INVADERS OF BELGIUM LOSING THEIR NERVE.
GENERAL RETREAT BELIEVED TO BE PROBABLE. IMPRESSION OF LASSITUDE AND EXHAUSTION. ALLIES' GLORIOUS WEEK OF HEROIC DEEDS. (Received October 23, 8 p.m.) London, October 22. The Daily Mail's correspondent in Franco says that the Germans in the Ostend region are getting " nervy," and that increasing numbers of wounded are arriving. Discarded uniforms found at Dunes and Zeebruzzee suggest German desertions. Though they are fighting fiercely, the Germans give an impression of lassitude and exhaustion in a marked degree. Their rapid retreat south of Western Flanders is thought to be the prelude to a general retreat. " This has been a glorious week of heroic deeds on the part of the allies against big odds," says the correspondent. "A few dayß ago Belgium was wholly German, but now even the most pessimistio observers are counting the days till the enemy's crumbled forces are herded back into their own country."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 7
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153INVADERS OF BELGIUM LOSING THEIR NERVE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 7
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