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Show BATTLE II FRANCE HALTED 0! SiGi MEN IN TRENCHES CU:-T"ER AS RESULT OF SNOWSTORM AND HEAVY GALE. Neither Side Has Been Able to Maks Any Sensible Advance, Eoth Being Be-ing WeU Entrenched Agninet Artillery Attack. London. After four weeks of most desperate fighting there is a lull iE the battle of Flanders. With this lull, however, has come little relief for the men in the trenches, as the artillery and rifle Are to which they have been subjected with hardly E.ny intermission intermis-sion has been replaced by one of those severe snowstorms which so often of-ten accompany November in this latitude. lati-tude. In some parts of England the storm has reached the proportions of a blizzard, bliz-zard, on the sea a heavy gale rages, and the battlefields are getting their full share of wind and rain. For the most part the opposing armies have been content to .-shell each other at long range, but the Germans Ger-mans have made several attacks around Ypres, 'which, according to the French general staff,' have been repulsed re-pulsed with heavy losses. Extensive defense works have beeD erected along the Yser canal, and the French armies are holding that line from the Belgian border south to the river Oise and pushing forward approach ap-proach works. The Germans report that they have taken a few hundred British and French prisoners, but that the unfavorable unfa-vorable weather has impeded their progress. Concerning the fighting around Dixmude the public must rely on unofficial reports. Here, it is said, the Germans are finding the destroyed village a death trap. They have been unable to debouch from this point in the day time, as all the approaches are commanded by the allies' guns, and night attacks have met with disaster. dis-aster. The fact is apparent that neither side has been able to make any sensible sensi-ble advance, both being so well entrenched en-trenched that neither artillery nor infantry in-fantry can move them. The. Germans are turning Belgium Into a fortress, which means that If they do not succeed in advancing they intend to be perpared for a winter in Belgium. ' A battle of some proportions is going go-ing on between the 'Russians and Turks at Koprukeui, in the Caucasus, the result of which may have a marked effect on the war in that part of the world. Elsewhere . in the near east there has been no engagement of importance. im-portance. ; England, it is announced, has no intention in-tention of undertaking any .' military operations in Arabia, except for the protection of Arab interests against Turkish or other aggressions or in support sup-port of attempts by the Arabs to free themselves from Turkish rule. Bulgaria also has set at rest the report that she had an agreement with Turkey and has issued a statement state-ment that no such agreement exists. The Servians and Montenegrins, who started out to invade Bosnia and Herzegovia and were at one time approaching ap-proaching the Bosnian capital of Sara-yevo, Sara-yevo, now are hack in their own territory ter-ritory offering a stubborn resistance to the Austrians. The weather is favorable fa-vorable to them as snow is falling. The Scandinavian countries and Holland are much exercised over the sowing of mines where they endanger neutral vessels. That the mines are in great number is shown by the fact that dozens are being driven on the Dutch coast by the prevailing storm. |