Second Edition. THE WAR.
in the West / £..» •• 4 r“ . • . ..... • FRENCH PROGRESS REPORT. /, [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] United Press Association. (Received 12.55 p.m.) Paris, January 17. A communique states: We progressed two hundred metres in the Lombaertzydo district. The advance in the Beausejour district, despite the storm, continued, and we progressed westward of Orbey,, f , 7 GRUESOME STORV FROM OSTEND (Received 12.55 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 17. A Hutch correspondent at Ostend states that 6000 on| of the 45,000 inhabitants remain, having horseflesh only as meat and |lttle bread. The Germans plundered|ihe stores of beer and wine.
There are sixty-four heavy guns on the dunes. Thirteen thousand Germans are guarding the boulevards at Maria, Kirke, where powerful fortifications have been erected. The Germans by>threatening starvation forced the population to dig trenches. , (v , , Twelve thousand* German convicts have arrived at Ostend, and are carrying the dead from fhe Yser line and the foating corpsesfjfrom the. canals and burying them at Ostend.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1915, Page 6
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157Second Edition. THE WAR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1915, Page 6
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