The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-11-04
STRUGGLE GOES ON

/ STRUGGLE GOES ON
GERMAN ADVANCE IS CHECKED
l By INDIAN TROOPS:
Germans Can Make no Advance II
! Coast District - Why Germany
Wants Coast Towns.
| The battle for the Straits Of Dover
one Of the most sanguinary Of the
war, is continuing with unabateo
fury, but thus far without either side
gaming decided advantage.
The Germans, who at terrible cost
in life, last Saturday, crossed the
User canal between Nieuport and
Dixmude, have not been able to make
further progress as the Allies, &C.
cording to report Of German Gen
| eral Headquarters, are obstinately
| defending their positions.
1t is the same farther south,
around Amentieres, Lille, Lsbasse
and Arras. The opposing armies are
delivering fierce attacks, gaining or
losing a few miles or less Of ground
with sacrifices in life tuat are appall-
ling. The whole countryside is fairly
I reeking with the blood of thousands
Of killed or wounded.
In the towns and villages, with
which the country is dotted and most
Of which have been laid in ruins by
| the artillery, most desperate fighting
has occurred when the cavalry and in
| fantry came into contact. Both sides
speak Of heavy losses they have I'M
| posed on their adversaries, but say
! nothing of their own dead or wound
ed, whose places are being filed with
reinforcements.
The British feet which did such
execution in bombarding the German
| flank, seems to have withdrawn. The
| Germans say this was because their
artillery was beginning to reach the
| ships: The belief is, expressed, how
ever, that the feet Will Be able to rem
der untsnable German occupation OF
any part of the Belgian or French
coast. The opinion also IS expressed
that the operations OF the allied yes
}sels oil the Belgian coast and in the
| vicinity OF the Straits of Dover may
cause the German feet to come out
and give battle.
Up until Tuesday the Allies had
been forced to give way at some
points, but since that time, according
to the French official communicate n,
they have held their positions at
every point from the mouth OF the
User to the Lens district, and again
have advanced betN cen fpes and
Rouiers, where there has been some
of the sternest fighting of this san
culinary battle and where the British
Indian TROOPS have made. their first
appearAnce in the firing line.
The opposing forces ars 30 strong
that it must be several days before a
decisive result is attained by either
side, despite great losses they are SUI
fering and which grow greater as re-
port follows reports.
Tie London Daily Mails Bergen
| correspondent quotes the Saxon State
| Gazette for the following statement
| made by a general in the adJutant
generals Office in the war department
in l5riih: If the English watch on
our naval stations in the neishboT-
| hood OF Helgolahd is almost impos-
sibis now it will beceins qtite inipos-
sible when Belgium and the north
coast of France to the mouth OF the
Seine are in German hands,
IN course Of time We shall possess
Calais and probably Dieppe and
| Havre. Our 12-inch howitzers have
the large range Of fourteen miles and
the l7-nch a still greater range. Eng
land can expect still more artillery
surprises. Even if We can not shoot
from the French coast to the Engllsn
coast, a safety zone could be made for
Germa an ships covering more than
| half the navigable water.
"The French harbors will serve as
bases for torpedo hoats; submarines
cruisers and zeppelins and can be
made impregnable from the sea by a
| double or triple row of mines. If this
triple field should be laid from the
| French coast to the English coast
then Portsmouth and Plymouth
would be cut off from the North Sea
and connection around Scotland
would be difficult.
| THE possibility OF laying such
mines is not doubted, as they could be
| laid under cover of artillery. Our
submarine and torpedo division also
would come into action. An invasion
of England would be easily possible.
| British sailors are credited with
SAYING that their vessels can prevent
these guns being put in position
i They claim that even If they shoulo
be mounted they will not be SO deadly
! against a fast moving target as
against the stationary forts they de-
i stroyed so easily.
i While this life and death struggle
is going on in the west the Frenc1
have become more active along tne
i. Alsatian border and are said to pe
|, making preparations Ind securing
advanced positions in view OF pos
| sible attacks by. the Germans witt
; their big howitzers on the Belfor
fortress. It now seems to be realized
, that no fortress has any chance O.
holding out when once these big Ger
man guns are brought into actor
against it.
SHOT IN DARK.