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Show BELGIANS SILLY OUT ' II BEAT HANS J, kit Line of Communi- cation in the North and Northeast and Drive Jthe Enemy Back With 8 Heavy Losses; One II Corps Is Practically Decimated. Brussels is the objective point mg Albert Expresses Desire to Return to lHis Capital, and the J Army, Filled With En-. En-. Jthusiasm, Will Retake bit or Perish in the Attempt At-tempt it IJp i Cab c b Arrnngsmeo li London Da 3 T fnipb Art e na 0 a n o e M LONDON "eH li (Monday) 'A Renter dispatcj oa Ostend (Jjl stat 8 that fighting occurred at AlOEt today between the Go mans land Belgian voluntee s The Ger Tman losses were nervy and included tsLBnppl es The Germans are said to jafli.ve fet f n to the hou es and Mk lied many lyil ans Spe il War D atcl of the In -"Mnintoudl Neva or ee and the Lon OT Da y News ) jL By PE30Y J PHILIPS sJlblUAT Sept 13 Bel urn s on the jSve an 1 tl e great a raj of the ka so njjj danger It lool si e tl e en J ditS0' w 1 flon torre ts of t you Vm of si an a n y 1 ke that tl a jjMpu tl e o c I t tic Ml Lc s to rfffltlntoiglt foil lo e rent cm lflEStt go ng unt 1 the Mons Co do d s an 1 the Belg an front er s aj,a n telDied then e erjtl ne w 11 1 e ready 'Jap m then iv 11 bo tt pe 1 al ost iu ot Germans JBUc 1 ng 1 was told todaj b an of Bfsa d jelerlay 'jjRwoull Ike to ro back, to Brus (Srjiat js c o gh The Bel n a v fthM 1 vs or four Tl c attack s Jfnnloo loth tie east and tie (rfpttlis or g Tip v, hole o tie tty o tl of tl c 1 no fron Brus 52' to 1 o a n a d I t 1 as 1 ce M h a 1 t re is a ttle to jjttp at C t nburjr Its Iota s a ot fiwjl None i!mdn Llne scied yie a ost north Iv 1 u o tlo cast iKB ,BeI'' has I ecu so e e I On the ftTthwest Ter oud s aga n hell bv We Belg a s Most s th eate ed aud be e acuated as N no e further Sjith has be Bet ve Met and iui.cnarde near the latter another bat 'lehas been ra- ng and tho Cornnans reported to ha o turned so tl If ljt Is so and there s no eason to jubt t the r nost northerl 1 ne of Mia ce a d retreat on the west s do Jl" win has also been cut tV ' he b g nn ng of tho end f fl there are tno fs but no reason to JLJ then the Belg a army will (rtiffen ts back and the fren h Cng "S .,armv 8 abl t0 Press hard on ts f" front !o much for the Ron at on ed Tern onde at le sure It s out co pletely so that not one n ten or more rcn a ns It was Continued on Page Five) 'BELGIANS SALLY OUT 10 BEAT GEHMMtS" (Continued from Page One.) .in s t a week ago that J saw smoke from Zele, on this h-Ic of the river, and that was ; fearful siht, but its wantonness, wan-tonness, and savagery did not touch me until yesterday. Today J saw persons who have come back looking in vain anion the ruins !'oi" anything that would bo for theni nicmeDtoes of their old homes. ' But not a tiling remains. Not a house burn cH has even a part of its roof. The brass and iron frame of a bed st cad hanging ridiculously from a charred beam was al) that ouo woman could find of her home and bv it she ideut ified her house, t mo man indus-triously indus-triously salved tlie ruined works of an alarm clock f rem a inound of brickbats brick-bats that formerly was his home. Fire Deliberately Set. By the fact that the safe still remained re-mained standing against the wall I distinguished dis-tinguished the national bank. Only t lie walls and a few brass ornament s remain of the church. The ttrwl:; arc mere musses of debris, gaunt walls life leafless trees stand up naked aai n.-,t the sky, it s h am e and d i s rac 0 1 u r a 1 ! time to the enemy. Termonde was not shelled except by a shot, or two. The fitrhtinij was to tho south. The fire was set. deliberately. deliberate-ly. The Germans used petrol freely and in two houses which were not burned out I could see the marks it had mad and the charring marks of the torches used. Among the ruins a man showed me where bis grandfather, Sfi rears old, was bavonetted in the back as he fled from his burning dwelling. My informant in-formant said he had fled with his wife and children, but his brother, flail in hand, turned to avenge the old man 's death. The would-be avenger was flung 1 into the flames. 1 T could tell a dozen stories like that. I but of what account are thev in view j of the hundreds of similar ones from Liege, Lou vain, Malines, Dinant and a dozen more towns and villages? |