Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 13, 2 September 1914, Page 5

Belgium

SAVING THE CITY FROM DEVAS-

TAT! ON,

Loudon, September 1

j The Express correspondent at The Hague reports that four of the richest men in Belgium, Messrs Solway, “the alkali king,” and Lambert,representative of Rothschilds in Belgium, and M. Waroque, a mine-owner, and Baron Empain, railway magnate, have guaranteed to Germany the payment 'of the eight millions war levy on Brussels, otherwise Brussels will he treated as the Germans treated Louvain. Big guns have already been mounted in the Place da Congres, in front of th« Palace of Justice. > THE IflO GERMAN TRAINS GOING EAST. DID THEY CONTAIN ONLY THE WOUNDED 1 ? ' ll’ . » (Received 8.30 a.uj• Antwerp, September 1. Telegrams {confirm the ,’ine«b [ 1 throughout Friday numerous trams were, transporting Gernmip^j Tile suggestion was that the Germans were*Reeling the Russian, pr,eqsurp;> I'Ut possibly it was only the wounded living removed, as it is uulikejjq the Gqifiyiap-s i are able to weaken the fighting lines m northern France at present.