BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 27 August 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

HANDFUL OF HKRO.teS FROM LIEGE, TWJVNJY DAYS' SEVERE FIGHTING. ESCAPE THROUGH THE GERMAN 1 LINES. Antwerp, August 25. Five hundred men of the first battalion of the 34th Regiment from Liego airived at Namur on Saturday from between tlie Chaudfontaine and Dembourg forts. The Liege battalion had not received orders to evacuate the position which the rest of .the Liege army received. Hence they found themselves isolated in the midst of a German army with a strong fort on either flank. The Germans were aware of their presence, but were puzzled as to their actual strength and were contented with a reconnaisance in. which a battalion was beaten off. The Belgians held the position for eight days', sleeping in tho trenches, and fed by the peasants, repulsing constant attacks. Shells showered on the camp, but the battalion was well dug in. When food ran short the battalion managed to react the woods and scattering escaped through 1 the German lines. After failing to en- j ten ■ the Longuin tort they reached I Njiinur after 20 days' fighting.

DRIVEN 7 OUT OF ANTWERP. BELGIANS ATTACK THE GERMANS. DEFEAT AND PURSUIT OF INVADERS. i Antwerp, August 25. Plying columns drove the Germans out of the district round Antwerp as far as Malines. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Antwerp, August 25. Reports state that all Germans in the vicinity of Antwerp have been captured or killed, and the district is free from the enemy, who are concentrating every available man towards Charieroi. Paris, August 25. The Belgians arc entirely concentrated at Antwerp. | Ostend, August 35. Belgian gendarmes had a sharp skir- : mish with 150 German cavalry a few miles from Ostend. Five gendarmes were killed and several wounded. The Germans retreated. An Exchange telegram from Antwerp states that after four hours' fierce fighting at Malines the Belgians repulsed the Germans and are now pursuing them towards Vilvorde. VARIOUS BELGTAN NEWS. i THE HUGE GERMAN ARMY. "ENDLESS PROCESSION"." Paris, August 25. An eye-witness at Oharleroi hidden in a wood in the neighborhood of Erquelines saw column after column of German infantry defile in endless procession. The 'French artillery mowed the Germans down by scores, but they still marched on. London, August 35. I The Germans have established German time in Brussels instead of Greenwich time. Ostend, August 25. When the fort at Chaudfontaine, com- | manding the railroad from Aix-la-Chap- j ellc to Verviers, was reduced to ruins, Major Namdie, the commander, blocked j the tunneli by a collision between several locomotives and afterwards blew up the magazine at the fort. The Germans Mew up the tramway station at Brussels because the directors refused to carry out certain requirements. Twenty million francs of the city's indemnity has been paid (that is £BOO,OOO towards £8,000.000). Belgium sent all her railway Tolling stock, including 1000 engines, to France. Amsterdam, August 25. The Aachener Post, of Aix-la-Chap-elle, says that M. Lernan, the commander at Liege, was found half suffocated under some wreckage at a fort which the Germans battered to pieces. M. Lcman handed his sword to General von Emmich, who returned it in recognition of if. Lcman's splendid defence. NAMUTt NOT TAKEN. ENVELOPED IN" MYSTERY. Received 2G, 0.40 p.m. Paris, August a>. Paris denies that the Germans capLured Namur. Received 20, !).« P- m - , London, August 20 There is mystery surrounding Munnr. There is no official news that Aamui Geraan official announcement published at Copenhagen states that th . P~s captured five forts and the town, but that four forts were still unruptured. HUGE GERMAN LEV Y. RED CROSS OUTRAGE. Received 27, 12.55 a.m. London, August 20. The Germans have imposed a levy of £18,000,000 sterling on the province o with a Red Cross badge was found shooting Belgian wounded while ostensibly treating them. He was captured and shot. . German residents an Belgium arc assisting the invaders greatly as scouts, assisting to create panics in frontier to Tho' Belgians lost 40 kil | wounded iin the Uhlans' raid at Ostend. The latter suffered more sevdcly. GERMAN (PRISONERS CROSS THE CHANNEL. Received 2fl, 0.40 p.m. Paris, August 2b. F/icht thousand* German prisoners in Belgium arc'being sent- to England, lia Dunkirk.