The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-11-05
GERMANS MASS
FOR NEW ATTACK
Big Army For Supreme Assault
on Allies Lines
MAY ATTACK AT YPRES

1t Is Said the Kaiser Lost 10000 Men
In Battle on User, Among Them 10,
600 Dead.
London, Nov. 5.-A Belgian Social
list senator who returned from an OF:
fetal visit to King Albert, said that
the allies were now within ten miles
of Ostend.
Ostend is still held by the Germans,
but he did not believe that the Ger
mans were preparing for a general,
retreat through Belgium, but rather
for a final supreme assault which
would be made at point southeast
of Ypres.
The senator estimates that the Ge1s
mans have 100000 men in the vicinity
mentioned, but he said that it was the
general impression of the allied staffs
that the German effort would be a
failure because their troops not only
were very weary, but to great ex.
tent were made up of youthful and-
aged recruits.
1t is the opinion of military observ.
ers in London also that a renewed
German struggle to break through the
allied line will center at Ypres.
From the coast to Lille, compar.
atively short battle line, the Germans
have eleven army corps. The English
papers point out that it should not be
assumed that the Germans yet have
been decisively beaten in Belgium.
The allies have been throwing fresh.
forces into Belgium. This of course
refers to attacks along the User which
have now come to an end, with the re.
suit against the invaders. But looking
ahead the same condition will apply
generally to the operations south OF
Ypres. The agitation for more recruits
in England has been renewed.
"The sound of common has been
distinctly heard at Ghent," telegraphs
the Amsterdam correspondent of the
Central News, "and there Is every in
dication that the Germans are retiring
on the whole front from Bruges to
Thielt, fifteen miles southeast Of
Bruges."
The official bulletins are as follows:
GERMAN.
"Our attacks on Ypres, to the north
Of Arras and to the east of scissors
are progressing slowly, but success
fully.
"South of Verdun and in the Vosges
French attacks have been repulsed.
"In the eastern arena of the war
there have been no material changes"
FRENCH.
There is no important change In
the situation in in the north. We
have made a slight advance toward
Messines. At several points of the
front there has been violent cannon
aiding without appreciate result, par
ticularly west of Lens, between the
Somme and the Ancre, in the Argonne
and in the Apremont forest.
ION our left wing to the north, tht
situation shows no change as con
pared to Monday. The enemy haa
drawn back on the right bank OF the
User. We have recaptured Lombaers i
tzyde. The Germans occupy on the
left bank of the User nothing more
than the head Of a bridge, half way
between Dixmude and Newport. They
have abandoned, in addition to PRISON.
ers and wounded men, a considerable !
quantity of war material, including !
pieces of artillery which were held
by the mud.
Between Dixmude and the Lys the
lighting has continued with alternate
advances and Withdrawals, but with
the general result that the allies
forces have made perceptible pro-
gress.
Between the Lys and the region
Of Arras there has been cannonading
and minor engagements.
Between the region of Arras and
the Disc we have made an advance to
the east Of Lequesnoy-en-Santerr as
Ter as the heights of Parvillers.
ION the center, the German attack
which developed on the right bank of
the Aisne in the region of Vailly, and
which resulted in our losing the first
slopes to the north of Vailly and to
he south of Craonne, was not con-
.inued on Tuesday. A counter attack
BY our forces brought again into our
possession a portion Of the lost
ground.
"a violent cannonading and spirited
German attacks were repulsed on thel
heights of the Highway Des Danes
md in the vicinity of Rheims. There {
las been no happening of Importance
between Rheims and the Mouse nor
n the Woevre districts"