The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-25
Kaiser's Forces
Lose Dixnude
German Troops EVacuate French Village
They Have Occupied For
Several Weeks.
PRESS ON TOWARD WARSAW
Anglo-French Allies Gaining Ground
Daily In Flanders, Where Germans
Are Repulsed Near Warsaw

London.-The Germans have evacu-
ated Dixmude, but the report that the
allies have taken Middelkerke is I'M
true. The war office issued the fol-
| lowing:
THE opposition now being encoun-
| tered resembles to some extent that
| met with by us in the beginning of
| October when we first reached the
Franco-Belgian frontier. 1t has one
great difference, however, and that is
that the enemy is in much greater
| force and his positions much stronger
and better organized than two months
ago.
AT that time an advance on the
eastern end of the line implied
! movement across very difficult
| country, as it does still, and for US
it meant an attack on skillfully but
hastily fortified strong points or vii
lagos, held to a large extent by caval-
ry and Jaegers. With the large pro-
portion of machine guns that we have
in front of US it no longer is a sue.
cession of isolated points. There still
are such points, but they are stronger
and form parts of practically contin-
uous defensive zone, really amounting
to a maze of trenches and obstacles.
Every Known Form Of Obstacle
Every known form of obstacle is
Enfanulopo varv from 1nnsp
coils of wire to securely staked net
works of from is inches to nearly six
feet in height and of different widths"
Germans Fight For Warsaw
The Germans, advancing on Warsaw
over a wide front between the Vistula
and the Pilicia rivers, have reached
the new Russian positions along the
Bzura river and southwark TO Rawa,
with the result that another big battle
is in progress.
The Russians retired across the
Bzura, destroying the bridges behind
hem. Two German detachments who
flowed over a partly burned bridge
re said TO have been practically ami
hilated, fifty survivors being taken
prisoners.
This is only the beginning of the
great battle for Warsaw, from which
the Germans now are not more than
thirty miles distant. Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg expects stern resist
snce, which the strongly reinforced
Russian army is certain to offer They
are protected by the Vistula river,
which the Germans have been unable
TO cross.
The Russians are continuing opera
tons against East Prussia as though
the capital Of Poland were not threat
ened by any counter attacks, are at
tempting to throw off the Austro-Ger-
man attacks in Galicia. An Austrian
sortie in force from Przemsyl, &C.
cording to the Russian official state,
ment, has entirely failed.
From no point has there come a
statement that would give verify to
unofficial claims made last week to
a great victory by the Germans in Pc
land. In Poland the Russians are pre-
] llAS sAiODE PbcIGtAc TtdNd 6Iu
Nida- We are attacking them every
where" says the last German official
report of the situation in the east.
i Allies Gain In Flanders
The offensive operations of the al
lies in the west are being carried out
under conditions Of siege warfare, and
are being stubbornly opposed by the
Germans in their entrenchments
In Flanders the allies have gained 8
little ground st considerable cost
Along the coast the allies warships
continually are bombarding the Ger.
man positions. The advance has been
marked from the Belgian border south
to the river Disc, where the ground
is not as wet as in the flooded regions
Of Flanders.
Along the Aisne and in the Cham
payne district the French artillery.
now probably stronger than the Ger
man, has been keeping the Germans on
the move. but, in the Argonne region,
il is the Germans who are on the Of
fensive, and they claim a slight ad-
vance.