NAMUR OCCUPIED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 5

NAMUR OCCUPIED.

MANY INHABITANTS KILLED. THE BELGIAN RESISTANCE. (Received August 28, 11.30 a.m.) OSTEND, August 27. An officer from Namur states that the forts are holding out, with the exception oif* Marchovelette and Cognelee. The Belgians fought without assistance for two days previous to the -arrival of French reinforcements. There was a large force of Germans before Namur, and the Belgians retreated southwards. The Germans now occupy the town, and a large number of inhabitants have been killed. MARCHING EASTWARD. THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. OCCUPATION OF TILSIT. (Received August 28, 11.:J0 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG-, August 27. It is officially announced that the Russians have occupied Tilsit. [Tilsit is a town in Eastern Prussia, on the left bank of the Niemen, 60 miles N.E. of Konigsberg. It has iron foundries, machine shops, and tanneries. Tilsit is famous for the treaties concluded there between Napoleon and the sovereigns of Russia and Prussia in 1807. Prussia had to surrender her dominions west of the Elbe, and the territories taken in the partitions

of Poland in 179.°> and 1795. The population of Tilsit in 1900 was ;i4,">;»9. |