12 DESCRIBE BATTLE FOUGKT AT TPRES French Officers From Front Tell How Por tion of German Lines Was Taken INVISIBLE GUNS ASSIST IN WORK Spray Bursting Projectiles Over Ger man Trenches in Wide Belt—Lat ter Are Captured by French In fantry in Bayonet Charge Paris. Oct. 27. 10.30 P. M.—This is how a portion of the German lines northeast of Ypres was taken yesterday, according to officers who have arrived in Paris from the battle line: \ series of light 4 gun. 3-inch field batteries, each invisible from tlie front, were disposed behind the natural cover of undulations in the fields, 1 bits of wood, ruined farm houses or dry ra vines. Ihe guns working to their full ca pacity of four shells to the minute, sprayed bursting projectiles over the German trenches in a wide belt before, over and just behind the carefully dug and roofed field works that is the usual thing with the adversaries. The Ger man infantry, as long as they kept in side of the covered trenches, were se cure, except from the chance of shells talliug directly through the narrow si-ace left .'or t itle and machine gun fire. German Reserves Caught Unawares The French infantry, from the rear of their own line of trenches, got up as if for the usual run for the German ] lines. The French guns at a moment agreed upon ceased their fire and the Germans, supposing the usual charging! rush was coining, ordered up their re ! serve infantry, who were held outside! of the shell zone, to support the slender ] lines in their trenches. The French infantry, although firing i heavily, did not charge. The French artillery changed their range and at a signal by telephone from the French trenches caught the German reserves < oming on the run one thousand yards behind the r works with a shattering shell tire, which broke down formations and seemed to bring down a third or' the men in 1-h° line. They simply could | not advance through the section of! bursting shells. French Capture the Trent-has The Frei.ch infantry then charged and won their way through the tire from the German trenches, which they j tool, with the bayonet. The pushing of the Germans out of France opposite Nancy yesterday and 1 the establishing of French positions in side the German frontier is regarded as j an important achievement at this junc-1 ture, proving that the allies are capable of tarrying the .var into the cneniv's country while holding the invading army in check in the north. The "blue devils," as the German? ! call the French light infantry operating in the Vosges, again justified the terror in which they are held by the enemy.! They led the final rush which forced the last of the Germans out of French ! Lorraine. These troops hesitate at 110 sacrifice to gain an end. The second battalion, emulating the first battalion.' which took the first (lag from the Ger- j mans, held the vantage ground gained. , despite great losses. Every Gulco a Death Trap Tills seems to ebd for the time being the long etfor against the unfortified town of Nancy, the defense of which lias proved a great surprise to the Ger man.-. In the absence of strong forts ; they found ber re them what is more j effective in this war—field works. All through the foothills of the Vo ev* | ery thicket belched fire, every knoll was! a little fortress, every gulch a death ! trap aii.i rh Germans left there the I flower o!" the Imperial Guard. Further west o:t the great front the Germans treated thr French to a new kind of surprise. While an artillery | Posen s Novo \ 7 \ ■^*v# : l !i • **&y \* A / \ toZZM** _n*t, 'A/ y /» LutsSk Re™ k \v. :""•*>s%. 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Official advices from Vienna say the Austrian and if- 1 ,^" ♦ r h Uh p U r i . nterruptio " frOTn the Carpathians, by way of Stry and Sambor. before the fortre.. o7 ♦ the Polish part of the Vistula and the district of Plock. rrzemjrsl to duel gave the infantry a respite, they drove towards the allies' lines horses, around the ntcks of which hung pla cards announcing the defeat of the Rus sians. The trenches are so close on this j part of the front that orders may be • heard across the intervening space' and I i the soliderr relieve the tedium of their I | long watches bv exchanging quips. L RUSSIAN WINTER SETS IN; •I MAY WORK HARDSHIPS TO ; GERMANS, LIKE NAPOLEON t.ondou, Oct. 28, 3.45 A. M. —The l correspondent of the "Times" at War saw, telegraphing under date of Tues- j day, has this to say of the campaign iu I Russian Poland: I " Kadom, 57 miles south of Warsaw, : was taken after a hard struggle and ! i large bodies of Hussiau cavalry oecu- : : pied Lodz, 75 miles southwest of War- i - | saw, to day after considerable resist- I . ! ance. "The opinion is held here that Ger many lias definitely lost her opportunity j lin Poland, largely because she mis- I j judged the attitude of the population. ' j which is increasingly anti-German." I The Pet.ograd correspondent of the j 'j"Times," under Tuesday's date, says: | 1 | "The news of the occupation of Lodz | . | is regarded in military circles as ex- j I 1 tremely important because of thb pres- j i ence of a large cavalry column,there, j i which threatens the whole line of Gar- j . man communication. The Germans will be unable to withstand the terrible : ' threat to their left rtank and this cav-! I airy movement may precipitate develop -1 meats compelling the Germans to fall tiack upon Crenstoehowa, in Kussian I'o , land, dose to the Silesian frontier, and ■ j to weaken extremely tiie Austrian de , j fensive in Galicia. The "Chronicle's'' Warsaw corre i spondent seuds a dispatch, which was delayed in transmission, in which he ; says: "The Russian winter, which brought i ; l ruiu to Napoleon and must mean the | i greatest hardship for the German j ! troops, has set in early this year. I When our train crossed the Beresina I river near Minsk a few days ago a bliz- i zard was raging and the fields and for j j ests thereabout were covered with i snow. All the way from Moscow to j Warsaw the weather was bitterlv | cold." I AUSTRIAN'S KAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ENVELOP BRI SSILOFF Petrograd, Oct. 27.