BRAVE BELGIAN WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 7

BRAVE BELGIAN WOMEN.

HOW THEY HEAT OFF GERMAN LANCERS. London, August 12. Lively incidents are reported from Hersta!, near Ycrviers, twenty miles south-cast oi Liege, according to Mr H. Co/.ens-liardy, a Daily News correspondent.

When the enemy made his first appearance, all its strong-hearted sons were in the trenches before Liege, but the women, many of whom were employed at the National Firearm Factory, for which ilerstal is famous, had sworn to save the works from fating into the hands of the Germans. They seized revolvers and swords, and when the Uhlans charged up the street, threw themselves against the foe with a fury which was superb. The ammunition exhausted, and their swords struck from their hands, t'aey barricaded themselves in their homes and ilung boiling water from the windows over the heads of the German Lancers. It is stated that 250 troopers have -been placed hors de combat through the burns. The children and grandfathers helped, and when the enemy were obliged to join the general attack 011 the forts of Liege, the Belgian flag still flew above Ilerstal factory.