Glad to Surrender.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 6

Glad to Surrender.

OUTPOST AFFAIR AT LOUVAIN ON SUNDAY. GERMANS FLED PELL-MELL. (Received 1.0 p.m.) y ;*dnn, August 17. Mr Donohoe, correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, writes from Brussels : An outpost affair occurred near Louvain on Sunday afternoon. The German advanced guard wore Belgian gendarmes’ uniforms, enabling them to approach close to fire a deadly volley at the Belgian outposts. The cavalry quickly recovered from the momentary confusion and charged the advanced guard, who fled, leaving the dragoons and hussars to bear the brunt of the charge.

The German machine guns opened fire on the Belgians, who were in a dangerous position until half a battery of artillery opened shrapnel lire on the Germans, who, without cover, were thrown into disorder and fled pell-mell, pursued by the Belgian cavalry, who cut off'a number of the Seventeenth Hussars! The latter were apparently glad to surrender. They were ravenously hungry, and all supplies were short. They had no knowledge of their whereabouts, some thinking they were in France. They were wholly without maps or cornpassec. Their horses were thoroughly exhausted.

GERMAN OPERATIONS AT VISE,

LIVE CATTLE FOR GERMANY.

(Received 1.0 p.m.) London, August 17

•The Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent says: The Germans on Shturday burnt but remained at Vise, and sent the men prisoners to Aix la Chapelle, and the women and children to Maastricht. The Chronicle’s Copenhagen correspondent states: The export of live cattle to Germany through Jutland is so great that the route is insufficient and the railway ferry between Gjedsor and Waruemunde has been re-openod. The import duty has been annulled and quarantine is not being enforced.