The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-11-06
ALLIED FORCES
CLAIM VICTORY
OVER GERMANS
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. BELGIAN, French and
British troops administered a decisive
defeat 10 the German army of the duke
of Wuerttemberg in the battle OF Fran
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 wound5. Only
the main roads with their avenues OF
trees and railway trucks remain eX-
posed above the flood area.
Allies Gain at Several Points.
Attacks of a violent nature by fresh
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 had been
forced to cede in the vicinity oil
Ghelucelt.
Imported losses also were inflicted
upon the Germans by the British in a
series of attacks and counter-attacks
of desperate character at several other
points along the Nieuport-Ypres front
Germans She'll Newport.
A violent bombardment of Nieuport
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 o.
Lihons, Quesnoye-en-Santer and Vail
| ~. on the Aisne. 1t was at Vailly thai
the Germans on Friday forced the
French to withdraw before the fury o.
their attacks by numerically superior
| forces Sunday. however. the on
slaughts were met with whitening
fire from newly arrived French ma
chine guns and the assaults were Of
fectively checked.
German Assaults Fail.
All along the line. where the Ger
man armies OF Generals Won Klucll an,
Won 3oehm have been exerting grea
pressure in -. effort TO break through
what they hoped TO be disastrousl.
weakened front. due to Withdrawals o
troops TO aid the Belglans In the north
the attacks have failed signally witt
the exception OF that temporary gall
nj Vallly. and been maintained stub
bornly.
Further gains were made In groun,
taken. In the fighting north OF Sou
ain the engagement incident TO tn
vigorous drive of the French hav
been extremely sanguinary.
The French and British troops re
captured the towns OF Hollebeke an
Messines. which were taken by tn
Germans on Saturday.
Hundreds Are Captured.
New position Of great importanc
ware assumed BY the allies in thei
advance in several positions held 1
strength by the allies. but all wer
repealed with considerable loss TO IN
enemy. hundreds OF prisoners bein
taken.