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Show BRITISH TROOPS MEETTHE GUARD Paris. Nov. 10, 11:16 p. m The usual hail of steel and the surging of armies in northern France and Belgium Bel-gium seemed to have met with obstacles ob-stacles today, for tho roar of cannon was less violent and the troops scarcely scarce-ly enme In contact with each other It is generally believed here, that now inundations started by tho Belgians put many of the German guns out of action and also prevented the movements move-ments of troops. It is nlmost impossible to gain an accurate Insight Into the prodigious actidn that is stret"hinK over the 300-I 300-I mile front, and at the ends of which j the fichting has been extremely se-I se-I ver0 during the last three weeks. The continuous nlqht marches and attacks made by the Germans, which have been met with counter-attacks from the allies near Dlxmude and Ypres, however, are said to have resulted In a considerable thrusting back of tho (iermane. A coal basin in northern Franco, which is pnrtly occupied by the Germans Ger-mans and which has been ' the scene ot heavy fighting, the long lines of small houses belonging to the miners now- form a capital shelter for the Infantry In-fantry who frequently are engaged in hand-to-hand eonfllcts These eonihats of cold steel have seen the British infantrv against the Prussian guards and descriptions of the fighting from tho front paint the encounter a9 terrible. The Prussians f. .tight four deep the front rank I vine down, the second rank kneeling, "and the third rank standing erect ' The British fire, it Is said caused an awful aw-ful slaughter, and finally when the British charged with bnyonet before the Germans could bring their machine ma-chine guns into action, 'hundreds of men fell The siege operation?, along the re-' malnder of the line find the troops of both Rides apparently Immobile But the allies continue daily their work of sapping and approaching tho German positions, and there Is said to he the possibility of a general assault as-sault at any moment. Heavy falls of snow in thG Vosges mountains lasting over twenty-four hours have made the movement of artillery most difficult Th.- fighting there is almost at a standstill." Reports irom the front tell of a brilliant feat of a British infantry detachment de-tachment of eighty men who were cut off .it night from their command and took refuge in a wood during a fog. The wood was surrounded by Germans. Ger-mans. At dawn the British heard the French attacking and decider! to charge with the bayonet at the rear of the Germans, of whom thev captured 400. it la said. A regiment of French hussars near Ypres stuffed a number of uniforms with straw and attached them to wounded horses These they drove into the German lines While the Germans were tiring at the dummies on horseback, it i8 said, the hussars charged their flank and took a large number of prisoners. oo |
