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Show GERMANS TRY I TOTMYPRES Heavy Artillery Fighting Reported Re-ported Many Fresh British Troops Arrive at Front. INHABITANTS PUNISHED Prisons Filled With Citizens Who Have Unwittingly Violated Vio-lated Some German Proscription. Amsterdam, via Iondon. Jan ir, a m. "Heavy artillery fighting has been heard since early Monday around Tores, where the Germans have taken an active offensive." saya the Sluls correspondent of tho Tele graaf. "Their efforts to occupy Vpres thus far have been unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. Many fresh British troops have arrived at this front " The correspondent of the Tclegraaf at Selsaets, in the region near Ghent, wires that the Germans have issued proclamations forbidding the inhabitants inhab-itants to discuss the war, under penalty pen-alty of a heavj fine or long imprisonment. imprison-ment. "Some of the inhabitants already have been punished ." he says. "In Fact the prisons are filled, not with ordinary criminals, but with citizens who have unwittingly been pruilty of some infraction of the numerous German Ger-man proscriptions " oo |