Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 52, 17 October 1914, Page 5

Belgium

BELGIAN’S DISTRESS. “WHAT IN COD’S NAME ARE WE TO LOOK FORWARD TO?” Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 16. Terrible stories are being told of the agony of the people who were flung out of Belgium. Many are wandering aimlessly and are destined to live on charity till the end of the war., A citizen of Bruges said: “What in God s name are we to look forward to at the end of the war ? The cities are smoking ruins, and all the peasants will have to start life again elsewhere. Our country is wiped out! We no longer exist!” THE RETREAT OF THE NAVAL BRIGADES. i United Press Association. Amsterdam, October 15. When the retreat from Antwerp was ordered the first naval brigade was in the rearguard. The Germans hotly pursued them, hut the brigade held them back. They found, after 20 hours’ march, that their retreat was cut off. The railway in front was then blown up, and, though staggering under exhaustion, the brigade would have cut its way to Ghent, which would have meant annihiation. They obeyed orders, and crossed the border.