[Illustration] The Daily Telegraph WAR BOOKS THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIÈGE The Daily Telegraph WAR BOOKS CLOTH 1/- NET. VOL. I. (_3rd Enormous Edition._) _HOW THE WAR BEGAN_ _By W.L. COURTNEY, LL.D., and J.M. KENNEDY_ Is Britain's justification before the Bar of History. VOL. II. _THE FLEETS AT WAR_ _By ARCHIBALD HURD_, The key book to the understanding of the NAVAL situation VOL. III. _THE CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN_ _By GEORGE HOOPER_ The key book to the MILITARY situation. VOL. IV. _THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIEGE_ ¶ Describes in wonderful detail the heroic defence of Liege, and shows how the gallant army of Belgium has upset and altered the whole plan of advance as devised by the Kaiser and his War Council. THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIÈGE BY J.M. KENNEDY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W.L. COURTNEY, LL.D. HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXIV CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 I. OUTBREAK OF WAR--INVASION OF BELGIUM AND LUXEMBURG--THE FIRST FIGHTING AT LIÈGE 29 II. FRENCH JOIN BELGIANS--DETAILS OF THE BATTLES--GERMAN SPY SYSTEM--RAIDS BY UHLANS 51 III. PRELIMINARY ATROCITIES--BRAVERY OF THE BELGIANS--BATTLE OF HAELEN-DIEST 75 IV. LIFE AT BRUSSELS--FRENCH ADVANCE--CAPITAL REMOVED TO ANTWERP 94 V. PREPARATIONS AT NAMUR--SCENES AT LIÈGE--GERMANS PRESSING FORWARD--OCCUPATION OF BRUSSELS 111 VI. BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION--THEIR "CUSTOMARY COOLNESS"--ZEPPELIN AT ANTWERP--GERMAN ATROCITIES--LORD KITCHENER'S SPEECH 134 INTRODUCTION "To attack always, to attack everywhere, and to overlap in the attack" is the essential principle of German military training. This is the principle which is acted upon when hostilities definitely open and the diplomatist retires into the background. There is only one means by which it can be carried into effect, and that is to have overwhelming numbers of men ready to pour into the field and bear down opposing forces by sheer weight. At Liège, at Namur, at Charleroi, or in the Vosges, the mowing down of the invading hosts by rifle or cannon must have seemed to the defensive troops as wearying and useless a task as cutting off the heads of a hydra; for two German soldiers appeared to rise out of the ground for every single one that fell.