GERMANS ABANDON FLANDERS COAST.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 154, 2 July 1917, Page 5

GERMANS ABANDON FLANDERS COAST.

BRITISH PLAY HAVOC WITH GERMAN NAVAL (ORAFT,

Australian and N.Z. CSaSJIe Association July % 9 .'2O a.m.) . '■ AMSTERDAM, July 1. Ghent is full of. people evacuated from Ostend, Courtrai, and Menin. Refugees state that SJhe. Germans tuive > abandoned 'coast,. ajid are ■ft-, retiring as .far as _D_ten3, Rearing anft - mhilation under . the "British bom- •/ Tiaxdment, which wrought, 'havoc in Emany towns. ,'•'■" A German from ZeeTirtrgge declares ; -that nearly forty -drpedo 'boats and Eeubmarines were lost i_i 'f/he. recent action with the : B.r_Miitayal forces.