REPORT OF FALL OF LIEGE IN BERLIN.

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

REPORT OF FALL OF LIEGE IN BERLIN.

NEWS SPREAD THROUGH OFFICIAL CHANNELS. Amsterdam, August 0. A remarkable message has been received in Amsterdam from Berlin stating that news of tho fall of Liege spread throughout the German capital with lightning rapidity, and created boundless enthusiasm. Tho Emperor sent his aide-de-camp to the crowd before the castlo to give the news. The police bicycled along Unter den Linden to spread tho joyful tidings. Herr von Bothmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, drove to the castle to congratulate tho Emperor. Tho message continues: "Though it is known that lies were circulated in foreign countries about a German defeat at Liege, it is expected that these will disappear before the facts."

The Lokal Anzeiger states: "All hearts are trembling under tho first feat of arras of our valiant army."

This version of the conflict states that the German advance guards penetrated the ontire Belgian frontier. A small detachment tried a coup do main with groat boldness at Liege. Some cavalry entered the city with the object of seizing the Commander of the Forces, who only saved himself by flight. j.no attack on the fortress was unsuccessful. "Tho whole hostile foreign press," says the official report, " will naturally characterise the incident, which has no influence on tho larger operations, as a defeat. Reports from Maastricht, 20 miles' north of Liege, state that tho sound of big guns was heard distinctly, and smoke.was seen from tho church steeples. A number of German horses that had stampeded galloped into Maastricht. Five thousand German subjects, fleeing from Belgium, wore sent by train to Aix la Ohapolle. The ambulance corps at Eysden is very busy.