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Show WRITER TELLS OF FIGHT AT YPRES Most Terrible Batue of the Whole War Fought Both Sides Make Superhuman Super-human Efforts. I London, Nov 8, 6:30 p. m A dis I patch to the Times from Dunkirk. j Frnnce, filed Saturday nigh' sa: B "After a desperate attack lasting the whole week the German attempt to break the allied line at Ypres has ' failed. "It may be admitted that the position posi-tion at Ypres two days uo was serl ous. The town itself was bombarded by the Germans with extraordinary violence and under the fierce cannonading can-nonading the allies had to withdraw from the town which became a no man s land' across which the shells I from both sides burst. "The Germans made a super human and final effort, under cover of a fierce bombardment of the British positions Masses of men were launched in succession at chosen I points at our front The assault was met In a supreme way Two regl- meats, one Scottish and one of the Guards, went down with bayonets to stem the advance. It was the most terrible haonet charge of the whole war. It succeeded, the break In the line was repaired and the German attack at-tack was once more driven back. That was their last effort Today the Germans are dropping an occasional occa-sional desultory shell Into Ypres but their attacks hae ceased They are now assailing the allied line at Ar ras. forty miles further to the south but not with the same furv as they exhibited in the onslaught of the past week. Germans Lose 100.000 Men. "So fierce has been the fightinc around Ypres thai the casualties of the Germans are believed to have reached the enormous figure of 100-000, 100-000, though those figures may prove to have been exaggerated " The correspondent of Renter s Telegram Tele-gram company at Athens says "Two British destroyers bombard ed the telegraph stations at Sarmous sail and Aysasmat The Turks sanR a Greek steamer that was flying the British flag at Aivali. Greeks Flee From Smyrna, "The Greek inhabitants of Smyrna are fleeing panic-stricken. A British destrover went to Aivali to embark the British consul but the Turks refused re-fused to permit this "It is stated that Forts Sodie Bahr and Kum Kale in the Dardanelles have been completely destroyed by the bombardment. The Turks, under the direction of German officers, are hastily fortifying Aivali." A dispatch from Copenhagen quotes the Politlkon as saying that three German officers wearing civilian dress, arrived safely at Copenhagen on the Danish steamer Esrom. which sailed from Baltimore on October 4 According to the paper the officers were provided with what purported to be passports issued by the Swiss .onsiikit. general in New York British Brit-ish warships In the Atlantic searched the ffisrom without discovering the disguised Germans. oo Paris. Nov. 9, 12:46 p m The records of the stock brokers' corporation cor-poration were brought back to the headquarters of the corporation from Bordeaux today in view of the expected, ex-pected, reopening of the cash stock market A definite date for this re-j opening has not been set I H |