THE SIEGE OF LIEGE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2287, 22 October 1914, Page 5

THE SIEGE OF LIEGE

GENERAL LEMAN'S MEMOIRS )

(Rec. October 21, 11.40 p.m.) , Roma, Ootober 20. r General Leman, the defender of Lbgo, 1 who is in captivity iat Magdeburg, is writing a memoir of the Beige of Liege, excerpts from which have been, published in Berlin. He states that the Germans occupied' the city on August, 7, and werethen able to bombard the forts on "the inner side. They commenced to bombard Loyein (? Louveigne) on August 11 with.seven and eleven centimetre gims. On .August 15 they commenced using 16Jin. -guns, hurling grenades weighing » thousand kilograms (about one ton), the explosive fcrce of which surpassed anything known... Their approach was heralded by an, acute buzzing, and they buret with a thunderous roar, raising cloudy of missiles and stones. The bombardment on August 15 conft menced at 5 o'clock in the morning, I and was maintained until 2 o'clock in tho afternoon. A grenade wrecked the arcade under which the General Staff was sheltering. The officers were almost asphyxiated with, the horrible General Leman, while inspecting the exterior of the fort, found it reduced to a rubbleheap, the slopes and counterelopes were a chaos of rubbish, and huge tongues , of flame were ehooting from the cupola. His only thought then was to save the remnant of the garrison, but while retraversing the gallery he was violently flung the earth, and when consciousness returned found the Germans bending over him. ;