BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 21 October 1914, Page 8

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

ANTWERP'S CONDirrON

SHOPS CLOSED AND HOUSES DESERTED.

HEROIC CONDUCT OF ATRSES

r BY CABLE—PEBSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Oct. 21, II .30 a.'*.} ; _ London; c<t. 20. Practically all the »hops in Ai twerp remain closed, and nine-tenths-'of the houses appear deserter!. rl he t;ity is practically without water and the tramways have been 'suspended. The debris -from the fire and bombardment is rapidly being ' cleared away,, but dens© ■smoke still rises from/the burning petrol tanks. M: Destruction .by the boin">avfl/ri€.nt was comparatively. slight, and the im- ; portant buildings were practically f.nhanned. ■..;'.- English and Belgian nurses, worked heroically in removing wounded fn-m ;: the hospitals, and amid burning houses -. : :jand bursting; shells, remained to attend 'those whom they could not move and ■solaoed the dying in crowded cellars.