IN BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 5

IN BELGIUM.

MORE VILLAGES BURNED

GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED

THE MUTINOUS BAVARIANS

ANTWERP, Sep. 22. The Germans have expelled from Wolverthem lall males above 10 years of age.

A detachment of German cyclists burned the villages of Tremluo and Rotselear.

LONDON, Sep. 22.

The Daily Chronicle's • Antwerp correspondent reports that the Germans made three desperate but 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 lines, and the attack was finally repulsed with the loss of 1000 men.

OSfEND, Sep. 22. It is reported that all the Bavarian troops have left Brussels. Some were court-martialled and shot.

It is stated that all the Germans have been sent to France or the East Prussian frontier. '

Forty thousand Austrians (?) are occupying Brussels, accompanied by 6ev.en heavy, 6iege guns.