The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-10-26
BY n. y. PHILLIPS


was practically on AntWerp's
five-yard line when the Germans
were within striking distance of
the goal.
And. being unlike most war
correspondents who. l understand
write home about the deliFious
pastiming they find in lodging
bullets. 1 retreated. can't
dodge them very well-YETi
have walked home at mid
night in Chieago-but 17-inch
shells and bombs from the sky,
well, that's something else again.
know all about the bombs
from the sky-the 17-ineh shells
l don't want to know about.
But of the two | would prefer
the shells. From the stories
heard among the refugees, with
whom | travelled to Ostend, there
Is nothing more terrifying. moth
ing more horrible, than a Zeppe-
lin attack upon a sleeping city.
Babies blown TO atoms while
they slept at their mothers side.
little children's faces torn off and
they live I'm awful agony. blasted
roofs falling and crushing on
smOthering whole families-those
are only a few of the revolving
results that follow night attacks
from above.
NON-COMBATANTS
ALONE KILLED
That's what Antwerp suffered
while besieged. And from what l
oan learn not a soldier was killed
by the air fleets. Non-combatants
alone fell. Half-starved and ter
rorized men, women and children
were the victims. The nearest
approach to the military who we're
killed were two civil guards-ac-
knowledged non-combatants -
who were buried under a falling
house
BELGIUM Is PAYING
AN AWFUL TOLL!
was perhaps rs or 80 miles
from Antwerp when ! came upon
the fleeing bands of refugees from
that city. Always in this country
refugees are the same. Merchant
or peasant they come slowly along
the road I'm quaint and dilap-
adated carts drawn by horses one
would swear were resurrected
from the soap factories for the
occasion.
With the two boy scouts, sep
arated from family and friends,
I had met along the road-all of
us on bicycles-we came upon
this odd parade.
We turned about and kept
abreast of the leader of the pro-
cession, a simple thing as the
carts ambled along at only two or
three miles and hour. Alongside
the horse drawing the first cart
trudged a thin, stoop-shouldered
and middle-aged school master.
not unlike the kind we carieature
in the United States. In the We
hicle were his wife and aged
mother. One of the family was
missing.
LITTLE DAUGHTER
SLAIN by BOMB.
Their little daughter who had
come to them late I'm life was
killed by a bomb as she slept on
the second floor of their little
cottage. The schoOImaster and
his wife i'm another room escaped
with merely splinter bruises.
They buried her as best they
could, wrapped i'm blankets and
rugs, i'm their own flower garden!
From this calm and silent
scholar / learned, not without diff
ficulty, as he spoke reluctantly,
of the horrors the people of Ant
werp went through. The Black
Hole OF Calcutta may still pro-
duce a gasp whenever mentioned.
but for pure ferocity the siege of
Antwerp rivals anything the HIM
docs or Mongolians ever exhib-
ited.
cannot repeat all I have heard.
II is too terrible. Peculiarly ev-
cry one in our caravan had suf-
fered a bereavement. Half of my
money / divided among the poor
Mretches.
Before even a fortified town
can be bombarded, the rules of
war provide for twenty-four
hours notice before the COM
mencement of actual lombard
ment But they aren't carrying
on this war according to Hoyle.
From the sehoolmaster | learn
ed this much:
"Piloted by German who
knew the city we'll, a huge air
ship had for it's objective the
Palais du. Roi, where the queen
of Belgium, the little princes and
Princess Marie-Jose lay sleeping.
The raid proved a complete and
utter failure as far as trapping
the royal family was concerned.
However, seven innocent persons
we're killed and some twenty 9TH
ers wounded.