A DEAD CITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 7

A DEAD CITY.

POPULATION OF SIX WHERE ONCE WERE 60,000. Amsterdam, November 16.. There were GO,OOO inhabitants at Malines when the war broke out. "To-day," writes a correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatl," "there arc not six Belgians all told in the place. He explored it conscientiously for over three hours, and only came across three women and a couple of men. A German soldier on duty told him that there were only fourteen inhabitants registered as still living in the town, and half of them had since left. The correspondent concludes, in summing up his impressions:—"The emptiness and desolation weigh so terribly upon one that it is difficult to breathe properly, and a mad desire to flee and escape comes over one, while one's thoughts go back to the strange tales told by history of cities uncle, a spell, shunned and deserted by everyone."