ALLIES ADVANCING NORTHWARDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 7

ALLIES ADVANCING NORTHWARDS

FIVE MILES FROM OSTEND. v

GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL ALONG WHOLE FRONT

DESPERATE:ATTEMPT TO REACH CALAIS,

By ABSoolatdon—Oopyrleht

(Rec. October 30, 6.20 p.m.)

London, October 29,

'A correspondent, after describing' the struggle on tie Yser, says tie number of wounded arriving in Calais is evidence of the grim resolve of the Germans to carry out the War Lord's orders to break through at any cost. Th 9 rain of the last few days has caused the heavy guns to churn up the surface of the country into an impassable morass. The floods are increasing and the country is cut up by numberless ditches and rivulets, The belligerents have constructed an amazing network, of trenches commanding every., streamlet at almost point-blank range. 'At Dixniude the greater part of a German battalion was taken prisoners. The captures were composed mostly of young men of a mild, studious expression. A number of Germans, during the fighting on the Yser, threw down their arms v and pleaded for mercy, but the fighting was too desperate, for that was the moment,.when the tired Belgian infantry gave way and left the trenches,, but the core of the trenches stood and saved the situation.—"Time's" and Sydney "Sun" sorvice.

UNPRECEDENTED GERMAN LOSSES,

Amsterdam, October 29. The Germans admit that they never lost so many men as on the Yser. Ofone group of 150 only two returned. b Paris, October 29. The bloody struggle continues at Nieuport and Ostend. Belgian wounded who reached the base hospital on Monday and' Tuesday state that the Belgians still say, gleefully, "In a few-'weeks we will again have an army of a hundred thousand," referring to the training of recrmt6.

PREPARATIONS FOB GERMA N RETREAT.

> (Rec October 30, 9.15 p.m.)

London, October 30.

A correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," writing from Ghent, says several hundred Qerman motor-care are held in readiness for an. immediate retreat. They are laden with provisions and equipment- belonging to the troops now fighting in Flanders. ' ALLIES ADVANCE TOWARDS OSTEND. London, October 30. It is reported from Flushing that the Allies have advanced towards Ostend. The British have occupied Leffinghe and Raveryyde, which they carried, at the point of the bayonet. A Bavarian battalion refused to fight, and surrendered. 'Raveryydl is on the Ostend-Nieuport railway, and is on the eea coast about five miles from Ostend. Leffinghe is three.miles inland from R-averyyde, and also about five miles from. Ostend. PROGRESS MADE AT SEVERAL POINTS (Rec. October 31,'0.20 a.m.) i Paris, October 30. Official.—During yesterday we made progress at several points, particularly around Yprea and south of Arras. There is nothing new to report on tho Nieuport-Dixmude front. Between the Aisno and the Argonne we captured some of tho enemy's trenches. Not one of the partial attacks attempted by the Germans succeeded. Wo have, likewise advanced in tho Forest of Apremont.