FIGHTING CONTINUES IN BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 5

FIGHTING CONTINUES IN BELGIUM

ANTWERP READY FOR A SIEGE SUCCESSFUL SORTIES BY THE GARRISON London, September 30. Antwerp advises that the positions between the three linos of fortifications h'avo been levelled for the use of gunners v Villas and houses have been demolished. • \ Expert opinion is that the seizure of Antwerp would involve enormous loss, which the Germans' present condition does not allow- them to risk.— ("Tunes" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) • (Rec. October 1, 9 p.m.) . Antwerp, September 30. The Belgian garrison continues its guerilla tactics, and the nightly sorties have terrorised the German outposts. A train has been blown up and outposts pickcd off. Despite this activity of the garrison, the number of civilians killed and wounded is still in excess of Belgian soldiers. There was desperate fighting at Termonde and Aerschot from Sunday until Tuesday. The Germans on Sunday were hoavily reinforced until the combatants numbered nearly 150,000. Despite the superior German artillery, a Belgian battery at Audegan, after losing seventeen gunners, silenced the German battery. The bombardment of tho forts Waelhem and AVavre continues. The Germa-is attacked forts Liezele and Breedbuck, but several sorties by the Belgian garrisons drove back tho Germans with heavy losses. (Rec. October lj 6.30 p.m.) London, September 3Q. The Germans regained Alost by a iusb. A hundred disguised as peasants arrived in country carts, and suddonly uncovered machine guns and poured a hail of load on soldiers and civilians. The panic-stricken inhabitants fled.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Sorvices.)