Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-10-23
KA|SER'S MIGHTY
ARMY IN RETREAT
TO ANTWERP LINE
Ostend Captured and Zeebrugge
Given Up.
LILLE AND BRUGEs TAKEN
Seventeen Division of Huns in Flight
! ALLIES Win U-Boat and Rail
Bases-BeIgian King and
Queen Enter Ostend.

Paris. Oct. 1S.-King Albert of Bel
GUM and Queen Elizabeth entered
OStend.
With the Allied Armies in Belgium,
Oct. 1S.-Belgian patrols have entered
Bruges and cavalry is operating Oh
both sides. Belgian guns are now nrlng
from south of the city.
Under pressure of the allied armies,
the Germans are abandoning the en-
tire Belgian seacoast and are seeking
refuge behind the outer defenses or
Antwerp.
Ostend has been occupied by the
British from both the land and sea ana
the allies are driving forward along
the coast in the direction OF Zee
brugge. the second U-boat base. Re
ports were to the effect that zee
brugge, IA miles northeast of Ostend,
had been evacuated by the Germans.
Five Miles From Bruges.
The British lines tonight were
scant five miles from the city OF
Rruges the center of the German rail
lines in Belgium.
Meanwhile to the south, in French
Flanders, the British completed the
capture of Lille, the last of the great
bastions which for four years main
tanned the German defensive system
from the North sea to Switzerland.
These were the outstanding events
in a day of supreme triumph for the
allied arms.
The British and BelgianS put to
flight General Won Arnum's army OF
II divisions and tonight that army is
in imminent danger of being entrapped
and forced to surrender.
The allied armies in their advance
liberated more than twenty towns and
villages.
Advance Nine Miles.
Late dispatches from the front said
the German second line in Belgium
has been broken by the British and
Belgians and allied cavalry were re-
ported to have advanced some nine
miles through the breach in this line.
Meanwhile British aerial and naval
forces, the latter under command OF
Vice Admiral Keyes, who conducted
the famous naval raid against the for
mer U-boat base some months ago,
landed at Ostend and found the port
clear of the enemy. The vice admiral
made a personal inspection of the har-
Dor and city.
Later British infantry marching
from the direction of LOmbaertzyde,
entered the city.
Black Day for German Arms.
British Headquarters in France, Oct.
1S.-This was black day for the Ger
man arms. From Lille to the sea a
wonderful crop of brilliant successes
was garnered, and the British Fourth
army struck hard on the lie Cateau-
Bohain front southeast of Cambria,
where the enemy was trying to effect
his main retreat.
Heavy fighting resulted, but the
progress of Field Marshal Haig was
satisfactory.
The British, French and Belgian
armies, under command of King AL
bert of the Belgians, made a most i'm
portant advance in their offensive in
Flanders. General SiXte Won Arnim's
army was thrown back with heavy
losses and it's position is precarious.
The whole of Won Arnims army is
in retreat from the North sea to the
region of Lille, and the retirement is
assuming the proportions of a rout.
Military observers believe General
Won Arnim will have extreme difficulty
in extricating himself, as he re-
manned too long, against all strategies
and military laws, when he was out
thanked and virtually surrounded.