BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

\ -10 B.; AN AMAZING MISTAKE. . '• ■ GERMAN HUSSARS PASS fIOR ' ' ENGLISHMEN. %i Paris, August M. The Temps states that twenty of the Death's Head Hussars entered Charleroi and rode quietly down the street, calling, "We are friends!" The citizens, mis« taking them for English cavalry, cried, "Vivo I'Angleterre," until a Belgian officer, realising the mistake, gave the alarm. The Belgian soldiers killed two Germans and put the rest to flight. THE BELGIAN ROYALTIES. LOOK AFTER THE WOUNDED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Antwerp, August 24.' The King and Queen <jf the Belgians are spending every possible momcilt la ' tending the wounded. j " ' ' ' '^ll THE DEFENCE OF LIEGE. ■ LUNEVILLE TAKEN 'BY GERMANS. (Paris, August 24. It is officially reported that iLiege holds out. '--■i/viil The Germans have occupied Luncville. , • BRUSSELS UNDER AMERICA'S PROTECTION. TO SEE THAT LAWS ARE OBSERVED ■ Times-Sydney Sun Special Services. Received 25, C.5 p.m. Paris, August 25. -wie newspaper Le Matin publishes a , message from Ypros, which states that the (American Minister accompanied the Burgomaster of Brussels on the entry t of the Germans and informed the Germans that America had taken Brussels under its protection, and would see that the laws were observed. FIGHTING NEAR ANTWERP. SKIRMISHERS AT WORK Received 25, 11.30 p.m. Oiiteiid, August 25. Thirty thousand Germans are attacking Malines, 14 miles south-cast of Ant- ' werp. Skirmishing is general in Northwest Flanders. - 1 :: iVIISII