Show DEFEND UNTIL FIRE BECOMES MASSACRE by P F BANISTER international news service ostend 1 I was right up on an the firing line near koleren lokeren when the belgians were ordered to retreat from the trenches and was mas carried along in the frantic rush for ja shelter helter beona the range oc of german shells infantrymen jaded heavily weighted by accouterments stumbled across the fields sweat eat pouring from their faces and sank exhausted to ae for a few moments and then scramble to their feet and stagger forward again as shells continued bursting around them they fought bravely and well the trenches were mere not vacated an anywhere chero till the rain of german shells meant sheer bained massacre it the defenders remained in the tile retreat of the field army which aich had been defending antwerp a along lorg tho the one road still kept op open en to the west we remany were many soldiers who had hall beca been fighting continually it lt day days snatching hurried sleep on the bare earth or pavement hundreds collapsed on tho the march and had to be left behind at various points to follow on after treatment and rest the germans have not et ct reached ostend horse meat hay been substituted for boef at most of the hotels and restaurants otherwise Otherl so there Is no lack of food at normal prices aver day spies arc are arrested in and near ostend one man was as seized after chalking in a corner of tho the village railway station some figures the interpreters supposed indicated the strength of tho the allies in neighborhood ho he was sas dressed as a simple peasant und and showed evidence of being a man of superior education w u aich ith the incriminating memoranda and ibe chalk marks at the station scaled we 1 doom A german officer was arrested arre in the main street of ostend yesterday wearing a belgian officers uniform aas nearly torn to pieces by the huge rond before he got to the police sta ion the only route out of Antu antwerp erp ater the bombardment began wednes lay was tho th iziver the peo IQ ie would not stay in the cellars of he bouses houses ae as ad by tho the author ties then t hen they found the shells from ae grea gern Cler nao une often fell right ol 01 through the houses and exploded in the cellars trains and barges p perilously overloaded till friday bore tha the people to holland it Is clear that a vast majority of the population of ant antwerp orp did not believe belle 0 o till the very last minute that the city would mould be bombarded one shell shattered like ithe a bouse house ot cards the hospital of st camille burying all the nurses and wounded A in the pilo of ruins |