The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-30
GAINS AND LOSSES
IN FIGHTING ABOUT
EQUALLY DIVIDED
Battle Degenerates Into Nu-
merous Isolated Attacks
and Counter-Attacks.
EXHAUSTED TROOPS
GIVEN NEEDED REST
kaiser's Forces Transfev More
Serious Operations Fur
ther Inland.
ALLIES LINE NOT NET PIERCED
.Austrlans and Germans Retiring Be-
fore Fresh Russian Armies
EXHAUSTED TROOPS
GIVEN NEEDED REST
ALLIES LINE NOT YET PIERCED
austrians and Germans Retiring Be-
fore Fresh Russian Armies
In Poland.

LONDON. October 29.-The battle of
User and the series of fights along
the whole front in Belgium and France
appear. with the troops now exhausted,
to have degenerated Into numerous
isolated attacks and counter-attacks, In
which gains and losses are about
equally divided.
On the part of the battle front near
est the sea. where the Germans have
delivered repeated attacks with daily
increasing forces In their effort to ham
mer their way to Dunkirk and
eventually to Calais. and where the
allies have offered such stubborn re-
sistance. there has been another day
of comparative calm. Although the
Germans In their morning bulletin
claim progress south of Nieuport, the
French this afternoon say there is no
change.
ferred their more serious operations
further inland. and to bc trying TO
bronx through the allied lines from
Lille. If successful this would compel
the allies. who are holding the front
through fpros to the coast, to fall back
tow ard Dunkirk.
However. nothing of great nome
lis likely until troops have been given
some rest and reinforcements arrive to
fill up great gaps made In lboth armies
as. result OF; continuous artillery and
infantry attacks, %
bOlH CLAIM SUCCESS =. j. {t..S saL,S.s q w
IN SHARE FIGHTING
There has been sharp tightinE while
each side is endeavoring to hold posi-
tions 1t at present occupies, or to
secure better positions which would
give an advantage when tho, next big
battle breaks. Both claim to hnve
been successful in this. and tho official
reports are full of sentences such as:
The enemy's attacks hnvc been re-
pulsed. or we have made progress"
The 6me thing is going on to the
eastward, where the Germans are push
ing their long-promised attack toward
Verdun. In all OF these attacks
prisoners and guns are being lost by
one side or the other.
In Poland. where the Austrans and
Germans are retiring before fresh Rus
Sian armies. something more decisive
has occurred. Having week ago
driven back the German right advanc-
ing on Warsaw, the Russians now have
struck at their centre. southwest OF
the Polish capital. and. according to the
PetroErad report, have broken tho re.
sistance of the last units OF the armies
trying to maintain themselves north
OF the PilitZa River. The Russian cav
airy has reoccupied Radon. where
many men and guns and much war
material has been captured.
On the East Prussian frontier, along
which line the Germans took the of
hcnSiEc, Doth SlueS lay claim to success.
SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION
APPEARS MORE FAVORABLE
In South Africa the situation appears
more favorable. General Louis Botha,
the Premier, Is at the head Of the army
operating against the rebellious COM
mandos under Generals Beycrs and De
Wet, while loyal commanders, Dutch
and English, are gathering In the
remnants of the commando OF which
Colonel Mrritz was leader
until he was wounded and fed across
the German border.
With the presence of German mines
Off the north coast OF Ireland, which
made 1t necessary to-day for the
steamer Olympic to put into n north
of Ireland port, London newspapers are
asking that the admiralty take moro
vigorous measures to prevent continue
ton of this sowing of mines. 1t Is be-
l!eved that vessels nying neutral llaEs
arc responsible for these mines. The
papers also are urging that stronger
measures be taken to rid the country
OF spies whose presence Is proved by
the capture OF n man on the north
shore of the Firth OF Forth operating
n ilashlight apparatus.
Tho report that Germans have in
vadcd the Portuguese colony of Angola
lacks confirmation