THE ATROCITIES IN BELGIUM
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON / ■ "DAY OF RECKONING WILL COME" ' , (Reo. September 18, 0.10 a.m.) . Washington, September 16. President Wilson received the Belgian Mission and promised to carefully consider the protest against German atrocities, and added: "I pray God .that very soon the war may be over.; The da/ of accounting will then come when the nations of Europe will assemble to determine a settlement, and where Wrongs have been committed their consequences and tho relative responsibility of those involved will be' assessed. Fortunately the nations of the world havej by agreement, made plain their desire for such a reckoning and assessment, and what such a plan cannot compass, the opinion of mankind; the final arbiter in 6uch matters, will supply," LOUVAIN HORROR: GERMAN COMMANDER-IMPRISONED AS A COMMON CRIMINAL. "A cablegram to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mt. Massey), dated London, September 17, 12.30 a.m., states:— Reliable.-r-The Belgians have refused to treat as a prisoner of war Commandant Meune, -vho commanded the Landsturm at_ Louvain. He is now in the criminal prison at Antwerp, and he will be tried by court-martial for gross infractions of the laws of war.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2258, 18 September 1914, Page 5
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193THE ATROCITIES IN BELGIUM Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2258, 18 September 1914, Page 5
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