The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-10-29
ANTWERP STANDS
STRONG AGAINST
GERMAN SIEGE
Famous Old Belgian Seaport As
Seen by Miss Louise Mack,
an English Writer.
TRAVELLING WITH REFUGEES
Fleeing In Terror, They Honor Their
Wounded soldiers-1anner.clad
City 10 Prepared TO Repel
the Teuton Foe.
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Antwerp. Belgium. - An English
woman, Miss Louise Mack. n well.
known writer OF fiction. has written
q vivid description OF this ancient sea.
port in wartime. which the Germans
are attacking. The town has become
the haven OF thousands OF refugees,
Belgians. British and Americans, The
capital OF Belgium was transferred
here from Brussels, and German Yep.
pelins brought the city into promi.
hence by ~bombarding II from the skies
at night. Miss Mack writes:
"slowly. painfully. through the blaz.
ing summer day, u long. brown train
goes creeping towards Anvers. An
vers! The name has grown into an
emblem OF hope in these sad days,
when the Belgians are fleeing for their
lives from their little homes among
the fiat. green pastures. fleeing
towards their own fortified city that
we English know as Antwerp. or else
directing their desperate, maddened
flights to the ineffabie peace and Sc.
curity OF the tar-oif aud mysterious
'Angleterre.'
See them NJ every station crowding
in! In they crowd, herding like dumb.
driven cattle, and always the poor,
white.faced women with their wide.
innocent eyes have babies In their
arms and children Juggling at their
skirts. Wherever we stop we find the
platforms lined ten deep, and by the
wildness with which they fight their
way into the already crowded carriage
n knows the pent.up terror in these
poor. simple hearts. They must get
In. they must. Whatever happens
they must get inside hat train. And
soon every compartment Is packed
and on we go through the sitting.
binding August day inwards toward
Anvers.
Room for Soldier Heroes.
"Ah. but when a soldier comes
along how eager everyone is 10 find
place for him. Not one OF us but
would gladly give our seat or our
standing oom up 10 n 'soldat,' and
when our wounded soldiers from Ma.
lines appear at the doors we perform
miracles In that long. brown train.
We squeeze ourselves 10 nothing.
"a soldier Is talking. How
we listen! Never did divine or states.
man get such a hearing as that blue,
worn.out. wounded man. white with
dust, clogged with mud, his yellow
beard weeks old on his young face,
with his poor feet in their broken,
ravaged boots. and his red and blue
cap blackened with smoke and hard.
ened with earth where he has slept
among the beets and potatoes.
"'At Malines.' he Is telling us In n
faint voice. at intervals | often saw
the king. He was there. lie was
lighting, ! saw him several times. |
was quite near him. He had a bravery
magnificent, u king. | saw a can.
non exploding just n bare yard from
where he was. over and over again
! saw his face. always calm, resolute.
I hope all IL we'll with him. he ends
fcrlornly, but in battle one knows
nothing
"'All is Well cry a dozen eager
voices. The king is back at Antwerp
now. lie is safe in his palace
In the Client Cathedral.
"fIour after hour goes by. Two
hours wait at Client. and We rush in
a 'yoiture' round the beautiful old
city. finding everything quite calm
here, and not n sign OF the Germans
anywhere. We enter tho cathedral.
II Is Saturday morning. but crowds OF
people are there telling their rosarles.
Then a priest begins a sermon, and |
hear words that ! am destined 10 hear
again later on at Antwerp-words that
have already begun to form the noble
keynote to the Belgian character. Re.
member this, my children, says the
little priest, seul lie silence est grand :
la reste est faiblesse. (Only silence
Is great; the rest Is weakness.)
Antwerp at last. and the first we
see OF II Ia n. bewildering mass OF
taXicabs arrayed In the middle OF wide,
green fields at the city's outskirts, for
so 80 INV hlDNbI tuIS HuNb DttU
Communicated by the government at
Antwerp. Near the taxis Is a field OF
flying machines. ~biplanes, monoplanes
airships, a magnificent array OF air
craft. with the sunlight glittering over
them like silver. The Zeppelin caught
them the other night. They
will never be caught like that again
In the field there goes on a ceaseless
ectiyity-they are always ready now
and always getting still more ready
Not Easy to Enter Antwerp.
Antwerp station is the second larg
est In the world and In these days Il
has need TO be big. The crowds thai
pour out OF the trains here are ap
palling, All the world seems TO b'
coming to Antwerp, Soldiers are ev
srywhere. armed to the hllt, and sterI