BELGIUM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15443, 4 September 1914, Page 8

BELGIUM.

KAISER INSPECTS BATTLE SCENES. PARTS, Sept. 1. The Kaiser visited the battlefields at C'liarleroi and then proceeded to Mons and Brussels. ATTACK ON ANTWERP. ZEPPELIN APPEARS AGAIN. ANTWERP, Sept. 1. A shell exploded a few yards from King Albert, who was directing tho operations of marines. The. back wheel of his motor-car was torn off. Tlr Belgians agree that the German machine are good. One gun"installed in a parish church surprised a Belgian detachment of 350 strong who we:v taking a hasty meal. Only sixty e.-cajwi. Tlie Zeppe.'ii) reappeared at dawn today and was vigorously fusiladed and cannonaded. SMART BOY SCOUT. Georges Lcysen, a Boy Scout at Liege, secured the arrest and execution of eleven spies. Leysen also killed a Uhian and though suffering from a fractured arm captured another at Malines and twice penetrated tho German iines. The King decorated him and gave him a commission. RAID OX ALOST. OSTF.XD. Sept. 1. The Germans yesterday raided Alosfc and occupied tiie station, town hall, and bridges. Eventually the Belgian Lancers drove the Germans off. The Germans blew up the Ifo.ol dc> Ville (City Hall) at Xamur. BELGIAN MISSIONRKGARWXG OUTRAGES. LONDON, Sept. 1. The King, in reply to the Belgian mission's address. expressed him sell as shockvd at the reports of German brutality. 1 iis Majesty added that ho was grateful for Belgium's gallant resistance.