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Show Fourth German Cruiser Is I Sunk by British Squadron I ALLIES ARE SLOWLY GAINING ON GERMANS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM Belief Prevails That When Moment Is Ripe an Aggressive Allied Al-lied Movement Will Set in to Drive Germans Out French Report Gains Against Enemy at Various Points While Berlin Wireless Makes Equally Positive Statements to the Contrary. MORE BOMBS ARE DROPPED AT FREIBURG Fighting North of the Vistula, From Southern Part of East Prussia and Southeast of Cracow Is Severe Combined Austro-German Forces Are Trying to Outflank the Russian Left Wing South Atlantic Naval Engagement En-gagement Nearly Excludes All Other Phases of War in England. London, Dec 10, 7:52 p. m. The official bureau announced this evening- that the German cruiser Numberg, one of the warships war-ships which escaped from the English in the engagement of December Decem-ber 8, has been sunk. The text of the official bureau statement reads: "A further telegram has been received from Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton Sturdee, reporting that the Numberg was also sunk on December 8, and that the search for the Dresden still is proceeding. The action lasted five hours, with intervals. The Scharnhorst sank after three hours and the Griesenau two hours later. The enemy's en-emy's light cruisers scattered and were chased by our cruisers and light cruisers. "No loss of any British vessel is reported." The Nurnberg was one of the small units of the German squadron which was defeated off the Falkland Islands by the British warships on December 8. She had a displacement of 3,450 and a complement of 295 men. Her length on the waterline was 354 feet, and her beam 44 feet. She carried ten 4.1 inch guns, eight five-pounders, four machine ma-chine guns and two torpedo tubes. Announcement of the sinking of the Nurnberg leaves only the cruiser Dresden to be accounted for of the five warships in the German Ger-man squadron. The last word of the Dresden, which is a sister ship o the famous cruiser Emden, was that she was fleeing from the British ships, and was being pursued. Montevideo. Uruguay. rice. 10 Wireless reports received here indicate indi-cate that the German cruisers Dresden Dres-den and Nurnberg, the survivors in the engagement with an English fleet December 8 in which the Scharnhorst. the Gnolsenau and the Leipzig were sunk, closely pursued by British warships war-ships are fleeing in the direction of Port Santa Cruz on the Argentine coast north of the Atlantic cut ran-to ran-to the Straits of Magellan and west of the Fnlkland islands It is reported re-ported here also that the German auxiliary eruber Prince Fitel is cruising in the South Atlantic and that she has on board 1600 German soldiers. Buenos Aires. Argentina, Dec 10. The papers of Buenos Aire exrr. IS ratification over the British nayal victory off the Falkland islands for the reason that it fr. es commerce In ,l,o South Atlantic from the danger Of capture and normalizos navigation Paris Deo. 10. 2:10 a. m. December Decem-ber 9 passed quietly In Belgium as well as in the vl. inlty of Arras, according ac-cording to the official statomont given giv-en out in the war office this afternoon. after-noon. The text of the commun.cn-r commun.cn-r tion follows: The day of December 9 passed outetly in Belgium as waD as in th, Ttfou of Arras, where the enemy made no attempt at a resumption of offensive operations . -Further to the south In the region of LeQuesnoy and around An ; wo made advances varying fr m oo to 600 vards. Our gains v,cre main talned and consolidated. Heavv Artdlery Master Germans. !Jr& rlon of the Aline and in Champagne thore h- been no hnncf Tho German artMlory, SEX ,, gained the rfirnntage dnrtog tho last few Increased activity but was i m . tered by our heavy artillery. ttj environs of Rhelms the W Piece! compelled the Germans u evacuat several trenches. This ova nation was carried out under the fire of our infantry. ..mV "In tho region of Perthes the emy bv means of two counter attacks en Savored to recapture the ments which he lost to us on Do ember 8. He was repulsed TM ground taken by ue has been iffec lively protected ' Progress In the Argonne. Tn all the Argonne region we haje continued to make PronTOf. have occupied new trenches, repulses with complete success six counter at $ ckB and completed and consolidated the ground won from the enemy "On the heights of the Meuse there have been artillery engagements in which we maintained a distinct advantage, advan-tage, and this in spite of tho very great activity of the batteries of the enemy. 'in the forest of LePrctre we have taken some now trenches. "There is nothing to report on the remainder of the front as far as the Swiss frontier." French Report Refuted. Berlin, Dec. 10 (By Wireless to l-ondon. 