The Terrorist Policy.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 13, 2 September 1914, Page 5

The Terrorist Policy.

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OF MALINES.

London. August 31

The Daily Chronicle’s Antwerp correspondent, after a personal visit to Maliues, says that the reports of the damage clone were greatly exaggerated, though thousands of windows were smashed, and /0 houses practically destroyed during the three days’ bombardment. He adds; ,! The streets are deserted, the remaining inhabitants taking refuge in inkierground passages which extend in all directions. Ho found 200 old men and women in a dark, wet passage, stretched trembling on in a veritable frenzy of terror, believing that the Germans were coming to kill them. The German terrorist policy had evidently been thoroughly successful.”

SYSTEMATIC BURNING OF HOUSES IN LOUVAIN.

London, August 81

An Oxford undergraduate, who was present at the sack of Louvain, states that when he entered the town on Friday morning the greater part of the town was ablaze, and Germans looking in the ruins. Dead littered the streets. At that time the Hotel do Ville was intact, officers stating that it was intended to preserve it. At Cortenhurg he witnessed the systematic burning of houses, in revenge for tiro inhabitants firing on Uhlans. He saw five civilians shot when escaping from burning dwellings.

A Uhlan is a light cavalry soldier armed with a lance. They have been known for centuries. Marshal Saxo (the famous French soldier, who saw most of the fighting on the Continent from 1708 to 1750) had a special corps of them. In the Franco-Prussian war the German Uhlans won great fame for their dashing exploits.

THE “RED INDIANS’’ MURDER INNOCENT PEOPLE.

Ostend, September 1

Ky ©-witnesses state that the natives of Vise who escaped shooting have now been forced to build a road conn noting Vise with Aix-la-Ohapolle. The Germans are still burning whole streets at Liege on the slightest provocation. Germans recently shot the terrified inhabitants of three burning streets, killing Ib. fn one case, a boy of seven years was shot because he pointed a toy gun at German soldiers. Incidents frequently arise of drunken Germans firing their rifles, accusing the inhabitants, and then burning and murdering commences.