In Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 2, 20 August 1914, Page 5

In Belgium.

ALL FLAWS LAID FOR THE “GRAND BATTLE.’’ LIEGE FORTS INTACT. Loudon, August 19. Air Douohoe, writing to the .Daily Chronicle, says that both sides have made the final dispositions tor the grand battle. The French, tie adds, are like terriers hunting rats. The French Embassy state;; that the Liege torts are still holding out, and that not one lias been captured. REPORT FROM THE FIRING LINE FOUR ZEPPELINS DESTROYED. Paris, August 19. M. Paul Doumer, once a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, lias just returned from the fighting line in Belgium. He states that three Zeppelins reconnoitring were destroyed, and another fell in the forest and was w recked. The spirit of the French soldiers has been greatly strengthened by the conlidence that their artillery is superior to Germany’s. The police have forbidden the drinking of absinthe, and are searching private cellars. Several cafes have already been closed. The police have also prohibted automatic gambling machines, sharply censoring the public entertainments and cinemas.

NORTH OF ANTWERP.

Brussels, August 18. Official news states that all continues well with the Belgian army. Gorman cavalry patrols have been sighted to the north of Antwerp. FORTIFIED POSITIONS FULLY MANNED. Brussels, August 19. The Government has issued a reassuring proclamation, that all fortified positions will he fully manned. GERMANS ROUTED NEAR RAMILLIES. FLED HELTER-SKELTER.

BELGIANS WIL EXACT FULL MEA SURE OF RETRIBUTION.

“RED INDIANS OF EUROPE.”

(Received 8 a.m.) Brussels, August 1%

On Tuesday, the French cavalry, by means of a brilliant lorccd march? which recalled Stuart’s great raid during the American Civil War, joined* the Belgians to-day. Executing a groat sweeping movement, they encountered considerable German forces in the vicinity of Ramillies, who fled after feeble resistance. One large body of Uhlans, with machine guns, fiercely attacked a Belgian infantry regiment, hut the French Dragoons opportunely debouched from a - wood, taking theGermans on the flank. The survivors fled helter-skelter and took refuge in a village near Ramillies, which they burned before retreating to Anew. The cavalry passed a series of burned villages which the Germans had fired. A patrol of Allies, particularly Belgians, maddened by these outrages, avow they will exact a full measure of retribution. The Belgians have nicknamed the Prussians “The Rod Indians of Europe,” owing to their farmburning propensities.

HARROWING TALE OF THE FIGHT AT LIEGE.

WALL OF DEAD AND DYING.

(Received 8.10 a.m.) London, August 19,

An English officer who was recently in Brussels interviewed some of the defenders of Liege. One of them, a Belgian officer, recounted his experiences. “As line after line of German infantry advanced,” he said, “We simply mowed them down. They made no attempt at deploying, but came on line after line, almost shoulder to shoulder, until they had fallen in such numbers as to be heaped up In an awful barricade of dead and wounded, which threatened to mask our guns. The barricade came so high that we did not know whether to fire through or go out to clear openings with our hands. Meanwhile some of the wounded were trying to release themselves. This wall of dead and dying actually enabled the Germans to creep close and charge up the glacier, from where the Maxims swept them. The Belgians had losses, but they were slight compared to carnage among the enemy. Many of the prisoners were ravenously hungry and begged for food by tearing at the captors’ haversacks, and crying in German and broken French': ‘Bread! Bread!’ ‘Drink! Drink.’ Others devoured carrots and turnips in the fields.”