Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-31 | Page 4 | Germans Undaunted by Terrific Losses

Germans mm 8! TERRIFIC LOSSES They Charge Singing Almost Al-most in Delirium After Thousands Are Slain. (Special Cahlo by Arranirernpnt with London Dally TeleEraph and International News Service. ROTTERDAM, O.-t, :i0. The Germans Ger-mans are concentrating in force at Zecbrugge and at lleyst, where for the last two days they have been placing plac-ing big gnus in the sand dunes, the muzzles pointed seaward. The light-bouses light-bouses and the sluices of the canals are strongly guarded. A Dutch merchant from Bruges savs the Germaus intend to use Ze'ebrugge as a naval base if their navy or a part of it can give the British navy the slip. I'roin Zeebrugge it would bo possible for ships of niodetate size to sail to Brugge through the caDul which was finished several years ago. It is reported from Maastraecht that thirty German heavy guns left Liege yesterday en route" to Nieuport and that several wagons loaded with what was declared to be submarines passed Liege on the way to the coast. The Ostend correspondent of the newspaper, Tyd, describes a retreat of the .Germans from tha Yser battlefield. The dead and wounded were crushed under the wheels of the living artillery. artil-lery. Thero is none to bury tha dead nor succor the wounded. Prostrate bodies were used as bridges over which living men retreated white the English artillery was sending 3 storm of slarap-nel slarap-nel in one unbroken stream unerringly unerring-ly among; the masses of Germans. Very few survived to reach their trenches, where they were mowed down by rifle fire. But more troops were sent out; they were siugiug and cheering cheer-ing almost in delirium. The Germans tried to storm the allies' invisible trenches. When they were within :i00 yards a long line of fire flashed and the. Germans ceased to exist. The German headquarters in Ostend is ordering up more men to the attack, while the streets are. crowded with the wounded and dying. Some wounded men struggled into cafes and sank into chairs while their comrades drank and shouted: "Tn the Cisrend cemetery." The German staff at. the Hotel four-nne four-nne continue--, to cry, "Forward to Calais.