The citizen., 1914-11-20
RAIN AND SNOW
HALT ATTACKS
ALONG FRONT
FIERCE 5AYoNET BATTLE NEAR
YPREs, IN BELGIUM, LEAVES
DEAD IN HEAPS.
CAR MASSING FORCES
TO ASSAULT CRAC0W

PEis.-The Official communication
announces that the Germans have
been driven TO the right bank OF the
Yser canal, despite their attacks near
Ypres with powerful compact bodies
OF men. Their Intellectual attempts
70 break the Allies resistance cost
them thousands of casualties as well
as many men made prisoners.
One detachment OF 120 Germans
captured is declared to have been
all that remained Of 1000 men who
started TO fight in the morning. Some
OF the prisoners, il is said. declared
that companies OF the Prussian guard
of the Second Bavarisn corps which
had been brought up 10 their full war
strength of 250 men early in Novem-
Der now numbered only from 30 TO
Ice men
The nature OF the battle was such
that the positions Of the combatants
were within a few yards o: each other
and the Germans were compelled 10
withdraw their guards and seniinels
into their trenches for shelter
Tie diminishing intensity Of the
German assaults il Flanders is due 10
some exten. 70 severe weather con-
ditiors, The flooded section is II
oreasing in area as a result Of the
continuance Of heavy rain, and the
COUNTY, between Nieapo-t and Dix
nude Is q vast swamp in which guns
and ammunition wagons abandoned
by the Germans lie embedded. and
n which float countless corpSes. The
Germans have been washed out OF
their trenches in several places. says
al eyewitness who has Just returned
from the front. but they continue 70
send an occasional shell into the
French trenches.
Il Is said the Germans are finding
the destroyed village death trap.
They have besa unable 10 debouch
from this point in the daytime, as all
the approaches are commanded by
the Allies guns and night attacks
have met with disaster.
The Germans are turning Belgium
into a fortress, which means that II
they do not succeed in advancing
they intend 10 be prepared tcT a win
ter in Belgium. The whole coast from
Ostead 20 the Dutch border has been
placed II a state OF defense. and civ
iliz1s are vigorously excluded from
that area
\ despatch from Thielt. in BELGIUM.
says there is much sickness among
the soldiers in the trenches. The
bitches are flooded and the men are
forced constantly 10 stand IN the wa
ier Penumonia IS frequent
There is no place in which the i'll
can be cared for Immediately. since
al villages IN this vicinity have been
destroyed. and the nearest hospitals
in Gheat and Bruges. already are
overcrowded.
The fighting north OF Ypres. where
the British had 10 clear the Germans
from woods. young trees and scrub.
was Of desperate nature The Brit
ish infantry advanced from different
angles and il finally came TO bsyOnet
fighting. TIE Germans doggedly held
their ground. The British finally in
t-eucaei and when uighttan came
engineers were brought up to III the
wire a1tanglements and drain and TX
the trenches.
The correspondent in northern
France. reports that fail OF snow
followed by heavy rain is turning the
roads into channels Of mud.
Strong reinfO7cements are reaching
the Allies IN Flanders, TO which hase
been added $4,000 cavalry and srtii
lery from new Indian arrivals.
The Russians have sent an army
north from Poland behind the Ger
man army around the Mszur Lakes
threatening with destruction the Ger
man forces IN this region.
The advance on Crscow continues
aud the Russians are pressing back
the Germans on the whole front