BELGIUM'S RESISTANCE.
CAVALRY'S GOOD WORK IN THE OPEN.
THE GERMAN CENTRAL ATTACK. INDICATIONS OF ITS ABANDONMENT. BRUSSELS, August 13. Tho Belgian cavalry pursued German mitraillenso companies, and inflicted considerable losses, retiring with perfect steadiness when tho Germans were reinforced.
Ten thousand men -were engaged in this skirmish, ■which was the first action of tbo Belgians in open country.
Their conduct was a good augury for the future.
The indications aro that the German advance towards the Belgian centre has been abandoned.
Details of yesterday's battle show that five thousand Germans wore engaged with Belgian lanoors, carabineers, and artillery. Fighting lasted throughout the day, tho battle centro being Haelen, north-weat of Liege.
Belgian sappers blew up two bridges at Itomer.
By evening tho ground between Diest and Haelen was cleared of Germans, and covered with dead and wounded. Two hundred dead Germans wore found in a epaco of fifty -yards.
It is officially announced that tho Germans wero . repulsed at Eghezeo, near Novillo, *somo ten miles north of Namnr, with heavy losses.
A number of machine-guns, mounted on motor-cars, were captured.
Two Uhlans who wcro killod at Hos6elt wcro being buried when tho Red Cross men discovered ten thousand marks in gold upon on© of thorn, and fivo thousand upon tho other.
It is supposed that they wore attached to the Commissariat.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 11
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