page_title: October 1914
section_title: October 9, 1914 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1914 / October 9, 1914 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Oorlogschade na de verovering van Antwerpen door de duitsers
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1914:
context_section_description: Siege of Antwerp — Finding no resistance from the defending fortresses around Antwerp, German commanding officer Hans Hartwig von Beseler ceased bombardment and called on Belgian General Victor Deguise to surrender. However, four civilian representatives, including the Mayor of Antwerp Jan De Vos, met with Beseler beforehand to request an end to the bombardment of the city and signed a capitulation. The document forced Deguise to accept the terms a day later and surrender along with 30,000 Allied troops. German troops occupied the city until the end of World War I.
  Battle of the Vistula River —  German forces arrived at Vistula River but found little resistance on the river's west bank. General Nikolai Ruzsky, commander of the Russian Northwest Front, sent troops from Warsaw to attack the German's left flank, but the Germans knew of the army's strength from orders found on the body of a Russian officer. They knew three Russian armies would concentrate against the German Ninth Army to relieve pressure on the Austro-Hungarian line in the south.
  A German airplane appeared over Lille, France and dropped two bombs on the city's post office. By the afternoon, all men of fighting age were ordered to leave Lille immediately, while civilians in the surrounding towns and villages were evacuated.
  The IV Corps of the British Army was established, with John French in command.
  The Torrens Island Concentration Camp opened on Torrens Island south of Adelaide, Australia to house 400 German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war.
  The Orpheum Theatre opened in Champaign, Illinois as a live vaudeville theater. It now the site of the Orpheum Children's Science Museum.
  Born: Joseph L. Melnick, American medical scientist, lead breakthrough research in how polio was spread, in Boston (d. 2001)
  Died: Dumitru C. Moruzi, Romanian writer, member of the Sămănătorul group (b. 1850)
caption: Bomb damage in Antwerp.
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