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Show THOUSANDS OF GERMANS DEAD I London, Oct. 22 3 16 a m "Two I .rainloads of wounded soldiers arrived i I here tonight from the scene of the Hdeterate fighting at Nleuport and I Dlxmude " a dispatch to the Dally I " Chronicle under date of northern l France, 6ays The Germans in great strength flung themselves on these two points In an effort to force their way to Xieuport, in the hope of gaining gain-ing Fournes and the French frontier. "Despite heavy losses the Germans returned to the attack three times The engagement lasted the greater part of the day, but ultimately the Germans were driven back along the entire line. "In the beginning, however, the Germans Ger-mans carried everything before them They succeeded In gaining possession posses-sion of the town of Dlxmude, but the allies' reinforcements, in a bayonet charge, swept down on the enemy with the stirring battle cry 'Remember 'Remem-ber Louvaln and Termonde!' "Desperate hand-to-hand fighting ensued and gmduall the German resistance re-sistance crumbled The retreat slow at lirst. became a rout All the allies' al-lies' artillery came into action and completed the work of demoralization which the bayonets had begun. "The enemy, In thHr retreat, abandoned aban-doned thousands of dead and wound-I wound-I ed Our troops also lost heavily Fifty Fif-ty soldiers who were only slightly I wounded, died on the battlefield from exposure, because the ambulance iui Jt us uiwvh iu sie lufiu iiLieu-Jtion. iiLieu-Jtion. Large numbers of the wounded, wound-ed, many of whom lay in the rain I for fifteen hour6, were without the slightest surgical attention |