Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-24
Bombardment of Defenses
with HoWitzers Resumed
by Kaiser's Artillery.
BELGIANS CONTINUE TO
DESTROY THE PONTOONS
Menace to Supply of Invaders Con-
tinues to Hold Out Against Ter
rifle Battering.

LONDON. August 81 12:o5 p.m.l.-In
dispatch from Rotterdam the correspond
ent of the Daily Telegraph says that
after many days of quiet. sounds of tht
vigorous bombardment of Liege reached
the frontier near Maastricht Sunday.
They were heard for hours and indicated
that the Germans are making a ire
mendous effort to clear this long-standine
danger from their line of supply and that
to this end they had brought their heavies,
howitzers into action.
"Fugitives report the correspondent
continues. that the Liege forts caused
great inconvenience to the Germans by
destroying their pontoon bridges over the
Meuse.
THE Daily Mail publishes a dispatch
from Antwerp saying that Belgian who
succeeded in getting to Liege and bacl
reports that the Germans have built eight
pontoon bridges across the Meuse be-
tween Liege and the Dutch frontier
A dispatch to the Havas Agency from
Ostend says the Belgian minister OF
Justice declares that all the forts at Llege
and Namur were still in the hands of the
Belgians.
Liege Situation Critical.
AMSTERDAM. via London, August "a.
2 a-m.-The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche
Courant publishes dispatch from
Maastricht to the effect that the situa-
ton in Liege for the inhabitants and
property is very critical. A number of
houses have been burned down.
The feeling of the people against the
German troops is growing daily and
has been caused chiefly by the heavy
war contribution demanded and other
measures taken by the German officers.
up to Friday all the inhabitants
were forbidden on the streets after 8
o'clock in the evening: later the hour
was fixed at o'clock
Fighting at Forts.
PARIS, August 24-"The forts at
Liege still hold. Fort Chaudefontaine
has been the scene of an act of heroism
which affirms once more the brilliant
valor of the Belgian army. The fort,
which commands the railroad to AK
la-Chapelle. by Feriers, and the tun-
mel to Chaudefontaine, was subjected to
a continual and extremely violent
bombardment
When it was reduced to a mere heap
of ruins and Maj. Nameche, the COM
handing officer, judged that further
resistance was impossible, he blocked
up the tunnel by running several loco
motives into each other and set fire to
the fuses leading to the mines sur
rounding the forts.
His mission then accomplished, Mai
Nameche, determined that the German
flag should not fly even over the ruins
OF his fort, blew up the powder maya
zine and perished'
The Petit Journal publishes the fol-
lowing details of the fighting around
Liege. obtained by it from a Belgian
officer:
German troops rushed on the barbed-
wire defenses before the forts of Liege
in the darkness of night. A very strong
current of electricity was being MAIN
tanned in these wires. and. as a result,
the first ranks of the Germans were
electrocuted.
Unchecked. the asSailants followed in
masses, but they were blinded by the
glare of powerful searchlights. They
hesitated and started to retire. At that
moment heavy fire of rifles and ar
tillery was concentrated on the mass of
German troops and they We're cut to
pieces. The mass of bodies formed a
mound, in some places many feet high.
"To drown out the groans of the
wounded the German bugles sounded
martial airs and the troops still alive
united in cheering.
Near one fort two columns of Ger
mans. blinded by the glare of Belgian
searchlights. attacked each other. This
incident was seen from the fort When
one side seemed to have the better OF
the struggle. the Belgian officer goes
on to say, our artillery fired into both
sides alike. thus making the struggle
more even.