. Town Hit! Housing Schcme. At to-day's meeting uf the Swanse Housing Committee, Mr. Broad'iead, the. architect fur the new houses 011 Townhill, reported that if the building of the houses was unduly rushed, lliy. would have to import labour. Xhd v ages would total oil the 500 houses. If completed iu tivu \'arB t-ha Couiioil would spend £ r.0i) per w eek, and cm Ay 300 men. In first six inontlis 50 houses would be ready, and 75 every subsequent three months.—Mr. Molyn- Mux said if tho war finished quickly t.bero would be :nany men bnek and a; demand for tho houses.—Aldennan Jlerrells thought tbe work should bq completed within 18 months, f ■ I

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GALLANT INDIANS I RETAKE LOST TRENCHES! I 1 CEiMAN OFFiCERS, MEN AND GUNS CAPTURED. SITUATION UNCHANCEDL London, Wednesday. I The Press Bureau issued the following to-day, timed 1.0 p.m.:— To-day the situation is unchanged. The Indian Corps has gallantly retaken! some trenches which were lost yesterday, and have captured three German officer-I and more than 100 men, together "with onei mortar and three machine guns. I SHARP FIGHTING I STMKGLY ESTSfKCSED WELS REPVLSEi: LerAiisrs ATTACK 1; TEMPORARY SUCCESS. Pretoria, Tuesday. The following official report has been issued here. On Saturday afternoon information wasi received that a force of rebels had sur-I rounded the police post at IlaDIrnaii E, Kraal, and was going to rush it after dark. Steps were at once taken to aend j reinforcements, and 100 men of the Pre- j Loria Kegiment, under Captain Mackenzie, and 50 recruits behmging to Enslui'sj Horse, under Captain Fr:uic? Jacoh, left Pretoria by train for Ifamnian's Kraal. They arrived on Sunday morning, and subsequently ascertained that the rebels had postponed their attack owing to a storm. I Informaton was received that a consid- erable force had laagered at Klipsdrift, about five mil north-east of Hamman's Kraal. This was communicated to head- quarters, and it was decided to send rein- ioiofiae?ts of 3M Smith African Mounted Rifles. u-ntit-r Captain Rutherford. At midnight ■/) or Ennui's Horse and 100 Mounted Rifies moved out to surround the rebel;, at Klipdrift. A Sharp Fight. It was found that the enemy had just moved away. He was tracked and fol-j lowed, and eventually found iu a very strong position on Eondefontein, well I protected. The South African Rifles were ordered to attack, and fighting became1 furious, the shooting of the rebelg Wing deadly. Some confusion was caused among Enshii's men by a stampede of I horses. Captain Jacobs, with a FinaM forcf, pushed round tho IcK; jEa!? of the encmey, but came under lire so fierce that he hd I to withdraw round a hill to the right. On the left flank the enemy pushed out along the hill, trying to envelop our posi- tion. It was here Captain Allan King was killed. He had just previously helped] a wounded trooper, and bound up his I wound, and was going back to cover when he was hit. Captain Ladorf worlfvi round to the I enemy's left. being anxious to occupy 4, high bill in their rear, which commanded I tho rebel position. As, however. Captain Jacob's men had been forced to retire, and could not be found in tie thick busk, this was impossible. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon it be- came evident that with the small force available it would be impossible to dis- lodge the enemy, who were in great force, j over 500 strong, and in a very strong posi- tion. r Withdrawal Safety Effected. Tt was decided to retire on Hemman's Kraal, and the withdrawal was carried out in perfect order. Some of Enslui's Horse have not yet reported. They stayed in the thick hush, ard may be ex- pected badr in camp shortly. The rebel losses, so fr as is known, air 2 killed and five wounded (B dangerously). Japie l ourki i§ understood to bo one of the wounded. ————— MEN BAW AFTER 7-0. Colonel East. the officer commanding the Severn Def>: n<~es. haR issued an order that no females shall henceforth be al- lowed oa liceiined premises between stwen p.m. and six a.m. This order, of course, (es not apply to femaleg who are either servants, or bona-fkie lodgers. SttiHIDERCD WITH HONOURS. I Mrs. Emes, of Durham-street, Grange, ¡ Cardiff, has received a letter from her husband, Corporal J. Emes, of the 2nd li, i6 a 1)i-i?soner Welsh Regiment, stating leiil.)iirg, havittul of war at Gmstrow, Mecklenburg, haviug been captured on the 31st October. Corporal Emes states it -was only after a terrible fight that they surrendered with honours." He adds that 120 of the Welsh were caught., and expresses a hope of being lwmfJ for bis Christmas dinner. ————— «,————— MML DUKE S ESCAPE. I Amsterdam, Tuesday.—According to al Berlin telegram, the Duke of Saxe-Co- imrg-Gotha had a narrow escape in the eastern theatre of war. A shell exploded near ?here the Duke and his ?tan' we: standing, and Colonel von Berg. c&m-j mander of the Regiment, was killed and two ofifcers were wounded.—Reuter. [The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is English Duke of Albany, whose father, j Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was the I youngest son of Queen Victoria.] j PRINCE GAZETTED. I The H I.ondon Gazette H last night con- tains the following notification:— Grenadier Guards.—Second-lieutenant His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Dnke of Cornwall, K.G., is seconded for service on tile Staff; dated 16th November.

