The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-11-11
GERMANS MOVING
BACK IN BELGIUM
Dispatches Tell Of Withdrawal
Of KaiseT's Forces
ARMIES ARE OEAOLOCXEO
Fierce Fighting Is Taking Place at
Armentieres - Teuton Attacks at
Ypres Checked.

London. Nov. 11.-While the two
armies are battling to q deadlock
along the line in flanders, where the
Germans are making desperate at
tempt to cut through the allies' lines
anu gain the seaports on the Frencn
coast, reports received In London
from the battle front indicate that
having failed to smash the DEFENSE OF
the Belgian. French and British
forces, the invaders have begun their
retreat from Belgian sell.
Although there is no Official confir.
nation or these reports, correspond
ents in that section of the war zone
in dispatches to London tell of the
rapid movement of the German forces
toward the German frontier.
Whether this is withdrawal fol-
lowing the checks to the German adj
vance along the battle front In Elan
ders or a move to send aid to the
eastern zone of war, where the Rus
slams are sweeping back all German
and Austrian opposition, cannot be
learned.
According to a dispatch from the
Exchange Telegraph cOmpany's cor
respondent at Rotterdam, the move
ment of retreat OF the German army
In Belgium continues. Tnirty-fve
thousand men and 100 guns have left
Thielt in the direction OF Client and
forty-eight wagon loads of munitions
14,% Dr. faR
nation.
A dispatch to the Central News
from Amsterdam says:
"Trainload after trainload OF Ger.
man artillery are leaving the Lys val
ley in the direction of Client
1.-THE German army headquarters
has been transferred to Alost."
The town of Alost is fifteen miles
west Of Brussels and forty miles east
of the fighting area around Dixmude.
The heaviest fighting of the pres
emit battle Is being waged along the
line from Armentierres to the sea-
coast, and the encounters are OF par.
.ucular violence for the reason that
the opposing forces are alternating in
taking the offensive. These onslaughts
are taking place In a dense fog. and
while the reports of the action are
meager, the Paris official statement
announced that the allies have held
al of their positions and repulsed
the Germans, and that they had made
slight gains at many points along the
battle front in Belgium as well as In
France.
Despite their reinforced lines the
Germans have failed in their attacks
ON the allied lines to the south OF
Ypres, where the attacks have been
particularly violent. In addition, the
Paris reports declare that the French
troops along the line between Ypres
and Armentierres and also In the re-
gion Of Dixmude, have perceptibly ad-
xaneeds
Elsewhere along the battle line be-
tween Rheims and Berry-au-Bac, on
the center Of the battle front, the
French forces report progress In their
Offensive movement and on the front
from the canal at La Bassee as far as
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new and commanding positions.
Fighting from sand dune to sand
dune, hampered by thick fog banks
and at times crawling on hands and
knees through high grass, the advance
Of the allies along the Belgian sea-
coast continues.
An unofficial dispatch says that ad-
vance patrols of Belgians have pene-
trated to Ostend, which means that
the coast line from Dunkirk to Nieu.
port and Ostend is relieved from the
menace of the past two weeks
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
from q correspondent with the Bel.
gian army. under date of Nov. 8,
says:
"Ypres is in flames and the greater
part of this fine old Flemish town is
Z ruin. The Germans managed to get
the range with their heavy artillery,
and from dawn onward 11-inch and Is.
inch shells were poured into the city.
1.-The town itself is deserted. and
NO loss Of life resulted from the
heavy shell fire."
The inundation In Flanders, which
their way along the coast In their eff.
forts to reach Calais, are now prov
ing equally unfavorable to the allies
who are finding 1t impossible to pro
coed through these marshy regions.
The Germans have been obliged to
evacuate Middlekerke, on the coast
half way between Newport and o.
tend, and this point has not yet been
occupied by the allies.
The following official bulletins were
issued:
GERMAN.
"Our attacks near Ypres are pEo
crossing slowly. More than soc
French colored and English prisoners
have been taken and several machine
guns captured.
Further south our troops also are
advancing. the strong counter attacks
Of the British forces having been 10
pulsed.
I'm the Argonnes the fighting ID
progressing favorably, hostile attacks
being easily repulsed."
FRENCH.
at the north the battle continree
very vioIent. There Is nothing else to
report on any part of the front
1.-THE action continued all day Mon
day with the same intensity that has
characterized the previous fighting
between the sea and the region of Ar.
mentieres The encounters were OF
particular violence for the reason that
the opposing forces were alternately
taking the offensive.
Summing up, it may be said that
the day was marked by the checking
Of q German attack In considerable
force to the south of Ypres, and by
perceptible progress on the part OF
French forces In the vicinity Of Blk.
schoote and between Ypres and Ar
mentieres.
Equally on the front Of the British
troops all the German attacks were
Tepulsed with energy.
along the major part Of the front
ArrrSvn tho canal of In RaSaee "a far