The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-23
GERMANS RENEW BATTLE
 IN TWO BELGIAN TOWNS

1UvIO Ypres Is Scene of Desperate
 Conflict In Newest At
 tempt By Kaiser's Forces
 to Gain Channel Ports
 Berlin Describes Engage
 ment In Argonne Forest
 as "very Hot. ]"
 Rheims and soissons. Also
 Under Heavy Bombard-
 ment British Squadron
 Fires On Nieuport, But Is
 Driven Back Tremendous
 Fight Is Being waged In
 Poland.
 At two points in the battle extending across France and Belgium the Germans were making determined efforts to- day to break their way fhroueh while ct the same time a crfti- cal struggle was under way in Russian Poland.
 Today's French statement said that at Ypres, Belgium. the point selected for the new Ger man attempt to find a way through to the English Channel the artillery fire yesterday was violent and that many baliIdinqs were set on fire.
 In the region of the Araonne forest we'll on toward the east ern end of the line where the Germans are centerins anotBer severe attack, the N ghfine yes terdag was desczsbed as xerv hot, and it is said that tbe German onslaughts were re- A pulsed. Rheims and Soissons also were under bombardmenf. with what effect is not dis closed
 She German official state ment speaks of the severe at Ypres and also says that a British squadron's at tempt to lombard Nieuport was twice repulsed-
 Tn the Argonne region, it is said, the Germans are gaining ground slowly.
 Weather HaIts F1sht4ne
 The renewed efforts. of the dermnna In the west notwithstanding the ef- fects of the cold. wet weather. which was said to make fighting in the low lands almost an impossfbiIity. attract ed renewed attention to the western field of battle The struggle betWseu the Russians and Austro-C German forces in the east. however, was elfll rated as of greater 11npcr4anee. be- cause of the influence the outcome fs expected to- exert upon the whole r IL quarter came no definite news today. Berlin was confident of an early de- cisive victory but the war office there acknowledged today that the arrival of Russian endorsements had post poned the decision
 Germany accounts the battle in Russian Poland as virtually won and is already estimating the effect upon future nliiitary operations An an nouncementH today from the Germsn general staff Is to the effect that a decision is ak hand and that condf- tions everywhere are favoFable from it's point of view.
 In Berlin, it is said the outcome oE the main battle with the Russians may decide not only that phase Of the war but the whole European struggle. A decisive triumph in the east, 1t l1 pointed out, would freq part Of tho German army engaged there to assist the forces that are facing the Brftiah. French and Belgians in the west
 Upon what information the con fdent Berlin predictions were based was not fully apparent. An of1eial German statement said merely that the fighting in Poland continued. Un- official reports from Petrograd state that the Russians arG continuing their advance in East Prussia and have captured Gumbinens a fortified city sixty-six miles from Koenigsburs.
 According to all accounts the main battle, between the Vistula and VVarta rivers, is still in progress and all though the Germans ars pressing for ward steadily the Germany army IS still offering determined resistance.
 In the west, the fighting in Belgium which has been slow for several days on account of the weather, has broken out with renewed ferocity at Epres with the artillery playing the main part.
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