The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-13
D|XMUDE CAPTURED BY
THE GERMAN TROOPS
Fort Center of Some of Fiercest
Fighting of the War.
RETURNS TO ASSAULT.
Poland at the Rate OF
Fourteen Miles Daily.

London, Nov. 1.-THE Germans
have resumed Their attack on the
allied line between the coast and the
Lys river, and while the French
claim generally to have held their
positions the Germans have captur-
ed DiXmude, center of some of the
fiercest and most sanguinary fight
ing of the war.
The country between Eixmude and
Ypres, where the belligereuts have
made violent attacks and counter
attacks for weeks and where losses
have been heavier even than those
in the battle of the Ypres, again is
the scene of battle, which for fury,
seldom, if ever, has been euualled
Behind Dixmude is the direct road
to Dunkirk, one of the French ports
on which the Germans have set their
hearts, and If they can break
through here the allies will have to
fall back to new positions. The in
Vaders have concentrated their
forces at this point and their success
in taking DiXmude, where they claim
to have captured 500 prisoners. and
positions west of Langemarck where.
according to the Berlin report, 1000
prisoners fell into their hands. shows
that the statements that they have
been sending troops from the. west
to Poland. are without foundation.
Military men here believe the
Germans, as soon as they saw they
could not capture Warsaw, dispatch-
ed troops from that region to the
west, not imagining that the Rus
sian pursuit could be carried out
with such rapidity.
AT other points along the battle
from it in France, the French of
fetal commun. cation claims some
success for the Allies but the Ger
man headquarters STAFF declares all
attacks have been repulsed
MUST PROTECT SELF.
1t is considered certain that with
the enormous forces required for
the escort to get through to the coast
from German invasion. the Germans
cannot throw additional troops into
the lines which stretch through
northern France and along the
Franco-German border.
The French, though, whose army
is growing daily, m ght attempt an
offensive against Lorraine or Alsace
as a diversion which would relieve
the pressure in the west
The Germans, according to Petro-
grad dispatches, nave suffered
more serious defeat on the East
Prussian border than official state
ments have disclosed. Advices from
the Russian capital today say that
in the recent fighting there the Rus
slams have captured more than 90
600 prisoners and quantities of
guns and munitions
The Russian advance in Poland.
which has been at the rate of II
miles daily, has astonished military
experts. This advance has continu-
ed for 1S days.
In Gahcia the Russians continue
to push the Austrians back, but the
Austrians are having their revenge
along the Servian border, which they
threaten to cross in an endeavor to
crush Servia before Russia can come
to her assistance.
or the fighting between Turkey
and the allies, reports are so con
Trajectory there is no reconciling
them.
While some continue to believe
the war will be one OF years there is
an increasing belief that the great
offensive campaign by the allies in
the spring, when England's new
army of a million men can take the
field and Russia and France will be
stronger than ever, will bring the
conflict to mend