ANTWERP.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 7

ANTWERP.

A SIEGE EXPECTED. PREPARATIONS IX PROGRESS. OSTEXD. Sopfc. 5. Hie German Governor of Brussels ia forcing thu Civil Guards, though disarmed. to assist in defence works. Tllis ;s a fresh violation of international law. General Dufour, in order to prevent :t scarcity of food, is freeing Antwerp of war refugees. They actually exceed tile city's normal population. There are indications that German vandalism in other cities is deliberately intended to drive the inhabitants into Antwerp, hoping that the- latter, in the event of .siege, will speedily capitulate from tamine. Meanwhile ihey luivo sought to demoralise the population by means of aircraft bombs. Belgian engineers have flooded scve*al districts, especially about Ma!hies. ATTACK OX COMMUNICATIONS, i BURNING VILLAGES. Received 12. lo a.m., Sept. 7th. ANTWERP, Sept, 0. About forty thousand Germans among the surrounding villages continued their movement north and north-westward from Brussels, for the purpose of tutting Antwerp's communications with Osu-nd and other coast j towns, 'the Germans burned the villages on the way. GERMANS SWAMPED. BELGIANS FLOOD THE COUNTRY. Stem lighting has occurred between .Malines and Terminle, tile Belgians showing great elan. Whoa Germans occupied 1 erniode the Belgians cut the dykes and Hooded the country, completely surprising the Germans, who had mi! expected such a sacrifice. The Germans, when the telegram was sent, were waist-deep in water. working heroically to pull out their guns under a h- avy lire troiii ilie outermost Ant- i wci'p toil-. '1 he Germans weiv losing heavily.