I belonged to a Company of the Fortress Grenadiers' Regiment. We occupied the interval4 between the Kessel and Broechem Forts when, on the 4th of October, 1914, the bombardment commenced. The Germans began with shrapnels for regulating their firing, and then, at intervals5 from five to ten minutes, they sent their shells on to Broechem. According to whether the projectile6 fell into the sand, into the moat, or on to the cement, a yellow, black, or white sheaf rose ten yards high in the air.
Towards evening, we received orders to protect a column of soldiers belonging to the Engineers, whose mission was to destroy the bridges over the Nèthe. Hidden in the fields, we saw figures gliding7 along by the river. In the darkness of the night, there were five immense glows and five detonations8. The bridges had been blown up at Broechem, the cannonading slackened, and flames surrounded the Fort.
We fell back on the second line of defence. We passed through Wyneghem, Burght, and Zwyndrecht, where the regiment rejoined us. The soldiers who[Pg 198] had marched about thirty-seven miles, and for weeks had had no other beds than the trenches10, were worn out. They had scarcely piled arms when most of them were stretched out on the pavement. The inhabitants, from the thresholds of their houses, looked at the Grenadiers with curiosity mingled11 with fear. What had these troops come to do here? The sight of a few coins reassured12 them, and very soon a carefully prepared little meal was ready in every house. The following day, we continued our retreat by the St. Nicholas road. The cannon9 was roaring and the ground trembling under a rain of shells, which interrupted our march and obliged us to await the end of the storm lying down among the beet-root, or turnip13 plants.
At Beveren-Waes, the Colonel called the officers together and talked to them for a long time. They came back to us gloomy and discouraged.
"We are surrounded," they said, "by an enemy of overpoweringly superior numbers. All resistance would be useless. Our last and only resource is to get to Holland."
Desperate, and with tears in their eyes, the soldiers talked in low voices to each other, giving utterance15 to their opinions.
"Fancy being shut up there without having fought, without having seen the enemy! How humiliating!"
The regiment, however, was soon on the way towards Clinge and, in the midst of a heavy fog, made a passage along the road which was encumbered16 with carts and vehicles of every kind, in the midst of a distracted population in flight. The soldiers thought sadly of their departure from Brussels two months ago, of the enthusiasm, the pride and confidence[Pg 199] which they had felt, as they set out, on a bright sunny day, singing as they went along the Wavre road, amid the cheers and applause of the crowd.
On approaching the frontier, the men threw down their guns, cartridge17 cases, and bags. For several miles the ground was strewn with articles of equipment. This sight roused my indignation.
"No," I exclaimed, "whatever happens, I am not going to Holland!" I picked up some cartridges18 and stuffed all my pockets with them, and whilst my comrades crossed the frontier, I went with big strides towards the Lokeren road.
I have no idea how long a time I walked, for I was like a madman. At every instant, patrols appeared on whom I fired. Auto-machine-guns passed along at full speed and, hidden in a ditch, scarcely daring to breathe, I waited until these terrible engines of warfare19 had disappeared. By incredible luck, escaping all kinds of danger, I reached the suburbs of Lokeren. Peasants were working peacefully in the fields. I approached them and asked whether there were any Prussians in the town.
"More than 100,000," was the reply.
"Over yonder, in that farm. They will probably give you some."
I entered the farm and, after a little discussion, I obtained some clothes for fifteen francs, which I at once put on. After burying my gun and my uniform, emboldened21 by my disguise, I advanced fearlessly along the Lokeren road.
"Who goes there?" I heard someone call out.
"An inhabitant of Lokeren," I answered.
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"Hands up!"
I obeyed.
"Advance!"
I obeyed again. I had happened upon a Bavarian patrol hidden behind the trees on the road. I was questioned briefly22 and then taken to join a hundred and fifty civilians23 in hiding along the hedge. After waiting for an hour, as the mouse-trap did not catch any fresh victim, the commanding officer, a Lieutenant24, addressed us.
"As you are peaceable citizens, I am going to have you taken back to the town."
We set out escorted by Bavarian soldiers. Near the bridge over the Durme, a Lieutenant, stationed in front of a manufactory, was awaiting us.
"Come in here!" he said. We entered and, inside the courtyard, we saw piles of uniforms belonging to the Belgian Engineers. We were ordered to put them on. I went to the officer and protested. "I am not a soldier and I am not going to act this comedy," I said. By way of answering, the Lieutenant seized my hands. With a pen-knife he took some of the dirt from my nails and smelt25 it. He then took a little bottle, poured some liquid over this dirt, and smelt it again. After this, he gave me a blow with his fist.
"Your hands are not the hands of a labourer, but of a soldier," he yelled. "Obey, or you will be shot."
Under the surveillance of two soldiers, who carefully inspected my under linen26, I put on the uniform and took my place among the Belgian soldiers they had thus improvised27. Grouped in a column, we were triumphantly28 promenaded29 through the Lokeren streets, and insults and jokes were lavished30 on us by the German soldiery. The parade ended, after a[Pg 201] mock interrogation, we were taken to a place without any egress31 and obliged to bury a lot of dead horses already in a state of decomposition32.
