OCCUPATION OF BRUSSELS
NOT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. EXCEPT TO GERMAN NEWS VENDORS. BELGIANS CANNOT BE BOUGHT. London. August 23. The Germans, in talcing over t'lie CockeTil ammunition factory at Liege, guaranteed the Belgian employees a 50 per cent, increase in wage* and handsome bonuses for loyalty. Not a single worker re-qn Brussels <• rupletely isolated. The Burgomast ;i ;i iprccla-mation, urged the citizei..-, to give no guidance regarding the movements of the Belgian Army, pointing out that the laws of warfare forliid the Germans using force to obtain such information. The Times' military correspondent writes that the entry of the Germans into Brussels will n-ake a great clatter in the German press, but we can afford te remain completely indifferent. There is no glory in entering the undefended capital of nn ene-my's country. Napoleon on sue)t an occasion sarcastically wrote to General -Mural: ''We can posit that little bulletin on to Berlin." GERMAN CHANGE OF TACTICS. EVACUATE DEVASTATED TERRITORY. London, August 23. The Telegraph's Antwerp correspondent ftfatcH that the. Gemintw litive evacuated the whole of noitluru Belgium.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 5
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176OCCUPATION OF BRUSSELS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 5
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