CHARGE AFTER CHARGE.
BEGIMS SAW RED. NOTHING COULD STOP THEE (Received August 10, 9 a.m.) : BRUSSELS, August 9. FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE LIEGE FIGHT SAY THAT THE BELGIANS CHARGED REFEATEDLY. THEY SAW RED. AND NOTHING SEEMED TO STOP THEM. EVERY TIME THEY: CHARGED, THE GERMANS TURNED AND RAN, AND WERE STRUCK IN THE BACK AND KILLED LIKE CATTLE. THEN THE CAVALRY CHARGED THEM. ANOTHER ACCOUNT STATES THAT THE GERMANS GAINED A FOOTING ON A GLACIS UNDEK THE GREAT GUNS, AND BELIEVED THEMSELVES SAFE, UTTERLY FORGETFUL OF*' THE MACHINE GUNS.' ' IN A MOMENT THE GLACIS WAS SWEPT CLEAR. IT RAN" WITH BLOOD. THE BELGIANS IN THE TRENCHES, NOT SATISFIED WITH FIRING; THEIR RIFLES AT FIFTY YARDS, • DEMANDED BAYONET CHARGES. AT THE SIGHT OF STEEL, MANY PRUSSIANS RAN, OTHERS HELD UP THEIR HANDS . AND SURRENDERED, OTHERS WERE COURAGEOUS ENOUGH, BUT WERE BEATEN BY BAD LEADERSHIP. THE ATTACK PROVED THAT THE DAYS OF THE AUTOMATIC MACHINE ARMY HAVE GONE FOR EVER. THE ATTACK CONTINUED UNABATED THROUGHOUT THURSDAY.
THOUSANDS OF BROKEN BODIES MASSED THE FIELDS PLOUGHED BY A TERRIFIC CANNONADE.
A ZEPPELIN AND AN AEROPLANE ASSISTED IN THE ATTACK. IT IS REPORTED THT A BELGIAN AIRMAN LOST HIS LIFE DESTROYING THE ZEPPELIN WITH HIS AEROPLANE.
SHOTS DESTROYED SEVERAL AEROPLANES. TORRENTIAL RAINS ON THURSDAY NIGHT ADDED TO THE SUFFERING OF THE WOUNDED. THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE FORTS LASTED FOR FORTY-EIGHT HOURS WITHOUT RELAXATION. THIRTEEN AND FIFTEEN CENTIMETRE CANNON AND FIFTEEN CENTIMETRE MORTARS PRODUCED NO EFFECT ON THE CUPOLAS. THE GERMANS ARE NOW AWAITING MORTARS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHT TYPE. EVEN li< THE CUPOLAS ARE OUT OF ACTION, THE EXCELLENT DISPOSITION OF THE FOSSES AND COUNTER SCARPS WILL ENABLE THE FORTS TO CONTINUE THEIR RESISTANCE.
M. LEIMAfIf (THE BELGIAN MILITARY ENGINEER) PREPARED A FIELD WITH ' MINES TO THE NORTH OF LIEGE, AND SENT A DETACHMENT TO THE NOillH Or THE FIELD. THE GERMANS IMMEDIATELY FELL INTO THE TRAP. THEY ATTEMPTED TO CUT OFF A SMALL FORCE, THE CURRENT
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11153, 11 August 1914, Page 1
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