The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-09-17
HOW FORCES OF THE KAISER
TOOK POSSESSION OF BRUSSELS

Chicago The Tribune prints IN"
following special cable from brusselS
via London.
Yielding 10 the dictates Of reason
and humanity. the civil government at
the last mn disbanded the civil
guard. which the Germans would not
recognize. The soldiers and ordinary
police were then ]intrusted with the
maintenance OF order.
After a day ~ Wild panic and SUM
berless nights the citizens remained
at their windows. Few sought thelr
Couches
Cry Here They Come"
The morning broke brilliantly. The
city was astir early and on all lips
were the words. They are here or
They are coming
The they" referred to were al
ready outside the boundaries Of the
city In proat force The artillery was
packed oG on the road 10 Waterloo
Horse. foot. and sappor were packed
deep or the Louyaln and Tervcryuc'
ren roads.
An entorprising motorist came IN
with the information and the crowds
IN the busy centors Immediately be-
came calm.
Bureomaster Gives Up.
At eleven o'clock it was reported
that an officer with n half n troop Of
hussars hearing white flags had halt.
ed outside the Louyain gate.
The burromastor claimed for the
citizens their rights under tn laws
Of val regulating an unfortiiled CAPT
tai. When roughly asked II he was
prepared to surrender the city, with
the threat that otherwise II would be
bombarded. the burGomaster said he
would do so. He also decided To TO-
his scarf Of Office.
The discussion was brief. When
the burgomastor handed over his scarf
Il was handed back 10 him and he
was thus entrusted for the time being
with the civil control Of the citizens
Tho Germans gave him plainly 10 un.
derstand that he would be held re-.
sponsiblo for any overt act on the
part Of tho populace against the Ger.
nan
Triumphant March Begins.
From noon until two O'Clock the
crowds waited oxpectantly. Shortly
after two o'clock the booming ~ can.
non and later the sound 81 military
music conveyed to the people Of Hrus.
sells the intimation that the triumph.
Client city had begun.
On they came preceded by n scout.
ing party of uhlans. horse, foot, and
artillery and sappers. with a siege
train complete.
\ special feature OF the procession
was 100 motor cars on which quick
lrers were mounted. Every regiment
and battery was headed by n band,
horse or foot. Now came the drums
and hfce; now the blare OF brass and
soldiers singing Die Wacht am Rhein"
and deutschland ubor Allies"
Death Head Hussars There.
Along Chausee de LouvaIn, past 81.
jesse and the botanical gardens. 10
tho open space In 'front.' Of the Care du
Nord, the usual %loungiug place Of the
tired ]twaddlcrs Of the city, swept the
lcgions.
Among tho cavalry were the famous
Bruuswick Deaths Head llus-ars and
their companions on many bloody
fields, the Zcitcn hussars. But where
tn" glorious garb Of the German
troops, the chcrry.colored uniforms Of
the horscmcn, and the blue Of the ~.
iantry? All is rrccuish, earth color
gray All the helmets are covered with
gray. The guns are painted gray.
Even ih" poutoon bridges are gray.
TO the qlickstcp beat of the drums
the kaiser's men march to the great
square, Charles Regior. Then AT the
whistling sound Of the word OF ON.
mand-ior the sonorous orders OF the
Herman officers seemed to have gone
the way OF the brilliant uniforms-'he
gray'clad ranks broke into the famous
goose step. while the good people OF
Liegc and brussels gazed at the pass.
Ing wonder with mouths agape.
Crowds Want Revenge.
At the railroad station the great
procession defled to the boulevards
and thence marched to encamp on the
heights Of the city called Kochelberg.
II was truly a sight To have g~laddcncd
the eyes Of the kaiser, but on The side.
walks men were muttering beneath
their breath:
They'll not pass here on their way
back. The allies will do for them"
Many Of the younger men in the
great array seemed exhausted after
the long forced march. but as n man
staggered his comrades In the ranks
held him up.
II was n great spectacle and an i'm,
pressive one, but there are minor Incl.
dents that were OF a less pleasant char,
Rcter.
officers In Shackles.
Two Belgian officers, manacled and
fastened to the leather stlrrups of two
uhlane, made a spectacle that caused