NO INTENTION OF SURRENDERING COAST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 8

NO INTENTION OF SURRENDERING COAST.

HUNS WORKING FEVERISHLY IN

REGION OF ZEEBRUGGE. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18. Bombing attacks occnr daily m North Flanders and along 7 _hies coast. Bombt have been throwri on the Bruges railway front and thp. btation m Dqndk with the object of rendering military*-, wdil-'more difficult. The, place of" attack is. a new airdrome which. is likely *to become. thY largest m. Flanders. . tn the" 'wooded^ region of Scheevege, between Donck and Moei'kerke, maVliy ciViliftns are bus^*/ under the Gerinah lash. A gigantic fort has beeri prepared 7 scarcely an hour's wallc: frdrii the TJutch' frontier." . , Tlie whole neighborhood' of' civilians frpm Cole and other hairilets, as far as. B(aalgerheeve ; muSt go sbilth to Work be, tween Zeebrhgge' 7aVit.dl ,v^Blalikenburg. , where tlie civilians of Biniges arß dhligedi to work. These woir* > 'k/ ? .^n<_icate ! a contradiction of the "rjecefi't.'x'U-ndr that the Gerrrians are* likely "to quictl^' surrender the coast. High ofliceTs frequently come to Bruges to inspect the work. The Heystknpcke population. reqeivedJ instructions to hold matti*e*ss'es at' the disposaJ of the Germans. After plundering villas they are now beginning to use the home? of the settled \ population whose life lis already Hard) through lack' of ' food, forced lahor and/th-6 dangers'Vof the occupied region. ; . 7' Assistant Commissary - Lejeune, of liege, who was; ;sentei_ced to death, has, been shot with other patriot's, m 'a ditcl at Chartreuse. Nothing ie: yet kriowri of the fate of Burgoniaster Hain'mont. With reference, to the- escap> of the Scialdis, a motor boat,: with. Belgians for the Belgian arniy, the Telegraaf learns that the Germans. at .Antwerp are furious and have arrested the lockkeeper, where the Scaldis departed from, also friends of the captain of the Scaldis. •'-..-. "