Progress of the War.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15116, 4 November 1914, Page 6

Progress of the War.

Tho fighting in the Xieuport and Dixmude district continues to be of the most stubborn and desperate character. It i.s now stated that the enemy has boon driven back beyond the railway line. Tho flooding of tho Yser river made tho enemy's trenches untenable. Reports from Paris stato that tho Allies have made slight progress north and cast of lpres. In this district tho most vehement attacks have been made by the Germans upon the British, but the latter have managed to hold their own. even in one case, it is stated, when they were outnumbered ten to one. A message from Paris is to the elicit that after the capture of La Vente, in the Lille district, fifteen British held a trench for twenty-four hours against seven hundred Germans, until they were relieved. Tho Germans are undoubtedly vigorous on tho offensive, and march up to entrenchments with great bravery, but all tho evidence goes to show that for dogged endurance, coolness under fire, and good shooting, the British are putting up a record which will live- in history. The centre appears to be " marking time," but in the Argonne the striigglo is fierce, and there is violent cannonading, but the Germans

are making no progress. In the eastern theatre the Russians continue to drive tho Germans before them in Poland, and aro said to have occupied two important towns. It is, indeed, a -war of attrition, and tho Germans are gradually being ground into powder. If we could get a correct account of their casualties to date, tvo believe the total would bo appalling. There is, perhaps, no better indication of their extreme anxiety on account of their losses than tho silly vaunt to which they hare given currency to the effect that they have eighteen million military reservists to draw upon.