The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-08
WITH $4,000 DEAD,
GERMANS. APPEAL !
FOR ARM|ST|CE
They Want Time to Bury
the Killed and Care for
Wounded.
NO ANSWER is GIVEN
BY KING OF BELGIUM
Meantime Fighting Goes On, and
Kaiser's Forces Are Moved
Down.
THE LOSSES ARE APPALLING
Whole Regiments AnnihiIated by
Mines and Deadly Fire OF
Defenders.
NO ANSWER is GIVEN
BY KING OF BELGIUM
THE LOSSES ARE APPALLING
Whole Regiments Annihilated by
Mines and Deadly Fire OF
Defenders.

The siege of Liese Is the outstanding
feature of the European war. Latest
advices, received by way OF London in
official dispatches, say Liese still holds
out against the attacks of the German
army OF the Meuse.
Tho Germans have asked for Il twon-
ty-tour hours armistice to bury their
dead. but the Governor of LieSc. Lieu
tenant-General Lehman. has not
ceded. so far is known.
ON the authority of the Belgian War
Ministry, the German casualties in the
battle around LieSe number 25.O0O, ac-
cordinG to their own admission. An
official statement Issued from Berlin
described the attempt on the LieGe
fortresses as unsuccessful and the as-
sault OF the Germans "a unique act
OF heroisn, and added that It will not
have the slightest influence on the
larger operations OF the German army.
German diplomats have been using
their utmost efforts to win Italy to the
German Side by negotiations and di-
rect appeal to King Victor Emmanuel
but without success. The Italian am
bassador at London, thanking a great
assembly. including several peers and
members OF Parliament which gather
ed in front of the embassy. said Italy
had declared her neutrality and would
adhere TO il. Winston Spencer Churchill
| First Lord of the Admiralty denied
there had been engagement between
German and British fleets in the North
| Sea.
LONDON, August s. $40 A. Ma
dispatch to the Post from Brussels Saws
that the Belgians have granted tho
ar1nistice for twenty-four hours request
ed by the Germans. and that the latter
now are collecting their wounded and
burying their dead. The Germans have
Withdrawn to a less exposed position to
:ecuperate.
According to a rumor at Maestricht
the German crown prince is at tho
head of reinforcemcnts advancing from
AiN-la Chapele.
BRUSSELS, August Tt is officially
announced that the Germans have ask
ed for a twenty-four- hour armistice at
Liege.
| Twenty-Five thousand Germans out OF
total force of 10000 operating about
Licge have fallen in the three days'
continuous lighting. The Germans
were driven back again to day In three
desperate charges.
Furious lighting continues. and the
dead and wounded are lying unattended
, on tho battlefield
1t is believed the Germans want tho
armistice to relieve their wounded and
bury their dead.
The request has been 1aid before
King Albert He must consider In de.
Gliding whether Germany would take
advantage of twenty-four hours delay
TO bring up rcinforcements.
News has been received here that a
French army has entered Belgium and
Is advancing toward the support of the
Belgians.
The French are coming up" was tho
| cry that rang along the Liege forth
cations might There is wild enthu-
, siasm over the continued victories OF
the BelSians.
RAISING OF CURTAIN
ON GREAT WAR DRAMA
The events before Liege are consd-
cred as merely the raising of tho cur
! tain, and it is believed that Belgium
viii once more be the country where
the destinies of Europe will be decided
Trains filled with wounded and fuGI-
tive noncombatants are arriving here
houfiY rom Liege and neighboring
towns along the battle line. Eyewit-
nesses of the fighting say the BeIcians
were in the best OF spirits when the
trains left I.iege
IF there had not been ten Germans
TO one Belgian" said one of the Belgian
troops. not one of the Germans would
have Sot through our lines"
Though In good spirits, the BelSians
are partially exhausted from their fifty
hours OF lighting without rest. The ar
rival OF the French will be welcomed
Noncombatonts arriving say they saw
Germans moved by hundreds in front
OF the trenches and entanglements by
the gun and rifle fire OF the Belgians,
but we're replaced by others who crawl
ed forward like weasels
In certain places in the fighting zone
the ground was covered with dead
Twenty fiVe thousand Germans ont
OF total force of 10000 before Lego
have fallen in three days continuou.
| fighting. Three entire regiments OF
! Uhians, crack cavalrymen. have been
! completely destroyed. Two crack reg
iments of the Tenth Army Corps were
/ practically blown To pieces by mines
y battalion of the Tenth attempted
TO cross zone which had been mined.
| Midway in their charge the mines were
exploded Vast clouds of earth rose
! III the air and high above them the
! bodies of men and horses killed in
| stantly by the blast. Whensouiet set
| tied again over the scene almost every
man in the battalion was dead Twelve
hundred wounded Germans were car x
ried from the held by the Belgians
Al the height OF the furious bonn
! ba.dment OF the forts. a German aero
plane scared over Liege and dropped
! bombs into the streets. Thirty per-
sons were Killed in the explosion and
as many more wounded. ISIS
The city of Dieve IN IN fire IN h.tS