GERMANS LOSING GROUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15749, 26 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANS LOSING GROUND.

STUBBORN RESISTANCE HEAVY SACRIFICE OF LIFE. PILES OF GERMAN DEAD. GALLANTRY OF SCOTS GREYS. SAVAGE COMBAT IN POLAND. TWO RUSSIAN VICTORIES. NEWFOUNDLANDERS IN ENGLAND No decisive result has yet been reached in the fierce fighting now in progress in Belgium. The Germans are making a tremendous effort to hold their ground. At some points they have compelled the allies to give way, but in the main they are being beaten back slowly. Their stubborn resistance is being made at great cost in life. One report states that some of the woods north of Roulers, in which hundreds of Germans were killed, present a terrible spectacle. Another records a "massacre" of Germans by the Belgians at Nieuport, and piles of German dead being washed up on the seashore after the engagement. At Arras the Germans are said to have lost 5000; there are hundreds of German dead in the neighbourhood of Dixmunde and Fumes, and their losses at Westende were heavy. The fresh effort of the German forces to retain their hold upon Belgium resulted in severe fighting from the Belgian coast to Arras, in the north of France. At "latest reports the battle was raging 15 miles south of a line from Bruges to Ghent. The Germans, though making the utmost use of the hilly country, and fighting fiercely, were losing ground. The allies have advanced closer to Ostend, and the allied warships are now opposite Middlekerke, on the Belgian coast, between Ostend and Nieuport. A thrilling account is given of a gallant charge by the Scots Greys against German cavalry to save a number of French soldiers who were bogged in marshy ground under the fire of the German guns. The charge was successful, the German guns being silenced. A German military writer describes the issue of the battle in Belgium as a question of life or death for Germany. A London cablegram says London is feeding 300,000 Belgian refugees, and other parts of England 200,000. For this £200,000 worth of supplies are required monthly. A desperate battle between Russians and Germans was fought near Ivangorod. The Russians advanced, without support of artillery, to the top of a hill held by Germans. A savage combat followed, in which the Russians were successful. The Germans have abandoned Ivangorod and Kosienice, and are in retreat, pursued by the Russians. An Austro=German force fighting in Galicia unexpectedly crossed the River San. The Russians met them with fixed bayonets, and drove men, horses, and guns into the water. The Servians and Montenegrins have repulsed a superior force of Austrians in Bosnia. The Newfoundland contingent has arrived in England. There is extreme irritation in Greece owing to the expulsion of Greeks from Turkey. There are now a quarter of a million destitute refugees in Greece.