BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 17 October 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

PITIFUL SCENES AT OSTEND.

FRANTIC RUSHES FOR BOATS TO BRITAIN. TREACHEROUS SCOUT SHOT. London, October 10. A further eight thousand Ostend refugees have landed at Folkestone. Many are starving and only half-clad. Thirty thousand' camped out at the Ostend docks on Tuesday night, and eight thousand at the central railway station, including a thousand wounded. There : were frantic rushes for the Wednesday [boats going to England, and pitiful scenes as the last boat left 15,000 remaining on the pier. One hundred and fifty fishermen's- wives and children (crossed to England in open boats and fishing-smacks.

While the Naval Brigade was marching from Antwerp an officer discovered that a scout was leading them into', the German positions. The scout was shot dead.

The Express states that Mr Arthur Asquith, the Premier's son, accompanied the Naval Brigade, and fought in- the Antwerp trenches.

BELGIANS THINK OP HOME. Received 16, 11.5 p.m. Amsterdam, October 15. Belgian refuses at Rotterdam elected a committee to proceed to Antwerp to consider the possibility of repatriation. GERMAN ARMY IN GHENT. ~~ Amsterdam; October 15. Thero are 50,000 Germans in Ghent. They are friendly towards the population, and are buying their supplies. Heavy guns are passing towards Bru- .** ._ .-^Sto '