3 p. m.). Todays official communication issued by the German army staff says that a French attack resumed in the forest of Argonne was repulsed, tho allies losing heavily. The text of the statement reads: 'in the district of Souain, the French yesterday confined themselves to heavy artillery firing. "A renewed French attack on Ro-crol Ro-crol and Courcullles did not make any progress. The attack broke down under un-der the fire of our artillery, the en t my suffering heavy lo66. Bombs Dropped In Freiburg. "Yesterday, three of the enemy's aviators dropped about ten bombs on a town aituati d outside the range of op rations, the town of Freiburg (Padeni. No damage wits done. Tho Incident merely shows again tliat an open town not situated within the range of operations has been attacked with bombs by the enemy. "To the oast of tho Mazurlan lakes ' (Fast Prussia) only artillery encounters are taking place. Victory in Poland- "In northern Poland our columns advancing on the right bank of the Welchsel (Vistula), took Praaanyaa b) ptorrn Six hundred prisoners and i machine gnns were captured The attack along the river Welchsel la being continued. "In southern Poland the Russian attackB were rvpuleod." Loudon, Dec. 10, 12:57 p. m The Brltls! naval victor)' in the South At '.antic is being discussed in England today almost to the exclusion of all other phases of the war new The last word regarding the naal engagement was that the British squadron, alter alnklnt the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig, with the loss of nearly 20O0 men. WU pursuing the fleeing Dres den and Nurnberg. two c:her two ves n Is present when tho action opened. The British public is waiting anxious ;y for news of the outcome of this chase, Disparity In Losses. Naval observers, commenting on thi action off the Falkland Islands, make note of the fact that in all naval engagements en-gagements in tbe present war there is great disparity between the losses of the victors and the vanquished. In tho case of the British cruisers Mon mouth and Good Hope, sent to the bottom by a German squadron oft the coast of Chile early in November, the Germans were practically unscathed and the same is true of the British in tln'ir victorious engagement in the south Atlantic. In other words, defeat at sea meaus vlrtuai annihilation and the loss of p)1 crews with ine exception of such uen as the victors may be able to save This is attributed to a great extent to the fact that naval engagements engage-ments have been between shi.is of unequal armament The German gun outranged the British off the coast of Chile, and tho roles were reversed off the Falkland Islands. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, it is argued that even with ships fit similar armament the disproportion dispropor-tion of losses between the victor and the vanquished would he greater by far than anything possible, in laud warfare Reports on Emperor Vary The reported Illness of Emperor William continues to be variously de-scribed de-scribed Some dispatches say it ia serious and perhaps pneumonia, while others declare he is a victim of mental men-tal depression or that he is suffering suffer-ing of fever, chills and influenza. About all that is definitely known b?yono the official bulletin which admitted that his majesty is suffering suffer-ing of bronchial catarrh, is that the emperoi has returned quietly and unexpectedly un-expectedly to Berlin. There has been little or no change in the general situation along the bot-ie bot-ie line In France and Belgium but the tone of all the French and British Brit-ish official sater,ients reflects more ; ad re ire the contention of thi aliio that slowly and Riireh they are gaining gain-ing a superior position. The belief prevails that, when the moment is ripe, an aggressive allied offensive will set in with the idea of clearing the Germans out. but II is not thought that this effort will be made until tn spring. In the eastern arena of the war. the occupation of Lodz by the Germans Ger-mans has been temporarily eclipsed bv reprrts of the development of activity ac-tivity nt two other points, notably, north of the Vistula, from the southern south-ern pan of East Prussia, whence the Germatis are advancing in a southeasterly south-easterly direction, toward Warsaw t ;id in the country to the southeast of Cracow, where combined Austro-(jerman Austro-(jerman forces are endeavoring to cutflank the Russian left. This latter lat-ter movement, according to R'jsslan annov ncement, has. up to the present pres-ent time boon repulsed. Confirmation of the death in South Africa of General Beyers and official news of British 3uccess on the Tigris by which they established themselves one fourth of the distance along the road to Bagdad, were other development! develop-ment! read with interest in England ioday. Russians Are Repulsed. Washington, Dec. 10. Further successes suc-cesses for the Austrian and German troops in western Gaheia and the re pulse of a Russian force attacking near Piotrokow were reported to the A'is'n'-Hungnrlan embassy today from Vienna. The dispatch says: "Struggle in Russian war theatre continues Southwest of Piotrkow the allied troops repulsed the attack made by the Russiaus who were forced to yield. In West Gallcla greater fights continue without decision. de-cision. The allied forces here yes-i terday took 1500 more Russian prisoners. pris-oners. In the Carpathians tho Russians Rus-sians were again forced to retire before be-fore strong forces to positions behind be-hind the mountain ridges." An embassy dispatch yesterday interpreted in-terpreted to say 23.000 Russians had been captured, really said 2'WO had ben taken. Lodz Evacuated Petrograd. Russia. Dec 9 The evacuation by the Russians of Lodz. Russian Poland, is admitted in a seml-offlclnl seml-offlclnl communication issued today, though the statemeut adds that the Russians did not lose a soldier when the position waa given up. oo |