Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-10-28
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Kaiser Rushes 100000 Troops
to Front to Oppose
Allies.
10000 GERMANS ARE HELD?
Teutons Extend Base Hallway Be-
tween Ostend and Nieuport and
Are B~ombarding Belgian Line
80 Along User River.

. Rotterdam, Oct. 24.-The intensity
OF the fighting in Belgium is SO great
that the people in Holland can hear
distinctly the noise of it. Flushing
continually heard the thunder of guns
and the windows there rattledswith the
conclusion. The sound is gradually
becoming fainter
The Amsterdam Nieuwe Van den
Dag reports that the burgomaster of
Wenduyne has t~elegraphed the fol-
lowing 20 Il,
1.-The victory is to the allies. They
have taken 10000 prisoners between
Chalons and Longwy and have cap
-tured 300 guns and 81 flags"
Refugees from Ostend say that
Westende is being bombarded and
that many trains filled with wounded
are coming into Bruges. Z
The correspondent Of the Nieuwe
Rotterdamsche Courant at Client says
that big troop movements are taking
place.. The German staff left the
town on Tuesday for either Wetterin
or Grammont. ,sy.4 %& 4
o. 1t is semi-oficially reported in&Pe-
trograd that the number of German
troops sent to the Eastern and West
ern theaters of the war since the mid
die Of September is 100000.
On the western Belgian coast there.
is being fought a battle which, for.
display of advanced military and
naval science, for spectacular effect,
for ferocity of action and appalling
losses. is a realization of the most
fantastic dream picture Of the war
of the future ever put OF paper or
canvas. %'f El gs@sa%1 co.
The Germans, heavily REINFORCED
by fresh land troops and by a naval
brigade of 10000 men, have extended
their base from Ostend to Maria
kirke and Middlekirke, halfway be-
tween Ostend and Newport, and from
these positions are Smelling the Bel
giap line, which extends from Nieu-
port south along the River User, q
distance of 10 miles, with their left
flank resting on the coast. " d
The Belgians are being aided by
the French land forces, the British
.warships on the e and the British
monitors and small gunboats in the
canals and rivers.
When not directing the fire OF their
huge 17-inch guns against the Belgian
position, the Germans are replying to
the cannonading OF the British dread
naughts, which added their strength
to the British fleet. %,'7
The fire Of the British guns is d.
rected and corrected constantly by OBJ
servers. The flying machines circle
low about the German positions, risk
ing death at every swoop, in order
to be within effective dissertation dis
lance. ~. = ~ -" ~
German submarines, with deadly
torpedoes charged for their destruc-
tive thrust resting, ready in their
tubes, ! are constantly menacing the
hulls of the great fighting ships.
The dykes Of the User have been
|cutx and the banks for considerable
distances have been flooded; while
stretching away in the direction OF
the attacking German front at high
tide, the land is SO inundated as ef-
fectively to preclude the possibility OF
any advance in force. "
The ferocity of the ~three.cornered
b~ombardment continues undiminished.
In the British naval bombardment
the town of Slype, which was held
in force by the Germans, was utterly
destroyed, and the house occupied by
the German headquarters staff was
blown to bits. r., - s.
One of the British baloonists, while
signaling the range to the ships, was
killed by the fire from the German
guns. - sd.
A wireless dispatch from Berlin
claims that the German artillery dis
abled one Of the British d~estroyers
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