Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 23 October 1914, Page 6

Belgium.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) London, October 22

A party of German officers dined for three days in the palace at Brussels, and suddenly left after slashing the paintings and carpets and riddling the furniture with bullets.

A visitor says he saw thirty airmen j in a Brussels hotel, inspecting a map! of London and marking the location; of the Bank of England, the War! Office, Parliament Buildings, Bucking-' ham Palace and the Aviation Camp at Waltham, which includes six dirigibles. Five hundred" trucks full of guns are at the Brussels railway yards. It is reported that French colonial troops dislodged the Germans at the forts tc the north and east of Kheims. Amsterdam, October 22. A body of 2400 Hamburg sailors traversed Liege towards Antwerp. Two Zeppelins were in the train. The Allies' capture of Roulers, an important railway centre, is a heavy handicap to the enemy's despatch of troops to the front. Witnesses of the fighting atDixmunde state that the Germans in withdrawing suffered heavily by the bayonet, and abandoned a thousand dead and wounded. The Allies' casualties were also ser-ious. Many injured remained on the spot where they fell for fifteen hours owing to the darkness. " Fifty succumbed to their injuries for want of attention.