ALLIES IN BELGIUM.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 6

ALLIES IN BELGIUM.

WARSHIPS BOMBARD GERMANS. ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. London, Wednesday. The AHips have made excellent progress in Belgium. British warships were of great service in hombarding the Germans advancing on Nieuporr, ten miles southwest of Ostend. The British naval guns, finding the range marvellously, shelled the enemy along the dykes, the German artillery being forced to rfitire. Tha,,Allies made a general advance, and many Germans were taken prisoners, while a large number of Belgian and French prisoners were released. [Meanwhile the British warships raked the villages southward of Middelkerke, between Ostend and Nieuporf, and dropped heavy shells in the rear of the Germans. . " A detachment with machine guns, advanced, and the Germanß, caught between two fires, wavered and yielded. The infantry presHed forward, while the cannonading from the sea increased, and the infantry fire redoubled. Thewholo German line resting on tha sea retreated, and remove their guns towards Ostend, the wounded traversing Bruges and Brussels. It is reported that the Germans are fortifying Ostend on the sea and south sideß. The Amsterdam Telegrauf states that thirty thousand German 3 are entrenched between Middelkerke and Nieunort.