victorious operations of the Russian Army the cavalry have
taken a conspicuous part. The Headquarters announcement from Petrograd of
November 10 said: "To the east of Neidenburg near the station of Muschaken
(in East Prussia, about two miles from the frontier), Russian cavalry
defeated a German detachment which was guarding the railway, captured
transport, and blew up two bridges over the railway. On the 8th inst. our
cavalry forced one of the enemy's cavalry divisions, which was supported
by a battalion of rifles, to retreat towards Kalisz (near the border of
German Poland)." The above drawing shows an engagement in Hungary between
an Austro-Hungarian force and a body of Russian cavalry who had crossed
the Carpathians from Galicia.

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10--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.

[Illustration: IN CAPTURED DIXMUDE: THE CHURCH OF ST. JEAN AFTER
BOMBARDMENT.]

[Illustration: WRECKED BY GERMAN SHELL-FIRE: THE CHURCH OF ST. JEAN,
DIXMUDE.]

Dixmude, after a comparative lull since it was first bombarded by the
Germans, recently became once more the objective of a fierce attack and
fell into the enemy's hands. The afternoon communique issued in Paris on
November 11 said: "At the end of the day (i.e., the 10th) the Germans had
succeeded in taking possession of Dixmude. We are still holding on to the
outskirts of this village, on the canal from Nieuport to Ypres, which has
been strongly occupied. The struggle has been very fierce at these
points." The late French communique issued the same night said: "The enemy
throughout the day continued his effort of yesterday without achieving any
fresh results.... He made vain attempts to debouch from Dixmude on the
left bank of the Yser."--[Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations.]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--11

[Illustration: THE LITTLE BELGIAN TOWN TAKEN BY THE GERMANS AFTER THREE
WEEKS: DIXMUDE--THE HOTEL DE VILLE AND CHURCH TOWER.]

Although the Germans undoubtedly scored a slight success by their
occupation of Dixmude, they did so at enormous cost. It was reported from
Amsterdam on the 11th that 4000 Germans severely wounded in the fighting
round Dixmude had reached Liege. Dixmude was for three weeks gallantly
de