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Show ALLIES CONTINUE TO MAKE GAINS Paris, Nov. 17. Ypres today was the object of renewed and violent attacks at-tacks by concentrated German forces of atrillery and infantry, the assaults being directed from the east and from the south Temporary gains were en-Joyed en-Joyed by the Invaders, several of the advanced British and French positions posi-tions being occupied for a few hours, but the close of the day saw the Germans Ger-mans repelled and the allies' line still intact, with the situation unmodified. From the Yser to the Meuso today the French made progress wherever they attacked, according to the official of-ficial communication from the office The allies bavo advanced at five points along the 300-mile battle front luring the past fotry-eight hours, at rletaaa,' on the Yser; at a point be-tweon be-tweon Armentieres and Arras, in the vicinity of Yallly, in the Arognnc and on the heights of the Meuse. More Furious Fighting. Across the inundated region between be-tween Nieuport and Dlxmude today the Germans continued a furious cannonading, can-nonading, if anything more furious than during the previous days, but the effect was practically nil In fact, the Belgians, worn out by their arduous campaigning of the past week, kept well to their trenches, not making any great effort toward effective ef-fective reply. Farther to the south, however, the French artillery did some good work The Germans at this point attempted, with the use of trees felled in the nearby forest, to stem the floods that were filling their trenches and driving driv-ing them into the open The fire of the French guns not only compelled the German enigneers and sappers corps to desist from their work at the dikes, but forced the detachments to withdraw In great confusion The Germans appear to be great confusion The Germans appear to be greatly demoralized by the effect of the Inun dation, more so than by the flood of lead and shell poured from the allies al-lies trenches. Many large detachments detach-ments have been cut off by the floods and hundreds have lost their lives. Most disastrous for the German purpose pur-pose has been the Throwing open of 'he dike, as the spread 01 the water brought to a halt for a period the extended ex-tended movement of troops in the front of Dixmude. Only two attempts to cut through the allies' lines were made by the Germans during the day. These were before Ypres and to the south of Btx-schoote. Btx-schoote. These attacks resulted in failure. The French on th eir side attempted the offensive between Bixschoote and 'he canal, part of the plan to straighten straight-en the wedge in front of Ypres and were able to record some progress. The fierce fighting about allly, on the Aisne, resulted from a vigorous attempt of the Germans again to force a crossing of the river, but each effort was met successfully and the attackers either repulsed or destroyed. destroy-ed. Violent cannonading has continued con-tinued upstream from Vallly and In the vicinity of Rheims several shells have fallen in the city. |
