The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-10-23
Declares Allies Are Retreating Slowly
All Along the Line Northwest OF
LiIle-Capture 1000 British.

| have maintained their positions.
The official bulletins are as follows:
BERLIN.
"Tht fighting on the User canal still
! continues. Eleven British war vessels
assisted the enemy's artillery.
East of DiXmunde the enemy was
repulsed. Our troops have advanced
successfully in the direction of Ipres.
The British admiral commanding
| the fleet off Ostend wanted to lombard
| the town, but finally was persuaded
by the Belgian auth critics to abstain
The battles to the northwest OF
! Lille are very severe, but the enemy
| is Slowly retreating along the whole
line.
Fierce attacks from the direction
! of Toall-on- tn e-Heights, south of THAI
| court (or the German left wing), were
repulsed with heavy losses to the
French"
PARIS.
1.-The activity which the enemy dis
! played Wednesday has not slackened
| Between the sea and La Bassee the
! battle has continued with just as great
! violence, with out the Germans being
ablei to force back the Belgian army
; or the French and British troops.
Similarly, between Arras and the
| Disc the enemy has made determined
efforts, which have at no point been
crowned with success.
81 in the Argonne region we have
made progress between st. Tubert and
LIE -Four de Paris.
| ITO the north Of Verdun we have
| gained ground at Haumont and Bra,
bant on the Meuse. In the Woevre
region we have repulsed an attack on
Champion.
| "Dn our left wing German forces in
| considerable strength have continued
| their violent attacks, particularly in
| the vicinity of Dixmunde, Warneton,
/ Arhentieres, Radingham and La Bas-
! se8, but the positions occupied by the
allies have been maintained.
hp the rest of the front the enemy
\6eliyered only partial attacks.
have ,heeg repulsed, particu
Fricoyrt, to the east of AL
49, on the plateau to the west OF
Crkonne; in the region of Souain, in
the Argonne district at Four de
| Pdris; southwest of Carennes: in the
| region of Malancourt, in the Woevre
! district; in the direction of Cham
plon, and at a point southeast of st.
Mihiel, in the forest of ALLY.
! I'VE have made slight progress In
| the Argonne district and in the south
ern part of the WoevTe, in the forest
OF Mortmare."
"A dispatch received by the Elk,
change Telegraph company from
Flushing says:
| "wednesday night and Thursday the
Germans made violent attack on the
environs of Ostend, which was re-
pulsed by an energetic counter-attack
by the Belgians.
| ELEVEN warships fired on the Ger
| mans again. General Won Trip and
| his staff, who were together in Lef-
| tfnghe, near Middelkerke, were killed
by the fire of British naval guns"
! A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Dunkirk says that the British naval
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| the town of Slype, on the canal be-
tween Ostend and Bruges, which the
| Germans held in force. 1t is said the
! German headquarters were located at
| Slype, and that the house occupied by
| the staff was blown to pieces. The
naval craftsmanship, according to the
| dispatch, was superb. A British signal
man, in a stationary balloon, was shot
! by the Germans.
'The furious bombardmmt between
| Ostend and Newport continues" says
a dispatch appearing in the Telegraf,
of Amsterdam, and Telegram pied to
| London by the correspondent in that
lefty of the Exchange Telegraph com
lpany.
L "The Germans are firing from Ma
lriakerke and Midflekerke; the French
iifrom Newport and the English from
/ their warships. English aviators di-
!! rected the fire of the allies on the po-
i sitions of the Germans.
\ 1.-THE French and Belgians are per-
fsistently resisting the efforts Of the
Germans to cross the river User. The
dykes Of this river have been cut and
the banks at high tide are flooded for
considerable distances Continual
rains have made the land very swami
py, and the Germans, suffering from
heavy LOSSES, casl.lot alliance. Large
numbers OF their wounded arrived al
Bruges and OstenG on Wednesday and
abody of Germans came from Client
to assist in their removal.
"Zeebrugge is still exempted by Ger
man marines
Telegraphing from Flushing, Hol
land, the Daily Mails correspondent
says:
The situation for the Germans i'll
Belgium is becoming critical. Thurs
day they were still holding Westend{
and bomharding Newport, but they
|were under the fire of warships. The
replies of the German batteries were
falling short of the warships.
CAS- a sequel to the allies capture
Of Roulers, the German line has been
bent back to Thorout teight miles &c
the north of Roulers)."
rumor comes from Ostend by way
Holland that the allies have sue
|eded in blowing up the railroad be
Zen Bruges and Client. 1t is quite
pie, it is stated, that cavalry
already are in that vicinity.
neither the network of canals in
ern Belgium will enable the Brit
Monitors, which apparently are the
lps most actively engaged in the
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