Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-18 | Page 1 | British Fleet Wrecks Trains

BRITISH FLEET WRECKSTRAINS World on Bruges Ship Canal Are Bombarded and Destroyed De-stroyed by Warships. London. Nov. 18. 7.53 a. m A Rotterdam Rot-terdam dispatch to the Daily Mail savs : "The British fleet received information infor-mation Monday which led them to arry out a vigorous bombardment at Knncke and Zeebruge on the Belgian ( oast The Solway company's works on the Bruges ship canal, which arc being used as a base for German military mili-tary trains, were wrecked A train of five cars filled with soldiers, was struck by a sheil, took fire and was destroyed. Much damage was done to the German stores and supplies." Germans Suffer Heavy Losses. London. Nov. 18. 8 40 a. m. The correspondent of Reuters Telegram I company at Amsterdam sends the I following : "According to tjie Telegraafs Sluls, Netherlands, correspondent, the I Germans occupying Dixmude have suffered heavy losses. In fresh fighting fight-ing which has taken place there they lont 2700 men The town of Nleu-porl Nleu-porl is badly damaged lleay can-nonnding can-nonnding was heard Tuesday in the direction of Ypres indicating a renewal renew-al of the heavy fighting there. "Fugitives say that additional sub-mai sub-mai mop are being constructed at Zeebruge " , oo