Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-11-04
UNABLE TO BREAK
LINES OF ALLIES
Berlin and Paris Reports Agree
That Positions Are Prac-
ticaIIy Unchanged.
WITNESS TELLS OF FIGHTING
Battle in the Northwest Described by
Correspondent of London Paper
Destruction Wrought by Armored
Trsins-oerman and Austrian Re-
tirement In Poland Is Confirmed.

vance appears to have been checked
in Belgium, and one dispatch from an
Evening News correspondent asserts
that the Germans are in retreat. This
is not borne out by the observations
of others on the firing line.
The Belgian army is said to have
lost one-third of its members in the
battle OF Flanders, ea the present con
fiict has been named.
AT last a small force of the invaders
had taken positions on some sandy
hillocks and we're directing a wither-
ing fire into a portion of the allied
line
The German losses in the battle
along the User are placed at $4,000;
those of the allies scarcely less.
A wireless dispatch from the Berlin
foreign Office TO the German embassy
in Washington confirmed reports of a
deadlock in the battle Of the User and
admitted that a strong Russian force
has crossed the Yistula to the north OF
Ivangorod.
Although the Germans have lost
ground near Dixmude. the allies and
the invading legions of the kaiser are
still locked in a death grip along the
User canal in northwestern Belgium
and the fighting there has been OF UNI
paralleied feTocity.
Back and forth across the crimson,
corpse-choked stream tho conflict has
nov ragged for a week. Seven times
the Germans succeeded in crossing to
the west side only to be driven back
by the British. French and Belgian
troops hurled against them.
The stream is choked with dead
bodies. At some points the corpses
have completely damned the water
way and soldiers used the clustered
dead for bridge.
Heavy Artillery Reinforced.
The Germans have REINFORCED their
heavy artillery at the front and the
lines OF the allies were bombarded all
night The Belgian village OF Ian.
gemarck has been destroyed by shells.
Both banks of the canal are lined
with unburied dead, with neglected
wounded, with carcasses OF horses and
shattered rifles. cannon. ammunition
eaissons and CASTOR equipment.
Warships In New Positions.
The British and French warshlps,
which were driven Off by the heavy
German guns, are reported TO have ia
ken up new position between Nieu-
port and Ostend and are again bonn.
harding the German trenches on the
Belgian coast
The pushing back OF the Germans
near Nancy, on the eastern cud of the
battle line. where the French hSve as
aumed a vigorous offensive movement.
Is an important achievement. II may
have big effect upon the operations
around Verdun and st. Mihisl gud
along tie heights of the Meuse. In
that region the French have become
the invaders, having pressed the Ger.
mans across the frontier.
French Lose 10000.
Swiss papers report that since the
capture of Fort Camp Des Romans by
the Germans the French losses on the
Nereun-Toul line have been more than
forty thousand men.
II was officially announced in Berlin
that Emperor William had conferred
the Iron Cross upon the kings of Ba-
varia aud Wuerttemberg in recognition
of their own bravery and the valor OF
their troops
French officers complain of the In.
ferior quality of the new troops sent
TO fight against the Germans. Eng.
lish papers estimate the Belgian losses
on the User canal at 10000 men.
Warships' Fire Harmless.
Main headquarters reports to Berlin
that the fighting continues from Nieu.
port to nixmude. where the Belgians
have been considerably REINFORCED.
The German attacks are maintained.
British war vessels took part In the
fighting against the German right
wing. but their fire was without effect
Several British warships are in
flames as result OF German artillery
fire from the shore.
The situation az Ypres is unchanged
To the west of Lille the German at.
N~eFN Wa HNNNNA7A WY AlAii1tHiHHu.
Tells OF Hard Battle.
The correspondent OF the Daily
News, who has been in an armored
trair to the hanks of the User. gives
a description OF the battle in the north.
west:
The battle RACES along the User.
with frighttul destruction OF life +"
he says Air engines. sea engines.
and land engines death.sweep this des.
olate country vertically, horizontally.
and transyersely. Through il the
fraiI little human engines crawl and
dig, walk and run, skimming. charg.
ing, and laundering In little individual
fights and tussels. tired and puzzled.
ordered here and there. sleeping
where they can. never washing and
dying unnoticed. A friend may find
himself firing on a friendly force. and
few are TO blame.
On Thursday the Germans were
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INDIAN SOLDIERS IN WINTER