THE LIEGE FORTS.
LONDON, Aug. 11. Experts consider that the Liege forts a-re unlikely to withstand siege guns Lord Sydenham opines that a few hours' bombardment with 8501b. projectiles will reduce them to a shapeless mass. •
During the assault on the forts while the men of tho front ranks used cutters and removed the barbed wire entanglements guarding the approach to the forts, others lay down. The forts rained grape-shot and sharpBhooters picked the cutters off.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 August 1914, Page 8
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76THE LIEGE FORTS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 August 1914, Page 8
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