—The attempt of] the Austrians to envelop the left wing j of the army of General Brussiloft' has j failed, according to a semi-official an nouncement. On October 24 about) twenty versts (15 miles) souWi of Sam-] bor, the Kussian troops surrounded in i a mountain valley the thirty-eighth di-| vision of the Honveds with effectives' belonging to the laudsturm, firing upou ! them from the surrounding heights. Only a few of these soldiers sue - j reeded by favor of night in saving themselves by the mountain paths. An j entire artillery division of twenty can nons and trains fell into Russian hands. Gets Armor Plate Contract | Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 28. —Th e Car- j bon Steel Company, of this city, which ; entered the armor plate field within j three years, yesterday closed a contract J j with one of the warring European na- j tions for 8,000 tons of light armor j plate. The plate, which is to be about [ one and one-half inches in thickness, j will be used for shields on field gun i | carriages. German Defeat in Belgian Congo Paris. Oct. 28. 4.44 A. M.—A Havre dispatch to the "Matin" re-j | ports that M. Tombeut, vice governor I | general of Katanga in the Belgian Con- I go, announced that Belgian troops, com- i manded by Resident Commissioner Hen ry, completely defeated the Germans at Kissenie, on Lake Tanganyika, which lies between Belgian Congo and German I Hast Africa. #1.319 for Belgian Relief Kansas City, Oct. 2S.—The relief j fund being raised by George Mignolet, j Belgian Consul here", for the Belgians rendered destitute bv the war, has | reached a total of $1,319.80. One j thousand dollars of this amount already has been sent to the Belgian embassy at | Washington. The rest will be used as a I nucleus for another thousand dollars. HARRISBURG STAR-TXDEPKNBENT. WEDNESDAY KVFV'Vti. og MUMS ISSUE A CALL i moors General Staff Decides to Reinforce Army in the ' Vicinity of Dixmude GAIN OF ALLIES IS ANNOUNCED Anglo-French Forces in the Region South of Dixmude Take Offensive Against German Contingent Which Succeeded in Crossing the Yser Paris, Oct. 28, 6.50 A. M. —The is- I sue of the battle in Belgium was ap j patently still far. from determination ! to-day. That the Germans had made jup their miuds to reach a decision in I this part 6f the theatre of war was : indicated by the report that their gen | eral staff" lias issued a further call for troops from Belgium and Germany for concentration in the vicinity of Dix mude where some of the most severe fighting in the battle of Flanders has occurred. The gain of the ailies in the region to the south of Dixmude, as officially announced, showed that they are able, despite the heavy and continuous can ! uonading and the attacks of the Ger -1 man infantry, to take the offensive [ against the German contingent which i previously had succeeded in crossing | the Yser. This news was-received with I much satisfaction by the president as | was also the announcement regarding ; the offensive movement by the French { around Nancy. May Receive Blow in Stomach As to the activity in this vicinity i he French recalled a recent remark by General t'astelnau when, in putting the i public on its guard against possible | bad news, he said: "We will perhaps receive a blow in ! the stomach but we are sure to return j it." More to the west in Woevre, the j progress of the allies toward the route ! from St. Mihiel to Metz is, it is pre i dieted, going soon to put in a difficult , position the German forces which have | tried, in crossing the Mensc, toward a junction with their forces fighting in I Argoune. Furthermore the advance of j the French and English between Ypr.es i and Roulers also gave ground for hope I here. As to when the contest in the north would be finished there is no ! good guess. French military men said, however, that the prolongation of the battle gave no reason for losing pa- I tience. Possible Attack on Verdun Discussing the possibility on an at-1 tack on Verdun, General Hierro Cherfils i to-day declared that its defense was j unlimited since it was solidly attached to the allies army of Argonne. The enemy, he said, after testing the j : strength of Verdun, would gradually | give up the hope of attempting to bring I about its fall. France, according to the general, still has more than a million men in re ! serve to give battle to the Germans to say nothing of the large number of good volunteers. These are so numer i ous in fact that many are being re fused. New British Gun Finds Airmen London, Oct. 28.—A new British gun, used for the first time in recent days, has provided a fresh terror for German airmen. The gun, a correspond ent states, succeeds in finding its target with great facHity. German Priare Wounded Limoges, Oct. 28.—Five German offi cers. wounded in battle, are in the hos pital here. 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