BELGIUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 3 September 1914, Page 5

BELGIUM

THE SACKING OF LGUVAIN.

[ ENJOYED BY THE GERMANS. ! IIDXDRED 31EN LED TO THE SLAUGHTER. ALL BECAUSE OF A BOY WITH A GUN. Received 3, 1.10 a.m. London, September 2. Richard Harding Davis, who visited Louvain, states that President Wilson urges Americans to .|>» neutral.

The same correspondent says he saw the Germans, after the destruction of Louvain, like men who have been through an orgie, laughing, hysterical, and shouting. 'The destruction was done systematically, and continued for 3C hours. They started in the heart of the city ,and worked to the outskirts, street by street, gathering furniture in ehurelv house, shop, and when they saw the first floor burning, .passed on. He saw a hundred men led away to be shot, while an officer stood in a cart, telling their wives, mothers and sisters what was going to be done. Even the German official. report, given to 'the American and Spanish Ministers, only stated that the sen of the Burgomaster fired on the Ohivt. o!' Staff ol the General Coaiusaii.li-.ts Uuvain. If that were true, the. boy should have been shot, and the .matter ended. In-

tead, the General immediately ordered lie destruction of the city.

The whole lino of march of the Ge.r mans, from Liege to Brussels, is a suo cession of wrecked villages.

FORTIFYING BARRACKS. GERMANS STRENGTHENING LINES OF COMMUNICATION. NECESSARY FOR ORDERLY RETREAT.

FRESH GERMAN 'TROOPS ARRIVING.

Received 2, 7.50 p.m. Ostenil, September 2. There is considerable movement cf fresli German troops into Brussels, and 80,000 are due to arrive to-day. The Governor has ordered tile expulsion: of all Britishers within '24 hours. The Germans are fortifying tlie environs, and the cemetery lias been transformed into a redoubt. The Duke of Brunswick occupies ths Royal Castle, and royally entertains. A large company or Belgians, cycling in the outskirts, not comprehending the German commands, were frequently shot.

ANTWERP AN OBSTACLE,

GERMANS WILL REMOVE IT. BOMBARDMENT EXPECTED. Received 2, 11.50 p.m. Ostein), September 2. >A great movement of Germans from Brussels towards Lierre and Fermonde is interpreted to indicate an early at- | tempt to invest and bombard Antwerp. TROUBLE WITH MINISTERS. GERMANS CURTAILING THEIR PRIVILEGES.. Received 2, 0.50 p.m. Amsterdam, September 2. It is stated that tho German Governor o£ Brussels has liad difficulties with American and Spanish Ministers, who refuse to obey the orders forbidding code cablegrams. The American Minister declares that he will uphold the Belgian rights while I lie remains.