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Show ON FRENCH SOIL GERMANS STUBBORNLY RESISTING RESIST-ING ATTACKS BY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ARMIES. Both Sides Are Fighting Furiously, the Loss of Life in Prolonged Battle Being Appalling, With the End Not Yet in Sight. On the battle line in northern France, where the contending armies are burrowed deeply in intrench-irnents, intrench-irnents, the French official report says the situation is stationary, except that there have been several violent encounters en-counters between the allies and the Germans, notably in the vicinity of Rove, in the department of Somme. No claims of success or acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of defeats are made in the report, re-port, but it is asserted that General Von Kluk has failed to stop the allies, leaders expressed Thursday the belief The battle on French soil between the German invaders and the French and English forces had been in progress prog-ress twenty-seven days on Thursday, and the end is not yet in sight. Although reports are not being made of the loss of men, the death list must be something appalling. Both sides are fighting furiously and every foot of ground gained must cost many lives. The British official bureau reports that the French army is fighting with the greatest dash and bravery. The French officials report an advance at points on the center and the retaking of ground previously yielded in the Roye district. Berlin also reports that the fighting On the German right wing in France has been successful and that in the assault as-sault on Antwerp two more forts have fallen into German hands. The Belgian Bel-gian government has been removed trom Antwerp to Ostend, with many thousands of refugees. The bombardment bombard-ment of Antwerp it is reported, already al-ready had begun, following a notification notifica-tion from the commander of the German Ger-man troops that noncombatants and others desiring to do so should withdraw with-draw from the city. That the Germans are still vigorously vigor-ously bombarding Antwerp with their heavy siege guns from three positions and that great damage already has been done by shells in the beautiful city is the outstanding feature of the war news. So violent has been the concussion caused by the detonations of the big German guns in the bombardment of Antwerp that houses twenty miles away were shaken. King Albert, at the head of a portion of the Belgian army, is reported to have marched out of the besieged city, from which place refugees by the hundreds of thousands have fled in panic. Among the few neutrals remaining in the city, where not alone shells from the guns of the Germans, but bombs from their aircraft are falling, is H. W. Diedrich, the American consul, con-sul, and the members of his staff. " In the east the Russians claim to have repulsed with heavy losses the German attacks near Wirballen and Philipoff, Russian Poland. They declare de-clare also that some of the principal forts of Przemysl, in Galicia, have been taken by the forces of Emperor Nicholas, and that the German forces have been driven out of Wlewalek, in Poland, across the border from the fortress of Thorn, East Prussia. From the south came a report from Cettinje that the Servians had defeated defeat-ed the Austrians and occupied Bilek, Herzegovina. The forty-third German casualty list issued at Berlin contains 10,600 names in dead, wounded and missing. |