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Show Teutons Staggered By Allies' Hard Blow London, Oct. 10. With that Infinite Infin-ite patlenco which spurns costly Klory but which forges ahead "Inch by inch," on a plan that must ultimately ulti-mately reallzo miles, Sir Douglas Halg settled down today to tho consolidation con-solidation of tho ground won in yes-terday'H yes-terday'H smash on tho Flanders front and to tho preparation of a new drive when all Is ready. On his loft, tho Fronch ploughed ahead anil captured another village. In his center, tho Australians settled . a bloody dispute with tho Teutons over tho possession of the Celtic wood and settled it in their own favor with bayonet and bomb. Near whoro his linos Join tho French south of tho Vpres-Staden railway, his troops were pushod back a short distance by a powerful Gorman Gor-man counter-attack on a front of about 2000 yards, (ionium Lines Cmilicd. Hut each of theso actions was of a local nature Tho big result of yesterday's yes-terday's battlo, tho crushing In of tho Gorman lines on tho Paeschendaolo rldgo, stnnds unchanged and unchallenged. unchal-lenged. Instead of driving on without pauso and thus exhausting his mon and tins on unorganized terrain, tho British Brit-ish commander is sticking Importurb-ably Importurb-ably to his plan of "hit and rest and hit" strategy which allows him to mako himself at homo In hla nowly won positions whtlo tho foo Is wearing wear-ing hlmsolf out In counter-attacks. Resumption of tho drive Is- how-ovor, how-ovor, looked for earlier than usal because be-cause It Is now a raco with wlntor. In tho threo or, at tho bost, four weeks that aro allowed by tho weather weath-er god for largo scalo operations, a considerable Job has yet to bo dono, and Halg moans to do It unless all signs deceive Such gains as tho French and Australians made today In tho Interim botwoon his battlos aro heartily wolcomo, for they holp to stralghton tho now lino and pavo tho way for tho now onslaught. Ommii Morulo Wcaki-mil. AH front dispatches agreo that yes- torday's blow staggered tho German and cost them heavily In blood arid righting vim. Berlin disputes this, asserting officially that tho Flanders lino from Poolcapollo to south of Gheluvelt "aro hold firmly by their defenders." It Is added that "heaviest losses" woro Inflicted by tho allies attacking on tho elght-mllo front. Tho nrltlsh alono, tho Gorman statement nvers, used eleven divisions 220,000 mon In tho drive. Concluding, tho report re-port admits that tho entento troops capturod about 1B00 motors of terrl-1 tory to tho south of Houtholst wood, but adds that this "Initial success was limited" by a countor-attack. - Only a thousand yards now separates separ-ates tho British from tho villages of Paschondaelo. Tho now push, when It comes, must Inovltablly carry this point In Its swoop for it will bo a downward swcop, heralded from the heights that domlnato It. I'nschctidnclo's Capture Assured. For tho Teutons to try and hold tho tip of Paschendaelo rldgo when tho now allied attack comes would bo to all military reasoning suicidal. Military Mili-tary critics agreo that tho solo object ob-ject In tho Bavarian crown prlnlo's tactics of a delaying battlo now Is to cling to as much ground as ho can so as to prevent tho British from sweoplng Into tho Flanders plain before be-fore winter quarters aro occupied. Abandon ho must this plain now that every yard of it can bo raked by tho British fires j but tho theory on which his Is believed to work Illndonburg's theory, no doubt Is that ono thing may bo saved out of tho Flanders wreck If tho Bavarians, Saxons and Prussians' nerves hold out threo moro wooks, that thing bo-lng bo-lng tho chanco to call tho retreat when It Is mado, a "strategic" one after tho Sommo model. Tho woather 13 anything but encouraging en-couraging to tho two armlos, ono bent upon ending tho year's campaign with a clear-cut triumph; tho other upon saving what can bo saved of security and credit. Rainfalls recur I In regular Intervals. Tho ground has boon turned Into a morass. Verdun Attack lU'puIsed. Along tho right bank of tho Mouso In tho Verdun sector tho Gormans, north of tho Bols-lo-Chaumo, following follow-ing a violent bombardmont, attacked tho Fronch lino and ponetratod It at soveral points, but wero kopt from proceeding farther by tho firo of Gen- 1 oral Petaln's artillery. 1 In tho Austro-Itallan theatro tho B Austrlans nttomptcd to gain ground M against tho Italians on tho Carso !tn plateau, but In tho furious fighting If they woro worsted, suffering hevy casualties. Along tho Balnslzzar plateau lively artillery duels again QD'K' aro In progress. H Considerable activity both by tho Q artillery and tho Infantry continues 1 on the Riga front In tho north Rus- J sla fighting zone. Southeast of tho H Spltall farm tho Germans have vlo- H lontly bombarded nusslan positions. ( In tho mlddlo sector of this front tho duels havo reached considerable pro- M portions to tho north of Lako Mlad- it zlol. U |