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Show DUDE TAKES BY The Kaiser's Forces Also Drive the Allies Oui of Eloi, Win a Distincl Advantage in Battle Around Labassee anc Capture About 300C Prisoners. SEACOAST TOWNS i AGAIN IN DANGER; j' ; Reinforcements Arrive and Turn the Tide of Ferocious Battle Thai Has Raged for Days; Announcement Causes Gloom in London. i : PARIS, Nov. IL 10:40 p. m. j: .; The following French official state- . ment was issued tonight: "The enemy has continued all day in his efforts of yesterday j without accomplishing any new re- j ; suit. He has directed against Lom-baertzyde Lom-baertzyde a counter attack, which , ' has been repulsed, and has made vain attempts to debouch from i Dixmude on the left bank of the Yser. . i : ' ' There is nothing new to report ' i from the rest of the front." , (SpeolaJ Cab'- tr ArrnireTHOt Wivh London Tall-Tflevrapn Tall-Tflevrapn cr.d International Xew Set-rice.) ' LONDON, Nor. 11. Today's new:; ; from the battle front in France anc Belgium hits London with a shock or surprise, so different is it from wha- ; the dispatches of the last few days hac led this capital to expect. , The widely-heralded, triumphantly' . welcomed announcement of yesterday that the German retreat from Belgian! ; was becoming general and that it wai'-only wai'-only a question of days until th!, ' kaiser's armies would be in full retreat1' is followed by tho report that not only.1 have the Germans rallied all along theii : front, but have succeeded in driving tht ! allies out of Dixmude and the town oi : Eloi, south of Ypres, and have wor1 a distinct advantage in the battle' around Labasse, capturing, all told about 3000 of the allied soldiers anc , nearly a 6coro of machine guns. J I Germans Advancing. j j Tho 100th day of the fighting see; the battlo of the canals drawing tel tho close of its fourth week and frorri today's dispatches it is difficult to,, imagine longer that the Germans have suffered complete defeat in their move . ment against Dunkirk and Calais, in- j augu rated immediately after the fall oi: Ostend on October 13. ; Official reports from both Paris anc' : Berlin aree tiiat the Germans have wor.l successes ln the last few days of rlsht-j iiiK. That the seriousness of the situaiiori ' is realized in the French capital is indi-, i cnted bv the release, after twenty-foul hours of tile news of the fall of Dlx- ' mude. It is aisumcj that the French war office, when apprised of this disas-r Icr to t lie allied armies yesterday, held: it back in the hope that today's dcvel-j opments would be more favorable. In this they went disappointed. Taken by Storm. i "We made good progress yesterday on; the branch of the Ypres canal," says th?'. Berlin official statement received here) by -wireless. "We took Dixmude by; storm. We captured more than 500 pris-; oners and nine machine, grins." "Throughout the day the enemy hast continued the effort besnn yesterday, butj without obtaining any further results."! . tpy; the French official statement issued: joniirhL "He has attempted In VHin to debouch from Dixmude upon the left bank of the Ypres." j. Alon the- Belgian co;ist. north of Nteu-j; port there is a ray ot hope In the views. J that the allies haw reoeeup'.ed Lomhaert- ; r.ydo and this ;s cnmmcntci on by tiie rS-rnVti ofi'uiM statement as follows: ji The enemy ha directed a?rainst t-om-j; haeruzyde a counter attack, which, wcjt have repulsed." ! : Reinforced by Slavs. ; Reinforcements or fresh troops are be-j 11 eved to have been rushed to the Ger-. mans a ton. nearly the entire front. One1 report is that th Germans and Austrlana have effected a chaiee of Uo-.