Belgium.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 15 September 1914, Page 5

Belgium.

UHLANS IPROWLLNG ABOUT 7 BELGIUM. ', THE INVADERS SEVERELY HANDLED. ;\ SUFFER SEVERE LOSSES. Received 14, 11.30 p.m. : . Ostend, September 14. Strong bands of Uhlans are still prowling in the neighborhood. The' Belgians dispersed several Hundreds at Dimunde, inflicting severe loss, and captured a ma-. chine-gun-column. The Belgian volunteers, supported by the civic guards with machine-guns on j automobiles, had a sharp engagement near Alost with a Gorman force. The tatter's losses were serious. Seven waggons were captured. * , I GERMANS SHOOTING PRIEST AND -NUNS. Times and Svdney Sin Services. ■ Received 14, 5.5 p.m. ' ■ London, September 14. An English Roman Catholic chaplain at Brussels states that after the sacking of Louvain the fury of the soldiers cen° trcd on the priests. All fired at the ,', nuns as they were leaving the convent. '' Among 20 Jesuits captured, one had with him.a diary in which ho complained of Gcrnian sacrilege. The owner was ordered to he shot on a charge of scdi-

tion. His,fellow-priests formed'a semicircle round the victim, whoso heart was marked with a white cross on his cassock, and witnessed the shooting.

TRAIL OF HORRIBLE OUTRAGES. CAPTURED DURING MASS. SHOT BY TOE, ROADSIDE. Received 14, 11.30 p.m. '' Ostend, September it, The German retreat southwards !s marked by a trail of horrible outrages. They entered the chapel at Lierre St. Marie, where four priests were celebrating Mass. Tbey seized the priests and. forced them to march ahead of them. Eventually the four were killed. BELGIANS STILL MAKING HEADWAY. ■ j

Received 14, 7.30 pjn. Pan's,! Sept. 14 (evening). In Belgium, the Belgians have pushed , on their vigorous offensive south of .Lierre (12 miles south-east of Antwerp). THE 'AWFUL TOLL OF LIEGE. ': ■ 27,000 BELGIANS KILLED. '; Antwerp, September 13. I The Oman lines of communication at Cortenbergh.were out in three direct tions. Many big Creusot guns have been brought to Antwerp, and have • done good work. , It is stated that 27,000 men fell defending Liege. The fall of the forts i 9 ascribed to the fact that they were bombarded from the town. Each fort was. in the shape of a triangle, with the apex outwards; «\t the base of the triangle were barracks for the garrison of five hundred soldiers, which were inaccessible to shells from outside Because protected by the fort itself with its cupolas and batteries.' The, Germans rushed the , town, established eight and eleven-inch guns on the heights, and bombarded from behind the barracks at the bast* of the triangles, compelling the garrison toj' take refuge in the small rooms in the., concrete block in the centre of the- fe"t. , They were horribly packed together,' and almost asphyxiated, but were kegfe alive by inhalations of oxygen. i The fort of Loncing waa bombarded' for twenty-six hours at the rate of six - shells a minute, the total number fired being almost ten' thousand. . i

FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR ANTWERP.. HOW TERMONDE WAS DESTROYED,. Antwerp, September 13. ' It is officially, stated that the battle-south-east of Antwerp is being continue, ed with the utmost fiero-xie-*. One BeW gian wing gave ground, but in the centre! and on the right the BJ/ians advanced, under good conditions. ' A Taube monoplane, with nine bombd. on board, was captured near Malinesv . One officer was killed, and the other is a prisoner. > '■ It is reported that th* Belgians bwM iul 1230 Gorman killed near TennomilV Seventy Belgians were killed, and many; wounded. Ten thousand Germ&ni between Iscghem and Wacregheju (West Flanders) started south-wctward. They cut the telegraphs and telephones and; broke the railway siyiw'?. in order +3l prevent- a surprise from the nortb They, sent patrols towards Roulers and intltiw Mated tljc peasants into giving informs ation regarding the Belgian movements., They seized the windmills, as itiWia.no-" ticcable that these, whenever the <tox f man forces were near, stopped turning,J frns signalling tkir approach. ; The devastation at 'lVrmonde was dtW , to aluminium bombs filled with v-f<*, \ which were hurled, with wicks.lighted* , :nto buildings.