THE DEVASTATION OF BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 6

THE DEVASTATION OF BELGIUM

ESTIMATE OF LOSSES. The "Tablet" publishes the following table- compiled, by M. Henri Masson, Avocat a la Cour d'Appel de Bruxelles, of the losses inflicted upon Belgium by the Germans during the first 82 days of the war. The loss has, of course, einco been enormously increased:— £ Liego and its vicinity: Buildings, trade, and forte 6,916,000 Tirlemont: Trade and build- ; • iugs ......'.. >.. ; ... 1,104,000' L(,uvain: University, 'buildings, and trade 7,432,000 Aeischot 248,000 Malines: Cathedral, works of art, etc. 1,532,000 Nuiuur: Buildings, trade and forts 4,786,400 Diuant (and costly chateaux along the river) ••■• 3,134,000 Charleroi and vicinity: Buildings and countless factories 20,632,000 Mons . 136,000 Tournai, Leuze, and Ath ... 100,000 Hasselt, Turnhout, and Moll 308,400 Alost: Trade 392,000 Termonde 384,000 Damage to rural districts: Crops, cattle, pigs, sheep, horses; chateaux and villas burnt and sacked 56,722,800 Antwerp and vicinity: Forts, trade, and buildings, goods and foodstuffs v 20,230,000 State: Buildings, railways, monuments, bridges, roads, etc , 48,000,000 Damage caused by interrup- r tion of trade, cancelled orders, loss of workmen's pay, etc. 40,000,000 Total 212,057,600