Gallant Belgians

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 16 September 1914, Page 5

Gallant Belgians

HOUR DAYS' HEAVY FICHTIXG. ) ENEMY CONCENTRATES ALL AVAIL* ABLE TROOPS. , BELGIANS BEATEN BACK. BL'T A STRATEGICAL VICTORY. ■ Received 15, 8.40 p.m. J Antwerp, September 14. ■' Official.—'The fighting in the Brussels, Louvain, and Malines triangle lasted for lour days. The Germans held a strong position, and called up the available reinforcements, including two army corp3 that had to be re-called from the South, also the Landwehr and Landsturm from [the region southwards of Brussels, and 15,000 marines from Brussels. Fierce encounters took place on Friday and on Friday night, in the ruins of ' Louvain. The Belgians twice penetrated the centre of the town, but the German concentration on Louvain necessitated a. Belgian retirement on Antwerp. |>. The Belgians achieved their object by, immobilising the two army corps whicS had previously been sent towards France. The losses on both sides were heavy. it - Rifle fire brought down a German aer<3 plane at Antwerp. The aviator ~waf killed. 31 —— : . 'i m , WORSE THAN SAVAGES. FURTHER HORRIBLE OUTRAGES' 1 RETORTED. , I

London, September 14, * i The Germans entered a private house at Renaix and found the entire [family in the cellar. They violated and then cut the throats of two girls, cut off the boys' ears and inflicting unnamcable mutilations. Mr. (Powell, the correspondent of tic New York' World in Begium, liad an interview with General von Boehn. The latter emphatically denied atrocities on Belgian non:combatants. Mr. Powell pointed out many instances that he saw personally. General von Boehn answered that he did everything possible ; to protect non-combatants. (Renaix is a town in Belgium, about 25 miles south-west of Ghent; population 21,000.) ' j Antwerp, September 14. It is officially stated that the objeel of ths sortie has been attained, inasmuch as the Belgians prevented two! German army corps proceeding to France, where they were preßßingly; ■ needed. ' An Ostend newspaper Btates that thei Rusian troops n-inforced the Belgians in the fighting at Oortenbergh. • f Ostend, September 14. I It is reported that, during an altew cation in the barracks at Etterbeck between Prussian and Bavarian soldiers/ ten were killed.

THE ATROCITIES ADMITTED. • Times and Sydney Sun Services. s Received 15, 5.50 p.m. Paris, September 18. 7 The Cologne Gazette admits that the German ravages in Belgium are shocks inf. i A TELL-TALE TELEGRAPH. GERMANS' WHOLE STRENGTH '• EXERTED. '...'J Received 15, 10 p.m. '? 1 Amsterdam, September 14. * During the (inciting the Belgians lapped telegraph messages to Louvaili asking Brussels to send assistance* Brussels replied: "We have no morel guns," and advised seeking assistance elsewhere. t

EFFECTIVE, BUT EXPENSIVE; THE GERMAN SIEGE GUNS. 1| Received 15, 11.10 p.m. ■ Antwerp, September 14. A German officer who was made ; a prisoner says that the Genian army possesses 50 large rnoge guns with a rang# of six miles, but Dial the;, will tire oaijl 20 times each, ..(}

NO RUSSIAN TROOPS IN I'UANCE OH BELGIUM. AN OFFiCIAL DENIAL Wellington, I,'isi Night. ' Tli« following cable message has be# received by the Prime Minuter: — i London, Sept. 15 (12.30 a.m.). ' The Government .Press Bureau autboj rised tile Press to stale thai there is no[ truth whatever in the tupiovs that Rwjj* sian soldiers have: landed in or passed through Great It:;tain on iu- way ;o France or Belgium. Stnl.-ui'.ut* tlafi Russian troops lire t.u «r FrefceH soil should be (fe.'v'dlU's:- ]