Show BELGIANS BELGIAN'S STORY OF FALL TALL OF FORTS PORTS AT NAMUR LONDON Aug 29 1 29 4 a. a m. m A m.-A A Bcd Bel Belgian Bel- Bel Clan gian civic guard named Du Duquet who left Namur e shortly before belore tie the Germans German reached that fortress has arrived In London Ho He heard the tho story of the fall tall of that fortress from French officers after their retreat and tells tella the tho story as oa follows follows fol tal- lows At last accounts five forts were still holding out though the they are aro bound to succumb to the tho Improved engines of war with which the Germans are aro DOW now equipped These new style siege Ic e guns have been posted out of the range ranse of or the for forts and ond they played enormous shells over the de de de- The Tho Shells hells burst with such force that th they y tore gaps ten yards yard deep in the tho cupolas and anil speedily put the forts forts' guns ou out t of action As 8 soon as ns the first forts Corts fell feU an army of Germans swarmed In In overwhelming tho the small French and Belgian force which was waa compelled to retire Five drive thousand Belgians n from Namur were subsequently surrounded by tho the Germans Ger Oer- mans maM at Dense Denee The Belgians tried to force torce their way through the German cordon cordon cor cor- cor don with the bayonet but only seventeen gut Kot ot through h The were either Killed or made prisoners |