Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-25
GERMANS ARE HALTED
FRENCH STOP FIVE ATTACKS
MADE BY KAISER'S TROOPS.
Teutons Charge Same Point for Two
Hours-AIlies Take Heights After
Blowing Up Trenches.

Paris, Nov. 23.-The war office is
sued this official communique:
During the day of the 22d the VIC
lent bombardment of Ypres destroyed
the market places and the city hall.
There was heavy cannonading at
scissors, and also at Vailly.
'On the rest of the front there is
nothing to report"
German guns have destroyed the
famous halles (market house, and
city hall of Ypres. The French war
Office made this announcement, add
ing that the havoc was wrought as a
result of a most violent bOmbardment.
Heavy cannonading also was re-
ported at scissors and at Vailly, on
the Aisne, but the greatest damage
was done at Ypres.
London, Nov. 23.-With swiftness
and might Germany dealt in a new
quarter a blow designed to smash the
battle line of the allied armies in
France.
Five times the German hosts charged
in masses against the French line in
the Eparges of the Woevre district,
but five times the CALLING fire of the
French field gun, raking their ranks
frontally and in an enfilading man.
ner, swept them backward. And all
these tremendous charges and deadly
repulses were accomplished within
two hours. When the persistent Ger
mons finally 6ocicfod tho Eron0h cot
tied down to the task of holding their
line in it's original place.
This, however, was not the only
stroke of the Germans along the bat
tie front. At Ornes, near Verdun, they
renewed a bombardment of the French
line, but the French silenced two of
their batteries and then charged the
German trenches and captured what
are known as the Heights of Ornes.
In the Argonne region the French
assumed the offensive, advanced and
captured blockhouse, blew up some
of the German trenches and, after
driving their enemies back a consid-
cradle distance, established new line
of trenches of their own. Their sue
cess was not overpowering here, how
ever, for in places the trenches of the
Germans and French are now only 80
feet apas..
The French success on the heights
of Ornes is considered gain of great
Importance, for through it the at
tempt of the Germans to isolate the
fortress of Verdun is believed to have
been thwarted
Meantime, the battle in Belgium and
thence along the line to the neighbor-
hood of Reims was confined to artil-
lery duels, the allies claiming the adj
vantage at Newport and along the
Aisne.
Prior to this development, however,
at a loss of more than two hundred
of their original 300, French marines
made a daring capture of Dixmude
chateau, an important position, which
is three kilometers north of Dixmude
and dominates the User valley.
In a violent snowstorm, says cor
respondent of LaLiberte, the French
marines quit their camp at midnight
and silently advanced around the cha
teau, which was attacked with bay
onets at dawn and carried after long
struggle. At ten o'clock the marines
held the whole place, though barely
one hundred remained of those who
began the attack. At noon a small
patrol started to explore the park and
was amazed to receive the surrender
of 100 Germans who were hidden in a
neighboring barn throughout the fight
ing, though a sortie would have taken
the attackers in the rear and certainly
turned the scale.