The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-10-29
GERMAN Guns
SHELL NEWPORT
Allies Do Not Finch Under
WithariEg Fire by Enemy
INVADERS ADVANCE HALTED

Germans Do Not Go Far Beyond River
Yser-Petrograd Reports Say Thai
Germans Have Beer Stopped In p
land and Austrians Are Checked in
Galicia-Vienna Dispatches Report
Austro-German Armies Holding Own
Paris, Oct 27.-The smashing tactic.
OF the Germans along the North sea
coast line continued necessarily when
the big guns were turned on Nieupo1,
and the allies had 20 withstand Goa
slant attacks of masses OF troops.
Very little progress, however, was
made by the Germans. who were faced
with the strongest resistance.
The crossing of the User apparently
had only moral effect, as the Ger
mans were confronted by solid lines oi
allied troops and were prevented from
advancing without overwhelming Of
forts further toward the channel ports
Along the sea coast the British and
French feet kept the Germans threc
miles inland.
The toll of dead and wounded has
grown to a staggering feature, Gen
eral Joffre referring to the German
losses as considerable"
1t would appear from the late com
muniqueS that the Germans have d..
verted troops from the south flank to
strengthen their onslaught toward
the north, between the Disc and the
vicinity of Verdun.
There is an unofficial report tina,
the French have wedged themselves
between the army of the crown prince
and the army of the Grand Duke O:
Wurtemburg and that the prince is
once more in real danger of being en-.
veloped.
The fleet continues its operations
along the coast from Newport to Os-
tend, the heavy naval guns constantly
raking the German positions, which
have now been withdrawn inland from
two to five miles.
In consequence Of the deadly nature
of the shell fire from the coast the
Germans have abandoned most of their
positions along the main roadway con
meeting Ostend and Newport. They,
however, have batteries posted at I'll
points where a hostile force could be
landed from the sea so no attempt has
yet been made to try a hanking assault
under cover of the guns of the war
ships.
There is much complaint over the
increasing meagerneSs of the official
news from the front. Officers AMI
men who are brought here wounded
are sternly enjoined not to talk.
1t is certain that the losses are in
creasing every day and that in the
last ten days of fighting the allies
must have had fully 10000 in killed,
wounded and prisoners each day.
Many of the crack Scottish and Irisn'
regiments, whose places along the
Somme have been taken by fresh
troops and who are now fighting far
in the north, have lost fully 40 per
cent of their enlisted strength in the
last ten days of fighting.
The incessant alternatives of ad-
vance and withdrawal on the part of
the allies and the Germans, particu-
larry in the north furnished no basis
for summing up as to a general re-
suit. The Germans, Judging from their
frightful sacrifice of men, seem de,
termined to force the battle to an
issue. Nevertheless the French pub
lie, after analyzing the situation as
indicated in the latest war office state,
ments, continued optimistic.
While there is a satisfaction in the
certainty that the Germans have suf-
fered much more severely the ap.
probation of the terrible toll the war
is now taking has had a melancholy
effect on everyone here.