ENEMY'S REPORTED EVACUATION OF LILLE AND OSTEND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 2 November 1914, Page 5

ENEMY'S REPORTED EVACUATION OF LILLE AND OSTEND

GERMANS CLAIM A VICTORY IN THE CENTRE SANGUINARY FIGHTING ON THE VISTULA HUNGARY FLOODED WITH WOUNDED TURKEY'S ATTACK ON RUSSIA HEAVY BOMBARDMENT IN THE BLACK SEA AMBASSADORS LEAVING CONSTANTINOPLE POLITICAL CRISIS IN ITALY-MINISTRY RESIGNS TSING-TAO FORTS ALMOST SILENCED GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND "POSTPONED"

I Several fugitives state that the Germans' evacuated Ostend and retreated to Zeebrugge. I Dutch sources state that heavy reinforcements are gathering north of Osi tend. Guns from the Antwerp forts { were mounted on the coast and used ! against the British warships. Others are being hurriedly sent by train from Germany, indicating a determined plan to hold the coast while combined sea . and land operations are being matured. I GERMANS DRIVEN BACK AT DIXMUDE. WHOLE COMPANIES DECIMATED. I BRITISH CAVALRY WORK. I . - ' HAVRE Oct, 31. ! The King of the Belgians reports that three German attacks were driven back at Dixmude on the 29th with heavy loss. W : hole German companies were decimated. He adds that German prisoners admit that the Belgian machine guns inflicted cruel losses. ) Mr Donald Thomson, photographer ' for the "New York World." accompanied the German army in 26 engagements, and was wounded at Dixirude. He states that the Gei-mans in Belgium are still fighting with marvellous . determination, but they We getting an awful hammering. Their cavalry 'has been utterly dei molished. The British cavalry work caused both admiration and dismay among the Germans, who did not attempt to withstand its onslaught. When at , close quarters they turned and ran. BOMBS FROM FRENCH AEROPLANES. - LONDON". Ovt. 31. Eight French aeroplanes threw bombs which ignited a chateau occupied by i the German headquarters .-tntf near IHxiroide. The staff rushed out and hid , in a-wood : The aviators dropped bombs into the wood, but the result is not i known. , ' The "Daily Mail"' states that the { Germans have evacuated Lille. ENEMY'S EFFORTS TO REACH CALAIS. ~LONDON, Oct. 29. A correspondent, after describing the struggle on the Ysw, says that the numher of wounded arriving at Calais is evidence of the grim resolve of the Germans to carry out the War Lord s orders I to break through at any cost. Rain during the last few days has caused the heavv guns to churn up the . surface and to render the ground an nnI passable morass. The floods are increasing, and the country is cut up into numberless 1 ditches and rivulets. | Tho belligerents have constructed an amazing network of trenches command- ' ing every streamlet almost at point- . blank -range. • The correspondent adds that tin, grape, corn, and sugar beet crops in France are wonderfully goocj. Much of tho heet country has been ravaged by the ar-mies. but" over vast tracts voir en and children and old men are busy stripping the crop. . The Germans in some districts are using French mills for the manufacture of enormous quantities of sugar.

OFFICIAL MEWS

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ALLIES' LEFT RETAKES LOST GROUND. ADVANCE IN THE CENTRE AND RIGHT. PARIS, Oct. 30. An official statement issued at midnight on., the 30th states that the enemy directed violent attacks against the front of the British troops on the two hanks of the Le Basse Canal without success. ' - . Th 3 British resumed the offensive against superior forces north of La Basse, and re-conquered much lost around. They repulsed German attacks at other points, inflicting important losses. - .

The Germans when retreating across the Yser owing to the inundation ot the valley, wereTieavily bombarded by French and Belgian artillery. . The French and British continued to advance -north-east and east of Ypres, and despite violent counter-attacks, captured several points of vantage. - There has been *- recrudescence of activitv at Rheims and on the heights of thc'Meuse. and there have been isolated attacks" by-both sides at other points of the line. We have advanced almost everywhere, especiallv between Arras and Albert,, on the Aisne. below Soissons, on both banks of the Meuse, and also north ot \ erdnn. _ , Prince Maurice of Battenberg was leading his.company to the attack when he was struck by shramiel. He died almost immediately. The body was buried at Ypres to-day. The Wurtemberg Regiment- attempted to pass throuzh » narrow defile in the Forest of Tour des Moines, in the middle of the Argonne, hoping to jom the Crown Prince's army at Varennes -The French/were forewarned and erected a barricade, of rocks, a mitraillense poured a hot fire. The Oeimans hoisted the white fag and fired when the French advanced, killing ten Thereupon the re-opened fire and-the Germans were thrown into horrible confusion. In attempting to escape over 1000 were killed.

