Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-21 | Page 1 | Germans Destroy Ships before They Leave Flanders

I Germans Destroy . Ships Before They Leave Flanders AMSTERDAM. Oct. 20 Germania, i of Berlin, the organ of the Centralist party, prints an obviously inspired commentary on the evacuation by the Germans of the Flanders coast, saying it will have an inconsiderable effect on the conduct of tho naval war. Tho newspaper says that 11 of the Gern-an-constructed military works at Ostend, Zocbrugge and elsewhere were either dismantled cnfiTrely apd carried off or left in an unusable condition. "We have succeeded in getting all tho ships' home," it snys. "A few serviceable serv-iceable ships that we were forced to leave were dismantled and then destroyed." de-stroyed." WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BELGIUM. Sunday, Oct. 20. (By the Associated Press) Before leaving Ostend Os-tend the Germans scuttled a large mail boat alongside the old British warship war-ship Vindictive which was sunk in the channel there last May. They thus made doubly sure that the channel chan-nel would be blocked for a long time. The only money to be found In Ostend Os-tend and other liberated Belgian cities ci-ties is German. Many of the smaller children, especially in Ostend. use German as their own language.