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Show GREAT ARTILLERY1 DUEL IS NOW ON Representatives of Two Million Mil-lion Members of British Trades Unions Discuss Compulsory Service. GREAT DANGER AHEAD Will Be Hard and Bitter World Unless Labor Takes Hand in Shaping. London, Jan. 25. The Germans and the allies are at grips in Flanders in one of the most gigantic artillery duels in history. An apparent attempt of tho Germans to repeat their historic his-toric "drive on Calais" In the fall of 1914 and the spring of 1915 has been challenged by the allies with all the onergy of their months of accumulation accumula-tion of munitions. At only one point has either side essayed an infantry attack. This was near Neuvlllc St. Vaast, where the Germans attacked on a 1500-yard front. The French trenches were shattered, small captures of men and guns were made and a section of tho French first JIne trenches were penetrated, pene-trated, but counter-attacks again cleared the tumbled works and the French maintained their position. Starting with a bombardment of Nieuport, at the mouth of the Yser, by the German batteries, the artillery duel has spread along the whole of the Yser front almost to Ypres. The French artillery, acting In concert con-cert with the British, today carried out a violent bombardment of the German works southeast of Boes-Inghe, Boes-Inghe, inflicting serious damage, says tonight's Paris communique. German shell fire has destroyed the templar tower and cathedral of Nieu-1 Nieu-1 ort, which the Germans claim was being used by the allies as an observation obser-vation post. Behind the allied lines German aviators avia-tors bombarded Dunkirk, half way along the coast between Nieuport and Calais. The British report of operations tonight to-night says: "Today we carried out successful artillery bombardments near Ovillers, La Boiselle, Le Brieboux and Boes-inghev-aWear the last named placed wo exploded a bomb store in the German Ger-man lines. "The hostile artillery has shown activity ac-tivity near Gommecourt, about Loos and Alhooge "Aircraft of both sides have been active. We maintained our supremacy." suprem-acy." . rtn |