The Allied Line from La Bassée to the Sea about October 20.
CHAPTER IX.
STIRRING STORIES OF ANXIOUS DAYS.
In this chapter I am going to give you a selection of stories which illustrate the fighting from the fall of Antwerp down to the 20th of October 1914. Our first story tells how a British lady in her own yacht carried off many refugees from Ostend while the enemy was actually in the town.
Miss Jessica Borthwick steering the Grace Darling out of Ostend Harbour.
(Photo, Sport and General.)
"At nine," says a newspaper correspondent, "we interviewed the official in charge at the burgomaster's office. 'Fly,' he said tersely. 'The Germans will be here, perhaps, in ten minutes.'... I had already arranged a retreat. At ten o'clock we went on board the Grace Darling, a schooner yacht which for the past weeks has been working the British Field Hospital in Belgium. She was chartered and fitted out for the purpose by Miss Jessica Borthwick at her own expense. As will appear, the Grace Darling was by three hours the last vessel out of Ostend....