FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 21 October 1918, Page 5

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

THE GERMAN RETIREMENT.

WHOLE FRONT AFFECTED

EXCEPT FIFTEEN MILES

.SPEED OF RETREAT INCREASING

ENTIRE BELGIAN COAST IN

ALLIES' HANDS

(Received Oct. 21, 9.15 a.m.)

NEW YORE, Oct. 19. . General Marsh reports that a Gernian retirement began last week on a • aixty-mile tfront and hae now spread until it has affected all except fifteen miles of the 250 miles of front from the- Coast to the Meuse. The Ameri--«an army is slowly progressing northwest of Verdun against stiff resistance.

The entire Belgian coast is securely in the Allies' hands.

/ The Germans' retreat is increasing in. «peed, and in four days eight hundred square miles hove been given lip. The Eundenburg defences are entirely beliind the Allies. «•..'.