GERMAN RIGHT WING HURLED BACK ON OSTEND.
PANIC - STRICKEN AT FUTILITY OF EFFORTS.
TEN THOUSAND CASUALTIES AT NIEUPORT.
RETREAT THREATENS TO BECOME A ROUT.
(Received October 21, 1.15 a.m.)
Paris, October 23.
A French officer declares that the retreat &i the German right threatens to become a rout. They are panic-stricken at the futility of their violent efforts.
Seventeen hundred German dead are buried near Nieuport. Their total casualties in the district number 10,000. Many of the killed and wounded are raw and almost untrained recruits.
Thirty thousand Germans, who were strongly entrenched between Ostend and Nieuport, have been hurled back on Ostond, abandoning many guns and rifles.
It is reported that the British fleet's bombardment of the German lines destroyed a convoy eight miles long.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 8
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