The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-10-26
MakeProgressNear
Dixnude.
TEUT0N ARMY GETS
100000 MORE MEN
Desperate Efforts Made to Take
DunkiTk and Calais.

London, Oct. 26.-What a German
military expert calls life and death
struggle for Germany still is raging
along the coast end of the western
battle front in Belgium and Northern
France. The few brief advices that
filter through from the scene of the
combat indicate the invaders are
hurting their full strength against
the allies in an effort to capture Dun
kirk and Calais. Reinforcements of
100000 Germans have been sent to
the right wing
The French official statement adj
mits the Germans have made prog
ress to the north of Dixmude and in
the vicinity of La Basse and adds the
allies have made advances to the east
of Nieuport in the region of Lange-
marck, and in the region between Ar
mentiers and Lille.
The statement says the combat is
a question of inevitable fluctuations
In the line, which, however, main
tains itself as a whole. News ad
vices say the usual seesaws are oc-
curing in the western battle front
and neither side has gained perma-
nent advantage over the other.
lncsssant Fighting Prevails.
One thing emerges clear from all
reports and that is that incessant
fighting prevails over the West Flan-
ders (Belgium) front from Roulers
to Thoprout, and between Nieuport
and Ostend
On the center and on the eastern
wing of the combat in France the
French say they have repulsed sew
eral day and night attacks by the
Germans and assert they have made
some progress in the Woevre district
in the direction of the forest of Mont
mare, to the south of Thiaucourt and
in the forest of La Petre north OF
Port-a-Mousson.
From German sources, however,
comes a report that the German ring
around the French fortress of Verdun
is becoming closer daily and all
French attacks on German arms in
the vicinity have been futile.
A correspondent who has just re-
turned to Basel, Switzerland after
spending a week on the German
French frontier, is authority for the
statement that none of the German
heavy artillery, such as was used in
battering down the forts Of Liege, Ma
muir and Antwerp, has arrived before
the French strongholds of Verdun or
Belfort. The latter place is defended
by 100000 men.
More French Against Prince.
te Brabant-Sur-Meuse, near Conse
vaye, at the heights of Montfaucon
where the army of the German crown
prince is intrenched, is reported from
Paris, where opinion prevails this will
add new. strength to the allies posi-
tions around Verdun.
In any event activities around the
French fortress line of Verdun-Toul
Belfort soon may become as interest
ing as events in the extreme western
wing, where the British and French
fleet have co-operated with the Bel
gian, French and British armies in
an effort to hold the invaders in
check.
Strange reports continue to come In
from various captured cities in Bel
gium of the evacuation, or the prepa
ration for departure of the German
forces holding them, but these move
ments may merely mean that every
available man is being thrown for
ward to the Franco-Belgian frontier
Antwerp is said to have been prac
tically deserted by the Germans, ant
wives of German officers in Brussels
are said to have received orders te
laaua wit thin fort eight hours