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Show I ALLIES DRIVEN BACK BYGERMANS Paris. Oct. 23, 11 10 p m. "On our eft wing the action continues with great violence, notably around Arras. La Bassee and Armentieres,' the French official communication issued tonight says "The allies havp lost some ground at some points around La Bassee, but have won some at the east of Armentieres Ar-mentieres "Generally speaking, on this pari of the front the situation remains the same "To the north of the Aisnc our artillery ar-tillery has destroyed three German batteries. ' Paris, Oct 23, 11:58 p. m The French today captured AHklrch 0 per Alsace, at the point of the bayonet. bayo-net. (Special Cable by London Dally Telegraph Tele-graph ) Paris, Oct. 23 The French gunners today destroyed three German batteries bat-teries in an artillery engagement of huge proportion? north of the Aisne The battle has been In progress for two days, but until the war office at Bordeaux issued its declaration of success at midnight tonight, nothing I was permitted to be published concerning con-cerning it. Neither may the exact location of the battle be mentioned even now. However, it is permissible to state that this furious assault for the reduction re-duction of the German fortified position posi-tion at this point marks the opening of a new line of attack upon the invaders" in-vaders" front The object of this plan is to cut through what now is the right center cen-ter of the German line with the ultimate ulti-mate object of driving a wedge in behind the army of General Von Kluck. enveloping him from the south and turning his left flank, commanded command-ed by Von Boehm. back upon the rear of Von Kluck'8 main position in front of Rove. This movement has now been mad? 1 ossible by the weakening of the German Ger-man center positions, both by losses Incident to their repulsed counter attacks at-tacks ?nd the withdrawal of their first line of troops to strengthen the line as It was extended north to meet the advance of the allies. Meanwhile the battles to the north, particularly between La Bassee and thf sea and to the east between the Mr use and the region about St. Ml-hlel, Ml-hlel, and about Verdun are beinq waged with undiminished energy. Fresh army corps of outhful and middle aged Germans, evidently of the reserves, with a scattering of reasoned rea-soned troops, have appeared between the Oise and Belgian line on the Yser, vbik still further detachments of Iret-h reinforcements have been added add-ed to the German left, enabling them to attack with renewed vigor the French positions on their front, where c'ternate gains and losses have been rf corded The ferocity of the encounters where the British and French have come in contact with the invaders around Ar-raB, Ar-raB, La Bassee and Armentieres, incident inci-dent to the allied armies' advance up on Lille, are unparalleled in the history of war. The carnage has bee.i frightful and the troops of both are on the verge of demoralization because be-cause of physical exhaustion and the rigors of the campaign s inclement weather. The net result of the day's fighting fight-ing In this region has been gains along the coast for the allies at the points east of Armentieres. while about La Bassee the French and British Brit-ish hae been forced to retreat at some places In the face of the des-I des-I erate assults directed by the Germans. Ger-mans. The gains by one side have been offset by those of the other and the effect on the situation has been insignificant Situation at Verdun. Near Pont au Mousson, in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Verdun, the French war office of-fice claims patrlal successes, while in the region of Rosleres en Santerre borne progress has been made. The war office ignores the reports 1 spread early In the day that in the fighting in the region of Lille the ;ermanri had succeeded In slowly .orring the allies to retire lon.t; their I entire front. Likewise General Gal-1 Gal-1 eni tonight declined to comment on the report of a contrary nature that the British and French had reoccuplod Lille on Tuesday. The official utterances of the com nit'.ndant of Paris were confined to n memorandum of the allies' success since the first of the month. The statement says that at the end of the month of September the bulk of the ailed forces were centered on the Oie near Compiegne and what forces were to the westward had hardly pat-ted the Sonimo near Amiens To day General Gallieni points out that the fighting front has been prolontd 200 kilometers or 125 miles, reaching clear to Belgium. The fighting of the Belgians, lifer ally with their backs against the wall tnd striving with all their might to relieve their country, is described as almost demoniac. A shell burst near King Albert while he was directing his troops and he was urged by his staff to retire to a safer position. The king replied: "My skin is of no more value to ray country than is yours. My place is on the fighting line." From Franco, by a correspondent inside in-side the German lines, comes the report that the German central armies have renewed their determined effort to reduce the remaining forts at Verdun. Ver-dun. The German commander of the attacking force told the correspondent that he was confident Verdun would be overwhelmed nnd captured within a fortnight |