Surrender of Togoland

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 8, 27 August 1914, Page 5

Surrender of Togoland

FIRST BITE TO THE BULL DOC

SUCCESSFUL ACTION IN GERMAN

WEST AFRICA.

(Received 12.50 p.m.) London, August 26. It is officially announced that Togo Vmd surrendered unconditionally.

M Klons and GharleroL

DEAD REST UPON DEAD.

BRAVERY IMPOTENT AGAINST * GERMAN HORDES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] *> -' [TJnited Press .' Paris.. August 26, (morning). Mons is surrounded by canals ;n ©very direction, except in the south, where there are woods. All the bulges not blown up were commanded b\ machine guns and barricaded »y t'.e - interlocking of huge cable drums. ' J By six o'clock on Saturday morning a large German force had taken u\ a position at Tournai. By ten o'clock German machine guns were firing i' Pontemorel. Near .the railway station the first German attack was repulsed, but later they entered the town. The Germans at CharJeroi boinbarded the upper town. The French made a sortie, but the strength of the cneni.\ compelled the retirement. The Tnvcos then debouched from the town an J charged, bayonetting the gunners :n the battalion. Only 100 returned unscathed, the losses exceeding those ol the charge of the famous Light Brigade. Bravery was useless against the on-coming Germans, who crept through the outskirts to the very heart of Cha ■■- 4 leroi. the narrow streets the camage was indescribable. French infa-i----try, describing the ferocious streetfighting, declared that the roads waiv so jammed with dead that the killed remained standing up whore they were shot, resting on their dead comrades. The French made their last' stand where the canal is close to the railway station. The Germans fought for tut bridge for two hours and captured it after heavy losses. Then they, gained ground all along the line, capturing th« villages of Marchienne, Landelies and Montewing and the country to Wakourt. Later in the day, Frensh artillery opened fire upon Charleroi, sholling the lowor portion of the city, while French infantry advanced slowly, retaking sevoral villages, and agau becoming masters of the line botweor Thuin and Mettot. The .fighting ended at six o'clock in the «i|ning, both sides being com pletely worn out.

Tournai.—Fortified Belgian town, on rirer Scheldt, near Mons and 45 nriles S.W. of Brussels. In the past it liaa sustained several seiges.