The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-11-05
ALLIED FORCES
CLAIM VICTORY
OVER GERMANS
Duke Of Wuerttemberg Said to
Have Been Defeated.
MANY TEUToNS DIE IN FLOOD
kaissr'6 Troops Drowned In Trenches
and Are said to Have Been
Driven Back Four Miles
In Flanders.

Near the Franco Belgian Frontier,
Nov. 2.-The Germans frantic efforts
to hack their way through northwest
Flanders to Calais have ended, after a
fortnight OF conflict, in defeat
Their losses are enormous. A Ger
man officer taken prisoner estimates
them at 10000 dead and wounded
since the Germans occupied ostend-
October Is.
In northwest Flanders alone whole
batteries and battalions have been an
initiated by the shell fire of British
warships; thousands upon thousands
Of the kaiser's soldiers have been
drowned in flooded trenches, for the
sea has been let in by the Belgians
upon miles of beet land, reclaimed
and below sea leyel at high tide. Two
feet Of water everywhere means more
than six feet In the deep German
trenches. a.s
German corpses that float upon this
inland sea bear bayonet wounds. Only
the main roads with their avenues of
trees and railway trucks remain ex.
posed above the Hood area.
Duke Of Wuerttemhers Defeated.
Paris, Nov. 2.--Belgian, French and
British troops administered a decisive
defeat to the German army of the duke
Of WuerttembeTg in the battle of Elan.
deTs, forcing the invaders to fall back
q distance OF four miles from the rail,
road line, between Newport and DIX,
nude, after suffering enormous losses
in killed and the capture of a great
many prisoners.
Attacks Of violent nature by fresh
German troops against the seasoned
British forces occupying positions
south II OF Paschendaele resulted not
only In the repulse of the attacking
force, but in the recovery OF the
ground the allies had been forced to
cede in the vicinity Of Ghelucelt.
Important losses also we're inflicted
upon the Germans by the British inj
series OF attacks and counter-attack.
| Of desperate character at several othel
points along the Nieuport-Ypres front
Germans Shell Nleuport.
A violent bombardment of Nieupori
by the German artillery, employing
giant hOwitZers, was renewed and con
| siderable damage was inflicted on the
residence section Of the port city, sew
eral shells striking near the Marine
hospital. ".
The official bulletin from the French
war Office tells of further severe at
tacks directed by the invaders against
the French positions In the vicinity OF
Lihons, Quesnoye-en-Santer and Vail
ly, on the Aisne. 1t was at Vailly that
the Germans on Friday forced the
French to withdraw before the fury OF
their attacks by numerically superior
forces. Sunday, however. the on
slaughts were met with a whitening
fire from newly arrived French ma
chine guns and the assaults were ef
fectively checked.
German Assaults Fall.
All along the line. where the Ger
man armies of Generals Won Kluck and
Won Boehm have been exerting great
pressure in an effort to break through
what they hoped to be a disastrously
weakened front, due to Withdrawals oil
troops to aid the Relgians in the north
the attacks have failed signally with
the exception of that temporary gain
at Vailly, and the positions of the
French have been maintained stub,
bornly. -. >
Further gains were made in ground
taken. In the fighting north of Sou.
ain the engagements incident to the
vigorous drive of the French have
been extremely sanguinary.
The French and British troops re-
captured the towns Of Hollebeke and
Messines, which were taken by the
Germans on Saturday.
Hundreds Are Captured.
New positions of great importance
were assumed by the allies in their
advance in this vicinity. The Ger
mans attempted numerous violent at
tacks on Oeveral positions held In
strength by the allies, but all were
repealed with considerable loss to the
enemy, hundreds of prisoners being
taken. sE ....