The Archive · 1914

Important Development on the Left

M. Kahn, Consu-General for

France, has courteously handed us copy of the following official com Paris, Oct. 14.

On the night of the 12th to 13th, and on the 13th, there were several engagements in the region of Ghent.

German division entered that town.

The Allies hold Ypres. The Germans occupy Lille, but there has been sensible French progress on the left bank of the Lys in the region of Bailleul and up to the Oise.

In the centre, the progress of the Allies in the regions of Craonne and Berry-an-Bae is confi The Germans attempted to ai-vance either between St, Mihiel and Apremont or through the Spada path, but were repulsed.

All efforts by the Germans to wake a wide flanking movement on the French operating atourd Verdun have been fruitle

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