BELGIUM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 8

BELGIUM.

DEFENDING ANTWERP. BELGIAN FORCES. FACING GREAT ODIK. GERMANS RETIRE LONDON, Sept. (>. An Antwerp telegram slates that <WV> Belgians, with fie!<! and machine iuris, strongly entrenched at Termode, I i'ought 20.000 Germans. The latter; *uffertd heavily owinsr to delay in tho : lrriral of their gtms- '

Elsewhere the Belgians, supported by fort Liezle, killed and wounded 1000 Germans. ANTWERP, Sept. 6. The Germans have evacuated Termode, after burning numbers of houses and blowing up the northern Scheldt bridge, to prevent an oirensivo movement whilst operation* at Terniode were proceeding. They now find it impossible to hold Termode without being cut off from Brussels. The incursion into Waesland lias apparently hern abandoned. GERMANS ENTRENCHING. AGAINST FRESH BRITISH FORCE. LONDON, Sept. G. The ' Observer's" correspondent at o>tcnd passed the German lines and visited Mons. He states that the Germans, icning an attack from tho British troops from the north-west, are entrenching themselves at Mons. BIG Gl'N BOMBARDMENT. • The correspondent states that Maubeuge was bombarded with tho fanioua howitzers. More than 100 houses at Nimy. Mons, .Temanpes and other villages wore burned. The terrified inhabitant.s hung out white flags and implored mercy. At Jemappes the monument of France's victory over the Austrians in 1792 was destroyed. The Germans demanded requisitions, terrifying their victims with rovolvors. TIo saw at one village the burial places of 105 Germans anil 50 Englishmen covered with Union Jack-:. INHUMANITY TO PRISONERS. At Mons he saw a convoy of English pr'soners baivheaded in a blazing sun. 1 lie citizens offered .siraw hats, which tho Germans would not poimit tho Englishmen to wt nr. Tho Germans taunted th.? British:—"Look at these brave robbers of the colonies.*' After tho battle southwards of Mons manv wounded British were for three* days without lie!p. The Ge-rmnns are behaving atrociously. burning houses and nuirdering Belgian non-combatants. particular!? miners, who they declare are dangerous Socialists.

Sacks containing 62.000 aluminium identification plates of German killed are being sent to Berlin.