horses and men among
the debris presented a shocking spectacle.

"Eventually, we got into Dixmude itself, and every time a shell came
crashing among the roofs we thought our end had come. The Hotel de Ville
(town hall) was a sad sight. The roof was completely riddled by shell,
while inside was a scene of chaos. It was piled with loaves of bread,
bicycles, and dead soldiers.

"The battle redoubled in fury, and by 7 o'clock in the evening Dixmude
was a furnace, presenting a scene of terrible grandeur. The horizon was
red with burning homes.

"Our return journey was a melancholy one, owing to the constant trains
of wounded that were passing."

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