Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1914-08-13
BELGIANS PUT UP A FIGHT
Foil Attempt Of Germans to Rush Into
Frsnee-sooo Reported Killed
In Battle.

roll Attempt Of Germans to Rush Into
Franee-s.ooo Reported Killed
In Battle.
Brussels. via Paris.-After having
suffered a serious check and heavy
casualties at the hands Of the Bel.
CLANS at Liege. the German troops re-
turned to the fray with redoubled ar.
dor and pounded away at the forts
with siege and field guns and rifles.
In the fighting OF the first day the
estimates of the German casualties
ran as high a. 5000 men. The invad.
ers also are said to have lost a large
number Of guns.
In one attack a German infantry a.
vision supported by cavalry marched
onto mined ground. The Belgians de
tonated the mines and an entire hat.
talon of Germans was killed Wound
ed Germans to the number OF loo
we're picked up on the battlefield.
II Is estimated that In the fighting
4o.eoe Germans we're faced by $4,000
Belgians.
In the attack on Fort Parchon.
northeast OF the city. the Belgians
permitted the Germans to draw up
almost TO the walls OF the fortress.
Then they turned loose their guns and
the slaughter is reported to have been
appalling
Under the terrific fire here and
from the other forts the Germans we're
forced TO retire all along the line
A detachment of Uhlans penetrated
the city With the intention. Il Is said.
ot capturing high officials. They bad
reached the building where the Off
cials had quarters when all were sur
priSed and killed
German shells preached the walls
of two of the fortresses. which we're
captured Prom the forts. however.
the Belxians eon,insed to pour a dad
ly rain of shot and shell into the al
vaneinx Germans
Despite the heroic resistance of the
B-lrians. IL was feif In Brussels that
the Invaders. By reason OF their Kreat
strenwfh. could not much longer he
d-ried and that ultimately they must
Gsin the City of Liege. whence they
are sxp~cted to PRES oa toward Ma
mar IN their march across the Bel
kian to the Preach froatier.
Al Nanur. whirh Is stroaxly forri-
fed. 4 = asserted the Germans wiu
meet resistance ss strong a. that al
Liege
The capture 0f the two outer forts
vas an exhibition Of pluck and bra
very on both sides. The Belgians
fought their guns until the German ar.
till~ry had disabled then- Instead Of
falling back the Belxians stood by
their sileut guns. and vhen the Ger.
mans charged. the B<lxizns net them
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from the first. 10 delay rather than I
give any actual defeat 10 the xdvan.
Ing army. II the Germans shout
pour over the breast~orks. and taxi
the city. they would fad. instead 0f
clear. open and easy road into ths
uneet-aded northern PROVINCES ol
France. In striking distance of Paris
an entrenched camp only 20 miles
away. which they viii find even harder
TO take than has been Liege
For while the Belgian army Of Is
00e has been fighting at Liege. other
foEres have been entrenching them
selves AZ Namur. 20 miles up the
Meuse river. mounting heavy guns.
laying mines and preparing for an
another stand which will still further
delay the Germans
Fifty thousand French are also re-
ported 20 be on the way to Namur to
Join the Bslgians. and II Is known that
Gen. Lanier. commander OF the French
northern division. has NOW coneentrat.
ed his men where be can huri an I'm.
mense army into the field
II Is this delay which enrages the
Germans past endurance. The plans
of the German general staff has been
TO march rapidly through Belgium
and into France. seize the northern
cities and sweep down on Paris be-
fore the French could assemble their
army. But Belgium denied them pass
age. and when they undertook TO
force. they have fought so savagely
that the Germans have not advanced
4 foot in three days And-now
France is ready. Moreover. the Bel
gisn blood is up and the Belgians will
fight side by side with the French in
the decisive battle to come. which Is
expected In the next 10 days.