Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 5

Belgium

ANTWERP DISTRICT FREE OF GERMANS. ENEMY CONCENTRATING AT CHARLEROI. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, August 24. Antwerp reports that all Germans in the vicinity have been captured or killed and that the district is free of the enemy, who are concentrating every available man towards Charleroi.

GERMANS THROWN BACK NEAR WATERLOO. FRENCH VICTORY AT CHARLEROI London, August 24. It is reported that the French were successful at Charloroi and the Germans thrown back on Hal, south-west of Brussels, in the vicinity of Waterloo. •

FIGHTING NEAR ANTWERP.

Ostend, August 25

Thirty thousand Germans aye attacking Malines, 14 miles south-east of Antwerp. Skirmishing is general in North-west Flanders. TRANSFER OF ROLLING STOCK TO FRANCE. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Paris, August 25.

Belgium has sent all her railway rolling stock, including 1000 engines, to France. h

GERMAN TIME IN BRUSSELS.

(Received 10 a.m.) London, August 25

The Germans have established Ger man time in Brussels instead of Green wich.

BRAVE DEFENDERS OF FORTS BLEW UP THE MAGAZINE.

(Received 10.15 a.m.) Ostend. August 24

When Fort: \ Cbaudfontaine, commanding the railroad from Aix-la-Chappelle to Vomers, was reduced to ruins, Major Namehe, the commander, blockaded the 1 tunnel by colliding several locomotives, and i he' afterwards blew up the magazine of the fort.

GERMANS DRIVEN BAQK FROM

ANTWERP.

(Received 10.15 a.m.)

Antwerp, August 24

Flying columns have driven out the Germans from the district round Antwerp as far as Malines.