Show POURING TROOPS INTO FLANDERS GERMANS ARE MAKING DESPERATE EFFORTS TO TURN THE ALLIED FORCES BACK fighting continues in the Carpathia ns despite the torrential rains the tha russians claiming to have made advances the germans are pouring troops into flanders to press the attack which at the beginning has haa forced the allies back to the canal to the north of ypres cypres this movement according to reports reaching holland has assumed even gr greater bater dimensions than those which preceded the battle that raged tor for more than two weeks in this same region last october on that occasion the tha operations ended in the discomfiture of the germans who had bad declared their intention of pushing their way through to calais it appears that the germans have a similar aim at this time and have set t tut cut ut to capture ypres cypres which Is described as the key to the french I 1 coast ports I 1 while the attack originally met with considerable success due according to the allies reports to the use by the germans of asphyxiating asphyxia ting gases jt it is said to have been already I 1 checked the canadians who held tho the extreme left of the british ailtee ind werd forced tomed lo 10 alien wh en ott t tho 0 rest of the front was pressed back made a brilliant counterattack counter attack regaining most if not all the ground which they had conceded and betak ing tour four guns which they had left in the hands of the germans in the words of sir john french they saved the situation in the meantime fighting goes on in champagne and the Wo evre as well as tn in the Carpathia ns despite torrential rains the russians appear to have resumed their attacks on the austro german positions guarding pass the capture by the russians of hill 1001 it Is claimed will greatly facilitate their operations opera tlona reducing in importance hill which the austrians Aust lans rians hold of this new russian offensive la is contained in the austrian official report which records fighting on road which traverses pass |