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Show ANOTHER VICTORY CLA1ED BY ALLIES ) DECLARE THAT KAISER'S MEN ARE BEING STEADILY DRIVEN BACK AT SEVERAL POINTS. Flanders Still Stormbound, But Bombardment Bom-bardment Continues Night and Day, French Claiming the Advantage Ad-vantage in Fight. Slackening of the German action was noted all along tho battle front of France and In Flanders Tuesday, according ac-cording to French accounts. Even .ho cannonading, to which the German offeimlve has been restricted almost entirely since the excessive cold settled set-tled around the battle arena, has now become Intermittent, and whenever attacks at-tacks have been ventured they have lacked the splrltB that characterized tho efforts of tho Invaders a week ago. The French right wins on Tuesday boro the brunt of the German counter attacks. In the Argonne the infantry assaults directed by the German forces against the tallies' trenches were particularly par-ticularly violent, but the French defenders de-fenders nbly withstood the pressure, giving a good account of themselves. Every attack by the Germans was repulsed. re-pulsed. Many of their sorties resulted result-ed disastrously. At several points the French gained considerable ground. At Four De Paris a vigorous assault was- met by French intrenched forces of inferior strength, and the Germans, after maintaining a furious bombardment of the French positions, attempted by a desperate charge of mass troops to overwhelm the trenches, but the French artillery cut great gaps In their rank3 and the quick-firing guns finished fin-ished them off unti their front was broken and the German commander ordered their withdrawal. This was accompished in some disorder. Many German dead and wounded were left on the field in front of the French trenches. At St. Mihle and at the approaches of St. Marie pass the Germans still threaten the French positions with vigorous artillery fire, but they apparently appar-ently lack the numerical strength requisite to a show of force by infantry in-fantry attacks. In the Vosges region a blanket of fog obscures the enemy's positions and a truce practically Is in effect. Flanders still is stormbound. Although Al-though the German guns continue to pour their shrapnel and solid shot Into Ypres and the British and French trenches are reminded night and day of the Germans' presence on their front by monotonous visitations of projectiles pro-jectiles from the "Jack Johnsons" and the "Sam Langfords," these shells have done little damage in comparison with those of the French guns. In fact, the French artillery daily is demonstrating dem-onstrating its superiority over that of the Germans. |
