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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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German border toVise, Lemberg, Herve, and Verviers in Belgium, whencethey could reach Liege. Vise, one of their first objectives,lies on the Meuse about ten miles north of Liege, and is thefrontier town on the way to Holland and the site of an im-portant custom-house. Normally, Vise would have been cap-tured in advance of Liege, but the destruction of its bridgeby its citizens caused delay. The Belgian position at Visewas defended obstinately on the fourth and fifth by theTwelfth Infantry regiment, aided by the Meuse (which wasbridged only at one place), by the Dutch frontier on theleft, and by the Liege forts, which covered the Belgianright. Pontoon-bridges built by the Germans were repeatedlydestroyed. When a crossing was finally effected by the Ger-mans, a number of civilians in Vise were seized and shot onthe ground that they had fired at German soldiers fromtheir houses, killing an officer, a sergeant, and four men, andwounding six. German soldiers entered some of the houses, 256
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I—25f INVASION OF BELGIUM AND ALSACE-LORRAINE which they set on fire, after turning out the inhabitants.Men were marched to the railway station where they werekept until morning surrounded by a military guard, and inthe afternoon were taken to Aix-la-Chapelle as prisoners.The women were told that they must leave by four oclock,and by 6.30 many had reached Maestricht, in Holland, withtheir children. Few had with them any other possessionsthan the clothes in which they stood, and were pictures ofutter despair. They were cared for by the Dutch whohoused them in schools. Liege lies astride the Meuse at a point that is of strategicalimportance, since it is in the center of the narrow trouee ^ • 1 1 ^ ^dKunM ite ii ■ 1 31 1 ^H^^HHm^^^^^^^^^H^S m T ■ 1 ® INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE. N. Y. BRIDGE OVER THE MEUSE AT VISfiDestroyed by the Belgians to halt the German invasion between the Dutch frontier and the Ardennes. ThroughLiege runs the trunk line from Cologne to Brussels. It hadbeen

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