"The situation remains normal," the Premier, M, Hubert Pierlot, declared tonight in a nationwide broadcast on the military situation in Belgium, "Our troops have resisted admire ably against a good number of attacks on various points along the front yesterday and at the close of day were retaining all their' positions, Since then, various alterations have been made in our. defence system, according to the instructions of the High Command, These alterations were carried out without incident, This morning, other attacks were launched by the enam; y in various sectors, but none of them succeeded in breaking through h our lines.
Our forts in the Liege el aimed a heavy toll from the enemy today Contrary to rumours current today not a single German parachutist landed in Brussels either y terday or today.
"The enemy bombed Antwerp, Louvian, Alost, Tirlemont and other towns during the past few days, In several places, trains of civilians and lamentable processions of refugees have been machine-gunned without mercy by enemy warplanes There is already a great number of victims among the civilian population and this war is proving just like that of 1914—only worse.
"The civilized world," the Belgian premier continued, "must know of these horrors, and the conscience of all mankind must pass judge ut on them.—Havas.
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