Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-19
ALLIES SUCCEED
|. IN REFUSING ALL
GERMAN ATTACKS.
Fighting Virtually Along
Whole Front, but Without 4
Appreciable Change.
FRESH TROOPS ARRIVE
TO AID KAISER'S MEN.
Anglo : French Forces Around
Ypres Subjected to Deter
mined Assaults.
BOTH SIDES LOSING HEAVILY
In the East, Teutons and Aus,
trains Turn to Face &
Russians.
Fighting Continues
Along Whole Line

WHILE NIL along tho lighting lines
w I'm France auh Belgium and In
East Prusnfa, Runsiau, Russian Po-
innd nnd Gniicfa fierce lighting con-
tinues, engaEements hnve been won
npd lost mt various places, nowhere
hns decisive result hcen achieved.
In the west the dine-douE fiRhtinE
that hns beeu proceeding Tor weeks
along the intrenched line that eA-S
tends from the North Sen to the
SWISS frontier 10 beinE wnEcd-here
au artillery duel. there nm infantry
Httnck-yvith lines, however, remain-
Ing but slightly changed.
In the East the battle Is more in
the nature Of field operations. Here
clnims OF vietorica arc made by,
Z both the !Teuton allies and the RUS.
Least one defeat, near SRnoure, Po-
land. 81 S sGsll.. 1.
Petrokrad says shnt here ahe Ger
mans forced hack the. Muscoyffcl
troops and gained n foothoId near
LencEycn and orion.
All aIonR the East Prussian from
tier. however, Petrogrnd declares the
Russians have mnde successive ad-
vnnces, and claims thnt I'm GaIicfn
they have captured the pnssen iof!
the Carpnthinn Mountains which the Il
Abstracts would he forced to wcpi
their wny hack into Austria In case
OF decisive defeat. According to
berlin. the tRusHtans were forced to 3
retreat ncnr Soidau.
From PctrOErad. however, comes
the statement TINT u "terriHc battle
OF uncxninpLed violence has been
proceeding for four dnys around Soi-
duu. the Russians eudenvoring to
nvenEe their former reversc at this
place. throwing themselves upon the
Germuun with indescribabic fury. and
carrying position yRfter position hy I
assault. despite the Internal fire of
the Germans. So ,Al
In the latest officiRt statements of
the French Wnr Omcc, 1t III an-
nounced that In the region OF st.
aI!hieI the Germans hnve blown mn
the western pnrt Of Cbnuyoncourt,
which they hnd mined. An eurllcr
official announcement mentioned the
fnct that thc French; retained In
their ponsesniop the western part of |
Chnuroucourt. II thus would seeru
probable that the French had mctlti
a rcverse mt this point, possibly with
considerable losses.
Regarding this positiop, the Gcr-
mnn official staten emit snyis
"Ou the west hnnk of the Sfeusc,
uenr st. MihicI, an attack by the
French. which Mt first was success-
full. Inter broke down completely"
AN result of the firing by Turk
ish land forces ou n launch from, the |
United states cruiser Teunessec.
to smyrna, Asia Minor. tho United
amhnssndor at ronstnntinopLe to ask
the Ottoman government for nn cx-
pinnntlon, auG the commanders OF
the Tennessee and North Caroitpa
have been iustructcd TO take no me-
ti0u likely To cmbarrass tho AmerI- +
can RovcrRn,ens. The Washing ton
Onicin.s cxpress confidence that the /
matter Mill he adjusted through
diplomatic channels.
Winston Spencer Churchiih First
Lord OF the british Admiralty, an.
nounces that the Britisb naval Losses
now amount to more thnn 5000 no en-. 4
Valparaiso reports that the Hrite
ISL, transport Crown Of Gnltcis has
been sunk, az the probable result OF 4
an attack by German cruisers. The T
crew hns hcen saved, and will bic
landed at Valparaiso.