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Show PEOPLE FEAR TO I RETW HOME I Germans Moving Provisions From Antwerp to Louvain in Immense Quantiticc. Antwerp, Nov. 0. via The Hague and Loudon. 11 a. ,m. The population or Antwerp, which fled the city at the tune of the German occupation Is still unwilling to return The German de- j mand for B w-ar Indemnity of $10,000,- j 000 is frightening many ln'o staying j G( rman troops have been almost ' Im.lciKI,. I iTitnam clnii I.ncl fiat. BBBS urday The town hall has no military ; guard before it Within the building the German administrators and off I- ( ials of the Belgian civil government j work peacefully under the same roofs. rhe Vntwerp police department Is still under the command of its Bel-Ldan Bel-Ldan officers, but every' policemen is obliged to salute all German offi-cers offi-cers who icturn the salutation. Oiie French and two Flemish news-papers news-papers have been allowed to reappear reap-pear in Antwerp All stores are compelled com-pelled to accept the German mark at the valuation of one franc twenty- J five centimes. 1 The immense quantities of flour J and wheat of which the Germans be-came be-came possessed when they occupied Antwerp, are being moved to Lou vain Here these provisions are pre- I pared for the ubo of the army and sent to the German front in Flan- It this removal of food supplies j continues long at its present rate, the people of Antwerp soon will face the same shortage in provisions that today to-day is general In all other parts of Belgium. |