The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-11-05
GERMAN ADVANCE
ON CALAIS HALTED
BY ALLIED ARMIES
Teutons Gain at Ypres and 0c-
cupy Messines.
LOSE AT SEVERAL PLACES
Report From Paris Declares That
Kaiser Lost 10000 Troops in Bat.
tie at Ypres-2,ooo Dead
Left on Field.

London, Nov. 3.-The German drive
upon Calais has been halted and now
has become last ditch defensive
fight, with disaster or retreat the duke
of Wuerttemberg alternative.
Both to the south Of DiXmude and
to the south Of Ghaluwe, between
Ypres and Menin, the allied French.
positions considerably in advance OF
those previously held. AT every other
point at which the troops came in con-
tact with the Germans during the day
the allies were able to maintain their
positions, it is reported
Paris Puts German Losses at $4,000.
The French war ministry is informed
that the German losses in the north
in the last few days have been $4,000
Paris dispatch says. After an en-
gagement at single point on the User
the Germans left 1000 dead on tho
field The french casualties in this
engagement were reported to be lilo
killed and wounded.
Failure of the German offensive be-
tween Bray -en-Lannois and Vailly, in
the Aisne region, also was reported
from Paris.
Germans Win at Ypres.
The British war Office made no an
nouncement to contradict the German
claim of advantage in the fighting about
Ypres, but admitted that the allies
had been forced to evacuate part OF
the village of Messines in the face Of
vigorous German attack.
In Belgium the German attacks were
particularly desperate in character IN
the region between Dixmude and the
Lys. but in spite of the vigor Of these
assaults the allies were able to make
slight advance along the entire
front.
In the suburbs of Arras and about
Lihons and Quesnoye Santerre the
invaders attacks were met with such
determined resistance that they had
no result.
Allies Victors on Alsne.
Slight progress was recorded along
the Aisne in the direction OF Tracy
le-Val, to the north of the forest OF
L'Aigle, between this forest and
Scissors. Night attacks against the
heights of the Highway des Danes
| positions of the allies and against
Amont-de- Vailly also failed
Heavy artillery firing has been re-
newed by the enemy in the vicinity Of
Reims and on the heights of the
Meuse but according to the Bordeaux
communiQue the bombardment on the
! French positions at these places has
been without appreciable effect
A reconnaissance against the right
wing army of the Germans was re-
pulsed at Nomeny. ~s
In the Vosges the French have fol-
lowed up their success in recapturing
the heights which dominate Mont
Sainte Marie by capturing the artillery
! positions from which the heavy guns
of the Germans have been bombardinS
| Saint Die.
All day Sunday and all Monday night
| train load after train load of wounded
German soldiers poured into Bruges.
says the Sluis correspondent Of the
| Amsterdam TELEGRAPH. The Germans
lost a great quantity of artillery in
the districts flooded by the cutting Of
the bikes. 1t is ascertained that the
| Germans are still in Ostend, the re-
ports of their evacuation of this port
being premature.
Battle Center Farther South.
| The floods, the Belgian army and
| the British feet having barred the
Germans on their way southwestward
| along the coast the Germans are now
striking on line stretching from
Ypres, in Belgium, to La Bassee. far
| Their south in France, but seemingly
with no more success.
| The belief is growing here, and it
also has been expressed by those re-
| turning from Belgium, that the Ger
mans are making a last effort to get
! through to the coast and that If it
fails they will fall back to positions
which they have prepared In central
Belgium.