Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-11-06
Opposing Armies Now Stand
Virtually as They Have
Stood for Many Days,
With Both Sides Ham
mering Each Other
FLOODS HINDERTNG
BOTH FORCES
Belgians and Those Sup
porting Them Find Inun-
dations They Created, to
Stop Germans, Are Now
Hampering Them
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LONDON, Nov. 5.-No decision has
Yet been reached in the battle IN tho
sand dunes of west Flanders. and the
opposing armies now stand virtually
as they have stood for many days.
While the Germans keep hammerinc
at the allies around Ypres. which
route they chose for the march to the
coast after they had found the road
along the sea barred, the allies are
making an effort to move north to
ostend, though neither side has got
very far. The Belgians and those sup
porting them, found the floods they
mad created to stop the Germans are
hindrance in their movements. al
though they have been able to occup,.
some villages, including Bixschooto,
which had been occupied by the Ger
mans
Around Ypres the German offensive
according to accounts of the allies.
was not so successful. The fact seems
that all along the line there has been
merely repetition of the artillery
duels, infantry attacks and counter
attacks which sometimes succeed, but
more often not.
On the frontier of the east, more
wide-sweeping movements are being
made by the opposing armies Rus
slams, from all reports, have driven
back the German center to the River
Warthe in Russian Poland, held back
the German offensive from East Prus-
STA, and are now Strengthening out
the line for a more vigorous offensive
against the Austrians, who are try
ing to beat their left wing in Galicia.
1t is to battles in these regions that
the British military men are now look
ing, for they declare if the Russians
can keep up the successful fighting
against the Germans, relief will come
to the allies in the west because of
the necessity for the withdrawal of
the German army corps from France
and Belgium to protect Silesa. East
Prussia. These military observers eX-
press the belief that the Turkish
threatagainst the Russian Caucasus
will weaken the Russian armies by
Withdrawals from Poland, but Rus
sian authorities say. the advent Of
Turkey into the war already had been
discounted, and they have sufficient
troops to deal with Turkey on the
spot.
The first reports Of fighting be-
tween the Russians and Turks are as
conflicting as were the first Austrian
Russian accounts of the warfare in
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have invaded the others territory and
to have defeated his frontier armies.
These fights, however, probably have
been only advance guard affairs. and
it is thought here that some time NAV
elapse before a pitched battle occurs.
The Anglo-French fleet continues to
lombard the Derflanelles forts, but the
Turks say the warships inflicted no
damage. In other parts of Turkey the
British warships are being kept busy.
The government, however, ordered
holy places to be respected by the
British gunfire as long as the Indian
subjects visiting them are not mo-
Tested.
This necessity for respecting the
feeling of her Moslem subjects 1t is
considered here, may hamper Great
Britain somewhat in the prosecution
of the war against Turkey; but with
her large Moslem population it can
not be disregarded. In addition, as
surances were received from the In
dian princes, and England was in
formed by leaders Of the Moslems
in the Malay that her war against
the Turks will not affect the loyalty
OF the Moslems to the empire.
The result of the naval battle in
the Pacific between the German and
British squadrons, details of which
are still lacking here, naturally is the
most discussed subject Of the war in