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Show I GERHANARMY I FALLING BACK Ji Londnn, Nov. 1, 2 1.", a. m A -1 Renter dispatch from Amsterdam rM says a reort received there from 31 Flushing declares that heaw gun fir- Mi ie was heard all Sunday near the Ml Dutch frontier. The dispatch adds M tnat It fe reported also that the allies have occupied Marlakerke on the sea m southwest of Ostend 'M Paris. Nov, 1 Belgian. French and j 'm British troops administered a decisive. defeat to tho German army of the Duke of Wuprttemtnirg in the battle of FlandPra todnv forcing the invaders to fall back a distances of four miles from the railroad line between Viou-port Viou-port and Dixmude after suffering enormous enor-mous losses In killed and capture of n cmat number of prisoners. Attacks of a violent nature by fresh Herman troops against the seasoned British forces occupvlng positions south of Passchendaele, resulted not only In the repulse of the attacking force but In the recovery of the ground the allies had been forced to cede In the vicinity of Gheulcelt. Heavy German Losses Important losses also were inflicted upon the Germans by the British in a series of attacks and counter attacks at-tacks of a desperate character at several other pointB along the Ntcu-port-Ypres front The floods due to the inundation of the enemy'? positions by the cutting of the sluices by the Belgians still continue to operate to the advantage of the allies by making the German trenches untenable A violent bombardment of Xieuport by the German artillery, employing giant howitzers, was renewed today and considerable damage was inflicted on the residence section of the port city, several shells striking near the marine hospital Assau!ts Checked. The midnight official bulletin from the French war office tells ef further severe attacks directed by the Invaders Invad-ers against the French positions in the vicinity of Lihons. Le Quesnove-en-Santerre and Vailly on tho Aisne It was at Valllv that the Germans on Friday forced the French to withdraw before tbo fury of their attacks by numerically superior forces. Today, To-day, however, the onslaughts were met with a withering fire from new- ly arrlveJ French machine guns and the assaults were effectively checked All al"ng this liner where the German armv of Generals Von Kluck and Von I Bochm have been exerting great pressure pres-sure In an effort to break throuch j what they hoped to be a disastrously weakened front, due to withdrawals of troops to aid the Belgians in the i north, the attacks have failed signally j with the exception ot that temporary gain at Vailly and the positions of the French have been maintained stub- hnrnlv I Further gains were made m ground 1 taken In the fiehtlng north of Souain, i and the engagements Incident to '-he J vigorous drive of the French have been extremely sanguinary. But the most striking successes of ' the allied troops recorded In the of-I of-I flclal dispatches from the front today were those realized in the encounters j to the north and to the east of Ypres Here the French and British troops today recaptured the towns of Holtbecke and Messlns, which were J taken by the Germans yesterday New positions at great Importance I were assumed by the allies in their advance in this vicinity The Ger-j mans attempted numerous violent at-1 tacks on several positions held In strength by the allies in this region, but all were repelled with considerable consider-able loss to the enemv, hundreds of prisoners being taken. The attempt of the Germans to arrest ar-rest the march of the French right wing army was arrested in the woods of La Gruye, In the Argonne reeion, where the struggle has been racing with great lolence for the past week In the Vosges terrific artlller actions ac-tions have been fought during the past forty-eight hours Under coer of I the fire of the French guns the defenders de-fenders of France gained the heights near St. Marie, making them absolute 1 masters of the situation in this j neighborhood. Startling figures are given as semi-authoritative semi-authoritative estimates of the losses I suffered bv the Germans in the past two weeks in Belgium One estimate is 150,000 In killed, wounded and missing, miss-ing, cut from the ranks of the Invaders Invad-ers in the furious attacks and coun ter attacks which have marked this as the most sanguinary battlefield In ! the west All advices from the battle front In-i In-i dlcate that the kaiser is engaged In 8 final and supreme effort to pick hn way through and to achieve a decisive I success in Belgium and France. Re- serves are being rushed from the eastern theater and from the con-J con-J centration camps in central Germany ! ! as fast as trains can carry them and every ounce of power at the command 1 of the German emperor is being thrown behind the line In this effort |