New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-22

have lost ten days while the allies have carried
their programme without the slightest delay
Passengers who arrived England tonight from the Con-
en say that refugees from Brussels camping the beach
Many Of them had the greatest dhcuty IN leaving
the CAPITAL as the trains crowded with wounded
One woman who said she left Brussels on the last tram out
declared all the morning and afternoon before the advance
of the Germans long professions of German wounded passed
along the main road leading the country to the Northern
Railway station
THREAT TO SHOOT CORRESPONDENTS
According to dispatches received the Belgian legation
here Belgian army retired Antwerp IN good order and
now ready cooperate with the allies
The Amsterdam correspondent OF The Daily chronicle
saws Antwerp is being put of defence and provisoned
for siege
He adds that was stated the Office of the General Staff
on Thursday that all foreign correspondents found Belgium
after last night would be shot.
The correspondent of The Times The Hague telegraph
ing to-day says
he preparations for the defence of Antwerp extend
an enormous area the city joining in the work
day and night but there sign of panic or confusion
"The gates driven through the walls by peace loving peo
pie are closed while this work of preparation doggedy for
ward Antwerp itself offers strange contrast At almost every
window appear English Belgian and French flags giving festive
air to the city, which preparing resist to the last gasp
The Antwerp correspondent of the Reuters Telegram Com
pany in a dispatch to-day says:
81 learned from reliable that German cavalry patrols
where there srmish Our troops in armed automobiles
took Germans prisoners.
"a strong advance guard of German cavalry left Brussels
to-day proceeding norhard supposedly for Client The Uhan
everywhere cutting telegraph and telephone lines The bgo
of rural communities dsarmng the civil guards to
vent the enemy from firing o a peaceable population"
An official statement given out at Antwerp the situation
unchanged German cavalry patrols circulating around
Brussels severng communication between the capital and Ant
erp these cities and the central part of the country
from dam
the advance OF the Germans Central Belgium during the
present by the correspondent taken from
an Antwerp newspaper. 1t follows:
Tuesday morning the advance movement began along line
extending in Dest Temont and St Irond The
eans retired from St outnumbered the Belgian
advance guard The battle line extended along line
The latter city was guarded by cavalry only,
The end burden OF defence D taken by bicycle
The battle started daybrek Tuesday Geetbe where the
Belans gained the by bringing down German aeropanc
which above their position At o'clock the Germans
opened their attack forces cavalry supported by infantry
Gey and machine Within re-" minutes e'ce oae was rag
ing along the siN-mle front
M the north the German right attacked aeen and Loxbersn
In the south they Budngn The main attack aimed TO
break through the Belgian line Geetbetz where the dmouned Belgian
orred terrific ire annhatng German advance columns
Thereupon the German cavalry executed brilliant flank movement
d the Belgian positions necesstatng the slow retirement OF the
Bcgians on Burinecn, where Count Dursc was killed
e most remarkable yas made outside Budngn by Bel
can souadron who opposed for long time 1000 Germans
con the extreme stormed Det bombdng the
town flriously and destroying large of the city.
ate Tuesday the Belgian having learned the enemy
strength from aeropans decided that further resistance along this ad
rccd line would be foolish ordered gradual retirement
"wednesday battle along the whole line continued The
hottest lighting Aerschot tentree miles northeast OF B
sells where both sides awful The advance guard Of
regiments made an heroic stand but was forced " retreat at
@ II o'clock the Germans reached Louvan in motor cars armed
with machine guns The Begians fall back good
administering severe punishment the enemy way.
took them through Malines and thence to Antwerp