Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 38, 1 October 1914, Page 5

Belgium

POSITION AT ANTWERP. SEIZURE ENTAILS ENORMOUS LOSS, V/HICH GERMANS DARE NOT RISK. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 30. Antwerp advises that positions between three lines of fortifications have been levelled for the use of gunners, villas and houses having been demolished. Expert opinion considers that the seizure of Antwerp would involve enormous loss,/ which the Germans under present conditions dare not risk. THE FALL OF MALiNES. GERMANS RETIRE UNDER HEAVY FIRE. United Press (Association. Antwerp, September 29. The Germans have re-occupied Malines. They bombarded the forts at Wallen, Wavre, and St. Catherine, without result. The forts replied, and the bombardment ceased. The forts inflicted serious losses on the Germans advancing near Dendre, ami the Germans withdrew.

FOUR TIMES BOMBARDED.

TERMONDE AS THE OBJECT OF THE GERMANS’ ATTACK.

London, September 30.

The Germans are recommencing their endeavor to encircle Termonde. They sent a thousand Uhlans into the town, and, with a mitrailleuse cleverly posted, they mowed down many. After the Germans had some success at Alost, the Belgians cut them off, capturing 120 and drove the Germans from the town, where they had been firmly established for several weeks. After retiring three miles, the Germans bombarded the abandoned toAvn,. doing great damage. The Germans also attacked the fort at Wall sen, using 17 heavy guns from Liege, requiring special concrete beds.

Two thousand German dead were found at Svene after Saturday’s fight-

The Belgians estimate that 10,000 Germans were killed during the five days’ fighting, mostly members of the Landwehr, many being over 50 years of ago.

Though Termonde has been four times bombarded, and twice deliberatly set ablaze, the Burgomaster and his two daughters, aged 16 and 17, remained in the town as voluntary nurses. Food is so scarce in Brussels that the German administration is finding difficulty in supplying the 180,000 civilians who have applied for rations.