BELGIAN ADVANCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 93, 10 August 1914, Page 6

BELGIAN ADVANCE

1 Irresistible as the Tide 1 f r ! * ” : ':'i I 11 ' ' « . ‘ TREMENDOUS NIGHT ASSAULT BY GERMANS. I > ARMY CORPS SHATTERED. [United Press Association.] (Received 12.55 p.m. London, August 8. Mr Dillon, in the “Daily Telegraph” says that during the night : |the entire seventh army corps made !a. tremendous assault, but the Belgians manfully held their positions. Tile whole country around is illuminated with search lights, and the earth quaked like an earthquake. (Daylight revealed hundreds of Ger*man- corpses strewn oil the fields. As 'the Germans advanced on Barchon a (Belgian mixed brigade effected a daring counter-attack from the heights of [ Wand re! Their advance was as irresistible as the tide., Germans stood a ! few minutes awaiting the onset and then fled iu panic. The seventh army corps was broken, and a few hours later five thousand fugitives passed Hatstricht, where they were fed and also, curiously enough, -at Aix-la-Ghapelle. If this is • correct,: it raisies an international problem of some moment.

WITHERING BELGIAN FIRE. MOWED GERMANS DOWN LIKE CORN. THE PANIC-STRICKEN POPULATION. Brussels, August 8.

• The morale of the seventh and tenth German Army, Corps was seriously shaken hy tha withering Belgian fire, which mowed them down like'corn. Many German shells Hurst in 'the streets of Liege, setting (ire to buildings., A number of guns were captured. WLau the "‘shells‘fell ill Liege 1000 inhabitants panicr-stnCk-en .fled'to Brussels aiid Tjongefon. The rest took refuge in cellars. The Burgoiueister desired to surrender.

A version of the conflict aj, Liege states that German advance guards penetrated the entire Belgian frontier: A ; small detachment tried a coup de main with great boldness. At Liege some cavalry entered the city with the object of seizing the commander of the forces, who only saved himself by flight. The attack- on the fortress was unsuccessful. The vHiole hostile foreign press will naturally characterise • the incident, which lias no influence on the larger operations, as a defeat.

■ It - is announced that the eighth Russian cavalry brigade attacked the Germans near Lo’tfeau.