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Show AMERICAN GIRL ON LIEGE jAMFIELD Saw Trenches Filled With Dead German Soldiers After First Repulse NEW YORK Sept 1 The batllefle d of Liege as seen through the eyes of an American girl vas vividly desc bed today by Miss Anna Lalng a graduate nurse of the Bridgeport Conn ospltal a pas senger o the steamer Ryndan fron Rot terdan I was in Lege when t e fig t f rst started sa d M ss Laing Several Bel gia off cers who were friends of mine took me to a house here I was practi cal y out of tie range of t e shel a that were being hurled at the city by the Germans During the evening the Ger mans withdrew for sone eason and dur ing the lul in the figl t ng two of t e Be gian officers invited me to go out over the field where the heav est of the fig t ing had taken place The ground was literal y soaked v. t blood and the bod es of orses and men lay everywhere Tec was nan a pla e where blood had f ov. ed down the 8 des of little hills and ea tl works i b course was p alnly mar ed Some bus es were spattered w th red as 1 th up as e g t feet above the ground I saw trenches f 1 ed to the top wl h dead German soldier These trench s the Belgian off cers exp ained to me ha 1 been dug by the Be g ans and oc upled by them unti he great army of a lvanc ing Germans forced them o e eat As the German infantry moun ed he breast works in front of tl e t en hefe the re treating Belg ans poured a murde ous f re into their ranks and ter od es fe 1 in the trenc es The t Be g an offl s said their men mowed do vn n orp Ge mans with a deadly crossf re v not only filled up t e tren hes v. th bod es but left many piled on op of one an other on the breastworks and the ground near by When Miss Laing returned to the c y she he ped dress the wounds of many Bel gian sold ers She left t e ty before t was captured by the Germi s howeve and managed to make her way to Rotter dam, where she boarded the si p tl at i brought her to Isew York todaj |