Milford chronicle., 1914-11-13
Dispatches Tell Of Withdrawal
Of KaiS9T'S Forces.
a4A.ES ARE DEAOLCCKEO
Fierce Fighting Is Taking Place at
Armentieres - Teuton Attacks at
Yprss Checked.


hard 10 cut through the allies line
aut gain the seapOrts on the Frenc
coast, reports received in LondO
from the battle front indicate thai
having failed to smash the de4ense O
the Belgian, French and Britis
torl,, the invaders have begun thei
retreat rom Belgian soil.
Although there is no official confT
nation ol these reports, correspond
ents in that section OF the war zon.
in dispatches to London tell of tn,
rapid movement of the German force!
toward the German frontier.
Whether this is a withdrawal fol
lowing the checks to the German ad
vance along the battle front in tlan
ders or move to send aid to tie
eastern zone OF war. where the Rus
SLAMS are sweeping back all German
and Austrian opposition, cannot be
learned
According to a dispatch from the
Exchange Telegraph company's cor
respondent at Rotterdam, the move
ment Of retreat Of the German army
in Belgium continues. Thirty-five
thousand men and 100 guns have left
Thielt in the direction OF Client and
forty-eight wagon loads of munitions
have lett Bruges for the same destt
nation.
A dispatch to the Central News
from Amsterdam says:
"Trainload after trainload of Ger
man artillery are leaving the Lys val
ley in the direction of Ghent
THE German army headquarters
has been transferred to Alost."
The town OF Alost is fifteen miles
west of Brussels and forty miles east
OF the fighting area arouISi Dixmude
The heaviest figh ing /. the pres
ent battle is being waged along the
line from Armentierres to the sea
coast, and the encounters are of par
ticular violence tor the reason that
the opposing forces are alternating in .
taking the offensive. These onslaugnts !
are taking place in a dense fog, and .
while the reports OF the action are .
meager. the Paris official statement |
announced hat the allies have held |
all OF their positions and repulsed
the Germans, and that they had made
slight gains at many points along the
battle front in Belgium as well as in
France.
Despite their reinforced lines the
Germans have failed in their attacks
On the allied lines to the south OF
where the attacks have beeu
violent. In addition, the
Paris reports declare that the French
roops along the line between Yp.es
md Armentierres and also in the re
zion OF Dixmude, have perceptibly al
'anced.
Elsewhere along the battle line be
ween Rheims and Berry-au-Bac, VI
he center of the battle front, the
french forces report progress in theiI
'fensive movement and on the front
rom the canal at La Bassee as far as
he WOevre the allies gained many
ew and commanding positions.
Fighting from sand dune to sand
une, hampered by thick fog banks
nd at times crawling on hands and
nees through high grass, the advance
the allies along the Belgian sea
oast continues.
An unofficial dispatch says that ad
ance patrols OF Belgians have pene
rated to Ostend, which means that
he coast line from Dunkirk to Nieu
Ort and Ostend is relieved from the
lenace of the past two weeks
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
ON correspondent with the Bel
Ian army, under date of Nov. g :
lys: {
"Ypres is in flames and the greater {
art of this fine old Flemish town is {
ruin. The Germans managed to gel &
lie range with their heavy artillery
nd from dawn onward 11-inch and 10 {
ch shells we're poured into the city l
"The town itself is deserted, and t
} loss Of life resulted from the 1
eavy shell fire" c
The inundation in Flanders, which c
'evented the Germans from making j
cir way along the coast in their eff b
rts to reach Calais, are now prov
g equally unfavorable to the allies +
ho are finding it impossible to pro b
ed through these marshy regions. {
The Germans have been obliged tc S
'aeuate Middlekerke, on the coast n
If way between Nieuport and Os
nd, and this point has not yet beer o
cupied by the allies. b
The following official bulletins were b
iued &
GERMAN. n
"Our attacks near Ypres are pro f
essing slowly. More than SOC
ench colored and English prisoners
We been taken and several machine
MS captured. n
Further south our troops also arc O.
the strong counter attacks L
the British forces having been re d.
lsed. b
I'm the Argonnes the fighting is al
1gressing favorabig, hostile auaoks I'd
Ing easily repulse,R"
FRENCH.
AT the north tie battle continues
~ violent. There is nothing else to m
,ort on any part Of the front. le