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Show VIOLENT FIGHTING RESUMED ON THE YSER I ALLIES AND GERMANS AGAIN IN FIERCE COMBAT ON YSER CANAL Roaring of Heavy Guns Heard All Day Far Away Houses Are Shaken and Inhabitants of All Villages Within an Hour's March of Battle Front Have Been Sent Away Germans Reported Retiring From Dixmude. GERMANS NARROWLY MISS ANNIHILATION Reinforcements Arrive in Time to Save Kaiser's Army From j Disaster Near Lodz Berlin Claims More Prisoners and Further War Booty Have Been Taken Three Reigning Monarchs Are Now in the Field Encouraging En-couraging Their Armies. London, Dec. 1, 4:06 p. m. Violent fighting is in progress pro-gress today along the Yser canal, according to a telegram from Reuter s correspondent at Sluis. The roaring of heavy guns has been heard all day and houses as far away as Sluis are shaken. Inhabitants of all villages within one hour's march of the Yser battle front have been sent away. London, Dec. 1, 12:10 p. m. Telegraphing from Amsterdam, Am-sterdam, the correspondent of the Central News says the German Ger-man force before Dixmude has begun a general retirement. Paris, Dec. 1, 4:30 p. m. An official statement from the general staff of the Russian army in the Cacausus telegraphed I today from Petrograd to the Havas agency says: "In the valley of the Euphrates, the Russian column, taking tak-ing the offensive dislodged the Turks from their positions, and put them to flight. The Russians captured two cannon j and also a certain number of prisoners. Paris. Dec, 1. 2:50 p m The Trench official communication given out In Paris this afternoon, says that yesterday the enemy showed considerable consid-erable activity north of Arms In l 'c lgiuni there was a lively exchange of artillery' but no infantry attack The text of the statement follows "In Belgium there was a rather spirited artillery fire during the day of November 30, but no at trick was made by the German infantry "The enemy continued to show considerable con-siderable activity U the north of Arras. "In thp reelon of the Aisne. there was intermittent artillery fire along all the front. In the Argonne the fighting continues but without bringing bring-ing any change in the situation. "In the Woevre district and in the Yosges there is nothing to report " Berlin Official War News. Berlin, Dec 1. by wireless to LondonThe Lon-donThe following official announcement announce-ment wa6 given out in Berlin today: "There is no news at hand from the western arena of the war. In east Prussia and in southern Poland it was generally quiet yesterday. In northern Poland, south of the Vistula, our war booty was still further increased in-creased as a result of the successes announced yesterday. "The number (if prisoners taken by us has been increased by about 9500 men and we have taken 10 more cannon can-non In addition, 20 machine guns and numerous ammunition cars fell into our hands." I.ondon, Dec 1. 12:08 p. m. Though 5t seems clear now that the German army in Russian Poland or that port of it which the Russians surrounded near Dodz. narrowly missed annihilation, annihila-tion, the Germans fought with such fury that the cordon encircling was broken and. as German reinforcements are coming up. the issue is not yet decided de-cided The British press interpreting the news dispatches from Petrograd, con tends that a Russian success on a colossal co-lossal scale still is possible, but in f all quarters it is admitted that the re-cent re-cent claims of a complete Russian victory vic-tory were premature. Emperor Wi-Mlam In Field. Poland, with Kmperor William on the field.' will likely continue to overshadow over-shadow all other war areas for some days to come. Even the London press is devoting more space to the "battles there than to the conflict in I Flanders. This partly is due, of pourso to the fact that there has been eo little change in the western situation, situ-ation, conditions which may persist until some sharp turn occurs in the eastern struggle. Kintr Georee's visit to France seems ETeatly to appeal to the popular imagination. imagi-nation. The newspapers are featuring featur-ing his majesty's trip, pointing out 1hat it is the first time, a reigning British monarch has been with his armies in tho field in 171 years, George II being his last predec essor to do so. Germans Resume Action. Berlin. Dec. 1, by wireless Latest reports from Russian Poland given officiality of-ficiality in Berlin indicate that the Germans have resumed the execution of their plan to encompass the Russian Rus-sian right flank and to force it back on the center, at the same time cutting cut-ting off the Russian communication with Warsaw. The carrying out of this plan which l) gan with a Russian defeat at Lipno ana at Plock later was hindered by the arrival of Russian reinforcements and the Germans for a moment were thrown on their defensive Now after repulsing a number of attacks the Germans appear to be moving forward for-ward in the direction of LOWiCS. German movements In this region have not been interfered with in the last few days and this, German military mili-tary observers, say, must be taken as a highly favorable sign as in their opinion a German repulse of the Russian Rus-sian advances probably has been followed fol-lowed by a general offensive movement move-ment of the Germans toward Lodz. |