-ps by; which maneuver the 'Slav soldiers of the. Austrian army hav ben made a lari more effective f.hiincr unit. In the east-' ern t neater they ere reported to have shown r.Mi:Mance to fisht the Slav troops: ; of the Russians. In the French and Bel-; ian ca mpaicn they are not opposed to: . (Continued on Page Two.) DIIODE FILLS INTO THEHAPJQS OFTHEGERMANS Kaiser's Forces Win Successes Suc-cesses in Other Quarters on the Battie Front; Gloom in London. (Continued from Page One.) troops with whom thev have anv blood ties. Tho Berlin official statement, after detailing de-tailing the occupation of Dixmude, continues: con-tinues: "Further south on this line onr troops crossed the canal west of Dangemarck. JThe young German regiments threw themselves against the first line of the neniy'a position, singing in the attack, 'Deutschland ueber Riles." About 2000 infantry in-fantry were taken prisoners and six machine ma-chine guns were captured." Young Germans at Front. This reference to "the young German regiments" is supposed to mean the reinforcements rein-forcements to the seasoned troops who have been bearing the brunt of the fighting fight-ing during the last few weeks. "South of Ypres," the Berlin report continues, "we have driven the enmy out of Fiol. Severe lighting took place in the neighborhood of La Basse-?, extending extend-ing over several days. We captured here about If 0 prisoners and six machine guns. Despite tierce counter attacks by British troops dominating the heights to the north, Anne n tie res remains in our hands.'' Ray of Hope.' One ray of -hope that London holds tonight to-night is that the allied lines have fallen back at the different places mentioned in the official reports as part of their ea-tablished ea-tablished strategy. Jt has been the policy of the British. French and Belgian commanders com-manders ever rdnce the battle wan joined, to retreat when the only other alternative alterna-tive was the useless sacrifice of life. The German policy, on the other hand, has been to pour overwhelming inaBS of men against .mi oil lire, rifle tire or bayonet. It is pointed out that" nowhere is mention made of a piercing of the allied lines and that ronscoucntlv It may be. assumed that the front opposed to the German advance on Calais and Dunkirk remains a a effective ef-fective to check the advance ua it ever has been. Ferocious Fighting. The determination of the Germans to reach tlu'se two towns on the French coast, however, appears to be as firm as ever. Todav advices tell of a resumption resump-tion i ith great fero-'iiy or" the ha t tie around Nieuport and the river Dys. Tills is the first time Nieuport has been mentioned men-tioned )n the ofti-ial" reports moc the cutting of the dyke-H flooded th hunound-Ing hunound-Ing country and caused the German artillery artil-lery to sti'-k ta.-'i in lite mud. Th.p ile-man i-"Uc cesses at 1a Hassee and rmemiercfj Indicate t bat t h.-v )ui ve almost rt-storej tho straight north and south line from Ostend to J.ille bv way of Yprev. The tirst notable break in this line came- w; en tho allies dne. a portion por-tion of the German army as far east as Roulers. i .:: nema r-k i north and en. t of Vprcs. tut cotiKideraiil v we-u ni Rotj-lers, Rotj-lers, .fiom which ll is interred that this dcta-dirTient of the enemy's fnr'-fl Is meeting ivi'h mmo succe.-s In Ilgining to regain lost ground. Battle Raged for Days. Fast and south of Vpre.Q the Germans were driven as fur as Menln, acenrumg to advlrea of a week or two au. Tuerr was a battle on the line from Menln v."t to V.arneton and along to Da Basee and Armentieres. and the prc-nt suc'-rycs of t he Germans about the In Iter two towns "nftfr feveral days of righting." seem to i ndicnie that t:i1 unoii.er pr!ijt of the German line, w hl-di hai b- en erfe.-tu.illy reinforced. Tho 1 1 : i ' r 1 f t on 1 1 n uch to ra k a bfVit Dllle. notwithstanding t lie fact that horn-bardment horn-bardment bv both armies has reduce that town to a muss of debris. The Berlin Ber-lin report t on 'a 1 n t'r.r ne n t hat tne French ha '. e bt-n 'I riven from t h m comma com-ma nd in r neigh tn of ViPime lo Chat t an. wrdcti they or m pled heveral day. 4 ugO. and ha vc Fnffered bea1. y losses in al-tempting al-tempting to recapture tiio poHitlon. Gloom in London. Thfl new.- from Knni',ft Is r' r'.o with great gloom here, but mihr likely to provo a Mill greater stimulus to recruiting, recruit-ing, whi-'h has hern niuch more active fiincfl Dord Kitchener's addn-Ns at the lord ma or' s ha h'juet. on Monday nigh t. Th1 kind's Fpe-h from the throne fit tie-conven.ng tie-conven.ng of puiilauiciit Ifxlay carried out the ideas f-pre.-.-fd bv Kitchener that the nation was lighting for Its very llf". and repeated the war Hcretary's expression of coutidrricft that British manhood wuuld see in any reversed that might come- only an Hdded In cent ive for gett ing to the i front to uphold tho colors |