War Gazetteer

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 6

War Gazetteer

Tourcoing.—Manufacturing town, France, department Nord, near the Belgian frontier.

Jodolgne.—A small Belgian town a little over thirty miles west of Liege.

Ramillies—Village Belgium, 28 miles S.E. of Brussels. In 1706 the Duke of Marlborough here defeated a French army.

(•Levis. —Town, Canada, on the. St.. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec. It is a landing place for Transatlantic passengers and is a railway, terminus. Population 8000. ~ /

'Treves.—The most ancient and one of the 'most celebrated cities in Germany!' It is situated on the Moselle, 57 west, of, .Coblentz, near theeastern ,'.o'i.the j Duchy, <. of | Liixemb^urg.' jt, ; contains , many! 'handsome ,buijdingß and some Roman remains, including an amphitheatre, baths, a large quadrangle known as the Portq, Nigra and part of tho bridge over the Moselle. After the tenth century it becme, tho second .German ( electorate, It was, occupied tho'French'frnm and Was annexed.to Prussia in 1814. Population about'so.ooo. ,'. . , „.hi ..>•«.'•

~ ... ~ ..•>; w,f M'Jli'l ' '•" ll'' • : 'Lemherg.—Tho capital of the crownland of'Galicia,'Austria, .lies 468 miles horth-'west of Vienna by rail, and is iBS miles from" Cracow. It has a population of 206,000 which is , very mixed in character, 11 per cent, heipg Jews, 70 per cent. Poles, ten per cent.' Germans, and most of tho remainder Ruthenians. Lemberg is the fourth city of the Austrian Empire, coming after Vienna, Prague, and Trieste. It is situated on the small river Peltew, an affluent of the Bug, in a valley in the Sarmatian plateau, and_ is surrounded by hills. The town is the headquarters of tho Austrian 11th Army Corps. The fortificatons of the town were transformed into pleasure grounds in 1811. There are three cathedrals and a university.

Antwerp.—The decision of the Belgian Government to remove the seat of Government from Brussels to Antwerp is easily understandable, for besides being the chief commercial port of Belgium the latter city is the great est fortress in the country. Ancient for-

tifications have to a great extent disappeared, but Antwerp to-day is defended, not only by an enceinte (or inner continuous line of but by an outer line of fifteen forty and batteries, large and small, at a distance varying from six to nine mile-, from tho enceinte. Antwerp is -egarded as one of the best fortified positions in Europe, and it is considered practically impregnable, so long as its communications by sea are preserved intact. Situated on the right bank of the Scheldt, Antwerp is a finely laid out city, with a succession of broad avenues and long streets and terraces of fine houses. The population numbers about 400,000. Antwerp has been a great centre of commerce since the end of tho fifteenth century, and today is one of the leading commercial cities of the world. The place has had a chequered history. In 1576 it was plundered in "tho Spanish Fury," and 6000 citizens were massacred. Over two millions sterling of damage' were done in the town on that occasion. In 1585 the Duke of Parma captured the city and sent all its Protestant citizens into exile. In 1830 tho city was captured by Belgian insurgents, but the citadel continued to be held by a Dutch garrison under General Chasse. For a time this officer subjected the town to a periodical bombardment, which inflicted much damage. At the end of 1832 the citadel was besieged by n French army, and Chasse, after a gallant defence, made an honorable surrender.

Pomerania is a province in North Prussia, with an area of 11,628 square miles and a population of 1,800,000, and divided into governments of Stettin, Stralsund, and 'Koslin.