Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 9 October 1914, Page 5

Belgium

FIERCE FIGHTING. GERMANS AT ANTWERP SHOT DOWN IN THOUSANDS. [Hx Elboteio Telegraph—Copyright! United Press Association. \ London, October 8. The fighting before Antwerp on Tuesday was of the most furious character. I Ito Germans advanced between the ■ niter forts, but were shot down by thousands. They brought up fresh reinforcements from Brussels, and huri tad infantry recklessly against the HHgian trenches, but they eventually erased, the Nethe. Konewed attempts to cross the Scheldt between Gremberghen and Schoon.•>rde failed, the German shrapnel inft;t"j«g considerable though not serious }*-**s on the Belgians in the trenches,i The Belgian artillery shelled the Ger-r-i'is out of Sohoonaerdo, destroying a German chemical factory.

BATTLEFIELD STORIES. VILLAGERS AT LIEGE BURYING THE DEAD. 4000 GERMANS WIPED OUT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. 1 London, October 7. A Belgian engineer who was captured during the Liege siege, but who since escaped, states that during the truce on August 5 the villagers were engaged to bury the dead. It was a fearful sight. Sixteen thousand identification, plates wero removed from dead Germans. A story is told of a brigade of Guards who were doing a slow retreat for the purpose of resting. They were followed by a brigade of Germans over double their strength. They hid in a wood, and when the. Germans marched up a pitched battle was fought with fixed bayonets. The brigade wiped out the whole of the Germans, numbering oyer four ( thousand t

MINISTERS LEAVING. OSTEND TO BE HEADQUARTERS OF GOVERNMENT. London, October 7. It is reported that the Belgian Ministers have removed their quarters to Ostend. Ostend, October 7. Diplomatists accompanied the Belgian Ministers. The steamer Ardmount struck three British mines, and sank after the third explosion. , Numerous skirmishes occurred on Wednesday in the environs of Ypres, and in the southern parts of Western Flanders. A LONG MARCH. TIRED AND FOODLESS CERMANS Ostend, October 8. The Germans, with artillery, reached Kourtvo on Tuesday from Metz, via Liege, very tired, having been without food for forty-eight hours.