COURAGEOUS NAVAL BRIGADE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 91, 14 October 1914, Page 7

COURAGEOUS NAVAL BRIGADE

DISPUTE EVERY INCH OF GROUND FOUR DAYS & NIGHTS IN THE TRENCHES (Received October 14, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. Mr. Martin fionohoe (war correspondent of the Daily- Chronicle) states that the Naval Brigade Was terribly cut up on Thursday- night. Some of the Sailors and marines had been in the trenches without relief for four eofisecu-< tive nights and days. 1 Those who were not wounded were .so exhausted that they were scarcely able to walk, but showed splendid cotifage and devotion. They refused to evacuate the town when the general retirement was ordered, insisting <jn being permitted to stay behind and fight to the bitter end. The Belgians declare that when the main body, of the Belgian ar'ftry reth'ed, the British were still holding out bravely, fighting in the mdst deposed posi- * tions, and disputing every inch of ground with the advancing Germans. The British were subsequently driven back towards the city. TRIBUTE TO THE COURAGE OF THE BELGIANS (Received October 14, 9.20 a.m.) « LONDON, 13th October. Thirty men of the British naval force, a poHion of the two thousand interned in Holland, have returned to London, having been released because they were attached to the Red Gross section. They pay a high tribute to the courage of the Belgians, who were merely outclassed by the German artillery. THE TROOPS ENGAGED (Received October 14, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. The Daily News Bordeaux correspondent says that the Germans engaged At Antwerp probably did not exceed sixty thousand. (Received October 14, 9.25 a.m.} THE HAGUE, 13th October. ' There are 2200 Belgian and British troOps from Antwetp interned in Holland. Eighteen thousand succeeded in joining the main Belgian army. GENERAL JOFFRE'S STAFF NOT SURPRISED " (Times and Sydney Sun Service's.) (Received October 14, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 13tH October. The fall of Antwerp did not surprise Gerieral Joffre's Staff. It was n6t expected that the city would withstand the heavy guns for more' than a week. Belgians who haVe arrived in England state that before leaving Antwerp they were careful to smash every bottle containing intoxicants, be'cadse the Germans drink and then commit excesses. The Berliner Tageblatt, referring td the capture of Antwerp, says : — "'We get hearer to the British, and they themselves can imagine what thai* means for thtfm/' ' MOST TERRIBLE DAYS OF THE WAR (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, 12th October. A correspondent at Rotterdam declares that the last ten nights at Antwerp were the most terrible of the war. The siege of Liege was nothing in comparison. After their entry the Germans immediately attempted to bridge the Scheldt, expecting quickly to overtake the retiring troops. SEVERAL FORTS STILL HOLD OUT PARIS, 12th October. The Germans only occupy the suburbs of Antwerp. Twenty-four of the forts on the Scheldt resist energetically. (Received October 14, 10 a.m.) OSTEND, 13th October. Some of the Antwerp forts held out till Sunday. (Received October 14, 11 a.m<) PARIS, 13th October. Reports state that some of the forts alofig the lirie of the Scheldt are still resisting. .General de Guise, the Governor of Antwerp, commands one. BELGIAN FIELD ARMY iNtACT (Received October 14, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. The Times Paris correspondent reports that the Belgian field army is totally intact, and has removed from Antwerp all its cannon. Mr. Martin DonOhoe. in a message to the Daily Chronicle, states that while many of the military at Antwerp favoured the continuation of the resistance, others pointed out the possibility of a severe bombardment of the cifcy and the destruction of its architectural beauties. The municipality pleaded the cause of the menaced city, and questioned if any good Would be obtained by prolonging the struggle, and its entreaties carried the daj. CONCRETE GUN-BEDS AND TREACHERY (Received October 14. 10 a. hi.) OSTEND, 13th October. Officials from Antwerp state that platforms of concrete, on which the German big guns were mounted, were prepared for the Germans at Vieux Dieux and HoVe, which are. suburbs of Antwerp, where German residents had Villas with laHS 8 gardens- Ofchor big gun position* wore prepared in <* German paper-