Germany and Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 14 August 1914, Page 5

Germany and Belgium

DETAILS OF HE BATTLE OF HA3LEN. 200 DEAD GERMANS IN A SPACE OF 50 YARDS. [Bt Buotbio Tblbgbaph—Coptbiqht) [United Press [Association.] (Received 8.45 a.m.) Brussels, August 13. Details of yesterday’s battle show that 5000 Germans were engaged with the Belgihn Lahcers, Carbineers, and artillery.. The fighting lasted throughout the ~say, the battle centre being Haelen. Belgian sappers blew up two bridges at Demers. By the evening the ground between Niest and Haelen was cleared of Germans and covered with dead and wounded. Two hundred dead Germans were found in a space of fifty yards. ;• i ■ ; -—*—i , i BELGIUM STANDS TO HER GUNS. U , • ;S; (Received 8.45 a.m.) ' ( i London, August 13. The Daily Mail says that Germany rf on Monday approached Belgium through Holland and asked her to reconsider her attitude towards the Gormans’ demand, but that Belgium refused. VIOLATIONS OF THE TREATY OF GENEVA. 1 (Received 8.45 a.m.) \ Brussels, August 13. A committee, under a Supreme Court judge, is collecting evidence of German outrages and violation of the Treaty of Geneva for a conference of the Hague Convent - GERMANS REPT-iiLD WITH HEAVY LOSSES. OPERATIONS :;i LUXEMBURG. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Brussels, August 13. It is officially announced that the Germans were repulsed at Lghezee, near Noville, with heavy losses. A number of machine guns mounted on motor cars were captured.