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Show 'HEAVY LOSSES OF THE GERMANS (Special Cable by London Daily Tele-1 graph). Rotterdam. Oct. 30 The Germans are concentrating in force at Zee-brugge Zee-brugge and at Heyst, where for the last two days they have been placing big guns in the sand dunes, the muzzles muz-zles pointed seaward The lighthouses light-houses and the sluices of the oanals are strongly guarded. A Mutch merchant from Bruges says the Germans intend to use Zeebrugge as a naval base if their navy or a part of it can give the British navj ibe slip. From Zeebrugge it would be possible pos-sible for ships of moderate size to sail to Brugge through the canal ubich was finished seeral years ago It s reported from Maastraeeht 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 the Yser battlefield battle-field The dead and wounded were crushed under the wheels of the fl-ing fl-ing artillery There is none to bury the dead nor succor the 'wounded. Prostrate bodies were used as bridges over which living men retreated while the English artillery was sending a storm of shrapnel In one unbroken stream unerringly among the masses of Germans. Very few survived to reach their trenches, where they were mowed down by rule tire n,M ,uor,, troops 'Aire sent out; they were singing and' Chi i ring almost in delirium. The Germans tried to storm the allies' Invisible In-visible trenches When tins weri vithin 300 yards a long line of fire flashed and the Germans ceased to exist. ex-ist. The German headquarters In Os tend is ordering up more men to the attack, while the streets are crowded with the wounded and dying. Some wounded men struggled into i ttfes and sank into chairs while their comrades drank and shouted : To i In- ( 1st- ad cemetery." The German staff at the Mote' Couroune continues to cry, "Forward to Calais " |