A MODERN POMPEII
BELGIAN PRISONERS' SORRY PLIGHT. LONDON, sth September. ! There are whole columns in the newspapers descriptive of the manner in whirh burgesses of Louvain were thrust at the bayonet point into filthy wagons used for the transport of horses, and tho dosrs shut, only fugitive rays of light filtering through chinks. The journey ill one case to Cologne occupied fifty hours. The prisoners, foodless and drinkless, were marched through jeering crowds and placed on exhibition in the gardens at Cologne. Men and women, hurling vile epithets, shouted that they would kill "them. Even children kicked the prisoners as they passed. The prisoners having breakfasted next morning on a email portion of black bread, were for some reason sent back to Belgium. They arrived ravenous, and on being released ,ate turnips and beetroots in the fields. Refugees describe Louvain as a modern Pompeii.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 7
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144A MODERN POMPEII Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 7
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