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Show FRMlNSlOO MUCH F1ENEMV London. Dec. 21. 2 45 a m dispatch dis-patch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Amstenlarn says- "The Germans nave evacuated Dixmude, but the report that thp allies hae taken Middelkerke is untrue " Pans Dec 20. The battering of the new guns la fast breaking the hold of the Germans on all the positions they gained in their- dash on Paris in August, while to the north in Flanders Flan-ders and in the region about Arras ftfid J. a Bassee. the allies are gaining new ground with every attempted advance ad-vance and holding it against the most desperate attempts ol the Germans to retake their trenches Elaborate defensive positions established estab-lished by the kaiser's arms along the river Oise and thence aro'ind the angle of the 150-mile battle line to ihe river Aisne and eastward to the forest of Argonne, have been hammered ham-mered Into BUbmision by the magnificent magni-ficent effectiveness of these great cannon. The Invaders have been forced to vithdraw larpe bjdies of their troops from the first line trenches at a number num-ber nf ihe most important points. This withdrawal has been steady, indicating in-dicating that the superior effectiveness effective-ness of the Frencli artillery, chronicled chron-icled repeatedly in the official dispatches dis-patches of the past fortnight, is fast establishing ;he mastery of the Trench batteries o'-er those of the Germans, many of which have been Jtterlj demolished, while others have been forced to retire from the line, owing io the great damage wrought by the French high explosive shells, j ne cnec-K aoministereri to the French and Belgian troops in front ot Nieuport and Lombaertzyde, when ihe Germans hurled reinforcements 1) great numbers against the advancing advanc-ing columns which debouched from Nieuport. now has been overcome by 'ither Considerable reinforcements, thrown behind the allies by General Joffre, and today the French and Belgians Bel-gians pressed forward for further gams, according to the official statement state-ment issued this afternoon. The Belgians Bel-gians are reported to have made new-advances new-advances to the eastward along the sand dunes The night statement declared there was nothing of note to report and the assumption is that all the gains recorded in the afternoon communique com-munique have been made good by the allies Alone; the line of the Vser artillery artil-lery duels still continue, with an English Eng-lish armored train operating along one section of the railroad to great ad vantage. rvn - |