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Show HORROR LIFTED FROAfTANTWERP King and Queen Enter to Peals of Bells and Cheering Crowds. By PHILLIP GIBBS. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) ANTWERP, Nov. 20. To tho pealing of bells in tho great cathedral and the cheers of massed crowds, Die king of the Belgians made a stato entry into the city of Antwerp today by the bridge across the Scheldt, known as tho Tete do Kkingrcs, and, with the queen, drove around the streets to the hotel do Yllle in an open carriage. Rain was falling, and Antwerp was filled witli a white mist, but this did not dampen the spirit of the people, and some of those I saw put up colored umbrellas on which were tho flags of all the allies. It is a noblo old city, with broad. streets and squares and big public buildings, and these were all draped with long banners, ban-ners, and across the highways were streamers and flags. In a village outside out-side through which the king passed the people had placed Christmas trees adorned with little flags and Chinese lanterns, as if for the coming of Father, Christmas with the spirit of peace. t Physically, the people of Antwerp have not suffered in this war, but their joy' at liberation, the enthusiasm with which they greeted King Albert, the stories they told me as I talked with Individuals' here and there are proof enough that they i suffered in a mental way severely enough j i to make them feel that a horror had been j j lifted from them by the retreat of the I , Germans. J ! The firt man I met had been In prison j ! three months for jostling a German of- I : ficer while he vns disputing witn a friend ever a point of grammar, and then lie was suspended by t lie arms lo a wall for fourteen da vs because he received a packet of chocolate and would not sell It to Ihe prison governor who coveted it , sayinc: "I do not make commerce with Germa ns." Thousands nf people went to prison for trivial offenses pe this or for their re- (Continued on Page Three.) HORROR LIFTED FfiOll IMP (Continued from Pago One.) fusal to pay fines. A lady I met, whoso husband Is a prisoner In Germany, w as stripped at a railway station outride Ant-w Ant-w ei-i and searched for any suspicious document she might be cart-ylne. Many indlvldii'iN suffered ind Itrni t !es which they remembered with passion. Through passing down these streets (me sees only thy outward comfort of the! population which has not passed through Other riLmrs of war. One thing was curious today. At a man dressed in l.halii Hie Antwerp crowds stared curiously, tint know ing what uniform uni-form it might be, and only a few recognized recog-nized that if was Kngl.nnu's. It is the same wllh the new French uniforms. The wife of a French officer, now a prisoner. (old me thaL when she said goodbye to him he was in the black tunic and red t ro users of the red army of 0 1 -I, and t lint she was astounded io see tne blue of the new French annv In Antwerp. Tist Sunday week there were similar . scenes in Antwerp to those which happened hap-pened In I.-trussel:-;. When the German soldiers heard (lie terms of ti' armistice i t hey crowded around t heir officers, tore off their epaulettes and all badges of j rank a nd said : ! "This Is finished; wc do not take your orders now."' ' Hut t lie re were no acts more violent than that, and on Friday night last the last of the, German garrison left the citv ' in good order. Th-y left behind them I vast stores of mere ha nd ise. in the ha rbor i-'ind have their ships still tying up on the dock with many JOnglish ships. 1 The most precious treasure of Antwerp, the Descent From the Cross." ,y 1 iens, ha rigs sa fe in the rallied ral. and I was glad to see il today, I'nr a time 1 durimr the bombardment of lfU4 it had been bidden in cellars, but the glory of . its colors greets one again. ! As T write, t lie king is bein- received I by his eople with Immense enthusiasm. ! and from all parts of the city the bells I are ringing so that .'be air is full of this 'music rising above' the cheering. |
