Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15
GERMAN ASSAULTS
IN WEST FLANDERS
BECOME LESS KEEN
Feeling Grows That Base
for Invasion Of England
Will Not Be Gained.
OFFENSIVE ASSUMED
AT POINTS BY ALLIES
Vivid Idea of Tremendous Action
Preceding Recent Attacks
on Ypres.
RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING
RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING
Occupation of Joliannisberg Regarded
as of Great Strategic
Value.

LONDON, November H. Both official
and unofficial reports concerning the
situation In Flanders agree that tho
force of tho German assaults OH the
allies lines disputing the way to Dun
kirk and Calais has lcssencd, and tho
feeling is growing in England that
the coveted base for an invasion OF
England never will be gained by the
Germans.
A Paris official statement declares
that from the sea to the River Eys the
German action has been less keen:6
that tho allies have assumed tho Of
fensive along some parts of the trout,
arc making progress south of Blk
schoote and have retakcn hamlet east
of Ypres. Artillery duels continue
along the rest of the line.
a British official report gives a vivid
Idea OF tho tremendous action which
preceded the recent attacks on Ypres
by the Germans. From dawn for three
hours the lsritons were under ~ heavy
artillery fire, which died away to he
succeeded by an infantry onslaught by
the Prussian Guard who were hurled
back after penetrating the British
lines at two points.
Dixmude has been reported as re-
occupied by the allies. but this lack
confirmation. AS the allied armies
have resumed the offensive at certain
points. there is reason to believe that
savage lighting.
On the eastern battle ground the
Russians continue to advance Vienna
admits officially that they have ocCu-
pied Tarnow, Jaslo and Irasno, in
Galica. Residents arc fleeing from
East Silesia, In this they may be in
fluenced by tho belief that the Rus 8
slams Will not permit any German civ
ilinns to remain In tho vicinity of their
armies. Tho occupation OF Johannis-s
borg, in East Prussia, is regarded here
| as being CT great strategic value to
the 'Russas. IT. as is presumed. the
Invaders came from the south for this
| movement. they must have overcome
extraordinary obstacles. The Germans
are reported as having taken the gums
from Cracow to Oppcln. In Silesia,
! fifty miles southeast Of Brcslau. and
to have left the defense of the Cra-
COW fortress entirely to the Austrian
! garrison.
CITY OF DANXIG LOOMS
AS RUSSIAN OBJECTINE
| In the opinion of British observers,
| the city OF Danzig, on the coast OF
| West Prussia, looms large as Rus
| sian objective, and dispatches reaching
here from Petrograd convey the belief
of the Russian authorities that even
| the resumption OF the German often
sive against Russian Poland will not
cause a diversion.
reports come from the scene OF the
Russo Turkish battle front. Tho Rus
| slams report steady progress over the
| old battle grounds of 1876, while the
| Turks claim that the Russian armies
| have been pushed back across the bor-
der with heavy losses.
| From the headquarters OF the Teu-R
| tonic armies como conservative state
| mcuts of tho activities OF their armies.
| Vienna admits certain Russian sue
| ccsses. which incidentally mean that
the Slsv power again is in possession
of tire grent oil fields of Gaiicia, but
another report from Austrian head
! quarters balances this by tho claim of
continued success against the Balkan
enemy in the campaign To force the
Servians bclGnd their own borders.
| Berlin reports progress OH the west
| crn front, accompanied By the rcpulsc
! Of every attempted advance by the
allies. German military experts. com
| mcntiuG OH the fact that the prisoners
this Is proof that the Ee,gans have
been SO cut to pieces that il has be-
/ come necessary for the French to take
! their places. They believe also that
! the taking Of prisoners on tho Yprcs
! front indicates that tho energy of the
allies is flaSSins. One of these mill
| tary writer's docs not conceal the
anxiety cnuscd by the Russian advance,
(! but scts down his belief that tho Ger
f, man frontier has not yet been crossed.
The only naval news of Importance is
| tho announcement that the submarine
menace of Dover has been relieved by
| tho dragging of chains along the bot
1 tom OF the channel. This procedure
Is believed to have destroyed certain
German submarines which for weeks
| have been successful in Guiding tho
| British guard ships.