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Show GERMANS OCCUPY TOWNJF LIEGE HAVE CAPTURED ALL BUT ONE OF FORTS WHICH IS STILL IN HANDS OF DEFENDERS. I Heavy Reinforcements Received by Germans and Territory Bordering on Dutch Province of Limburg is Completely Occupied. London. A dispatch to the Morning Morn-ing Post from Amsterdam, commenting comment-ing on the Belgian denial that the Germans had captured all but one of the forts at Liege, says it is remarked re-marked at Amsterdam that the German Ger-man government refers specifically to the forts but does not mention the town. A dispatch to the Antwerp Ilan-delsbad Ilan-delsbad from Maastricht states that the Germans have received reinforcements reinforce-ments and completely occupied the Belgian territory bordering on the Dutch province of Limburg. They are now engaged with the Belgian army, which has taken its position near Tongres, eleven miles south of Maastricht. A dispatch to the Chronicle from Brussels says Lei.e is invested and all communication cut off, but the forts are intact and can hold out for months. Brussels, he adds, has been turned into a vast hospital, hotels, private houses and public buildings having been given over to the Red Cross. The Daily Mail's correspondent says the city of Liege is, to some extent, ex-tent, invested by the Germans, but that the forts are holding out and will not surrender as the garrisons will blow them up when resistance is no longer possible. The correspondent correspond-ent also says that the bombardment Sunday was only inermittent, supposedly sup-posedly because the ammunition of the Germans was nearly exhausted. Telegraphing from Brussels, the correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says of the fighting at Liege: "The Germans tried to overpower the forts by flinging immense bodies of men against them in mass formation. forma-tion. The last Prussian assault on Boncellos reminded one of the early days of Port Arthur. The infantry melted away before the machine guna of the defenders. "The morale of the Prussians was entirely broken toward the ei. 3 of the general attack. The casualties among the German officers were considerable. con-siderable. The attackers ran short ,cf rifle ammunition. Wounded Germans Ger-mans declared they had had no food for two days." |