Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
ALLIES GAINING
INCH BY INCH IN
BATTLE ON USER
Advance at Bixschoote in
Face of Furious Resistance.
Canadians Rushed to Bat
tie Line.
French Claim Successful Stands
All Along Line, But Berlin Re-
ports Further Ground Won.

A gain by the Allies of about FIVE
sighths of mile east of Bixschoote
communique issued this afternoon b,
the French War Office. SO desperat,
is the lighting in this region that ever
so slight an advance is regarded a!
Important.
The French maintain that all Ger
fnan assaults have been thrown back
put, on the other hand, Berlin agar
sFlaims the capture of St. Eloi and re-
Eborts that the German forces have
crossed User River near that point
The Canadian contingent, which
Handed in England several weeks ago
BIAS been rushed to the battle front in
Belgium, according to dispatches from
Paris, and is now engaged in the
desperate fighting in the neighbor-
hood of Ypres,
The rccapture of Dixmude by the
Allies, reported from London, has
bot been confirmed in official dis
patches reaching Paris from the bat
le, line.
"A On the right wing the French are
making another desperate effort to
retake t. Mihiel, moving on the Ger
man position at that point from three
ddes.
NThe French army now under arms
n said to consist of 100000 trained
Inen, but only half of these have been
under fire. Reckoning in the British
and Belgians, the Allies have 100000
on the battle front, opposed to
2,5OO,0OO Germans.
Berlin reports that the German
General Staff is we'll satisfied with
the progress of the campaign in Bel
GUM, The Belgian contingent of the
allied forces has been virtually de-
isToyed, Berlin hears.
4 Russia is invaded by the Turks,
says a. Constantinople official state
lment, A movement is directed
against Batum, Russian Black Sea
port. Kurdaghln barracks were
seized. The Turks report Russians
lretreating from Armenia after losses
of $500 in a two days battle,
4 Austria admits the successful con-
tinuance of the Russian column ad-
vancing through northern Galicia to
Cracow. The War Office reports
that the Austrian evacuation of CEN
trail and northern Galicia is proceeding
Is planned and that the advancing
Russians have entered Tarnow, Jaslo
md Kosno, important centres of COM
munication within 40 miles of Cracow.
In the Stryj Valley, at the foothills
of the Carpathians, the Austrians have
Yepulsed the enemy in several engage
ments.
Uneasiness is felt in Berlin at the
Russian movement against Silesia,
but denial is made of the report that
the Gar captured Pleschen several
days ago and is now moving on the
fortress of Posen. Repulse of Rus
sian cavalry at Polo and near Kalisz
IS said to have blocked effectually all
danger of a Silesian invasion.
From Petrograd announcement is
made OF severe defeat inflicted on
The Germans at Kalisz. of control of
Important railroad lines in East Prus-
a and of approach to Cracow within
few miles of the south Poland col
INN, which has taken Tarnow and
ther strategic centres.
Reports that the new British dread
ought Audacious, built last year, had
truck mine off the Irish coast
Stirred London. 1t was said the
Olympic had towed the Audacious
no harbor, where it was being re-
.aired.
herman warships, the Leipsig and
afesden, eoaling at Valparaiso. left
search OF British ships in the Pa /
nc. The two declared they had not
zen engaged in the battle of No
title scars.
The Karlsruhe, German raider in
e south Atlantic, IS reported trap
Ed. To strengthen this. INSURANCE
les IN London have been greatly re- j
iced 1t is stated also that two {
Efnan submarines have been sunk in
North Sea
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