The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-30
BATTLE OF THE YSER
 DEGENERATES INTO
 ISOLATED ATTACKS
Gains and Losses About Equally Divided Between Contending Armies in
 Series of Attacks

London. October 2s.---tsi5o P. m.) The battle of the Yser and the series of fights along the whole front in Bel gium and France appear, with the troops now exhausted, to have deeen- erated into numerous isolated attacks and counter attacks in which gains and losses are about equally divided.
 On that part of the battle front near est the sea, where the Germans have delivered repeated attacks with daily increasing forces in their effort to force their way to DunkirlS and eventually 10 Calais, and where the allies have of fered such stubborn resistance, there has been another day of comparative calm and although the Germans in their morning bulletin claim progress south of Nieuport. the French this aft srnoon say there Is no change.
 The Germans seem to have trans ferred their more serious operations further inland and to be trying to Lille, which, if successful, would com pei the allies. who are holding the front through Ypres to the coast. to 1all back toward Dunkirk.
 However, nothing of great moment Is likely until troops have been given some rest and endorsements arrive to i'll up great gaps made in both armies as a result of continuous artillery and infantry attacks
 Sharp Fighting Occurs
 There has been sharp fighting while each side is endeaVoring to hold posi- tons it at present occupies, or to se- cure better positions which would give An advantage when the next big battle breaks. Both claim to have been suc- cessful in this. and the official reports are full of sentences such as:
 The enemy's attacks have been re- pulsed" or we have made progress.
 The same thing Is going on to the eastward, where the Germans are push ing their long promised attack toward Nerdun. In all of these attacks prison CTS and guns are being lost by one side of the other.
 "In Poland, where the Austrans and Germans are retiring before fresh Rus sian armies. something more decisive has occurred Having a week ago driven back the German right advancing on Warsaw, the Russians now have struck at their center, southwest of the Polish capital and, according to the Petrograd report. have broken the resistance of the last units of the armies trying to main tain themselves north of the Pilitza river. The Russian cavalry has reoccupied Ra- dom where many men and guns and much war material has been captured.
 Both Claim Success
 On the east Prusslan frontier. along which line the Germans took the offen- sive. both sides lay claim to success.
 In South Africa the situation appears more favorable. General Louis Botha, the premier, is at the head of the army operating against the rebellious comman- dos under Generals Beyers and De Wet while loyal commanders, Dutch and Eng fish, are gathering in remnants of the commando of which Lieutenant Colonel Maritz was leader until he was wounded and fled across the German border.
 With the presence of German mines off the north coast of Ireland. which made it necessary today for the steamer Olympic to put into q north of Ireland port, London newspapers are asking that the admiralty take more vigorous meas ures to prevent continuation of this sow ing of mines. It Is believed that vessels flying neutral flags are responsible for these mines. The papers also are urging that stronger measures be taken to rid the country of spies, whose presence is proved by the capture of a man on the north shore of the Firth of Forth oper- ating fashlight apparatus.
 The report that Germans have invaded the Portuguese colony of Angola lacks confirmation