Position in Belgium.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 239, 23 September 1914, Page 5

Position in Belgium.

Germans Replaced by Austrians. Fighting between Brussels and Antwerp. Ostend, Sept. 21. It is reported that all the Bax ar.yn mvps have left Brussels. Some were tried by court-martin’ . nu NOTE.-—A cablegram yesterday stated that collr-io.r- had occurred between Prussians and Bavarians at driv.-H.. rnd that widespread insubordination exists among the Ji-uanans. It is stated that all the Germans have been sent to France or to the East Prussian frontier, and that ..‘O.OOO Austrians are occupying Brussels, accompanied by -ev, n heavy siege guns.

London, Sept. 21. The “ Daily Chronicle’s ’’ Antwerp correspondent says the Germans made three desperate and unsuccessful attempts on Saturday and Sunday to .capture Fort Wallhem, between Malines and Brussels. On the first night operations with the heaviest artillery covered an infantry attack upon the entrenched Belgians. For a short while the issue was doubtful, but when the defenders of the fort realised the danger they devastated the German hues, and the attacks were finally repulsed with the loss of 1000.

Antwerp, Sept. 2 1. The Germans expelled from Wolverthem all males above 10 years of age. A detachment of German cyclists burned the villages of Tremeloo and Rotsclaer. (These villages are all to the north of Brussels.)