New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-30
WOULD PUSH ENEMY
BACK ON DUNKlRk
French Claim Advantages
Around Ypres and
South of Arras.
KAISER'S HEAVY GUNS ON
WAY TO NORTH SEA
Designed TO Control Scheldt
Against British-French Troops
Marching to Front.

Paris, Oct. 29-The battle Of the
User and the series of fights which
have taken place along the whole
front in Belgium and France appear,
with the troops now exhausted, TO
rave degenerated into numerous iso-
lated attacks and counter-attacks in
which the gains and losses are about
equally divided between the combat
Gnts.
On that part OF the battle front
nearest the sea. where the Germans
have delivered repeated attacks with
daily increasing forces IN their effort
to make their way 70 Dunkirk, and
eventually TO Calais. and where the
Allies have offered such stubborn re-
sstance. there has been another day
of comparative calm.
Wait for Fresh Troops.
However, nothing of great moment
is likely to be accomplished until the
troops who have been fighting steadily
for a fortnight have obtained some
rest and reinforcements arrive TO fll
uD the great gaps which have been
made in both armies as a result Of
the continuous artillery and infantry
attacks.
Although the Germans, in their
morning bulletin, claim to have made
some progress TO the south Of Nieu-
port. the French. in their communica-
tion to-day, say there is no change.
The French official report also de.
clares the Allies had advanced around
lpres and to the south OF Arras.
Germans Busy at Lille.
In fact, as was expected. the Ger
rans seem to have transferred their
more serious operations further in
land and to be trying to break
through the allied lines from Lille,
which, if successful, would compel the
Allies, who are holding the front
through Ypres to the coast TO fall
back toward Dunkirk.
Telegraphing from Northeastern
France, q Central News correspondent
says:
The situation around La Bassee is
being carefully watched The Ger
mans have adopted the tactics which
proved so successful at Antwerp. They
are apparently endeavoring 20 drive
wedge into the Allies by sheer
weight of gunfire.
North of Lille all continues well,
though the Germans have brought UP
powerful reserves. The Belgians once
more are in the thick Of the fray"
In the meantime there has been
some sharp lighting, while each side
is endeavoring to hold the positions
they at present occupy or to secure
better positions which would give an
advantage when the next big battle
breaks.
Both sides claim to have been sue
ceSsful in this, and the official reports
ale full of sentences such as 1.-THE
cntmys attacks have been repulsed. ."
or 1--WE have made progress"
The same thing is going on TO the
eastward, where the Germans are
PUSHING their long promised attack
toward Verdun, while the French are
doing all in their power 20 keep them
away from that fortress. I'm all OF
these attacks prisoners and guns are
lost by one side or the other, while
trenches are evacuated.
German Regiment Destroyed.
One East WuEtemberg regiment,
numbering a thousand, is reported TO
have been destroyed north of the Cha
lade wood, in the Argonne region. The
Germans were retreating after an un-
successful attack, when they decided
10 return and try to surprise the pur-
suing French.
The Germans marched, two by two.
through a rocky mountain pass, and
had reached within a few hundred
yards OF the French camp when a
French forester gave the alarm. His
comrades rushed forward and heaped
rocks at the end of the path and poured
a murderous fire into the Wurttem-
bergers. who endeavored TO make their
escape from the defile, but found the
passage blocked with rocks and ma.
chine guns.
The Germans then hoisted a white
flag, and when a French officer, with
small party, advanced TO receive the
surrender the Germans reopened fire,
killing ten Of the French.
The infuriated French troops then
opened terrific FIRE with their machine
guns and annihlated the whole Ger
man column.