A GENERAL REVIEW

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 101, 26 October 1914, Page 7

A GENERAL REVIEW

VERY STRONG GERMAN ATTACKS ON THE LEFT ENEMY MAKING FRESH EFFORTS PARIS, 23rd October. A communique states that on oar left very strong German 1 forces continued to deliver violent attacks between the sea and Arras, particularly between Arras, La Bassee, and Armentieres. The Allies lost ground at some points near La Bassee, and gained ground east of Armentieres. Three German batteries were destroyed north of the Aisne. We have progressed north and south of the Somme, particularly at Rosieres (eighteen miles east-south-east of Amiens) and the Santerre (a plateau north of Roye and south of Roaieres). We had some partial successes at Verdun and Pont-a-Mousson (sixteen miles north of Nancy, and four miles from the frontier). There is nothing to report on the remainder of the front. The enemy is making fresh efforts, particularly between the sea and the Oise, by employing new corps of raw troops, comprising youths and old men, with officers gathered from different sources., "INEVITABLE FLUCTUATIONS" PARIS, 24th October. "A communique states : There have been inevitable fluctuations on the left wing, the line being generally held. The enemy progressed north of Dixmude and around La Basee. We advanced very appreciably east of Nieuport, in the region of Langenmark (six miles north-north-east of Ypres), and between Armentieres and Lille. We repulsed several day and night attacks, and we have taken the villages of Melezicourt, west of the Argonne, commanding the route from Varennes to the Aisne Valley. Elsewhere we* have slightly progressed at several points. Our advance in the Woeuvre' continues in the direction of Le Montmare Forest, south of Thiaucourt. [The Forest of the Argonne, which has V°ti a great strategic barrier, throughout the war, runs in a northerly and somberly direction, about fifteen miles west of Vendun. _ On the western edge of the forest is the upper Aisne Valley, and Varennes is on its eastern border, west-north-west of Verdun. Thiaucourt is thirty miles south-east of Verdun, and twenty miles north of Toul.] GERMANS DRIVEN BACK SIX MILES PARIS, 24th October. The Allies on Wednesday shelled the German trenches and charged with bayonets. The Germans were driven back six miles. The fight was one of the best of the Arras campaign. The Germans lost five thousand. ALLIES BEAT BACK ALL ATTACKS LONDON, 24th October. The Allies, from a strongly entrenched position at Armentieres, %\\'p beaten back all attacks. Yesterday the Germans crept up in the darkness to one of these trenches and opened an enfilading fire. Artillery on both sides- then began, the Germans and Allies alike being imprisoned in the trench, and the guns shelled friend and enemy for fourteen hours. Then the Allies retook the trench and captured the Germans. FIGHTING ON MARSHY GROUND PARIS, 24th October. French cavalry and infantry, while advancing near Lille, were almost bogged in marshy ground, and came under the fire of German artillery. The French 16-pounder field guns sent to cover the advance were also bogged. The Scots Greys then charged, sabred the gunners, and silenced the German guns in ten minutes. During their return other guns shelled the Scots Greys, but meanwhile < the French artillery had been extricated, and covered the Scots Greys' retirement. The latter's casualties were unimportant,