Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-11
THE CITY OF uECE HAS
FALLEN; BRUSSELS ADMITS
SUCCESS Of THE ENEMY
REPORTED GERMAN OCCUPATION OF CITY CONFIRMED IN DIS
PATCH RECEIVED EARLY ToDAY-F1GHTNG IN PROGRESS
SINCE LAST WEDNESDAY, BOTH SIDES SUFFERING HEAVY
LOss-ENDs DESPERATE BATTLE.
ALLIED TROOPS ARE ADVANCING ON GERMANS
OFFICIAL SAYS BRITISH AND FRENCH HAVE FORMED
JUNCTION WITH BEIG1ANs-GERMAN FORCES ARE ACTIVE
FRENCH ADVANCE CoNT1NUEs-1NvADERs ARE DRIVEN OUT
PRAYER FOR ALLIES.

London, Aug. 10, 3:15 a. m.-The
occupation of Liege by the Germans
is confirmed in a dispatch received
here from Brussels early this morn
ing.
The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam
correspondent, in a dispatch filed
Sunday, says:
''How deadly was the task the
Germans undertook in rebuilding
the bridge over the River Mouse is
shown by the Rotterdam Courant's
correspondent at Maastricht. A pom
toon bridge, built by the Germans,
he says, was shot away.
"The Twenty-fifth and Nineteenth
German regiments, which supported
the bridge builders, were mown
down by the quick-firing guns. A
wounded Belgian was asked how
the Germans had Jared and replied
in one word 'annihilated.'
"The wounded who can be trans
ported by rail are to be brought
from the hospitals at Maastricht to
Alkmaar."
Another correspondent, who visit
ed the battlefelds at Vie and
Liege, writes:
mot far from the little Dutch
frontier vile of Mesch, l passed the
remains Of big German camp.
Dead soldiers, civilians and horses
and wagons, carts, automobiles and
bicycles lay in confusion. Germans
and Belgians lay side by side-evi-
dence that there was fighting man
to man. Houses had been sacked
because the soldiers wished to|
avenge themselves on civilians who
fired upon them from windows.
Civilians who did not fight areI
allowed to pass, but German guards
refused to allow this courtesy to the
Belgian civilians who were engaged
in the battle. Poor wretches, they
must wait where they lie, not dar-
ing to move, for they declare they
will be shot at.
II met a party of German officers
in an automobile. They held their
revolvers in their hands and scrutin-
lied me closely They appeared to|
be dispirited because of the fact that
twice during the last two days there
had been panic and German SOL
diers had fired on comrades by mis-
take. They asked me not to speak
in the presence of the wounded.
After the constant fighting the
soldiers were exhausted, but they
lay by the side of their horses, fully
clothed, ready to be reused at a
moments notice."
Brussels, Aug. 10.-Belgian Of
fetal reports received by the war Of
flee record the important fact that
a junction has been effected by Bel
gian, British and French troops
across the line of the German adj
vance through Belgium. The loca-
ton of the troops of the three arm
les was not revealed, but in any fut-
ure operation it is understood that
they will act together.
Reports reached here by way of
London that according to announce
ments made public in Berlin, Liege
had fallen into the hands of the Ger
man troops.
The sighting of a German cavalry
patrol to the south of Namur yester-
day was evidence of the activity of
the German forces in Luxembourg,
showing that they were reconnoiter-
ing to discover the position of the
defending armies.
The retirement of the German
troops out of range of the guns of
the forts of Liege was supposed to
indicate that they were concentrat
ing and waiting for reinforcements
to renew the attack.
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have crossed the frontiers of Bel