GERMANS FORCED BACK FROM BELGIAN COAST.
FIVE THOUSAND DROWNED IX FLOODED COUNTRY. ENEMY'S ATTACK CONCENTRATED ON DIXMUNDE. f/.Nririv. 0.tn1.,1- ■::,. 'IV London Oh-crvcr correspondent at Calais -ays that the allies forcer] til.-- ficrmans' right to Thick, 1" miles south-east of Ghent, and 32 tnil.s from tin- roast. Twelve: hundred "ere taken prisoners, while tin wounded uutrihcred 700. It is ,-limated that tin; German* lost M.OOO consequent upon the flooding f-f tin' country southeast of Dunkirk. Five thousand were, drowned, awl the rest cut off and overwhelmed. •A r;,j,t m ..(l JJ.-ivarian officer states that when tic allies opened the sluice* near Dixmunde, his regiment was compelled to fight in their trenches up to the. hips in water fur many hours. Th-> Germans are concentrating their attack on Dixmunde, 15 miles south of Ostcnd, where they are nut exposed to the British fleet's attack.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 7
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142GERMANS FORCED BACK FROM BELGIAN COAST. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 7
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