BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

THE I'ALL OF MAUNES. GERMANS BOMBARD BELGIAN FORTS. RUT RETIRE UNDER HEAVY FIRE. Rce'ivcd 30, 8.15 p.m. Antwerp, September 29. The Germanu have re-occupied Afalines. Tliey bombarded the forts at Walleji, Wavre, and .St. Catherine, without result. The forts replied, and the bombardment coated. Tho forts indicted serious losses on the Germans advancing near Dcndre, and the Germans withdrew. GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OP ALOST. BIG SIEGE GUXS FROM LIEGE. USED AGAINST BELGIAN FORT. . GERMAN LOSSES TWO THOUSAND DAILY. Received 1, 1.30 a.m. London, September 30. The Germans are recommencing their endeavor to encircle Termonde. They sent a thousand Uhlans into the town, and, with a mitrailleuse cleverly posted, "t,. they mowed down many. After the 1 Germans had some success at Aloat, the Belgians cut them off, capturing 120. and drove the Germans from tk« Uwi, *ier« they had been firmly cetablisaed lor several weeks. After retiring thru* miles, the Germans bombarded the abandoned town, doing great damage./ The Germans also attacked the fori at Wallsen, using 17 heavy guns from Liege, requiring special concrete beds.

Two thousand Gorman dead wcra found at Svcno after Saturday's fignting.

(The Belgians estimato that 10,000 Germans were killed during the five days' i fighting, mostly members of the Landj wehr, many beir.g over 50 years of age. j Though Terumnd'i lias been four times j bombarded, and twice deliberately set ablaze, the Burgomaster and his two | daughters, aged 18 and 17 years, *«. I mained in the town aa voluntary nurs™.

Food is so searee in Brussels that the German administration is finding difficulty in supplying the 180,000 civilians who liave applied for rations.

OUTRAGES" OX CIVILIANS.'

GERMANS' PECULIAR MILITARY CODE.

Received 30, 10.30 pjn. Oatend, September 29.

Before being expelled from Aloat, the Germans arrested 20 civilians and forced them to sign a confession that the inhabitants had fired on the Germans. ;

During the fi«l\ting, the Germans compelled 40 civilian:) to walk ahead of the troops, and several were killed by the Belgians. GERMANS TRE PARING DEFENCES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 2!). The Germans are actively p""\*nng defences in Belgium and the i ta are confined in churches to prevent them scciig wlia l is happening. Taubc aeroplanes arc en;.;; ged in dropping bombs.