| Show POURING TROOPS INTO FLANDERS GERMANS ARE MAKING DESPERATE DESPER ATE EFFORTS FORTS TO TURN THE ALLIED FORCES BACK Fighting Continues In n the Despite the Torrential Rains the Russians Claiming to Have Made Advances The Germans are pouring troops i into nto Flanders to press the attack I which at the beginning has forced the allies back to the canal to the north of Ypres This movement according to Jo reports reports reports re re- re- re ports reaching Holland 1 has assumed even greater dimensions than than those which preceded the battle that raged f for or more than two weeks in this same region last October On that occasion t the he operations ended Wended in the discomfiture t ture tur ur of the Germans who had declared de de- de declared dared their intention of pushing their way through to Calais It appears that the Germans have havea a similar aim at this time and have s set et out loUt to capture Ypres which is hf described de de- de scribed s as the tha ke key t to the French c coast ports I I r While hile the I attack originally met with considerable success due according ac ac- c cording t to the allies reports to the use by the Germans of asphyxiating gases it is said to have been already checked c ch c The jC Canadians who hed h ld J t the he extreme of the the British line ne 11 I and were forced to retire when the r rest est of the front was pressed back I made a brilliant counterattack counter regaIning regaining re- re re- re J gaining most most most- if not all tl the e ground I which they had conceded and retaking ing ag four guns which they had left in inI I J he the hands of the Germans In the I words of Sir John French they saved I he the situation I j In the meantime fighting goes on onn i in n Champagne and the the- aswell aswell as aswell well as in the Despite t torrential rains the Russians appear t to o have resumed their attacks on the German Austro-German po positions guarding pass The capture by the RussIans Russians Rus Rus- s lans of hill hlll 1001 it is claimed will greatly facilitate their operations reducing re re- re in importance hill hlll which t the he Austrians still hold of this new flew Russian o offensive is contained in the Austrian i o official report which records fighting o on n road which h traverses traverses' pass I |
