In Belgium.
RUMOURS OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN OPERATION. Amsterdam, August 17. It is rumoured that Austrian troops' are fighting in Belgium, under Count Von Buelow, commanding the second army corps. BELGIANS AND FRENCH EXCHANGE OFFICERS. |V; ? Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, August 17. The Belgians and French are exchanging officers, the transfers being calculated to mutually timulate their energies.
BOMBS FROM AEROPLANE INTO LOUVAIN.
EXPERIENCE OF TWO AVIATORS
(Received 8.50-a.m.) , Brussels, August 17. Last night a German aeroplane dropped bombs into Louvain.
Two Belgian senators, owing to a breakdown, were compelled to land near a body ,of Uhlans, and they abandoned the aeropldne. Later on, the Belgians, with a quickfirer mounted on a motor car, surprised and drove off the Uhlans and rescued the aeroplane.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 5
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126In Belgium. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 5
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