Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-15
Sixty thousand Panic
Stricken People Await
Coming of Invaders.
KING ALBERT HAS LEFT
Inhabitants Fleeing as Fast as
Ships Can Be Provided to
Garry Them.

I-udor. Oct- ia central news
Amsterdam dispatch confirms the Oc-
ezvstion by Germans OF Bruses. 10
-nss szs- Of Oster--
Os.end. oct. 1f-v.a London, oct
R.1.z5 a. m.-Os;ead's fate hangs in
tse balance. The government has
lst. K.ne AI0er- arI the main mill
ls-v quarters .elt tuesday ana $4,000
panic stricken people await the ac-
Ton cs the Germans. VINO are known
70 have a s-ronE force vitI.n twenty
-.fIss OF the city The inhabitants arc
sssing as fast as ships can be pro
rdsd 10 carry them 10 England. Hos
psrsls were snptied Wednesday and
the decks were lined with injured
sc,diers. while -hcse less severely
wounded ho5b-ei on canes and
c-Etche-.
The wounded were given preference
q tle transports provided tor tne
sssieged city. while 5000 struS-
riuE people are massei upon the
----xs and ;eEHSaafsr-sssfterIp ffeS--rS-
Hzd places on the refugee ships.
Csrnan taube few over the hsrbor
AID struck terror TO those below.
nsny OF when had come fom Az.
Tsrp. and who feared the airship
-iElt Grop bombs en- tie docks and
N the great glass sheds which cpv-
cred the railway and steamer termin-
ais
The Belgians guarding the docks
opered FIRE CT the airships and con
timed the fusiI1de for ten minutes
This created still gTea:er consterna-
tn among the thousands Of women
and children. many Of whom had SIT
i1r three days on the cement floor OF
TIE great terminal sheds. heir nerves
Il The breaking rOint.
Ksiser's Uen on March.
Berlin. Oct. 15.-Info-na.ion IS CIV
81 out that Germans IN Belgium are
noT on the march par towards Os-
isrt and part IN the direction % the
french frontier The headquarters Of
Emperor william has been moved fur
iisr into france. There has been
heavy as1ting In France. in east sois-
sns and in The Argonle. French 0ffi. /
eizl reports about successes in the
Nosvre strict are untrue. The ter
1an5 have nowhere lost ground Twe'i- I
Tstz thousand Belsizns and 1000 En- .
Elshulen who defended Antwerp have
'esa interned iu Holland. J. is re-
Ported from S;ertin that German de
'Ioyers captured s5- vessels q Nor }
Eszan, DANISH and Swedish nation I
ans. loaded with goods and provisions I
-ss-ined FOR E,n=iand and Russia
Paris Reports Progress.
faris Oct Is tafteTnoOn.J An Off
"a. Statement says. In Belgium
Selmsns from Antwerp marching to
Ic the west reached the region Of
h'aEes and Thielt On our left the
eis-ny has evacuated the left bank OF
ne Lys- In the region OF Lens and
De'Eeen Arras and Albert our pro
Ess has been marked. On the 18th
.e advanced 20 the south OF the high
az from Verdun 20 Metz. On the
lsht partial offensive by the Ger
I1hs north OF ST. Die has been def
nltely checked"
Allies Brigade Anbushed.
London. Oct. 1.-THE allies we're de-
'ea'ed east Of Client Sunday morning
sS!s an Ostend Central News dis
yelea' and driven from one position
: c-pef another all Saturday night by
oelnlan artillery. and in the morning
s-e brigade lost its way. u was am
.-sneo and suffered heavily. The re-
-e<t was In good order toward
!, !, ,loarout. whore fighting continued
.,,,snaay and Tuesday This force fin
IV withdrew into France and there
!. -s@ been firing IN the neighborhood
y Dunkirk.
Allies Holding Own.
Lohcon. Oct 15.-Gloom which has
]. - eloDedl over England since the fall
{ antwerp has been somewhat light
-sc oy AL official communication that /
- allies Al tre more than holding their
e Z IN The thghting on the Franco-BeI- I
- pordef, But this feeling Of Ella
:. has beeAn tempered by a growing !
|. ..s-i1a'ion 4 lat the Russian invasion :
: sAesia, (Which was believed i'm