GERMANS IN BRUSSELS.
INVADERS MARCHING TO LILLE Ostend, Monday. It ia estimated that 200,000 Germans passed through Brussels up to Friday night. Another 75,000 went in the direction of Antwerp, and 10,000 remain in Brussels under Count vcn.Arrnin. The equipment of the whole. German Army is perfect in every detail. The members of the general staff at Brussels are requisitioning food and other supplies? but the private soldiers are paying for everything they obtain. The officers will not pay cash, but give cheques. There are lively scenes in the principal hotels,' where the German officers drink champagne freely and dance with the girls. Generally, they :onverae freely with the inhabitants. Later advices state that the Germans ara marching in considerable force towards the town of Lille, in Francs, eight miles from the Belgian frontier. They ara cutting all ".ommunciations between the French and Belgian forces in the direction of Antwerp!, The last boat to England carried £1,200,000 from the Ostend banks. : The Belgian Minister for Justice states that the forts at Liege and Namur are still holding out.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 698, 26 August 1914, Page 5
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178GERMANS IN BRUSSELS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 698, 26 August 1914, Page 5
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