The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-08-12
([FNAN TROOPS
Al LILCE. DRIVEN
TO THEIR DEATHS
Napoleonic Tactics OF Marching
Shoulder to Shoulder Bcsal.ea
Terrific Slaughter.
MASSED FORMATION EASY
TARGET FOR BELGIhNS
Hundreds Struck Wltl lanes end
Bayonets as They Retreaied
Terror Stricken.

London, Aug. 1.-Disbatchcs anu
aGyices received from Belgium are
i, aanimols in describing the ru1ulsc
Of the Germans in their attack upon
L.cge on Friday as q carnage.
The correspondent Of the Times
tells what he has learned through
personal interviews with German
prisoners and wounded men and o.
iictrs OF both sides who were taken
to Brussels.
lie says that when the German
army first advanced upon Liege The
officers believed the sole task before
them was that of pouring in con-
| tinuoas fire that would wipe out ali
belgian opposition. But With tbs
men in the ranks the situation was
otherwise.
The German soldiers, he saws
we're gloomy and bewidcrcd They
.aJ already had heard terrible tales
81 multituGes OF Cossacks who werc
| prepared to enter upon Germany and
dc,our it, and they were frightened
at the prospect of the great war.
| Incredible as it may seem"
writes the Times correspondent
these unhappy Germans arc march
d straight to death almost should.
CT to shoulder. The Napolcoric tac-
tics of the sudden application Of
overwhelming masses of men 10
tchieye a desired victory or reach a
crtain objective point seems to
nave inspired the German generals.
| Apparently they hoped to satisfy the
freed OF tho guns in the tort by 4
aolacaust OF victims
The result of this policy, he say.
vas terrific slaughter among ths
loosely knit ranks OF the Germans
according to some accounts, thu mea
ctually were driven forward likl
hcep by their Offices. Terror
ught against discipline and death
When Tho mighty fusilaGes of III,
,olsiana began. avenues were %
ueI up in the German ranks
writes the correspondent, Masses p
he dead began to accumulate in The
rccn stretches that lay before tht
orts
Quoting a wounded Belgian sol
: 1 ier, the correspondent says. u
as death in hay stacks But still
| he Germans were pressed forward
their officers at the swords point
detachment after detachment wa
urlcd against the notifications
My to recoil broken and scattered
rom the fearful fusiIades
Yet still they came, more and still
loro Of them, cattle ruthlesely driy
n to the slaughter as though on ;
ime-table schedule. Seeming ly n,
revision had been made for an,
! hange OF plans in the event Of ;
heck to the German advance.
Certainly, the 0.s ans suffered
cavily, says the correspondent bu
uch injury as the Crrnan iuflicte,
, lpon the enemy war only at a fright
ful sacrifice to tn vn numbers
At one eff the he German
roops succeeded "a 81 ing a foot
2 ng on the glacis right in front O
he muzzles Of the great guns, an
ere they believed themselves nom
ntarily safe from the massacre.
1T actually seems writes tn
. correspondent. recounting his con
creation with Belgian officer VIII
= described this scene to him, "tha
: 9th the officers and the men ha
realization Of the fact that one
hoy had passed within the danger
MS zone of the heavy siege guns
4; rcy had laid themselves open to til
/ ire of the machine guns.
In few moments the glacts wa
wopt clean Of living beings and it
rcon t.rf was Redeemed with tn
= laughter of piles upon piles Of tn
n lead"
Il All this time the men, conceale
d the Belgian trenches. were cage
Ii 20 be upon and at the enemy, say
i, the correspondent, but they wcr
o held back till the Germans were a
E most in touch with them. Much {
!. the rifle firing took place at ahou
: fifty yards range but even this wa
: not loose enough, and presently til
A Relgians, with fixed bayonets, tire
themselves upon tho dis9rg1nisc
Germans. who had been pushed rigl
up against them.
a Bayonet encounters were very trC
u ouent throughout the day and il
n, stated that the cold steel, wnrn .ha
y nything else, struck terror into IN
hearts of the Germans.
At the very sight Of the beTcnci'
il is related, many Of the Kaiser
; troops, most of them from the f.
!" eastern borders OF Germany. VII
lwere in a strange country and fight