SLIGHT PROGRESS BY THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2314, 23 November 1914, Page 5

SLIGHT PROGRESS BY THE ALLIES

QUIET DAY ON WESTERN (Rec. November 22, 8.35 p.m.) London, November 21. ' "The Times" correspondent in Northern France says the Allies' position was never more secure than to-day, and it has been found possible to grant holiday leave to many officers and men after-many, weeks of arduous service. (Rec. November 22, 3.30 p.m.) f . . ' . Paris, November 21. The cnomy's activity at Reims is slackeninE,

SNOW FALLING; IN) THE WORTH, Paris, November 20. 'A' communique states: —Tho the north is .very bad, where snow has fallen. , _ There- have been practically no infantry attacks since Thursday. 'The artillery fire is much less violent, but is intense south of Ypres. The Allies have taken from the water at Kamscappelle, near Dixmude, two German 17.5 howitzers, which wero abandoned in tho floods. > .We repulsed three violent infantry attacks in tho Argonne. The Gormans have xeoccupied tho destroyed portion of Chauvoncourfc, on the Heuso. (R«c. November 22, 3.30 p.m.) Paris, November-21. .Offioial.—There" is no noteworthy incident to report. - XReo. November 22, 3.35 p.m.) Paris, November 21. Official.—The fighting consists mainly of artileiry duels in the north. We repulsed two infantry attacks at Holle'beke, in south-west Flanders. The superiority of our artillery at the Aisne is accentuated by its preventing the Germans from completing new trenches. Wo have also destroyed the German trenches in the Argonne. Wo have made progress near Vordun, and also in' the iVosges.. ' MASSED ATTACKS'IN WOETJVRE REPULSED. CReb. November 23, 0.5 a.m.) ' . tt ~ „ ~ ' Paris, November 22. Offioial.—The day was very quiet except on the "Woeuvre, where five massed attacks were made at Epargnes within two hoprs. The French artillery repulsed the attacks. LARGE AREAS IN; BELGIUM MINED. T . , , . „ .„'■■' Lon don » November 20. It is stated in Antwerp that the Germans are placing the whole line from the sea to the German the defensive. Round Alost, the Belgians have made big trenches, and it is suspected that these are being used as land mines. If tho whole way from the present front to Brussels is thus mined, the Allies' inarch will be very; strenuous.—("Times"- and Sydney, "Sun"- Services.) GERMAN REPORTS OP DROWNING OF, BRITISH TROOPS, (Reo. November 22, '4 p.m.) '~,„' 'ip . , .■ , . London, November 21. _ a, German offioial wireless message oirculates a story that fifteen thousand- ■ British were drowned in the canal at Bhcschoote, near Dixmude. •GERMAN GOVERNORS APPOINTED, £Reo. November 22, '4 p.m.) , „ ' '" . / London, November 2L Wrmany, has appoined nine military, Governors for Belgium provinces. PRUSSIAN GUARD SENT TO RECUPERATE. v (Rec. November 22, 4.45 p.m.) ■ ' _~ • . _ , - London, November 21. ii. iil 15813 ? Gua ™ suffered so severely in their attacks on the British that they have been withdrawn from tie fighting line and sent to recuperate at he. rear. '■.-..- "..MASSACRE AND OUTRAGE IN BELGIUM ; GERMANS SLAY CIVILIANS BY THE HUNDRED .'''"' _ London, November 20. The Press Bureau states that the Belgian official report on German outrages shows there were6sovictimß at''famine (in the Namur district). The Germans, with a machine gun, mowed down a group of peasants in front'of a church, and silenced the groans of the wounded with bayonet thrusts. They burnt and sacked 264 houses, and many women and'children were burnt and suffocated in their own houses.' '', - -' Of 1400 houses in Dinant only two. hundred remain. The manufactories were systematically destroyed, and over seven hundred inhabitants of Dinant were' killed. ...

. Outrages, pillage, and incendiarism are also reported in Belgian Luxemburg, where a thousand men were shot.. * ATROCIOUS CRUELTY;'AT ANDENNE. • '..■• (Reo. November 22, '4.45 p.m.) ' « London, November 21.- ; The Press Bureau has issued the Belgian's Commission's third report, which says :—"No other town has been subjeot to bo many scenes of- atrocity and cruelty as Ardenne, which lies on the Meuse between Namur and Huy.' Three hundred men were massacred in the presence of their wives and children. Three hundred houses were burned in'Ande'nno and Settles, and women were ordered to gather the bodies and wash the blood from the. streets and houses, ■ V ' " ■ '\ ••