The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 31, 1918, Image 8
GERMANS LOATHED |
AS PETTY ROBBERS
Soldiers took Their Loot Right j
and Left at the Pistol
Point.
FEARING ATTACK FROM SEA
LEFT OSTEND FOR A TIME
Residents there Parade Streets
by Night, Celebrating their
Regained Freedom
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The rejoicing of the people in deliberated
districts of Belgium cu-l
tiivues to heighten as further districts
are freed, according to Perry Rob nson,
the Daily News crorespor. lent on
the Inlanders front. He writes
"Having reached Ostenl y. . ,;-r 'a\
noon, I returned by way of B.ugeand
Thourout. so mak ng a v.r\ extensive
tour of the parts of B Ig'um
recently under (icrman rule. What 1
think impresses me more than any
thing else is the extrao. dip.ary ski!
with which the ticrmans have got >
themselves hated by every on \
"The in iividual German is lot.tin d
by the people of all classe.-. Br. t
bully, thief, bandit ami brigand atterms
1 beard everywh re ap die i '
officers even more than to the men,
and their manners, unehan lives ami
lvinf tono-iie-; Ivivi'. i-nvnllii l wli.i
population. 'Los .-ales Bccho. ' h came
so famiah on the lips at" tin
people that it almost ha.- g> wn into
a single word, and proper.
Belgians aie i r.:iiea
"The ill beiuo iour the G< mans
has enormously consolidated the Belgian
people. Common sulluring and
common attachment to their King
would have done this in any case
but the Germans have done every- j
thing possible to play on the prejudices
of the different classes of the
people.
"That the Germans favored it was
enough to damn any cause, and so
badly has Germany played her cards
that instead of causing disruption
among the Belgian people, that people's
will never has been so completely
unified.
"'We have lived the life of slaves.'
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i nave- uvmu wiul purase a score o
times in the last few days and it
will take a long time for the people
to forget or forgive.
"A curious evidence of the German
fear of us is that on the eve of the
Allied attack of Oct. 14 an unreasonable
panic set in among their Generals
both in Ostend and Bruges at
the rumor that the English were
about to attack from the sea. Every
German actually fled from Ostend.
For two days the city was free. Then
the Germans, recovering, began leaking
back again, and it is patheti:* to
hear the people describe how their
hopes died within them.
Germans in a Panic.
"Bruges one would think was far
enough from the coast to have been
free from the influence of the panic,
but there too, while loss violent, itechoes
were felt. All the G( rman
civilians and most of the officials
fled from Bruges in precipitate haste
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arm disorder. Actum lighting troops
remained, and those left finally y? sterday
morning.
"Ostend is not seriously damaged.
The people are inclined to think it is,
but they have no standards such as
others have for measuring what the
destruction of a city means in this
war. Th earea of the station, harbor
and docks and that part of the front
where the big guns were, and where
some still remain embedded deep in
their concrete emplacements, show
abundant evidences of the excellnot
markmanship of both our airmen and
the gunners on our ships.
"But so true their aim has been
that the hulk of the city is untouched.
All along the front where so many
hotels are located, from th estation to
near the Casino, most of the windows
are broken and many buildings slo\
some damage. At first glance Oaten*
from the seaward appears to hav
been roughly handled. but behin
that the damage done is very small
and Ostcnd can soon be as gay a?
ever, if she will.
"She was gay enough last night
One of the last acts of the German.before
retiring, as in other cities, was
to sever the connections of gas, elec
trie light arid water service, so Os.
tend is without light , except fo<
lamps and candles, and with cnl>
rainwater for domestic use or in case
of fire. Last evening it rained inces
santly, but in spite of this and th(
darkness crowds with improv'set
bands swept up and down the chill
thoroughfares all night, singing the
Belgian national anthem and the
'Marseillaise.'
"In Bruges on Friday niyht all civilians
were toM to stay wtihin doors
until 11 o'clock next day. The order
was obeyed, and it gave the German
soldiery the finest opportunity they
had had for looting. A ring or knock
would bo heard at the door of a shop
or house. On the door being opene I
two or three German soldiers were
within with pistols ready. At one
private house the owner opened the
door anil was met with a demand for
i hirts. Ho said he had no shirt but
that he wore and those at the laundry.
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Germans Are Bobbers.
"'What time is it?' asked one of
the soldiers. The man took out hisjl
watch ar.d immediately they demand-||
ci the watch and then ordered him t >
take them into his house and Rive 1
'hem any other watches and jewe'ry
j he had. They carried off three time - j
pieces and some rings.
"At various shops I heard similar1
j stories of men coming and ringing at !
the doo;, and then, while flourishing!
