Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-11-26
ENORMOUS LOSS
FOR The ALLIES
Operations Near Bixschoote Re-
suit in Victory TO Kaiser's
Troops.
BATTLE STOPPED BY STORM
Indictment Weather Puts End to Effec-
tive Operations in Northern
France-Germans Expect I'm
pcrtant Victories Over
Russian Forces.

Berlin, Nov. 21.-Reports received
from Holland. according to informa-
ton given out In official circles here.
are to the effect that in the fighting
near Bixschoote and Dixmude the
French lost 10000 men, and that 1900
British were drowned in the User
canal
London. Nov. 22.-The battle front
in Flanders and in France, from the
sea to the Meuse, is storm bound.
The rival battle lines that a week
ago were great towers Of strength.
waging titanic struggle for the gain
Of few hundred yards, only to lose
It again as the vanquished Of the
mornings conflict by a supreme ef-
fort became the victors with the com
ing Of night, today remained two i'm
potent masses. Great numbers were
stricken down before the fury of
terrific blizzard which leveled the
trenches, enveIoped the big guns and
chilled the marrow in the bones of the
fighting men.
Where a week ago singing bullets
aud shrieking shells bore the fearful
message Of death, disease now stalks
as the enemy Of friend and foe alike.
Thousands Are Stricken.
Thousands of cases of pneumonia
have been reported from the front
and every train to the rear from the
allies lines today bore great contin-
gents Of officers and men invaIided
back by serious illness.
The blizzard has paraIyzed the tele-
graph and telephone lines connecting
the headquarters of the general staff
in the field with the headquarters of
the corps commanders. Reports OF
any possible developments for this
reason may have failed to reach Gen
eral Joffre. Hence a halt in the Of
fetal news from the front.
Army signal men are busy recon
structing the broken lines of COM
munication.
The French who occupied the west
ern part of ChauvincouTt, across the
Meuse from st. Mihiel. effectively dis
lodging the Germans from the western
forced back, and the Germans have re-
crossed the river.
Dynamite was the agent the Ger
mans used in dislodging the French
troops. When the French occupied a
portion Of the town the Germans were
driven from their barracks. These
the French troops occupied But the
Germans had previously mined the
barracks buildings, and during the
night of Wednesday they blew up the
barracks, killing many of he Occu-
pants. Then followed a charge by
the invaders, and the survivors of the
disaster were compelled to withdraw.
The opinion was expressed in mill
tary circles in Berlin that notwith-
standing the great number of Russian
troops in Poland, estimated at 100000,
excluding those in the Schirwindt re-
gion, General Won Hindenburg would
soon be able to report a decisive vic
tory.
Russians in Tight Place.
The position of the Russian forces Is
considered unfavorable, both on &C.
count of the nature of the ground and
because such large forces are concen-
trated within a comparatively small
territory
Interest in the situation in the west
is momentarily eclipsed by that in the
east. Reports from Vienna tell Of sue
cesses in Galicia, including the occu-
patton by the Teutonic allies of Tar
now and Wieliczka. According to
these reports 1000 prisoners were
taken
Turks Report Victory.
In Egypt the advancing Bedoufns
and Turkish irregulars have compelled
the British to pu$ the .Suez canal and
the entire Port Said district under
martial rule
At Ell Arisch, Rome reports that
British have been seriously defeated.