ATTACK ON THE OUTER FORTS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13595, 9 October 1914, Page 5

ATTACK ON THE OUTER FORTS.

FURIOUS FIGHTING

GERMANS MOWED DOWN IN

THOUSANDS,

SHELLED OUT OF SCHOONAERDE.

(Received Oct. 9, 0.15 a.m.)

London, Oct. 8

i The fighting before Antwerp on Tuesday was of the most furious character. The Germans advanced between the outev forts, but were shot down in thousands.

They brought up fresh reinforcementsd from Brussels, and hurried infantry, recklessly against the Belgian trenches, but eventually they crossed the Nethe.

CABLE NEWS.

i [Pbess Association —Cofybighx.]

Renewed attempts to cross the Scheldt between Gremberghen and Schoonaerde failed.

The German shrapnel is inflicting considerable though not serious losses on the Belgian trenches.

The Belgian artillery shelled the Germans out of Schoonaerde, destroying a German chemical factory.