The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-08-11
HEAVY ASSAULT WAS HALTED
IN ORDER TO REMOVE DEAD
Dead and Wounded Were Piled High on Battle
field Twenty five Thousand Die in Terrific
Three Days Of Fighting Berlin Makes Light
of BattIe-Other War News

CINE of war Rising from the German
camp and attaining great height,
war aeroplane sailed over FIT. F1euron
and attempted to lombard it from the
sky. A storm of small-arm fire failed
to cripple the flying machine, and a
bomb was dropped and fell outside the
| fort, doing no damage. But the pilot
of the aeroplane kept on toward the
city and dropped three bombs into the
Square d'Avroy All three bombs ex-
ploded with tremendous force, and 80
persons were killed outright. The bod
les of several were blown TO bits. The
four bombs evidently exhausted the
store of ammunition of the aviator,
and, still flying at great height, he
circled and successfully braved the
fire from FIT. Evegnee. Reports from
Liege state that the city suffered Sc
verely from the German bombardment
in an effort to clear a path for the ad-
vance of the kaiser's troops toward
Paris.
Exploding shells set fire to a num-
Der of the historic buildings of the
city, including the Cathedral of St.
Haul, the Paiais de Justice, the Church
of ST. Jacques, the Theater Royale and
the university. Students and citizens
who were noncombatants successfully
fought the fires in the city, but in Bres-
SIOUX, where the Germans were in
force, fires threatened the destruction
of the suburb.
Thus far the brave and stubborn de-
Tense of Liege has cost the German
arms dearly, and the Belgians have
confidence that they will be able to
hold Gen Won Emmich in check until
they are reinforced by French and
other Belgian troops. Their confidence
and determination was shown when
they turned back with a curt refusal
demand brought into the city by Ger
man officers under a flag of truce that
1 Liege be surrendered. By ruse the
Belgians drew the Germans into trap
and then shot them down like cattle
They made show of evaeuating the
outer fortresses. The Germans press
ed into the gap. Thereupon the Bel
gians closed in upon them. The Ger
mans fought fiercely,- but their force
was almost completely annihilated.
Twenty field pieces were left behind
by the Germans in this engagement
London.-Dispatches from Brussels
place the combined strength of the
three columns of Germans advancing
across the frontier at about 100000
: Immediately engaged, where the Ger
man advance guard was in contact
with Belgians at Liege were about go,
900, which included all branches of the
besieging forces. The first of the ad
vancing German columns coming from
AK la Chapelle was checked at Wise;
the second followed the main road
from AK la Chapelle to Liege, and the
, third moved up the valley of the Yes
Dire river, which joins the Meuse river
at Liege.
News reached here that the British
fleet has encountered the German fee
in the North Sea in the vicinity Of
Heligoland and is driving it in the di
rection of the Dutch coast. The Press
: Association claims that it was advised
of the fight by the Admiralty. The
hospital authorities at Hull received
t orders to prepare to receive $50 mel
4 wounded in the North Sea engage
t ment
e The British torpedo boat destroyer
g Lance was the hero of the first nava
9 engagement in the present war. sink
/ ing the Hamburg-American Lin,
e steamer Koenigin Luise, which hal
S been fitted out as a mine layer. Th'
Lance fred only four shots. The frs
e destroyed the bridge of the steamer
e the third and fourth tore away tn
e stern, and the Koeniwin Luise sanl
e in six minutes The Lance rescued
), of the German crew. Several wer
n wounded Two of them each lost a.
t. arm, and leg of each of four other
l. had been shot away. None of tn
" Lance's crew was injured, A dispatc
s to the London Daily Mail from Tier
3 Tsin says that the Russian cruise
e Askold and the German cruiser En-
5, den both have been sunk after an Ell
n gagement of Wei-Hai-Wai, China
e The Emden was a protected cruiser G
. 1892 tons. She carried 10 4.1-inc
G. guns and was fitted with two torped
D. tubes. The displacement of the AskoI
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