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Show TERRIFIC FIGHTING j STILLJGailTIHUES BATTLE IS INDECISIVE, BUT LONDON LON-DON AND PARIS REMAIN CON -1 Fl DENT OF VICTORY. Allies Compelled After Failure of At tack to Fall Back Until Assistance Comes; Night Attacks in Argonne. From the Buttlo Front, via Paris. The allied armies, after having permitted per-mitted their adversaries, as they thought, to exhaust themselves by continued attacks, Tuesday took a most vigorous offensive. The British and French encountered such a strong resistance, however, that their most advanced detachments on the western west-ern wing were compelled to fall back. Only at this part or the long battlo . lino did the opposing troops actually come Into close contact. Only laconic reference concerning the actual fighting is made by the French war office in Its latest report on the conflict Is northern France. "The general situation Is stationary," It says. Of present conditions on the left wing of the allies' line, where a previous pre-vious report had said the French had been obliged at certain points to cede ground to the Germans, the later war office statement merely declares that the action still continues. It adds that In the Argonne and Meuse regions day and night attacks by the German have been repulsed by the allies. In the eastern war zone the Russians Rus-sians report that having conquered the Germans in -Russian Poland, two Russian armies are invading East Prussia with Allenstein as their objective. ob-jective. In the south, on the Adriatic, French men-of-war are reported again to be bombarding the Austrian port of Cattaro. As yet the situation surrounding the forts at Antwerp, which are under un-der bombardment by the Germans, has not been definitely celared up. The Germans still claim they have captured several of the outer forti-cations, forti-cations, while the Belgians declare the defenses remain intact. The Servians still claim to be about to capture Sarajevo, the capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia. An official report from Vienna says that the Austrians are driving the Servian and Montenegrin invaders from East Bosnia and that two Montenegrin brigades bri-gades were repulsed after a severe engagement, lasting two days. Tokio announces a surprise night attack by infantry from Tsing-Tau, but says that the attack was repulsed. Fighting between the land and naval forces at Kiao-Chow continues. Great Britain is investigating coal shipments from the United States under un-der the suspicion that the cargoes, instead in-stead of reaching the ports to which they are consigned, reach German warships at sea. The Prince of Wales relief "fund has reached $15,000,000. |
