FIGHTING IN BELGIUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15687, 14 August 1914, Page 6

FIGHTING IN BELGIUM.

ENEMY'S CAVALRY ENGAGED

FURIOUS ARTILLERY BATTLE. /

GERMAN ADVANCE CHECKED.

FRENCH STRONG IN ALSACE.

London, August 12.

Router's Brussels agency reports that heavy cavalry engagements are proceeding between the French and Belgians anmthe Germans. The locality of the fighting is not stated,''but it is surmised that it is to the west and north-west of Liege.

Tho Daily Telegraph's Amsterdam correspondent reports that a terrific cannonade is in progress in the direction of Tongres, 10 miles northwest of 'Liege.

It is officially announced that many German patrols have been captured round Dinant and Rochefort, in the south of Belgium, and at -Civet, across the French frontier. An important engagement is reported from Tirlemont, 28 miles to the eastward of Brussels. The Belgians are here offering a vigorous resistance to the German advance.

It is officially announced in Paris that only small groups of Germans entered the town of Liege, while all the forts from Belfort to Liege are intact.

The French cavalry at all points is maintaining its superiority, and the French still hold the crests and passes of the Vosges. They dominate the heights of Alsace, and hold the lines between Thann, a town 10 miles from'the French frontier, and Altkirch, 16 miles further south.

Belgian airmen report one solid mass of shining armour from Liege to Duren, 18 miles east of Aix-la-Chapelle. Each German private has a glow-watch to enable him to see the time in the dark, and field glasses. The non-commissioned officers have whistles, and the commands during assaults on the forts are given by whistles of varying shrillness. •