Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 60, 6 November 1914, Page 5

Belgium.

GERMANS STILL HOLD LILLE.

iEA BASE BEING ESTABLISHED AT ZEEBRUGCE.

A BELGIAN BAYONET CHARGE.

[United Press Association.]

-(Received 9.15 a.in.) Paris, November 5,

,„Xt. is definitely stated that the Germans still hold Lille, and the statement is also- confirmed that the Germans are taking many submarines to Zeebrugge, where they untended to es;ablish a sea base. ».

A large, number of mines have been ■trewn and the biggest guns mounted. A furious Belgian bayonet charge at ?ervaise on Tuesday resulted in 500 Germans being killed.

DISCONTENT IN THE RANKS OF

THE ENEMY.

London, November 4. The Times correspondent' says that die reports as to the Germans’ disfatigue are.too numerous to be disregarded; also that it is nddent they are experiencing difficulty n replenishing their stores, heavy ammunition and uniforms being particuarly scarce, the dead being stripped in order to clothe the recruits. It is not m uncommon event for Germans to get ihot in an unheroic fashion. Tired of ife in the trenches, they hold up a hand with a view to getting a bullet vound, enabling thorn to go to the •ear.

Another correspondent says the Gerjmans are beginning to manifest rest■essnesS, or grumbling hard against meir officers for the useless sacrifices ni the Yser. This is especially noticeible among the troops returning to the Croat, who, during intervals of. rest, irrived at the conclusion that the itruggle was madness. lie says lie can date with absolute certainty that desertion throughout the whole region has been severe, and/that preventive neasures are being adopted, soldiers ming forbidden to pass the night at jrivate houses, so as to prevent their \scaping in civilian dress. Suicides of )fficers are becoming a noticeable feature. Three shot themselves in the mad, and a major drowned himself. The Times correspondent says that Tie greater part of the fighting east >f Ypres for the last fow days has been i soldiers’ battle, with fierce bayonet •barges over the edge of the trenches, i work in which the British excel, but t entails tremendous losses.

OFFICIAL.

Paris, November 4 (midnight)

Official: On the left the enemy lias ’alien back on the right bank of the fsor. They hold only Tete-de-Pont on die left bank, midway between Dixnude and Nieuport. The enemy has vbandoned largo quantities of material vnd many guns, which are inundated. vVe recaptured Lombartzyde, and appreciably progressed, after alternate idvancos and retreats, between Dixnude, and Lys We also advanced sast of Lequesney to the heights of Parillors, and regained part of the lower slopes north of Vailly and Chaconne. We repulsed a violent attack m the heights of Chemindresdaers and, Theirns, There is nothing to report Tom the remainder of the front. Official.—There is no noticeable change. We slightly progressed towards Messines.' There have been violent resultless cannonades, particularly westward of Lens,between the Somme, Vncre, and the Argonne, and facing Vpremout.