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Show GERMANS RESUME ATTAGKON ALLIES BATTLE WITH FRENCH TO THE EAST OF YPRES AND BRITISH AT LA BASSEE CANAL. Russians Making Another Effort tc Advance in East Prussia, While There Has Been Slackening of Fighting in Poland. The Germans have made a some' what more determined effort than usual against the French and British lines in Flanders and northern France. They have delivered an attack on the French to the east of Ypres and no less than five attacks on the first division of the British force on either side of La liassee canal. Both British and French official reports re-ports assert that all these attacks failed of their ohject and that the Germans Ger-mans suffered heavy losses. The Germans, on the other hand, while admitting that their attack on the British north of the canal was unsuccessful, un-successful, say that on the south side -of the waterway their efforts resulted in complete success and that the British Brit-ish attempts to recapture these trenches were repulsed with heavy losses. These attacks followed a heavy bombardment by British artillery ol the German positions beyond La Bas-see, Bas-see, in which, according to reports from Boulogne, one big German gun was destroyed, while the Germans were prevented from getting a second heavy gun into position. The Russians are making another effort to advance in East Prussia, while in Poland there has been a slackening in the fighting on obth -sides for the moment. The Russians appear to be concentrating themselves them-selves on their offensive north of the Lower Vistula, while the Austro-Ger-mans are busy making preparations to meet the Russian advance through the passes of the Carpathians and in southern Bukowina. Russian submarines have made their appearance in the western portion of the Baltic sea and have succeeded in torpedoing the German -cruiser Gazelle, Ga-zelle, which, however, reached port "with the assistance of a Swedish steamer. Their activity has stopped the trade carried on by German steamers steam-ers between Germany and Sweden. |