New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-16
Bruges, Is Miles from Os-
tend, and Damme Oc-
cupied After Fight.
BOMB DROPPED
ON FORMER CITY
Germans Make Themselves at
Home in Houses of the
People of Client.
lRr Cnhla 70 The Tribune J


Amsterdam, Oct. 15.-After some
fighting near Ursel, the Germans
cleared the road to Bruges, and to-day
entered that town and Damme. Be
fore that a German army aeroplane
few over Bruges and dropped bomb
near the Lancers' Barracks, but little
damage was done.
In Client the German soldiers are
housed in large buildings and the oii-
GERS are billeted in the houses OF the
well-to-do. The houses of those OF
the inhabitants who have fled have
been broken into. Many of the shops
are open and some of the factories
remain working. The Germans pay
with paper for most of the things they
demand, but in some cases horses nave
been taken without even this ac-
acknowledgement.
The time limit Tor the return Of the
inhabitants of Antwerp has been IN
creased by the Governor to seventeen
DAYS. The Dutch government is still
negotiating for their return, but has
not vet received satisfactory assur-
ances from the Germans. Strict regu-
lations are enforced in the city. Doors
of all houses must always be unlocked,
lights have to be burning throughout
the night, and nobody is allowed in the
streets after dark. Most of the main
streets are commanded by machine guns
behind sandbag barbados. The Ger
man garrison is composed principally Of
elderly men Of the landwehr, with some
attachments of marines.
Looters seem to have taken great
fancy to bicycles. One tradesman who
returned TO the city found his bicycle
shop entirely cleared out. He noticed
wrecked English aeroplane near Ess-
chen.
Rosendaal is now held by the enemy,
the famous Deaths Head Hussars
being among the troops occupying it.
Ten of the inhabitants have been Sc
lected as hostages for the good beha-
vior Of the remainder
London, Oct. l5.-Of the lighting in
northern Belgium the French official
communication simply says to-day tina.
German troops coming from Antwerp
are marching toward the west and
reached the Bruges-Thielt district yes
terday evening. The opposition offered
to this advance was not serious and
was only intended to delay
them.
The Germans have occupied Bruges.
fifteen miles east Of Ostend. The main
German force, however, is believed TO
have proceeded southwark to assist in
the attempt Of the Germans to estab-
lish themselves on the French coast.
With the forces of the Allies occupy
ing Ypres, and doubtless other troops
between that city and Nieuwport, ten
miles southwest of 0stend, the Ger
mans probably will be compelled to
fight their next serious battle along
the roads and railways running east
ward from the coast. Again, they may
Join with General Won Klucks army,
which occupies Lille and the country
north of that city.
As indicating the panic among those
leaving Ostend, more than dozen
oyster trawlers arrived at Lowestoft,
Suffolk, to-day crowded with refugees,
mostly women, children and old men.
All bore evidences of fright and eX-
posure. One little girl died Of eX-
haustion on the way across the Chan
mel.
The Belgian government before re-
moving to France, says an agency dis
patch from The Hague, ordered all
male citizens between the ages of eigh-
teen and forty-fve to enter the army
within two days or be treated as trai-
tors.