Nevertheless, all these troops, in presence of the strenuous exertions of the enemy, formed too thin a line, a line too extended to allow any breaking. At that time and at the request of Field Marshal French the transportation of the English Army from the Aisne to the Lys region was decided upon. The valiant Belgian Army which had left Antwerp on Oct. 9 thanks to the protection of the British and French marines was also on its way to the Yser region to reinforce the barrier which had to be created and maintained. These moves took time. The English Army was only to come into action by Oct. 20. On the other hand, the Belgian Army, which had been fighting for three months, was momentarily lacking ammunition. Gen. Joffre ordered a new effort. On Oct. 4 he had intrusted to Gen. Foch the mission of co-ordinating the operations of the armies in the north. On the 18th he placed at his disposal reinforcements which, continually increasing until Nov. 12, were to form the French army of Belgium under the command of Gen. d'Urbal. This army, in conjunction with the Belgians and an English corps, was henceforth to fight between the sea and the Lys River. The Journal de Geneve, judging this phase of the war, has written that the French General Staff, by shifting so swiftly such huge bodies of troops, gave evidence that it had the situation splendidly in hand. The result of this effort was a total failure of the German attack in Flanders. GERMAN OFFENSIVE CHECKED. _This attack was especially violent; twelve army corps and four cavalry corps were massed between the Lys and the sea._ _The Emperor was at the head of his armies. He addressed his men, stating that a "decisive blow" was to be delivered. For three weeks the German staff hurled furious assaults in mass formation. But as early as Nov. 12 we were in a position to state that the outcome of these assaults had been a victory for the Allies._ From the sea to Dixmude the Belgian Army, Gen. Grossetti and Admiral Ronarc'h held first the railroad from Nieuport to Dixmude, then the left bank of the Yser. A hostile army corps, which had succeeded in reaching the left bank, was forced to withdraw. It has never been able to go further than Dixmude. More to the south, from Dixmude to the north of Ypres, a like situation. The Germans, on Nov. 12, had crossed the river at two points, were pushed back to the other bank, thus giving Gen. Humbert the command of the bridges. East of Ypres, Gens. Dubois, Balfourrier, and Douglas Haig had not yielded an inch of ground. Further south the German attack, aiming at our lines of communication, had been particularly violent, but the English and the French regained all the ground that had been momentarily lost and made it impregnable. During the second half of November the shattered German attacks weakened. The infantry engaged us less frequently and the artillery showed less activity. The enemy, in the battle of Ypres alone, had lost at least 120,000 men.