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Show WEST BANK OF YS ER HELD BY ALLIES German Attacks, Made With Great Impetuosity, Impetuos-ity, Repulsed by the British Troops, Heavily Heav-ily Reinforced by Commander Com-mander in Chief Joffre. FRENCH WIN THE BIG GUN FIGHTS German Batteries Are Silenced All Along the Line Where Artillery Duels Take Place; the Allies Making Good Advantages Gained. (SpeH.1 Cbi. ij anugetneot Wltn hmfim Evftt Te,gTap& ud Imm.lWwiil New 8errlca. PARIS, Deo. 12 So numerous hsvs been the reinforcements that General Joffre has thrown behind the line at Yprea to support the thinned British, ranks and behind the haln of allies9 pos Hons along tha Tpres canal norths ward to the sea that during the past two days, even, with the German at-taiis at-taiis the most violent of any sines those of the early days of the battle of Flanders, the allies have been able to elear the west bank, of the Tser of the mvadeT. Tha official statement-issued at Pans today declares that the point opposite the ferryman s house between Dixmude and Tpres for possession of which there was such a desperate struggle to the farthest north of the allies lines the enemy has been forced completely to evacuate the west bank of the canal the allies advancing their trenches to the water s edge where they now com mand a sweep of the east bank. Hold Strengthened That the allies h-ve ben able to make good the advantage thus gained is indicated by the official statement issued at midnight which says there is no new incident to report permitting the assumption that the allies were able to d S themselves in at their advanced positions and thoroughly strengthen their hold Mne distinct artillery engagements were fought at widely separated points of the battle line, In an of wal h, tha French. Buns proved victorious In four of tbe engagements the German batteries op posing the French were destroyed com pletely or silenced. In the region of Arras the French guns maintained the advantage during a sharp exchange. Near Nampoel French sheila put the German guns out of action. The German f eld batteries were e enced in. a conflict along the Alsne- Northeast of ally several batteries of the enemy's howltzefr were completely destroyed About Perthes and the region of the forest of La Grurle artillery duels combined with Infantry attacks, resulted to the ad vantage of the French forces Blockhouse Blown Up On the Frenca right, on the heights of the h.euse the enem s batteries showed 1 ttle activity On the othe hand the French gunners at Deuxnouds west of Igneulles Lea Hatonchatel completely demolished two ba teries of the enemy one of which was con posed of guns of large caliber and the o her being of the type used against a rcraf A blockhouse was blown up together with a number of German trend es. In th s regioi Art lery fghtlng stll continues In the Yosees region and the -Iclnlty of tenons the Frencl having been eb e t strengthen the positions to which they advanced on the da before. It was ton a y anno need bv the co n cl of ministers fol owing their meeting toda that a war session o the chamber of deputies would be convoked in Paris on December iS Passage of six pro 1 slonal sections of the annual budget will be aBktd at that time. These pro lde for the ordinary expenses of tl e department In the maintenance of Its legl9la e department. de-partment. GERMANS REPORT ADVANTAGES IN BOTH WAR ZONES BERLIN Dec 12 (b re es to Lon Ion Advantages for the German a mies In both the west and the east are re ported in an official s a ement gi en out todav at military headquarters The at tacks of the allies in France and Bel guim have been repulsed and the Gerrrana ha e gained ground near Arras and In the A.rgonne In the east he Russian forces -were bea en back n the f phtlng a ong he East Prus an front er and in so them Pc and The text of the communication follows On the East P-ussan frontier our (Coutlnaed on Page Fourteen.) " 4 ! WEST BANK OF THE USER HELD BY THE ALLIES H Furious Attacks by Germans id Repulsed by British, Re- II in forced by the Com- P mander in Chief (Continued from Pago One) feb ca -a ry repulsed Russian cavalry m tak ne S40 pr sonera H So lh of t e Vistula and In north b- en Poland our operations are devel m op ng: m. In southern Po and Russ an at Bf tacks nave been repu sed by Aust o Is, Kungaran and Cerman troops P In Flanders the French yesterday k mad attacks n the region of lange L mark, which however -were repu aed ft They lost 200 n en in k lied and we r took -440 prisoners Our artillery bombarded the Tpres ra road station to interfere with the movements of the enemy s troops - Wo have made some progress near Arras j French troops again attacked ua LJ near Souain Perthes but without sue " cess In the Argonne forest the French for weeks pa t have lim ted them se ves to very weak attacks and they e erywhere have been repu sed On the other hand German troops f have a &ain taken possess on of an important French pos on of support hv means of the exp os on of a m re J?he enen y have euffe ed heavy losses in kl ed and many of the r t oops have been so se ere y shaken as to be unab e to f gb.t any oner. More over we took more than 200 'prL oners near Apremont South of ''St. Mih el repeated stubborn French attacks were repulsed as were a so other at T . tacks in the vie n ty of Marklrch |