The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12

The country between Dixmude and Ypres, where the belligerents have made violent attacks and counter attacks for weeks, and where losses have been heav- fer even than those in the battle of, the Yser again is the scene of a battle which for fury seldom. if ever, has been equaled.
 Behind DiKmade Is the direct road to Dunkirk, one of the French ports on which the Germans have set their hearts and if they can break through here the allies will have to fall back to new posi- tions. The invaders have concentrated their forces at this point and their suc- cess in taking Dixmude, where they claim to have captured 5O0 prisoners, and po- sitions west of Langemarck. where, ac- cordng to the Berlin. report. POGO prison CTS fell into their hands, shows that the statements. so freely made. that they have been sending troops from the west to Poland are without foundation.
 Reinforced West
 As 6 matter of fact military men here believe the Gerpans as soon as they saw they could not capture Warsaw, dis patched troops from that region to the west. not imagining that the Russian pursuit could be carried out with such rapidity. ..
 At other points along the battle front in France the. French official conmuni- cation claims some successes for the allies but the German headquarters staff de- clares all attacks have been repulsed. It is considered certain that with the enormous forces required for the effort to get through to the coast and to pro- tect their own country. from Russian in Nasion, the Germans cannot throw addi- tional troops into the lines which stretch through northern France and along the Franco-G German border.
 The French, though. whose army is growing daily, might attempt an offen- sive against Lorraine or Alsace, IS a diversion. which would relieve the pTes' sure in the west.
 Suffers Defeat
 The Germans, according to Petrograd dispatches, have suffered a more serious defeat on the East Prnssian border than official statenepts have disclosed. Ad' yiccs from tlfs Rifssian capitat todaA say that in t1b recent iiehting thl <. fn al Russians ha fe captured more thah 2o,eo prisoners ara quantlteS or guns anu an munition.
 The Russian advance in Poland, whicl has been at the rate of IA miles daily has astonished military experts. Thi advance has continued for IS days.
 In Galicia the Russians continue t' push the Austrians back, but the Aus trians are having their revenge alons the Servian border, which they threatef to cross in an endeavor to crush Servif before Russia can come to her assist ance.
 Of fighting between Turkey and th' allies reports are so contradictory ther' is no reconciling them. Turkey reports victories against Russia and Great Brit ain which these two countries deny.
 After predictions that the war coult not be ended within three years, thu British prime minister, MT. Asquith, in { statement in the House of Commons to day said that he did not believe it would last so long as was originally expected struck rather a cheerful note. While some continue to believe the wa will be one of years, there is an increas ing belief that the great offensive cam | paign by the allies in the spring. whei Englands new army of million mer can take the field and Russia and France will be stronger than ever will bring th' conflict to an end. exhaustion also play ing it's part