Paris, Nov. 1.
A communique issued this after noon states that there is nothing new on the Nieuport-Dixmude front. The enemy continued to make violent attacks in the whole northern region. All these attacks to the eastward and southward of Ypres were repulsed. We made progress northward and eastward of Ypres.
The Germans, at the beginning of the day, debouching from Lys, suc ceeded in taking Hollebeke and Messines, We retook both places in the evening by vigorous counterattacks.
Along the rest of the front there were violent cannonades, and fruitless attacks were made to recepture the ground gained by us. The struggle continues fiercest in the Argonne, where the enemy, how ever, is making no progress.
We captured 7,683 Germans in the week from October 14 to October 20. This does not include wounded prisoners nor detachments route from the front to the rear.
Messines is six miles north-east of Armentieres.—Ed.
London, Nov. 1.
The Pross Bureau announces that the British Government, in view of the fact that the Germans are re moving from France and Belgium as prisoners all males of a military age, has decided that all Resorvists of the enemy on board neutral vessels shall be made prisoners of war.
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