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Show Dykes in Belgium Opened to I Stop the German Advance I 11 - tr. p r 3 London, Oct. 22, 2:16 p. m. "The furious bombardment between Ostend and Nieuport continues today" according to a dispatch appearing in the Telegraaf of Am- I a sterdam and telegraphed to London by the correspondent in that city of the Exchange Telegraph company. "The Germans are firing from Mariakerke and Middelkerke; H I the French from Nieuport and the English from their warships. English aviators directed the fire of the allies on the German positions. The French and Belgians are per- H a sistently resisting the efforts of the Germans to cross the river Yser. The dykes of this river have been cut." H 1 British Monitors Shell German Positions I ITALIAN MARINES LAND AT AVLONA; INPANTRY WAITING TO EMBARK ni ; , , i ALLIES SHELL GERMANS NIGHT AND 1 DAY WITH WARSHIPS SUPPORTING Germans Claim They Have Disabled One British Destroyer and Have Repulsed the Allies at Lille Optimistic Ones Among Allies Declare They Will Be in Brussels in a Fortnight Germans Still Stubbornly Resist-v Resist-v ing Evacuation of the Belgian Coast Warships Will Make Near Points Untenable. I EVERY FOOT OF BATTLE GROUND CONTESTED; Villages Taken and Re-taken Repeatedly Rush Tactics Prevail Pre-vail and Both Sides Claim They Regularly Repulse Onslaughts On-slaughts of Opponents No News From Berlin n Allies Said to Have Blown Up Railroad Be- tween Bruges and Ghent Conflicting Stories of Fate of Prince Maxmilian. London, Oct. 22, 4:40 p. m. A dispatch to the Evening News from Venice says: "A company of Italian marines landed at Avlona today. The Italian 47th infantry stationed at Lecce, is said to be read' to embark for Avlona. It is stated that telephone communication communi-cation with other parts of Albania has been severed in order to prevent the spread of the news of the landing." The Italian embassy in London has no confirmation of the foregoing. New York, Oct. 22. The East and West News bureau (this afternoon gave out this cable message from Tokio, dated today. "The Japanese naval general staff announces that the marine heavy artillery corps is engaged on the 22nd (today) in the attack on Tsing Tau, and that a part of the Japanese fleet is keeping watch on the enemy's warships hovering about Hawaii." 1,0 London, Oct. 22 The dykes of the river Yser have been cut and the banks at high tide are flooded for considerable distances, dis-tances, according to an Amsterdam dispatch. Continued rains have made the land very swampy and the Germans suffering suffer-ing from heavy losses, cannot advance. Large numbers of their wounded arrived at Bruges and Ostend, Wednesday, and a body of Germans came from Ghent to assist in their removal. re-moval. A further consignment of new guns for the shelling of British warships has arrived at Ostend. Seebrugge is still occupied by German marines. 0 London, Oct. 22, 8:50 a. m. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Dunkirk says the British naval bombardment has utterly destroyed the town of Slype, which the Germans held in force. The house occupied by the German headquarters staff was blown to bits. The naval marksmanship, according to the dispatch was W superb. A British signal man, on a stationary balloon, was shot by the Germans. t I Paris, Oct 22. 2:46 p. m. The offi- Hil clal announcement this afternoon by the French war office, aays the posl-J posl-J tlons occupied by the allies In Belgi um and northern France have been maintained in spite of the violent attacks at-tacks of the enemy The text follows: "On our left wing, German forces In considerable strength have continued contin-ued their violent attacks, particularly In the vicinity of Dixmude, Warnlton. 1 Axmentleres, Radinghem and La Baa-see, Baa-see, but the positions occupied by the allies have been maintained "On the rest of the front the onounv has delivered only partial attacks These all have been repulsed, particularly particu-larly at Frlcourt. to the east of Albert, Al-bert, on the plateau to the west of Caronne; in the region of Soualn, In the Argonne district; at Four de Par is, southwest of Varennes; in the region of Maliinrourt. in the Woevre district, in the direction of Champion, and at a point southeast of St Mi-hiel, Mi-hiel, in the forest of Ailly. "We have made slight progress in the Argonne district and in the southern south-ern part of the Woevre, in the foresl of Mortmnre. "Russia: The forward movement of the Russian forces has been positively positive-ly announced An important success in the region of Warsaw lias driven back the enemy more than 13 kilometres kilome-tres (eight miles.) The advances ol the Russians at Ivangorod and to the south of I'rzemvsl are equally perceptible." percept-ible." News from Lille. Further news from Lille, toward which th" French and English bave been advancing slowly, was expected during the day The sudden resumption resump-tion of activity by the Germans at points where they were not expected has caused a di-e.