| Show GIVES A GRAPHIC OF FALL OF AN TWERP B news service Ver vice ITS TS 1 A cor correspondent writing briten veren op zoom holland gives adde I 1 ipton Ip tn ot of the t he entry or of the B I 1 ray lato ant antwerp orce aK I 1 buli ba k of the keisers kaisers kal kai sera sers force did nt tater pter t the city uell saturday after 9 0 ahen hen men passed in re before general genet at yon von schultz mill over nor ot of antwerp and admire schroeder who surrounded by 00 the their horses in B staff sat r lail laa biering tha alii kt of the roy royal al palace in the place lea geir F for five hours the e host of through the streets of the de uc kored d s ad city while tile the houses shook tha of kabe the thunder of their tread lie he tes company after company rego of blent ut after regiment brigade after swept past until tile eye abde lay ay ard weary vey 0 of f watching w the ranks of aw re rs aly under slanting S lines ot of ste steel ea A they marched arched nl tuey they sang tile the on S L beayon yon formed by the high buildings of i silos g the place do moir melr echoing to air voices roaring out die wacht rhein and A mighty fortress Is 1 wm CL ur god j like an election parade tach each regiment was headed by its led eld music and colors and when dark cess fell slid and street lamps were light M d the shrill music of fifes cifes the rattle at t drums and the tramp 0 of marching feet reminded me of election parade pard hard on the heels of the infantry rumbled artillery battery after battery behind the field batteries rumbled tie the quick the same pompous pompoms whose acquaintance I 1 had made at weerde and elsewhere and then geralded teral keral ded by a blare of trumpets and i crash of kettledrums kettle drums came caine the caa giry alry cuirassiers in helmets and breast breastplates plates of burnished steel lius bus mrs in jackets and fur bus bles and finally the uhland riding mid forests of lances lancea under a cloud if f fluttering buttering pennons pen f but this was not all nor nearly all I 1 tor for after the uhland came the blue jackets of the naval division broad shouldered bewhiskered fellows with ups worn rakishly and a roll of the lea iea in their gait then the bavarian infantry in dark alue the saxon infantry in light blue nd knit austrians Aust rians in uniforms of beautiful diver gray and last of all a squadron it if gendarmes gen darmes in silver and bottle reen As that fighting machine swung past ast I 1 could not but marvel at how the gallant chivalrous and coura ageous but ill prepared little army of belgium had held it back as long as it I bad few see entry the most remarkable feature of this wonderful spectacle was that there were comparatively few persons to see it so far as aa onlookers were concerned the germans might as aa well wel i have bave marched through the streets of pompeii another american and 1 I it handing anding on the balcony of the amerlan consulate were the only spectators so BO far as I 1 know in the whole e length of the place do de melr meir which Is the state street of antwerp it reminded me of a circus that had come to town a day before it was expected A feature of the procession was a victoria ric torla drawn by a fat white horse and with two soldiers on the box alch which accompanied a regiment of ba ra rians both horse horsa and carriage vere ivere decorated with flowers it was waa evidently Ivi dently a species of triumphal charlot cha for it was filled with hampers of champagne pay for what they take the correspondent says days the german lold lers treat the townspeople with consideration paying in german ell all ver for what they take from the abe shops shop describing the tear fear of the antwerp citizens when the keisers kaisers kal kai sera sers soldiers entered the correspondent says when tile the main body of troops began entering tho city on saturday morning the townspeople those who had not escaped from tho city rushed out with beer cheese bread and flow ars frs evidently with the idea of placating them by means of their pitiful little offerings it was not a pleasant sight but these people have been so BO terrified by tales of german barbarities bari barit ties les that one can hardly blame them the correspondent estimates that less than one hundred civilians were killed during the bombardment havoc Wrought by shells telling of the rain of shells which wept swept the city he be says saye A 42 centimeter shell tore completely through gha a handsome stone house next door to united states consul general diederichs residence crossed the street and exploded in the lipper story of a school there Is not a block in the boulevard leopold that does not contain several shattered houses no buildings were damaged in ill place do de melr though three shells struck the pavement tearing holes boles is B large as a grand plano piano A shell entered the root roof of the hotel st antoine Ant olne passed through two bathrooms and exploded in the room occupied 48 hours before by the rus lan minister destroying everything in it cathedral struck the ibe cathedral was struck only by one shell which entered through the wall over the western entrance ent ranco ara and exploded over the side elde chapel the american express companas comp anys offices on the van dyck were slightly damaged A shell struck the house occupied by an all Amerl american car ii named amed hunt and the dutch consul tind and blow the entire second floor into smithereens A zeppelin hovered over the city during thursday mornings bombard ment dropping occasional bombs though the gerwan german shrapnel created enough havoc it was childs play compared to the damage done by the siege guns when a 42 c shell struck a house it not merely blow a hole in ili it it simply demol dished it the whole house collapsing into ruin as it shaken to pieces by an earthquake almost as much dama damage 9 e was caused by fires resulting from the bombard ment as front from the shells themselves tile tho entire west side of the Marche ux Soul lers from the head bead of 0 the place do de melr to tho the place verte including tho the hotel de hurole tho the cafe royale and a line of fashionable shops opposite the hotel st antoine was de st royed A quarter of a mile of build ings in the line hue van bree including the handsomest apartments in n tile the city are nothing but charrel walls the handsome block in the rue de la justice is completely burned in addition several hundred dwellings scattered through the city have been burned to tho the ground dynamite saves cathedral As the city Is without water except such as can be pumped from the river the firemen were powerless to check the lames flames that every building on the place verto verte and very probably the cathedral itself was not burned is due to art an american resident charles who realizing the extreme gravity ot of the suggested to tho the german military authorities that they dynamite the surrounding buildings at ten at night word was sent to brussels and at four in tho the morning six automobiles with dynamite arrived and the walls were blown up the german soldiers standing on the roofs of neighboring buildings and throwing dynamite tombs it was a lively night for every one concerned r says the writer 1 I was just sitting down to my first meal in 30 hours when the police burst in with th the e news new a the city was burning he goes on 1 I found an entire block opposite the hotel in flames and as there was no water the firemen were powerless to check them when I 1 discovered the block immediately behind the hotel was also ablaze it struck me it was timo time to change my quarters after wandering through pitch black streets tor for three hours slipping on broken glass and stumbling over fallen masonry and occasionally challenged by german sentries I 1 saw it light in a building in the boulevard Lo leopold I 1 rang the bell and was taken in by a poor little consumptive bookkeeper takes over consulate upon calling at the consulate ha ln the morning I 1 found that consul gen oral diederich Dle derich and vice consul sherman had left two days before for parts unknown As there was a large number of frightened people clamoring for reassurance and protection and as there was no one else to look after them I 1 opened the consulate and assumed charge the proceeding was wholly irregular and unauthorized of course and will probably scandalize department of state officials officiate ciale in washington but it was no time for red tape 1 I immediately wrote a letter to the german commander informing him that in the absence of the consul general I 1 had assumed charge of tile the american and british interests in antwerp and expected the fullest protection tec tion I 1 received a courteous reply immediately saying that every ervery protection 0 would be afford tl foreigners |
