Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-24
BRITISH ENGAGED
IN |NCONSO[|DAT|NG
new POSITIONS
Germans Fighting Bitterly
to Recapture Lost
Terrain.
SEEKING TO HOLD BACK
ANY FURTHER INCURSl0NS
Byng's Army Evidently Prepar-
ing for Another Dash When
Time Is OPportune.
ITALIANS HOLDING THEFT: LINE
Invaders HurlinR Great Masses In
Effort to Break Through to
Venetian Plains.
HOLDING THEIR LINE
Ipy Associated pre,..1

By Associated Press
While in the main the British troops
in the region OF Cambrai are conso1i-
dating the positions they won In the
spectacular two-day battle. consider
able hard lighting Of a local character
is taking place on numerous sectors,
where the Germans arc endeavorinE to
drive out the English, Scotch, Welsh
and Irish conttnsents, whose drive has
placed them virtually on the threshold
of Cambrai.
Especially severe has been the fight
Ing around Crevecoeur, Mocuvrcs and
the Bourbon wood. in the latter OF
Wh!ch regions. at last accounts, tho
British cavalry was operating brill
liantly in an cndeavor to surround and
capture the wood, which would give to
General Byng Il position dominating
the cntiro battle front. All the ground
previously gained by the British had
been held up to late Friday. and in
addition west OF Moeuvres an elevation
dominating largo section OF tho Ca
nal du Nord and the town of Mocuyre..
which is In the hands of the Germans
had been captured.
The Germans are fighting bitterly to
recapture lost terrain and to hold back
rurther incursions into their line Tho
hEhting, however, apparently is be-
tween the opposing British advance and
the German rear guard, for the major
portion OF General Byng's army cvi-
IDENTIFY Is engaged in consolidating the
territory already won; and preparing
Tor another, dash forward when the
time Is opportune.s-t
ALL Gl;ItMAN ATTACKS
REFUSED ny FRENCH
Although the British arc busily en-
gagged In the Cambral sector, Flcld Mar
shall HaiS has not overlooked q chance
again to stab tho German line in ELAN
dcrs. Southeast OF Yprcs In an attack
the British have thrown forward thoir
line, slightly. On the southern front
tho Germans nave delivered several
small attacNs against tho French in
the Aisnc region, northwest Of Rheims
and In Champagne, but all OF them
wcrc repulscd.
Beewecn tho Brenta and tho Piaye
Rivers. in tho Italian thcater. tho
Italians and the Teutonic allies are
Still at deadly grips. with the onemy
endeavoring to break through to the
venetian plains, but with the Italians
everywhere tenaciously holding them.
Inc enemy eve .ywhcro is throwing
HiaS'ScS VI men against the Italians, and
his losses in men killed wounded or
made prisoner have been cxtrcmcIy
heavy 1t seemingly is the ambition
OF the Invaders to break out upon the
plains before tie expected British and
French re-enforcements arrive but up
90 the Present their efforts have been
without avail. Comparative quiet pre-
walls alons tho Piave River to tho
Adr;atic.
Following the proposal made by the
Bolshevilsi government in Russia for
an armstice. a reduction I'm the Russian
army has been ordered by Mix kolal I.e-
nine, the BolSheviki leaotr. TO take
effect Immediately. simultaneously, it is
stated unofiicially that Russian dipIo-
mat has left Stockholm for Petrograd
TO deliver to the Russian revolutionary
government peace proposals Of tho
central powers.
Leon Trot2iiy. the Bolsheviki Foreign
Minister. in an interview. announces
that the Bolshsviki are against SEN
arate peace with Germany, bu: desire
n universal peace with European ma.
tions.