The Archive · 1914

German Occupation of Belgian Frontier Town

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London, Oct. 14.

A telegram from Amsterdam states thet the Germans last evening demanded the surrender of the railway station at Esschen, on the Belgian and Dutch frontier, which was ocoupied this morning by German troops.

A German frontier commission arrived at Roosendaal lust evening to make traffic arrangements. of Sagame seventeen miles north by east Easchen la on the northern frontier of Antwerp. Roosendaal is directly to the north of Esschen and id, fourteen miles south-west of Breda.—Ed.

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