The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-10-15
Villages, Churches, Schools
and Factories Wiped Out
With a Steady Precision


London, Oct. 10.-"Thousands OF re
fugees are arriving here, and steamer:
for England are packed" says the
Reuters Ostend correspondent.
IN the siege operations against Ant
werp, the Germans are using at least
200 guns, of II. II, and 16 calibre
some with reach of over eight miles
"The bombardment of Antwerp yes
terday began at $3.50 at night and
stopped at 10 o'clock. only to be re-
oewed with increased violence at mid
night.
"The British, French and Russian
ministers were the last OF the dlplo'
matte body quitting Antwerp They
left late last night
The places in Antwerp which have
suffered most severely are the South
ern station, the palace OF justice and
the quarters in the vicinity Of Avenue
del Industrial.
Antwerp, via London, Oct 10.-The
Germans on Saturday spent Is hours
in a terrific artillery duel in an EFFORT
to ford the Nethe. The Belgians held
their ground magnificently and with
great sacrifices prevented the Germans
from crossing. The Germans were
evidently unwilling to lose men an an
assault and decided to widen the
breech in the Notifications by bonn
harding the forts between the river
Senne and Scheldt, which were unable
to hold out against the steady down.
pour of shells.
Thus the first line of Antwerp's de-
Tense was destroyed. For the final at
tacks the Germans are hurrying ZOO,
900 men to the scene of battle from
Aixla- Chapelle and Brussels. The Ger
mans are boring hole through the
Belgian resistance like the boring of a
tunnel through a mountain, in which
progress no mercy is shown. What
ever interferences, villages, churches,
schools and factories are wiped out
with steady precision.
The road from Brussels TO Antwerp
is one line of blackened ruins. Some
of the towns, including Termonde,
have been completely erased. The po-
pulation fed before the Germans like
American settlers before a prairie fire.
An endless procession of peasants and
shopkeepers, young, old and invalids,
with their chattels loaded in hand
carts and Anticipated wagons, and fol-
lowed by countless children dumbly
pursuing their parents driving below
ing cattle, are slowly moving in the
direction of Antwerp's cathedral tow
er. They have difficulty in avoiding
the numerous military trains of guns,
wagons and automobiles rushing to
the front and occasionally they have
to make way for ambulances hasten
ing toward the city with men wounded
in the fighting.
The refugees, on arriving in Ant
werp, are cared for by the civil guards
and boy scouts and taken to the pub
lie buildings and the German shops,
which, contrary to the accepted YER
sion, were not destroyed but were tenn.
porarily taken over by the govern
ment The refugees are well fed and
large numbers of the children have
been taken in charge by nuns who are
caring for them.
The German shells continually strike
the roads leading to Antwerp and the
exploding shrapnel has in some cases
played havoc among the peasants The
dead are left where they fall and the
wounded are placed in wagons and
taken along. In the city they are
placed in charge of the local police
who have posted red and white bonn
bardment flags on the churches ant
public buildings.
During the worst part of the battl
on the Nethe many priests and monk
were on the firing line, attending tn
wounded and giving the last care t
the dyig.