The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-30
GAINS AND LOSSES
IN FIGHTING ABOUT
EQUALLY DIVIDED
Battle Degenerates Into Nu-
merous Isolated Attacks
and Counter.Attacks.
EXHAUSTED TROOPS
GIVEN NEEDED REST
Kaiser's Forces Transfer More
Serious Operations Fur
ther Inland.
ALLIES LINE NOT YET PIERCED
ALLIES LINE NOT YET PIERCED
Austrians and Germans Retiring Be-
fore FresI, Russian Armies
in Poland.

LONDON. October 29.-The battle of
User and the series of fights along
the whole front in Belgium and France
appear. with the troops now exhausted.
to have degenerated into mum erous
isolated attacks and counter-attacks, in
which gains and losses are about
equally divided.
On the part of the battle front near
est the sea. where tire Germans have
delivered repeated attacks with daily
increasing forces, in their effort to ham
mer their way to Dunktrk. and
eventually to Calais, and where the
allies have offered such stubborn re-
sistance. there has been another day
of comparative calm. Although the
Germans in their morning bulletin
claim progress south OF Newport, the
French this afternoon say there is no
change.
The Germans seem to have trans
ferred their more serious operations
further inland, and to be trying to
bronx through the allied lines from
Lille. II successful this would compel
the allies, who are holding the front
through Spres to the coast, to fall bncI,
toward Dunkirk.
However. nothing of great moment
is likely until troops have been given
some rest and ,reinforcements arrive to
fill up great gaps made In both armies
as n result OF, continuous artillery a nd
infantry attacks, .Ss.l 4 ~ lf, .gt5 /,
ROTH CLAIM SUCCESS 49, 80, go. =;
IN SHARP FIGHTING
There has beefr sharp lighting, while
each side Is endenyoring to hold posi-
tons 1t ut present, occupies, or to
secure better positions which would
give an advantage whom the next big
battle breaks. Both claim to have
been successful In this, and the official
reports are full of sentences such as:
The enemy's attacks have been re-
pulsed, or we have made progress"
The s.me thing is going on to the
eastward. where the Germans are push
ing their long promised attack toward
Verdun. In all of those attacks
prisoners and guns are being lost by
one side or the other.
In Poland. whore the Austrians and
Germans are retiring before fresh Rus
Sian armies, something more decisive
has occurred. Having week ago
driven back the German right advance
ing on Warsaw, the Russians now have
struck at their centre. southwest OF
the Polish capital. and, according to the
Pctrograd report. have broken the re.
sistance OF the last. units of the armies
trying to maintain themselves north
Of the Pilltza River. The Russian cav
airy has reoccupied Radon. where
many men and guns and much war
material has been captured.
On the East Prussian frontier, along
which line tho Germans took the Of
fensive, both sides lay claim to success.
! SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION
APPEARS MORE FAVORABLE
| In South Africa the situation appears
/ more favorable. General Louis Botha.
the Premier. Is ut the head OF the army
operating against the rcbellious COM
mandos under Generals Beyers and De
Wet. while loyal commanders, Dutch
and English, are gathering In the
remnants of the commando OF which
Lieutenant Colonel Maritz was leader
until he was wounded and fled across
the German border.
With the presence of German mines
off the north coast OF Ireland, which
made il necessary to-day for the
steamer Olympic to put into north
of Ireland port. London newspapers are
asking that the admiralty take more
vigorous measures to prevent continue
ton of this sowing of mines 1t Is be-
lieved that vessels flying neutral flags
arc responsible for these mines The
papers also arc urging that stronger
measures be taken to rid the country
OF spies, whose presence is proved by
the capture OF n man on the north
shore OF the Firth OF Forth operating
naShliEht apparatus.
Tho report that Germans have in
vaded the Portuguese colony OF Angola
lacks combinations.