BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 113, 6 October 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

AX-TWERP SUMMONED TO SURREN-

GREAT KRUPP GUNS WORKING

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GERMANS MAINTAIN'A FIERCE ASSAULT.

Antwerp, October 4,

The Handelsblatt learns that two German attacks on Antwerp have been repulsed. The German losses were severe. The Germans have not yet attempted to cross tho Nethe. Flags are hoisted on the Town Hall and church towers to indicate that the buildings aro historic and contain works of art.

Received 5, 8.30 p.m. Antwerp, October 4. Kmpp sicgo guns, throwing enormous projectiles, devastated Hie villages of Uriegden, Landekin, and others in the vicinity of the forts. The Germans are pressing tho attack at enormous sacrifice, and the fort 3 are constantly bombarding the German position. A German monoplane scattered u proclamation ' summoning Antwerp to surrender in 24 hours, and advising the populace, not to heed tho local newspapers, which, the proclamation states, are. in the AngloFrench pay. SIEGE GUNS DRAW NEARER. ANTWERP WILL RESIST TO THE LAST. Received fi, 11.50 p.m. Antwerp, October 5. The town is determined to resist to the last. The Germans are moving the heavier guns nearer to the south bank of the Nethe. A GERMAN PROCLAMATION. "" Ostend, October 4. Tho Germans have placarded Brussels with a proclamation inciting Belgians to desert, declaring that, having fully done their duty, further sacrifices are purposeless. RIG INDEMNITY DEMANDED OF BRUSSELS. TO COMPENSATE GERMAN CITIZENS .Received ".. 10 p.m. Amsterdam, October 5. A report from Berlin, through the Xa tional Zeituug, slates that the German Governor of Brussels insists on the city indemnifying the German citizens for damage to their property before the German occupation. The claims already amount to SO million marks.