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Show GHENT OCCUPIED By THEJELGIANS Nfew Light Is Shed on Ho-henzollern Ho-henzollern Flight by the Town's Citizens. By EOBERT WELLES RITCHIE, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. Special Cable Dispatch. AT . BELGIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, Nov. 11. (Delayed.) Ghent was occupied this morning-, three hours after the signing of the armistice. Tales told by the Belgian citizens of Ghent after the liberation of the city, shed a new light upon the Kaiser's flight and the establishment of a German republic. re-public. They show that the German army morale had been rapidly , declining for the past two months, the soldiers becoming be-coming more and more Imbued with the revolutionary spirit. Ghent indeed, had. been completely under the sway of undisciplined German soldiers since October 1. Mrs Eddie Lange. wife of an American Ameri-can officer who fought on tho Argonne front and who lived formerly at 68 West Forty-fourth street, New York, was In Ghent. She said: "The soldiers had complete rule for the last two months. They ignored their officers of-ficers entirely, looted the homes unhindered unhin-dered and entered dwellings without warrants. war-rants. All spoke openly of an impending impend-ing revolution. They said if the kaiser did not win tho war he would have to abdicate. yl ' "Some of the soldiers told me last Wednesday Wed-nesday that there was a revolution in Berlin. They said Germany was sick of her masters and would drive all of them out of the country." Constant Heynderyck. acting burgomaster burgo-master of Ghent during the absence of Mayor Braun, who has been a prisoner In Germany for two years, said to tho correspondent: cor-respondent: "On this day of deliverance, please convey con-vey an expression of heartfelt thanks of tho people of Ghent to all Americans for their assistance rendered us through four years of tyranny. "If It had not been for the American help wo would have starved. America cannot know the depth of our appreciation." |