GERMAN RETREAT IN BELGIUM
POSITIONS EVACUATED , ATTACK ON ENGLAND ■■. ■ i ByTdesiaph.—Presi Association—Gonrrlglit I . ' , ' Amsterdam) November 1. The German shave burnt the pier a-t Blankenberghe (15-miles north-east cf Ostend), and ordered the people to leave the coast towns. Many' are fleeing to Holland. The fugitives state that the Germans began to retreat the momentfiring was heard from the guns in the direotion of Thourout. Everything indicates that there is a German retreat from Dixmude.
The, Germane have been further reinforced along the coastline between Ostend and Knocks (eighteen miles east-north-east of Ostend). More fortified trenohes have beeh thrown up. among the'dunes. The enemy have evacuated Lebbeke (three miles south-east of Termonde), and Wetteren (eight miles east-eouth-east of Ghent). A number of trains filled.with cannon and parts of submarines for German use off the Belgian coast have been detained at Bruges until further order, as the attack on England, according to the Germans, has been postponed until the present battle is decided. ' • •
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 5
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160GERMAN RETREAT IN BELGIUM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 5
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