Arizona republican., 1914-10-25
Germany Hurls Over Half Million Additional Men into Titanic Conflict Rag ing in the North of France
DESPITE INCREASE
 ARE REFUSED
Fighting Between Lille and Dunkirk is Described in Berlin Dispatches as the Greatest Battle of the Campaign
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcuI


 LONDON. Oct. 24.-With Germany hurting fresh troops estimated as high as 500. 900 men into the titanic conflict raging iE northern France, the Paris war office tonight claimed that all att Jacks. from the sea as far as the region to the south of Arras. had been re- pulsed. The fighting between Lille and Dunkirk is described in Berlin dis patches as the greatest battle of the campaign and upon its outcome is said to hinge the fate of the German in- Vasion of France Around Nieuport. where the French had the English fleet aided by the allies land forces, the bat tie is said to have been one of mas saCre of Germans. many bodies at that point being washed upon the beach by waves Because of the deadly fire of the naval guns, the invaders are de- Clared to have left the coast clear in an effort to work around DiXmude toward Lille. the Berlin report claiming sue cess on the Yser canal In their su- preme effort to break through the all lied line the Germans are reported to have stripped Brussels and Antwerp of their garrisons and have even drawn achievements from the line before Rheims
 Zeppelins are also declared to have been used in bombarding the allied line after having practiced dropping bombs at d target from a height of seven to eight thousand feet. The French commander-in- chief is the only one to admit adverses in the western theater of war, and he does so only in cryptic sentences. It is difficult to judge, therefore, how the battle in France and Belgium is progressing, but it is certain that up to this evening none of the armies had succeeded in pushing its offensive far enough to bring appreciably nearer the end of any of the engagements that have been going on for so many weeks. The Ger mans have taken the offensive against both the right wing of the allied army which rests on the sea and that DOT tion of the French army which is de lending the line of Qualifications be- tween Verdun and Foul. In the former operations in which every German sol dier at the command of officers in Bel sium is taking part, the French report admits that the Germans have made progress at some points but declares at others the allies have been just as successful. It is evident along the
 .l advance in the face of the hard fight ing force drawn along the Yser canal aided by British and French ships which were bombarding them from the sea. It was probably the most pictur- esque battle ever fought. On the shore troops of five nations were fighting Austrians and Germans, on one side; French Belgium and British on the other British monitors, gunboats. de- stroyers and submarines were fighting side by side with French warships, while at the same time they were be- ing subjected to attack by German submarines and airships. Thus far the warships have had the better of it. for while they are reported to have in- flicted terrible loss on the Germans try ing to advance along the coast, they themselves suffered little or no dam age and have warded off attacks by submarines. The British admiralty is sued an interesting account of the op erations of this fleet, in which it eX- plained that the ships have fired upon German batteries in the vicinity of Ostend It was probably this which led to reports from Holland that the Germans have been driven back in that direction and also to the statement that Inc .liion hnl raoncl1Iiad OStnnl