BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 125, 20 October 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

THE QUEEN OF BELGIUM. ! REMAINS WITH THE KING. ANTWEKPIANS RETURNING. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 19, 6.501 p.m. London, October 18. The Queen of the Belgians remains .'ith the King and his staff at headejuarers. Many Antwerpians are returning to ho city. MARINES KILLED BY BOMBS.

A GERMAN TRICIv. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 19, 5.50 p.m. London, October 18. Marines retreating from Antwerp reate that they halted at a house vacated y wealthy Germans. The inmates, aparently caretakers, before departing pread a white coat on the lawn, and hortly an aeroplane dropped shells, kiting three of the marines sitting near lie coat. lERMANS PROCEED FRANCEWLSRDS. A HEAVY TOLL OF FODDER. Received 19, 10.15 p.m.

Amsterdam, October IS. Strong German forces left Bruges (1-1 liles east of Ostend), with guns, to?ards Franco.

It is- rumored the Germans have re reated from West Flanders.

The Germans commandeered 125,000 rancs' worth of hay and oats at Blencnberg as a ransom.

i GERMANS LEAVE OSTEND. Received 19, 8.25 p.in. London, October 18 (evening). It is rumored that tho Germans have rithdrawn from Ostend to the southrest. GERMAN FORCES AT OSTEND. FORTY THOUSAND IAND 400 GUNS. Received 20, 1.30 a.m. Amsterdam, October 19. Forty thousand German infantry and ver 400 guns traversed Ostend on Satrday. CRUELTY TO WOUNDED. BRUTISH GERMANS. Amsterdam, October 18. A war correspondent, writing in tho ewspaper De Tijd, says ho travelled in train conveying 2000 wounded from iaisse's to Landen on the 9th, and saw here 70 wounded Britishers lying on Itliy straw. They had been without ooil for five days. Th> Uernian soldiers istributed soup to the others, but tanaliied the Britishers by holding food o their noses and then withholding it. 'iiey also spat in their faces. The corespondent protested that the Britishers ud done their duty like the other founded, but the sergeant roared, "They re dirty mercenaries." Not one of the 00 Germans present offered the least id to their dying enemies.

OCCUPATION OF OSTEND. OF NO IMTORTANCE. London, October 18. The Times, in a leader, says: "The ccupation of Ostein! is a matter of no mportince. The harbor is useless for he enemy, who will '.ot dare to bring is ships into it. Used as a ba3e' for uiiniarineri, it would be instantly and 11'eef.ive'y tackled. A Zeppelin shed at l-jt".ud would be agreeably vulnerable. JThe occupation has no relation whatevi r the military or naval position, and rom the viewpoint of the progress *o! j lie war the matter is not worth a seeml's thought."

GEUMAN LOOT AT OSTEND. Amsterdam, October 18. Advices from Berlin state that the Germans at Ostend seized many rifles, quantities of ammunition and 200 un•damaged locomotives. MUSHROOM BULLETS. MODERN SURGERJ, ' London, October 18. Mr Souttar, chief surgeon in the Brit - A field hospital in Belgium, slates th.it he ordinary German bullet may make a /omid even worse than a dum-dum. Jt so constructed that as it strikes it urns head over heels and the base, /hieh is of soft metal, mushrooms and nflicts an enormous wound. The rejarkable thing about modern surgery is hat amputation is hardly ever neccsary. It is possible, with steel plates nd screws, to repair almost anything, le gives striking instances. THB SCHELDT MINED. Amsterdam, October 18. The Scheldt is mined between AntwerJ nd the south-eastern extremity cr 'outh Beveland.