Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 29, 21 September 1914, Page 6

Belgium.

EDUCATIONALISTS GUARDING THEIR ART TREASURES.

(Received 1:20 p.m.) London, September 20. A Berlin message states that the Education Department has taken measures to protect Belgian works of art, the military protection being inadequate. THE AUSTRIAN FLEET. STILL SAFE IN THE ECOLDA NAVY YARD. (Received 1.30 p.m.) Rome, September 20. The Austrian fleet is still lying in the Egolda navy yard.

NO CAUSE FOR ANXEITY.

Times and Sydney Sun Services

London, September 18

The military correspondent of the Times says that there is no cause for anxiety because the Allies are not immediately overwhelming the Germans. The necessity for. fighting methodically and in’ unison was bought by earlier experience in the campaign. What is now needful is to repair the bridges, assemble the troops and obtain supplies preparatory for a long struggle. SHIPPING MOVEMENTS. (Received 10.25 a.m.) * Sydney, September 21. Arrived: Koromiko, from Westport. The Island steffmers sailed on Saturday Newcastle, September 21. Sailed: Lindstol for Wanganui; Marturewa for Grafton.

QEB.MAN -AT,f?OQITIES.

THE BELGIAN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.

NO PROVOCATION PROVED.

, (Received 1.30 p.m.) London, September 20

The Belgian Commission’s third report continues that a number of places situated in a triangle bounded by Viluorde, Malines, and Louvain were plundered and partially destroyed. The inhabitants were shot without trial and the women unable to escape were exposed to the brutal instincts of the Germans. * Allowing for isolated cases of hostility there was nothing to justify the shooting, burning and pillaging over nearly the whole of Belgium. No provocation was proved in the case of Vise, Maisade, Louvain, Wave and Tcrrnonde. The Germans alleged that the Belgian Government distributed arms to the inhabitants, that the Catholic clergy preached a sort of holy war, and that the women were as ferocious as the men; but this is a tissue of falsehoods. The burgomasters everywhere warned the inhabitants against acts of violence. The true motives of the atrocities were to terrorise and demoralise the people in accordance with the inhuman theories of German military writers. The Commission is using only facts supported by trustworthy evidence.