ACTIVE OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 5

ACTIVE OPERATIONS IN BELGIUM

GERMANS CAUGHT IN A TRAP DYKES CUT; ENEMY WAIST DEEP IN WATER (Reo. September 7, 0.55 a.m.) ~ Antwerp, 'September 6. Aboufc_ forty thousand Germans are surrounding the villages, and have continued their movement north and north-west of Brussels for the purpose of cutting Antwerp's communications with' Oetend and the coast towns. The Germans burnt the villages on the way, and there was stern fighting between Malines and 'ierniode, the Belgians showing great elan. When the Germans occupied Terniode, the Belgians out the dykes, flooding the district and completely surprising the Germane, who did not expect such a sacrifice. , The Germans, when this telegram was sent were waist deep in the water, working heroically to pull out their guns .under a heavy fire from the outermost Antwerp forta. The Germans were losing heavily.

PITIABLE PLIGHT OF BUEGESSES OF LOUVAIN, (Rec. September 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 5, morning. _ There are whole columns in. the newspapers descriptive of the manner in which burgesses of Louvain were thrust at the bayonet -point into filthy wagons used for the transport of horses, and the doors shut, only fugitive rays of fight filtering through chinks. The journey in one case to Cologne occupied fifty hours. The prisoners, foodless. and drinkless, were niaiched through jeering orowds and placed on exhibition in the gardens at Cologne. Men and •women, hurling rile epithets, shouted that they would kill them. Even children kicked the prisoners as they pa-ssed. The prisoners having breakfasted next morning on. a small portion of Waok bread, were for some reason sent back to Belgium. They arrived ravenous, and on being released ate turnips and beetroots in the fields.' Refugees describe JJouvain as a modern Pompeii. . , . , ■■ , j . RUSSIA WILL EXAOT DOUBLE TRIBUTE. _,■ . ■ Antwerp, September 4. The newspaper "Metropole" etates that Russia, has notified Germany of her intention to levy, upon every German town occupied, a contribution do'ublo that which Germany exacted from the Belgian towns.