The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-10-01

.N London, Sept. ga dtSpatcn
to Reuters Telegram company
from Amsterdam says that the
Germans are again bombarding
Malines and at the same time at
lacking Grembergen, and were re-
pulsed by the Belgians with heavy
losses. .r
London, Sept. 2S.-In a dispatch
rom Ostend, the correspondent of
Reuters Telegram company says
that the Belgians, anticipating a
German attack on Alost, have sent
the inhabitants away, This town
has been reoccupied oy the Bel
gians.
The Germans yesterday bonn
oarded Alost, infiicting consider
able damage, including h burn
of a hospital. The Germans were
driven back in the direction of
Assche, six miles northwest OF
Brussels. ,
The correspondent says a Yep
pelin airship yesterday flew over
Client and the r.
London. Sept. 2s.-The Weekly OBJ
server prints this dispatch from its
Antwerp correspondent:
"It is daily becoming more apparent
that the. Germans are preparing o a
of Antwerp. Ayiators have
brought information to The effect that
the Germans are entrenched 10 or IL
miles beyond the outer line of fort
resses. and are merely biding their
time. Their heavy guns are being
brought up. which takes considerable
time. The ~projectiles used in these guns
weigh $500 pounds.
'The authorities calculate that the
Germans must be prepared to lost 10O,-
900 in killed and 600, 900 wounded, which
they probably know. as Antwerp is in
tested with spies.
Communication Cut Off.
A dispatch from Amsterdam to Reu-
ters' Telegram company says that, ac-
cording to the Telegram, the whole Ger
line of communications in Bel
gium has been fortified to the north
west OF Antwerp, where the invaders
building Notifications and are dig
ging trenches.
difficult, the newspapers
say, nobody being allowed to enter the
zone Of Notifications unless they can
produce a pass signed by the military
governor of the Belgian fortress.
The Vulks Zeitung of Cologne says
the Germans have heavy siege guns
around Antwerp. The street car line
between Brussels and Minove, this
says, is being exclusively
used by the Germans for the trans
portation of provisions to the German
positions or the northwest OF Brussels,
where sktrmlshes with the Belgians are
Of daily occurrence.
The Zeppelin air ship which on Thurs
day night dropped bombs on Ostend
cruised. according 70 the Volk Zeitung,
over the whole province of Flanders.
Paris. Sept. ga dispatch to the
Petit Parsien, from Amsterdam says
violent fighting has occurred between
the Germans and Belgians at Schooten,
four miles east of Antwerp; al Ter
monde, 16 miles east of Client and Hof-
stadt, 18 miles east Of Client. In the
latter locality the heavy German ar
tillery stuck in the mud and the Ger
mans were obliged to retire before the
attacks OF the Belgians.
1t is confirmed, says the dispatch,
that the Germans are fortifying Liege,
Amsterdam. Sept. %. (via London),
Sept. 27.-The Maastrict correspondent
of the Nleuw Van Den Dag, has sent
the following dispatch:
Belgian soldiers on Friday blew vi
the railway at Bilzn, Limberg, neal
Hasselt. Shortly afterwards a German
military train was derailed and de
stroyed. In revenge. the Germans
burned the village. One hundred and
fifty refugees arrived here today from
Bilzn. .7.
"At Brussels the garrison continues
actively to perfect the defence works
A complete belt of barbed wire now en-
circles the city, within which is
double line of trenches. 1t is also stated
that all the high roads leading into
Brussels have been mined
- " a .
AUSTRlANS IN FORCE
OUTSIDE or ANTWERF
The Hague. (via London). Sept. 2S-