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Show GERMANS HAVE BEST OF FIGHT AT TMTER French Admit Giving Some Ground Before the Terrific Ter-rific Onslaughts of the Kaiser's Forces BERLIN ANNOUNCES DECISIVE VICTORY Terrible Weather Condi tions Hinder Operations at the Flanders End of the Line. OtserU Casta t Anaeswsea WNS Leaen Del r TriecTsaa latafaauaaal Man Service.) PAKTS. Jan. 11 Within a few days mora thin 800000 additional British, troop rSl arrive in Francs wA take their places on tie battle front. At Uto channel porta ez tenstrs preparations art being mads to receive them, PAEIS, Jan IS, 10 10 p. til The following official cmagiiHc UorliBI!KlTbr tba -war of flee tanlfM To the northeast of Boissons oor counterattack has progressed slightly between Culflea and Crouy Uowtrer we were unable to debouch de-bouch from Crouy Our troops, rnbject to a violent attack to the east of this place have yielded, slightly sear the Til lags of Moncel, but which they are still occupying They are ncldlng St Marguerite and Mlaay-sur Alans. There is nothing further of im portance to report. (SperteJ Cast ST Amasawant WHa Loasoa Dtllr Teegraab ead Islarsauaaal Neva Service.) LOXDOV Jan. 13 The Germans ap parently are having all the best of the terrific battle nenv raging to the northeast of Solssosa. Eeports from Berlin and Paris war offices agree that the French are giving groind before the temflc onslaughts of tbe kaiser s forces This stubborn resistance is Germany s first answer to the new French plan to invade upper Alsace While the French armies farther east are presum ably prepsnng to sweep op toward Metz tio German strategy seems to be to hurl such an aialanche of men at the center that the need of re nforcements from both ends of the bee will be great enough to halt the Alsat an march Of the f ghting to the east of Crouy the French official statement tonight says Oar troops hava given way Comment ng on tbis same field ac tion tbe German off c al report re-ce re-ce ved today from Berlin sajs the de feat of the French has been so deci sive that two main French posit ons have been taken together with 1700 prisoners four cannon and several ma chine guns Unable to Debouch The French apparestly have fallen back on their pos tions in the villages of Crouy St Marguerite and Cissy Bur A sne They are also in possess on of the village c AionoeJ but it s on tho edge of th s poB t on that they adm having given way while the Germans are hold ng them so conf ncd to Crouy that they have been unable, in spite of desperate elforts to debouch from that villago 8o far as the f ebttng at tho Flan dera ond of the battle is concerned where most of the Br t sh and Belg an troops are 1 ned up w th the Fresch forces it Is not poss Me by compar ing the Trench and German advances to get so clear an idea of what a trans p r nf! Tho French war off re today an nounced that in the vie ruty of N eu port and also Ypres an effect ve ar Cillery fire had been d rected against the Cerman earthworks and added that terrible weather conditions were h n denng operat ons A saud storm n the dunes along the Belg an coa t was re ported to have caused the troops to (Contin cd on Page Two ) GERMANS 11 BESI OE FIGHT AT CENTER (Continued from Page One.) cease almost entirely their activities against the Germans. Berlin reports on the other hand claimed a series of successes in the region re-gion about La Bassee. where it was said a series of French trenches in a suburb named Paliusburg had been captured. cap-tured. The Germans also say that the territory about 2sTieuport has been the scene of artillery duels, but say the French, not themselves, have been tbe greater sufferers. On the end of the fighting line around St. Mihiel, where the 1 Tench have been reported as trying to recapture tho ruined forts which the Germans now hold, Berlin says all the French attacks have been thrown back with heavy losses. There is much speculation here as to just what effect this action around St. Mihiel will have on the reported plan for the invasion of upper Alsace. General' Gen-eral' Gallieui, formerly military, governor gov-ernor of Paris, who left the capital on New Year's eve to assume command of a reat army for an invasion of the Kheuish provinces, is believed to have his headquarters farther east in the vicinity vi-cinity of Pont-a-Mousson, from which point the French recently made a tentative ten-tative advance toward the German frontier. There is a general belief that t lie attacks about St. Mihiel may be in the nature of a counter movement to keep the Germans from massing too great an army in the path mapped out for GaJlioni's operations. |
