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Show GERMANS ARE DISCOURAGES By E ASM MEAD BARTLETT LondOB, Nov 5. It is now certain that the Germans have definitely abandoned their attacks on the Nleu-I Nleu-I POrt-Dixmnde line. They are merely I holding one bridge over the river Their retirement has enabled the French to push out from Nieuport along the coast and reoccupy Lom-bartzl Lom-bartzl We will probably hear tomorrow to-morrow thai they have reached West- How much longer will the enemy-persist enemy-persist is their effort 9 British iirfan try cannot be driven from intrenched posit iona bj BUCh methods It is e rely asking defeat to persist. The strain on the army must have been tremendous According to Sir John French, the Cermans are ex tremely discouraged. No wonder They musl be extraordinary troops who continually advanced after so many defeats. From the first the whole German scheme seems to have lacked all real method U has been in the nature ctf a series of forlorn hopes by isolated iso-lated corps working independently. Thus attacks were first directed J against our right, then against our j center, alter which the bnttle shifted I to the left wing and after failure drifted drift-ed once agnis to the right, then to the center and back again to the left. Such tactics do not point to anv : real generalship or to much of the boasted skill of staff The fact Is ithe Germans are becoming more aud I more infuriated and desperate at their repeated failures. |