GERMAN ADVANCE STOPPED. | PARIS, Oct. 31. A German aeroplane was attempting to on a church in northern the SSteiaii losses in ten days numberGerman due advance. GERMAN GENERAL OFFENSIVE. BETWEEN NIEUPORT AND ARRAS. PARIS, Oct. 31. (Official.) •, The Germans -undertook a general offensive action between -Nieuport and Ai rccaptuFed Ramscapellc and protowards Pas Chendaele. £ elost I few point, d'appuit «j.jh oMMJ™- : heavy- loss*/. several points but retired towards \»"> io , (Official.) . vr- nro-reeed northwards of Sonan \\e pro o i«.™ „„ = : T ; nn <=. everywhere and maintained our positions e^er. else. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 31. t t is- reported that the Allies adTi 2 \J3hw*rds of Lille and capturvanced n ?fX v lavc driven the en- ** The' Germans 'twice broke the British line? tat -ere finally repulsed.

KING ALBER,

ANOTHER NARROW ESCAPE

(Rcc. Nov. 2, 9.10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 1. Germans evacuated Lebbcks and Vvetterou (East Flanders). King Albert had a narrow escape in the tranches, a slirapnel shell burst, and his aide-de-camp was severely -wounded, but the King was untouched.

GOOD WORK BY BELGIAN BATTERIES

ON THE YSER. (Received Nov. 2, 9 10 a.m.) v HAVRE. Nov. 1. (Official.) Two Belgian batteries, comprising ei4t pins, fired- 8000 rounds on the Yser in eight days. The shells destroyed most of the German batteries which were unmasked.

INDICATIONS OF GERMAN RETREAT

FROM i>IXMtJDfi. (Received Nov. 2. 9.25 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 1. Germans burnt the pier at Blailkenbergive and orclered the people to leavethe coast towns-. Many are fleeing to Holland. Fugitives state that the Germans been n rot resting the moment firing was hoard from guns in. the direction ot Thorn-out. Everything indicates a. German retreat from iDixmude-. British aviators bombarded Gorman war material collected at- 'Hichtervclde, and did much damage. The Germans have been further reinforced on the coast line between Oslend and Knocko. and more fortified trenches have been thrown up in the dunes. INUNDATING THE COUNTRY. (Received Nov. 2. 9.10 a.m.} HAVRE, Oct. 31. The inundation between the Yser am! the Dixmude—Xieuport railway has now reached Pervyse.

BRITISH IN AN EXPOSED POSITION

FRENCH BATTALION SAVES THE SITUATION. (Received Nov. 2. 9.10 a.m.) PARIS. Oct. 31. A British force was posted on J.a Basse Canal in an exposed' position and subjected to heavy fire from German quicknrers, and requested French assistance. Baron Doulenbourg's battalion advanced over open ground tinder heavy fire in short rushes, suffering severely, and finally charged with the bayonet, capturing farms, whence they enfiladed the German trenches, enabling the British to advance. The British. admiring the French courage, stood in their trenches and cheered. The brigadier wrote to the French general thanking him and congratulating the battalion.

FRENCH DEFEAT AT VAILLY

RETREAT ACROSS THE AISNE. (Received Nov. 2. 9.10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM,-Oct. 31. An official Berlin message states thatthe Germans stormed the French positions at Vailly, inflicting heavy losses, and capturing 1000 prisoners and two machine, guns. The French retreated across the Aisne.

GERMAN DEAD

LOSSES AT YPRES AND DIXMUDJE (Rcc. Nov. 2, 11.50 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov.- 1. Tho French Army Service Corps buried in a- little over a week in the Ypres district 25,000 German dead. The Gorman losses in the Dixmude district ■were oh a similar scale. The dead in some places were 7>iled a yard high. Several nundrcd Cerman soldiers in mufti attempted to enter Holland. The Dutch sentries recognising them threatened to intern them.

"POSTPONED"

GERMAN ATTACK ON ENGLAND. (Rec. Nov. 2, 11.50 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 1. A lumber of trains filled with cannon and.pieces of submarines for Germauy for the Belgian coast, are detained at Bruges until further orders, a-s the attack on England, according to the Germans. has been postponed until the present battle is decided.