-ussion of the object of these efforts. For Instance, east of the Argonne. where the enemy QBE been silent for a considerable tim fl sudden rush was made on Vauquois, which Is perched on a mountain peak Also questioned Is the purpose erf the new attempt In the Woevre, near Champlln, when thej have been un- , able to dislodge the French from the heights of the Meuse and equally unsuccessful un-successful In driving the latter from the Ducklo formed by the river south of St. Mihiel In these somewhat desultory movements. Colonel Rons- I sett, the Fren h military critic, said he had supposed the Germans were get King once more to intimidate the French as the operations referred to were without connection or military relation Tho official communications communica-tions however, he adds, reveal another an-other purpose This was to detract the attention of the allies from tho principal battlefield, which Is in the i north The furious resumption of the offensive against the line from ' Nieuport to Dixmude and La Bassec can leave no doubt of the German , plan RoUBSett declares. London Oct. 22, in 30 a. m Re ports that the Germans had evacuated evacu-ated Ostend and were retreating toward to-ward Bruges and that their West Flanders army, from the viclnlt) of the coast south to Courtrai, wae being be-ing hammered into a zigzag line by the combined efforts of the British navy and the British, French and Belgian Bel-gian troops, seemed to coincide on so many points that, In the absence I of claims of any advances from Berlin, Ber-lin, opinion here was that the fight ing among the canals of north Belgium, Belgi-um, which followed the German rush from Antwerp, had been generally ngainst the inadera. t any rate, the Germans at nnc' point haf been driven back as far us Thorout and some dispaU ht-s say that their communications in the middle of West Flanders have been iso disorganised that troops front Ghent are marching direct to Cour- trai rather than join their comrades to the north who are in danger of bi ing cut off. Tho evacuation of Ostend was not confirmed this morning but from Berlin Itself came a report that British Brit-ish ships were shelling that town, while another dispatch said that the guns of the war vessels had destroyed the village of Slype, on the canal be tween Ostend and Bruges, where it is said the Germans have their headquarters head-quarters At Sluis. only a few miles northeast of Slype, in 1840, a British I fleet aebleed a victory over the French Warships Play Important Part. It is clear now that the ships have been playing an Important part in the warfare along the coast The ndmirnltv officially announces that the Monitors Severn. H umber fnd I Mersey not only bombarded the Get man position south of Ostend, but j landed detachments of marines with machine guns It is rejmrted from . oilier sources that eleven war ves- sels are taking part In the operations, but what they are is noi announced. Curiously enough, the monitors retain re-tain that title from "Lincoln's cbeesi box' of civil war fame, and so far apparently they have been able to dodge submarine attacks, though, as reported on Tuesday at least twelve torpedoes were discharged at them without one finding its mark How the German submarines got to Ost end is unknown, but presumably they crept down the Dutch coast, submerging submerg-ing whenever sighted by a British patrol pa-trol and then picked their way carefully care-fully through the British mine fields. Coast Fighting Holds Interest. With the fighting along the Brlgl an coast hardlv more than seventy miles from Dover that area of hostilities hostili-ties necessnrih holds chief interest with the British public, thouch according ac-cording to last night s Paris official communications, there were violent actions here and there along more than a seventy-mile front, extending almost due north and south from Nieuport Nieu-port to La Bassee. Kaiser Reported III. Rumors that Emperor William ib seriously ill are filtering in here via Paris and this, with a report that a Gorman fleet is off Palsterbo, Sweden Swe-den are among the usual crop of unconfirmed un-confirmed narratives that Ixindon Is discussing. London, Oct 22. 