ALLIES IN BELGIUM.
FUTILE GERMAN ATTACKS. ENEMY'S HASTY RETREAT. Received this day, 1.15 a.m. Paris, Friday. A French officer declares the retreat of the German right threatens to become a rout. They are panicked at the futility of their violent efforts. Seventeen hundred German dead were buried near Nieuport. Their total casualties in the district are 10,000. Many of the killed and wounded are raw and almost untrained recruits. Thirty thousand Germns who were Btrongly : entrenched between Nieuport and Ostend were hurled back on Ostend, abandoning many guns and rifles. It is reported the British fleet's bombardment of the German lines destroyed a convoy eight miles long.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 715, 24 October 1914, Page 5
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107ALLIES IN BELGIUM. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 715, 24 October 1914, Page 5
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