General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 24 October 1914, Page 6

General News

Paris, October 23. A French officer declares that the retreat of the German right threatens to become a rout. They are almost in a panic owing to the futility of their violent efforts. Seventeen hundred German dead were buried near Nieuport. Thentotal ..casualties in the district were 10,000. MManyiOf the killed and woiindod were raw, almost untrained, recruits. Thirty thousand Germans, who were strongly entrenched between Ostenq and Nieuport, were hurled back, on Ostend, abandoning many guns and rifles. It is reported that the British fleet's bombardment of the German lines destroyed a convoy eight miles long, iondon, October 22. The Daily Mail correspondent in Fiance says the Germans in the Ostend region are getting nervy at the increasing numbers of wounded arriving. Discarded uniforms found among the dunes at Zeebrugge suggest German desertions. Though the fighting is fierce, the Germans give the impression of lassitude and exhaustion in a marked degree. Their rapid retreat to the south of Western Flanders is thought to be the prelude to a general retreat. Amsterdam, October 22.

The Telegraaf states that the Germans have brought new guns to Ostend and Zeebrugge to shell the warships. The Allies are persistently repulsing the Germans' attempts to cross the Yser, the dykes and hanks of which have been cut, and the country flooded. Ten thousand marines, with machine guns, have left Antwerp. It is rumored that Namur is their destination. London, October 23.

A letter from a German officer participating in the fighting in the region of Rove and Noyou, says: "Any successes Germany scores are neutralised by the terrible losses of our men. We fight bravely, but the enemy is becoming more and more audacious. The warlike Turcos and Zouaves are hardy fighters. They are deadly marksmen. Our 18th Army Corps especially has been badly cut up. We had a victory at Remicourt, but a victory that we 1 deplore. It was a veritable slaughter, the victims being youthful SchlesweigHolsteiners, of whom few remain." Madrid, October 23.

The Government has prohibited the export of horses and mules, which had started on a large scale. The French Customs seized a quantity of blankets addressed to Switzerland and destined for Germany.