Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — HUNS OUT OF GHENT [ARTICLE]

HUNS OUT OF GHENT

White Flag Is Raised Over the Belgian City. Germans Wireless Allies They Are Leaving—U. S. Troops A& in the Victory. On the Battle Front h» Belfkirn. Nov. 8. —A wireless dispatch* h***he*n received at the headquarters of General Bourains from the s*yiafg they had decided to *b**d*» Ghent, and asking the Belgians *> fire *<n the suburbs of the tows, wise* white flags are raised. American troops from Ohio under the command of General Farnsworth played a great part in the reliefth® city by an attack on the Eeche salient, 16 miles southwest of Ghent, trhieh was stonn. Their loeaes were comparatively slight. In their retreat through West Flanders the Germans *vere guilty of unnecessary cruelties and destruction, and these assumed a more eawg® aspect in the vicinity of Ghent The town of Deynze, southwest of Ghent, suffered cruelties recalling the German atrocities of x 1914. There was organized pillage by soldiers under command of officers, deliberate burning of houses and theft Bavarian troops under the command of General von Ostrowski w?re conspicuous in this work.