Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-11-13
GERMANS HELD
BACK BY ALLIES
Kaiser Attempts to Blast Way
to Calais.
THE LOSSES ARE HEAVY

Teuton Reinforcements Are Thrown
Back In Attempt to Cut Foes Bat
tie Front.
The second attempt of the German
army to blast its way through TO the
sea was flaming and roaring IRON
Nieuport, in Belgium, to and beyond
the French frontier, without definite
result SC far on either side.
The area near the coast formerly
held by the extreme German right and
from which the invaders were forced
by the allies after many days OF hard
fighting, is held only by dead, dying
and wounded, the inundatlon having
made the vicinity uninhibatable fol
the living and having prevented an
advance of the British, French and
Belgian allies.
Thousand of Germans left behind
in the retreat doubtless will perish,
as many were marooned like drift
wood on an American lowland in time
of flood. Thousands OF men more on
both sides are yet to perish in the
struggle now progressing, the out
come of which should decide whether
the Germans are going to reach tho
French coast this winter.
Dispatches from the front tell OF
the awful losses already in this SUI
preme effort of the kaiser's army in
Flanders to carry out his order, "On
to Calais"
Paris reports that the fierce en-
counters still continue. While reports
from that section of the fighting are
meager, it Is believed in the French
capital that the allied forces are still
on the offensive in the region oil
Ypres, where the Germans have made
extraordinary efforts to cut through
the defenders lines.
In the region of Arras, where the
Germans launched a new attack and
where Berlin reports claimed sue
cesses for the invaders, the French
report declares the kaiser's troops
have been thrown back. On the Aisner
east of Vaiily, the allies have retaken
the village of Soupir, which was cap
tured by the Germans several days
ago.
The German attack also continues
in the Argonne region, but without
result, while on the heights of the
Meuse and east of Verdun, the French
claim to have captured some German
trenches.
New forces are being rushed to the
aid of the Germans in the fighting
between Dixmude and Lys, according
to the earlier official statement Is
sued in Paris. They are reinforcing
their reserve corps with active troops
and these forces are being hurried to
the German lines in preparation for a
fresh offensive movement.
That the invaders still shy at bayo'
net charges is evident from this some
communication, which announced
that in the Argonne region several
such attacks by the French troops
succeeded in driving the Germans back
with heavy losses. In the Woeyre dis
trict vigorous attacks by the Ger
mans also are said to have been re.
pulsed.
A new German movement against
the chain of Notifications around
Nancy also has been begun. To the
east of these forts the kaiser's troops
have attacked the advance posts OF
the French forces, but have been
driven back, according to the French
reports. Similar attacks in the region
of the forest of Perroy and between
Bassarat and Blamont have met a
like fate.
Reports from the western battle
front from. German sources indicate
that the Germans have retired from
the User, but the fighting is said still
to be proceeding within the triangle
of Ypres, Dixmude and Roulers.
The latest official communications
give evidence that the German as
saults are becoming less intense and
there are some indications Of the re-
sumption of the offensive on the part
of the allies, with the Belgians re-
ported as occupying both banks of the
User and forcing the Germans in that
neighborhood to retire on Bruges. In
spite of these reports, however, there
is no disposition among the allies to
be overconfident.
The official bulletins are as follows: