Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-11-26
Operations Near 5ixschoote Re-
suit in Victory to Kaiser's
Troops.
BATTLE STOPPED BY STORM
Indictment Weather Puts End to Effec.
tive Operations In Northern
France-Germans Expect I'm
portant Victories Over
Russian Forces.

Berlin, Nov. 21.-Reports received
from Holland, according to informa.
ton given out In official circles here.
are to the effect that in the fighting
near Bixschoote and Dixmude the
French lost 10000 men, and that 1900
British we're drowned in the User
canal
London. Nov. 22.-The battle front
In Flanders and in France. from the
sea to the Meuse, is storm.bound.
The rival battle lines that a week
ago we're great towers of strength.
waging a titanic struggle for the gain
of a few hundred yards, only to lose
il again as the vanquished Of the
mornings conflict by supreme eff
fort became the victors with the com
ing of night. today remained two i'm
potent masses. Great numbers we're
stricken down before the fury of a
terrific blizzard which leveled the
trenches. enveloped the big guns and
chilled the marrow in the bones OF the
fighting men.
Where a week ago singing bullets
and shrieking shells bore the fearful
message of death. disease now stalks
as the enemy of friend and foe alike.
Thousands Are Stricken.
Thousands of cases OF pneumonia
have been reported from the front
and every train to the rear from the
allies lines today bore great contiD-
Of off f,uoItInd
back by serious illness.
The blizzard has paralyzed the tele-
graph and telephone lines connecting
the headquarters of the general staff
in the field with the headquarters of
the corps commanders Reports OF
reason may have failed to reach Cen
eral Joffre Hence a halt in the of.
fetal news from the front.
Army signal men are busy recon
sructing the broken lines of com.
nunication.
The French who occupied the west
en part of Chauvincourt, across the
Mense from st. Mihiel. effectively dis.
lodead the Germans from the western
banks OF the Mouse, have again been
forced back. and the Germans have re-
crossed the river.
Dynamite was the agent the Ger.
mans used in dislodging the French
troops. When the French occupied a
portion OF the town the Germans we're
driven from their barracks. These
the French troops occupied. But the
Germans had previously mined the
barracks buildings, and during the
night Of Wednesday they blew up the
barracks. killing many of the occu
pants. Then followed a charge by
the invaders, and the survivors of the
disaster were compelled TO withdraw
The opinion was expressed in mill
tary circles In Berlin that notwith
standing the great number of Russian
troops in Poland. estimated at 100000
excluding those In the Schirwindt re
gion, General Won Hindenburg would
soon be able to report a decisive vic
tory.
Russians In Tight Place.
The position of the Russian forces II
considered unfayorable, both on &C
count OF the nature OF the ground anc
because such large forces are concen
trated within comparatively small
territory
Interest in the situation irr the ives
is momentarily eclipsed by that in tn,
east Reports from Vienna tell OF sue
, cesses in Galicia, including the occu
patton by the Teutonic allies of Tar
now and Wieliczka. According t
these reports 1000 prisoners wer,
taken
Turks Report Victory.
In Egypt the advancing Bedouin
and Turkish irregulars have compelled
the British to put the Suez canal an,
the entire Port Said district unde
martial rule.
Al FL Arisch, Rome reports tina
BRUSH have been seriously defeated.
STILL WAITING FOR NEWS.