New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-08
FRENCH AND BELGIANS
WILL JOIN FORCES
TO-DAY AT LIEGE
At Same Time Germans Ask Of Belglans
Truce Of "a Hours for Picking Up
$4,000 Dead and Wounded.
MOVED DOWN BY HUNDREDS

MOVED DOWN BY HUNDREDS
Enemy Meets with Veritable Slaughter Again 1t Faces
Rain of Bullets from Intrenchments-City Still
Keeping the Invaders at Bay. Y ~-~-a
London, Aug. S--A Brussels dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company gives unofficial report that
Bavaran corps has been defeated by the French at Mar
rehan north of Luxembourg. Many prisoners said to
have been taken.
This shows that the French approaching Liege to
assist the Begians in defence of the city, Maehan is
only few miles to the south of the Belgian city
A Brussels dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany says that the militia of the garrison Lege who
treated on Thursday so that the could get Sleep
took the offensive yesterday by turning movement in B
gan Luxembourg, where they routed German cavalry d.
vision.
despatch to "The Morning Post from Brussels says
that the Begans have granted the armstice for twenty
four hours requested by the Germans and that the latter
are now collecting their wounded and buyng their dead
The qualified admission of temporary setback to Ger
man arms Liege, which from Berlin to-day, is
reminder of the strict silence generally maintained the
German capital since declared
The only teegraphic outlet by way of Berlin now left
through Amsterdam, and strict censorship permits only
brief dispatches of official character to leave the country
The fact that the only from Berlin through
Holland has interesting phase. Holland by perssng
in neutrality exciting suspicion in Belgium of Dutch SYM
pathy with Germany.
Brussels (va Pars), Aug. 7.-Trans with wounded
and fugitive non-combaans arrived here this morning from
Liege and neighborng The military trains with ps
oners on board were sent from Liege to Antwerp.
The Belgian troops appeared to be in the best of
spirits when the trains left Lege They said that if there
had not been ten Germans Belgian German
would have got through their lines. Though in good
spirits the Belgans partly exhausted having fought
for fifty hours without rest.
Some of the wounded Belsians, eyewitnesses of the
fighting say they Germans moved down by hundreds
in front of the trenches and by the gun and
rife fire of the Begans but that they replaced by
others, who crawled forward like weasels.
In certain places in the fighting the ground was
covered with dead the burial of which it was said would
take at least a week.
GERMAN SOLDIERS HEROIC.
Belgian officers pay great tribute to the German in
fany and cavalry for their bravery in the attack on Lege
Yesterday after the cessation of artillery FIRE from the Ger
man positions force of infantry 1000 strong made an
assault on the town from the north
They had to trenches and mnes but managed to
rush to the fortress where they with fierce resist
from much powerful force armed with quick
6rers Twice they checked by storm of bullets. The
nfantymen, undaunted reformed their ranks for rush TO
the walls of the town.
There they were held back no quarter being asked or