LIFE IN LIEGE.
ENGLISHMAN'S REPORT.
BIG FORCE OF GERMAN'S.
'Deceived August 10, 5.5 p.m.)
I.OXPOX, August 1").
An English stockbroker, Mr. Mcnzies, who visited his home in Liege, states that 40,000 Germans aro occupying the town. The bulk of them are bivouacked on Mont Saint Martin. The boulevards are lined with Maxim guns.
Mr. Menzies learned that the efforts of the Germans to place a bridge over the River Meuse at Vise had been frustrated twenty times by the destruction of their works by Belgian engineers.
Ho also states that it fa perg] . :f : V tcntly rumoured in Liege that t Crown Prince of Germany S ' wounded while leading the "Death' Head" Hussars. , eath3
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15689, 17 August 1914, Page 6
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