Whilst doing this, I took note of my surroundings and I saw, on the right, the entrance to a dark passage. Taking advantage of a moment of inattention, I slipped into this. It was an ice-house. It was intensely dark, but I groped along and crouched33 down behind some blocks of ice, where I spent several hours shivering with cold. I could hear the expressions of disgust uttered by my companions during their repulsive34 task.
When this was accomplished35, a sub-officer took it into his head to count the men.
"There is one missing," he remarked.
One of us, a wretched spy, denounced me.
"He is in the ice-house," he said.
The Germans entered, discovered me, and literally36 kicked me out. No one can imagine my state of fury and rage. If only any of these wretches37 ever fall into my hands, they will have no time to feel bored, for I am reserving for them a little fête of my own invention. On Tuesday, eight hundred English soldiers and three hundred Belgian soldiers were added to our number. They were real soldiers this time. As some of the Belgian ones were in civilian dress, I made an arrangement with one of them to change my uniform for his clothes. It would be more easy in this way to play my part as a citizen.
The following day, escorted by Bavarians, we set out on foot and were taken to Termonde, a march of about twelve miles. The walk was very painful, as our only food was the turnips38 that the soldiers gathered in the fields and threw to us.
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Termonde was frightful39 to behold40. In the midst of the houses which had been burned down were drunken sailors, holding bottles of wine under their arms, while they pillaged41, saccaged, and turned out everything. In one of the streets, the Burgomaster of Waesmunster stopped us and, thanks to his protestations, obtained the liberation of the inhabitants of his commune. I saw an officer dressed as a Belgian and asked him to intervene in my favour, pleading that I was a civilian. The Belgian officer immediately spoke42 to the Commander of the convoy43, who replied in excellent French:
"We have received orders to arrest the civilians in the districts where our troops have been fired on. If I gave this man his liberty, he would be arrested again before he had gone five hundred yards. Come and speak to me at Schaerbeck and I will see." At 7 o'clock in the evening, we were taken to the station, counted, given a plate of soup, and then huddled44 into cattle trucks, upon which was a thick layer of manure45. In each truck were thirty-six Belgians and four Bavarian soldiers. We then started in a broken-winded train! It advanced slowly, puffing46, whistling, and stopping every minute. Very soon our keepers began to talk to us. They showed us their blue and white cockades proudly.
"Queen Elisabeth is Bavarian, too," they said. "She is a noble woman and will be an example for the Belgians. We admire her and respect her."
In other ways, too, they expressed their sympathy with the Belgian nation. Taking advantage of all this I asked one of them to open the door, so that we could have a last look at our country. He consented and, whilst my eyes were fixed47 on the pasture ground[Pg 203] full of cattle, the golden harvest fields, with red-roofed farms here and there, looking so gay and cheerful under the setting sun, I, crouching48 down on the manure, in the warm, infected atmosphere, with insects worrying us, made a fresh plan of escape.
Presently all was silent and the Bavarians were dozing49. Outside there were no troops in sight. Sentinels posted from one half-mile to another kept watch over the railway line. We were within sight of Zellick and there was the race-course. It seemed to be a propitious50 moment. I opened the door cautiously and prepared to jump out. Just then a voice called out: "What fool has opened the door, letting in the cold?"
The four Bavarians sprang to their feet, cursing and swearing. They distributed a few blows among us with the butt51 ends of their guns. Our train passed through Brussels, creeping along like a tortoise and, at five in the afternoon, reached Liége.
Our arrival was announced, and the population, massed around the station and in the neighbouring streets, cheered us and threw us bread, chocolate, tobacco, and other things and called out, "Is Antwerp taken?" On our reply in the affirmative, they groaned52: "Oh, God, what a misfortune!"
It can readily be imagined how thankful we were for the food thrown to us. Since the day before, we had had nothing to eat or to drink. Our hunger touched the Bavarians who allowed us to get down on the line and pick up the gifts strewn all about. For the men of our truck, we had a loaf weighing about two pounds, a tablet of chocolate, and four bottles of wine. All this divided by thirty-six did not allow of big portions, but the sight of the courageous53 Liégeois city and the[Pg 204] cordial welcome of its inhabitants had comforted us. After the meal, when two cigarettes each were allotted54 to us, we felt as though we had just had a king's feast. A little emboldened, I went up to a German officer who had a kindly55 look and introduced myself to him as an inoffensive pastry56 cook of Brussels, who had gone to Flanders to buy butter more cheaply, and was a victim of a frightful mistake. I was eloquent57 and persuasive58 in my arguments. "You are free," the officer said at last; "ask for a ticket for Brussels."
Intoxicated59 with joy, I rushed to the office of the military superintendent60 of the station. He was a big fellow, with a head like a bull-dog's. He did not trouble to listen, but gave me a blow with his fist on my head, another on the back of my neck, and hastened my departure from his office by a formidable kick.
