BELGIUM'S GALLANT RESISTANCE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2222, 7 August 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM'S GALLANT RESISTANCE.

GERMAN INVADERS REPULSED. ' . , HEAVY FIGHTING ALONG THE MEUSE Belgium ia offering unexpected resistanc'e to the GermnSmtkn^it 5 o'clock thfc mormng it was reported that the Belgian Army had repulsed a th« ] hris«. 11g .^,- C il rm w advail^.i h0 Belgians blew up the railway tunnels and the bridges across the Meuse, which, river constitutes the principal natural obstacle m an advance across Belgium into France. ,««»mrai oo- ' tw! fighting, along the Jleuso against the German advance. Three German dirigibles sailing over tho Brussels district. The military authorities announce that aviators from Liege explored reriond , .which were stated to have been invested, ,but found no trace of mvadera. ' ll ' ' ■" (Eeo. August 6, 10.55 p.m.) ~ 'It is officially'tep.orted that fierce fighting took*'place in"the'onions ""of Liege early this morning., All the German attacks wore repulsed. No German SffJ^f ed lho , fort t survived. One soldier tog .himself on tho German raS hilled four, and returned to his comrades. ' The general situation in Belgium is es-cellent. It is reported that the fort at fenianS SllgSS " *"* «""* «" »WS& ** th " **<* the forts destroyed. Router's Brusseb correspondent says the Germans were completely repulsed • , (Eec. August 6, 10.10 p.m.) 'The "BruteeKGajetio" says the 7th and 10th Germany Herve, Pepinster/and Remouohamps, and fired at certat/fortfon tt%«ut. (Rec. August 6, 11.20 p.m.) ' The Belgian War Office states that "the German losses The ffM SUP hundred wounded Germans are coming to of Lfee * ""^k^ oll of im on the Eivrer Meus «' » the Province Treren is a town to southeast of Ling en, in the Arenberg-Mappon district (Western Germany), about 80 miles fiom the Belgian frontier Mavvtta alßtnor nortwVfew" 1 * povuhtim ° f 5000 Jn tho Province of Liege, 5 miles . Pepiuster is a .towrl of 8000 inhabitants, situated i miles south-west of Ver. ners, in the Province of Liege. - , ' ' ul ver milra ?e^ b of * ° D Am^ lie D e' "» tte 1»W district, situated 01 Lieg«, with twelve forts, and Saiiur with nine forts, are the fortified tetes de pont protecting tho two most important passages of the Heuse. The forte are constructed in concrete with armoured cupolas. TJm forte are quite up-to-date in ■f eo *? n W t0 Lwutenant-Colonel Alsager Pollock are handicapped by the lack of clearances necessary to give a useful field of fire. The place" however, are yrell suited to furnishing a strong pivot for an aotive defending* RUSSIAN ARMY ADVANCING RETREATING GERMANS LAY COUNTRY WASTE TROOPS IN CONTACT-ALONG THE FRONTIER (Independent Cable Association.) (Eeo, August 6, 4.35 p.m.) < ti. • _i j ii ~ -r. . ' London, August 5. It is reported that Russian troops have established contact with tho enemy along the greater • portion of the Kusso-German fiontier. . The Germans, according to a St. .Petersburg message, are falling back,-burn-ing villages over an enormous stretch of country. \ - » " . lINER .SUNK WITH ALL HANDS.' CAUGHT LAYING MINES.' TORPEDOED AND SENT TO BOTTOM. • (Eeo. August 6, 10.55 p,in.) : ...■•/' T , . _. ~ ~, ,1 , London, Augußt 5. It is officially, announced that tne scout cruiser Amphion sank tho HomburcAmorica liner_ Konigin Luisc. wtoch was being ntili«od as a mire-layer. At 3.35 this morning tho Amphion caught the Konigin Luise approaching the mouth of tho Thames, and torpedoed and sank her with all hands. — • / The Konigin Luiso was a steel twin-sciow steamer of 10,785 tons ctoss. She ! was built in 1896 by the Vulvan Shipbuilding Co., at Stettin, for tho North German Lloyd Line, and sho was registered at Bremen. Her dimensions ware —Length 523 ft, breadth 60.1 ft., and depth 34.S)ft. The Konigin Luiso was fitted with all the modern appliances for merchantmen, including submarine signalling apparatus and wireless telegraph instruments. > ILM.S. Amphion was built jn 1911, and is classed as a scout. Sho has a displacement of 3360 tonsi Her armament consists of 10 four-inch guns, arid two 21inch torpedo tubes. GERMAN CRUISER OFF CANADIAN COAST GRAPPLING FOR THE CABLES BOMBARDS WIRELESS STATIONS (line. August 7, 0.30 ti.m ) Ottawa, August 0 It is rcpoited that a.Geim<m warship is shelling the TrnusfillDstic wireless stations at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Washington, August 0. Heavy firing heard off th« const of Maine is believed to be a naval engagement. Details are unknown. , London, August S. The British Consul at, Xew York has repoited that a <>ihiau cruiaei was eeen grappilug-'for the Transatlantic cables off off Kewfoundkud.