On all the public buildings the German Imperial flag hung alongside the Belgian.

Only a few of the trams were running.

Yet you could still buy, without much difficulty at the kiosques, Belgian and even French and British newspapers.
From these she gathered that the German forces were in imminent peril between the Belgian Antwerp army on the north and the British army advancing from the south; and that in the plains of Alsace the French had given the first public exhibition of the new "Turpin" explosive.

The results had been _foudroyant_ ...

and simple.
Complete regiments of German soldiers had been destroyed in _one minute_.