More Britishers and Guns Needed.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 5

More Britishers and Guns Needed.

(Received 8.55 a.m.) - Amsterdam, November 9. British patrols are within three miles of Bruges. The Germans at night time removed their heavy gams from various Strategical points. The British forced back the Germans considerably eastward of Ypres, yet the consensus of military opinion is that more Britishers and more guns are needed. The, Germans are still bringing reinforcements from Alsace, and threaten the British lines with a stupendous mass of artillery in the hope of penetrating to Ypres," and thence to Hazebrouck and .Calais. Many big guns are mounted at Heyst, being concealed in sankbanks, while other batteries of field guns are posted inland, indicating the enemy's intention to cling to the few miles of coastline between Zeebrugge and the Dutch frontier, perhaps because the Bruges-Heyst canal is being used .to transport mines and submarines in sections. The Germans' entrenching works extend up to ten kilometres of the Dutch frontier. At that point the trenches face northwards, indicating they are intended to-check the Allies if the latter work along the sea coast and then to the Dutch frontier, The Germans are working with great energv upon the western forts at Antwerp, and are also laying land-mines in that vicinity. A long, immense area with three circles of trenches for infantry is being prepared round the Antwerp forts.