Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13

Into tho place at moon, and soon sfsAs4
this our heavy guns began to speak.
It was the nrst day OF the Siege and
'bombardnfent Of Antwerp. 80 4
who would have thought that we
were TO march into the city in twelve
days? must add that we were we'll
provisioned. from now on. notwithstand-
Ing the fact that our baggage trains.
with the field Kitchens. never arrived
on time, for there was live stock in
plenty. ! usually sent out three pa
trolling parties. one for eggs. one for
chickens and one for wine. The last
two always brought In the biggest
booty At night every man in camp
had his chicken in the pot, and all next
bread. Everywhere there was wine In
abundance; especially good red wine.
The only thing that we missed was
our morning coffee.
,"At Heyst;we found neat little cot
tdge, In which and made
ourselves at home; and very soon we
had steaming chicken and red-wine
punch on our table. For table mu$Ic
we had the prodigious laundering sof
the cannon. We were Smelling Fert
Lierre.i and It was answering vigorous-.
ily. asAy the shells never fell nearer.
than about 900 yards Of us, however,.
we took no sSnotice of them, but put
on our njgktahirts again. for a. rarity,
and laid ourselves down In clean beds.
September 29--The artillery dfei
tlonf officers OF our forty-two- centi-
metre mortars arrived to select posi-,
stions for their guns. IAclimbed the,
!. ladder; ninety-eight feet high, and
could see that. our shells were pound :
ing Fort Lierre In fine style; If we
only kept 1t up the big mortars would
soon open up free path for US. To-
ward evening His ExcelIehcy, Field
Marshal Won der Goltz (ciyil governor
OF Belgium, arrived. Heytold me he
heard that we had learned to roast
"a hen In excellent style. and asked
whether we did not have one left; for
him-and. To- the hen was soon on the
table. along with q can of asparagus
and bottle of Haul Sauterne
September 30-Marched this morn
ing to the River Nethe to occupy and
protect the bridge at Heilebrug. K -
and were entrusted with a patrol
across the Nethe.to Heykant and Bowel.
We PASSED through Heykant all right,
but we found telephone wires commuz
nicating with the church tower irs
Bevel. We cut the wires and then
sent. q noncommissioncd officer with
seven men on to Bevel. while K -
and I. with a bugler,a walked to a hill
and watched the highway. When the
little party reached the village 1t was
fred upon, but continued into the place,
.
Let us get away from this hill and
go behind that house there The words
were scarcely spoken when a dozen
bullets whizzed about our ears, but
all too high. But we left the hill at
double-quick. After an anxious half
hour, the noncommissioned officer re-
turned{with his party safe and sound.
And what had the daredevil done? A
Belgian telegraph patrol, stationed in
the village, was firing upon the party,
hut the 'noncom and his fellows at
tackled without lances. and away the
enemy scampered. Thereupon the Of
ficer. accompanied by one man, mounted
the tower and destroyed the telephone
station. Meanwhile, the townsmen
were fring Justify at their horses. sheld
they can't hit anything. Then we re-
crossed the Nethe Bridge at Helle-
brug and took quarters with the In
fantry. which had already strongly
fortified the bridge.
tRECEIvEs COMMISSION ~
TO MAKE OBSERVATIONS
October IL received the honorable
see whether 1T was Clear of the enemy.
land. II possible, to! make observations
from the church tower. Well. those
fellows said to myself, probably
got enough yesterday At. Heykant
saw that the telephone wires. de-
stroyed yesterday. had been restored.
sent forward a 'noncom' with Ave
men about 100 yards ahead and fol-
lowed after at >the head OF my twenty
uhlans. Everything seemed to be GO
ing well until the vanguard party was
within nifty PAGES of tho, first houses
OF Bevel. Then all at once a terrific
infantry are opened. The 'noncom and
| another man dropped
The rest OF us were out in the open
field, scarcely $50 PAGES. from t..e
| enemy. whom we could see standing
behind a hedge. gave the order: TO
| the rear, open order. marchr Behind
the nearest houses called halt, and
we prepared to dismount and begin the
| night. but at this moment we were
| fred upon; from the rear, from Hey
kant. The fellows had calmly per-
mitted US to pass through that village
In order afterward to fire upon us