Arizona republican., 1914-11-20
Crafty Methods Employed by German Spies and Snipers to Get Through Allied Lines; Wire Cut ting Frequent.
BOMBARDMENT IS
 RENEWED DAILY
After Each Successful At tack Heavy Guns Are Trained on Town: Avia- tors Brave Heavy Rain and Bitter Cold.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

LONDON. Nov. 19.-A descriptive eye witness attached to general head quarters supplements narrative published November r of British and French forces:
 "The nature of the front has not altered since the last letter The Germans continued to press general ly along our line, and focused their attention around Ypres, although there has not been any resumption of the previous violent attacks on that place.
 Further information has been gained regarding German methods of sniping and spying. Non-commis stoned officers are offered iron crosses if they penetrate our lines at night. Those attempting this work discard boots, helmet and other i'm | pedimenta, crawl as close as possible to our defenses and try to attract the attention of the sentry by throwing stone in an opposite direction. This generally causes the sentry to fire, l line and trenches
 These spies or snipers often wear khaki uniforms and woolen caps sim liar to ours, and thus disguised they sometimes get right behind our lines in favorable spots from which they shoot men passing by. Most of them speak English well and display great 1 ingenuity in getting out of tight corners
 l Another reason for penetrating our lines is for the cutting of tele- phone wires, and behind one section of our front breaks are very fire quent. That the damage is not en- tirely due to bursting shells vas proved by the capture of German se- cret agents carrying wire cutters and rifles''
 The account closes with an eulogy for French doctor who with sec eral nuns remained at Ypres during the bombardment nursing fifty-two wounded Germans and who was fin ally killed by a shell. The next day the nuns and the wounded were e. moved to a place of safety.
 Friday the 18th was windy, with much rain. Trying as life in the rr'les IS under such conditions. ndr men lad at least the consolation of know Is that the en my were In .. w-rsc night. for the wind blew sttddily m their faces.
 "Cn cur left, the morning passed , with desdlitGy shelina which grad
 ually sweeled in the afternoon into Ia fierce bclnbardment action If our
 hc IInning south to the Me lin
 Ypres road. This was a preluds 10 an attack along the whole line. Around Ypres the enemy rushed our
 trenches at ere point, but they we:e
 driven out again and the assault re- Ipuised Here again our losses though
 heavy, were much less than those of the iermans.
 As each successive attempt to take
 Ypres by assault fails, bombardment
 of the unhappy town is renewed with c,er-increasing fury.
 ' Further to the south. on our left
 center the situation remained prac- tically unchanged, a little ground be- ing lost here and there and then re-
 gained. On our center and right and
 indeed, along the whole of our line, the hostile artillery appears to have : received orders on this day to search
 the area in the rear of our trenches. This is no doubt part of the policy of : wearing down.
 l "Or the right, on the night of the , thirteenth and fourteenth, a German taly I,xra of ! lbattaions, the occupants being bay e oneted or taken prisoners. Part oi another battalion which had also ad- d vanced in the night encountered some : of the enemy who were attempting g
 similar operation A hand to hanc fight ensued, in which we came of victors; We killed 25 Germans ant
 lost only two men ourselves.
 Saturday was very cold and ther'
 was also some rain. On our left ] proceedings started with the usua heavy smelling and the Germans agail
 resumed the offensive in the after
 noon south of the Menin- Ypres road Ia with a similar result to that obtaine' Is on the previous day. They penetrat h ed our line at one or two points bu n were soon driven out and the lin l. almost completely restored Further to the south the Frenc r. made an attack near Wytschaete an ,e gained some ground under cover c ar a very heavy fire from their guns. l ,d the afternoon our left center wa ,f subjected to smelling alone, and 70 our center Armentieres was subjecte ,d to similar treatment. The town
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