The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-11-20
BATTLE IN FRANCE
HALTED BY STORM
MEN IN TRENCHES SUFFER As
RESULT OF SNoWsToRM
AND HEAVY GALE.
Neither Side Has Been Able to Make
Any Sensible Advance, Both Be-
ing Well Entrenched Against
Artillery Attack.

London.-After four weeks of most
desperate fighting there is lull in
the battle of Flanders. With this lull,
however, has come little relief for the
men in the trenches, as the artillery
and rife fire to which they have been
subjected with hardly any intermis-
sion has been replaced by one of
those severe snowstorms which so of.
ten accompany November in this lati-
tude.
In some parts of England the storm
has reached the proportions of bliz-
gard. on the sea heavy gale RACES,
and the battlefields are getting their
full share of wind and rain.
For the most part the opposing
armies have been content to shell
each other at long range, but the Ger.
mans have made several attacks
around Ypres, which, according to the
French general staff, have been re-
pulsed with heavy losses.
Extensive defense works have been
| erected along the User canal, and the
French armies are holding that line
from the Belgian border south to the
river Disc and pushing forward ap-
proach works.
The Germans report that they have
taken few hundred British and
French prisoners, but that the unfa-
vorable weather has impeded their
progress. Concerning the fighting
around Dixmude the public must rely
on unofficial reports. Here, it is said,
the Germans are finding the destroyed
/ village death trap. They have been
unable to debouch from this point in
the day time, as all the approaches
are commanded by the allies guns
and night attacks have met with dis
aster
The fact is apparent that neither
side has been able to make any sensi
BILE advance, both being so well en-
trenched that neither artillery nor in
fantry can move them.
The Germans are turning Belgium
into fortress, which means that i
they do not succeed in advancing they
intend to be perpared for winter il
Belgium.
A battle of some proportions is go
ing on between the Russians ant
Turks at Koprukeui, in the Caucasus
the result of which may have marke'
effect on the war in that part of thu
world. Elsewhere in the near cas-
/ there has been no engagement of i'm
portance.
England, it is announced, has no in
tention of undertaking any militar,
operations in Arabia, except for tn
protection of Arab interests agains
! Turkish or other aggressions or in SUI
port of attempts by the Arabs to fire.
themselves from Turkish rule.
Bulgaria also has set at rest tn
report that she had an agreemen
with Turkey and has issued stat
! ment that no such agreement exists
The SerEians and Montenegrin
who started out to invade Bosnia an
Herzegovina and were at one time al
preaching the Bosnian capital of Sar;
5 yevo, now are back in their own tie
4 ritory offering a stubborn resistant
!. to the Austrians. The weather is Fl
vorable to them as snow is falling.
The scandinavian countries an
Holland are much exercised over tt
/" sowing of mines where they endangt
neutral vessels. That the mines al
e in great number is shown by the fa'
that dozens are being driven on I'll
t Dutch coast by the prevailing storr