The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-12-11

aliOWou on D0dru. ~ TOOK SIX hours 70
70 from Bruges TO Ostend. 10 usually
takes twenty-eight minutes. There ter.
ror reigned, no one knew where TO run
70 hide and people were fleeing in ev-
cry possible direction endeavoring TO
escape to France and England. A car
was leaving for la Panne and we man.
aged TO get into the baggage van.
There were 2S of us in that van
and the journey took from eight-thirty
D. m. TO six a. m. IL Is only a few
miles. They did not dare 90 along
quickly for fear Of an attack by the
Germans. From La Panne to Dunkirk
we had 20 20 on foot along the beach,
accompanying some soldiers who car
ried our valises for us. Valises, yes,
that was all we had; my husband did
not have time TO bring away one Of his
belongings and one Of the first things
4 did on arrival was TO buy clothes
for him. How Jean Cher little boy
OF ten) aud l managed that journey |
do not know. We were terribly tired
and had had no food for two days
God surely took pity on MS and gave
us force TO meet such a trial.
Safe In England
81 Rnnnhh W. uAu ANNhAkO W XVI
n mouthful to eat and then n train
took us 20 Boulogne, 6fty-one miles
from Ostcnd. We remained twenty
-four, hours AT Boulogne and had TO get
All our naturalization papers signed,
etc, and finally after no end Of trouble
embarked for Folkestonc aud then Lon
don, staying there three days. Three
OF our party remained there. W..
Cher oldest sony Immediately voluns
teered but was refused ON account Of
lack of strength, so he is with pro.
'fessor Of the University of Londoi
continuing his medical studies. The
English are so good 70 the Belgians
They are able TO realize what our PEG
pie are suffering Many of our people
who were rich in Belgium are now
without single cent.
ttWe reached ---- on the twent.
.ieth and my sister received us most
kindly. Three Of our party are with
her and the rest staying with friends
Of hers Her husband also is most kin,l
Che is physieian) and is attending
all refugees gratis. cannot describe
TO You the kindness we are meeting
with here. We are trying TO be useful
as interpreters, so many Belgians only
know French and Flemish. There 4
no lack Of work. We are serving for
the soldiers and visiting the wounded
Belgians who are in the hospitals.
L elm all the newspapers are long lists
Of refugees for whom inquiries are be
ing made, especially for parents, sons
and brothers, and all the exiles look
70 each other for news
Belgium Heap Of Ruins
1--WE could hardly believe that we
were in London for we kept meeting
other refugees from Bruges who told
Of their fight and adventures, ] wish
Il could give you a vivid picture or
what we have all gone through, but IL
is impossible. One must live such
times to realize them. Who 'coult
imagine that in two months, our little
country. SO beautiful and so prosper
Gus, could become one vast burial place
a heap of ruins, some still sinkingl And
II IS our poor Flanders which has sui
fered the most, for that battle Of the
User, the most terrible Of all, has 81
ready been raging six weeks. Anr
then the most ffightful thing of al
has been the massacre Of civilians. Fop
one soldier killed in battle there arc
at least four Of the population who
have been put TO death on the mos
trifiing pretexts. s
"A .i"The Germans drink deeply and
when drunk they pretend all kinds Of
falsehoods and make their allegations
an excuse for plundering and killing
AT Brugcs, all houses whose owners arc
away are PLACED. What shall We
find IN our returni Here, they try to
make us forget our suferings, but
when ] cit down to my comfortable
meals how can ! help thinking Of my
starving compatriotsi Mother viii not
suffer priyations for / left her m,
large supply which ! had made fore
seeing a hard winter ahead, but I never
expected TO have to fee from my
home. .aat,
MISPLACED Confidence
HGermany, unlike France and Eng,
land, had been long preparing for thi'
war and when the right moment had
come for her she threw herself on
moor. innocent Belgium and we have
had TO pay dearly for our resist
enee. Hardly had the ultimat
um arrived when Germany invaded us
and the first regiment TO cross the
boundary was that Of which our Alber'
was colonel Our Kindness to the nun
Der of Germans who had settled in
Belgium and our confidence in them
were surely mistaken, for after havina
enriched themselves in our countrv
they betrayed and attacked us. We
find no language strong enough TO de
nounee this infamy, this rule which ex;
lists only TO crush others under its owl