Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 47, 12 October 1914, Page 5

Belgium

ANOTHER INJUSTICE TO BELGIUM Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 10. Berlin authorities are issuing German stamps surcharged to Belgium. RELIGION AND WAR. HOLY COMMUNION UNDER STRANGE CONDITIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 10. An array chaplain says tho British generally fight or march on Sundays. Ho describes the bolding of service without a surplice in the wood where tho troops wore bivouaci'g on straw. He states that there was a large attendance at Holy Communion. Tins service was held in black darkness, excepting for two candles on a packing case which served as an altar. A tin mug was tho chalice. The soldiers were grimed with battle, and each carrying a rifle knelt in a circle round the light. WHAT ANTWERP MEANS TO GERMANY. What Antwerp means to Germany could scarcely ho better put than it was by Bishop Long, of Bathurst, in the course of an analysis which he recently made of the position. He was explaining how everything in the earlier stages depended on whethei tho Teuton war lord could deal suet a sledge-hammer blow upon the Freud within the next week as would sene

their army reeling back to Paris. “If the Germans succeed in doing this,” ho said, “they will ho able to entrench themselves in Belgium, and it would seem , that nothing could save Brussels and Antwerp from at least temporary German occupation. Antwerp is a prize that the Germans would give billions of money, and probably millions of men, to gain and retain. Antwerp is destined to be probably the greatest port in the world, and with it gafe in their grasp the Germans would become a great naval and mercantile nation; and it is difficult to predict what would be Britain’s position. Some such result as this might follow a big German victory. We should prepare ourselves for shocks and alarms. It is not to be expected that this big German war engine is going to break down without doing some enormous damage first. I have no doubt about the ultimate result, but it is reasonable to expect some great achievement on the part of the enemy.”