New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-22
antwerp FILM
SAVES CATHEDRAL
o;eture Shows Belgians
Using Spire as Obser-
walton Tower.
DEFENDERS FIND IT
IS TO BE PRINTED
..umauder Then Removes the
lookout and Asks Germans
TO Spare the Edifice.
,osrpE MEDILL PATTERSON.

. JosEPB MEDILL PATTERSON,
,.,vrish,. 1914 by }. NJ Pattcrsonl
-, Oct. 9.-This Ia tho story OF
"a The most important photographs
~ tsken. the one reproduced on this
c The photograph saved the beauti-
tgcs.hedrsl Of Our Lady in Antwerp
W destruction by German shells
IT, photograph was taken by h. f.
N Ns,sie took all the Introductory
80 what they call in the cine
( Es.srranh business atmosphere
ss While waiting about for a fight
'N.r II was general gossip in Ant
that a machine gun was mounted
80. AZ the top Of the cathedral to
~ ~ AZ German Zeppelins. If this was
sV end the Germans should after
~; Sestroy the cathedral by shell
s'. ,bsv would have some excuse. II
!. S1.snt true. they wouldn't have any
.,srse. II even most beautiful ca
80 mounts machine gun IN its
'.;rs the enemy has a right to fire
o-e could sec soldiers in the spire
- glass but not the gun. So, after
~ S4iculty and mannuvring, we
...r,eed actually 20 get up into the
- and sec. In doing so. there was
ss.s,.sin risk that we should lose
.,-.tbinc. because not even Belgian
s0. 'oScers we're allowed in the ca
a.,-si SHIRE without special permits
- n was a combination Of the right
De right officer. luck and brass"
Is rot Us NJ there.
Saves the Cathedral.
o,,s there, Weigle took pictures,
LII still and moving. The still picture
. 80 on this page. the picture that
.Ii,,s the cathedral. The moving pict-
.,ss viii be shown later throughout
Ie United States.
This still picture proves that the
p.lyisn military arm was using the
,,.Esdral as a post for military OBJ
,s,y,,ion. The four soldiers shown
we're an attached 70 the Belgian avia-
ian ,orps. The small man in the rear
!. CORPORAL Aviator Louis Cosyus; the
,,n man. with the long telescope, is
Leo, Gerarot. private Of the aviation
,orns. ! don't know the names of the
ether two
Tho use Of the spire for observation
would lsy il open TO attack by German
An, Observation of the enemy's move
wsrts is one OF the most important
,srsitions OF success in battle.
4 few days afterward came the fight
inr Weigle bad been waiting for, and
Is got some good action pictures.
wrote and eabled about the two days
We we're under fire. The third day we
los, our car. and on the fourth We ne
rouste3 frutlessly for another. On the
fftb Z Alexander Powell took US out
In his car 10 see the bombardment of
tbs fors Al times we saw as many as
zen shells exploding at once.
We also saw a little boy OF five who
bad jus, been killed by shrapnel. His
sister Of three was slightly wounded,
end the mother had brought the two
ron the FIRE zone, about half a mile
avsy. IN the same wheelbsrrow. The
cad boy and wounded girl were still
n he vheelbarrow when we saw them.
It vas the only home that family had
lsft
Placed Under Arrest.
Iis following day we were about to
s.sr again 10 the front, when a Bel
gar staf officer came up furiously and
Ilsied Weigle and myself. II seems
its an article 7 had written after leav-
.ag Germany, in which l doubted the
lruih Of the atrocity stories, had been
lsleyrsphed back 70 The London
lines" thence copied and translated
mo an Antwerp paper.
In the state of mind Of Antwerp, TO
;sgb; that any German could ever fail
% Do the most depraved thing conceiv-
isle was to pronounce ones self a Ger
nan sympathiZer, perhaps q spy. any
rsJ. Weigle and J were arrested-not
cent 10 jail. but 70 a hotel under sur
rsillsnee. Our passes and permits to
Eke pictures were conflscated.
Captain Briggs OF our army had had
he misfortune 70 meet us that morn
irg IN the American Consulate, and be
urss he happened to be standing. by
or automobile chatting with us when
u we're "vaeccd,' he fell also under
ngieion.
Gossip few around the city that We,
VIC had been running about every
Were with a movie camera for the
ishest Of the Red Cross. As we always
cplained, were really German spies.
V heard enough threats and saw ugly
cough looks on the streets to make
e feel like staying in the hotel or the
American Consulate.
The next day, chiefly. | think, be-
suse they knew US, Alexander Powell
nd Donald Thompson, of "The New