Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-11-13 | Page 12 | Taking Dixmude Proving to be Barren Gain

TAKING PROVING TO RE BE BARR DARREN GAIN N W Way to Dunkirk Still Is Barred to the Germans Fierce Fighting on Aisne LONDON Nov No 13 1005 n. n a. a m. m Tho m.-Tho Tho Germans have crossed crossed tho the river ri according to tho admission in the Iho latest Paria Paris official communication and although although al ai- al- al thou though h tho invaders occupy only a n. few fow hundred yards on tho the left bank of the tho stubbornly contested river tho the ailing cannot bo be indifferent to this gain and desperate efforts will bo be mado to drive back this slight Blight wedge Ypres extending liko like a fortress bastion bas bas- bastion tion into tho the I lines nes of tho inva invaders ers still is hold beld by tho British an and unless tho the flank attacks on this position aro ara successful successful successful suc suc- is lif likely oly to prove provo a barren gain for tho the Germans who still find thenay tb the way nay to Dunkirk barred Tho theory that tho the Germans aro are malting making an unprecedented attempt on this coast objective is confirmed by an official just returned to Holland from East Prussia where ho claims the BO- BO verity of tho the German defeat is duo to tho the fact act that 60 so many troops ha have o been bean detached for tho the effort a against Calais Little attention has been paid to tho the operations non along the tho River Aisne but according to Jato late dispatches fierce fighting recalling tho early days of tho the siege battle battlo there has been in pro progress ress for some some timo with with no great alteration in tho the lino but somo sarno slight advantage in favor of tho allies In the coast battlo battle tho the latest reports indicate that the tho Germans after heavy artillery fire make inako massed massed infantry assaults assaults assaults as as- suffering buffering losses much heavier than thau the defenders From tho the cast come reports that Petrograd is expecting to hear any moment mo mo- moment ment mont that tho great eat battlo battle before Cracow Cracow Cracow Cra Cra- cow has haa been started while past Kalisz KaUsz Ka- Ka lisz and behind n a a of cossacks their infantry and artillery in force are aro said to bo be within striking distance of tho the German frontier Bucharest reports two Austrian divisions divisions divisions divi divi- annihilated aon along tho the Ri or Pruth which if it truet indicates that tho the Austrian opposition in 10 is at atan atan atan an end and the way opened for the tho invasion of Transylvania In tho the minor war war theatres there thero is il little to report except tho the severe defeat administered to General Do no Wet Vet by his old comrade in arms General Botha