Show GERMAN TROOPS II I ANTWERP CHIEF CITY OF BELGIUM NOW IN I HANDS OF FO FOLLOWING FOL FOL- LOWING BOMBARDMENT Buildings Crushed to Pieces es on Ever Every Everi Hand by Siege Guns and Panic Panic- Stricken Citizens Are Driven From Their Homes London The London The Germans are now iq I complete occupation of Antwerp Bel Bel- glum gium The actual surrender tool place at o'clock Friday afternoon The bombardment reached Its height between 7 and S 8 o'clock Friday ing At 9 o'clock the white flag ot ol capitulation was raised where the tho war flag had been flaunted from the tower of the cathedral and the big siege guns ceased their destructive fire almost immediately Burgomaster De Vos accompanied by Alderman Louis Franck met General von commanding the besiegers at the gate and tho the city was surrendered unconditionally At 30 2 2 30 the Germans marched in through the suburb of The bombardment of Antwerp opened with dramatic suddenness Midnight had Just struck when th the j first shell boomed Into the town The dark empty streets suddenly became alive with people the cries of children mingling with the shrill and terrible screams of women The people flocked stricken panic In ever every direction They had nc fixed destination and their blind feat was wae pitiable There was wan a lull after the explosion of the first shell but a quarter of an hour our later th hd booming of ot the big guns began on a tremendous seal Each shot was followed by a weird long drawn out din of the flying pro pro- Then came cam the final explosion explosion sion slon which was the most fearsome of all Numerous fires broke out and the space around them was vividly illuminated Intensifying the inky darkness in other spots Buildings were crushed to pieces piece on every hand Cripples and Invalids were carried or hobbled as best they might to places of comparative safe sate ty Amid a procession of thousands of weeping women and children some pushed barrows laden with whatever they had been able to get together Most however were fleeing merely with the clothes the they wore and many were only half dressed All day long the people eople tramped out and the sun poured down down- but so great was the dust that the the- army ol 01 fugitives were hardly visible When night fell they ha had not not reached the Dutch frontier and behind them through the darkness their burning homes cast a a. glare like some great iron works while overhead the burstIng bursting burst burst- Ing shells continued to spread thousands thousands thou thou- sands of shooting stars |