Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-14
RgLolANs CLAIM THAT GER
MANS LOST 1000 IN FIGHT.
ING AT LIEGE.
GERMAN PLANS ARE Fooled
Governor-GeneraI Hoped to MAKE :
Quick March Through Belgium
Into Unprotected Provinces
of France.

Brussels. via Paris.-After having
suffered a serious check and heavy
casualties at the hands of the BEL
gians at Liege, the German troops re-
turned to the fray with redoubleo ar
dor and pounded away at the foTts
with siege and field guns and rifles
In the fighting of the first day the
estimates of the German casualties
ran as high as 5000 men. The invad-
ers also are said to have lost q large
number of guns.
In attack a German infantry Oh
vision supported by cavalry marched
onto mined ground. The Belgians oe-
tonated the mines and an entire bat
talon Of Germans was killed. Wounu-
ed Germans to the number or l.zVV
were picked up on the battlefield.
II Is estimated that In the fighting
40. 900 Germans were faced by 26,OOO
Belgians.
In the attack on Fort Parchon,
northeast of the city, the Belgians
nermitted the Germans to draw up
almost to the walls Of the fortress.
Then they turned loose their guns ana
the slaughter is reported to have been
appalling.
Under the terrific fire here ana
from the other forts the Germans yer
forced to retire all along the line.
A detachment of Uhlans penetrated
the city with the intention, it Is SAID,
of capturing high officials. They hao
reached the building where the OH
cials had quarters when all were sur
prised and killed.
German shells preached the walls
Of two Of the fortresses, which were
captured. From the forts, however
the Belgians continued to pour a dead
" rain of shot and shell into the 40
vancing Germans.
Despite the heAOic resistance OF tns
Belgians, it was felt in Brussels ina
the invaders, by reaso of their grea'
strength, could not much longer ~
denied and that ultimately they mus
gain the City of Liege, whence the.
are expected to press on toward Ne
muir in their march across the Be
gian to the French frontier
At Nanur, which Is strongly fort
fled. 1t is asserted the Germans will
meet resistance as strong as that q
Liege. !.
The capture of the two outer fort
was an exhibition Of pluck and brs
very onboth sides. The Belgian
. fought their guns until the German al
tillery had disabled them. Instead Q
falling back the Eeisians stood b
, their silent guns, and when the Gel
I mans charged, the Belgians met theI
with bayonets and dubbed rifles.
. It is a question how much longe
: the other forts of Liege can hold OF
a unless the French come quickly I
I their aid. But their stubborn stan
has done its work. 1t was mean
. from the first. to delay rather than
give any actual defeat to the advan
4 ing army. II the Germans shoul
pour over the breastworks, and tax
the city, they would find, instead 81
n clear, open and easy road into II
unattended northern provinces
9, France, in striking distance of Pari
y an ~entrenched camp only 20 MIL
away. which they will find even hard
q to take than has been Liege.
"A For while the Belgian army OF 2
900 has been fighting at Liege, 9th
forces have been entrenching thel
selves at Namur, 20 miles up Il
70 Mouse river, mounting heavy CUR
laying mines and preparing for o
another stand which will still furth
a, delay the Germans.
" Fifty thousand French are also
ported to be on the way to Namur
:, Join the Belgians, and 1t is known tn
Gen. Lunier, commander of the Fren
northern division, has now concentr
ed his men where he can hurl an
mense army into the field
ial 1t is this delay which enrages I
to Germans past endurance. The pla
an of the German general staff has be
To- to march rapidly through Belgi'
and into France. seize the north'
MS cities and sweep down on Paris
lat fore the French could assemble tn
oc. army. But Belgium denied them pa
,m age, and when they undertook
ed force, they have fought SO savag
Try that the Germans have not advan'
or. q foot in three days. And-n
he France lie ready. Moreover, the
far gian blood is up and the Belgians
in fight side by side with the French
on. the decisive battle to come. which
AxnActAd In the next 10 days.