Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-11-04
UNABLE TO BREAK !.
LINES OF ALLIES
Berlin and Paris Reports Agree
That Positions Are Prac-
ticaIIy Unchanged.
WITNESS TELLS OF FIGHTING
Battle In the Northwest Described BY
Correspondent Of London Paper
Destruction Wrought by Armored
TraIns-German and Austrian Re-
tirement In Poland 10 Confirmed. !:

correspondent OF Ionoon FapeT~
Destruction Wrought by Armored
Trains-German and Austrian Re-
tIrement In Poland 10 Confirmed.
London, Oct. 29.-The German ad.
vance appears to have been checked
in Belgium, and n dispatch from an
Evening News correspondent asserts
that the Germans are in retreat. This
is not borne but by the observations
Of others on the firing line. q, &c.,.
The Belgian army is said to have
lost one.third of its members in the
battle OF Flanders, Is the present con-
flict has been named:
At last a small force of the invaders
had taken positions on some sandy
hillocks and were directing a wither-
ing fire into a portion of the allied
line. ~2 s.
The German losses in the battle
along the User are placed at $4,000;
those Of the allies scarcely less.
A wireless dispatch from the Berlin
foreign Office to the German embassy
in Washington confirmed reports ofAa
deadlock in the battle Of the User and
admitted that a strong Russian force
has crossed the Vistula to the north of
Ivangorod.
Although the Germans have lost
ground near Dixmude,, the allies and
the invading legions of the kaiser are
still locked in a death grip along the
User canal in northwestern Belgium
and the fighting there has been of I'M
paralleled ferocity. .
Back and forth across the crimson,
~corpse-choked stream the conflict has
now ragged for a week. Seven times
the Germans succeeded in crossing to
the west side. only to be driven back
by the British, French and Belgian
troops hurled against them. 80. +
The stream is choked with dead
bodies. At some points the corpses
have completely damned the water
way and soldiers used the clustered
dead for a bridge.
Heavy Artillery Reinforced. -
The Germans have REINFORCED their
heavy artillery at the front and the
lines of the allies were bombarded all
night. The Belgian village OF Lam
gemarck has been destroyed by shells.
q Both banks of the canal are lined
with unburied, dead, with neglected
wounded, with %carcasses of horses and
shattered rifles, cannon, ammunition,
caissons and .cast-off equipment.
Warshlps In New Positions. -
The British and French warships,
which were driven off by the heavy
German guns, are reported to have ia
ken up a new position between Nieu-
port and Ostend and are again bonn
harding the German trenches on the
Belgian coast.
The pushing back of the Germans
nea Nancy, on the eastern end of the
battle line, where the French have as!
sumed a vigorous offensive movement,
is an important achievement. 1t may
have a big effect upon the operations
around Verdun and st. Mihiel and
along the heights OF the Mouse. In
that region the French have become
the invaders, having pressed the Ger
mans across the frontier.
French Lose 10000.
Swiss papers report that since the
capture OF Fort Camp Des Romans by
the Germans the French losses on the
Verdun!Toul line have been more than
forty thousand men.
1t was officially announced in Berlin
that Emperor William had conferred
the Iron Cross upon the kings of Ba-
:varia and Wuerttemberg in recognition
OF their own bravery and the valor of
their troops. -gg&. & :
French officers complain Of the in.
ferior quality Of the new troops sent
to fight against the Germans. Eng.
fish papers estimate the Belgian losses
on the User canal at 10000 men. !
Warships' Fire Harmless. 4
Main headquarters reports to Berlin
that the fighting continues from Nieu-
port to Dixmude, where the Belgians
have been considerably REINFORCED.
The German attacks are maintained.
British war. vessels took part in the
fighting against the German right
wing, but their fire was without effect.
Several British warships are in
flames as a result of German artillery
IRE from the shore. ~Y
The situation at Ypres is unchanged.
To the west OF Lille the German At
tack was successfully maintained.
IS Tells Of Hard Battle.
The correspondent Of the Daily
News, who has been In an armored
train to the banks of the User, gives
. description Of the battle in the north
west:
The, battle RACES along the User.
with frightful destruction Of life"
he says. "Air engines, sea engines,
and land engines death-sweep this des-
olate country vertically, horizontally,
and ~transversely. Through it the
frail little human engines crawl and
dig, walk and run, Swimming, charg-
ing, and laundering In little individual
fights and tussels, tired and puzzled.
ordered here and there, sleeping
where they can, never washing, and
dying unnoticed. A friend may find
himself firing on a friendly force, and
few are to blame.
ION Thursday the Germans were
INDIAN chi nlERS IN WINTER