The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-11-14
HARDEST FIGHT OF WAR OCCURS
AS TEUTON HOST is HURLED
AGAINST ENGLISH AND
FRENCH IN BELGIUM.
TAKE $500 PRISONERS
RUSSIANS CONTINUE PURSUIT OF
WAR LORDS DEFEATED FORCES
WHILE AuSTRiANS ADVANCE
ON SERviAN BORDER.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Valparaiso, Chile, Nov. IA rumor
has been circulated here to the effect
that the British battleship Canopus
has sunk off Coronel. This report is
denied by the Chilean admiralty.
London-The Germans have re-
sumed their attack on the allied line
between the coast and the Lys river
and, while the French claim GENERALLY
to have held their positions, the Ger
mans have succeeded in capturing the
town of Dixmude, which has been the
center of some of the fiercest and
most sanguinary fighting of the war.
The country between Dixmude and
Ypres. where the belligerents have
been engaged in violent attacks and
counter attacks for weeks past, and
where the losses have been heavier
even than those in the battle of the
User, is again the scene of battle
which for fury has seldom if ever been
equaled.
Behind Dixmude 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 be compelled to
fall back to new positions.
The invaders have therefore been
concentrating their forces at this
point, and their success in taking Dix
nude. where they claim to have cap
tured 500 prisoners. and positions to
the west of Langemarck, where, ac-
cording to the Berlin report, 2,0o0
prisoners fell into their hands, shows
the statements that they have been
sending troops from the west of Pol
and are without foundation.
AS matter of fact, military men
here believe the Germans, as soon as
they saw it was impossible to carry
out their design of capturing Warsaw,
dispatched troops from that region to
the west, not imagining that the Rus
sian pursuit could be carried out with
the rapidity with which it has been.
At other points along the battle
front in France the French official
communication claims some successes
for the allies, but the German head
quarters staff declares that all at
tacks have been repulsed.
It is considered quite certain that
with the enormous forces required for
the effort to get through to the coast
and to protect their own country from
Russian invasion, the Germans will
not be able to throw any additional
troops into the lines which stretch
through Northern France and along
the Franco-German border
On the other hand, the French,
whose army is growing daily, might
attempt an offensive against Lorraine
or Alsace as diversion which would
relieve the pressure in the west.
The Germans, according to Petro-
grad dispatches, have suffered more
serious defeat on the east Prussian
border than the official statements
have disclosed
Advices from the Russian capital
state in the recent fighting there the
Russians have captured more than
10000 prisoners, together with guam
titles OF guns and munitions.
The Russian advance in Poland,
| which has been at the rate of four
| teen miles daily, has astonished the
| military experts, and it is not surpris-
| ing to hear that they are picking up
| many footsore and weary German
| stragglers. This advance OF horse.
foot and artillery has. continued for
eighteen days.
| IN Galicia the Russians continue to
| push the Austrians back, but the Aus
trians are having their revenge along
| the Servian border, which they threat.
| en- to cross in an endeavor to crush
| Servia before Russia can come 10 her
| assistance.
Of the fighting between Turkey and
the allies. the reports are so contra.
dictory that there is no reconciling
| them.
| While some continue to believe that
the war will be one of years, there is
an increasing number who think that
| the great offensive campaign by the
| allies in the spring, when England s
new army of 100000 men can take
| the field and Russia and France will
| be stronger than ever, will bring the
conflict to an end.
Carranza Begins War With Villa.
| El Paso. Tex.-War has been de.
clared between the Carranza and Villa