ATTACK ON ANTWERP PRESSED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 5

ATTACK ON ANTWERP PRESSED

OUTLYING VILLAGES DEVASTATED

FURTHER INDEMNITY FROM BRUSSELS DEMANDED

(Roc. October 5, 8.20 p.m.) Antwerp, October 4. Krupp siege guns, throwing enormous projectiles, have devastated the villages of Landekin, and others in the vicinity of the forts. Ihe Germans are pressing the attack at an enormous sacrifice. Ihe forts are constantly bombarding the German position. • . A German monoplane scattered a proclamation summoning Antwerp to surrender within .twenty-four hours, and advising the populace not to heed the local newspapers., which were in Anglo-French na>

(Rec. October 5; 11.60 p.m.) Antwerp, October 5. The town is determined to resist to the last. The Germans are moving heavier guns nearer to the south bank of the Nethe, whioh lies between eight and nine miles of the city. ♦ . (Rec. October 5, 3.30 p.m.) Ostend, October 4. : German attempts to cross the Scheldt between Wctteren and Chembergen cost many Jives. These two po ; nts lie on the course of the .Scheldt between , Ghent and 1 Termonde. ■ • (Rec. October 5, 9.30 p.m.) ! , . Amsterdam, October 5. Reports from Berlin say the "National Zeitung" states that the German Governor of Brussels insists on the city indemnifying German citizens for damage done to their property before the German occupation, and that the claims already amount to eighty million marks (£4,000,000).

BELGIANS INVITED TO DESERT,

Ostend, October 4. The Germans have placarded Brussels with a proclamation inciting the Belgians to desert, declaring that the Belgians having fully done their duty, further sacrifices on their part would be without purpose.