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Show GERMANS DRIVEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSS AT ARRAS bpe a Cab e to The T bune LONDON Oct 1 A dlpatch tron F an e to t e Dal Mall says t at the e nans a e been dri en back ten miles a d ha e lost 12 000 men tn a rerce bat e wh ch has been rag ng at Arras s nee i da Another d spat h from Vmsterdam re po I ve j f g t ng n e eg on between en and Termonde tn Belg urn It was at he atter p a e that the a I es were epo ed to ha e str ck a body of Ger n ans n mber ng 0 000 wo were pur ng t e fleeing Antwerp field armv Th s new engagement further confirms a far northward reach on the allies 1 ne Ar as has suffered irlbl Many of t e 30 000 inl abitants declined to leave hen tie town was notified by the mil ta and cl II autl orlties that it would probab be attacked ne of the people rema ned during the bombardment but t e majorits came out during the heav cannonading which fol lowed Tie would scarcel recognize the p ace today The St Gerry quarter as been hca lly damaged Manj of the ho es were wrecked by she 1 fire and a arge number b rned Some of the quaint 1 ttle Spanis bouses of the Petot Place which attracted the eyes of all usltors nterested in the old architectural fea tures of the own are destroyed as well as a number of the most pretentious dwelling' The belfrv has not been wholly de stroved b t if is sadly damaged The Hotel de M le seems to have been a mark for the German gunners shells, which missed the belfr and crashed through the roof demollsl Ing much of the struc turc of earlier date than the belfrv anl netting fire to It The charming portion known as the Renaissance added to the Hotel de Vllle In 15 is completely wrecked Onto two shells struck the cathedral A en hard fighting took place near the ra waj station Apparently tl c Ger ma s wanted to regain possession of the railway line but when the) failed thev concentrated their artl ler f-e on the station which Is now a ruined mass Care Is being taken to clear the own of manv of the I oirlble sign of the four da8 bat le before tl e nhabltants re turn Large parties are engaged in col lectlng the dead |