The midland journal., 1914-11-20
RAIN AND SNOW
HALT ATTACKS
ALONG Front.
FIERCE BAyoNET BATTLE NEAR
NpREs. IN BELGIUM, LEAVES
DEAD IN HEAPS.
CAR MASS|NG FORCES
TO ASSAULT CRAGOW

Pwis.-The Official communication
2 announces that the Germans have
been driven to the right bank of the
Yeer canal, despite their attacks near
Ypres with powerful compact bodies
OF men. Their Intellectual attempts
20 break the Allies resistance cost
them thousands Of casualties as we'll
IS many men made prisoners.
One detachment of 120 Germans
captured is declared to have been
all that remained Of 1000 men who
started to fight In the morning, Some
of the prisoners, it is said, declared
that companies of the Prussian guard
Of the Second Bavarian corps which
had been brought up to their full war
strength of $50 men early in Novem-
ber now numbered only from so to
100 men.
The nature OF the battle was such
that the positions of the combatants
were within few yards OF each other
and the Germans we're compelled to
withdraw their guards and sentinels
into their trenches for shelter.
The diminishing intensity of the
German assaults in Flanders is due to
some extent to severe weather con-
ditions. The flooded section is in
creasing in area as a result of the
continuance of heavy rain, and the
country between Nieuport and Dix
nude is q vast swamp In which guns
End ammunition wagons abandoned
by the Germans lie embedded, and
In which float countless corpses. The
Germans have been washed out of
their trenches in several places, says
an eyewitness who has just returned
from the front, but they continue to
send an occasional shell into the
French trenches.
1t is said the Germans are finding
the destroyed village death trap.
They have been unable to debouch
from this point IN the daytime, as all
the approaches are commanded by
The Allies' guns and night attacks
have met with disaster.
The Germans are turning Belgium
into fortress. which means that If
they do not succeed In advancing
they intend to be prepared for a win
Ger in Belgium. The whole coast from
Ostend to the Dutch border has been
placed in a state of defense. and CIV
Hams are vigorously excluded from
that area.
A despatch from Thielt, in BELGIUM,
says there is much sickness among
the soldiers in the trenches. The
bitches are flooded and the men are
forced constantly to stand in the wa
ter, Penumonia is frequent.
There is no place In which the i'll
can be cared for Immediately, since
ell villages in this vicinity have been
destroyed, and the nearest hospitals,
in Ghent and Bruges, already are
overcrowded.
The fighting north Of Ypres. where
the British had to clear the Germans
from woods, young trees and scrub,
was of desperate nature The Brit
ish infantry advanced from different
angles and it finally came to bayonet
lighting. The Germans doggedly held
their ground. The British finally In
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engineers were brought up to Ak the
wire entanglements and drain and fix
tile trenches.
The correspondent In northern
France, reports that fall OF snow
followed by heavy rain is turning the
roads into channels Of mud.
Strong reinforcements are reaching
the Allies in Flanders, to which have
been added $4,000 cavalry and artiE
lery from new Indian arrivals.
The Russians have sent an army
north from Poland behind the Ger
man army around the MazuT Lakes,
threatening with destruction the Ger
man forces In this region.
The advance on Cracow continues
and the Russians are pressing back
the Germans on the whole front.