Arizona republican., 1914-10-21
The Belgian Army, Sup ported by the Allies, is Holding Stubbornly to Line of River Yser, Hold ing Germans in Check
FRENCH ANNOUNCE
 GERMANS AGREE
Little Further South Allies Are Attempting to Ad- vance Towards Lille for the Relief of the Be sieged City
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCaI

LONDON, Oct. 2O.-Fighting Of the most desperate character is in progress in West Flanders and northeastern France. The Belgian army, supported by the allies, is holding stubborniy to the line of the river Yser and has thus far successfully halted the efforts of the Germans to advance along the coast.
 This was announced in a French official communication and admitted in German army reports. A little fur ther south the allies are attempting to advance toward Lille for the relief of that city, which has been in German hands for some time. Their efforts yesterday to advance on Lille, where the Germans hold strong positions, were repulsed, according to GermaH reports. Southward at the bend of the line, the Germans continued to make furious but futile attempts to break the French line. Along he Mouse in the east, according to the French ac- count the Germans failed to repulSe the French, who debouched along the territory in which is situated the Camp des Remains, now in the hands of the Germans, in an attempt to cut out that part of the German army which had been thrust forward at Mihiel. The Germans are throwing every avail able man in Belgium into the firing line The Austrians claim to have repulsed the Russian attacks in Cali cia and they are making progress toward driving out the invaders. The Russians, on the other hand, say they are taking large numbers of prisoners. Heavy fighting is going on around Prexemysl. An Italian correspondent says that the cupolas of the forts have been destroyed by the Russian siege guns and the forts mined and disman- tied. The same correspondent states that the Russians are strongly en- trenched along the Vistula river and the entire front is furnished with pow erful guns, which day and night are hurling thousands of projectiles at the enemys lines.
 Generally speaking, the French claim to have made some detailed progress along the front. Paris reports that the allies have destroyed fifteen machine guns. two of which were armored, near La Basse and a battery of heavy Ger man artillery in the environs of Mi hiel. Both sides are bringing rein to the western front, where one of the supreme struggles of the war is on.
 The Germans seem to have the rail- roads working we'll although they must have been seriously damaged during the battles of August and September. Troops are being transported over them andw Dutch sources report train after train of wounded being taken back to Germany. In the fighting in this open country, where the men do not have the protection of elaborate entrenchments, such as they have on the Aisne river, the losses must be very heavy, especially where endeav- OTIS are made to carry positions by assault.
 The Austrians and Germans, adds the correspondent, are obliged to re- main on the defensive, but they have repulsed a great cavalry attack west of Warsaw
 Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital ac- cording to report from Nish, is com pletely enveloped by Servians and de- termined efforts are being made to
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