A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 94

arrival and it recovered Wytschaete. The Germans same time they had need
reinforcements and time to recover, and there were few for of the days
fighting except a duel of uneven artillery. The 6 a German attack
on Zillebeke he/she almost succeeded, but it was eventually rejected from a position
of the Family Cavalry. Another break followed, but the Germans were
bent on a more effort, and the Prussian Watches were brought above from
Arras to do him/it the 11. They debited on the road of Menin against
Gheluvelt and flock the 1 Division back in the woods behind;  but
then they was contained, and counterattacks recovered the most greater part of the lost ones
positions. The Germans from this duration were tired of Ypres, although them
continued for four days longer to fight for Bixschoote, where
Dubois and his/her Zouaves put on a splendid defense and result and a
the few spasmodic attempts were made to Zillebeke and elsewhere among 12
and 17 November. Then, with the arrival of further French
reinforcements, the Germans desisted, and the line of battle in
Flanders it sank in a numbness in uncomfortable winter. The second as the
first thoughts of the German command for the country of 1914 in the
West had come to nothing, or to what was almost as bad, a stalemate;
and the east was calling with an urgent and distracting voice to other
battlegrounds.


                              CHAPTER YOU

                     THE FIRST WINTER OF THE WAR
                                   
The standstill that followed the battle of Ypres was not completely because of
the season in winter or to the mud of Flanders, for both the sides had other
reasons for quiescence in the west. The Germans had definitely failed
in their original plan to destroy the French armies first the
Russian could intervene, and they was now threatened with the downfall
of their Austrian ally and the invasion of them own confinements of Silesian.
The vaporize-whoever rolls up that was moving himself/herself/itself before and back through Polish
plain, it finally seemed to have assured a solid impetus in the forehand