LOUVAIN LIBRARY.
NEW BALCONY DESTROYED. (Times Cables.) BRUSSELS, July 17. After witnessing tho annual procession to the cemetery of widows and orphans of the Louvain men shot in 1914, Felix Morren, thro foreman in charge of tho reconstruction of the universitv library., ascended the roof with a sledge-hammer and demolished tho new inscriptionless balcony. Wehn arrested he vojd the Public Prosecutor that ho considered that he was wrong in helping to rebuild it. He added: “Tlie Germans led us a pretty dance. That balcony meant forgetting all.” The university authorities caused a protest by workmen and students by refusing to allow the inscription: . “Destroyed by German fury. Restored by American generosity.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 196, 18 July 1928, Page 7
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111LOUVAIN LIBRARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 196, 18 July 1928, Page 7
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