The Forrest City times., 1914-08-28
lovain and Aerschot Vie With Diest and Tiriemont
 in Heroism
GERMANS OCCUPY BRUSSELS
ThrSnes Flee Belgian Capital as Poesss of kalser Approaeh-story sf How TeutonIe Army Took
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By ERNEST SMITH.

(cs--sspesdent of the London Daily
 News.)
 Ostend.-After the heroic defense of D1est and Tirlemont 1t was the turn of Louvain and Aershot to try with handfuls of troops to keep the invader at bay while the main Belgian army was reforming its position.
 The battle of Tuesday before Tirle- mont had gone on till ten o'clock at night, and even after that, during the few hours before daybreak, rifles snapped out the notice there would be no sleep in the land that night.
 Under the cover of darkness the Belgian general staff and army was si- lently moving to it's new position. To have fought where 1t was at that moment would have given away all the advantages of the allies and would have been to risk heavy loss, and perhaps defeat.
 Germans Charge Trenches.
 It was, however, not to do military experts work that I started to write this, but rather to follow the fortunes of the plucky rear guard of Belgians left behind to harrass the oncoming Germans.
 At dawn on Wednesday l saw the Germans hotly attacking the trenches that had been filled up during the night with fresh men. Part of them were of the famous Liege field force that had decimated the Germans who approached the trenches before the Liege forts. They had begged to be sent back to Lege to meet the en- emy again there. This could not be done. but they had their opportunity now, desperate one, 1t is true, for each of those men knew he was marked down to be sacrificed if nec- essary In the interest of the plans of the defense
 Air Scouts Get Range. Two German aeroplanes flying auda- ciously low swept over the trenches to see how they were held. Almost i'm mediately afterward the German ar. tillery got the range of the trenches and commenced bursting shrapnel over them. Infantry and machine guns were quickly at work and the little band of defenders settled down to keep the enemy's masses of troops at bay as long as possible By six o'clock the attack was gen. eral along the whole line, but 1t was particularly violent in front of Aer- shot. There was pitiless and deter mined onslaught in which the German commanders showed the same disre- gard for the loss of men as elsewhere Two of the heroic regiments from Liege bore the brunt of the attack in the po- sition northeast of town They were outnumbered by ten to one, but they stuck to their positions with the cour- age of desperation and inflicted fear full loss on the Germans. Their ovA losses were terrible.
 Germane Enter Louvain.
 By 10 o'clock the Germans were in Louvain. They had brought their in- fantry and machine guns up by motor cars, moving quickly. As the civil guard already had been disbanded, there remained only the rear guard in the town to harass the enemy as long as possible.
 It was the same story at Diest, Tirlemont and Aerschot. A brief hero ic resistance was followed by the in evitable envelopment of the vast forces the Germans were pushing for ward. There were desperate combats at Corbeckloe and Lovenjoul and the honorable retreat had been sounded once more.