CITY OF LIEGE WITHSTANDS TREMENDOUS ASSAULTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15684, 11 August 1914, Page 7

CITY OF LIEGE WITHSTANDS TREMENDOUS ASSAULTS.

GERMAN ARMY CORPS BROKEN BY COUNTER-ATTACK.

IRRESISTIBLE TIDE OF THE BELGIAN ADVANCE.

FLEEING TROOPS FED IN DUTCH TERRITORY. London, August 9.

Dr. E. J. Dillon, the Daily Telegraph's war correspondent, reports that during Saturday night the entire Seventh Army Corps made a tremendous assault upon Liege, but the Belgians manfully held their positions.

The whole country around was illuminated by searchlights, and quaked like an earthquake under the thunder of the guns. Daylight revealed hundreds of Gorman corpses strewn about the fields.

As the Germans advanced upon Fort Barchon, a Belgian mixed brigade effected a daring counter-attack from the heights of Wandre.

Their advance was as irresistible as the tide. The Germans stood a few minutes awaiting the onset, and then fled panic-stricken.

The Seventh Army Corps was broken, and a few hours later 5000 fugitives passed through Maastricht, Holland, where they were fed and then allowed to proceed to Aix la Chapelle.

If this be correct, it raises an international problem of some moment, since Holland's duty under the laws of international warfare was to disarm and intern the fugitives.

Maastricht is a town in Dutch territory, about 15 milos X.N.E. of Liege. : If German troops havo been fed there and have been allowed to proceed to Aix la Chapelle, which is in Gorman territory, Holland's neutrality has been compromised. Belligerent forces entering neutral territory are, by the practice of nations, bound to surrender their arms to the neutral stac, and remain hors do combat till the close of the war. In 1871, when Genstato, and remain hors do combat till the defeated French army, was driven into Switzerland, which had declared its neutrality, hia 80,000 men were disarm ed by the Swiss and interned,.