ORGIE OF DESTRUCTION AT LOUVAIN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2245, 3 September 1914, Page 5

ORGIE OF DESTRUCTION AT LOUVAIN

CALLOUS GERMAN BRUTALITY

A SHOT BY A BOY SOLE EXCUSE FOR CARNAGE

(Reo. September 8, 1.10 a.m.) London, September 2. Mr. Richard Harding Davis is a well-known American journalist, who visited Louvain, states that President Wilson urges Americans to be neutral, but ho has never seen the war. It is right to stand on tho side line if the fight is fair, but not if one man fouls and gouges the other. He saw the Germans, after the destruction of Louvain, like men who had been through an orgy, laughing hysterically, and shouting. The destruction wa-s done systematically, and was continued for thirty-six liours. The Germans started in the heart of the city, and worked to the outskirts, street by street, fathering furniture from church, house, and shop, and when they;• saw tho rst floor of a building burning they passed on. ■ ■■'"). He saw a hundred men led away to be shot, while an officer stood on a ' cart, telling their wives, mothers, and sisters what was going to bo done. Even tho German official report as given to tho American and Spanish! Ministers only stated that tho son of the burgomaster had fired on tho Chief of Staff of tho General commanding Louvain. If this was true the boy should have been shot, and the matter ended. Instead of that the Goneral immediately ordered the destruction of the city. The whole march of tho Germane from Liege to Brussels was a succession of wrecked villages. Mr. Richard Harding Davis is a distinguished American journalist who has seen much active campaigning. Ho w* s correspondent for the London "Times" and the Now York "Herald" in the Turco-Greek, Spanish-American, South African, and Russo-Japanese wa,. s . Mr. Davis is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Socioty, nnd in addition t<) hie - iqurunlhtie .work Jβ ft novelist alaywright of some note, ■ ' r , " " ■ ■