SITUATION IN BELGIUM.

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

SITUATION IN BELGIUM.

MOVEMENT OF GERMANS TOWARDS LILLE.

BELGIAN FIELDS STRIPPED OF " FOOD CROPS.

BRUSSELS PAVEMENTS MINED

Ostend, Oct. 7

A column of 20,000 German horße, foot, and artillery, with a commissariat convoy, traversed Templeuve going towards Lille-

The Germans are clearing the fields in the neighbourhood of Brussels of food crops, and are sending them to Germany, by .special trains.

There are indications that the pavements in front of the leading public buildings are mined. Heavy sandbag barricades have been erected round the Palais de Justice.