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Show COMMANDER BLOWS UP FORT AND SELF TO CHEAT GERMANS Fort Chaudfontaine, one of the Liege trongholds which commands the rail-oad rail-oad to Aix-la-Chapelle by Verviers Lnd the tunnel to Chaudfontaine, was mbjected to a continual and extremely extreme-ly violent bombardment. When it was reduced to a mere heap ,f ruins and Major Nameo.be, the com uandiug officer, judged that further resistance was impossible, he blocked up the tunnel by running several locomotives loco-motives into each other and set fire to the fuses leading to the mines surrounding sur-rounding the forts. His mission then accomplished, Major Namcche, determined that the German flag should not fly even over the ruins of his fort, blew up the pow der magazine and perished. |