New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-27
German Losses Enormous
on Northern End of Line

London. Oct. 27.-"The Standard" to-
Gay publishes the following dispatch
from q town in the French Department
Of Pas de Calais, the name OF when is
deleted by the censor:
"The losses of the Germans al along
the line Of the great battle ~ the
north. a victory in which would nave
given them an open road to Dunklrk,
and perhaps to Calais, Boulogne and
Abbeville, have been frightful. They
have lost tens of thousands IN killed
and wounded in the last week IN that
section alone of the battle front, and
while the officers seem to be crazed
with rage and modification, the
starved and ragged rank and lac, oil
which a large proportion now are men
Of over fifty and boys under eighteen,
rppear disheartened to the point OF
despair.
"The German troops as q whole, In
eluding the subordinate officers, have
been grossly and terribly deceived By
Berlin, and have been finding 1t out
for weeks. The troops IN Belgium have
been told they would be in Paris IN
three days or less, and even that Paris
was only thirty OF forty miles away.
midway between Lille and Nleupor'
the Allies have pushed far forward
routing the Germans opposed 20 them
with enormous losses The Ger
man prisoners admit they are neal
starvation and on the verge OF collapse
from exhaustion. Foremost in the re
lentless attack upon the Germans Is
the Belgian David. The little Belgian
army, with Belgium's heroic young
King at its head. is still fighting in the
last corner Of Belgium left to It's sons
against the ferocious German Goliath
King Albert is with the Belgian field
army within constant sound of the en-
emy's cannon, and is daily under fire
himself, inspiring his troops with the
courage which only the finest soldier
can display. Belgian soldiers who were
wounded ot Dixmude ON Friday have
described their privations in simple
accomplishing language.
No Food During Retreat.
AT last we know the Germans are
coming no further said one of them
but the last week in the trenches was
terrible for as. Our food has beer
sardines and biscuits, and during the
retreat we got sometimes FOL
two days together-and had to eubsist
on raw turnips. Often we could get
nothiI 20 drink at all. for there was
not even water. AFTER battle you
get so thirsty you could drink blood
from your own veins. ! have been
lighting all the time ever since Liege
and to be thirsty after holding trenches
twenty-four hours against lncessant at
tpcks is the worst thing / know--worse
than any German she'll FIRE.
"'Another thing we all suffer from j:
the scarcity of tobacco. II we have any
cigarettes we are allowed TO smoke
them only in the daytime. IL is court
martial and death to smoke at night
for even a glimmer might give away oui
position 20 the Germans
"There is a downright famine in to-
baeco and matches in all the towns in
which ] have been in in the last few
days. The plight OF the Germans in
the region around DiXmude is terrible
BY cutting the dykes the Belgians have
flooded thousands of acres, and II is
stated that 5000 Germans have been
drowned. In some of their trenches
they are fighting waist deep in water.
Anywhere within six or seven miles OF
the coast they are exposed 10 the
searching fire Of British warships.
"From Roulers the Allies have dashed
forward, constantly reinforced from the
inexhaustible reserves Of the British
snd French, and there already is be-
ginning Of German panic"