South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-06
LILLE, FIRED BY
ALLIES ARTILLERY
IS NOW BURNING
Villages Surrounding City Have
Been Raced by Flames
Fighting Continues Both by
Night and Day.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

LONDON. Nov. 6.-Fired by the
shells OF the allies artillery Lille is
burning in several places. several
villages surrounding that city have
been burned TO the ground. The fight
ing in that region Of northern France
continues night and day, but thus far
the Germans have baked the efforts
Of the allies 10 drive them from Lille
Similarly the allies have defeated the
efforts Of the Germans TO plunge
through the lines OF the defense about
-Nrras.
Defeated in their efforts To strike
the French coast by crossing the User
river. the Germans are now cOncen-
trating their strength for drive north
Of Arras They are bringing their
heavy artillery into the section hoping
that the big guns Will accomplish
what the massed attacks of infantry
have thus far been unable to effect
Get 1O Heavy Guns.
Forty heavy guns from Essen have
already reached AiX-La- Chappelle ac-
coTding 10 "A dispatch from Amster-
dam. These are 10 be taken TO Arras.
Sixty armOred automobiles with rapid
fire guns have left AiX-La- Chappelle
for the front. the same dispatch says.
These are the outstanding features
of reports made by British CORE
spOndents who sent their dispatches
from points as close 10 the front as
they are allowed To go:
THAT the retreat of the Germans
from the User when the Belgians
aooded them out Of the lower valley
OF that river by cutting the dykes was
TOut
That the German losses in their
attacks between Ypres and Lille were
more than 80. 200.
S-That the fury of the German as
fs.1rN.F
ing still continues.
THAT the allies have taken thous
ands of prisoners among them wound
ed whom the Germans were COM
PEELED to abandon in their retreat
from the User
Germans Loss $4,000.
Telegraphing under date of Thurs
day. "A correspondent of the Times at
Calais says ne is informed that the
Germans have lost over $4,000 in
their attacks on the British around
Lille.
Its fury has spent itself" he add
ed. The Germans were repulsed but
q Is rather early yet To emphasize
suggestions OF German decentralization.
a daily mail correspondent tele-
graphing from Northern France char
acteriZes the German retreat "A rOut
The Germans right is smashed like
"A fallen wine glass" ne says. Guns
store, rifles and even the wounded
were abandoned in the rush from this
fatal battlefield. The chance OF the
Germans was on the wane when the
flooding of their positions came as a
climax Of the disaster.
only "a remnant is left of the Ger
man force that met its fate at the
User Thirty thousand Germans, say
the Eelgians, have been put out of the
fighting on this line. Not a single
gum remains on this side of the river
and the unburied dead, the drowned
and the wounded with the memory
of all the trains of wounded that left
the firing line in recent days, lead one
to think that there is no over telling
OF the enemy's losses. There must be
many thousands Of prisoners
Center 81 Armenticres.
Another Times correspondent states
that the main fighting now centers
around Armentieres on the front. He
continues:
Lille is burning and battered. The
allies have been in and out of the city
and our shells set the town alight at
the western end. If we cannot hound
the enemy out. we must drive him
toward Flanders with flame and
smoke.
1t is reported that Emperor William
with his staff is directing the whirl-
windd campaign from the Journal.
Belgium and Boulogne and Calais as
the objective via HazebrOuck and ST.
Omer. where if the Germans can
break through. there = a clear road
10 the coast. The battle here Will not
be decided for several days"