The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-10
MANY OFFICERS FALL
IN DEFENSE OF t|EGE
Their Number Is Disproportionately
Large In Comparison With
PrivateS Slain.
IFoRMs ARE BLAMED
Conspicuous Dress of Rank Held Re-
sponsible for Slaugltcr-SurgcOn
Have Been Particularly unfOrtu-
nate in Stopping Encmy's Bullets.

=, ecial Gable To The Times DISPATCH
BRUSSELS, August :-tl0:30 4. NJ
1t is a noteworthy fact tina, during
tho fierce iighting of the past few DAYS
a disproportionately large number OF
officers, compared with privatey have
been disabled owing to their distinc-
tive uniform Among the officers a
disproportionately large percentage Of
surgeons whose uniform Is still more
conspicuous. have been disabled. The
War Minister'S attention has been
drawn to the advisubility Of rendering
the outward marks OF rank less notice
able.
The Belgian government Is not OK
pelling civilian Germans. although the
country is infested with spies. who
make desperate efforts to reveal aud
illustrate Belgian military plans In
the German consulate and German
school wireless telegraph apparatus
has been discovered. Two SONS Of the
principal OF tho school. who are mem =
bers of German hrnI IN Antwerp, es-
tablished ovor twenty years, have been
arrested. At a school OF aviation the
csre-taker, who is or German nation
ality. was discovered on Friday work
Ing the wireless lie VAS arrested.
tried and condemned.
Nowhere in Belgium were the Ger
mans more al home than in Antwerp:
nowhere have they proved such relent-
less enemies to Their hosts. When
quitting the city OF Friday, some OF
them exclaimed: we are going now.
but we Will return shortly. and es-
corted By troops.
The bitterness against Germany III
Antwerp is Intense, but the German
u, iEoners and the wounded are treated
with the utmost consideration, The
Flemish population of belgium is MAX :
Ing heroic sacrifices. In the smiling
suburbs Of Antwerp the gardens and
luxurious villas are being destroyed.
The owners look on with grim APP
pioval at the destruction Of their cher
Ished property or It's use as hospitals.
The Handicsblad learned that SIX
spies have been shot at Antwerp and
three at Louvain. An automobile was
stopped in the main street OF Antwerp
containing four men In Belgian uni
forms. who proved 70 be spies. The
uniforms had been taken from the dead
In battle.
A Jesuit priests suspicious were
aroused by the false beard Of j man
posing as missionary. The priest
questioned the man in Latin and as he
was unable TO respond the priest gave
him IN charge Ak "A suspect
\ report that the forts around Liege
have been captured by the Germans
ir absolutely denied 10y Belgian WHO
arrived here last night.
He said II left Iiege Saturday morn
ing Licgc was still defending It's
forts valantly. one fort was then IN
til. hands OF the Germans. An arnis-
tice OF three hours has hccn agreed
uioi. TO bury tho dead who lay around
The man cvidently highly
wrought up after his terrible expert
euce. and declined TO say any more.
The belgian papers say that all the
fortg are holding out, and that the
morale OF the Belgian troops is un-
y! Oxen.
The German prisoners who were
o. p,uved had very few cartridges, from
~nIch II Is assumed that the Germans
hav. had difficulty in bringing up their
Ammunition.