o loud laughter.

Hour after hour, hour after hour, the Kaiser's legions marched into
Brussels streets and boulevards. Some regiments made a very fine
appearance, and it is well that the people of England should know this.
It was notably so in the case of the Sixty-sixth, Fourth and
Twenty-sixth Regiments. Not one man of these regiments showed any sign
of excessive fatigue after the gruelling night of marching, and no doubt
the order to "goose step" was designedly given to impress the onlookers
with the powers of resistance of the German soldiers.

[Illustration: The First Rush Into Belgium.]

The railway stations, the Post Office and the Town Hall were at once
closed. The national flag on the latter was pulled down and the German
emblem hoisted in its place. Practically all the shops were closed and
the blinds drawn on most of the windows.

At the time of writing I have heard of no very untoward incident. The
last train left Brussels at 9 o'clock on Wednesday night. Passengers to
the city cannot pass beyond Denderleeuw, where there are strong German
pickets.

*The Fall of Antwerp*

*By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle, Who Was at Antwerp
During the Siege.*

[Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK TIMES.]

LONDON, Oct. 11.--A Daily Chronicle correspondent who has just arrived
from Antwerp tells the following story of his experiences:

Antwerp has been surrendered. This last and bitterest blow which has
fallen upon Belgium is full of poignant tragedy, but the tragedy is
lightened by the gallantry with which the city was defended.

Only at the last, to save the historic buildings and precious
possessions of the ancient port, was its further defense abandoned.
Already much of it had been shattered by the long-range German guns, and
prolonged resistance against these tremendous engines of war was
impossible.

Owing to this the siege was perhaps the shortest in the annals of war
that a fortified city ever sustained. I have already described its
preliminaries and the many heroic efforts which were made by the
Belgians to stem the tide of the enemy's advance, but the end could not
long be delayed when the siege guns began the bombardment.

It was at three minutes past noon on Friday that the Germans entered the
city, which was formally surrendered by the Burgomaster, J. de Vos.
Antwerp had then been under a devastating and continuous shell fire for
over forty hours.

It was difficult for me to a