Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-09-12
FIRST STORY OF TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
OF GERMANS INTO BRUSSELS

rBy Cable to the Chicago Tribune-1
brussels The Germans entered
Brussels Thursday without firing q
shot
Yielding to the dictates OF reason
and humanity. the civil government at
the last moment disbanded the civil
guard, which the Germans would not
recognize The soldiers and ordinary
police were then fntrusted with the
maintenance of order
After q day OF wild panic and slum-
ber.ess nights the citizens remained
at their windows Few sought their
couchea-
Cry .Here They Come"
The morning broke brilliantly The
city was astir early and on all lips
were the words: They ara here" or
They are coming"
The they" referred to were al
ready outside the boundaries of the
city In great force The artillery was
packed on on the road to Waterloo
Horse, foot, and sapper were packed
deep on the Louvain and Terveryue-
rem roads
An enterprising motorist came in
with the Information and the crowds
In the busy centers Immediately be-
came calm
Burpomaster Gives Up.
At eleven o'clock it was reported
that an officer with a half troop of
hussars bearing white flags had halt
ed outside the Louvain gate
The burgomaster claimed for the
citizens their rights under the laws
of war regulating an unfortif1ed capt.
tai When roughly asked If he was
prepared to surrender the city, with
the threat that otherwise It would be
bombarded, the burgomaster said he
would do So He also decided to re-
move his scarf of Office
The discussion was brief When
the burgomaster handed over his scarf
it was handed back to him and he
was thus entrusted for the time being
with the civil control of the citizens
The Germans gave him plainly to I'M
derstand that he would be held re-
sponsible for any overt act on the
part of the populace against the Ger
mans
Triumphant March Begins
From noon until two o'clock the
crowds waited expectantly. Shortly
after two o'clock the booming OF can
non and later the sound Of military
music conveyed to the people of Brus-
sells the intimaton that the triumph
ant march of the enemy on the an
cient city had begun
On they came. preceded by scout
ing party of uhlans, horse. foot, and
artillery and sappers, with q siege
train complete
A special feature of the procession
was 100 motor cars on which quick
frers were mounted Every regiment
and battery was headed by a band.
horse or foot Now came the drums
and flies; now the blare of brass and
soldiers singing die Yacht am Rhein"
and Deutschland uber Allies"
Death Head Hussars There
Along Chausee de Louvain, past St
jesse and the botanical gardens. to
the open space in front of the Care du
Nord, the usual lounging place of the
tired twaddlers of the city, swept the
legions-
Among the cavalry were the famous
Brunswick Deaths Head Hussars and
their companions on many bloody
fields. the zeiten hussars- But where
was the glorious garb of the German
troops. the cherry-colored uniforms of
the horseman, and the blue of the In
gray All the helmets are covered with
gray The guns are painted gray
Even the pontoon bridges are gray.
ITO the quickstep beat Of the drums
the kaiser's men march to the great
square, Charles Regier. Then at the
whistlins sound of the word of COM
the sonorous orders of tho
German officers seemed to have gone
the way Of the brilliant uniforms
gray-clad ranks broke into the famous
goose step. while the good people of
ing wonder with mouths agape-
Crowds Want Revenge
At the railroad station the great
procession denied to the boulevards
and thence marched to encamp on the
heights Of the city called Kochelberg-
1t was truly sight to have giaddened
the eyes of the kaiser, but on the side
walks @men were muttering beneath
their breath.
They'll not pass here on their way
back The allies viii do for them
Many of the younger men In the
great array seemed exhausted after
the long forced march. but as a man
staggered his comrades In the ranks
held him up.
II was a great spectacle and an Inn
pressive one, but there are minor incl
dents that were of less pleasant char
acter
Officers In shackiea-
Two Belgian officers, manacled and