Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 5

Belgium

SOLDIERS, NOT ASSASSINS.

BELGIAN MOTHER’S OPEN LETTER TO THE KAISERINE.

“OUR TEARS AND OUR RUINS!”

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received S a.m.) London,September 25,

A Belgian mother, who is nursing wounded soldiers, writes an open letter to the Kaiserine; “Your son Jo., rhitn is commanding an armed horde devoted to rapine, murder, and bestial horrors. They earn the Iron Cross amidst our tears, which we will dry, and amidst our ruins, which we will restore. Thank God we can clasp our sons to our breasts, knowing they are soldiers, not assassins!”

THE UMiT!

TWENTY-SIX TRACTION ENGINES TO ONE SIEGE CUN!

Times anu Sydney Sun Services. (Received S a.m.) London, September 20. A gentleman who has been travelling in Belgium described the two big German fifty-two centimetre siege guns, stating that twenty-six traction engines were required to haul each of them.