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Show 00 HOLLAND TOWNS CROWDED WITH THE REFUGEES By GRANVILLE FORTESCUE-Flushing. FORTESCUE-Flushing. Holland. Oct. 9 Hordes of refugees from Antwerp fill this town. Since the bombardment began they have arrived In an unending stream Some come by train from Rosendaal, others escaped from the city by boat. All sorts of river craft come plowing plow-ing through the muddy waters ot the Scheldt, crowded to the gunwales with human freight. Tugs tow long lines of grain lighters filled with women, children and old men. Their panic is pitiful. binee the firet shell shrieked over the city the frightened, struggling mob has been pressing onward to escape the rain of fire and Iron. Imagine the throng that shuffles forward for-ward at a championship football match increased a hundredfold In length and breadth and you will see the crowd moving to the railroad station. sta-tion. Another throng fought their way to the quays All the time Germaa shellb sang dismally overhead. For the most part the shells fell in the southern section of the elty. From the refugees I heard the same pitiful tales that, heartbroken, 1 have heard so often. A mother with two glrlB, one 4 and the other 3, was torn from the arms of her husband and puhed on a departing boat. All through the panic and flight U has been "women and children first" All who come bear witness to the bravery brav-ery of those who defend the city. The Belgian field army has withdrawn with-drawn to the west With the enemy superior in numbers it would be absurd ab-surd to hazard lighting and risk the chance of capture. In their advance to the inner line of forts the Germans have literally fined the dykes with their dead. Coming Com-ing on in close formation they were cut down by machine guns as wheat before a scythe, but others filled the gap The little garrison that holds Ant werp has taken heavy toll of the enemy. ene-my. 00 |