Arizona republican., 1914-10-20
By Systematically Dropping One Bomb in Each Quar- ter Invaders Notified Bel gians That Defense Was Useless
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
 MERELY "CREASED"
Shells Dropped Just Close Enough to Warn-Jack Tars and Marines Only Guards Left in Deserted Capital City
ASSOCIATED PRESS pIsPArCH1

ANTWERP, Oct. 19.-Antwerp is a dead city The populace has fled, and the streets are deserted. Smok- ing ruins still mark the havoc of the German shell fire. The thoroughfares are piled with wreckage, and the in- vading host has passed on. Only bluejackets and marine infantrymen now guard the city.
 Upon the arrival at Antwerp of the correspondent of the Associated Press he found the city guarded by blue jackets and marine infantrymen from the German stations at Kiel, Cux- haven and Wilhelmshaven. De- tachments of sailors among them were recruited from the German mer- chant marine and armed only with cutlasses and revolvers. They lay several weeks behind the army, talk ing no part in the fighting, evidently destined for sea duty after the cap ture of the port.
 German staff officers assured the correspondent that Gen. von Bressler found an easy victory where hard fighting was expected, and desperate resistance where little trouble was anticipated. The officers said that Antwerp had fallen eight days earlier than was expected, the Belgians evil dently being disheartened by their nine weeks of defeat and also because of the easy manner in which the Ger mans carried the fortified positions behind the River Nethe
 As the correspondent drove through miles of the streets of Antwerp the city seemed to have suffered less from the bombardment than was at first believed. Indications of damage wrought by German shells were ob- served in all quarters of the city, but the destruction was usually confined to individual houses in widely scatter ed points, a great mass of the in- tervening buildings being untouched.
 At German headquarters it was said this fact was due to the definite plan of the Germans to convince Antwerp with a minimum damage that the Clly was at llio uleICy oL llelT guns, and that further resistance was use less. Heavy 12-inch and 16-inch guns. it was stated, were not used against the city proper, but shells from the smaller mortars were dropped throughout the place, a few in each section, until every quarter had been systematically visited.
 How accurately the public buildings had been avoided seemed to have been proved by a shell hole in the pave ment at the side entrance to the city hall and in the destruction of a house across the street from that building. The Church of Our Lady. the pride of Antwerp has a hole eight or ten feet in diameter in one transept window. and another in an adjoining wall thirty feet above the floor, but other wise this edifice is not damaged.
 The effects of the big guns on Ant werp's outer Notifications is more striking than at Liege. Two armored turrets of the Fort De Wavre at St. Catherine were put out of action with a single shot each, their steel beds being broken in two and heavy masses of metal hurled five or six yards away. In another fort a concrete embank- ment was pierced like an eggshell and the steel turret uprooted. Still another turret is completely upended (Coatinupd on Page TWOl