LOUISE MACK'S LECTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 222, 18 September 1919, Page 7

LOUISE MACK'S LECTURES.

THE BREAKING OF BELGIUM. Miss Louise Mack, the Australian authoress, who set the seal on her fame in the literary and journalistic world by her work as war correspondent on the Western front of Europe during the early days of the German invasion, held her audience closely interested when she lectured at the Town Hall concert chamber last night on her experiences in Belgium during the horror of the first days Vif the war. A fluent speaker, with an instructive sense of word values, she 'clothed her sketches of scenes, personalities, and sensations with language that made them more than ordinarily luminous and vivid to the audience. Scenes of the first incursions of the German army, the -wave of terror throughout Belgium, the conduct of the invaders in health and in sickness, and the life of the war-stricken communities—these wordpictures were interspersed with portraitures of various personalities met by the war correspondent in those days of red terror, including interviews with the burgomeister of Aerechot and with Nurse Cavell. It was a thrilling and intensely interesting recital, rendered the more impressive from the fact that in addition to first-hand knowledge and sensation, the speaker was a trained observer, who was conversant with the life and! languages of the people concerned, and could translate it into terms that appeal most strongly to her audience. This evening Mies Mack will lecture again, dealing further with her adventures in Belgium and her eventual flight into Holland.