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Show GERMANS CANNOT MAKE HEADWAY Paris. Nov 1, 11 p. m The following follow-ing official statement was issued tonight: to-night: "Between the North sea and the Aisne tho principal attack by the enemy en-emy during the day has been violent "In Belgium we advanced south of Dlxmude and south of Ghaluwe, and we have maintained all our other positions. po-sitions. "In the region of the Aisne a violent vio-lent German offensive between Bray-en Bray-en Lannols and Vailly has completely complete-ly failed." Paris, Nov. 2. The German drive upon Calais has been hammered, blunted and beaten, and now has become be-come a last ditch defensive fight, with disaster or retreat the Duke of Wuert-temberg's Wuert-temberg's alternatives The German offensive has hurled itself it-self against a wall of steel presented by the allies until It has been torn, ripped and cut to pieces In its mad dash, first at this point and then at j that, in a frantic endeavor to beat down the barrier between it and the j coveted coastal positions. Today came the long awaited falter fal-ter in the German attack The war office at Bordeaux tonight officially declared that along the whole front from the Olse to the sea the pronounced pro-nounced attacks directed by the Germans Ger-mans up to yesterday had diminished in violence. Allies Go Forward. And as If awaiting this signal to press the allies' offenaive home, the troops of General Joffre plunged forward for-ward both to the south of Dixmude and to the south of Ghaluwe. Be tween Ypres and Menin the allied French, British and Belgian troops occupied oc-cupied positions considerably in ad vance of those previously held. At every other point at which the troops came In contact with the Germans during the day the allies were able to maintain their positions. Failure of the German offensive be tween Bray-en-Lannois and Vailley, in the Aisne region, also was reported. This coucerted attack of the invaders has been markodly determined and Its failure is accepted by military observers ob-servers here as signaling the general weakening of the German attack alon; the whole east and west front. The war office made no announcement announce-ment to contradict the German claim of advantage In the fighting about Yprea, but admitted that the allies had been forced to evacuate part of the village of Messinee in the face of a vlgorouB German attack. |