BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 102, 23 September 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

GERMANS IX BELGIUM. PREPARING TO BESIEGE ANTWERP.

KEEPING UP THE LYING GAME.

Antwerp, September 21. The possibility of a siege still looms before Antwerp. The Germans are bringing siege guns with a range of seventeen miles. Antwerp is provisioned for a year. Three thousand American cattle have been arriving' for six weeks. News of German reverses in France filtered through to the Germans in Brussels. The military governor lias threatened to shoot all in possession of English or Belgian newspapers. Only German newspapers or Dutch papers pronouncedly ipro-tiermau are authorised. 'WIDESPREAD INS ÜBORDINATION.

FURTHER OUTRAGES. Ostend, September 21. In connection with the collisions between Prussians and Bavarians in Brussels, it is stated that the Bavarians permitted six train loads of French prisoner* at Maubeuge to escape. Widespread insubordination exists among the Bavarians. 1 I Received 22, 9. 50 p.m. Antwerp, September 21. The Germans have expelled from Wolvorthem all males above 10 years of age. A detachment of German cyolista burned the villages of Tremlno and Kotselear. GERMAN'S ATTACK FORT WELLHEii REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS. Received 23, 1.40 a.m. London, September 21. The Daily Chronicle's Antwerp correspondent reports that the Germans made three desperate but unsuccessful attempts on Saturday and Sunday to capture Fort Wallhem, between Malines and Brussels. On the first night operations with the heaviest artillery covered an infantry attack upon tlm entrenched Belgians. For a short while the issue was doubtful, but when the defenders of the fort realised the danger they devastated the German lines, and tlio attack was finally repulsed with the loss |of 1000 men.

BAVARIAN'S LEAVE BRUSSELS. AN AUSTRIAN GARRISON. GERMAN'S SENT AVITH MAIN ARMIES. ' Received 23, 1.40 a.m. Ostend, September 21. It is reported that all the Bavarian troops have left Brussels. Some were court-martialled and shot. It is stated that all the Germans have been sent to France or the East Prussian frontier.

Forty thousand Austrians are occupy ing Brussels, accompauied by eevei heavy siege guns.