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Show FLANDERS SCENE OF HERGE BATTLE GERMANS STRIVING DESPERATELY DESPERATE-LY TO FORCE BACK ALLIES AND REACH DUNKIRK. :Kaler's Forces Endeavoring to Make Good Their Vow to Break Through to the Sea by December 10. The latest advices from the battlefield battle-field in Flanders convey details of fu-.rlous fu-.rlous engagements 'being fought by vast numbers in Flanders, where the battle of the Yser has been resumed with increased vigor, and north of Arras, Ar-ras, where the Germans are making desperate efforts once more to make good their vow to break through to Calais by December 10. The fighting in which the right wing army has been engaged is the most difficult and the most spectacular of any along the battle front from the: Vosges to' the sea. In this region the roads are but mountain passes and footpaths, ravines ra-vines divide broken ranges of hills and crests and peaks are the strategic positions po-sitions for which the rival armies arej contending. ( On Wednesday, the French, by driving the Germans from the neck, or. "hogback," of Lesmenil, connecting! two of the most prominent peaks si tnlles southeast of St. Die, were ab:e .to occupy this position and what is inown as the signal Xon, a height which the Germans have been utilize ing in signaling messages. The right wing of the French army defeated the Germans all along ital front in several violent engagements, along the Moselle river, in the Vos- ges and in Alsace on Wednesday, ac-i cording to delayed reports from Paris.! To the south of the village of L'Bon-i homme (also southeast of St. Die) in; the Vosges, the French succeeded in. capturing La Tate La Faux, a promontory prom-ontory of commanding position which the Germans had been using as an observation ob-servation station and which dominates .the crest of the frontier. The corps operating in Alsace has made remarkable advances and Thurs: day, after capturing and occupying the station of Burnhaupt, they were able to extend their line until now it rests from Aspach past the Aspach bridge to Burnhaupt The artillery carried the burden of the fighting in Flanders and north of Arras. Nieuport was subject to terrific terri-fic attacks by the Germans, who were unable to reach the town with their Infantry because of the energy of the .defense which brought its artillery Jind quick-firing guns into play with such vigor that the Germans were compelled to be content with long-range long-range firing. South of Ypres . a like canonading -was directed against the British positions, po-sitions, but the invaders failed to follow fol-low up the bombardment with attacks by infantry. |