IN BELGIUM.
GERMANS DIG ENTRENCHMENTS, AND DIG GRAVES. LONDON, September 22. Renter's Ostend correspondent states that the Germans are entrenching strongly between Wavre, Lou vain, and Gembloux. The Wavre villages and villages in the neighborhood of P'hilippeville and Givet have been destroyed. The inhabitants resisted, inflicting" heavy losses on the enemy. The Germans compelled 50 civilians to bury the German dead. Then they ordered them to dig a last pit, and 48 out of the 50 were shot. The remaining two were then forced to bury them.
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Evening Star, Issue 15606, 24 September 1914, Page 2
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87IN BELGIUM. Evening Star, Issue 15606, 24 September 1914, Page 2
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