The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-14
GERMAN TROOPS
ARE EREPULSED0N
FIELD Of HAELEN
Fighting Most Brilliant and
Stubborn War Has Yet
Witnessed.
CONTINUES ALL DAY
AND FAR INTO NIGHT
|Belgians Are Slaughtered by Hail
of Bullets From Advanc-
ing Foe.
TO Battle, They Rccapture
Positions and Rout Kaiser's
Soldiers.
Special Cable to The Times Dispatch. J

Special Cable to The Times Dispatch.
BRUSSELS. August l3.-Behlnd an
almost impenctrable veil. a great bat
lie is in progress on the plains OF Rel-
rium.
All day to day and all day yesterday.
the Germans and Belgians have been
locked In a death grapple on the held
OF !Iaelep
The Germans resumed the offensive
at o'clock this morning Since then
the lghtine has been continuous. BE
vond the fact that the vanguard OF =
600, oG0 fighting men Is engaged In "a
desperate prelude TO an even more
desperate struggle to come. the cen
8sors will permit no news TO be gent
out. This much II Is pciinitted 10 SEND.
unoficialiy, II is stated that the Ger
man troops rcformcd after being re
pulsed last night at Haelen. and At .
o'clock this morning the battle was
renewed Fresh Belgian troops were
at oncc sent 10 the front In support
of their comrades who had fought
Throughout yesterday.
1t Is also oftcially announced that
the Belgian cavalry division this
morning took up the offensive against
the Germans, who We're defeated IN
ycstcrday's battle OF Iaelen, with the
object, II Is believed, OF picking up the
dead and wounded and<collectinG the
abandoned material OF war. No Ger
man surprise was expected. and there
are no reasons to fear any cavalry
movements on Brussels from the south
all roads leading 10 the capital being
guarded by the Belgian army and the
|civic guards.
40 DETAILS PERMITTED
OF PROGRESS OF Bi1Si LIE
No details arc permitted Of the prog
1rc.s OF the lighting. Brief dispatches
8a,so tell Of renewed fighting IN Tho
neirhborhood Of I.ongrcs. north Of
E-ie,;e, where an artillery duel was com
lnenced this morning
An official Belgian communication
Hsays that 4 German force proceeding IN
~ the direction of i.zhezee. To the mort =
|of Samur. was attacked and rcnulfcd
his morning hy the belgian troops
5rhc Germans are said TO have suffered
scvere casualties The Bclgians also
Hcaptured a number OF machine suns
amounted on motor cars
Details of the first DAYS lighting a.
ITaelen yesterday show that while the
battle was the most brilliant and stub
bornly contested OF the war 50 fal, ~
was but sklisnsh to the engagement
which impcnds when the complete
armies OH both sides have fnaly ana
noeuvred into position
II Details OF the losses sustained are
not at hand According to the Bel
rian reports the Germans were re-
&pulsed after fierce fghtinS. ~ one
place, 1t is declared, upwards Of zoo
dead Germans were counted III space
Hhrty Yards square,
The engagement viii he known az
Hthc battle OF iiacleu Z, wagcd all
day and far into the night ~
o'clock in the evening shells were .iill
r. falling.
According to tie Belgian reports. the
Imam hghting centred around iiaclch'
which is in the Belgian province oi me
20 Brabant after passing around Itci-
5bem The battle of Diest was merely
i part OF the several fights AL a!onS
tho line.
When n patrol of carbineers first
signalcd the approach OF the ticrhah
troops ut the opening OF the ensaso
mont the Belgans manned tue
trenches. and hot fire greeted the
Herman advances, iialtins their
8charge the Germans brought Into play
their artillery. y slaughter OF BEL
Rians followed Bringing their guns
mans swept them with such deadl:
hall of bullets that the Rclgians were
driven out and forced to retire into the
town of Haelen 81
Hand o-hand nghtng cnsucd rs the
Beigians broke from cover for their
Hretreat. The brilliant uniforms OF the
Belgians. In contrast to the duh gray
suits Of the Germans, made them splen-
did targets for the Germans. and they
were swept down by scores in their re-
treat upon the city.
GERMANS DRIVEN BACK
AND DEFENSES HIsTAKFN
Reinforccments were quickly brought
up, however, and the BclGians rallied,
driving the Germans back and recap
turing the defenses from which they
had been driven by the German artil-
lery fire.
Pursuing their advantage. tho Bel
CLANS charged the Germans and forced
them back in series Of desperate
charges toward Hassclt and st. Trond.
To-night's advices tell that German
troops In other parts of Belgium arc
understood to be gathering in all the
railroad cars they can find pas
senger train near Waremmcs was halt
cd to-day by German cavalry patrol
and the passengers left In The open
,Iontinued on Second Pagc.)
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