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Show GREAT BODY OF GERMANS REAOY London, No 10, 4 a. m. The Dally Mail's Copenhagen correspondent says Germany has demanded that the Swedish government suppress unfriendly un-friendly utterances against Germany in Swerlish newspapers and has threatened threat-ened reprisals in the event of noncompliance. noncom-pliance. London. Nov. 30. 4:06 a in The Dally Mail's Rotterdam correspondent reports thai the allies are taking thp offensive south of Ypres, having discovered dis-covered that the Gorman line is weakening. weak-ening. Paris. Nov L-n.The initial effort of the kaiser's new attempt to cut through to Calais past Arras, where a new concentrated army of 700,000 has b'-en assembled, was defeated, ac-eordirifi ac-eordirifi t.. iiie offieial f.tau-meni ol the French war office today. Advance guards of the great amiv whosp slo;;an Is "On to Calais." were met and dm en back north of Arras. Three regiments of the German advance ad-vance body wire thrown out to draw the fire of the French and British In the trenches. But the bait was taken ta-ken with such energy that the German Ger-man troops were hurled back with severe se-vere losses Following the administering of this repulse the allies leaped to the counter coun-ter offensive and ln their turn hurled troops forward in several different dl-erctions dl-erctions effectively disorganizing the offensive program of the enemy The engagement reported today is but preliminary to what promises to be one of the niop.t important of the major operations of the war Joffre Prepared. Opposing the army of 700,000 Germans Ger-mans Genera Joffre has assembled several massed corps on the advanced line of drfense between La Bassee and Arras. Th? allies occupy strong ly fortifier defensive positions alon; the banks of the La Bassee canal, the mnaf imnrtrt'-.nt c t ra t r t-i r r-, t! i I innc in this field. In the '-ear Ihere are held in reserve re-serve some 250,000 men ready to be hurled forward to reinforce any part of tbe line which proves to be too heavily assailed by the Germans. In carrying the fighting to Arras tbe Germans have passed southward of Armentieres and have reinforced heavily In big guns and in men from the line facing the allies on the Yser. Apparency the German plan Is to secure control of the eanal mutes now occupied by the allies. These are of the greatest strategic importance, import-ance, as they lead direct to the sea-coast |
