"Roulers resembles a shambles. It was taken and retaken four times, and
battered to ruins in the process. The German guns made the place
untenable for the Allies.
"An Oosburg message says the firing at Ostend is very heavy, and that
the British are shelling the suburbs, which are held by the Germans.
Last night and this morning large bodies of Germans left Bruges for
Ostend. It is believed the Ostend piers have been blown up."
"The position on the coast is stationary this morning," says a Daily
Mail dispatch from Flushing, Netherlands, under date of Sunday. "There
is less firing and it is more to the southward. No alteration of the
situation is reported from Ostend.
"The German losses are frightful. Three meadows near Ostend are heaped
with dead. The wounded are now installed in private houses in Bruges,
where large wooden sheds are being rushed up to receive additional
injured. Thirty-seven farm wagons containing wounded, dying, and dead
passed in one hour near Middelkerke.
"The Germans have been working at new intrenchments between Coq sur Mer
and Wenduyne to protect their road to Bruges."
Gen. von Tripp and nearly all his staff, who were killed in a church
tower at Leffinghe by the fire from the British warships, have been
buried in Ostend.
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