GERMANS LOSE 31,000 MEN AT LIEGE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 5

GERMANS LOSE 31,000 MEN AT LIEGE

BELGIAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Rec. August 12, 7,80 p.m.) • m i Brussels, August 11. The . War Office has announced that ZOOO Germans were killed in the attacks on Liege, 20,000 wounded, and 9700 were taken prisoners. . , - ■ The newspaper. "Le Peuple" states that during tho street fighting at Seraing a . hundred Gormans hastily retreated before a superior force, and when they reformed they discovered the Prince of Lippe and his son had fallen. They demanded the bodies whioh were buried in the Seraing Cemetery. ;■ : The Uhlans captured had in their possession: the German plans, which showed that the German's were to have reached Brussels on the third of August and Lille on the fifth. , . ' . Rivers far from the scene of the action at Liege era stained with blood,— ("Times", and Sydney ."Sun" Service.) .. LIEGE FORTS NOT YET TAKEN. ■ ■ * i London, August il. , The Press Bureau circulates the following:—Unconfirmed reports state that tho small forts, at Liege have been One fort which was apparently silent, when the German infantry advanced,-hailed bullets upon them, and the Germans were driven back.' t . • ' t London, August 11. ..Experts consider.that the Liege forts are unlikely to withstand the siege guns. Lord, Sydenham, who is one of the recognised, authorities on fortification, is of opinion that a few, hours' bombardment with 850-pound projectiles will reduce them to a shapeless, mass.. ". " ■ ■ ■. • ■ * .. While the men, in the.front ranks used outtera to remove-the barbed wire entanglements guarding the approach to the forts, which the others had laid down, the forts rained grape-shot, and sharpshooters picked the cutters off. ; ' GERMAN RECONNAISSANCES WEST OF LIEGE. ■■ (Eec.' August 12, 7.35 p.m.) I • m > ii. Brussels, August 11, afternoon : -ley thousand German cavalry ■ followed by a detachment of infantry have comrtonced. methodical reconnaissances. The Germans are advancing strongly towards. Hesbaye, and have halted at Hannut, twenty miles west of Liege. There •were constant skirmishes on the Ttrelsnont-Sain Maud line and everywhere the German cavalry was repulsed with losses.' Tirlemont lies about half-way between Liege and Brussels. . BELGIAN VILLAGERS SHOT DOWN BY THE ENEMY. ! v,.. ... > . (Rec; -Auguatl2, 9,40 p.m.), M m.- n : : Brussels, August 11. I hei Germans when near, Verviers ordered the.inhabitants of wav age to assemble -and" chose' seventeen and shot .them, .■ Thirty -peasants : at -.Berneau = • were (similarly shot including. a priest who was shot against the wall : of his church, i' > Afw the at Herstal hod left the women and old men > were left to defend .the. Is<itional Small:; Arms Factory. "Armed with revolvers and other weapons they repulsed several UWan patrols apd when tljpir ammunition was ex-, hausted they barricaded their houses'ana poured boiling water on the'attackers. Th 6; factory is st : iU unoaptured; ■ ' .