EXODUS FROM OSTEND.
PLIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES. SOME PITIABLE SCENEkS. (Received October 16, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. A further eight thousand Ostend refugees have lauded at Folkestone, many of them being in a starving condition and half clad. Thirty thousand camped out on the Ostend docks on Tuesday night and eight thousand at the central railway station, including a thousand wounded. There were frantic rushes , on 1 Wednesday for the boats going to England and there were pitiful'scenes as the last boat left, fifteen thousand remaining" on the pier. Over 150 fishermen's wives and children crossed to England in open boats and fishing smacks.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 216, 16 October 1914, Page 7
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105EXODUS FROM OSTEND. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 216, 16 October 1914, Page 7
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