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WAR AND THE ORDINARY

PEOPLE

A Memory Of The Siege Of Antwerp-October, 1914

In this brief Armistice Day arti-, hastily packing what they could cle I want to suggest what | in a cart drawn by two oxen, .. the impact of war upon civil fe "Take what you like," he said implies quite apart from actual as they drove of "Don't let fighting or. even contact with the Germans have it” g enemy troops. My brief expert- i... There was a butcher in our com- ence I left England on October i pany, so three or four pigs were 4th, 1914 and by October 11th I killed, and we ate the best parts. was, an interned prisoner-was long A feast we had that night, from enough to show a densely popu- the great store of fruits bottled lated countryside suddenly plung- for the winter, from jars of cream, ed into war. The men who went and rosy apples trom the loft. We through 1914-1918 mostly arrived were hungry and ate well, but a at the Front when the military } guard' was set over the home made machine had long been in control wine.

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hair carrying my company com- mander through the night. He was a bon viveur, If ever there was one, but an attack of rheumatism had found him out. We Joined up with a large body of "our men, but the two of us straggled again. We were in luck's way, i for the party was captured, and the senior officer shot for twice attempting to escape,

Just beyond Beveren, a quaint little town whose market square was a seething mass of refugees, we left the main body of fugi- tives, taking the road to Bt Nicholas where again we were told, our unit was concentrating.

and civilian life had somehow | Antwerp was bombarded that adapted itself to the new exist night and in the early news we erice.

nad orders to retreat" We were At the siege of Antwerp, how raw troops, rushed out half-train- The way lay along an intermin- ever, I was thrown into a land ed. I was in a small party that able avenue of Spanish chestnuts confused, bewildered and dumbly straggled and lost the battalion and limes, with big country houses terrified. Except that the streets We skirted the suburbs of Anton either side. shuttered and were strangely quiet for so large a werp and arrived at the docks soon deserted. At the gate of one, á town there, was little outward sign after dawn We crossed the slip of a girl stood and owered us on the day of our arrival that the Scheldt in a barge under brik cigarettes and asked for news. place was closely invested, its out- are from a Belgian rumboat who for news er forts fallen, and the enemy took us for the enemy. Over the likely to enter 'at any time. Since other side we were esaght up in much of Antwerp was "old world," the great exodus towards the| its quiet was more that of a cathe-Dutch border. We had no maps, dral city theri the dislocation of but someone told us that our main for news, and invited us to his I body was just ahead, and another house. We were dead beat by

war,

THOSE WHO STAYED

came up." and again

At St. Nicholas an old "fellow.

asked ·បង

REMEMBRANCE DAY

NOVEMBER 11th-

said that there was a rallway, and, then, with blistered feet, and his trains ready to take us to Ostend-wife-and daughter brought us standing at their garden gate with relief, a change

A couple of old spinsters were water, and ointment, and, blessed

of socks.

have them

REFUGEES

He

Leaving the town we marched by a cobbled road towards Lier. It was brillant sunshire, like No- vember in Hongkong, the trees and the fields green and gold. The

a washing basket full of apples.telephoned to the station-the last, great limes that had overspread Take them," they were shouting, train had left for Ostend an hour the road were all felled and the "We don't want the Germans to ago, the Germans were cutting trunks lay, like dead men, their

the line the rest of our unit were limbs lopped, so as to give no clear

retreating to the Dutch border. mark of the road to the enemy's "artillery. How splendidly that

He rang up again. They say avenue must stood, a great battle-

there's a train leaving in a hour ment of green in the flat country Further along the crowd of re-Again he phoned two hours

you'll have time for a meal on either side. We halted near fugees grew greater, an endless they say." He kept on phoning some entrenchments that cut stream of shabby humanity, carta all of through an orchard. Here again alled with rickety furniture, and sound in the street.

them started at every only the reddish stumps of the dirty bundles of clothes, Old men apple trees were visible. Every and old crones, mute and impas started to firt with our host's My company commander had tree had been cut down and some sive encumbrances to the fight, daughter a pretty blonde. Then of the wood used to roof and sat on carts and in wheel barrows. he tried to persuade them to leave camouflage the dug-outs. We en- Babies were crying, chlidren, some with us for Holland, trenched in a turnip field. The scared, some silll in a plenie spirit, sun, now low in the sky, lit the were burdened, with packages and green tops to an emerald inten- helping to drag the carts. All the Bity but the turnips were a great privacies of home were dragged in- puisance in digging some sort of to the road. Life with its un- cover, Hardly had we finished dignified Intimacies had to go on then we retreated, through the in this interminable caravan with- darkening countryside, it here out rules or a master. Here was and there by blasing farms. something outside of time the Our next billet was a line of Trojan women in captivity the trenches through a field of sugar -Jews on the road to Babylon, the beet, ready like the turnips for fugitives from the wrath of all the harvesting, but sorry enough stud splendid conquerors or story for entrenching The place bad from Bennacheriusto our own day been well prepared and for two Here There parties had hundred yards, ahead the ground blvoucked Belas and were pre- or officers billeted here One. was paced with pits, each set Paring for

ey onwards elderly, one young, and a lawyer with a stout wooden spike--a nasty to the Dutch front to safety in civil life. They are let us be trap for on-driven infantry.

from the enemy, even if There was an old farmhouse but a few. atlcks and ra Just behind us where the elderly handful of coins rem Flemish, owner and his wife were vide for to-morrow. I had been from

"No," said our host, he could always get over the frontier if he wanted

"But your wife and daughter man you're not keeping them here?"

"They won't go." frontier, and crossing the Dutch We did Joining our unit on the border with them.

friends at St. Nicholas. The Later we had a letter from our German Army of occupation has behaved with every, consideration at Antwerp. We have a couple

hing fair to them, nice fellows indeed,

abut times, are yarra hardi

to pro-That was the first

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