The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-27
Right Wing Is Hurled Back
 to German Territory, Says Paris Office Offensive Resumed By Allies All. Along Big Battle Line.
Acting On Kaiser's Orders,
 Germans Fight BraveIy to
 Cross Yser, But Suffer
 Severest Losses of War In4 Gaining Slight Advantage.

0eV6TeSG Losses or w ar m
 Gaining Slight Advantage,
 The unyielding German 1ina which for six weeks has bean stretched across France is said on the authority of the French war office, to have been brok-l en at last. Near the eastern end of the line, in the reg3on8 beyond Nancy today's French. official statement reports the invaders have been driven back onto German soil.
 At other points over the long line the offensive has been re- sumed by the allied forces after & long period of comparativa4 inaction. The French claim tos have won the advantage in an engagement at the point where the line sweeps eastward from the north, less than 60 miles from Paris.
 Between Soissons and Berry Au- -Bac, to the east of the bend in the line, heavy fighting has been resumed Apparently the engagement was limited to an artillery duel, the entrenehed positions Of the opposing fcrees forbidding the use of infantry.
 To the northward, along the Franco-Belgian border, the fighting continues with undi- unfinished ferocity. Along the Yser, where the struggle has been most intense, the allies have not drawn back, says the French official statement, while toward the south further progress has been made be tween the Ypres and Roulers.
 As reports filter in from the scene of fighting along the North Sea, supplementing the official statements, it became evident today that the battles along the shore of the North Sea have been the most terrible of the war. From Emperor William himself, it is said, came the order that the Ger man advance down the coast must be continued at any, cost and that Calais must be taken The desperate assaults which followed, particularly along the .Yser canal, have few. preee- dents in modern military his tory.
 < German Losses Heavy
 British newspaper correspondents ea- innate that some 5000 Germans jsne- ceeded in forcing their way acress the canal. They did 1t at a frtgaltfI1 cost. Into a ha1lstorm Of shraZneI and shot the Germans charged night after night only to be cut down by the thousands until the canal was nlos- sed with their bodies. Those who succeeded in Nforcing their way across came to death grips with their wait
 
 ing adversaries and with rifle shot and bayonet the struggle went on. Of the Germans who crossed the Yser. ac- cord4ng to British reports, few es- capped alive.
 All reports agree that the fighting in the east continues without decisive results The French official state ment says that on the river San and south of PrzeInysl the Russian ohens- i've is becoming more aecentuated.
 Latest official Austrian commundca- tions state that the unain Russian army is being engaged and that minor successes have fbeen won by the Ger mans and Austrians From PetrQ- grad no report had come up to early afternoon
 Further fighting in Bosnia is re- ported from Vienna where the claim is made that the Servians have been driven back to Vishnegrad and that eastern Bosnia is cleared of the eEe- my.
 Although it Is impossible to make even a rough estimate of the sacrifices in men entaIled by the war, all lndd- cationse point to an enormous total of dead and wounded men. Berlin 5sendeZ a. report that the French have 400, 000 men wounded and iucapacitatede through illness Rome relates that what are styled official reports place the German average Of casualties at 900 daily.
 The condition of General Won 3Goltke chief of the German general staff who was compelled by illness to relinqE13sIl his duties, is said in Berlin to be such as to cause no alarm