TO-DAY'S WAR: NOTES. (Special to the Loader.") ————— Wednesday Afternoon. THE strategy which is governing the operations of the Germans in both theatres of war is a little difficult; to grasp. It is becoming more apparent every day that political considerations j are everywhere predominating, with tlie natural result that the German military situation is less favourable, than it might be-enn when the strenuous resistance of the Allies and the overwhelming no mi ri- eal superiority of the Russians is taken I into consideration; The German offensive everywhere i,a.. been jat. j ? the Dame! detect—a, faiiure to cob^s.utic.ee all their1 available forces upon a single objective J Nothing could be more opposed to the! theories of strategists trained in the! school of Von Moitke, and the effects of their desultory attacks has been precisely what must havo been anticipated. In Belgium, in France, and in Poland, th I story has been the same—with the one difference that in Poland the numeric.all superiority of the Russians has turned faiiuro into disaster. GEERAL VON HINDENBERG ha.s shown what might have been donej had the needs of the military situation alone been considered- By a concentra- tion upon Thorn, as rapid and e?-ective as that which enabled him to hurl back the invaders from East Pru?ia at the beginning of the war, he thmist the Rus- sians back upon Warsaw. But the politi- cal situation required him to endeavour to relieve the pressure at Cracow by an advance against Warsaw from the south- west. This, as we know, has failed eom-! pletely. Thus we have the spectacle of the Germans fighting on three separate fronts-in the west, in the north, and in the east. At least two of these main Ob-I jeotivee have bailed, for exactly the samaei reason that the German war plan a.s a whole has failed, namely, from the lack of concentration. In the west, at the! moyient, there are three distinct spheres of attack: Dixmude,■ Ypres, and Arras; in the oast two, the Cracow-Czenstochow, and the LtxIz-Plot-k lines. TI, TE latest news point to the complete failure of the second of these two last offensives. Thfe official reports to hand at the moment of writing leave the exact extent of this failure open to doubt; but, without paying too much attention to details unofficially reported, it seems clear enough that the German repulse is something more than a chock. TT has bean so often dc?clartd that thc? A German armies in Flanders have de-j torniined to make one last desperate effort to pierce the that' it is almost too much to hope that the present concentration of troops and artil- lery in front of Dixmude, Ypres, and Arras, marks a final attempt before re- ti re meat eastward upon Bruges and Ghent, or even Brussels. The insistent reports ooncernjIlg the coast fortifications, j and the transportation of submarines in sections, makes this improbable; but the! real truth is that the enemy's operations in this region can be intelligible only to those who hold all the strings. TVIIAT is, however, fairly clear, is the imminence of renewed activity in! the western sphere, in spite of the appar- ent hopelessness of any adequate result. The rumours of the concentration of fresh troops seem well substantiated, thongh their fighting value cannot be great. Sea- soned soldiers can only ba obtained by withdrawing men from Poland or from East Prussia; and seasoned men are ItS urgently required in these regions as else- where. The probability is, therefore, that they are for the most part either Land- sturrn or raw levies. Their valour is un-i doubted, as our British troops have! already learned. But their value, to say the least of it, is hypothetical. TO-DAY it is indicated, in the message of one of the correspondents,*that the; Germans, having so far failed at the fort- ress form of warfare, have resolved to revert to their old and favourite shock tactios. and that they will pour large | masses or men upon our lines. It need hardly be said, however, that the Allies are fully prepared. This is a war in which surprises can hardly be planiied., for the eyes of the flying men bearch out, every change in dispositions. ?fTfE best news of the day, to the hour Tof writing, is the announcement madej this morning by the Admiralty (,oDfirn ing the reports that Zeebrugge—-concern- ing which rumour has it that the Ger- mans were making it a submarine basp- has been battered by two British battle- ships. The extent of the damage is not known," rcn>s the cautious dfheial state-j merit. Unofficial statements show the es-; tenr to havo been great. For three hours on Monday, shells were rained on the' town. With this retail "The Germans in Zee>brugge became demoralised. In desperate haste they attempted to re-inovel their stores to Bruges, including the ap- paratus for making hydrogen for Zeppe-[ lins, but a section of the railway had been blown up." There has evidently been a check to submarine and Zeppeline build- ing! THE attack upon Zeebrugge brought out the German submarines, but fortu- nately they had a blank day. Whilst this was proceeding, another squadron co- operated with a land force which attacked the German positions near Nieuport. Two German batteries were silenced. Tho Allied squadron finally withdrew, having one torpedo-boat seriously damaged. THE French military authorities have issued an important review of the situation. It is cheerful in its definitness: Now, when results have been definitely obtained." it says, the moment has ar- rived when a full statement can be made of 'the operations of the last six weeks. The formidable effort attempted by the Germans during the period, at first to turn our left and afterwards to penetrate it, has failed. By that effort the enemy tried to retrieve his defeats on the Marne, but lie has only added another failure to that he sustained in September." The full review will be found in another column. IS CRACOW BEING SHELLED? I PetrogTad. Nov. 23rd.—The ? Boxkrsei Gazette says it is persistently rumoured that the Russia artillery has hp?nn the I bombardment of the Cracow forte.— Reuter. t