New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-06
ROUT OF GERMANS
TN BELGIUM TURNED
INTO A SLAUGHTER
Thousands Left Dead and Wounded on
Field Before Liege-Not One of Foe
Who Passes Fort Survives.
800 INJURED TAKEN INTO CITY

Armored Train Filled with Troops Blown Up with
Fearful Carnage-Platoon of Prussian Cavalry
Completely Annihated at Wise
Brussels (via Paris), Aug. Thursday, 1888 A. NJ
Several thousand dead and wounded is the toll paid by
the German army of the Meuse numbering $4,000 men,
for its attack on Liege The Begians made heroic de-
fence repung the Germans after heavy and continuous
fighting.
The fortified position of Lege had to support the
general shock of the German attack yesterday lhe BEL
pan forts resisted the advance hercey and did not suffer-
One Belgian SQUADRON attacked and drove back six Ger
squadrons.
Eight hundred wounded Germans being trans
the city of Lege, where they will be cared for
Official dispatches report that the Belgans have re-
pulsed all attacks by the Germans in the neghborhood of
Liege The Begians delivered vigorous counter attack
on the Germans who had passed the forts killing al! of
them.
The Belgian War Office has issued the following
statement:
"The second corps of the German Army made an ad
vance attack over the Vedre River into the Province OF
Liege counter attack by Belgians brilliantly
cessful and the enemy forced back over the Dutch
frontier The victorious Belgian troops did not follow
their success into Dutch territory.
"The forts at Evegnee were engaged by German arti
Iery all day. but the Germans made little impression them
There were no casualties in the fight"
Between 500 and 600 wounded Germans being
brought to the Belgian capital Herve Pepnster and Re-
mouchamps occupied by Germans but large Belgian
force is advancing against them.
1t is reported that twenty thirty persons killed
during the German bombardment of Namar.
A duel took place near Lege to-day between Belgian
aviator named Fornau and a German airman. The two
the
position. Finally both paned to the ground.
The Belgian avators proved themselves every whit
as good as the Germans.
GERMAN ARMORED TRAIN BLOWN UP
An armored train filled with Germans was blown up
with fearful carnage.
The civil guard fired on an aeroplane containing six
Germans, killing five of them
1t is announced that the French army has effected
junction with the Belgian army Tournai thryve miles
west of Liege.
The German troops attempted to the River
Meuse pontoon bridge at Liege but sharp broadsde
by the batteries of the forts destroyed the bridge
as it was completed Later the invaders succeeded in
crossing the river near Maestricht.
The Germans committed repressions against the civil
population of the of WISE eight miles northeast of
Liege burning the city and shooting many of the residents
after platoon of Pussan cavalry almost annihlated
by the en6ladng fire of the Begians from building on
the bank of the river.
AT Female, near Argenteau, Belgian force sur.
prsed body of Prussians and killed seventy out of ten
officers and eighty The Belgian losses were two
officers killed and ten men wounded
NO GERMAN PASSED FORT ALIVE
The Belgian War Office announced tonight that fierce
fighting had taken place in the envrons of Lege and that