New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-10
BRIDGE BUILDERS
TASK DESPERATE
Ouick-Firing Guns of the
Belgians Play Havoc at
the River Meuse.
GERMANS SHORT
OF AMMUNITION
Kaiser's Wounded Soldiers Say
They Had Had No Food
for Two Days.

London, Aug. 10, 2:l5 a. m.-"Ihe
Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam CORE
spondent, in a dispatch filed Sunday
says:
"How deadly was the task the Ger
mans undertook in rebuilding the
bridge over the River Meuse is shown
by The Rotterdam Coursnt's' CORE
spondent at Maastricht. A pontoon
bridge, built by the Germans, he says,
was shot away so that further troops
could not cross it. The Twenty-Fiftn
and Nineteenth German regiments,
which supported the bridge builders,
were moved down by the quick firing
guns"
Another correspondent. who visited
the battlefields at Wise and Liege,
writes:
mot far from the little Dutch from
tier village of Mesch ! passed the re,
mains of a big German camp. Dead
soldiers, civilians and horses, wagons,
carts, automobiles and bicycles lay IN
confusion. Germans and Belgians lay
side by side evidence that there was
lighting man to man. Houses had been
sacked because the soldiers wished to
avenge them selves on civilians VINO
had fired upon them from windows.
"Civilians who did not fight are
allowed to pass, but German guards
refuse TO allow this courtesy TO the
Belgian civilians who were engaged
in the battle. Poor wretches, they
must wait where they lie, not daring
! to move, for they declare they Will
| be shot if they do.
81 met party Of German officers IN
an automobile. They held their re-
volvers in their hands and scrutinized
me closely. They appeared to be dis
/ pirited because of the fact that twice
/ during the last two days there had
/ been a panic and German soldiers had
/ fired on comrades by mistake. Ihey
/ asked me not TO speak in the presence
/ Of the wounded.
/ after the constant fighting the so.-
/ diers we're exhausted, but they lay by
| the side of their horses, fully clothed,
ready 70 be reused at moments no
/ tice."
The Paris correspondent of "The
Daily Telegraph" sends the following;
"A big cavalry encounter has oc-
Cured on the plateau east OF the
/ Meuse, probably at Woevre, IN the oe-
partments of Meuse and Meurthe-et-
/ Mosele. Il is reported that the hgnI
resulted favorably for our allies.
"The net result of the operations, so
/ far as is known, is that the German
advance has been stopped on the line
/ Of the Meuse, and they have been out
aanked in Belgium by the advancing
French masses. Similarly the Germans
are strategically outflanked by the
French inroad into Alsace. Thus the
hostile TANKS are menaced and their
front is seriously contracted.
"Tbe arrival Of the British troops Is
anxiously awaited by France and BEL
/ GUM. in view of the imminence OF a
decisive encounter between the French
| and German armies.
Telegraphing from Brussels. the cor
respondent of "The Daily Chronicle
saws of the fighting at Liege:
"The Germans tried to Cyerpower
the forts by flying immense bodies oil
men against them in mass formation
The last Prussian assault on Boncelles
reminded one of the carly days OF Port
Arthur. The infantry melted away be
fore the machine guns OF the detend-
ers.
"The morale of the Prussisns was
entirely broken toward the end OF the
general attack. The casualties among
the German officers were considerable.
/ The attackers ran short OF rliie am,
munition. Wounded Germans declared
they had had no food for two days
A dispatch to "The Daily Chronicle
from Brussels says Liege is invested
] and all communication cut on, out the
forts are intact and can hold out tor
some months. Brussels, he adds, has
been turned into vast hospital, ho-
tells, private houses and public build,
/ ings having been given over to the Red
Cross.
"The Daily Mail" correspondent says
the city of Liege is, to some extent,
| invested by the Germans, but that the
forts are holding out. and will not
surrender, as the garrisons VIII blow
/ them up when resistance is no longer
possible. The correspondent also says
/ that the bombardment on Sunday was
only intermittent, supposedly because
the ammunition of the Germans was
nearly exhausted.