Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-10-16
Ant WERP BURNS;
FOE CLOSES IN
Shells and Bombs Set B3Iaa-
gusred City AbIaz2.
KING ALBERT FLEES TO OSTEND
The Germans Are HurIIne Shells at
the Rate of Twenty Minute Into
the City.

Shells were falling upon the strick
en- city OF Antwerp at the rate ol
twenty minute, according to the lat
est EadSices received here by the news
agencies, and the Germans had com
pletely occupied the southeastern sec
tion of Antwerp's third fortified line.
From Rosendal, score of miles di-
rectly north of Antwerp, word was
received that all night long and con-
tinuing steadily throughout Friday
morning the roar of war guns, the
noise softened by distance, could be
heard at Rosendaal without Interrupt
t1on or any letup except for slight
lessening during a brief period of the
very early dawn.
THE sky last night Thursday to
the south was red from the burning
scity 81 4 HtWsrp, !" one Rosendaal dis
patch concluded
whereas the first fire Of the main
attack of the Germans on Antwerp
went wide in a way that caused derls'
i've yells from the defenders, with the
entrance of Taube aeroplanes and the
Zeppelins into the engagement the
location of the Belgian batteries was
accurately located and the Germans
then got the range with deadly pre-
cision.
From witnesses who watched the
Zeppelins fly across the city word was
received that they saw one oil the
kaiser's airships hit by shell fired
from an inner fort and crash to the
earth just outside the city.
Among the buildings that are known
to be enveloped in flames are the
famous museum and law courts. Moth
ing can be said definitely as to the
extent of the damage suffered by the
cathedral, the massive tower OF which
offers a tempting mark to gunnerS
bent upon destroying one OF Europe S
most beautiful cities.
The only word of encouragement
that comes from the surrounding
country as to conditions in the city Is
that Antwerp Is still holding out"
And there is a prayer being ofer9a
in many an English home that Ant
werp will be able to hold out untl
help from the allies can h2 poured IN
from the north and northwest.
"An officer whom | met" says a
dispatch from Client, Estates that the
bombardment of the Antwerp cathe'
dral had begun at the hour he Ieft
that city. which was 10 o'clock on
Thursday morning. Fire had broken
out in many places. The Germans
were using their 16-inch howltzers
with terrific effect on the inner ring
of forts, zut guns of smaller caliher
were being used for the destruction
of the city itself.
"The airship which dropped a BONN
on the law courts was subjected TO
a terrific fire and must certainly nave
been hit. The bnrgomaster of Ant
werp has declared his intention OF
supporting the military in resisting to
the last"
A Reuter- dispatch from Ostend says
that the Belgian government has been
completely established there.
Although last reports of the exact
whereabouts OF King Albert, accord
ing to an Amsterdam dispatch, quotes
the Nieuws Van der Tag Of Client as
stating that the king had just arrived
at Selzaete, on the Dutch frontier, bul
that almost the whole of the Belgian
field army is being kept in Antwerp to
try to hold the city.
A wireless press telegrom from
Berlin states that King Albert has
been badly wounded while leading thu
Relpian army.