The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-10-29
international News Service.


The bulk of the kaiser's force did
not enter the city until Saturday after
noon, when $4,000 men passed in re-
view before General Won Schultz, mill
tary governor of Antwerp, and Admi-
raj Won Schroeder. who, surrounded by
a glittering staff, sat their horses in
front of the royal palace in the Place
de Meir.
For five hours the mighty host
poured through the streets Of the de.
serted city, while the houses shook
to the thunder of their tread" he
writes. Company after company, reg
iment after regiment, brigade after
brigade, swept past until the ~eye
grew weary of watching the ranks of
gray under slanting lines of steel.
AS they marched they sang, the
canyon formed by the high buildings
along the Place de Meir echoing to
their voices roaring out Die Wacht
am Rhein' and A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God
Like an Election Parade.
Each regiment was headed by its
held music and colors, and when dark
ness fell and street lamps were light
ed the shrill music of flies, the rattle
Of drums and the tramp of marching
feet reminded me of a torchlight cleo
ton parade.
Hard on the heels of the infantry
rumbled artillery, battery after bat
terry.
Behind the field batteries rumbled
the quick firers-the same pompoms
whose acquaintance l had made at
heralded by blare of trumpets and
crash of kettledrums, came the cav
airy, cuirassiers in helmets and
breastplates of FURNISHED steel, hus-
Sars in befrogged jackets and fur bus
Dies, and finally the uhlans, riding
amid forests of lances under a cloud
Of f1uttering pennons.
But this was not all, nor nearly all,
Tor after the uhlans came the blue
Jackets of the naval division, broad
shouldered, bewhiskered fellows, with
caps worn rakishly and roll of the
sea in their gait.
Then the Bavarian infantry in dark
blue, the Saxon infantry in light blue,
and Austrians in uniforms of beautiful
silver gray, and last of all a squadron
Of gendarmes in silver and bottle
green.
"As that fighting machine swung
past l could not but marvel at how
H. ~
geous but ill-prepared little army OF
. Belgium had held it back as long as
It had.
. Few See Entry.
"The most remarkable feature Of
his wonderful spectacle was thai
i here we're comparatively few persons
TO see it. So far as onlookers wer,
. concerned the Germans might as wei
have marched through the streets o
Pompeii Another American and
: standing on the balcony Of the Ameri
r can consulate, we're the only specta
tors, so far as l know, in the who'll
ength of the Place de Meir, which il
} the State street of Antwerp. 1t re
: minded me of circus that had com,
10 town a day before 1t was expected.
A feature of the procession was
4 Victoria drawn by a fat white hors
3 and with two soldiers on the boz
which accompanied a regiment of Ba
Varians. Both horse and carriag
we're decorated with flowers. 1t wa
/. evidently a species of triumphal chal
q lot, for it was filled with hampers c
0 champagne.
Pay for What They Take.
The correspondent says the Germa
6 soldiers treat the townspeople wit
" consideration, paying in German 81
YER for what they take from the shops
Describing the fear of the Antwer
citizens when the kaiser's soldiers Ell
= = tered, the correspondent says;
d when the main body Of troops b,
gan entering the city on Saturda
morning the townspeople-those VIII
u had not escaped from the city-rushe
, out with beer, cheese, bread and nov
ers, evidently with the idea of plaza
ing them by means of their pitifI
y little offerings. 1t was not plea
. ant sight. but these people have bee
0. so terrified by tales of German ba
barities that one can hardly blan
u them"
g The correspondent estimates tn
less than one hundred civilians wei
: killed during the bombardment.
4 Havoc Wrought by Shells.
L Telling of the rain of shells whiC
swept the city, he says:
. "A 42-centimeter shell tore col
pletely through a handsome stol
house next door to United States Co
sui General Diederich's residenC
. crossed the street and exploded in Il
upper story of school There is n
r a block in the Boulevard Leopold III
- does not contain several shatter'
q houses. No buildings were damag,
in Place de Meir. though three shel
struck the pavement. tearing hol
as large as a grand piano.
. "A shell entered the roof of the II
:" tel st. Antoine, passed through ty
bathrooms and exploded in the roo
occupied As hours before by the RI
sian minister, destroying everythil
= in It.
= Cathedral Struck.
= The cathedral was struck only
81 one shell. which entered through 4
III wall over the western entrance and {
u ploded over the side chapel II
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