The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-22
International News Service.

German army into Antwerp.
The bulk Of the kaisers 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 stan, 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
field 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 torchlight cleo
tioE 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 | had made at
Weerde and elsewhere. And then
heralded by a 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
bies, and finally the uhlans, riding
} amid forests of lances under clouC
J of fluttering pennons.
But this was not all, nor nearly all
for after the uhlans came the blue
jackets of the naval division, broad
shouldered, bewhiskered fellows, will
, caps worn rakishly and roll Of the
!, sea in their gait.
Then the Bavarian infantry in darl
, 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 bottl,
] green.
, "As that fighting machine swuni
past | could not but marvel at hov
the gallant, chivalrous and coura
geous but ill-prepared little army o
Belgium had held it back as long a
1t had.
. Few See Entry.
G The most remarkable feature 0
I this wonderful spectacle was tina
q there we're comparatively few person
to see it. So far as onlookers we1
9 concerned the Germans might as we
q have marched through the streets {
a Pompeii. Another American and
6 standing on the balcony of the Amer
can consulate, were the only spect;
r tors, so far as l know, in the whol
= length of the Place de Meir, which
the State street Of Antwerp. 1t r.
= minded me of circus that kGi com
" to town day before it was expected
, A feature of the procession was
"a victoria drawn by fat white hors
= and with two soldiers on the bo
y which accompanied a regiment of b
u varians Both horse and carrias
a we're decorated with flowers. 1t We
evidently a species of triumphal cha
, lot, for it was filled with hampers
, champagne.
- Pay for What They Take.
The correspondent says the Germa
- soldiers treat the townspeople wit
y consideration, paying in German s
" yer for what they take from the shop
-, Describing the fear of the Antwel
- citizens when the kaiser's soldiers e
Is tered, the correspondent says:
:" When the main body Of troops b
~ gan entering the city on Saturdi
morning the townspeople-those WI
had not escaped from the city-rush'
: out with beer, cheese, bread and 10
ers, evidently with the idea of placi
H. ing them by means of their pitt
little offerings. 1t was not plet
ant sight, but these people have be
so terrified by tales Of German b;
Il barities that one can hardly 'blaI
~ them"
VI less than one hundred civilians we
10 killed during the bombardment.
- Havoc Wrought by Shells.
So Telling of the rain of shells viii
II swept the city, he says:
"A 42-centimeter she'll tore co
X pletely through handsome sto
house next door to United States c.
al sui General Diederichs residen
nt crossed the street and exploded in t
Al upper story Of a school. There is I
n block in the Boulevard Leopold Il
Is does not contain several shatter
houses No buildings were damag
eo in Place de Meir, though three she
W. struck the pavement, tearing no
'rt as large as grand piano.
~ "A shell entered the roof of the
st. tel st. Antoine, passed through t
no bathrooms and exploded in the ro
occupied 4S hours before by the R
sian minister, destroying everythI
in it.
lt Cathedral Struck.
ms THE cathedral was struck only
er one shell, which entered through
ed wall over the western entrance and
pt ploded over the side chapel. ]
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