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Show HEAVY LOSSES 10 KAISER'S TROOPS Iondon. Nov. 1. "The way to Bruges is now open to the allies, owing ow-ing to their recapture of Roulers, and the Germans are digging new trenches behind Ghent with feverish energy. To do this is to announce their retreat. re-treat. This statement Is made in the Observer in a dispatch dated "near the Franco-Belgian frontier." The message mes-sage continues" "Their (the Germans') losses have been enormous. A German officer captured yesterday estimates that there have been 150,000 killed or wounded since the occupation of Os-tend, Os-tend, in northwest Fiander6 alone Whole batteries and battalions have been annihilated by the shell fire from the warships. Thousands have been drowned as the result of the opening of the dikes. In hand-to-hand fighting the German losses have far I exceeded thoBe of the allies. Thous- j i anda of bodies of Germans floating on the inland sea bear bayonet ' wounds Only the main roads and railroad , tracks remain exposed above the flooded area. The shattered German regiments' are beins given no time to reform and amalgamate. They are abandoning th-ir wounded, quiit; and transports. Unlet! their fleet comes I out to create a diversion the; will I be driven from the Belgian coast with-1 in a week." |