The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-11-13
GERMANS DRIVEN
BACK ALONG User
Progress Of Invaders Towards
Coast Checked.
ALLIES GAIN ON Center
Franco-British Maintain All Points IN
North and Claim Advance Near
Ypres.

North and Claim Advance Near
Ypres.
London, Nov. 13-Germany's smash
ing attack and advance along the
extreme right wing on the far-hung
battle line, which carried them to Dix
nude on Wednesday, has been check
ed, temporarily at least, by the allied
forces concentrated along the User.
Hurting fresh forces to the breach,
the French, Belgians and British re-
pulsed all the attacks of the invad-
ers and forced them to retire to their
line of trenches at Dixmude.
According to the French communi-
cation the allies maintain all their
positions in the north and along the
User and have resumed their Often
sive against the invaders lines In
that section of the battle line.
This vigorous advance, according to
the official dispatches, has gained Tor
the allied troops many new positions
and much ground at points along the
line in Belgium, excepting at one
place, unmentioned, where the Ger
mans hold about 800 meters OF ground
on the left bank of the User.
Thus, for the present at least, the
supreme effort of the kaiser's leglons
to reach Calais or Dunkirk has been
stopped, and during their violent at
tacks and desperate advance their
losses were very severe, and 1t Is
thought that the plan of the Germans
to reach the coast through that Sec
ton of the battle front will be side
tracked and that another herculean
effort, directed against the line far
Their east, will be made.
While the Germans have been max
ing such a desperate attempt to bat
ter all opposition along the line In
Belgium, by the constant reinforce
ment of the battle front in that re-
gion, the French forces have resumed
q vigorous offensive along the center
of the line between the elbow of the
battle line at Noyon and the Argonne,
and at many points in that region
they have scored advances and have
halted all the counter attacks OF the
Germans. In the region OF Tracy-le-
Val, to the northeast OF the forest OF
L'Aigue, progress has been also re-
ported.
In the official statement Issued IN
Paris the French claim to have
strengthened all their positions gain
ed in the region of the Aisne river,
especially in the region of Va1lly,
where the kaisers forces were hurled
back in an attempt to dislodge the
French troops. At Berry-au-Bac, west
of Rheims, further advances are re-
ported by the French.
Dispatches from Berlin tell Of the
repulse of the allies along the User
and state that the eastern bank Of
the User has been cleared of the en-
envy as Tar as the sea. Further, they
declare that to the south Of D1xmude
the German advance Is progressing,
while in the region of Ypres, where
the battle Is violently raging, they
have captured 700 French soldiers,
four cannon and four machine guns.
Farther along the battle front In
the region of Argonne the Germans
say that all the attacks Of the French
have been repulsed.
Advices from Paris state that, fol
lowing q long series of frontal at
tacks, which stand without precedent
for ferceness, the allies are now try
ing to launch q fanking movement
In the battle of Flanders.
Under the protection Of the guns
of the powerful Anglo-French feet,
which lies off the Belgian coast, an
army made up of British, French, Bel
gians and Indians, is trying to swing
around the right wing of the German
forces on the -Ypres
line.
With Dixmude In their possession
the invaders were less than fifty
miles from Calais and much nearer
Dunkirk, and the fight they have been
putting up in the tace of tremendous
losses seems to bear out what has
been so often said-that they will not
abandon this struggle to reach the
coast unless they are utterly crushed
The English and French theory Is
that the holding Of Dtxmude is only
temporary; that its history will be
much the same as that of other towns
which have been taken and retaken
In the fighting on the User.
The following are the official bulle
tins:
GERMAN.
1.-THE enemy advanced from Nieu'
port as far as LombaertZyde, but was
driven across the User. The eastern
bank of the User as far as the sea Is
now clear of the enemy.
"Our attack across the User canal
to the south of Dixmude Is progress
Ing.
"In the region east Of Ypres we
have advanced further and captured
700 French soldiers, four cannon and
tour machine guns.
1.-THE enemy's attacks in the forest
of Argonne were repulsed."
FRENCH.
ITO the north we have held all ouI
positions. The enemy has sought to
debouch from Dixmude by a night
attack, but has been repulsed.
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