BELGIANS OUTFLANK THE GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2345, 30 December 1914, Page 5

BELGIANS OUTFLANK THE GERMANS

NEAR LOMBAERTZYDE TWO THOUSAND OF THE ENEMY SURRENDER "I ■ ■ . , By T«leEi4ph.—Preea iasootaUon—OjpTilffht • ; • . ' . parfs, December 28. •_ The Belgian offensive culminated near Lombaertzyde, where the Left Wing outflanked the' Germans. The remainder kept the enemy busy. In a final charge by the whole body three' thousand Germans were surprised, two thousand of them surrendering. ■ The Belgians lost a few killed and twenty wounded. 1 INTERMITTENT. CANNONADE ,IN THE AISNE VALLEY, . . Paris, December 28. A' oommunique states:—"We continue to, advance west of Lombaertzyde and have, now reached the dunes, where the enemy has established a line of "We lost a section of trenches near ' and captured 90 yards of first-line trenches near Carenoj, in the region of Lens. ' ' l "There has been intermittent cannonade in the Aisne Valley, and in the Champagne district. It was particulafly intense in the region of Reims and ."We slightly progressed on the whole front from Ueiguta (?) to the repulsed a counter-attack north-east of Stembach."1 PEEPARING FOE THE SIEGE OP 'ANTWERP. ' v _ m „ ~ ~ ~ „•. ■ — Amsterdam, December 28. , The "Algemeen Handelablad s Antwerp correspondent, states that two hundred thousand Germans at Antwerp are preparing to resist a siege. Three thousand men are working day nad night strengthening the fortifications. . /