1:57 p m One of the officers of the allied armies near the Belgian border Is quoted as ha-ing ha-ing said yesterday: "We shall most certainly be in Brussels under a mouth , myself, expect In a fortnight " This probably represents the Impression Im-pression obtaining here even though there is to be found little demonstrable demonstra-ble proof of any specific success, so decisive in its consequences as to constitute a real ictory or defeat. Germans Still Hang On Meanwhile, the anticipation of a German evacuation of the Belgian coast is still unrealized, though, if the British fleet Is able for a little time longer to maintain undisturbed its present point of vantage, it can assuredly as-suredly reader the few miles Immediately Imme-diately abutting the sea untenable Whether the network of canals in this port of Belgium will enable the monitors to go inland has not yet transpired. The Hunting, from all accounts, is as stubborn as in any stage of the war thus far Every foot of tho battle ground in est Flanders Is contested, Every village it. takon and retaken The rush tactics tac-tics which characterized the first part of the campaign are being repeated re-peated and both sides claim that they regularly repulse these onslaughts No News from Berlin, Judging from the French official communication, the allies have acquired ac-quired a "holding" habit which was lacking in the earlier stages of the war when they were admittedly in a state of unpreparedneas. The reti-cenoe reti-cenoe of the German intelligence department, de-partment, however, largely baffles the attempts of unbiased observers to gauge the actual situation which, when Berlin is heard from, many assume as-sume on entirely different aspect A rumor comes from Ostend by way of Holland that the allies have succeeded suc-ceeded In blowing up the railroad between be-tween Bruges and Ghent. It Is quite possible, as it is stated there that cavalry scoutB alrendy are in that vicinity. vi-cinity. Stories differ as to the fate J of Prince Maximjlian of Hesse, whose body is reported to have been found In northern France by French troops. A later report from Berlin states that the prince was wounded The fighting Is going on night and day and the allies ore said to be approaching ap-proaching close to the German positions posi-tions before Lille. The German garrison at Antwerp is said to have been reduced and a j German column of reinforcements with two of the famous 16-Inch guns Is reported as having passed through j Antwerp on its way to Bruges. J Fields of Battle Numerous. Outside of Belgium, the fields of battle are numerous, Flcardy, Champagne, Cham-pagne, the Argonne, the Woevre Lorraine, Lor-raine, the Yonges and Alsace being referred to as localities where fight ing is taking place In several of these districts the French claim officially of-ficially to have repulsed German at-tackS at-tackS Which they describe as not so severe afl In the Boldan field The French say al?o that they have made progress In the Argonne and the Woevre district. Desperate Fighting Near Lille. London. Oct. 22. 6:50 a. Dl. The correspondent ol the Times at Bon legne, under date of Wednesday, den crlbe8 the desperate fighting of the last week in which the Germans have bet n driven back from village to village vil-lage to the outskirts of Lille. He says : "The destruction has been terrible Some of th-' villages have been shelled by both the allies and Germans and many non-combatants have been killed. A whole family was found dead in one house. In one of the vll-lcgep vll-lcgep 500 dead Germans were found after the fighting. The cartridges they carried, it was noted, were of the old Snider type with a large lead bullet "During some of the attacks the alii, al-ii, is had onl time to make rough Ir. Miches a couple of feet deep and ?ere obllced to lie in them at full length. Thej gained much ground but are now coming In touch with tho main German position at Lille and are digging themselves in to hold their ground until necessarj reinforcements reinforce-ments can reach them " oo |