FIGHTING.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2499, 9 November 1914, Page 2

FIGHTING.

ALLIES .STILL ON THE OFFENSIVE. Paris, November 7. Ofhcial.—The Germans were coun-ter-attacking the Belgians, who had advanced along the right bank o/ the Yser from Nieuport to Lombartzyde, but the Belgians were supported in time, and the situation on that side was completely restored. A force of marines repelled a counter-attack on Dixmude. Wo have progressed around Bixshoote. The British have again assumed the offensive south-e46t of Ypres and defeated a particularly violent attack by a recently arrived army corps'. The British repulsed violent attacks on Neuve Chapelle. "We stopped several day and 'night attache between La Btissee canal and Arras. Between Arras and the Oise we slightly progressed. At Vermillea and south of Aix la Noulette we continue to gain tho ground recently lost at Vailly. We repelled fresh attacks in Argonne and progressed at several places. We have occupied Harbourt and Nogeville. Tlie enemy unsuccessfully attacked the heights of the Mouse southeast of St. Mihiel. We carried a few trenches at St Henry.

The Germans suffered considerable losses in attacking the approaches to Grand Courrouede and Nancy. A German eoup-de-maiu against the heights dominating Golde St. Marie completely failed. The Allies are strenously opposing an attempt to advance direct by road to Boulogne. The Germans were induced to make a great effort at Arras ou Moaday by French artifice. Air scouts revealed German concentration between Lens and Douai. The French evacuated all villages to the north of Arras, pretending that they had abandoned the town. A German aviator was allowed to reconnoitre unhindered. Twelve thousand Germane entered Arras with band playing. They had hardy begun to pass the Scrap bridge when volleys were ftred from neighbouring houses. Machine guns simultaneously began a, deadly-fire on the flanks and the rear of the German columns. A battalion of guards rushed forward in the hope of getting beyond the ambuscade, but the trench Dragoons charged and the guards surrendered bodily. The remainder of the enemy retraated, but a military train, with a 17-inch hown«er and a crew of Knipp engineers, was captured through an aeroplane destroying the line.

Heavy cannonading has taken place in the neighbourhood of Thourout and lpres, also at Roulers and Hogglode. Wounded are streaming into Bruges.

~,. . Paris, November 7. tho Kaiser arrived at a tavern iv iinplt at o on Sunday evening. After iii mug, instead of retiring 'lb his room, he motored to the other end of the town Twenty minutes later six oombs fell on the tavern, killing two aides and destroying the- Kaiser's i-Mggagc. Six aeroplanes participated. About 20 civilians wpi - o killed