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Show WRITER TELLS OF ORSMEAL BATTLE Paris, Aug 13, 11 30 p. m Jeanne I Hermltt, a French newspaperman was on a train going from Brussels to Liege when It was stopped by rhlans at Landen. All the passen gers were obliged to get out They! were told they would not be molested If they behaved themselves; if they did they would be shot. They were allowed to stay in a cafe Tired of wnitine thev niilroH ficer if they might not go on to Tirlemont "Yes," he aald, "if you are not afraid of bullets, because you will march in front." They decided to remain as the lesser less-er evil, and sat all night trembling! in u back room, listening to the German Ger-man cavalry and artillery rattling and rumbling past 'Fifty thousand must have gone through," says the correspondent. Toward 1 o'clock In the morning cannon began to roar, the Germans were attacking Orsmeal. The din! lasted for hours, and after dawn we learned that the Germans had lost 1200 killed, more than 1600 wounded and 300 prisoners, and the Belgians 150 killed and wounded. "At 5 o'clock all seemed quiet and w e ventured out We found the Germans Ger-mans had gone A storekeeper told us that the German officers bad bought much, paying liberally. Thev seemed loaded with gold. On lca-! Ing they said that before the end of the week more than 2,000.000 Germans Ger-mans would pats through Landen." -nn |