Seige of Liege.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 127, 22 October 1914, Page 5

Seige of Liege.

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL LEMAN. WHILING AWIAY HIS CAPTIVE HOURS. GERMAN PROJECTILES OF HITHERTO UNKNOWN FORCE. Received 21. 11.45 p.m. Rome, October 20. General Leinan, who is in captivity nt Magdeburg", is writing a memoir on the seige of Liege, of which excerpts are published in Berlin. He states that the Germans occupied the city on August 7. They were then able to bombard the forts on the inner side, and commenced to bombard Lov'ra on the 7th with 7 and 11-centimetre guns. On the 15th they commenced using 16%-inch guns, hurling grenades weighing a thousand kilos. Their explosive force surpassed anything known. Their approach was heralded by acuto buzzing, and they burst with a thundrous roar, raising clouds of missiles and stones. The bombardment of the. 15th commenced at live in the morning, and was unbroken until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. A grenade wrecked the arcade under which the General Staff was sheltering, and the officc.TS were almost asphyxiated by horrible gases. General Leman, on inspecting the exterior of a fort, found it reduced to a rubble heap of slopes am: counter-slopes, and a chaos of rubbish, "itii huge tongues of flame shooting from the cupola. His only thought then was to save the remnant of the garrison, but on re- | traversing the gallery he was violently flung to the earth, and when consciousness returned he found Germans bending over him.