SOUTH-WEST BELGIUM STILL UNGONQUERED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15747, 23 October 1914, Page 5

SOUTH-WEST BELGIUM STILL UNGONQUERED.

INVADERS SEEKING REINFORCEMENTS.

BELGIANS DRIVE ENEMY BACK FROM ROULERS. London, October 21. The allies expelled 5000 Germans from Bruges. A great Belgian success is reported at Roulcrs, 10 miles from the French frontier, the Germans being driven with considerable losses to Pitthein, 10 miles further to the north-west. On Sunday a strong force of Germans, mostly youths under 20, was ordered to cross the Yser, in the south-west corner of Belgium, at all costs. The force failed in its task, and the losses are estimated at nearly 10 per cent, of the total number of men. The Germans strongly attacked the trenches outside Dixmude, in the south-west corner of Belgium, at midnight on the 16th inst. Being outnumbered, the allies retired on the town, and held the outskirts until reinforcements arrived at dawn, when the Germans were driven back, and the trenches won again. An artillery duel followed, after which the Germans withdrew. The German losses at Nieuport totalled about 5000. Ostend is full of wounded. Reinforcements totalling 60,000, with many batteries, havo arrived at Ghent. The Germans, when retreating from the coast, had a battery annihilated.