Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 50, 15 October 1914, Page 6

Belgium.

SERIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS IN ANTWERP. (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, October 14. The American Consul at Antwerp is proceeding to London to obtain provisions for Antwerp, where the position.is grave owing to the Germans seizing all the stores. WAS IT A RUSE? BELGIANS WIPE OUT 200 ENTRAPPED DTERMANS. (Received 11'.30 a.m.) London, October The Daily Chronicle's Ostend correspondent writes: The Allies mad© an heroic effort to save Ghent on Saturday and Sunday, but the flat country was unsuitable for operations against heavy odds. When the fighting was fiercest an illustration of blood lust was furnished by the following incident:—The Belgian field guns enfiladed 200 Germans, for whom-there was no escape. The survivors raised their rifle-butts in token of submission. Either because the signals were misunderstood or because simulated surrender was a favorite ruse of the Germans when in a warm corner, the Belgians/ continued to 'fire until' all the Germans had fallen. The Belgians were finally compelled to retire when a large German "cavalry force came from Ypres and threatened their ; communications with Bruges. They made a forced march to Bruges. A 'Belgian force also moved to counted the German cavalry in the neighborhood of Dixmudo, where they arrested a marching column from Ypres, giving the enemy a severe spanking.