The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-11-17

have suffered heavy casualties, but
battles Of this fierce and PROLONGED |
nature cannot DO but costly to both |
sides. We havo tho satisfaction Of
knowing that We have foiled the
enemy In what appears 70 be at pres |
ent his main object In the western
theatre OF operations. and have In
flioted immensely greater LOSSES on
him thnn those we have suffered our.
selvc1.
ENEMY RGPULsGo IN ATTACK
ON FRENCH LINE.
ITO carry on the narrative for three
days Of the 10th, 18th and 18th Of
| November:
TUESDAY. the 10Th. was uneventfui
for us. At some distance beyond our
left nsnk the enemy advanced in
forco against the French and were
rspulsed. Directly on our left, how.
ever. along the greater part Of the
front, Smelling wss less severe. and no
infantry attacks took place"
TO the southeast Of Yprss the
enemy kept up q very heavy bonn.
bardmsnt against our limo. a. we'll %
that Of the French. On our left con.
tire the situation remained unchanged.
both sides containing themselves
with furious cannonadinG. In our
centre the Germans retained their
hold on the small amount of ground
which they had GAINED from us. but
IN doing 20 incurred q heavy loss
from n. our artillery and machine gun
nro
| Incidentaily, one OF the houses
held by tho enemy wa no knocked
about by our nrs that It's dsfendeS
boltsd. On their way to the rear they
were met by endorsements under an
ofYicAr, who halted them, evidently
In an endeavor to persuade them to
return. While the parIey was going
on one OF our machine guns was
quietly moved 20 . position OF want
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I've nre on the group.
On our night one Of The snemy's
saps: which was being pushed to-
All the men In II were captured.
"wednesday. the 1lth, was another
day of dsapsrats fightinG. A. day
broke tho Germans opened fire on our
trenShes 70 the north and south Of
the road from Nantn b Yprss. This
was probably che most furious astii-
lary fire which they have yet en-
ployed against us. A few hours latSr
they followed this by IN infantry a..
saht In forcs.
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