THE FIGHTING WHICH PRECEDED THE FALL OF ANTWERP: THE ENTRENCHED INFANTRY AND SCREENED ARTILLERY ASSISTING THE DEFENCE. The German attack upon Antwerp began with a. forward movement on September 26. Alalines became untenable, and the Belgian Field Army, evacuating it, fell back upon the outer line of the Antwerp forts. The actual attack on Antwerp began on September 28, against Forts de Waelhem and de Wavre Ste. Catherine, and the city was evacuated by the Belgians and the British Naval and Marine Brigades on October 8 and 9. On the latter day, the Germans occupied the city. The fort shown in the picture is exactly like the o hers encircling Antwerp. With their revolving turrets, they were supposed to be the very latest and best in the way of such things; until there came the big siege-guns, whose existence was so carefully concealed by Krupps and Germany. The range of these guns is very nearly double that of the Belgian guns, and it became a question of the enemy battering the for'.s. which were powerless to reply effectively. —From the Illustrated London News.

Otago Witness, Issue 3169, 9 December 1914, Page 41 (Supplement)

THE FIGHTING WHICH PRECEDED THE FALL OF ANTWERP: THE ENTRENCHED INFANTRY AND SCREENED ARTILLERY ASSISTING THE DEFENCE. The German attack upon Antwerp began with a. forward movement on September 26. Alalines became untenable, and the Belgian Field Army, evacuating it, fell back upon the outer line of the Antwerp forts. The actual attack on Antwerp began on September 28, against Forts de Waelhem and de Wavre Ste. Catherine, and the city was evacuated by the Belgians and the British Naval and Marine Brigades on October 8 and 9. On the latter day, the Germans occupied the city. The fort shown in the picture is exactly like the o hers encircling Antwerp. With their revolving turrets, they were supposed to be the very latest and best in the way of such things; until there came the big siege-guns, whose existence was so carefully concealed by Krupps and Germany. The range of these guns is very nearly double that of the Belgian guns, and it became a question of the enemy battering the for'.s. which were powerless to reply effectively. —From the Illustrated London News.