Near the steps of St. Gudule a party of officers of high rank, seated in a motor car, confiscated the stock of the news vendors.  After greedily scanning the sheets they burst into 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 ascertain precisely how the German attack was being constituted, but from officers and others who made journeys from the fighting lines into the city I gathered that the final assault consisted of a continuous bombardment of two hours’ duration, from 7:30 o’clock in the morning until 9:30.