BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 8 September 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

BATTALIONS DESTROYED.

GERMANS' HEAVY LOSSES AT TERMOXDE.

BARRICADES OP THEIR OWN DEAD.

Received 7, 9.40 p.m.

Antwerp, Sept. 7 (morning). The Germans were repulsed from Termonde. Many German wounded arrived at Antwerp, including Lieut. Latter, who declared that only three of his company survived the heavy rifle and artillery fire to which thoy were opposed. Another officer stated that the fire of the forts destroyed an entire battalion. The Germans find from behind barricades of their dead, of which at least +3O were abandoned on the field.

FIXE BELGIAN" ARTILLERY.

GERMANS RETREAT IN DISORDER.

LEAVING IOOt KILLED.

Received S, 1.20 a.m., Antwerp, September 7,

It is officially stated that a thousand Germans were killed in a battle to the southward of Termonde.

The Germans retreated in disorder, and their attempted movement was completely checked, owing to the splendid action of the Belgian artillery. ■

The Germans have placed siege guns around Brussels.

A BELGIAN BOY HERO.

KNIGHTED FOR COOLNESS AND

COURAGE.

Received 8, 12.15 a.m. Ostend, September 7. I The official details of General Buelow's death are given. A lad named Hailed, aged 18, seeing-, 900 yds distant, an officer studying a map, crawled among his comrades' corpses to within 400 yds. He took aim carefully and fired, and the officer fell dead. The lad, rushing to discover the officer's identity, removed Buelow's boots, donned his uniform, and traversed the German lines. When approaching the Belgians, he discarded the helmet for his own cap, fearing that he would be shot as a Herman.

Votes to the value of 135,000 francs were found in Buelow's vest pocket. The King handed the amount to the Red Cross. -A secret pocket in the jacket contained memoranda and interesting details of the battlefield and the enemy's intentions.

The King knighted the lad, and presented him with Buelow's horse arid pocket-book.

GERMANS REQUIRE .MORE GUNS.

USKO BELGIAN FACTORIES. Received 7, 9.50 p.m. London, September 7. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent states that the Germans are feverishly re-organising the famous and gigantic gun factory and ironworks at Cookerill, near Seramg. They offered to increase the Belgian artisans' wages by 50 per cent., the alternative being starvation.