Arizona republican., 1914-11-17
Official Press Bureau State ment from London Indi- cates Kaiser's Troops Give Up Attacks and Re sort to BOmbardment
REPORT OF SOME
 LOCAL ASSAULTS
Despite Their Heavy Artil- lerv Fire It Has Not Pro duced It's Calculated Elf feet of Breaking Way for Advance of Their Infantry
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcH1

LONDON Nov. 16-The official press bureau issued the following 1e- count dated November 10, of the movements of the British force and the French armies immediately in touch with it:
 Tn describing operations for the six days from November 4 to the Jtn, it can be said that during that period the Germans nowhere along our main front made any attacks in great force such as was launched against Ypres at the end of October.
 What they may be contemplating remains to be seen. Their policy ap- peared to be to wear us out by con- tinual bombardment lntersperseh with local assaults at different points.
 AS regards their artillery attacks, which have now continued without cessation for days, wonder is aroused as to when this prodigal expenditure of ammunition will cease, for it mas not produced it's obviously calculated effects of breaking the defense in preparation for the advance of their infantry. So far the infantrymen
  the tactics employed. During recent attacks our men were reinforced. en- ioyed some rest and had time to inn prove the trenches in different ways. Moreover consciousness that they had repelled one great effort of the enemy was a moral factor of no small value"
 Describing the fighting, the report says:
 Long, struggling villages when they became visible, seemed to melt away and assume odd, fantastic shapes IS the houses crumbled, and blocks of masonry were thrown hither and thither by the blasting effects of lyd- dite and helinite.
 Night attacks have been a regu- lar occurrance at different points, and were made apparently more with the view to annoying our troops and preventing them from sleeping, than any other object.
 Sometimes the advance has been of a more serious nature and has been carried out by large bodies.
 Tn such cases the Germans invari- ably lost heavily, and even if they succeeded in gaining our first line trenches they were almost always driven out again.
 These demonstrations appear to be proportionately more costly and even more useless than the heavier attacks.
 "The assault of the allies artillery ;c ,,,oc+ yUbap thay are seen to be running from shelter which has ceased to act as such, they are caught and moved down by rapid fire French field artillery Against suitable target the action of the French 7.5 centimeter field guns is literally terrific and must be seen to be realized At one place the gaunt wreck of an old church tower and the blackened remains of a few houses around it would emerge for a moment only to be plotted out in pail of smoke.
 "The smoke from bursting shells resembles the craters of volcanoes belching fire and fumes On the whole there is evidence to show that the Germans are beginning to be af- fected by their losses. From pris- oners it is gathered that the young men in the new corps cannot with stand the fatigues and privations of campaigning and that the middle aged men lack ardor. From the same source it is learned that the recruits who have not previously served have only received some eight or nine
  they have practically no instruction in musketry On the other hand the
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