GERMANS FLOOD COUNTRY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 243, 17 November 1914, Page 7

GERMANS FLOOD COUNTRY.

BELGIANS BLOW UP BUILDINGS.

LAND MINES SHATTER ENEMY.

(Received November 17, 8.15 a.m.)

LONDON, November 16.

The Germans have inundated the country round.Ostend in order to prevent the Allies' advanee.

Belgian engineers have blown up Ger-mah-pwried villas in commanding positions at Coxyde, between Nieuport and Dunkirk, which had concrete foundations suitable for. mounting guns on. They also have blown up a strongly-for-tified German chemical factory at Schoonerfrz.

The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent mentions that at a village in the north of France the French General ordered a retreat, and the Gernians, noticing this, hurriedly poured battalion after battalion into the village. Upon this an explosion shook the countryside, the French having mined the village. Several battalions of the enemy died amidst the ruins. (Received November 17, 8 a.m.)

"Times" arid "Sydney Sun" Services. LONDON, November 16

A correspondent says:—-Round Ranscappelle, where the Germans broke through the Belgians, there are hundreds of rough graves, mostly piles of turf, over shell holes, while many have been buried singly in.holes made by the shells which killed them.