Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 30, 22 September 1914, Page 5

Belgium

A SEICE OF ANTWERP.

POSSIBILITY OF THE CERMANS PLAYING THEIR BIG GUNS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.50 a.m.) Antwerp, September 21.

There is the possibility of a siege. It .still looks as though the Germans were bringing up siege guns, with a range of seventeen miles. Antwerp is provisioned for a year. Three thousand American cattle have been arriving weekly for six weeks.

ONLY PRO-GERMAN NEWS ALLOWED IN BRUSSELS.

(Received 9.40 a.m.) Antwerp, September 21

News of the German reversal in France has filtered through Germany to Brussels, and the military Governor threatens to shoot all those found in possession of English and Belgian newspapers. Only German newspap- v

ers, or Dutch which are pronouncedly pro-German, are authorised to be read. ... BELGIUM STANDS FIRM. RUMORS REGARDING THOSE PEACE OVERTURES. (Received 11.0 a.m.) Sydney, September 22. Replying to Mr Holman's cable enquiring whether there is any foundation for the report that Germany is endeavoring to make separate peace with Belgium, Mr Coglan cables that nothing is known of the matter, at the Foreign Office or tin Belgian Embassy. The rumor is believed to have emanated from a b'-reuch source. 1 The Belgian Embassy states that 'Belgium would not ;consider peace [overtures without consulting the Allies.