The Daily Mail’s Rotterdam correspondent, telegraphing Sunday evening, says: 

“Slowly but surely the Germans are being beaten back on the western wing, and old men and young lads are being hurried to the front.  The enemy were in strong force at Dixmude, where the Allies were repulsed once, only to attack again with renewed vigor.

“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.

[Illustration:  Flanders and Northern France—­How the Battle Line Has Changed (Up to Jan. 1, 1915) Since the War Began.]

Seeking Wounded on Battle Front

By Philip Gibbs of The London Daily Chronicle.

FURNES, Belgium, Oct. 21.—­The staff of the English hospital, to which a mobile column has been attached for field work, has arrived here with a convoy of ambulances and motor cars.  This little party of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, and chauffeurs, under the direction of Dr. Bevis and Dr. Munro, has done splendid work in Belgium, and many of them were in the siege of Antwerp.

Miss Macnaughton, the novelist, was one of those who went through this great test of courage, and Lady Dorothie Feilding, one of Lord Denbigh’s daughters, won everybody’s love by her gallantry and plucky devotion to duty in many perilous hours.  She takes all risks with laughing courage.  She has been under fire in many hot skirmishes, and has helped bring away the wounded from the fighting around Ghent when her own life might have paid the forfeit for defiance to bursting shells.