Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-23 | Page 1 | Dutch People Hear Thunder of Cannon

DUTCH PEOPLE HEAR HIIIBDEROF GUmi! Windows at Flushing Rattle With the Concussion; Terrific Ter-rific Battle in Progress. ROTTKRDAM. Oct. 22. The Intensity of the fighting Is so great that the people peo-ple In Holland can hear distinctly the noise of It. Tonight Flushing continually contin-ually heard the thunder of guns and the windows there rattled with the concussion. concus-sion. The sound is gradually becoming fainter. At Ardenburg the booming of cannon was heard all last night and today. The sound seemed to come from Bruges and Ostend. Never before have the Inhabitants Inhabit-ants heard gun fire so distinctly. Refugees from Ostend s;iy that TVest-ende TVest-ende ia being bombarded and that many trains filled with wounded are coming Into Bruges. The correspondent of the NJcwe Rot-tersch Rot-tersch Courant at Ghent says that big troop movements are taking place and there is a certain unrest in the German army. The German staff left the town on Tuesday for either Wtterin or Gram-mont. Gram-mont. There are further Indications that Germany Ger-many ia hurrying" every man who can be possibly spared to the firing line in France and Belgium. Ten thousand marines ma-rines marched out of Antwerp In a southerly south-erly direction. The garrison at Antwerp has been greatly depleted. The news of the German repulse at Tpres has reached Antwerp and the troops have lout much of their gaiety in consequence.