The Yale expositor., 1914-11-26
ENORMOUS LOSS
FOR The ALLIES
Operations Near 5ixSChoote Re-
suit in Victory to KaiSer'S
Troops.
BATTLE STOPPED BY STORM
IneIement Weather Puts End to Effec-
tive Operations In Northern
France-Germans Expect I'M
Portant Victories Over
Russian Forces.


Berlin. Nov. al Reports received
from Holland, according to informa
ton given out in official circles here,
are to the effect that in the fighting
near Blxschoote and DiXmude the
French lost 10000 men, and that 1900
British we're 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 q titanic struggle for the gain
Of few hundred yards, only to lose
II again as the vanquished of the
mornings conflict by a supreme eff
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, enveloped the big guns and
chilled the marrow in the bones of the
nghting men.
Where Il week ago singing bullets
message OF death. disease now stalks
~ 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 invaded
back by serious illness.
The blizzard has paralyzed 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 JoffTe Hence a halt In the Of
fetal news from the front
Army signal men are busy recon
structiRg the broken lines Of COM
municatiop.
The French who occupied the west
orn part of Chauvincourt, across the
Mouse from st. Mihiel, effectively dis
lodging the Germans from the western
banks OF the Meuse, have again been
SDrced 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
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 the occu.
pants. Then followed a charge by
khe invaders, and the survivors of the
disaster we're 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
fs 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 Bedouins
and Turkish irregulars have compelled
the British TO put the Suez canal and
the entire Port Said district under
martial rule.
At Fl Arisch, Rome reports that
British have been seriously defeated.