I revolve r. Idling their pockets wife, i
whatever caught their fancy. ^
course, th.ere lias been in these tow
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j:he same ce,minus.us thieving as at
Lille and elscwhere?t.lie same abuse
'roeuL ition" ami the same terrori
"In Ostend all empty houses wore
.-dripped clean of everything. us weir j
; also the great hotels. These last fur-jg
! nishod rich hauls of 'requissitioned' j E
i good s The kitchen battery of a big
note 1 ha; about ten coppers on an
average, wkich, of course, are all
gene, also all mattresses and wooh
goods all vaken under formal requ;-j
it ion.
House?' Stripped of Contents. "
"Then every day s(ddiers came in ?
and toe!; on thing after another, jj
The guardian of ore In tel told m j|
. 11' \i iiiiii1 i\ 11 .1 .->i >.r\M i.iiu veil - |
i,; <i off tiling's th:? were portable an j
finally removed all the furnitur
either to be sent to Germany or sole'
or used to furnish dug-outs. t
"One of the worst outrages was at
Bruges where, just before leaving
11he Germans deliberately blew up
; ml utterly destroped the great Compagnie
Brugeoise, with a plant of an
estimated value of $5,000,000. Before
the war it was a wagon factory, but
bad been adapted by the Germans to
make munitions. Without warning,
j squads of engineers came, under officers,
and laid mines and nests of
bombs, and wrecked the place.
"As at Ostend and elsewhere, all
empty houses in Bruges had been
stripped of their contents, and the
Germans had even put the houses
themselves to their own use."
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750 Bags Best Fish Scrap
>00 Tons C. S. 7 p. c. Meal
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! 2150 Bu. Fulgrum Seed Oats j
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2000 Bti Red R. P. Oats
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1100 Bales Good Hay
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650 Bags Wheat Shorts
100 Bags Nice Rice
165 Bbls. Flour in wood. In
stock, too, we have 50 tons
grain guano. Buy fish scrap
now. We have the goods
right here in Mullins.
I PALMETTO GRO. CO.
"COOPER"
A. report from Hcmmingway in
vioorgetown county last week was to
.he effect that the little town had
1000 eases of "Flu" and all doctors
except one in bed.
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REGISTRATION FOR TOWN
KLKtllUIN.
The book of registration for the
general town election on Dec. '10,
' 1918, for the election of Mayor and
> six Wardens is hereby ordered open
- from Sept. 4 to Dec. 3, 1918, and Mr.
* L. H. Burroughs appointed as Super1
vi?or of Registration for same,
r C. H. Snider, J. A. McDermott,
Clerk. Mayoi\10 3|18?3t.
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CALL IS DEFERRED
TILL NOVEMBER 4TH
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Fifty-three registrants were notified
about the middle of October to
appear in Conway on October 21st for
mtrainment for Fort Moulrtic on Ociober
22nd. Before October 21st had
irrived the epidemic of Influenza
bioke out in Horry County, and all
over the State as to that matter, and
on that account the call was deferred
until October 80th, and this list was
published several weeks ago and directed
to appear in Conway on October
29th to leave for Fort MouUrie
on October 30th.
The matter stood thus until last
Saturday the Local Board received
still further orders whereby this call
has been again deferred so that the
following list of the same fifty-three
men have been notified to appear here
on November 4th, and will entrain for
Fort Moultrie early the next morning,
November 5th, 1918:
James Wesley Collins
Laris Gradon Chestnut
Daniel Gary Long
Joseph Rabon
R. Ervin Hardee
Hallie Causey
Vance Elliott
Floyd Worley
Calvin Allen
John W. Mi shoe
Putty Tompkins
Alva Harvey Bell
William Bargessor
Richard Jordan
Emory Decarroll Bellamy
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Harvey Hamilton Mishoe
J. Bert Graham
Monroe Culbert Blackwell
George Kelly Anderson
Herbert G. Harrelson
Blakely Latronie Soles
Louis Henry Hewitt
Frank Johnson
Oscar Clemmons
Armagie Worth Hardee
James Graham
William Hal King
Willie D. Moore
Archie Maston Gasque
Hope Turner
Daniel Emory Martin
Crissie Hartford Larrimore
Wait us Herbert Todd
Grover Harrelson
Cromwell Stroud
Levi J. Watts
George Herman Cartright
William Ashburn Hardee
Thurman Johnson
Mack Causey
George Melton Suggs
Porter Stanley Hooks
Manly Parnice Bordeaux
Grier C. Wade
John Bunyan Capps
Oliver Grainger
Gaston Hardee
Gary Rabon
William Frederick Stanley
William Wright Johnson
Sam Preston Graham
Olin Benj. Moore
I. Bert Sai-vis
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Because of its tor.ic and laxative effect. LAXATIVE
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hirtwaists. Come in and see
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The senate has refused to grant
the request of the president that the
woman suffrage resolution be passed
as a war measure.
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