On leaving Liége, we had to travel in absolute darkness. At Herbesthal, a dummy61 hanging from a stake, and dressed up in the full military dress of a Belgian artilleryman, caused laughter, in which our Bavarian keepers joined. Without stopping, we continued our way as far as Dusselheite. In a shed near the station, we were allowed to wash. It is impossible to give an idea of our filth62. Our faces were smudged with dirt and filth of all kinds, our hair was tangled63 and full of straw, our clothes were dirty. Each one of us, looking at his neighbour, said to himself: "What a dirty creature!" Thanks to some soap and water, after brushing and scraping ourselves, we once more looked like human beings. We drank a bowl of soup, devoured64 three sausages, and set off once more on our way. We passed by stations, went[Pg 205] over bridges, level crossings, and under tunnels. Frequently we met trains filled with German soldiers, who shook their fists and shouted their insults.
We did not reply, but our eyes spoke for us and our hatred65 could be read in them. Our apparently66 interminable journey came to an end finally and, on October 16th, at 11 o'clock at night, after sixty-four hours of travelling, we arrived at Soltau. At the station, we were divided into two groups, soldiers and civilians, and were sent to the riding-school. We had to pass through a crowd more curious than hostile. When we reached the building, a sub-officer, with the word "Gibraltar" on his uniform, told us to go in. We entered and found it full. Without being disturbed in the least, "Gibraltar" struck out right and left, yelling: "Here, there's room enough here for a pig." We lay down on the ground and slept like brutes67.
The next day, I discovered that the circus contained 1400 civilian prisoners, of ages varying from eight to eighty-four. Among them were the Catholic priests of Lebbeke and of Sommeleuze, the chaplain of the Termonde Orphanage68, the notary69 of ——, Abbé Bilaers, etc. All the ecclesiastics70 had been compelled to dress as laymen71, as the sight of the cassock excited the soldiers' anger. They drove the priests along with their bayonets, shouting: "Dogs, pigs, you pray in church and you shoot in the street!" With the exception of "Gibraltar," the soldiers on guard did not ill-treat us. They shouted, swore, and threatened, but they rarely struck any of us. Very strict rules were imposed on us and any infraction72 was punished by prison or by the stake. This latter punishment consisted of fastening the guilty man to one of the[Pg 206] upright pillars of the circus. He had to stand there for twelve hours, and this was excessively painful. As for our food, we had coffee in the morning, soup at noon, and in the evening, and every third day a loaf of bread of 1500 grammes. This alimentation was wholesome73, but insufficient74. As I had a little money, I was able to get some extra food, but those of my companions who had used up their money were reduced to devouring75 the scraps76 that their keepers left them. It was a heart-rending sight to see rich, educated men, who held high posts in our country, seizing the tins containing the leavings of the German soldiers and eating these scraps gladly.
Our number decreased, as the children under fourteen were sent back to Brussels and the ecclesiastics to Selb. Finally, on the 26th of October, all the remaining prisoners were sent to the camp at Soltau.
Situated77 in the midst of the Lunebourg fir-tree woods, this camp looked very cheerful. The installations occupied a vast space and consisted of 96 wooden sheds, 150 yards long, and 12 wide, covered with bituminated pasteboard and provided with electricity and central heating. Each shed, beside the work-rooms and baths, had six dormitories, all built alike. On the floor, which was raised saddle-back fashion, were straw sacks filled with vegetal fibre, which generally harbours vermin in quantities. Against the outer wall were shelves, upon which each man could keep his clothes and toilette affairs. The discipline was strict, the food wholesome and scanty78, and work obligatory79. Seated on benches, we spent our days plaiting straw bags. Our fingers were numb14 with cold, as the central heating apparatus80 was never used. My hands were stiff and rigid81 with rheumatism,[Pg 207] and very soon I could do no more work. I sat there for long, weary hours idle, gazing out blankly, thinking of my wife and children, and of my country, that I should probably never see again.
On the 10th of January, the Flemish were separated from the Walloons, and on the 25th of the same month we were told, to our delight, that the Flemish were to be sent back to their country. Our joy can be imagined. We began shouting and dancing and then, suddenly ashamed of ourselves, we were silent. Our unfortunate Walloon companions were weeping bitter tears. We endeavoured to encourage them, we assured them that they would soon be freed and, in their presence, we hid our joy as much as possible. Whatever may have been our social differences, and our differences of opinion, the suffering we had endured together had created a strong bond of friendship between us, and it was with a pang82 at our hearts that we left them when the time came to start.
We were 2800 in number and we left on the 28th, at ten in the morning. We reached Schaerbeek on the 29th, at nine in the evening, and were set free on the 30th of January, at eleven in the morning.
I rushed off immediately, in the direction of my home. Joyful83, and with a light heart, I hurried along the familiar streets. As I arrived nearer and nearer, my eyes became dim and my legs felt as though they would give way. When once I saw the house, with its shop window full of tempting84 cakes, just as when I had left it, my heart seemed to give a bound within my breast and I suddenly felt weak and had to lean against the wall. What joy it was to see my dear wife and children once more.
Alas85, the joy was not of long duration. I could[Pg 208] not forget that our country was in danger, and I could not desert the brave comrades who were doing glorious deeds on the banks of the Yser.
In spite of the entreaties86 of my wife and the tears of my children, I made my way, a few days later, to the frontier and rejoined the army.
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