Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 24 October 1914, Page 5

Belgium

REPORTED DEFEAT.

GERMAN FORCES TANGLED UP IN THE DYKES.

United Press Association

(Received 9.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, October 23

The German General Staff has quittod Ghent. There are strong rumours of a severe German defeat. It is stated that the Allies have driven the Germans into entanglements and dykes where the cavalry were unable to manoeuvre, and the big guns got bogged. It is reported that the Gorman lines were cut south of Ostend.

The public buildings in Ostend are full of wounded. The Germans are entrenched at Zeebrugge.

HEROIC ACT OF BELGIAN SAPPERS.

(Received 9.05 a.m.) London, October 23.

During the attack on Antwerp the Germans despatched two driverless locomotives with dynamite against the south station, but two Belgian sappers blew up the rails at the cost of their lives and averted the disaster.

BELGIAN OUTPOSTS ON THE YSER.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) Paris, October 23. Official.—Belgian outposts have reached the right bank of the Yser.

GERMAN BOASTFULNESS.

Times and Sydney Sun Servicer (Received 8.0 a.m.)

London, October 23

Berlin claims that the German war 'machine is working with uncanny silent precision, a correspondent describes as ruthless the German nation in Belgium, and as possessing immense • war equipment, the officers boasting of their imminent arrival in London, and. declaring that the next fortnight will be the easiest of their lives, because they were leaving next day en route for London.

ON BELGIAN COAST.

FRENCH SQUADRON HELPING BRITISH,

United Press Association.

Amsterdam, October 23,

The bombardment between Ostend and Nieuport is growing stronger. The Allies' shells, dropping among the German guns, inflict terrible loss. The battlefields are strewn with dead.

i Nevertheless, fresh German troops continue to arrive. The Germans have been slightly driven back from Middelkerke. The Allies' positions are strengthened by entrehchements and inund-, ations. A French squadron is now supporting the British fleet. British naval gun-fire killed General Von Trip and his staff near Middelkerke.

GENERAL.

BATTLEFIELD STORIES. United Press Association. London, October '23. Among the British Naval men at Groningen are twelve who were unaware of the British retreat. They held an Antwerp redoubt between the forts. A sub-lieutenant sent three men to milk cows in the vicinity, and immediately iafterwards he was astonished to see a heavy column of German infantry nearing the trenches. He ordered silence till the enemy bad marched past. Meanwhile the milkers had returned to the trenches. Subsequently the little party pierced the German lines unobserved, and reached Holland.

BRUSSELS. CONDITIONS UNDER GERMAN RULE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, Ocober 23. The Times, which is the only English newspaper procurable in Brussels, is being purchased at 3s per copy, and that at imminent risk. Foreign newspapers are absolutely prohibited. Three newsboys who were found with some in their possession were shot. The royal garage was attacked and the palace is filled with tho Kaiser's motor cars.

Some of the newspapers are insisting that Italy must occupy Valona and arrest the state of anarchy in Albania, and also check Greek penetration.