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Show FATE OF CALAIS IN THEBALANGE Ultimate result of furiou fighting in flanders ! still in doubt. Allies Assume Offensive, But Germans Are Holding Most of Ground Captured Cap-tured Battle for Straits Undecided. On the narrow rocky (lalipola peninsula penin-sula in Turkey and on a restricted front stretching norrhwnnl from V'pre'-i In Belgium, two of the most vital HlruK-gles HlruK-gles of the war are now in progress. Neither struggle has yet reached a BtKB" which would permit of a prediction predic-tion of the ultimate result. In the (lalipola peninsula llglitinK a ' ilcturesnne assortment of allied troops landed Sunday, supported by the fire of the warshipH, and are trying to batter bat-ter their way through thousands of Oerinan-ofricered Turks in an effort to force the Dardanelles the main gateway gate-way of the Ottoman empire and reacl Constantinople. According to the Ilritlsh claim, the attack Is progressing, but a Turkish communication received Tuesday de: clarea that, although the allies landedi forces at four points, these forces are being beaten hack to the coast, while the Moslems In the French ranks arej deserting the tricolor and easting their! lot with their coreligionists. Equally contradictory are the official Hlatements concerning the fighting In the vlclnlly of Ypres. It would appear that the German offensive north of that city, which resulted In their recent gain of nearly three miles, has reached lis limit and that, although the Germans Ger-mans hold most of the ground they gained, the question now is whether they have sufficiently consolidated the new line to retain It. The rush over, the British troops are now said to have taken the offensive and are striking toward St. Jullen, which the Germans captured, while the : French on the ilritlsh left not only have pushed the Germans from L.1. zerna, their new lodgment on the wesl; bank of tho canal nearest Calais, but have crossed the canal and hold Het Sas on the east hank. The German official communication of Tuesday, which records no progress for tlie German troops, admits that the Ilritlsh took the offensive toward St. Jullen, hut insists that the successive attacks broke down. |