Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 5

Belgium.

HELTER-SKELTER SOUTH.

GERMANS LEAVE THEIR DINNER

AND RETREAT.

London, September 23.

Mr Donohoe, who is with the Belgian army, telegraphs that the Germans have stampeded out of Termonde, Saingelles and Lebbeke southwards, believing that an AngloFrench' army has arrived. The mistake arose through the Belgians using French and British field guns. The German staff was about to dine at Lebbeke on Sunday, when an officer arrived with fragments of shells. After a hurried consultation, the regiment was ordered to retreat, and the staff rode helter skelter to Brussels, BRUTALLY BUTCHERED.

PEASANTS TIED TOGETHER AND CUT LIMB FROM LIMB.

London, September 23

The Daily Telegraph reports that Germans captured 11 unarmed peasants at Lebbeke, tied them together against a wall, bayoneted them, and afterward off their limbs. ■ ■ 50,000 WOUNDED. PASSED THROUGH LIEGE IN A FEW DAYS. •"' (Received 10.30 a.m.) •• . Amsterdam, September 24. A telegram, from Maestrieht states that 50,000 woundecl passed through Liege during the last few days en route for Germany. LOSS OF HORSES.

GERMANS LOST TWO-THIRDS SINCE BEGINNING OF WAR.

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

Antwerp, September 24

"The Germans in East Flanders requisitioned 20.000 horses. It is estimated that the Germans have lost twothirds of their horses since the beginning of the war, an epidemic of g'arders having broken out

(Glanders is a contagions disease in horses, in which there is discharge from the nostrils).