The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
TeutOn Army Numbering Fifty
thousand Men Rush On
Through Brussels.
NAMUR FORTS INVESTED
BY THE KAISER'S FORCES
Heavy Artillery opens Fire on Second
Line of Belgian DefensesGer-
many Taxes Brussels and
Liege $5o,ooO,ooo.
--latest Dispatches. }

BOWERS-AUGUST Z2d
London.-The Daily Mails Ostend
correspondent says:
The Germans are overrunning
North Belgium They are now be-
heved to be within striking distance
of Ostend.
Fifty thousand Germans marched
through Brussels and are now in
Client"
Client is thirty miles northwest Of
Brussels, in the province of East
Flanders, and about the same distance
southwest of Antwerp Its population
is about two hundred thousand.
No information is available as to
whether the Germans row intend to
devote themselves to the task of re-
ducing Antwerp or to an endeayor to
force their way southW ard into
France.
Cavalry IA Miles Fr~.r Antwerp.
It seems, however, that the determ-
ination is to attack the Belgian army
of one hundred and fifty thousand men
still in or around Antwerp.
The Germans have occupied Alost,
fifteen miles northwest OF Brussels,
anu nSIICISus SlSHL LILIES SOuluGdSI
Of Client, and apparently intend to
overrun the whole of Northern Bel
GUM to the sea.
a dispatch to the Havas agency
from Bruges, Belgium, under date of
Friday, says: 1.-The civic guard at
Client was disarmed this morning.
The Brussels civic guard was sent to
Bruges and Antwerp.
THE enemy occupied Alost and
Wetteren today. 1t is feared that the
arrival Of the Germans at Client is
imminent. Many people are leaving
the city by motor car or carriage for
Ostend''
Cavalry patrols have been as far
as Mechlin (Malines), fourteen miles
southeast of Antwerp, and it may be
heard before long that the Germans
have occupied Bruges and possibly
Ostend.
Namur Partly Invested.
Paris.-An official statement just
issued, says:
'Namur is partly invested. Heavy
artillery opened fire toward noon.
The westward movement of the Ger
man columns continues on both banks
of the Mouse outside the range of the
action at Namur."
A large force is said to be operat-
ing on it with heavy artillery.
German Forces Massed.
London.-The Daily Telegraph cor
respondent at Givet, Belgium, who has
been traversing the French advanced
posts in the valley of the Meuse river
loE
by the Germans will be against Ma
muir and nearby places, where he says
the Germans now are massed for a
slashing effort to plunge their great
army into France.
Brussels Taxed $4,000, 900.
Paris.-German cavalry forces pass
ed through Brussels going westward,
| according to an official announcement.
They were followed later by an army
! corps.
ga war tax of 40 million dollars has
been levied on the city of Brussels
by the German general the state
ment adds.
The kaiser's levy on Brussels means
S55 per head for every man, woman,
boy and girl in the city. That is an
/
lily in the country.
London Denounces Levy.
| LOndon.-All the morning papers
in London denounced the German at
tempt to levy a tax of 40 million dol
lars in Brussels.
The papers declare such an assess
ment is opposed to all the ideas OF
modern warfare and worthy OF the
| robber barons Of the Middle Ages. II
| is supposed that the demand was &C
companied by threats to destroy tn
beautiful public buildings OF the town
the newspapers say.
Liege, Too, Must Pay.
London-The inhabitants of Liege
have been informed by proclamation
of the burgomaster that the German
military governor has levied tax OF
| 10 million dollars on the province
The tax is to be collected by the civil
| authorities.