New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-11
Five Hundred Captured
and Others Are Either
Killed or Flee.
FOE FORCED BACK
FROM ANTWERP
Termonde Destroyed in Revenge
for Not Getting Money
Says Correspondent

BY Cable to Inc ITlOuhesI
London, Sept. 1.-The Amsterdam
correspondent of the Central News
tclegraphs the following:
Belgian troops trapped 1900 Ger
man soldiers near Aerschot yesterday,
capturing 500 prisoners. The rest
either fed or were killed. The Ger
mans belonged to the Burg Land
sturm.
"a provision train drawn by Ger
man locomotive was seized.
"The prisoners we're taken to Ant
werp and confined on captured Ger
man liner"
Amsterdam, Sept. 10.-The Belgians
continue vigorous offensive in the
province of Antwerp and East Elan
ders. They reoccuped Termonde, driv-
! ing the Germans from the neighbor-
hood Of Aerschot and Diest, taking
three hundred prisoners. The Belgian
army at Antwerp has driven the Ger
man right wing back to near Louvain.
The destruction of Termonde is
proved to be the revengeful act Of
disappointed blackmailers. When the
! Germans entered the place they de-
manded 100000 The town council had
fed, and, unable to obtain money from
/ the officials, the Germans sought out
NJ. Van Der Tongeren, a millionaire
ironmaster, and demanded this sum
! from him. He replied that all his
money was in England.
The Germans then said they would
! destroy the town, and this threat they
/ carried out after Selling several of the
/ Weather inhabitants as hostages and
! giving the rest Of the people two hours
! in which to get out of the town. AZ
| the end of that period artillery and
! flame destroyed the houses. Then be-
/ gan the fight of the people along the
/ roads, and another of those scenes so
frequent in this war, of pitiful, helpless
/ refugees hurrying to escape a terrible
death, was enacted.
Women and Children Victims.
These terrible streams of ruined ref
ugees seem to be the chief glory Of the
| German army. Women carrying bun
dies of household goods trudged wear
lily with hungry children clinging to
their skirts and crying as their tired
little feet staggered along the road to
make another German triumph. 1t APP
pears to be dawning on the Germans
that to shock the whole civilized world
by such acts as the burning Of Louvain
is poor policy, however gratifying such
vandalism may be to boosted Prussian
cultur'fr.
A handful printed in Dutch is being
distributed broadcast in Holland by the
German government giving its version.
! 1t is an amazing document, for after
many Louvain treasures were saved 1t
admits that the famous library and 100
houses were destroyed and the cathe-
I dral damaged. The tone OF the docu-
ment is that of man accused Of a
/ hundred murders confidently demand
/ ing an acquittal on the ground that he
! only murdered ninety-nine, some OF
those only children.
The same handful alleges The use Of
dum-dum bullets by the allies, and
saws that the French store Of these
cartridges was found when Montmedy
was taken. The document ignores the
J fact that the civilized world no longer
accepts the Germans word since he ad-
mits it is "only scrap of paper"
London, Sept. 1O.-An Ostend dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany says:
According to information from re-
liable source the Belgian army at Ant
/ werp has assumed a triumphant often
sive movement, driving the Germans
right back 10 the environs Of Lou
/ vain"
/ A Reuter- dispatch from 0stend says
/ that according to soldiers who have
! arrived there it would appear that an
J engagement is in progress between the
Belgians and the Germans. The Ger
mans arc withdrawing toward France.
Country Is Flooded.
An official dispatch issued in Berlin
and received here this evening by the
Marconi Wireless, Telegraph Company
says:
! ain an engage nent at OOrdeghem, on
! the railroad between Antwerp and
| Client, the Belgian troops withdrew.
"The country south of Antwerp has
been flooded by the Belgians to prevent
/ the Germans marching into the town.
/ The area covered by the food is sew
! enty square miles. The water varies in
/ depth at different places, being from a
| few inches to several feet"
Another official Berlin dispatch says:
"While Louvain was burning, Ger
man officers carried pictures from the
! Cathedral to the Hotel dc Vile for
their protection.
Client Stores Seized.
! Telegraphing from Client, Reuters
| correspondent says:
"The shop windows in the city dis
play placards inscribed Long live our
! burgomastern in recognition of the
| Burgomaster'S services in saving the
| city from a German attack.
! at now appears that the action OF
! the Burgomaster in entering into nego-
/ tations with-the Germans and consent
/ ing to grant their acquisitions for
/ stores at first was opposed by the mill
tary authorities, and that only when
/ the Germans were within a few hours
of the city did General OlOoten give
orders to the Belgian troops that the
city should not be defended.
! Before leaving Client the Germans
! took possession of all the stores that
| had been requisitioned."
| A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says:
Reports from Putten, in the Neither
lands, near the Belgian border, indi-
cate that skirrAishing, in which the ar
tillery is engaged, has occurred to The
northeast of Antwerp. Many houses
rear Putten were demolished by the
Belgians to provide an unObstrUcted
field for the artillery.
"The inefficiency of the forts at
Antwerp, through the failure of the
krupps to carry out their contract, has
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