Famous generals of the great war who led the United States and her allies to a glorious victory . shoulderto shoulder and rank on rank, they came on in massformation, while the artillery belched a hail of shotand shell upon the sunken forts of Belgiums frontiercity. As line after line of the German infantry advancedwe simply mowed them down, says a Belgian officer. It was terribly easy, and I turned to a brother officerof mine more than once and said: Voila ! They arecoming on again in a dense, close formation! Theymust be mad! They made no attempt at deploying,but came on, line after line, al
Famous generals of the great war who led the United States and her allies to a glorious victory . shoulderto shoulder and rank on rank, they came on in massformation, while the artillery belched a hail of shotand shell upon the sunken forts of Belgiums frontiercity. As line after line of the German infantry advancedwe simply mowed them down, says a Belgian officer. It was terribly easy, and I turned to a brother officerof mine more than once and said: Voila ! They arecoming on again in a dense, close formation! Theymust be mad! They made no attempt at deploying,but came on, line after line, almost shoulder to shoulder,until, as we shot them down, the fallen were heapedone over the other, in an awful barricade of dead andwounded men that threatened to mask our guns. Ithought of Napoleons saying, It is magnificent but itis not war! No, it was slaughter — just course we had our own losses, but this was slightcompared with the carnage inflicted upon our enemies. Curse these stupid Belgians! said the Germanleader. Curse them for holding us back! Bring upmore of our men!. KING ALBERT KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM 75 The gray-clad German horde swept down upon thethin, blue line at Liege. They flanked the stout-heartedpatriots and nearly surrounded them before they re-treated. For — seeing that all was lost save honor —the followers of the King, who dared to fight the mailedmight of Germany, at length fell back to the one hun-dred thousand Belgian troops in the rear. The fortswere surrounded by a wall of fire, and, bringing up hugesiege guns, the advancing Germans threw tons of leadenhail into those iron cupolas, supposed to be impregnableagainst assault. By the evening of August 7th, ortwo days after the attack had been commenced, theGermans had taken full possession of the town, but theforts still held. On August 10th Liege was practically in Germanhands, but two of the iron casements were spitting areturn fire. On August 16th the last fort fell, but theword o
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