New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-21
GERMANS
NEARING
DuNKlRk
French Tell Of Their
Progress.
HEAVY FIGHTING
At DixMuDE|
Paris Declares British Fleet
Aids in Victory.
London, Oct. 2O.-The Morn.
ing Post correspondent in the
! north of France says he learns
on excellent authority that
the allies have recaptured Os-
tend.
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Paris, Oct. 20.-The official commu.
nicatioa issued by the war Office says:
Belgium attacks by the Germans
between Newport and Dixmude have
been repulsed by the Belgian army,
effectually aided by the British fleet.
Between Arras and Roye slight
progress has been made at several
points. Our troops have reached as
far as the wire network of the de-
Tense.
I'm the neighborhs of st. Mihiel
we have gained some ground on the
right bank of the Meuse.
mo news of importance has been
received regarding the remainder of
the 'front.'"
London, Oct. 2O.-German forces
have reached the neighborhood of
Dunkirk, according to a Berlin official
dispatch to the Marconi Wireless COM
pany. Heavy fighting is taking place
at Dixmude and Roulers. The in
habitants of Dunkirk and Doulogne
are in fight.
The third act of the war in the west
ern theater has reached critical
point. The first act was the German
attempt to. sweep through Belgium
and Northern France upon Paris and
capture the French capital.
The second act was the offensive
assumed by the allies after General
Won Kluck had stretched his army on
the German west wing over a long line
of communications that he could not
hold. The allied army pressed the
German forces back toward the Bel
gian border, compelling the entire
line from the eastern pivot of Verdun
to recede in order to maintain an un-
broken front and a possible line of
retreat.
The third act is the attempted adj
vance of the Germans along the coast
of Belgium and Northern France, ap-
parently with the design of establish
ing themselves in the channel ports
from which points of vantage they
could menace England.
Heavy Guns in Use.
Reports from France indicated that
the extreme western fighting line now
reaches from Armentieres through
Roulers to Nieuwport which is on the
coast about half way between Ostend
and Dunkirk. According to the
French official announcement German
heavy artillery, presumably used in
the siege of Antwerp has bombarded
the front from Nieuwport to vladslo,
which is about ten miles from the
coast.
The German official report covers
the operations more tersely. It says
that the attacks to the west and
northwest of Lille have been repulsed
with heavy losses to the allies.
The announcement that the Ger
mans have taken siege guns to the
neighborhood of Belfort may mean
that they plan to attempt an advance
on both ends of what during the past
month has become a very long forth
fed line.
Great battles continue in the east
ern theater between the Russian and
Austro- German forces. Reports from
both sides are brief and contradictory.
Petrograd claims the Russians have
won partial success in severe fighting
before Warsaw and Przemysl. Vienna
declares the Austro- German armies
have made advances in both regions
and that the Russian casualties az
Przemysl number 10000.
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