Germans Advance Point North France Coastline Battle Grows
North France and Belgian fronts see German forces press inland from Dixmude after canal crossings near Veer. French reports confirm Veer canal crossing while fighting rages between Nieuport and Lys. British prisoners tallied as the Germans push reinforcements forward amid worsening rains and flooded lowlands.
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Longon
Ort
Yser Canal
Dixmude
Veer Canal
Nieuport
Lys
Argonne
Meuse
Alsace
Flanders
Great Lakes
Berlin
Vistula
Tvangorod
Radom
Poland
Vigorous Attack on German Lines Without Result
Paris dispatches report French and British assaults on German lines before Lille failed. gains centered around La Bassée while Belfort forts fell to Germans. Belgian coast fighting sees German siege with long-range guns, monitors, and naval artillery, as Belgium and France resist.
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Hague
Lille
la Bassee
Armentieres
la. Bagpee
Balglane
German Front Battles Fleeting Narrowing the Gap
Descriptions of bombardment across the Yser front with flooded banks aiding defense. Germany maintains pressure while British naval guns target Slype destroying a German headquarters and killing a balloon observer. Berlin reports German artillery disabled a British destroyer.
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Yser
Slype
Berlin
PLAN INVASION OF ENGLAND OUTLINED IN BERLIN DISPATCH
A Berlin report claims Germany plans a decisive strike on Britain by landing army corps on the south coast while the German fleet engages the British in the North Sea Admiral von Ingenohl would head a major fleet action from Wilhelmshaven Zeppelins and Taubes would terrorize London if the plan succeeds German public opinion is urged to back the sortie Prince Henry is said to supervise operations from Belgium If unsuccessful the setback could have incalculable consequences
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Belgium
Forest of Aijgue
France
Armentieres
Lille
la Bassee
Bethune
la Basses
Arras
Altkirch
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Alsace
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Nicholas
Vistula
San
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Germany
Austria
Servia
Newa
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Prussian
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Tsing-Tau
China
Rome
Cattare
Dalmatia
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Berlin
Great Britain
England
North Sea
Ostend
Zeebrugge
London
Zeppeling
Taubes
von Ingenohl
Wilhelmshaven
Sir John Jellicoe
Prince Henry
Prussia
Kiel
Germania
Howard
Scheldt
Ila
Schleswig
Seventh Army
Coips
Landwehr
Portugal Enters War as 25000 Troops Aid Allies
New York dispatch says Lisbon papers from October 6 and 7 report more than twenty five thousand Portuguese troops assisting French and British forces on the Belgium and France battle front. Censorship hides the troops' positions from public papers.
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New York
Lisbon
Belgium
France
Russians claim victory over Germans in 10 day Vistula battle
Russian dispatches from Petrograd say Przemys captured and Germans and Austrians driven back in a ten day battle along the Vistula with about 6,000,000 men involved. German losses reportedly 200,000 in Poland. Przemys capture not confirmed. Austrian forces also claim success in Bukowina retaking Czernowicz.
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Holland
Alfies
Rotterdam
Belgium
Flushing
Amsterdam Nieuwe van den Dag
Wenduyne
Chalons
Longwy
Ostend
Mariakirke
Middlekirke
Nieuport
Yger
London
Petrograd
Przemys
Vistula
Poland
Bukowina
Araft
Vienna
Czernowicz
Plan to seize Warsaw wrecked in winter campaign
Petrograd dispatches report the plan to capture Warsaw and hold both banks of the Vistula during the winter campaign has been wrecked as the left wing retreats. This retreat would force Teulon forces around Ivangorod and Sandomierz to fall back as well.
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Petrograd
Warsaw
Vistula
Teulon
Ivangorod
Sandomir
War News: Ships Sunk and Captured Off Cochin and Colombo
A Lloyd dispatch reports the British steamer Exford captured by the German cruiser Emden off the Malabar coast. Other Lloyd dispatches note the sinking of the Chilkema Troillies Benmohr and Clan Grant and a dredger off Colombo. The Hinden has sunk 16 British steamers and captured three others flying the Union Jack.
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Exford
Emden
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Troillies
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Clan Grant
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Adriatic
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Stockholm
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Secolo
Turkey
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