GERMANS ROUTED AT TERMONDE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13573, 14 September 1914, Page 5

GERMANS ROUTED AT TERMONDE.

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF

VALUABLES

HEAVY LOSSES

(Received Sept. 13, 5.5 p.m.)

Antwerp, Sept. 12

Official. —The Germans were routed with heavy losses at Termonde. Before the evacuation the Germans burnt 1100 out of 1300 houses, and destroyed works of art and historical memorials.

The retreat of the German masking force from Antwerp was continued on Fiiday. The Belgian artillery inflicted important losses upon them.

The Germans bombarded Dieghem, south of Malines, for half an hour. Many houses were wrecked, but there was no loss of life.