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Show GERMANS OPEN THEIR ATTACK UPON ANTWERP According to Report Effort Is Directed Upon the First Line of Defenses Amsterdam, Sept. 20. Tho Germans Ger-mans havo commenced their attack on tho flrst lino of defense, of Antwerp, Ant-werp, nccordlng to dispatches received re-ceived by tho Amsterdam papqrs. Moll, which Is nn Important railway junction near tho Dutch border was occupied by tho Germans Sunday and today tho Germans, who again occupy occu-py Mallncs, began a bombardment of Llerre, directly In front of Aar- werp. Thoy also continued tne'r bombardment ot Forts Witeliel and St, Catherine It Is belloved heavy Austrian artillery Is being used. Llerre, according to a juctisago to tho Haudelsbald has been under shell lire since early morning. Tno pi-ople ut first hid In tbo cellars, but subsequently sub-sequently lied to Antwerp, being joined join-ed by fugitives fiom tho suuo mdiiig villages. It Is reported that many hoiibis havo been destioyed aiiti bomu ot tho Inhabitants killed and wounded. Ono shell fell on a hospital killing nine persons. The lortlflcntlons ot Antwerp are considered umong tho strongest In tho world. Tho city bus been lortl lied sl.ico tho middle of tho sixteenth centuij. In 1S00, twenty-eight jcars ottti i no taking of tho city by Kng-lish Kng-lish .mil French troops, Urlalnioiit, U o iioied Uelglan fort builder sup-c sup-c r i-- n thu lcconstiuctlon ot tho citj ,i a bluco 1&S7 it has had a lino oi i i well out from tho Inner deft de-ft a-" Ti. trowing efficiency of modern sitbf -uns, hoeer, compelled tho Hugii'is, If- thoy desired to-preservo thi'i' neutrality, to raodernlsso their defenses. In 1007 tho government di'cuud to do away with tho lino of walls and replace them with an inner in-ner hue of forts on tho right bank of the Scheldt. Tlio plan Involved tho barricading of tlio Intervals between tho eight forts with irqn barricades and porina- ' nent ledoubts. At tho north and northeast great earthworks wero planned for Infantry and ditches, thnt i an be Inundated from tho Scheldt, were dug In front ot theso earthworks. earth-works. Tho forts on the loft bank of tho Scheldt aro to supplement this Inner lino of defenses. Tho greatest tmportanco Is attached to tho outor works. They consist In part ot now fortifications and in part of old forts rebuilt. Tho work was begun in 19111. , It Is probable that this Idea was realized and thnt tho fortlllcatlons system Is now practically complete. Of tho new forts on tho outer Hue, flvo Ho to tho east of Antwerp Gravenzel, Oeleghem, Hroechen, lies-sel lies-sel and Koulgsboytk. There aro six redoubts to tlio west and two more protect lCrtbruiid and Hrosohaet In tho north, whllo thieo now forts, Hreendonk, Llczelo and Hornhem, havo been erected on tho south. Tho fort Ilnesdonk protected by two redoubts, re-doubts, a so has been erectedon tho west. This outer chain of forts lies from ton to cloven miles outside tho clt and has u front of ubout eighty miles |