The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-11-05
GERMAN ADVANCE
ON CALAIS HAL TED
BY ALLIED ARMIES
Teutons Gain at ,Ypres and 0o,
.4 81. ,Cupy Messines. p,
LOSE AT SEVERAL PLACES
Report From Paris Declares That
Kaiser Lost 10000 Troops In Bat
tie at Ypres-2,ooo Dead
~ sa Left on Field. ... AZ.

London, Nov. 3.-The German drive
upon Calais has been halted and now
has become a last ditch defensive
fight, with disaster or retreat the duke
of WUerttemberg' alternative.
Monday came the long awaited falter
in the German attack. The war office
at Bordeaux officially declared that
along the whole front from the Disc to
the sea the pronounced attacks direct
ed by the Germans up to Sunday had
diminished in violence.
Both to the south of Dixmude and
to the south of Ghaluwe, between
Ypres and Menin, the allied, French,
British and Belgian troops occupied
positions considerably in advance OF
those previously held. At every other
point at which the troops came In con-
tact with the Germans during the day
the allies were able to maintain their
positions, 1t is reported.
Paris Puts German Losses at $4,000.
The French war ministry is informed
that the German losses in the north
In the last few days have been 10000,
Paris dispatch says. After an en-.
gagement at a single point on the User
the Germans left 1000 dead on the
field The french casualties in this
engagement were reported to be lis
killed and wounded.
Failure OF the German offensive be-
tween Bray-en-Lannois and Vailly, in
the Aisne region, also was reported
from Paris '.r- .:.
Germans Win at Ypres.
The. British war Office made no an.
nouncement to contradict the German
claim of advantage in the fighting about
Ypres, but admitted that the allies
had been forced to evacuate part Of
the. village of MessiRes in the face Of
a vigorous German attack.
Delayed reports from the front were
published in the afternoon by the war
Office Guaranteeing the results of the
fighting of Sunday.
In Belgium the German attacks were
particularly desperate in character In
the region between Dixmude and the
Lys, but'in spite of the vigor OF these
assaults the allies we're able to make
slight advance along the entire
front.
In the suburbs of Arras and about
Lihons and Quesnoye-en-Santerre the
invaders attacks were met with such
determined resistance that they had
no result
Allies Vletors on Aisne.
Slight progress was recorded along
the Aisne in the direction of Tracy,
le-Val, to the north of the forest Of
L'Aigle, between this forest and
Scissors, Night attacks against the
heights of the Highway des Danes
positions of the allies and against
Amont-de-Vailly also failed.
Heavy, artillery firing has been re.
newed by the enemy in the vicinity of
Reims and on the heights of the
Mouse, but according to the Bordeaux
communique. the hombardment on the
French positions at these places has
been without appreciate effect.
A reconnaissance against the right
wing army of the Germans was re-
pulsed at NOmeny. a.,
In the Vosges the French have fol
lowed up their success in recapturing
the heights which dominate Mont
Sainte Marie by capturing the artillery
positions from which the heavy guns
of the Germans have been bombarding
Saint Die.
All day Sunday and all Monday night
train load after train load of wounded
German soldiers poured into Bruges.
says the Sluis correspondent of the
Amsterdam TELEGRAPH. The Germans
lost great quantity of artillery in
the districts flooded by the cutting Of
the dikes 1t is ascertained that the
Germans are. still in Ostend, the re-
ports of their evacuation Of this port
being prematures-a r..s