The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-27
main and Aerschot Vie With
Diest and TirIemont
in HeroiSm
GERMANS OCCUPY BRUSSELS
s Flee Belgian Capital as
'% r...es of Kaiser Approach-story
3 How Teutonic Army Took
the City.
Nv ERNEST SMITH.

...soondent of the London Daily
WV News.)
o-.ord -After the heroic defense Of
n,ost and Tirlemont it was the turn
p' 1ouvain and Aershot to try with
slndfu1s of troops to keep the invader
p 10 hav while the main Belgian army
~os reforming it's position.
wv Tho hattie of Tuesday before Tirle-
'nt had gone on till ten o'clock at
p uiaht and even after that, during
.ho few hours before daybreak, rifles
anonnpd out the notice there would
10 no sleep in the land that night
Under the cover of darkness the
Dolpian general staff and army was 81
lontIy moving to it's new position. To
have fought where it was at that
moment would have given away all
tho advantages of the allies and
would have been to risk heavy loss,
and perhaps defeat.
Germans Charge Trenches.
# was, however, not to do military
Ovnprt's work that l started to write
This hut rather to follow the fortunes
nj the plucky rear guard of Belgians
loft behind to harrass the oncoming
Germans.
At dawn On Wednesday l saw the
Germans holly attacking the trenches
that had been filed up during the
night with fresh men. Part Of them
we're 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 Liege to meet the en-
envy again there. This could not be
done, but they had their opportunity
now, a desperate one, it is true, for
each of those men knew he was
marked down to be sacrificed if nee
essary in the interest of the plans of
the defense.
Air Scouts Get 6ange.
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 shrap nel
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 it 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-
sltion northeast Of town. They were
Outnumbered by ten to one, but they
stuck to their positions with the cour-
age Of desperation and inflicted a fear
tul loss on the Germans. Their own
losses were terrible.
Germans Enter Louvain.
by lO o'clock the Germans were in
LouVain. They had brought their in
lantry and machine guns up by motor
cars, moving quickly. AS the civil
guard already had been disbanded,
tlere remained only the rear guard in
ae town to harass the enemy as long
as possible.
II was the same story at Diest
lHlemont and Aerschot. A brief hero
IL resistance was followed by the in.
eSl'aDle development of the vast
lOrces the Germans we're pushing for
"dra' There were desperate combats
a. Coroeckloe and Lovenjoul and the
u0AofaDle retreat had been sounded
olce more.