LIEGE FORTS STILL HOLD OUT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 210, 20 August 1914, Page 4

LIEGE FORTS STILL HOLD OUT

Graphic Story of the Assault. Told by the Defenders. Awful Barricade of Dead and - Wounded. London, Aug. IQ. The French Embassy states that the Liege forts are still holding out. Not one has been captured. (Received 20, 8. io a.m. ) London, Aug. it) (morning). An English officer, recently at Brussels, interviewed some of the defenders of Liege. A Belgian officer remarked: ” As line after line of the Ger- * man infantry advanced, we simply mowed them down. They, made no attempt at deploying, but came on, line after line, almost shoulder to shoulder, until the fallen men were heaped up in an awful barricade of dead and wounded, threatening to mask our guns. The barricade became so high that we did not know whether to fire through it or go out and clear openings with our hands. Meanwhile, some of the wounded, trying to release themselves from this wall of dead and dying, were actually enabled to do so. It was wonderful. The Germans crept close and charged right up to the glacis, from whence the maxims swept them down. The Belgians had losses, but slight compared to the carnage among the enemy. Many prisoners were ravenously hungry, and begged for food by tearing at their captors’ haversacks and crying in German and broken French, ‘Bread! Bread! Drink!’. Others devoured carrots and turnips in the fields.”