The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-11-13

Duke of Wuerttemberg Said to
Have Been Defeated.
MANY TEUTONS DIE IN FLOOD
Kaiser's Troops Drowned in Trenches
and Are Said to Have Been
Driven Back Four Miles
in Flanders.

Paris. Nov. 2.-Belgian, French and
British troops administered decisive
defeat to the German army OF the duke
of Wuerttemberg in the battle OF Elan
ders. forcing the invaders TO fall back
a distance of four miles from the rail
road line between Newport and Dix
nude, after suffering enormous losses
In killed and the capture of a great
many prisoners.
Thousands of the kaiser's soldiers
have been drowned in flooded trenches,
for the sea has been let IN by the Bel
gians upon miles of beet land, re-
claimed and below sea level at high
tide. Two feet of water everywhere
means more than six feet il the deep
German trenches.
German corpses that float upon this
inland sea bear bayonet wounds. Only
the main roads with their avenues or
trees and railway trucks remain ex-
posed above the flood area.
Allies Gain at Several Points.
Attacks of a violent nature by fresh
German troops against the British
forces occupying positions south OF
Paschendaele is reported to have re-
suited not only in the repulse OF the
attacking force, but in the recovery
Of the ground the allies haf been
forced to cede in the vicinity of
Ghelucelt.
Imported losses also were inflicted
upon the Germans by the British in
series of attacks and counter-attacks
of desperate character at several other
points along the Newport Ypres front.
Germans Shell Newport.
A violent bombardment of Newport
by the German artillery. employing
giant howitzers, was renewed and con-
siderable damage was inflicted on the
residence section of the port city, sew
eral shells striking near the Marine
hospital.
The official bulletin from the French
war office tells OF further severe at
tacks directed by the invaders against
the French positions in the vicinity Of
Lihons. Quesnoye-en-Santerre and Vail
ly, on the Aisne. 1t was at Vailly that
the Germans On Friday forced the
French to withdraw before the fury Of
their attacks by numerically superior
forces. Sunday, however, the on
slaughts were met with a whitening
fire from newly arrived French ma
chine guns and the assaults were eff
fectively checked.
German Assaults Fail.
All along the line, where the Ger
man armies of Generals Won Kluck and
Won 3oehm have been exerting great
| pressure in - effort 10 break through
what they hoped to be disastrously
weakened front, due to Withdrawals OF
troops to aid the Belgians in the north.
the attacks have failed signally with
the exception of that temporary gain
at Vailly, and been maintained stub
bornly
Further gains were made in ground
taken. In the fighting north of Sou
ain the engagement incident to the
vigorous drive of the French have
been extremely sanguinary.
The French and British troops re-
captured the towns of Hollebeke and
Messines, which were taken by the
| Germans on Saturday.
Hundreds Are Captured.
New position of great Importance
ware assumed by the allies in their
advance in several positions held in
| strength by the allies, but all were
repealed with considerable loss to the
enemy. hundreds OF prisoners being
taken.