The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-16
LIKE A T0RCHL iGHT ELECTION
PARADE WHEN SOLDIERS CAME
eicyelists First to Enter-Germans
Swim River in Pursuit Of Retreatins
Foe-Fiaht Pressing "Du Waeht
Am Rhine"-weII croomed in Spite
Of Hard Struggle.

(By Alexander Powell, War Core
spondent of New York World.)
Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland. Oct. 81
tDelayed)-The occupation of Ant
werp by the German conquerors of the !
city was an impressive martial spec
tacle.
The first troops to enter were bicy-
clists, followed by brigade of infan-
try and several field batteries. The
latter passed through the city at a
sharp trot, unlimited on the quays, and
opened fire with shrapnel on the Bel
gian rear guard, which was landing
from lighters on the opposite side OF
the river.
Soldiers Swim the ScheIdt
company of German infantry start
ed across a pontoon bridge on the
Scheldt, only to find on reaching the
middle that it had been blown up by
the retreating Befgians. Two soldiers
plunged into the river without an in
stant's hesitation. swan across the
gap, clambered up on the other portion
of the bridge, and dashed forward to
reconnoiter.
Within two hours after reaching the
water front the Germans had rebuilt
the bridge and their troops were pour
ing across it in steady stream.
AS the sound of heavy cannonading
came from across the river throughout
the evening. they evidently caught up
with the Belgians.
| =, Giant Army on Parade.
Though a heavy force entered Ant
werps on Friday night, the bulk of the
army did not enter until late Saturday
afternoon, when $4,000 men passed In
review before Gen. Won Schultz, mill
tary governor of Antwerp, and Admiral
Won Schroeder, who, surrounded by
glittering staff, sat their horses in
front of the royal palace in the Place
de Meir.
For five hours the mighty host pour
ed through the streets of the deserted
city, while the houses shook to the
thunder of their tread. Company after
company, regiment after regiment. bri-
gade 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 can
yon formed by the high buildings along
the Place de Meir echoing to their
voices roaring out "Die Wacht am
Rhine and "a Mighty Fortress is
Our God"
Like TorchIight Parade.
Each regiment was headed by its
field music and colors, and when dark
ness fell and street lamps were lighted
the shrill of flies, the rattle Of drums,
anf ethe tramp of marching feet re-
nj lded me of a torchlight election
arade.
I Hard on the heels of the infantry
rumbled artillery, battery after bat
terry. until one wondered where Krupp
found time or steel to make them
These were the forces that had been
in almost constant action for the last
two weeks and that for thirty-six hours
had poured death and destruction into
the city, yet the horses we're well
groomed and the harness we'll polished
Behind the field batteries rumbled
the quick firers-the same pompoms
whose acquaintance | had made al
Weerde and elsewhere. And then
heralded by a blare Of trumpets and q
crash of kettle drums, came the caval
ry. cuirassiers in helmets and breast
plates of FURNISHED steel, hussars il
befrogged Jackets and fur BUSHES, ant
finally the uhlans, riding amid forest,
of lances under cloud of fiutterin.
pennons.