New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-12
HOLLAND OPENS HOMES
TO BELGIAN REFUGEES
Dutch Soldiers as Active as Civilians IN Dong
Everything Possible to Help the thousands
Pouring Over the Border.

the war: TO private homes thrown open
70 the homeless and TO hotels that lake
them in for the most trivial sums y
they offer to pay and for nothing II
they have no money.
Parted Couple Reunited.
On one lorry woman suddenly
threw up her arms. uttered cry ana
waved her hand to group on another
lorry. She was too overcome to speak,
but on the other lorry man heard her
cry. looked across and burst into tears:
They were husband and wife, and had
seen nothing of each other since they
left Antwerp. The soldiers stopped
the lorries, helped husband and wife
down. and quietly turned their backs
while the happy couple embraced and
kissed and laughed and cried.
What a library Of tears II would
make if one could write all the sepa-
rate and overwhelming tragedies that
every one Of these tens of thousands
represents,
A young mother. who was hunting
through every shelter in Amsterdam
after vain searches in Rosendaal and
Rotterdam, FOR two OF her children
thcv dead"" One could only tell her
tDdl II IutN were III ilblIdIb NV =
receiving all tenderness and care. Du-~
inC their Eight from Antwerp this
woman's husband fell dead at her side
under SCATTERING fragments Of German
shells, and all that is left 70 her 20
take her out Of the past into the future
is her third child, tiny bundle o.
babv's clothes. and her memories.
The feeling of terror is still wide
spread on the frontier In the early
hours OF yesterday rumor ran
around Eschen, on the Belgian side OF
the boundary a little south OF Rosen-
daal. that the Germans were coming.
Panic set in among the thousands or
refugees and there was stampede,
the alarm being quelled onl y by the
parish priest, who assembled the church
tower. scanned the countryside, and
assured the people that no troops were
i'm sight.
Motors from Rosendssl arc securing
the countryside as far south toward
Antwerp as possible, picking up sick
and aged stragglers. But running
through all the sorrow like a splendid
thread Of gold is the unWearied kind
ues, OF the Dutch. A nation is help
ing nation.
Roads Blocked by Refugees.
The Roscudasl correspondent OF
The Telegraph" telegrsphs:
81 have Just driven as near Antwerp
as possible. This is not easy, with
roads blocked with streams o. ref
ugees. South of Eschen the numbers
decreased. From Bergen 0p zoom |
learn there are about $4,000 refugees
IN that town. The situation is des-
nerste. owing TO lack Of food, and doc
TORS fear that the concentration OF so
many people where insufficient accom-
mediation IS available may cause un-
sanitary conditions and bring about an
outbreak Of disease.
There are still thousands o. refu-
gees at Flushing. special tram is
taking as many as possible 10 NORTH
POLAND The Belgian steamer Euph-
rates left with hundreds Of refugees
this afternoon for Bruges.
The "Niews van den Dag SAYS:
yesterday afternoon two German
officers arrived at Putten IN a motor
Nvino white flags and, calling on the
commsrder Of the Dutch frontier
troons. told him that Antwerp was IN
the nossession Of Germans and asked
him 10 urge the Belgian refugees to
return 10 their homes. Thousands I'M
rediatelv began 10 do so.
when the Germans entered Ant
wern thew told the few citizens still in
tho town 10 warn all refugees TO re
turn within two days. Otherwise their
houses would be used for billeting
troops and the furniture would be
taken from them.