Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 29, 21 September 1914, Page 5

Belgium

ON HISTORIC GROUND.

ALLIES’ LEFT WING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF NAPOLEON.

(Received 9.40 a.m.) London, September 20,

The Times’ Bordeaux correspondent states: The Allies’ left is slowly working round difficult country where Naooleon flung back Blucher. The Germans, who are strongly entrenched, received reinforcements from Belgium, but they are not likely to make another advance owing to the demands in East Prussia.

OUTRAGE AT BRUSSELS. SEPTUAGENARIANS TORTURED AND SHOT. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Brussels, September 20. The German general at Brussels ordered the removal of the Belgian flags as provocative to Germans'. In connection with the German outrages, witnesses vouched that the Uhlans' officer sabred a man eighty years of age because he shook his fist at some intruding Germans who took his wife, aged 78, slit her forearms, and fixed her with two bayonets thrust to the wall in order to compel her to disclose their money. GERMAN DESTRUCTION. THE WILFUL SHELLING OF THE TOWN HALL AT TERMONDE. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Termonde, September !20. The Germans wilfully shelled the old tower at the town hall.

LOUVAIN NOT ALL IN RUINS,

Amsterdam, September 19

The North German Gazette says the officially despatched report on Louvain reports that only a fifth of a sixth of the city is in ruins, and that most of the public buildings have been •preserved, especially the Town Hall. THE GERMAN SACK OF VISE AND LOUVAIN. A MODIFIED “BLACK HOLE.” (Received 10.55 a.m.) London, September 20.

The Belgian Commission’s third report states that between six thousand and eight thousand inhabitants of Louvain were confined for a whole night in the Riding School. The space was so small that all had to stand, and several women lost their reason and a number of children died iu their mothers’ arms. The Germans completely burned Vise, except the religious establishment. They shot several citizens. The evidence emphasises the improbability of a rising of the disarmed population. Witnesses declare that the first shots were fired by intoxicated Germans at their own officers. It is notorious that at the same period the Germans killed one another in the camp at Tescli.

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